VIDEO Nº: 25
TITLE:25. Speech: Donald Trump - Burlington, IA - Octobre 21, 2015
DATE OF EVENT:21/10/2015
RELEASE DATE:28/10/2017
DURATION:01.00.09 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:10654
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Wow…
 
What a great crowd! Let’s straighten that thing out. I like this…I like uniform…look, see, it was a little crooked, I want that straight! Like we’re gonna straighten out our country! We're gonna straighten out our country, believe me.
 
Wow, this is some crowd…this is a record crowd for this building. I know it's structurally sound. IT- was built a long time ago, it's good and strong. We need it. Thank you.  Thank you everybody. Thank you. Thank you –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…we had some news today…that Biden is not running MR. TRUMP REFERS TO THE THEN VICE-PRESIDENT AND RIGHT-HAND MAN, JOE BIDEN. CROWD CHEERS-…and…I think he did the smart thing. Because, frankly, I don't know that he would have won…he wouldn't have gotten…the nomination. I don't think he probably would have. And frankly, I really wanna run against Hillary. I really do –CROWD CHEERS. That's…
That’s the. That’s the one I’ve been…you know, when you sort of like…if you have a baseball team, or football team you sort of get your heart set on something…that's the one we wanna go against. Because you go against that record, you go against that record, you –ARE- just gonna win. We’re wanna win! We're gonna win big! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…many mistakes! You know, you look at the world. The world is…is a tinder box. Is falling apart, it’s blowing up…we are a mess…! What…what's happened…to this country…between the Iran deal, and the Bergdahl, five for one, I call him ‘Mr. 5 for 1’. We… -MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘TRAITOR!’-…we get a traitor… ‘right’. What we used to do to traitors… who was that… well that guys’ got that…crazy!
 
You know, they came out with a report. They don't think he goes to jail; they don't think anything...six people died…going after him! And nothing's gonna happen…can you believe this!?  This is what's happened! But let me just explain…
 
So…I get up in the morning, and I turn on television. First thing I see is…big, big results…! …Washington Post/ABC comes out with a poll. Right? Do we love these polls? Somebody said, you love polls’. I said, ‘that's only because I've been winning every single one of them’. Right? –CROWD CHEERS. Right!? Every single poll! In fact, they were saying for 100 days…today's the hundredth day…look at that, I love that guy…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEONE IN THE CROWD. Today is the hundredth day, that we've been number one, in every single…in every single poll! Think of it! –CROWD CHEERS. And we are increasing our lead…and…you know, it's been…it's really been amazing. We've been increasing the lead…
But Washington Post today comes out… ‘thirty-two percent, for Trump’ …-CROWD CHEERS-…and that's…you gotta understand: we're talking about 15 people! …used to be 17, -A- couple of dropped out…they're gonna start falling…I think, like flies now!
 
You know, when some of these guys have a zero…four weeks…! …it's almost like…somebody said, ‘they do it for their brand’ …how is it good for your brand? –CROWD LAUGS. One of them, Pataki, he had a 0, with an arrow going left…that means less than zero! –CROWD LAUGHS. I said, ‘is that a mistake!?’ … ‘is that a mistake!?’ –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So…I don't know when they’ll do it, but they gonna...is…a lot of people gonna…start dropping out, which is good, you get a much better discussion going instead of having all these folks around, and the whole thing is ridiculous. But…we're at thirty-two percent. We're leading…everybody by a lot! The closest is ten…percent next. We had another one Boston Herald, in New Hampshire, just came out. Twenty-eight percent. Second is 16. Think of that! 16! We have…Oh, I love this one! –CROWD APPLAUDS-…and…and by the way, the people in Iowa, the people in New Hampshire, people in South Carolina, first…have been so unbelievable! the South Carolina poll is unbelievable. But we'll get to that. Morning Consult, this is the one I love. This is…you know, it's interesting. They do these polls, they take like 300 people. I'm saying, ‘how can you do 300 people?’. Morning Consult, that's one of the big online polls. 41 percent! 41! Think of that! 41! You almost say, ‘how do you get 41percent…?’, think of it! …when you have 15 people!? If you had 41 percent with like, three people…you haven't made…right? …but with 15 people…41percent. Highly respected poll…second is fourteen percent. So it's 41-14, so that sounds good.

Now, and you know we're winning…very importantly…in Iowa! …we’re winning, and winning big! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Here…here's one that I love: Ohio…cause I like Kasich, I think is a good guy. In Ohio, with twenty-seven percent…and Kasich at 12.5…good governor, good guy, everything…I don't like his view in Common Core…I don't like a couple of his views…which is, you know, but he's a good guy, and he is a good guy! Twenty-seven percent…and Kasich is the governor, the sitting governor is a 12.5. That just came.
 
Another one that is incredible is Connecticut…! …big State…Quinnipiac poll…34-14! …34-14 to second! –CROWD CHEERS. I love this one…by the way, what…a couple other…beating Hillary nationwide…you love that? –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THE CROWD. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLADUS. That I love! That I love! Beating Hillary in numerous states, and very substantially. And one just came out two days ago, beating Hillary in the state of Florida, which I love. Which I love! –CROWD CHEERS. Now, the other thing I love…beating the governor of Florida, beating the sitting senator of Florida…who has the highest…well think of this: …has the highest lack of attendance. We’ll say lack of attendance, in the Senate –CROWD LAUGHS.  I mean he has to go! You gotta…you can't talk about working if you don't go to vote and you’re –A- senator. Right? Doesn’t that make sense?
 
But in Florida…I’m at twenty-nine percent…! And they’re…I won't say, but they're really low, they’re in the teens…and less than the teens. And I tell the story where Rubio, actually was a little below, and then he went a little above…the governor. And they're in the twelves. And I tell the story of time! I’m a 29 ! And…the headline said, ‘Rubio surges!’. I said, ‘Oh! What happened to Florida…!?’ –TAKING HIS HANDS TO HIS FACE REPRESENTING DISSAPPOINTMENT. CROWD LAUGHS. It's true! I said, ‘what happened to Florida!? …I was doing so well…!’ And then I read the article…and –IT- says, ‘well, Trump is a 29, Rubio’s surged past the governor’. Big deal! –CROWD LAUGHS. Okay? Oh boy!
 
We have one here…! …35…and Pen…by the way, Pennsylvania, beating everybody…! The…OAN…35 percent, great company, great poll…35 to 17…I mean we are just…I love these polls! And I say to people…when they always say, ‘you love to mention the polls! Nobody else does!’. This…that's because they're losing! They’re not stupid people! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPPLAUDS. Right!? Oh! I could talk about these suckers all night long; I love ‘em. I could talk about ‘em all night long.
 
So…New Jersey, great. Now…Jersey…and I like Chris Christie, he’s a good guy! But I’m a 32, he’s at five! –CROWD LAUGHS-…which is a big…
Reuters! 33 to 15! South Carolina! 36…I'm leading by 18 points! –CROWD CHEERS. 18 points! That's a lot…! You know, in golf they say, ‘he's looking for the clubhouse, Johnny. He's just looking for the club…’ –CROWD LAUGHS. Lot of truth! We understand that…the golfers understand that. We just want to get in! Get this election going!
 
I wish, you know, like some countries…they can call an election? Right? They can call it…? …and I wanna call an election…can we have it like tomorrow!? I wanna do it now! –CROWD CHEERS. I wanna do it now.
 
South Carolina! 36 percent! 36. Lindsey Graham, the sitting senator, haha –MR. TRUMP SEEMS TO MOCK HIM OR DISLIKE HIM THROUGH THAT SOUND-…had three! He had another where he did better…he was five…but the three has superseded it –CROWD LAUGHS. And he was nasty...was he nasty!? He is so nasty to me! Why!? Why!? He was fine, everything's fine. Then one day they told him…you know, the pollsters. A lot of these politicians, they won't do anything without their pollsters. I don't have any pollsters. What we need posters for!? I…they give me hundreds and hundreds of pages…! When CNN, who's back there, when all of these cameras…they give you…they spend millions on polls! And then these guys spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on polls…and I say, ‘what do you need a pollster…? All you have to do is get the polls…after the network's pay for ‘em’.
 
But they don't make a move…honestly? …and I've seen it. The politicians don't make a move, without their pollster. And they're paralyzed, from the pollster…and the pollsters are tough, smart people…and they know how to deal! You know, they get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars…! And they get angry! I've seen it! Where…somebody was walking off the debate stage, he didn't do that well, and the pollster was screaming at him! I said, ‘don't stream at the guy like that..! Who are you!? What are you doing!? They're afraid of their own pollsters! Because the pollsters are tough, and they're smart. That's how they make all this money! Okay? It's like some coaches, but they're not as talented in many cases. And..what they're doing…what they're doing is…the candidate is so often afraid. Totally…they're totally afraid to talk. And that's why you see, ‘I will get back to you’. ‘We will get…’. It’s always we’ll back to you! And they're not doing well! It's not like, ‘oh, geez, that's working! And…I speak from the brain…but I speak from the heart. It’s both! It's gotta be both. And…-CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY-…’thank you. So nice’.
 
But I…you know, it's…look: we have to get moving. Political correctness…all of that…we've been hearing about that… I mean political… -MEMBER IN THE CROWD CALLS OUT CLEARLY ‘BULLSHIT!’. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-…we… ‘it’s true!’ –CROWD LAUGHS. I can’t…see now…? I love that! If I said that…I am…if I said that…they're gonna be writing horrible stories about me all the time…? –CROWD LAUGHS. It's so good that he said it…I love that… Feel…feel free to interject –CROWD LAUGHS. I loved that. I can't…hey, believe me! I'm thinking the same thing. I say, ‘can I say it?’. Beautiful. Good. And I didn't tell you to do that…right? –ADDRESSING THE PERSON THAT UTTERED THE SENTENCE. THE CROWD LAUGHS.
 
You know, the word Christmas. I was saying ‘Christmas’. I love Christmas. Do we love Christmas? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You go to Macy's, and you go to these…so Macy's was very disloyal to me, by the way. You know, they’re little conflicted, when it started talking about illegal immigration. They thought it might not be…politically correct! And now they don't sell my ties anymore…-IN A MOCKING TONE-…big deal -CROWD LAUGHS. They were very disloyal. Very disloyal. And I…by the way, I know one thing: they wish they didn't do that, because they would be selling more times right now…-CROWD LAUGHS-…okay? Not a big deal. But you know, you gotta find out…you have to find out. Who’re your friends, who’s was loyal, who's not loyal…I love to find things…it’s like a testing period.
 
But…when I mentioned the word ‘illegal immigration’, I was hit…so hard…by the media. Like, Rush Limbaugh said, he's never seen anything like it. It was unbelievable! He used the word ‘incoming’, I've told you this. He used the word ‘incoming’! And I know what he meant. Cause, there has never been anything like it. And then they found out I was right. They found out I was right! –CROWD CHEERS. And…and it's a huge subject! I mean the whole thing, with illegal immigration, is a huge subject. And I love Mexico! And I love the Mexican people! I have thousands of Hispanics working for me! And they're great! And they do a great job! And I…I'm winning in polls…Nevada, just gave me the polls! Not only am I winning in Nevada…I'm winning with the Hispanics…in Nevada…easily…! …against everybody –CROWD CHEERS. You know what I love? A poll came out, the other day…that I'm winning 25 percent. Think of this: as a Republican…! …as a Republican, it's unheard of! Usually at seven percent, 5 percent, 4 percent, 9 percent, 25-percent…you know what I'm gonna say? African-American. They say, if you get twenty-five percent African-American –VOTE- the election’s over. You’re gonna win the election! No it's true! It's true!  -CROWD CHEERS. And…my relationship with the African-Americans, my relationship with Hispanics…you watch! I think I'm gonna win with Hispanics…because they…they know what I'm gonna do! I'm bringing back the jobs! I'm bringing…from China. I'm bringing back…from all over…we’re bringing it back…we’re bringing back the jobs –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLADUS.
 
But we have to stop…the nonsense where…our people are so grossly…incompetent. Our leaders, our representatives, our negotiators…are so…incompetent...! …that it makes you just sick to think. I mean think of these deals! I mentioned the Iran deal. Who would do a deal like this!? Who would do a deal like this!? Where they're saying… -MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE INTERRUPTS AND CALLS OUT ‘OBAMA!’. MR. TRUMP LAUGHS AND ADDRESSES HIM’-… ‘Obama’… -CROWD LAUGHS. You know, you have the greatest straight men of all…this is the greatest! These guys…and…and…so far, I've only heard the guys. I haven't heard the women. But so far…I've had three guys…they are right on...-WOMEN IN THE CROWD CHEERS. MR. TRUMP PAYS THEM MIND-… ‘I like the women better, okay?’ –WOMEN CHEER. It’s true! Boy, they are right on cue…these people are fantastic! But…but who would negotiate deals like this…I mean…why…and…where? …and how do we…how does it…how does it happen?
 
So…I have great relationships with foreign countries. I'm doing deals…I do deals all over the world. We do great…we built a great company! You know…they –MEANING THE PRESS-said, ‘he wouldn't run’. And, you know…it takes guts to run. It really does! It takes guts! It’s not easy! It's not easy! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
But they all said he wouldn't run. And I looked at it, last time: Romney let us down. He should have won that election. And let us down! I mean, pure and simple…he choked! He choked! What happened? He went away for a month before the election. He starts building a garage, for nine cars…in California. I said, ‘couldn’t you have done that like…you know, after the election!? You had to do it…’ …and they had a big story. Remember the 9 car garage? That wasn't so good, that doesn't play well for the election. But something happened to him! And I backed McCain. And that I understand…be at a hard time with that one, cause lots of bad things were happening. And I backed…Romney. And that's one that should’ve have been won, and he failed. He failed us! Very simply. And I'm not happy about it. And this time I said, ‘I'm not gonna let it happen again. I'm gonna do it myself’. Right? –CROWD CHEERS.
 
You have it like… ‘have a problem!?’…I see the people in the audience, workers. Hard workers, like me. I'm a worker. But…hard workers. And a lot of times, you know, you get people… and you say, ‘do it, do it, do it’, doesn't get done right, then finally say, ‘Okay. Now I’m just doing it myself’ –CROWD CHEERS. That's what I'm doing here. I'm doing it…I'm gonna do it myself. I'm spending my own money…I'm spending my own money. You know, today…today…Bush has one of his top people in Berlin, Germany, raising funds. Can you believe it? Berlin…! What…? ...huh…what are we gonna give to Germany for this!? Remember this! All of these people…that are putting up money…all of them: they're getting a lot it. I know these people better than I know…anybody. They…the lobbyists…I’ve hired many of them! Some great! Some are very talented! They get whatever they want. They give millions and millions of dollars. And…they're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars against me. And, frankly, I just hope people understand. When you see these attack heads. I call them attack heads. They’re trying…they’re mean, they lie…they’re liars…but by the time…you…you know, end up telling people to like…the election’s over. It's really unfair stuff. But they're going to spend hundreds of millions…of dollars…because this wasn't supposed to happen! Nobody controls me. I’m…I'm controlled by you people. I’m controlled by the people in the country, nobody controls me! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I mean…you look at…you look at Jeb, and Rubio, and…all of them! They all have all this money, and they…they spend it…and they're gonna spend it, a lot of them, I mean, I'm reading these articles, I don't know…! …so far everyone who’s attacked me has gone…bing! –MR. TRUMP MIMICS A HAND GOING DOWN, MEANING THEY BITE THE DUST. THE CROWD LAUGHS-…but…and maybe that'll keep happening! But I've never had a hundred and fifty million dollars spent on me saying bad things! …okay?  I've never had that happen! I will tell you I'm a good Christian…-CROWD CHEERS-…okay? Remember that! And I told you, about Christmas, and I guarantee…if I become president, we're gonna be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ at every store, we’re not gonna be doing…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-. happy to be doing every store! Every store! The ‘happy holiday’, you can leave that over in the corner. ‘Happy holidays’ everybody, enjoy it…but, I'm saying ‘Merry Christmas’ to, whoever the hell wants to hear it –CROWD CHEERS.
 
And…and that's not to knock anybody else. Other religions can do with…what they want. That…they…I think it’s great, there's room for everyone. There's room for everybody! –MEMBER IN THE CROWD CHEERS. But for them to take away…the word ‘Christmas’ and they're going further: you can't have the scenes, you can't have…you can't have anything anymore! It's…it's again, it becomes like the gentleman said. It becomes politically correct, not to use the word ‘Christmas’, that's not gonna happen anymore folks, it’s not gonna happen anymore–CROWD CHEERS.
 
But when I tell people I'm Presbyterian everyone says, ‘you gotta be kidding, are you really!?’ They liked me more. It's always a nice thing to say. Usually, I bring up the communion picture and I bring up a whole…a whole…I…so…I love it. I actually walked on the stage last time with the Bible, people like to be much better. And it was my Bible signed…! …by my mother, with my address on it. And…what they don't know is…those days there was…it was everything was so nice! Nobody took anything. Today…you need addresses one thing –MR. TRUMP LAUGHS. You know, it's a little different. It’s a little different out there.
 
So…we're going to do things differently. Here's one that I'm so happy about. Look: MR. TRUMP GOES BACK TO READING REPORTS. ‘Who is going to be…the next president?’. ‘Who is expected to win?’. Look at those charts. How beautiful! No, you look at that: forty-two percent…! …say Donald Trump is gonna win! –CROWD CHEERS. Okay!? 42 percent. 42 percent. Oh, I love it! So just…to finish: hundreds of millions of dollars…is out there. It's a terrible system. We have a terrible…complex system. Nobody even knows what it represents. The laws are so complicated. Nobody has any idea…what it's all representing. But…tremendous amounts of money are up there. And it's gonna be spent. And it's gonna be spent unfairly. It's gonna be spent…I mean it already is…it's being spent…you know. And I'm doing something different.
 
Now, the last time I was in Iowa, we had a tremendous crowd, like this. And I said to the crowd, ‘Do you want me to spend money…?’… cause I feel badly…you know, when people wanna give…tremendous amounts of money and I'm turning it down. That hasn't been my history! You know, I don't turn down money. My whole thing was I take, I take…-CROWD LAUGHS. I take all of the money. But I said to the crowd, supposing I took everything and they put money in packs, and they put money all over the place, and…supposing it took it…and I promised I won't do anything! …they all stood up, said, ‘don't do it, don't do it’, because they understand it! They understand! When somebody gives five million dollars…to…Hillary. Or five million dollars…to Jeb! …who is doing very poorly in the polls. I'm just…no! I just looked at this poll…five percent!? I think I'm gonna stop talking about him! –CROWD LAUGHS. I…you know, I sort of thought he was like gonna be…sort of a favorite…it's not doing so well. Who should I start talking about? I'm gonna have to start hitting somebody else! I don't know! –CROWD CALLS OUT INAUDIBLE. Maybe Rubio. Well, Rubio I talk about. Look. I always say, I have never seen a young person sweat like Rubio. Do we agree!? I've never seen…! –CROWD LAUGHS. He drinks more water…-MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT THROWING WATER ON TOP OF HIS HEAD-…he’s like…he's like a machine! –CROWD LAUGHS. Drinks water, water, water, sweats, pours…gives his speech. Remember the State of the Union? He gave the retort. And he said, ‘huh…’ –TRUMP IMPERSONATES MR. MARCO RUBIO’S INTERVENTION THAT DAY AND THE WAY HE STOPPED HIS SPEECH TO DRINK WATER IN A VERY MUCH DISCUSSED WAY. THE CROWD LAUGHS. And you know, it was bad if we had a glass. But this was a bottle of like Mountain Dew or something…it’s…on national…everyone's…And I said, to my wife…I said, ‘did that just happen!?’ –CROWD LAUGHS. And then I think and I think about like…think of…Putin. Pretty tough cookie, right? Who's the best to deal with Putin, Trump or Hillary!? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘TRUMP!’-…I mean, give me a break. And I say to people…yeah! Give me a break…I mean, can you imagine Jeb or Putin? Ay! Would that be easy for Putin. Putin', you know, he's drooling, okay? He's drooling, because you wants it so bad. But anyway! But I think Rubio…so I’m saying, ‘you have to be cool! You have to really be cool!’ And, Putin’s sitting, and Rubio is gonna meet him, and Rubio walks in, and he's sweating, and he's pouring down…-CROWD LAUGHS-…Putin it’s gonna look at him and say, ‘what the hell's wrong with this guy!?’ –CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true! He is not a good poker player, right? He wouldn't be good at poker –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
Hey, look, I'm sure he's a nice guy, I really don't know him. But I'm sure is a very nice person. But we…we are beyond nice people! We…and I think I'm a nice person. I think I am a nice person! I... -CROWD CHEERS. A woman said to me, in a rally, where we had nine…I think nine thousand people, it was incredible. It was in New Hampshire. She said, ‘Mr. Trump, I’m voting for you, I love you. You're really the guy. But do you think you're nice enough to be President?’. And I said, ‘this is an election that's going to be…’, and first of all, I said, ‘I'm really nice! But is going to be election based on competence…! …not niceness!’. We have enough…! …we have enough! …we have enough! –CROWD CHEERS. We have…we have to…we need people of extraordinary competence. And we have them in our country! We have them this room! We have people that are negotiating trade deals, with us, and for us, that our political hacks. They’re ambassadors, they’re nice people! Some aren’t nice people! But they're not talented on what they do! I have the greatest…business minds…in the world! Cause we have them in this country! I don't wanna have…-CROWD CHEERS. I don't wanna have a nice…I wanna have a really smart-…I wanna a killer! I don't care! I want to have people…!
 
With China…! …we're gonna lose almost 400 billion dollars this year! …in trade. Think of it! That's our trade imbalance! I said, ‘do me a favor, find out, what's the imbalance?’. 400…it’s almost 400 billion! It's been that way for many years. How long you can you go…how long can you keep doing this!? And you want a trade with China…? It's impossible! And you people know it, because you deal with it, from Iowa, you deal with it. And you know that. That's very hard. And…when it comes to us, they send their stuff in.  When it comes to us, we go that way…? Taxes! Tariffs! They don't like to use the word tax, they call it ‘tariffs’. And some of the tariffs are so honored, you can't do business. A friend of mine, he’s a great manufacturer…he can't deal with China! Because they charged him so much!
 
Now, I don't knock China…I have…I have my tenants from China…I had people buy my apartments for 35, 40 million dollars in Manhattan from China…what am I gonna dislike them…? I like them! –CROWD LAUGHS. The largest bank in the world is a tenant of mine. From China. I mean, I respect ‘em. I wish our leaders…would be able to do the same thing. I wish…I would love…I would…I mean…I’d be so proud…if our leaders…could take those deals, and make them great deals…even good deals! …even break even deals! What would it be, if instead of having a balance of 350 billion dollars, we broke even!? Do not know? No, no…do you know what that would mean? Do you know what that would mean…? …for our country? Do have any idea what that would mean…the kind of numbers we’re talking about? Somebody said, ‘you can't do that! It's gonna take…’ I saw it’s proposals, from some of the candidates we’re running against. They wanna balance the budget within the next 25 years! I said, ‘excuse me!? 25 years! 25 years! What are you talking about!? What are you talking about!?’. We have people…that just don't get it! They don't have it! You know, it's like a great athlete. They have great athletes. For some reason…they…Dan Gable! Great wrestling! Right? Right!? No, I watched him for so long, he won…I think it was like a hundred and eighty-nine…and like…practically like…nothing!? But they’re…whatever it is! I mean, nobody even knows. He works hard, but a lot of people work hard. But some people have it. Same thing with business, same thing with negotiation. I wanna have the greatest negotiators. I know ‘em…I know most of ‘em. I…I come from an area of great negotiators. It’s called…Wall Street –CROWD LAUGHS. I want these…tough guys. Seriously! I wanna put ‘em to work for us! They don't want any money! They don't want money! I'm getting calls…you know, now that I'm leading all the time…all these guys are calling. The biggest guys! The best! Some good, some not so good, someone to get involved…! …ehm…Carly I wouldn't want. I mean, what she did to that company…I'm not interested in Carly, to be honest with you. But no, seriously! I have the best negotiators…in the world…calling! Carl Icahn, great. He’s…made a fortune! He doesn’t want money! He just wants to do it! I say, ‘Carl, handle China’. Good, I'll do it’. Guess what!? Lots of good things are gonna happen folks. Lots of very good things.
 
But…but we have…we have great people, and we don't use them! I always say, in Japan…we have Caroline Kennedy. What does she know!? And you know…and you know the story! Has anyone heard the story about Carolyn Kennedy? Right? From 60 Minutes –AN AMERICAN TV SHOW. I was on 60 Minutes the other night. By the way my stablemate was Putin. Right? And they got the highest ratings they've had…in a long time! 60 Minutes. So I'm taking full credit for that. I'm not giving them…and none! –CROWD LAUGHS. They had a huge…it, and then I'm doing Saturday Night Live next week. That’s gonna be great –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLADUS. You better watch! You better watch! It will be interesting. I did it…11 years ago, The Apprenticeship…number one, and they said, ‘would you do Saturday…and here I am! Doing it again! –CROWD CHEERS. And this time…so it's been…ehm…it's been…you know, I mean it's been an amazing. It's been an amazing period of time.
 
But we need our best people! And I tell the story about Carolyn Kennedy. People love the story but it's…it's true. It was on 60 Minutes. She came in, and they're doing a profile of her. Because she's the Ambassador to…Japan. And they come in, and they have the cameras on her, and they say, ‘how did you get the job’? –MR. TRUMP IMITATES MS. KENNEDY-… ‘well I didn't have anything to do…’, and…and by the way, a friend of mine said, he actually went to the tape, and he said, ‘your imitation is almost exactly right!’. So, I’m…you know, saying…it's pretty much right! ‘…well I came in, I came into…’, …you're fired! you're fired! –MR. TRUMP RESORTS TO THIS AS A WELL-KNONW JOKES OF HIS WHICH FOR THE CROWD CHEERS.
 
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES ON WITH HIS IMITATION OF MS. KENNEY- … ‘I came in…I came to the White House…’, you know, well she's obviously very close with Obama. ‘I came into the White House, and said, ‘I'd love to help out. Is there anything I can do…?’ Very nicely, very meekly…very nice. And my daughter likes her, so just to be a nice person. Ivanka, we love Ivanka –CROWD CHEERS. I could have her do some negotiating for us…believe me. Ay, ay, ay! She's tough…she is tough! But she's good, got a good heart. But Caroline Kennedy comes up, and she goes. ‘well, I…I said, do you have anything for me to do? I have just nothing to do, do you have anything to do’. They said, ‘would you like to be the Ambassador to Japan?’. She goes, ‘really!?...you mean that!?’. She couldn't believe it! So now she's the Ambassador to Japan! And they have on 60 minutes where she's being wined and dined by Abe –SHENZO ABE, PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN-, who’s a killer, you know, he's a great leader…he’s the best leader Japan's had in a long time. They're doing big devaluation of their currency…they're killing us! They're killing us! And she's a negotiator! I don't want that! I want Carl Icahn! I want…Henry Kravis! I want…these guys…I want the right write people! I want the right people! I don't want that! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
With Japan…last year…70 billion dollars…this is in one year! How do you lose 70 dollars and then say, ‘oh, let's have dinner…let's have diner’. They come over, we give them a White House frat! We give ‘em a beautiful White House…diner. With China, they come over…the other day, and we have this beautiful tent, on the loan. They put a tent, you know why…? They turned down my offer. You know I offered to build a ballroom, you know that. I offered to build a ballroom, and I called up the Obama administration, spoke to a very nice guy, David Axelrod. I like David Axelrod. No, but it's ok! YOU- Gotta speak to somebody…right!? –CROWD LAUGHS. But I spoke to David Axelrod, and I said, ‘David, you know what? I see you have tents…and it's not even safe! You know, it's…it's cloth. It’s not good!’ I said, ‘if you want, we'll get five of the top architects…only in the United States…’ we're only…we're not interested in the foreign architects for the White House. Do we agree? Makes sense, right? –CROWD CHEERS. We'll get some great architects. And we're gonna design five ballrooms…big ones! IT’S- gonna cost me a hundred million dollars…to do it…properly! …like I'm doing at the Old Post Office, say, which is gonna be great. We’re gonna design 5 ballrooms, by five different architects…put all your people in charge…I will pay for it! …a hundred percent! And we'll get just the right…we'll go out to the critics, will get one that…everybody loves…will put them together, we'll do whatever we have to do it. IT- will be so beautiful! It'll be great! I never heard from them. Nobody ever called me! Nobody ever calls…I was gonna give them a hundred-million-dollar gift! More! I would’ve spent more! With…although I can probably go for much less, to be honest with you. I'm good at that. Good. Believe me I'm good –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But…but I never heard back from David. He never called me back. He never called me back. And I…I said…sort of a man…and I don’t mind…you know, and I don't mind saving a hundred million…! …or something. But I think…I said…I was just in this mood, I said, you know, it doesn't make sense. And you have these big state dinners…and they're intense! And I guarantee you, the guy that owns the tent…cause I don't think it's owned by…the White House folks…meaning us! The guy that owns a tent is making a…fortune! Okay? Can you imagine…? There's no negotiation! –MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT THE HIPOTHETICAL SITUATION-… ‘how much is it?’…well, that will be 3 billion dollars for the weekend’. ‘Oh, that’s okay’, you know, the tent is rotted out, it's old, it’s falling down…it's worth ten dollars…probably gets a fortune!
 
You know…that…I'll tell you. Now this is a story that they deny, but I…I…don't deny. So…you know in the Capitol, the rotunda, they’re…they're doing a big scaffolding job…right? My real estate friends…would love this…cause to me…
Now, they’re denying it…! …so…let's assume they’re correct, right? But I think I talked him into it. So I heard that they were gonna take…I have…pretty good authority! You know, I’m building a big, big building on Pennsylvania Avenue, the Old Post Office, and it's going…how did I ever get that property…!? The most sought-after property…how they…how did Obama get it to me!? Everybody wanted it! Including the Pritzker family, and a…that's a good negotiator! Right? And I got it for the right price…I didn't overpay. But here's the thing. Gonna be a great hotel…it’s gonna be fantastic…gonna be great. But…so the rotunda, they put this unbelievable scaffolding…it’s been up there for about two years. They gotta fix up some…they’re  gonna point.  You know what point is…? Fix that up…bing, bing, bing…10 minutes later, you take it down, it's finished. Right? So…they have the scaffolding up. Beautiful job! Cost millions of dollars! Millions! But they're worried that they won't make the…inauguration. Because they don't want to have the scaffolding up for the next president, which hopefully is gonna be me. Wouldn’t that be great!? –CROWE CHEERS. Wouldn’t that be great!?
 
So I was told…and then after they heard it there was a panic, and they denied it, and they said…but I was told that they're not going to have the work done. And they wanna take the scaffolding down, because you know, that ceremony is magnificent. And…they wanna take the scaffolding down, for the event…for the ceremony. Have the ceremony, and then two days later start putting it back up again. So I said…I have two ideas. Number one: if you can't do it, leave it up, I'll be okay with it. Okay? Leave it up –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPALDUS. Don't take it…please! Please! Don't take it down. It's amazing what these photographers can do…We can erase it, for two dollars! Right? They can erase it. Take the scaffolding off!
But even if you leave it…but I said, ‘do me a favor, don't touch it, just leave it’. But I had…I have a better idea: have them work faster, and get it finished! –CROWD CHEERS. Wouldn’t that be great? Okay? You know? Let ‘em work faster and get it finished!
 
So they denied…they said, ‘oh, no, it'll be done in time’. I guarantee you it wouldn't have been, and I'm…I have it from a very good source, it would not have been. But now I'll bet you, because of what I’ve been doing, cause I’ve been using that, and I've been telling people about that…and people find it…terrible! I think they'll probably get it done…I can imagine what they're paying in overtime. Wouldn’t that be terrible…? Okay? Let me check. Let me check out that bill! Oh, these contractors…the money they make! …the money they make!
 
So we're a country…with 93 million people out of the labor force, meaning…you know, we've got 93 million people…many of those people wanna work! And they can’t. And then we hear, ‘yes, the…ehm…the unemployment rate is down to 5.2, 5.3…I'll tell what! If it was really 5.2, or 5.3, I probably wouldn't be up here tonight, and if I was it’d be three…three people in this room instead of thousands…! There would be three people! –CROWD CHEERS.
So we have 93…and if you really superimpose…I was always pretty good at this stuff, you could very well have. I mean, you can have a thirty percent unemployment…real rate! I'm talking about a real rate! You know the story. You look for a job, you keep looking, looking, looking…three months later say, ‘I can't do it anymore. I can't look. I gotta take a rest’. You go home, you stop looking. You’re now considered…statistically employed. And the reason that is…it’s because it's the politicians! They always wanna look good! What does that have to do with unemployment!?
 
So I think you have, actually…-MR. TRUMP LAUGHS-…an economist, and a very smart guy, two weeks ago, said the real numbers 42 percent. So let's say that's high…! …but let's say it's 30, or 25, or 20, or 15…? One thing we know it's not 5.2, 5.3. got a hundred million people closed! We have 50 million people in poverty…and with no hope of…getting out…because there's no incentive…there's no drive…we’re run by the great divider…he divides everybody. And I thought actually, when Obama won…I thought that he would be a uniform…one thing I thought! I said. ‘I don't if he's gonna be good’, and I would love him to be a great president! By the way, speaking again…I would love him! If he would be a great president, I’d be very happy. I don't mind staying at my business, running my business, having fun, doing what I'm doing…I would love him. I know it's not nice…for…to say, Republican and conservative…I don't wanna say…but, if he would do a great job, I’d be very happy! So are most of the people in this room! It's not working that way folks, and it's not gonna happen! It's not gonna happen!
 
So we have 50 million people in poverty, we have 46 million people on food stamps, we've got tremendous problems with Obamacare…you know, your premiums, in case you haven't noticed, are up 45 percent, 38 percent…some person said, ‘it wasn't 45 percent Mr. Trump…!’ shout out from the audience. I think, maybe an Obama fan, but shouted out from the audience, ‘Wasn't 45!’. I said, ‘oh, mmm…’. I said, ‘maybe I'm in trouble…’. –MR. TRUMP NOW REPRODUCES THE CONVERSATION HE HAD-… ‘what is it?’. ‘Thirty-eight percent sir’. ‘Oh, fine, that's fine, 38 percent…’ –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
And…and some of them are up fifty percent. Fifty…your deductibles are through roof. Your deductibles through the roof! Unless you get hit…with a Komatsu tractor, because Komatsu is doing very well, because, you know what happened with Japan. They devalued their currency, Caterpillars are having a very hard time. You know that, right? Having a very, very hard time. Very, very hard time. But unless you get hit by a Komatsu tractor…coming right out of Japan, the deductible is so high, it's never gonna…never gonna…you have to die! And then it doesn't work, because that's not what the deductibles are supposed to be. So you got huge increases…! …and we have to repeal and replace Obamacare with something great! –CROWD CHEERS. We have to do it! We have to do it!
 
A country isn't a country…unless we have a border. Do we agree? We're gonna have a border, and people are going to come into the country, but they're coming in…legally! They're not coming in illegally…they’re coming in legally! –CROWD APPLAUDS. And…we're gonna build a wall. It's gonna be a great wall, it’s gonna to be a wall that really is effective. Walls do work! You can look at Israel, you can look at different places, walls do work! But you can't have walls that are fences…this tall –MR. TRUMP MARKS AN IMAGINARY LINE IN THE AIR. Did you see the picture…did you see the picture in Time Magazine…? A couple of weeks ago, where they're driving drug trucks over a little wall. They built the ramps! And their trucks are going over, back-and-forth, carrying drugs and things. I mean, what are we…what's going on? What's going on? We have tremendous drug traffic coming into this country, and they just come in…unabated…I mean, an…it's just unbelievable! And we allow it to happen! We’re gonna have a wall, we’re gonna have a great wall…and Mexico's gonna pay for it. And remember I said that. Just remember I said it. And just so you understand, I love Mexico! I love the Mexican people. I respect the Mexican leaders! But they're much smarter than our leaders! Much smarter! They’re getting away with murder! They tell me that! They tell me that!
 
China! I have the richest people in China, they’re friends of mine! They tell me everything! Of course now they're not being so open. Now they say, ‘I was only kidding a year ago’, they didn't know I was running for president! –CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true! They didn't know I was running for president! But Mexico…if you don't think they send people in…Kate! Beautiful Kate…from San Francisco. Shot in the back. By a man that was pushed in, in my opinion, pushed in…five times, maybe six times, maybe eight times. Nobody even knows. But he should…he wasn't supposed to be here. And he shot her in the back.
 
Three weeks ago, you had a woman raped…in California, a 66-year-old woman, a veteran…and by the way, we're gonna take such great care of our Veterans…because they are treated…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…they are treated so badly…so badly! We're gonna build our military stronger than ever before…so strong that nobody's messing with us. Nobody! Nobody's messing with us…and we're gonna take care of our Veterans who…by the way, are not treated as well…as the illegal immigrants! They are treated better! The ill…the illegal immigrants are treated better! Tey're treated better.
 
So we're gonna change things. And we're gonna change them so fast…and we’re change them so good…and you're gonna have victories! You have so many victories…when was the last time…? …and I say it! I love saying it. Because it's so sad…but it gets the point across. We don't have victories anymore! We don't win anymore! When was the last time we won? We lose to China, to…every place! I mean, does anybody come from any exotic country’ …cause I guarantee we lose to them, we lose to everybody!
 
But you look at Japan, with the cars, they just pour off these massive boats. I was in Los Angeles, 3, 4 weeks ago. I never saw ships like this big! And cars are just pouring off the ships. Pouring off…! Like…like the…long out…they’re going so fast! Boom, boom, boom…! No tax! No nothing! Not gonna happen anymore! It's not gonna happen! –CROWD CHEERS. It's unfair! It's unfair…! …it's incompetent…! …you don't even know. I mean, some people think there's evil intention, because how can anybody be that stupid…? I don't think it's evil intentions. I really don't! I   mean…other…I know people in this room think it's evil intention! But how can they do it…? …how can they allow it to happen? We give them beef…Japan. And then they send the beef back! Which is not good for the quality of the beef, by the way, back and forth. And you people know it, because you do trading! And you do…some…it’s so hard! They don't want our product! …and yet, we take their product. No tax! Just come on in!
 
I tell the story, and I love this story, and I could use different…because there's so many different companies I could use…you know, in Tennessee, a big…car factory was gonna to be built. They decided to go instead, as you probably have heard, to Mexico. Big, big, massive plant. In…Nabisco…I have some property, a beautiful property in Chicago, Nabisco is moving its plant, they make Oreos, they're moving its plant out of Chicago, and putting it in Mexico. That…how does that help us!? How that…with our trade deals…our brilliant trade deals. We’re losing everything! We're losing our jobs. The one I love…to talk about is Ford though. They're building a two-and-a-half billion-dollar factory! Two and a half…billion…you know that that is? It’s a one-story building! You know what two and a half…two and a half means…you go to forever! Its massive! They're gonna sell cars, trucks and parts. And they're gonna sell them into our country! Now, they're taking…and they're gonna close…places in Michigan, and all over the country…and I don't want that! And I said, supposing…I was president…I can tell you what’ll I do. But now take Hillary. Let's say she's president. Do you think she's even gonna know that it's happening!? She's not gonna know! –CROWD LAUGHS. And if she thought it were wrong…if she's…that…she's not gonna have a clue. Look: nothing but trouble. She's not gonna have a clue.
 
But take…Hillary. So she says, you know what that's no good? We're losing all these plants...do you know how many plants that is…? …to build two and a half billion-dollar, one big monster plant…? That's a lot of jobs! And they're not going to us. So Hilary would say, ‘well, we don't like that. I don't want it’. She would be hit by the…lobbyists, she would be hit…immediately! …she would be hit by Ford lobbyists…she would hit by Ford special interests, and for donors…and people that own Ford stock, and within 10 minutes you say, ‘oh, it's okay’. I'll be hit by people, but they won't even call me. Because they don't have a chance. It's over! It's over! -CROWD CHEERS. It's over! It's over!
 
And I would tell the people at Ford: ‘I don't want you to do that. I don't want you to close your plants. I want you to build new plants. You don't have to have the old ones…and I don't care, it can be anywhere, but it's gotta be in the United States…’ –CROWD CHEERS. …and if you're not…and if you're not going to build them…then we're not going to allow…cars, and trucks, and parts to cross the border, with zero tax after what we've suffered through’. We're not gonna allow it –CROWD CHEERS. We're not gonna allow it!
 
I mean, the way our country is run, if it doesn't happen to be me that wins, you know what's gonna happen? They're gonna build a plant, and illegals…! …are gonna drive those cars, right over the border. I'm telling you! –CROWD LAUGHS. It's gonna cost them nothing…right over the border! And then they'll probably end up stealing the car, and that'll be the end of it –CROWD LAUGHGS.
 
We have got to get smart! We have got to get smart! Now, I would say the following: I would say to the head of Ford: here's the story, and this is what you gonna do. Here's the story: ‘we're not gonna let you do this, we want you to build, but if you don't want to, that's okay. We're charging you a 35 percent tax. Then we’re charging them! -CROWD CHEERS. By the way, I'm a free trader, I believe in free trade, I don't gonna be isolated, I believe totally in free trade…but I say, ‘this is what we want to do. I want something out of it!’. We don't get anything out of it! Even, by the way, the Keystone pipeline. You know what? stuff comes from Canada, and that's fine. It's all good. And I like cuz…this…stuff…I think it's good. We gotta get a piece of it! I want a piece of the action, if we're gonna let them build. Okay? –CROWD CHEERS. If we're gonna let them build…cause you know, it turns out that we have so much natural, under our feet…with the new technology, it's incredible…so we're competing against ourselves. But we gotta make…we have to have people with deals…
 
So, here's what's gonna happen: I will be called by people, and I will say, ‘I'm sorry…’. And I guarantee you, that by the end of the day, the head of Ford will call me! Might take an extra day, if they want to play tough. And they will say, ‘Mr. president, we really don't think that's fair. We don't wanna pay a tax’. MR. TRUMP HYPOTHETICALLY RESPONDING- … ‘that's okay. Bye!’. Bing! –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND ACCOMPANIED BY MIMIC REPRESENTING HANGING UP THE PHONE. Okay –CROWD CHEERS. No! That's it! And then…and then…and then, by the end of the day, I guarantee you…I get a call…and they will say, ‘Mr. president, we're moving back to the United States. We're gonna build that plant in the United States’. Okay? I guarantee it! –CROWD CHEES AND APPLAUDS. And by the way, that one is so easy, I wouldn't even waste the time of my…negotiations to be it…that was too easy. Okay? That one, believe me, it's so easy.
 
Same with Nabisco. And again, Mexico great. I just don't want them taking all our business! You look at what happened to New England…! I mean, the business that poured out of New England! With all of that happened, the business that poured out is…unbelievable! You see factories all over the place! Some are converted to apartments, and they converted to other things…but the apartments don’t bring anything in…that’s…for stores. We need jobs! We don't need apartments! We don't need apartments! I have apartments! –CROWD APPLAUDS. We need jobs! We need production! We need factories! We need our jobs back.
 
Now China, they devalue their currency. They're killing us! It's impossible for companies to compete! Three weeks ago they did the biggest devaluation of the currency in the…in 20 years! They say in two decades. And that wasn't supposed to happen, because they've been devaluing it all along. And they are just absolutely destroying us! A friend of mine, bought a plane. Okay? He wanted it to be sent to China. He had to pay a massive tax! He ended up losing the shirt! I was happy, because he's a rich guy, okay? I couldn’t care less. He had to paid to get the plane into China…! He had to pay a fantastically you’ll…large…tax tariff! He had to pay…you couldn't believe it. I won't even say the number, because I still can't believe it was. It was a number that was so large, it wouldn't make any economic sense. Cause they don’t want…planes and built here. They don't want other things that are built here. They charge! They…you can't get your stuff in there, tax-free. You can't…you can't even get in there. But if you do, you can’t…it's unfair! And that's why we're losing almost 400 billion dollars a year! And they look at us, and they say, ‘they are the dumbest human beings on earth!’. It’s true! That's not gonna happen anymore!
 
Boeing just placed…a big order. They…they’re buying 300 Boeing's. Beautiful plane. Yeah, I have one…so I like it, you know –CROWD LAUGHS. But it's great. 300 planes. But you know what they're doing? They want all their technology, they want them to build factories in China, they want the planes manufacturer over there. Boeing is gonna start building massive plane assembly…plants and factories, for the production of aircraft in China! Why!? Why!? That's not good! In South Carolina they have Boeing. In Seattle they have Boeing! And I want them to expand here! I don't want them to do that! I don't want them to do that!
 
So…I passed a tax bill. And we put it…through everybody. And everyone loves it. We’re lowering taxes substantially. You know, we’re the highest tax nation in the world! We're bringing corporate taxes, and small business taxes, down 15! We’re bringing them down to fifteen percent! –CROWD CHEERS. That’s right. We're simplifying…the tax code. We're gonna have four tranches. It's going to be so beautiful. It's going to be so dynamic…it's gotten some great reviews. You know, you always have somebody that doesn't like it: ‘we don't like it’. But we have to do it! And you have corporate inversion. Nobody knows what it is. Companies, big companies, have…trillions of dollars, 2.5 trillion, offshore…out of the country. They can't get the money back in! And to show you how paralyzed…Washington is…the Democrats and the Republicans want to bring that money back. That's been going on for four years. They can't pass…but everybody agrees! I mean, they gonna bring the money back. It's too complicated, and it's too expensive, because the taxes so high. I want the money to come back. It's part of what I’m doing. And that…money trillions of dollars! Now, the two and a half trillion I think is a low number. Nobody even knows what the number is. It’s massive! But a lot of companies…are gonna be leaving the United States to go get that money. They are going to now, move out of the United…and these are big, strong, powerful companies…with thousands, and thousands of jobs. And they're also going to get a bit of tax deal. So they're going to Ireland, and they go into lots of different places…and it's called corporate inversion. You have to read…it's gonna be the biggest problem, unless we have competent leadership. And the amazing thing about this one is, everybody agrees! But they can't get it…signed! They can’t get a deal! And they all agree!
And this is what we have. We have total gridlock in Washington. We have people…that just don't have it. They shouldn't be doing it! And you know, the amazing thing, and you've seen it. People get elected. And they're strong, and they're tough. And they go to Washington and they're very conservative: -MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THEM- … ‘ah, we're gonna get rid of Obamacare…and we’re gonna get rid of this and that…and we're gonna bring the money back into…’ …and they go to Washington, and all of a sudden they're in this gorgeous building…maybe even nicer than this one. They're in this gorgeous beautiful columns, the beautiful…ceilings. Everything so beautiful. They look at their wife, or they look at the husband, they say, ‘oh, this is incredible. We've made it. Look at this’. And they become nothing! They get…-CROWD CHEERS-…they get elected! They get elected…to make things right! And they get to Washington, and they become…he said it, -MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD- … ‘whips’, they become…something happens to ‘em. Something happens to ‘em. So…we're going…they want to stay there. You know what happens? They get good at getting reelected! That's all they care about!
 
One thing I can tell you…I get to Washington…? It's not gonna happen to trump. Not gonna happen to Trump. It's not gonna happen to Trump –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So we're gonna take care of women's health issues. You know, women have lots of issues, where…they have the health, a tremendous health care issues. Tremendous! That people don't even talk about! We're gonna take care of women! And women's health care issues! We're gonna take care of so many different things! We are going to make our country rich again! We have to make it rich. Somebody said to me, ‘but that's not really nice…to say rich’. Well…unless we get rich…right?...we owe 19 trillion dollars! We’re third-world! You look at our airports, our roads…you look at everything…! …and we’re third world! I go to Qatar! I go to these places…these incredible exotic places! I see airports…we don't have anything in our country like it by a factor of ten! You see airports in Dubai…you see airports in China…you see airports in Saudi Arabia…you've never seen anything like it! We come home, we land at LaGuardia with the potholes in the runway –CROWD LAUGHS. It's true! They say, ‘you can't land Sir, they're fixing the potholes’ –CROWD LAUGHS. It's true! It's a disgrace! We used to be emulated. We used to be the ones…that people would look up to! We have the greatest resources! What we have is the people! We have really smart people! We have great people! We don't use our best people! We don't use them!
 
But the bottom line…and I think the reason…and you know what? …we have a full packed house tonight: thousands of people. But honestly…? …everywhere I go! And I don't know...IF- it's me…? I think it's not me. I hope it's not me. It's the message! There's a movement going on! There's actually a movement going on! –CROWD CHEERS. It's a strong movement! It's a strong movement!
 
You know, they used to call it the silent majority. It's not silent! It doesn't work! The term doesn't work! Because I have seen…I go to Dallas. Okay? Mark Cuban calls. Good guy. Calls me, -DO- you wanna use the stadium…for the Mavericks?’. ‘Yeah, when?’. I called…it’s a Thursday! We go there on Monday, we have 20,000 people! We had 35,000 people in Mobile, Alabama! We had 20,000 people, in Oklahoma! Every place we go to in Iowa, we’re packed, you know that. People standing outside, trying to get in! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's been an amazing moment for me.
 
A friend of mine, who’s a very successful guys said, ‘how many people are you speaking to tonight?’. MR. TRUMP RESPONDS- ‘I don't know, 4,000 people, lot’. He said, ‘that's a small group’…that's becomes like…four thousand is a small group! He said, ‘how do you do that? Do you write speeches?’. I said, no, I have a great memory’, but I said, ‘I…more…more than memory though. Much more. I have a heart. I know what we have to do! I don't need teleprompters to tell us what we have to do! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't need them. You know?
 
We come in…we come into this…room, and…and you know, people…they come up, and I see it all the time! I see the people I’m competing against…they get up, and they're more worried about the teleprompter angle… ‘you have the angle…’. Then they get up, MR. TRUMP IMITATEAS THEM- ‘good morning ladies and gentlemen’…but everyone's falling asleep, it's brutal! It's brutal –CROWD LAUGHS. But that's what we have! We can't have that! We have a teleprompter president! We can't have that! We need somebody…-CROWD LAUGHS-…we need somebody that can do the job!
 
A friend of mine just got back from Shanghai. He's in Shanghai. He said, ‘Donald, I've never seen anything like it. The…what they're doing there…is…unbelievable!’. He sends me pictures of cranes, on every corner. Stuff…I mean, everybody going crazy! There's nothing like it! And I could name so many other places! It's not happening with us! It's not happening! It's the opposite with us! Everything is leaving, everybody's laughing at us, because we’re led by people that don't have it. And it's not gonna happen any longer…and that's why I'm doing this, folks. That's why I'm doing it, believe me -CROWD CHEERS.
 
And and I will tell you…I will be the greatest jobs president, that God has ever created. That I can tell you –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That I can tell you. God will be very proud of me, because he wants good. I will be the greatest jobs president. That…that God has ever created. And I mean it so much. It's so easy!
 
You know, in one of the polls, actually CNN poll, they did all these things…! And I was number one in leadership, and jobs, and this and that…
And I said, ‘why? Let's…’, I mean, that…those are important things! We will do something that's going to be so spectacular!
 
Now, I always say…and the whole theme of what I’m doing is, ‘Make America Great Again’! Again! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And, you know I say the American Dream is dead, but I’m gonna make it bigger, and stronger and better than ever before. And I mean that! The American Dream is dead, it really is! With the regulations, and the problems, and…all of the problems that this country has! And I’m gonna make it bigger, and better, and stronger than ever before…we're gonna be so proud of our country…-CROWD APPLAUDS-…we are gonna have so much victory! You may get angry, because you're gonna say, ‘this is boring…winning so much! …is boring!’. But you know what…? …that's never gonna happen. We're gonna win so much…we're gonna have so many victories…we're gonna win on trade, we're gonna win with the military, we're gonna have…think of it!
 
I watch the other night a general being interviewed. Sad. He's leaving. He's retiring. MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THE PRESS AND THE GENERAL IN HIS INTERVIEW- ‘What do you think of ISIS?’. NOW THE GENERAL-…‘Oh it's very tough. It’s very tough’ Very tough. ISIS. It’s very tough. 50,000 people, very, very tough. I said, ‘boy, that sad. Even if it was tough, he should be saying that’. Besides, that…what's the general doing on television…being interviewed? Why is it general being interviewed? I don't want my generals being interviewed! I want my generals kicking ass! I mean…no it’s true…I…I don’t want them being interviewed! –CROWD CHEERS AND CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
 
I will find…the General Patton. Or I will find…the general MacArthur. We have them! We have them! They're probably not politically correct. Remember we got rid of…I won’t use his name, we got rid of a very good general cause he was too rough, and he used foul language, and he was rough, and his men all loved him…you know who I'm talking about, right? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YEAH’!- …right! He was a rough guy. That's what we want! I want smart! Number one, smart. But we want tough. We want…we want…people.
 
So when I see…as an example, President Obama, ‘we will be leaving Iraq…’, which we should have never gotten, in all fairness. Okay? We spent two trillion dollars. Thousands of lives! Wounded warriors, who I love, all over the place. We got nothing! We took nothing!
Remember I said, ‘look, you shouldn't have gotten in… because you destabilize the Middle East. But now, if you’re getting out, keep the oil’. You know where is the oil now? Iran…! And ISIS…has the oil! Remember they said how mean I was because I said keep the oil? Remember they said everybody, all the pundits, the great geniuses on television, ‘well Trump will run, but you won't do very well…he should be out within one week’. Well, you know, I've been on top a long time folks, a long time’ –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But these same geniuses, these same pundits, on television, I call them the ‘talking heads’, right? These same pundits…on television, they said, ‘well, you know, you can’t keep the oil, because this is a sovereign country’. Iraq! Iraq is a sovereign country! It's broken up! Nobody knows what the hell…there is no Iraq! You know what's happening to Iraq? Iran is taking over Iraq, because we were so stupid. We de…decapitalize…we…we ruined it! … and what happens now, Iran goes over, takes the oil, takes all the resources, takes everything…we get nothing! Now they go into Syria, with Russia, we're sitting here, like a bunch of dopes…we’re run by people that are totally and grossly incompetent, it's not gonna happen anymore…it's not gonna happen anymore –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's not gonna happen anymore…believe me! We're gonna win this election! We're gonna win the primaries! We're gonna win the election! We're gonna beat Hillary! Hillary has done a horrible job…! She's not worthy of being our president…! And we're gonna make this country great again! Thank you!
 
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