VIDEO Nº: 26
TITLE:26. Speech: Donald Trump - Miami, FL - October 23, 2015
DATE OF EVENT:23/10/2015
RELEASE DATE:04/11/2017
DURATION:01.04.56 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:8933
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Wow!
 
Whoa!
 
Whoa!
 
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Thank you!
 
Wow!
 
CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY- This is great! Unbelievable! What a group of people! Incredible! Incredible!
 
You know, we love Jacksonville, and I’ll tell you a little story. I had a boat, but it wasn't a pleasure boat. Because I'm always working, like…you know, I shouldn't, but I love it. Right? But I had a casino boat built here. It did great. We sold it. Made a lot of money. So I love Jacksonville! –CROWD CHEERS. I love it. True! True! Great place, great people. We broke a record today. This is a record! And…it's one hell of a beautiful place. Isn't it? Isn’t this nice!? –CROWD CHEERS.
 
I just met a very rich guy, the owner of this big monster. Where the hell is he, with his family…? So amazing. They've treated me so good…Lenny Curry has been great. Everybody's been great. And I just wanna thank everybody for being here…this is happening. This is happening…all over. It's happening all over! –CROWD CHEERS. No matter where I go…it’s a message…and it's a movement. It's a movement! This is more than just like Donald Trump shows up, he speaks, he leaves…we're gonna do something…that's going to be so unbelievable…! …the whole world is talking about it! The whole world is talking about it! –CROWD CHEERS. And we have to fight the media! Constantly fighting the media! It's a constant battle. Because, you know, they don't want it to happen, they don't wanna see it happening…no matter what it is.
 
Last night, at Trump national Doral, I love that place, I love it. But we had an incredible group of people, same thing…such enthusiasm! They gonna make America great again. It's simple. It's a very good, it's a very good…and a very simple message: The American Dream is back. We're gonna bring it back…bigger, better, stronger than ever before…-CROWD CHEERS. And we're gonna make America great again. I have to tell you…-MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHINIG INAUDIBLE THAT TRUMP RELATES TO A FLIGHT SQUADRON-… ‘I love the blue angels. I hear they're around someplace. I love the blue angels. I love the blue angels. I do.’
 
So…a lot of things have happened over the last few days, and I have been the brunt of more bad press…for what!? –CROWD BOOS. You know why? So let me tell you why! You know I love polls. I love polls. I'm in love with polls! When I did The Apprentice, I had the number one. I mean, I was always…and I was in love with ratings. And even now…! …I'm in love…and it's good for us! Because when I go on these television shows…
 
So last week, Chris Wallace. I did his show. He had his highest ratings in six and a half years. That’s great –CROWD CHEERS.  That's on FOX! And then Meet the Press had their highest ratings…got almost four million people. And Stephanopoulos had his highest ratings…and…! …Face The Nation. And you know what it does? It gives us all power! And the reason we're getting those ratings is because…people wanna hear the message. It's an amazing message. And you know what it is? It's basically saying we're gonna go out, we're gonna work, we're gonna get rid of all of these horrible restrictions…!  We are going to get the country…we're gonna make it dynamic. You've seen my tax plan. The tax plan cuts taxes…-CROWD CHEERS-…we are right now, we are right now…the highest taxed nation in the world –CROWD BOOS. And by the way, education…? We’re 28th in education…we have by far the most per student, per capita. We spend more money per student than any other country in the world…in the world…we're number 28…for education! Think of it! Just think of it! –CROWD BOOS.
 
We have third world nations that do better than us…on education…because Jeb Bush, and other people they gonna see education coming out of Washington DC instead of locally. They like Common Core, and we can't have Common Core.
 
But I put in a tax plan, and…it's been really well received, by a lot of people. And it brings corporate rates down, to fifteen percent. It's a big simplification. Some of my friends, that are hedge funds are not exactly in love with me, because I take away their carried interest, which is a little complicated, but it means…not good for them! Who cares!?  They’re making it a lot of money. And remember, I'm…self-funding my campaign! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…when they come to me, and they say, ‘Donald, what are you doing?’. I said, ‘I don't care, I gotta do the right thing’. The only people I’m gonna be working for is right out here…-CROWD CHEERS-…all over the country! All over the country. And…a big thing happened. Cause…a lot of PACs…you know what PACs are? It's a crooked business, a bad business. But they have now Super PACs! These are super, super duper…the call them Super Duper PACs…and they put up millions, and millions of dollars…in these PACs. And those packs…control the candidates, okay? They totally control. Carson…is controlled by his PACs. Bush is controlled…by his PACs. Rubio…is controlled by his PACs. And he needs a lot of water, on top of everything else. Did you ever see a guy…!? …did you ever see a guy sweat like Rubio…!? I'd never seen anything like that! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But they're controlled by their PACs! And what happens…is…many PACs were set up: ‘Trump!’…one of them had The Art of the Deal PACs. Another PACs. I turn on television I see these guys…and you know what? They look okay, who knows!? But they say, ‘oh, we love Trump. We love Trump…but we wanted this…’, and they wanna raise money. I don't know what happens to that money once it's raised! I know too much about business…to think…positively. So I can just see one of these guys that doesn't have ten cents…and all of a sudden he raises two million dollars…under a Super PAC. Hey I'd love, it if we spent to me…but I still don't want it.
 
But I can imagine where the money goes. But worse…are the super PACs that are set up for candidates…where they go out, and run campaigns…like…if you look…honestly? Carson, in Iowa, being run by a Super PACs. Bush all over! Bush, now has got to cut back, because…think of this. Think of this: here’s a guy…here's a guy…wants to run our country. And he can't even run his own campaign! –CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. And you know what? …he's cutting back, 40 percent. And everybody's agreed, to take a forty percent cut. All of his people! I mean, I have like…a few people…what do you need these people for!? In fact, I'm very proud of something. I'm putting up, and I'll be putting up a lot of money. Don't worry, it's not cheap to do this. But I so far, I've put up less money than anybody else, and I'm number one…and other guys are spending…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So I put up…less money…than anybody else, and I'm number one. Other people have spent 25, 30…! I think that reported the other day…I put up two million dollars, I think. Can you…? I…that's a good deal, right? Two million, you’re number one. I could trade that to one of these other candidates, that have spent many times that money, and they're at zero…! Zero! You have a couple of ‘em, zero with an arrow pointing less, which means less than zero, and I don't even know what that means.

But if you think about it, cuz that's what we have to do for our country. I'm not doing that in the braggadocious way! I don't care. I'll put up as much money as I need. I'm not going anywhere, that I can tell you. That I can tell you –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm gonna stay!
 
I'm meeting the most incredible…people like you, I mean, I'm meeting the most incredible people!
 
So what happens is…I put up, and there was a big story…! Hillary's like in for 32 million! –CROWD BOOS. Bush’s in for a fortune! Rubio’s running out of money! He's got no money…he’s running…he spent much more than me…he's running out of money! …a not doing well! All of these people…are spending money. And what I'm saying is that…wouldn't it be nice if we had a country that would spend the least and be number one? Think of it…-CROWD CHEERS-… wouldn’t that be nice? Wouldn’t that be nice? You know…-CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. MR. TRUMP LAUGHS-… ‘true’.
 
You know, it's very funny. I told my campaign people…I have very good people…nice people, great people…but I said, ‘you know, I don't like to how…about how little I put up, because it sounds bad’. They said, ‘no actually, it sounds good! It sounds good!’. But the truth is…we…and, I have to say nothing…when you lease a plane, you have to pay it back! So a lot of the money that I spent…at least it, I have to pay it back. Cause the campaign has to lease. You have rules and regulations. So we go to the FEC and we say, ‘what do you do here?’, ‘well, you have to take market value…’, bap, pop, pop –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND MEANING ETC. -…you know it's all a process, and you pay it back. So a lot of the money…that I'm putting up…I'm paying…and then I'm paying myself back! Can you believe it!? –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. I might be into the sucker for nothing! Cuz…they've never had anybody that owned the Boeing 757 before. It's a little bit of an unusual thing. They've never had it!
 
And by the way, Boeing…Boeing now is building in China…a massive plant! –CROWD BOOS. No, think of it! They're building a massive plant…because China just put in a big order of planes…and they said, ‘you're gonna build a massive plant, and we're, by the way, gonna take all of your technology…’. That didn't bother me, cuz they take it anyway, you know. They take it anyway, whether you give it to ‘em or not. But China…is demanding that Boeing, and everybody else! …build a massive plants. So there's no free trade folks. There's no free trade. There’s free trade for us I call it ‘stupid trade’ –CROWD LAUGHS. And I'm a free trader. The problem with free trade is that you need really smart people, representing you –CROWD CHEERS. Cuz we are getting ripped off, like you wouldn't believe. We're being ripped off like you wouldn't believe.
 
So I'm gonna finish a couple of things. Then we're gonna talk about trade, we're gonna talk about illegal immigration –CROWD CHEERS-…, we’re gonna talk about Obamacare...-CROWD CHEERS-…Ay! Ay! Think about Obamacare: your premiums are up forty five, fifty five percent. Your deductibles, you have to die before you get any money, and then you're not gonna get it…you can't get it! I know a friend, he said, ‘I had four major operations’, he still doesn't qualify. You can't get it…it's a disaster. The five-billion-dollar website. Think of it. Nobody talks about it anymore. You know, the problem is…everybody forgets quickly. You know…the public. And for some reason, they talk about an attention span of a couple of weeks. I'm not gonna let people forget. I'm not gonna let people forget –CROWD CHEERS. Think about it.
 
And the reason…if I…in all fairness to everybody. The reason you forget is because we have so many other problems. We never win. We just don't win. We never win any more! We're gonna have so many victories…if I win we're gonna have so many victories…we're gonna win! –CROWD CHEERS. We're gonna win! We're gonna win against China! We're gonna win against Japan! We're gonna win against Mexico…! And by the way, I love the Mexican people. But their leaders are ripping off our country. They are ripping off our country. We are gonna win against Brazil, and Vietnam. We're gonna win…
 
I can take anybody in this massive audience, and I can say, ‘where do you originally come from…your parents, your grandparents?’. And they'll give me a name, and I’ll say, ‘that country is ripping us off’, everybody is ripping us off. Every country is ripping us off! Every single country! So we're not gonna let it happen anymore. We don't win on trade…we can't even beat ISIS. Think of it. We can't beat ISIS.
 
So…we are going to strengthen our military, general INAUDIBLE…nobody's gonna mess with us. Nobody! Nobody's gonna mess with us. I'm gonna talk about my favorite subject, cuz I love the polls. I love ‘em. I'm gonna talk about for a second. But one of the things, in one of the polls, CNN poll, and I have to be telling the truth, cuz I've CNN…look at that camera on me…right…-CROWD CHEERS-…and you know what? They…you know what? They never cover the audience! Nobody has any idea…I got home and I said this the other night. And I could say ‘spin!’, and show the audience and the camera stays right on my face –CROWD LAUGHS. And I say ‘spin, show the people!’. But I get home the other night, we had a fantastic crowd in New Hampshire. We had another fantastic crowd…an unbelievable crowd…in Virginia. We're all over. We always have crowds…they’re overflow crowds…like this! And the camera never moves. You know, I really think I'm a handsome guy, but I really want to see the crowd…-CROWD LAUGHS-…right? The camera never moves! And I say ‘fan!’, you know the word ‘fan!?’, and I watch them, and the cameras are…these guys don't like steel, because they're told ‘don't move’.
 
So I get home the other night my wife said, ‘how was the crowd? Your speech looked good’. I said, ‘what do you mean the crowd. You didn't see it…?’. MR TRUMP NOW PLAYS OUT MELANIA-… ‘no, they didn't show the crowd. I heard people…! …but they never showed the crowd. They just show your face and that's it. They never moved’. They do that on purpose! –CROWD BOOS. They do that on purpose! They're really…let me tell you. They're really dishonest people. Where's that Wall Street Journal!? Hope! Where's the Wall Street Journal? Where is the Wall Street Journal? Where!? That's called having good people. See? We need good people.
 
So look at the size of this paper look! Look how small it is. Remember once was big, and beautiful and rich. You know, they bought the Wall Street Journal for five billion dollars…! …a few years ago. Now it's worth 500 million dollars…and then they do an editorial criticizing my tax plan. Think of it. But here's the beauty, cuz we're gonna go over in a second. So I say, ‘oh gee’, I mean, honestly? Bus is failing. He's a very nice person. Highly low on energy…he really is. He's low! He's low! He's low on energy! But he's a nice person. By the way, Carson is super low. I don't understand the whole deal! I don't know what's going on! Carson is lower energy than Bush! I don't understand what's going on! Because we're gonna talk about the fact…that for the first time in a hundred days, I had a poll that said I'm in second place…in Iowa! Oh, don't worry. Don't worry, only in Iowa. The rest we’re killing! And we'll talk about it.
 
So…what happens, actually we'll talk about that for a sec, then I'll show you what they write. Just to show you how dishonest these people are.
 
So the polls come out…and I have great news, little bad news…I mean, you know, I'm entitled…to a little bad news, right? My company is unbelievable. We're doing well. We're gonna put that same brain power. You know, when I said I was gonna run, everyone said, ‘oh, probably not, because he won't wanna file…because maybe he's not as rich as people think’. So when I filed, I was much richer! Much richer. It’s…so…it's…I built a great company: very low debt, tremendous cash flow…some of the greatest assets in the world…and I'm not bragging! I'm only saying it because that's the kind of thinking…we need…to run our country! –CROWD CHEERS. Oh…! Do we need that thinking…! –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY-…these people…these people…!
 
 
So…I get the news…on Friday, great poll, ABC/Washington Post just comes out. Big, big poll… ABC/Washington… you can't do better. ABC/Washington Post, right? I'm killing everybody! I'm at 32. Way up! Way up from the previous! In New Hampshire I get this incredible poll, I think I'm 20 points above number two. Great. Nobody wants to say it. In New Jersey I'm killing everybody…including the governor…I'm a 28 or 29. The governor, who's a nice guy, he’s a friend of mine, Chris Christie, he's at five! In Nevada…I'm number one by so much it's embarrassing, I won't tell you how much, cuz it's about…but, but…here's the thing: in Nevada…! …just came out. I'm number one with Hispanics, because they know I’m gonna put people to work… I'm gonna bring jobs back! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
The Hispanics, last night, at Doral…you know Doral, it’s in Miami…it's great place, one of the great places, I took it, it was a sick puppy. And a man came up to me…I mean, I bought to…everybody always made money with Doral. The Wall Street guys, they buy it, and sell it three years later, and make a hundred million. Buy it, sell it. Buy it, sell it. Then the market crashed, it’s the last…it's like musical chairs. Then I bought it for a really good price, right? And I was making a speech…I fixed it, made it great. And a man came up to me…yesterday. HE- said, ‘you know, Mr. Trump, I've been coming to this place for 25 years. If you can do…the same job…for the United States of America…as you did making this place incredible…’, cause this is the best resort in the country now. He said, ‘wow would that be something!’. I said, ‘that's what I'm going to do! That's what I'm going to do! I'm going to do that!’ –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…number one in New Jersey. Number one in Florida! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Wow! Trump is number one. Rubio way behind! I mean, you're talking about…you talk about a guy who is sweating…now he's really sweating –CROWD CHEERS. He's a very ambitious guy. He was very disloyal…I have to tell you about Rubio: he was very disloyal to Bush, because everybody admits that Bush…was his mentor…right? And everybody said, ‘he'll never run…’, even I thought, ‘he'll never run, because Bush was his mentor’. And maybe it's Bush’s time…so until we got to really know Bush and watch him perform…we all sort of liked him. I liked him too. What's not to like? Okay? –MR. TRUMP MEANS IT SARCASTICALLY- …ay, ay, ay! Putin is saying, ‘oh I love Bush!’. Putin will love Bush! …and he'll love Hillary! Will he push Hillary around? Will he push Hillary around? Oh…Hillary!
 
So anyway. So they all said that Rubio will never run. He's a very ambitious guy, so he decides to run. So those two guys are fighting like crazy, and I'm laughing…! …watching them fight. So I'm number one in Florida. Number one in South Carolina, by a lot! Number one in North Carolina. Number one in Ohio! …against…think of it! Against…another very good guy named Kasich. He's a good guy! He's the governor of Ohio! I'm number one. Everybody said, ‘oh, if you use the Governor of Ohio, you'll win Ohio’. But I'm number one…by a lot! It's not even close, right? You know that! So I'm number one in Ohio. Listen to this: number one in Massachusetts! But listen to the number. Now remember: we started out with 17 people…too many, it’s ridiculous. I mean, why don't…like 10 of these people just get out!? They have no chance! So ridiculous. They think it's good for their brand. I think it's terrible for their brand, okay? I mean, -A- guy like Pataki…he was a lousy governor, he's got zero…! …and he keeps running, running, running…and then he tells people I'm not a nice person. And by the way, I am a nice person. But we don't need nice, we need competent now –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We need really…what a dope he is! Okay. They should get out…go back to their family…retire, enjoy your life.
 
So…so listen to this one: number one in Massachusetts, but listen: forty-eight percent! Forty-eight percent! –CROWD CHEERS. I think I'm 34 points above number two…Massachusetts! Great state, big state…! Now, Tom Brady does love me. I know that. But he's my golfing partner. You always want Tom Brady as you golfing partner. But he said: ‘I always want Trump as my partner’, that was a good set. That could have an impact on Massachusetts! I don’t know…
But you know what? …number one Massachusetts.
 
So here's what happens. So…Bush has no money. He's cutting…he's meeting today with mommy and daddy…-CROWD LAUGHS-…and they're working on their campaign! Okay? They're working! And in all fairness, he wants to stay in! But I have some numbers! He's cutting everybody! Forty percent across the board. And everybody's agreed to it. So me, as the businessman, we have a lot of business people here. Me as business man said, ‘well, if he's cutting everybody forty percent, and every single person has agreed to it…why didn't he make that deal in the first place…?’. Right? Does that make sense? In other words, he's gonna cut forty percent…you make the deal in the first place! You don't wait till you're failing…so he's failing!

Then…he's got a finance director. Listen to this one: a finance director! For a political campaign where he's losing badly, and embarrassing his family. He's got a finance director, who got paid already 1.3 million dollars. Can you believe it? I mean, I have good people. My people are better than them. I pay ‘em peanuts! Cory you are getting paid peanuts! I don't play like that! I can't! I can't mentally! You know? So I have all these polls. Now that's the good news. Let me give you the bad news.
 
So…and I don't actually believe it. Cuz i was in Iowa…the other night. And I had a crowd…that as unbelievable. And I left Iowa…it was like a love fest. Like this. It's a lovefest! Because they love the message! It's not…and I don't even know…maybe they like me. I think people do like me, you know? I like people! –CROWD CHEERS. But …but…they like the message! Right?
 
So I'm in…Iowa…we have a unbelievable…we come home…let me give you the bad news: I'm number two! …in Iowa! I said, ‘I don't believe it!’. One’s Bloomberg's, they hate me. The other one is a super liberal newspaper, The Des Moines Register, which is third grade. Totally third-rate, not respected…! …in Iowa. It's a third-rate, crummy newspaper. So I got these two polls. Bloomberg hates me. Don't forget: Michael –BLOOMBERG- did wanna run…for president. Remember that. But he's totally against…the Second Amendment, so it's no good, can’t run. I'm for the Second Amendment folks, remember that –CROWD CHEERS. Remember that.
 
But Michael…who I like, who I like. But he's always wanted to won…run but. But…you can't. And then he started doing the thing with the colors, you know, you can only have a thing this big, and this…until you see these people coming out with 7…7…ehm…containers of Cola. Started getting a little bit of…mixed up. That's called mixing government into our lives, a little bit too much. Right?
 
So I get a Bloomberg poll…and it wasn't even bad! I'm a second place! Hey, I know 14 other candidates –WHO- would love to be in second place! But I said, ‘I don't believe the poll’. But nevertheless it came out. Now, nobody covered that I have 48 in Massachusetts. Nobody covered that…the biggest poll of all, the Washington Post/ABC, and I wouldn't say they're in love with me…that I’m at 32 and killing everybody. And don't forget: when you say ‘32’, when you have 15 people…and you have 32, who gets 32!? I'll…I'll tell you, you know what? As a poker player, as any kind of a card player…I'll take that hand right now, and never ever lose! –CROWD CHEERS. Ever!
 
You know, when I started out, before I announced I was running, my wife said, ‘you know…’. I have a wonderful wife, Melania, and I have a wonderful daughter, Ivanka. Wonderful –CROWD CHEERS. But my wife said, ‘you know darling, if you run you're gonna win, don't you?’. I said, ‘what are you talking about?’. She said, ‘people love you. And they want your toughness, and they want your kind of…they want you to help…! The country's going to hell, they want you to help!’. And I said, ‘well, I don't know. I don't like to think about it’. So before I ran, nobody thought I was gonna run. And…a poll came out where I was at three! Think of it: I was like all these guys! But that's cuz nobody's thought I was gonna run. But then I announced I was running. Then I filed this incredible financial statement, which I’m proud of! I might have filed it, even if I didn't run. I was actually gonna file my financials…even if I wasn't gonna run! Cuz it takes guts to run! Let me tell you, it takes guts! Not easy! It's…you understand. Look at that guy –MR. TRUMP POINTS SOMEONE IN THE CROWD OFF CAMERA. He looks like he's rich, but you understand what I mean. It takes guts! I've got a lot of really wealthy friends. And they're saying, ‘man! How do you do that…? That takes guts. I could’ve never done it…’ it's very interesting. But it takes guts.
 
So every week a new poll would come out. So I went from three, to six…and every time I went up…they say, ‘well that's just plateau…! ‘…he's got those people…’, ‘…but that's his…’. You know, the talking heads. Most of whom are incompetent. And…and really…I mean, these people are bad…and they're angry! They're so angry at me! Because I proved them so wrong they're so angry at Trump. They hate me! But the talking heads. The talking heads would say, ‘what's…’ So I’m at six. ‘Well, I could see how he got to 6, but you know that's a plateau’. Then I go up to 12, the next week: ‘well you know that's a plateau’. Then I go to 18! Then I go to 20! Then I actually had one last week, that was 41. I said, ‘I'll take that Plateau. I don't want to do any more polls!’. But every week it was…I was at a plateau.
 
So what happens…and it's…it’s incredible. We go out, we do the polls. But last…! …two days ago, a day ago. I get these two polls…remember I don't believe them. I don't believe them. In Iowa…one place…and I'll of Iowa! And…look I don't have to say it: I'm Presbyterian, can you believe it? Nobody believes it. I'm press…I'm Presbyterian. I'm Presbyterian! –CROWD APPLAUDS. I'm Presbyterian! Boy…that's down the middle of the road folks, in all fairness. I mean, seventh-day Adventists…I don't know about. I just don't know about.
 
But…so I’m Presbyterian, I get these polls, and I'm losing by little bit…so headlines! …all over the place! For two days…headlines: ‘Trump losing in polls!’. I just won every…I…In fact, …I have like this great memory, but there's so many that I'm winning...THAT-…I wanted to write them down. Cause I won…all of them! And many more that I didn't write. I'm winning on everything, every national, every single… But for some reason I had a bad week in Iowa! …which I don't believe! The headlines today all over. Fox and CNN…everything! … ‘Trump losing in polls to Carson!’. Carson! I don't think Carson's gonna negotiate really well with China, folks, in all fairness. Okay? I don't think so. And I like him. I don't think so. Cuz this it's not about like. You know, people come up to me, ‘do you think you're nice enough person to be President’?. I said, ‘you know what? I'm a nice person. But it's not about nicest. It's about super confidence, cause men we are getting killed. We are getting killed!’ –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…so all over! Now, had I won Iowa…it wouldn't even be mentioned. Believe me. It wouldn't even be mentioned. There would be no story whatsoever. Nobody wrote that I was 48 in Massachusetts! Nobody wrote anything or very little about South Carolina, New Hampshire…
All of these other places that I named…it’s…practically nothing! And I knew it! Because they are so bad. They are so disgusting. I know it. Not all of them! But seventy percent. No, they're so dishonest, the media.
 
So what happens…is…I get up this morning. And I say, ‘wow! …that's incredible!’. So you have Bush, with a failing campaign. He's got no money, he's got no votes, he's way down in the polls… You got Rubio, doing poorly…and he sweats like a dog. You got Carson, I don't know what the hell's going on there. I don't get it! I don't get it. And then I read in The New Wall Street Journal…again, look how little these pages…you know, if you did it this way,  if you read it this way…-MR. TRUMP PUTS IT HORIZONTALLY-…it's a tabloid. It’s true!
 
So I see…I see in the wall street journal, right up front someplace. Where the hell is it? –CROWD LAUGHS. Yeah, right here. Right…look at this…-MR. TRUMP SHOWS THE NEWSPAPERS-…so incredible. Right…right up in the front. Can you believe it? Look at this: ‘how Trump and Bush…aren't doing well’ –CROWD LAUGHS. So we have unlimited money, we're tie…we're winning every state, in one state…! And by the way, I’ve other polls in Iowa where I'm leading! But I have a couple of polls, quick ones, came out. And they're talking about Bush and Trump. This is the worst stuff. So I said to my people…that’s…anybody want a Wall Street…?-MR. TRUMP THROWS AWAY THE NEWSPAPERS- …very dishonest. But they don't…they don't like Trump. But what I'm trying to say…! …and I think we're saying it…is the press is very dishonest. They’re so dishonest.
 
I had another case the other day. And I talked about it. I was on Meet the Press: Chuck Todd. Can you believe it? I saved his job! I was going after him so badly…you know what I was saying…cuz he treated me very unfairly. And in all fairness, he's been very…no, no he's been very nice. So I'm leading in every category this is two weeks ago, and he said, ‘would you ever quit the race!?’. And I said to myself, ‘what kind of a question is that!?’. You know, when…you're leading, why is he asking…but I thought I’d give him an honest answer. I said, ‘you know Chuck, if I started going down in the polls big. And if I didn't have crowds like this…! …20,000 people!’ –CROWD CHEERS. The owner, who's a great guy, and his family…just told me it's a record. It’s 20…over 20 thousand people! So…if I didn't have crowds like this. If I didn't have any gravitas. If I wasn't doing well. If you wouldn't be calling me to do interviews, which is like every two minutes, they call me…then I would certainly consider leaving the race. And I thought it was a very good answer. The next day, ‘Trump considering leaving race!’ –MR. TRUMP MEANS HE SAW IT IN THE PRESS-…I didn't say that!
 
And then I watched these guys, who are professional politicians…cuz don't forget. I've only been a politician for three months, thank God. Okay? So I watch these guys, who are obviously in the race for more…no more than a week. Maybe a few days. I watched a couple of them. I mean, I watched Rand Paul. He used to be a nice guy, then he tried to hit me, because he thought, you know, he'd get a couple of more points cuz he went down…like a like a rock. But I watched him this morning: ‘No I'm staying in the race!’. I watched other guys. Some of these guys have zero! MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT THE PRESS-… ‘will you leave the race’. MR TRUMP PLAYS OUT THE POLITICIANS-… ‘absolutely not! I'm in until the end’. You know, they're gonna be gone in a couple of days. And I said to myself, ‘isn't it sad when to be a politician you basically have to be dishonest?’. Think of it. It's pretty sad.
 
So…we are doing well. We're at, actually, I think our highest point, or just about our highest point. The Reuters poll shows where the…you know, I…I think just about our highest point, from the beginning of the campaign. 32. And we have some that are higher than that. But, I have to tell you something. I am having…cuz people ask me the question, and actually most people say, ‘he's having fun’. And I am I'm having fun! This is…look: I'm having fun! I'm having fun. A very rich friend of mine…a very rich friend of mine…said, ‘how do you speak like that, without teleprompters?’. Don't forget! I don't have teleprompters! Obama doesn't speak without teleprompters. And he speaks…and he reads…and he reads. Hillary…Hillary Clinton –CROWD BOOS. No, no, Hillary Clinton the other day…she was outside, and the Sun was hitting her. She had the biggest teleprompters I've ever seen, and they were painted black…! …on the back. I've never seen that, usually, at least it's cleared glass. I mean you see ‘em but you see through it, right? These teleprompters were black…! …they were massive…! …here and here –MR. TRUMP POINTS TO RIGHT AND LEFT. I'm trying to say, people can't even see the candidate! And I said we should pass a law…and I'm only kidding, somebody said, ‘he was seriously’, that if you're running for president you shouldn't be allowed to use teleprompters, okay? –CROWD CHEERS. You shouldn't be allowed. Because look what we just got we just got! We just got a teleprompter president.
 
But a friend that I came up to me, just… ‘do you use teleprompter?’. I said, ‘no’. MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT THIS PERSON AGAIN-… ‘do you use prepared speech?’. I said, ‘no’. He said, ‘how do you speak before all these people, with sometimes seven or eight live cameras on…?’. Look at these guys! Look at…look at the cameras there. They're going crazy! And they don't know when to turn off, because if I hit CNN, or if I hit FOX…you know, they…all of a sudden, ‘we're going to commercial break!’, cuz they know when I'm getting ready, right? ‘We're going to commercial break!’. They have to do it quickly!
 
But…he said, ‘how do you do that?’. I said, ‘honestly? It's easy. Because there's love…there really is, there is love in these audiences’. And it's true. It's true –CROWD CHEERS. It’s true –CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY-…true. I told…and is a very, very successful guy, worth billions of dollars actually. And he said, ‘I don't know how you do it’. I said, you know, it's really easy. Because there's love in these audiences’. And not just here! Here is great! No matter where we go! Last night at Doral, it's Miami! We had probably an audience of eighty percent Hispanic. They were just like you! They were going wild. They were loving it! They were loving it! And I didn't want to mention…the wall. Because I wanna be…you know, I'm like in it…I figured…I figured…-CROWD CHEERS-…no, no, I figured…maybe…-CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘MAKE A WALL!’ REPEATEDLY-…is what happened last night. So being a great diplomat, I decided that, you know, Miami…mostly Hispanic…I have thousands of employees who are Hispanic. Over the years…I've hired…thousands! And they're great! But I…you know, you have to be intelligent. So I'm in Miami, I could see, it’s a largely Hispanic crowd. So I'm getting toward the end of the speech, everyone's having a great time, and we’re all…it's hard to have a great time when everything's negative. Right? I mean…we don't have…one positive thing to say except hope! That's the only thing! We have great hope! We have great potential! But we lose with everybody, and yet we all have a great time, because that's what they're looking for.
 
But…I'm out…I’m toward the end of the speech, and somebody, Hispanic…! …shouts out, ‘Mr. Trump, what about the wall!?’, and the audience went crazy…they want the wall! They're all Hispanic! –CROWD CHEERS. It's amazing! They want the wall! Wasn't reported, but that's okay. But the person…and I said…I said last night. Some of you might have seen it, was live on a lot of the televisions. I said, last night, ‘do you want me to talk about the wall? I'm a little bit you know tentative…you want me to talk…?’. They're all screaming, ‘yes, we want the wall!’. Because…people…including the Hispanics, that are here legally, they don't want people coming into our country…illegally…! …it's as simple as that. And then I have…you know, the criticism I get…I mean think of it: the criticism I get is so…incredible, from people…that 10 years ago all wanted a wall!
 
You know, I'm getting articles, cuz I love to do this. We get ready for the…opponent's. I'm starting to think about it. And if you look back 10 years, and 12 years ago…many of the biggest people against the wall… ‘it's not humane’ –MR. TRUMP REPORTS THAT’S WHAT OLDER POLITICIANS USED TO SAY. ‘The wall’s not humane’. It's okay for people to come in our country illegally. It's okay for Kate…! …to be brutally killed in San Francisco by somebody that comes in. Think of that: somebody that comes in five, or six, or nine times…they don't even know, and shoots her in the back. This incredible woman. They think it's okay…for a veteran, two weeks ago, in California, 66-year-old veteran! Female! …to get raped, sodomized, and killed by an illegal immigrant. They think that's okay…-CROWD BOOS. They think…and let me tell you something: walls work! They work!  …-CROWD CHEERS. My wall works. My wall works! That’s a Trump wall. That's a good wall. That's a wall as high as that building right there –POINTS TO ONE OF THE SIDES. That's the wall that works.
 
And you know, then they say, ‘oh, it'll be too expensive!’. So the Great Wall of China…! …right? Pretty big, we learned about that. It's 13,000 miles long…think of it! 13,000! That's called a serious wall, right? It was built 2,000 years ago. It's 13,000 miles long! Our southern border is 1900 miles long…of which, half of it you don't have to build, cuz you have natural…barriers. You have barriers that are natural. You know, like ridges, and things that frankly are as good as the wall or better. So we really need a thousand. We had need a thousand miles. So easy! Who's in the construction business here? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘TRUMP!’. Precast! Think of it! I do garages…I do a lot of…I… the thing I do best is build. Hey, wouldn't it be great to have a guy who really knows how to build, where we have to rebuild the infrastructure of our country?’ –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…unbelievable.
 
So I see in one of the magazine's…you know, we have little sections where there’s walls. You'll have a wall that's like a half a mile long. Mostly they just go over it. This high –MR. TRUMP MARKS A LOW HEIGHT IN THE AIR. Eight, nine feet. Did you see the picture where they built a ramp? Where they have a ramp going over the wall? And they have trucks going back and forth over the wall, carrying drugs…? This is our walls. We're run by stupid people folks! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…just for the…cause this is a good construction area. And…precast plank! …you know what that is. It goes forever. Will you do parking garages? Will you do highway, where it spans…? You do those planks, you set them into foundations. That sucker could be 40 feet, 50…nobody's going over with the truck…and if they get up, there it's a long way down…-CROWD LAUGHS. There's nobody going through that wall. And we can do it very reasonably. And besides that, Mexico is going to pay for it. Mexico's going to pay! –CROWD CHEERS. Hundred percent! A hundred percent!
 
You know, I had a couple of these guys I'm running against…they know nothing about negotiation. Nothing! Zero! And they said, ‘Mexico won't pay for the wall!’. I said, ‘why do you say that?’. MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THEM AGAIN-… ‘because they won't!’. Well I make deals all the time! I was telling him last night! I had a deal at Doral, to buy it for a hundred and seventy million….it was worth four or five hundred a few years back. Then the market crashed. I made a good deal, I bought it for 170. Then I said to my daughter, ‘Ivanka, watch! I'll get some money off the price’. Now I had a signed contract for 170. I go in, I see these beautiful looking people. The Wharton School of Finance, Harvard Business School, Yale, Stanford…like six of them. They were like from a movie. Better looking than Tom Cruise! I mean…you know, -CROWD LAUGHS. No, they were like from a movie. Suspenders. Always had the jacket off…-CROWD LAUGHS. You know, the suspenders….? This…this a central casting. I said, ‘watch this honey. I'll pick up some money, okay?’.
 
So I go in. I say, ‘fellas, I signed a contract at 170…the place is a shithouse…-CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. You didn't tell me! You didn't tell me…it was this bad! You didn't tell me it was this bad! You guys have defrauded me! And I'm not gonna close…! …you gotta have the contract signed to do this, cuz they're about 30 people that wanted to buy. You know, it's this massive acreage in the middle of Miami, it's not like…you know, it's really good stuff. So you gotta have the kind. And I'm not saying this to be a wise guy either. Everything I say…! …is because this is the kind of thinking our country needs. We need to sick thinking! Do you understand that? –CROWD CHEERS.
 
But I did it because I wanted to show off to Ivanka…–CROWD LAUGHS. And she was adorable, she said, ‘what do you mean dad? We have a contract at 170’. I said, ‘just watch’. So I said, ‘you guys…told me this and you told me that. You've defrauded me. I'm not closing the deal’. MR. TRUMP PLAYS THEM OUT- ‘Yes you are’. ‘I'm not closing the deal! I’ll offer you a hundred’. They say, ‘no way! We want 170!’. I said, ‘that's okay fellas, bye-bye!’. And I picked up, walked out of the room, they called me back.
 
See!? That would’ve happened on the Iran deal if Kerry had the goddamn brains…-CROWD CHEERS-…to walk you! Would’ve happened! It would’ve happen!

So this guy comes in, handsome guy. Comes in, ‘Mr. Trump, could we see you for a minute’. I'm at the elevator. ‘What!?’. MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THE GENTLEMAN AGAIN-… ‘we'd like to talk’. He comes in. He said, in front of the group. Six guys. ‘Would you take 150? …would you pay 150?’…now, remember, the price was 170. Cuz, ‘would you pay a hundred and fifty million?’. I just saved twenty million dollars, IT- took me about six minutes –CROWD LAUGHS. And I looked at Ivanka and –I- said, ‘baby, we just paid for the furniture’. Right? Right? When you think of it. Cuz that…you know, just…there was a line item: ‘furniture, 20 million’. I just fell…
Now, and it's become a great deal! I…then spend a lot of money, and fixed it, and made a grade instead…number one resort. I think it's a number one resort now in the country. The blue monster. The tour just renewed their tournament for 10 years, which they never do. They never do. And it’s been a great deal. And I make good deals! And by the way, even when they're bad I make them good! Because sometimes I’ll make a deal…and it turns out to be bad, cuz the market crashes! It's not my fault. I'll be building a billion dollar building. Everything's going great…the market crashes. I make a deal. Sometimes I make those deals better than the good ones! Because that's when you find out if people are good: when you can take something…that should be good, turns out to be bad, and make it good. Does any…? …do…you know what I'm talking about? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’. That's when you find out. That's when you find out if you’re good.
 
But I tell the Doral deal, because we should be doing that with our country! China! China! …is making…we have an imbalance! A trade imbalance…with China! …of almost 400 billion dollars a year. Think of it! And then I see Obama last week…the heads of China…think of it…-CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY-…well you can't say that right. So we have a trade imbalance….and by the way, the USA…when was the last time you saw…? …remember when we were all young growing up, and we had a country where we actually made everything? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YEAH!’. Do remember when it used to say ‘made in the USA’?. When was the last time you saw a sign made in the USA? You don't see it anymore.
 
If I win…I'm gonna make it almost mandatory, meaning, ‘please do it’. ‘Made in the USA’ –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s true! And I'll just thinking to myself…because you know, the great thing about having a great memory, and being able to speak without…you can adjust your speech. Because I'm just thinking to myself…if you remember…! …especially the ones with a couple of years, like the guy with the white hair back there, that's so enthusiastic. I love that guy. See this group over here? I see you! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
But those guys…they can tell you. When we had a sign that said, ‘made in Japan’, and there were some of them. Not many. That was it cheap goods, right? That was bad. Those…it was considered inferior product. Now it's the reverse! But we don't even see signs, ‘made in the USA’.
 
I tell the story all the time, about my friend. You know, Japan is doing a very big number on us. They've devalued. They have Abe –SHINZO, THE JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER. We have nobody represent us. We have Carolyn Kennedy. You've heard that story. Caroline Kennedy! Give me a break! –CROWD LAUGHS. Give me a break! Japan is doing great. Japan…is devaluing the hell out of their currency. Did you see the report that just came out on Caterpillar Tractor? Well I've been talking about this for one year, and I've been telling this story for one year. And I said, ‘I think Caterpillar’s in trouble. They came out with horrible numbers yesterday. Because I’m a natural business person, I know. What happens is, a friend of mines an excavator. And he was very depressed! And he was depressed…I said, ‘what's wrong with you!?’. Harold. And he said, ‘I just bought Komatsu tractors, from Japan, which you're okay. But they're not as good as Cats but they're fine. I said, ‘why…? …you've always bought…’. He said, ‘Donald, all my life I bought Caterpillar tractor. And I'm so…’, …you know, the excavator. The big excavator. He's a big guy! ‘But…they gave me… Komatsu, and the country together! …they gave me a deal that I couldn't turn down! And I feel bad about it. But I owe it to my family, to my wife, to my company, to my employees…to make the best deal. I said, ‘I agree!’. But they did it through devaluation! Our new trade pact doesn't even talk about devaluation, and that's the number one tool…! …of how we're being taken advantage of, in our country: is currency devaluation, and manipulation. In China, in Japan, in Mexico…every country…that's killing us! And we don't even talk about it…! …in that horrendous trade pact…that they're just signing now. We don't even talk about it. Somebody said, ‘do you like it?’. I said, ‘it's horrendous’. Why can't they just put it off till I become elected? Believe me…! …it will not be that deal. Believe me. So it won't be.
 
So Caterpillar came out with very bad numbers, yesterday. I just I don't care about Caterpillar. But, you know, I like to see American…companies do well. They came out with very bad numbers. And it was very interesting. And I've been calling it, you've heard me talking about this. How long have I been talking about Komatsu!? People are buying Komatsu crap, instead of Caterpillar. All because of currency manipulation. Everything! All because of currency…Oops! We have a person…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A PERSON WHO IS APPARENTLY HAVING HEALTH ISSUES-… ‘you okay? Yeah. Help them out. Do you have a doctor? You okay? Good. You just take your time. Take your time’.
Just fainted. Tell her I love her the best. I love the women that faint when I speak –CROWD LAUGHS. Those are the ones that love me. That's fine. We wanna make sure they're fine. You okay? Oh, that’s good. Beautiful! Give ‘em a hand! –THE PERSON RECOVERS AND MR. TRUMP APPLAUDS. Beautiful! That's great. Strong people. That's the kind of a guy I love. Thank you. Make sure he's perfect. I'd bring them up on stage, but he might not right now feel like it, right? All right.
 
So…I've been talking about this for a long time. With China, you've seen what happened recently. Carl Icahn, a great businessman. Great! Tough, smart, great…he calls me: ‘I wanna help. I wanna help’. I have everybody calling me. I have the best in the world. We have the best in the world! We don't use them. We use political hacks. We use people that give campaign contributions. We use people that are involved with these horrible packs.
 
You know, yesterday, I don't know if you saw…but I wrote a letter, I disavow from all PACs…I don't want any money from PACs. I don't want any money. These guys are setting up PACs. But I also said…! …that every candidate should disavow! Every candidate should disavow! And we're going to do that, and it's going to be a major point, as I said, it's going to be a major point.
 
So…we're gonna make our country rich again –CROWD CHEERS. A person said to me the other day, when they heard me say that, ‘oh, I don't know if that's very nice’, using the word ‘rich’. You know, we have no choice! We owe 19 trillion dollars…we're losing on every single deal we make. We've got sergeant Bergdahl…this guy is a traitor…-CROWD BOOS-…no, think of it! You see, even though it's a different thing, it’s military. You know, in the old days, when we were strong, you know what happens to Bergdahl? Bing, bong –MR. TRUMP MIMICS SHOOTING. He's gone. He's not even gonna get jailed! Do you believe it?  He was a traitor. Think of it. He was a traitor! Traitor! Six young, incredible, beautiful people…died looking for him, and they just announced he's not even gonna get jail time! –CROWD BOOS. He has ‘psychological problems’. He's got ‘psychological problems’. Look at ISIS! ISIS cuts off heads. They cut off heads. They drown people. They shoot anybody they want. What they do to women…is…beyond, beyond…belief. What they do to everybody is beyond belief. And I watched a general on television. A very short while ago. A- month ago. And he was talking on television. And I said it last night at Doral. I said, ‘why is my general talking on television?’. I don't want generals that talk. I want generals that know how to fight –CROWD CHEERS. It’s true! I don't need talkers. We've got enough talkers in this country, with…everybody's talk. Politicians are all talk, no action. Nothing gets done! –CROWD CHEERS. Nothing!
 
And…this general was asked by one of the commentators, ‘what do you think of ISIS…? …when can we beat them? …can we do it quickly? –MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES HIM IN A LOWER AND SLOWER VOICE AND PACE-… ‘no, no. It's going to be long…oh no’. They’re 60,000 people, by the way. 60,000…! …that we let happen…! …because of the way we handled Iraq. You know, they came out of Iraq. And we let it happen. So they have…he goes… ‘no, no, no, very tough’. And I'm saying to myself, can you imagine General George Patton…-CROWD CALLS OUT ‘NO’-…saying ISIS is going to be tough? Can you imagine General Douglas MacArthur saying, ‘oh, gee, ISIS is going to be tough?’. We send…military weapons. We send Humvees! I always tell the story! 2,300 Humvees. To our so-called allies. One bullet gets shot in the air, and our allies run. And the enemy ends up with…listen to this: 2300! Do you how many that is!? I thought it was a mistake! I thought they meant 3, or 5! 2000! How do you get them over there!? One bullet…! And these are the armor plated ones. These are the ones that are really good. These are the ones that if our soldiers had ‘em…you wouldn't have the wounded warriors to the extent you have. They'd have their arms; they’d have their legs…-CROWD CHEERS. And you know has them right now? ISIS and our enemies has it. They don't do equipment, they shoot a bullet in the air, and the people we give this stuff to, they just go in and take it. And they run! We don't know what we're doing folks! And it's gotta change!
And the reason I always bring up Bergdahl. Because he's garbage. He’s garbage –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YEAH!’. He’s garbage. And you know what? And frankly, you know, it's never politically correct even to say it, if I had my choice, I'd fly him right back into the middle of that zone, I drop him right on top of their site –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s true. It’s true.
 
But…but with Bergdahl…he's emblematic…! …of the way we negotiate. So…we get a traitor, Bergdahl, who should be executed. We get a traitor, Bergdahl, and the other side…gets five of the greatest killers…that they've been after for eight years! –CROWD BOOS. So we give them, who are right now back on the battlefield…killing everybody that's in front of them. And believe me. They wanna kill you too. Believe me.
 
So this is the way we negotiate. The Iran deal. Think of it. Just think of it. Think of the Iran deal: 24 days to inspect. Now, why can't we say, ‘we wanna inspect’. And you go in and you inspect. 24 days…! …and before the 24 days start, there's a whole legal process. So the 24 days could be much more than that. I guarantee you, I'd have that place so nice, so clean, so wonderful…I’d paint the floor battleship gray…right? Battleship gray! I love the concrete floor painted. Nobody's going to know what I'm doing. 24 days.
 
Then they have another section where they can do their own inspections. They call self-inspect. Can you believe this? Iran! Then you have, as Obama calls him, ‘the supreme leader, said’, …nobody…I'm not calling anybody ‘a supreme leader’…-CROWD CHEERS. You know who my supreme leader is? My supreme leader's up there –MR. TRUMP POINTS UP TO THE SKY, MEANING GOD. CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm not calling anybody ‘the supreme leader’. Obama, ‘the supreme leader said’.
 
So we're in the middle of a negotiation…and the other side is dancing to the streets, calling the American stupid, saying we wanna kill Israel and we wanna kill America, and within 25 years Israel won't exist, and the United States won't exist. And Kerry keeps negotiating. Then he decides to go into a bicycle race, breaks his leg –CROWD LAUGHS. No, HAVE- you ever see anything like this!? He breaks his leg! Why…why is the guy in a bicycle race in the middle of the most important negotiation!? Why didn't he walk!? Why didn't he do the same thing I did with Doral!? Walk! And double up the sanction! They'd be calling you by the end of the week, begging to make a deal! They were dying! Why didn't we do that!? –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So with all of these problems with the deal, which is gonna need…lead to total nuclear proliferation. But with all, as you know, we used to have three hostages, now we have four. So they didn't want to put that in because they didn't wanna complicate the deal. Do you believe…? …both, Obama and Kerry, ‘we don't wanna complicate the deal’. We're giving them a hundred and fifty billion dollars! Which is insane to give our money…we shouldn't give them anything. We should say, first day…by the way, the 150 billion…it's ours! Never gonna be discussed, don't ever bring it up. And we'll win! And we'll win!
 
So we've got four hostages. But at the time, when we started this negotiation that took forever…! Did you ever see…? We got a lot of good business people here. Did you ever see a deal that took so long…? –CROWD LAUGHS. You know, we're not sending a rocket to the moon. Did you ever see…? This deal never stopped. It's still going on! But…we're giving them this money…so we get…three hostages; now we have four…and I just heard now…! …Iran wants to start a new negotiation…for the hostages! So they wanna do it. And here's what they want! And I watched this guy, who's…far too sharp for our people. I watch their chief negotiator…by the way, the Persians are great negotiators. Okay? Somebody will say, ‘that's not politically correct’. We'll give ‘em Hillary's. You know, how about Hillary negotiating!? How about that!? –CROWD BOOS. Who would you rather have negotiating…Hillary or Trump? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘TRUMP!’ AND THEN CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. ‘Oh…! Poor Hillary…poor Hillary!’ That's what we need. We need Hillary. Ay, ay, ay…-ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND MEANING EXASPERATION. You wanna have a mess of a country? You wanna have nothing but problems? You wanna have a country that's gonna go to hell? You have Hillary elected president. You're gonna have a country that's going to hell. I'll tell you right now.
 
So think of this: so Iran, Persians, great negotiators. The deal is done. They get everything they wanted. A hundred percent…we folded on every point. We're giving them a hundred and fifty billion. Now they have so much money, they're gonna go and help with Syria. They could help Russia with Syria. They got money…wait and you’ll see! They don't need nuclear weapons; they can buy ‘em! What the hell do they have to com…!? They'll buy ‘em!
 
So now, you take all of this, and they call last week: ‘we'd like to start talking now about the hostages’. Do you believe this? They want 19 people…for our three. The fourth is off the table, ‘because we're not giving you all four back’. We want 19 people…and then he goes, ‘and we want many other things’ –CROWD LAUGHS. We want…many other things. And that's why-…when I come around and speak, I have the biggest crowds by far…and that includes the communist Bernie Sanders…-CROWD BOOS.
 
I'll be honest with you. I'll be honest with you. I really be honest. I shouldn't say this…-CROWD STARTS CALLING OUT ‘SAY IT’ AND MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES I-… ‘say it’. Do you believe this? By the way I love this dais! This is the biggest…thing that I ever…it's almost like I'm falling in badly…-CROWD LAUGHS-…it's like the biggest thing…it’s…I’m 6 foot 3 and I'm like…it's so comfortable. I could just fold…so this one over here –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEONE IN THE FRONT ROWS-…says, ‘say it!’,…I say, ‘I shouldn't say’, as you go ‘Say it, say it, say it’, I’ll say. Look, we have a socialist / communist running. We have Hillary Clinton running. Now, a politician…and none of them are going to make it anyway, frankly. And by the way, a poll came out two days ago that I beat Hillary nationwide! I've got a –INAUDIBLE-, and I haven't even started! I haven't even started! Oh, I don't think she's gonna be tough, but his…I shouldn't say…but every politician when as...would you run…would you rather run against Sanders…!? …or, they call her, secretary. Great secretary. Secretary Clinton. She was a great, secretary. The world fell apart under her watch, secretary. Now, every politician would say, ‘it doesn't matter, whoever it is’. Honestly? I'd rather run against Hillary. I'd really rather run against Hillary.
 
I actually think…look. I shouldn't say this either, but it will. Do you mind? She's going crazy, ‘say it!’ –MR. TRUMP JUST REFERRED TO A WOMAN OFF CAMERA. So…I have a…he's given away too much. He may be hard to beat. He's giving away everything: free education…he's given away everything. By the way, if you're an illegal immigrant, under the communist, if you're an illegal immigrant…you get treated better than our veterans! –CROWD BOOS. You get treated better! He wants to give free education! He wants to give free matter…he wants to give…everything's free! There's only one problem, you're gonna pay for it. It's called taxes. It's called taxes. But honestly…?
 
I told somebody last night. I did some of the shows. And I'm going Jake Tapper on CNN on Sunday at nine o'clock. And…I told him! I'd rather run against Hillary. Because, her record…is so bad that…I actually…I don't know anything about this guy. This guy's a maniac. All he wants to do is, ‘yeah, we’ll give this. We’ll give that…’. I mean, it's incredible! But I would rather run against Hillary. And the Benghazi thing was terrible. And she came out fine, but remember this: hundreds and hundreds of phone calls made by the Ambassador for help, she didn't respond. She was unresponsive. You know why? She was sleeping, or something…or she was talking to her friends, on a private email. But hundreds and hundreds of calls…came out for help! And this guy died so bad…what they did to him…was incredible. What they did to those four people…was incredible. And…with hundreds…I think they said 500, or 600 requests for help, not one of them was even answered. But I said to this group, yesterday: I would rather run against Hillary. I really would. I love it. Because based on that record, I don't know how you lose. I don't know how you lose.
 
So…we are going…to make our military so strong, that nobody's gonna mess with us…-CROWD CHEERS. We're going to take care of our Vets…but really take care…-CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. We're gonna stop illegal immigration –CROWD CHEERS. And we are going to build the wall, and it will be built, and it will be paid for by Mexico, believe me –CROWD CHEERS. We're going to…repeal and replace Obamacare…-CROWD CHEERS-…with, by the way, something much better. Much better. For you, and for the country. Because if people realize Obamacare actually kicks in, big league, on ’16. Now, he'll be out playing golf, and we're gonna have a problem like you've never seen before. And, you know, the problem most of you have already with your premiums. So…we are going to repeal it, we're gonna replace it. I promise you, our website will not cost five billion dollars. And it will work. It will work.
 
We're going to renegotiate…all of these…think about Doral…! think about…Doral…! …that's the reason I told you. That…so I don't care about that story. I don't care about that story. We're gonna, at a minimum, at a minimum…! …we negotiate with Iran, that horrible deal. I mean, we probably can't get our hundred and fifty…does…you know, we gave them a hundred and fifty billion…how do I get it back!? How do I get it back!? But I'll tell you what! I'll tell you what! I'm not a big sleeper. I tossed and turn thinking. And I think, and I think, and I think, and I think. Maybe I'm gonna find a way. But it's gone! A hundred and fifty billion dollars is gone! They are going to be such a power! Our leaders…our leaders…we don't have leaders, folks. We don't have leaders. We don't have leaders.
 
I am going to renegotiate that deal, and when I use the word ‘renegotiate’, I use that word as a minimum! …as a minimum. And…I'm gonna bring that deal back. You know, I've done that a lot. I take over somebody's deal. A friend of mine makes a bad deal. Loses his shirt. Wonderful pro…of this one in particular. Wonderful guy. He made a horrible deal. Good asset. I mean, horrible deal. The banks were killing him. Everybody was killing him. Everybody! He calls me, he said ‘I need help’. I said, ‘what's the problem?’. I call up his bank, I say, ‘can you help him?’. I know the bankers, ‘can you help him?’. They said, ‘Donald, we don't wanna do that’. I said, ‘he's a nice guy. He's over his head. He's dying! Help him!’. They said, ‘we won't do it’. I said, ‘well, if you're not going to I'm gonna buy his company for nothing…and we're gonna have a war’. MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THE BANKERS-… ‘Well, I don't think that's very nice’. I said, ‘I don't really care’ –CROWD LAUGHS. So they said they wouldn't do it. So I bought this guy's company for peanuts. I then immediately chaptered it. Oh…did I do a number on these banks! Oh! I made a great deal! And I helped my friend, cuz I sold it back to him, for much more than I paid for it, but still he was happy. Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But, I do that! And I do that, and I'll take that…Iran deal. As bad as it is, there's always something. Even when you have incompetence, like Obama and Kerry, there's always something in a contract that you can hang your hat on. That's what I do! There's always something! There's always something –CROWD CHEERS. And I will find it! And…I will…believe me. I'll bring it back. I'll bring that sucker back. It would be a lot easier if they didn't make the deal. I kept saying, ‘don't make it. Don't make it!’. Just like I've been saying don't make the trade pact! Don't make the trade pact! Let me do it! It's a year! Can you believe it? We're talking about a year. Can you believe it?
 
You know, when I started really thinking about this…I thought about it seriously four years ago, Romney. Oh, did he let us down…! What happened to him? He choked! You know? He's very angry at me because I said he's a choke artist. I don't care. I don't want his endorsement. I don't want his endorsement. Endorsements don’t mean a thing. And now he goes, ‘well, Donald Trump is not a nice person…’. Who cares!? –CROWD LAUGHS. The guy led us down! And I used to call them! I endorsed them! He…they asked me to help her. He led us down! He choked! No different than a guy standing over a three-footer on the 18th hole, and he needs it to win a tournament…and he can't take the club back. His brain gets deadlocked. Jack Nicklaus, great. He'd always take it back. Put the putt, boom –MR. TRUMP MAKES THIS SOUND MEANING HE HITS THE BALL-, in the hole! In the hole! You’ve…not many! But…I mean, not many have that ability, most people are choke artists. Well, he led us down. That's not gonna happen again.
 
McCain…in all fairness to McCain, he had a pretty hard deal. Done. You know, the economy was doing an L crash O. Right? So that’s why we can't really blame McCain. But…Obama should have been beaten the last time. So I backed…I backed McCain, and he lost. I backed Romney, and he lost. And I said, ‘this time I'm doing it myself. We're not losing. We're not losing –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So we're gonna renegotiate, and we're gonna do things with the Iran deal. ‘Thank you’ –CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. So we're gonna do something with that Iran deal, we're gonna make…we're gonna make the best of it folks. I'm not gonna promise you the world, but I'm gonna make it damn good. I'm gonna make it better than anybody else good.
 
And finally…we are going to renegotiate our trade deals. We are going to bring jobs back from China–CROWD CHEERS. We're gonna bring jobs back from Japan–CROWD CHEERS. We're gonna bring jobs back from Mexico–CROWD CHEERS. I tell the story about Ford. I respect the Mexican leaders, they’re much smarter than Obama and his people! We have nobody that knows what they're doing! Ford's building a massive two and a half billion dollar plant! Nabisco…just announced…two weeks ago! Nabisco! They just announced…that they're moving Oreos! My Oreos! Oh, I’ll never have another Oreos! They're leaving Chicago. And they're gonna open a plant in Mexico. I'm not eating that stuff anymore. And I'm not blaming Mexico, because if they can get them…but why…? …how does it help for Ford? …how does it help our country!? …for Ford, to build a massive plant, to make cars, and send them across the border…no taxes, no nothing. And I guarantee you…stuff like that will not be happening with me. I guarantee! And if it does, and I tell the story all the time!
 
If it does, I'm gonna call up the head of Ford, and I’m gonna say, ‘folks, guess what? …congratulations on your plant. You are paying a thirty-five percent tax every time you send a car’ –CROWD CHEERS. Because they're…they're closing plants…in Michigan, and all other places, in order to build this massive monster plant. It's not gonna happen. And I guarantee you. I guarantee you, that by the end of the day, they called me back, and they say, ‘Mr. president, we're building the plant in the United States’. I guarantee!
 
And Nabisco's not leaving. And other people! We're gonna fight to keep our jobs! We're gonna fight against corporate inversions, where they go out to get their money, because they can't get the money back into this country. Two and a half billion dollars…! …that's the legal fees. But they have probably three trillion dollars…! …off shore! And…everybody agrees it should come back: the democrats, the republicans…for three years. It's two and a half to three trillion dollars! Money we could have here. Everybody agrees. And you know what happens? They can't make a deal! They can't make a deal! Even when everybody agrees, nobody disagrees. Who's gonna disagree…? …we want the money to come back here. We want to put that money to work here, in jobs and everything else, and infrastructure.
 
So there's total gridlock in Washington, because there's no leadership. But there's a case corporate inversion. Take a look: two and a half trillion dollars, everybody agrees…for years! …and they can't even agree to that.
 
So…! …we're gonna make great trade deals. We're gonna make them fair. We're not going to lose almost…400 billion dollars here with China, 70 billion dollars here… not gonna happen! When Japan sends us millions of cars..! …and we send them practically nothing…! …by comparison…not gonna happen! We have all the cards! What people don't know is…that I have the strong negotiating hand. We rebuild China! What China did to us…is the single greatest theft…! …it's the single greatest robbery…! …in the history of the world! It's true! They took our jobs…! …they took so much money! China rebuilt! China…with our money! And I love China! They buy my apartments, they're great. They're getting away with murder, and they know it! I'll get along with them fine! They’re tenants of mine in buildings. They’re great! But they're too smart! We have stupid people dealing with them. So I have the smartest people in the world. I have people…that are the greatest deal makers in the world. They're gonna represent us. They don't want any money! They just want to show everybody how smart they are, to be…and that's okay with me. That's okay with me.
 
So I have…guys like…Carl Icahn…I have so many others…we’re gonna be announcing on next…and they're all calling me! They wanna help! They’re not saying, ‘I want two hundred thousand dollars…’, that's…like they…buy a candy bar for that. They wanna make great deals for this country! They wanna see the country be great. Just like you wanna see the country be great –CROWD CHEERS. Really…these are talented people! They all wanna come. They all wanna help.
 
If I put Carl Icahn, as an example, in charge of trade, just with China. Because the China imbalance…is so huge…! …is so big…! …that if we straighten that out, we go a long way to straightening out our problems! If I take somebody like Carl, who endorsed me the other day, I love how to…get an endorsement. See? That's an endorsement that means something. Cuz when I get the really smart people endorsing me, that means something!
 
But when iI take somebody like Carl Icahn, ‘Carl, do me a favor. Watch over trade with China’. They're not wanna be taking advantage of us…anymore!
 
So…here's the story: we're gonna make our country great again –CROWD CHEERS. And remember this: The American dream we'll be back…bigger and stronger…! I promise! …than ever before! Ever! Thank you! Thank you very much!
 
Thank you!


