VIDEO Nº: 37
TITLE:37. Speech: Donald Trump - Knoxville, TN - November 16, 2015
DATE OF EVENT:16/11/2015
RELEASE DATE:28/10/2017
DURATION:00.57.35
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:9713
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Wow!
 
CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’. MR. TRUMP DOES AS WELL-… ‘U.S.A!’ ‘U.S.A!’ ‘U.S.A!’
 
Wow!
 
Thank you so much. What an unbelievable crowd this is. Unbelievable. Unbelievable! –CROWD CHEERS. We love you people. We love you all. It's amazing. Special. Special people, special country. We're gonna make it great again. We're gonna make it so great! Amazing.
 
So…you know, a lot of bad things have been happening…over the last little while. And…it's gone on, and on, and on and…weakness has shown, that when you're weak, and ineffective….bad stuff does happen. You know that. And that's what we're seeing.
 
I wanna start by saying…you know, I have a boy, Eric. And he's a special. Special young man- I’m very proud of him, and he loves Tennessee. He spends a lot of time here. He's on the board of St. Jude's, and…-CROWD CHEERS-…he's raised, and given…of his own money. Hives a lot of the money…that I get him, I'll tell you, but he does a great job –CROWD LAUGHS-…but he gives it to St. Jude's. And he's raised…over 28 million dollars for St. Jude's –CROWD CHEERS- And…he's so proud of it. And he…they take care of young children that have problems and so many of them are now…with us…as opposed to not being with us. So I'm very proud of Eric Trump, who spend so much time here. Okay? But I had to say that. I had to say that!
 
And…you know, I just left…a certain little thing, where I was watching our president talking. Boy…! –CROWD BOOS. He…does…not…get it. He doesn't get it. And you know, you…you hear the term ‘radical Islamic terrorism’. He won't say it! He won't say it! And you can't solve a problem…if you refuse to talk about what the problem is –CROWD CHEERS. And…he won't talk about it. He's…I don't know what's going on with this man. I don't know what's going on. And you know who else won't talk about it? Hillary! –CROWD BOOS. She won't talk about Hillary she won't talk about it, and…how about Bernie? -MR. SANDERS-…not that it matters, because it's over for him –CROWD LAUGHS. No, it’s over. It was over for him in the first debate, when he refused to talk about the emails. ‘Oh, no that's not right. We shouldn't…’. I mean, she broke the law. He doesn't wanna say that. And he got a great sound bite that lasted for about 20 seconds. He got applause for 20 seconds.
 
But…how about this guy….? …saying that he thought the Paris attacks had to do a lot with global warming!? –CROWD LAUGHS. You know, you wonder why our country's got problems. When you hear people like this it's just incredible. But listen: ‘radical Islamic terrorism’. Let's talk about it! We have no choice! This is a real problem! You know, normally I come up, I talk about…trade, and how…China…is killing us. And they are. And I talk about how Japan, and how Mexico…and how everybody is just absolutely eating our lunch. And today I'm gonna be talking about something else. It's like…survival! It's like survival. And you know, they announced…ISIS announced they're gonna attack us in Washington, which means they're gonna attack us someplace else. Unlike Obama…! …when he said, ‘we're gonna remove everybody. We're sending 50 troops in’. They’re sending 50 people in, right? Why does he have to talk about it!? Right? Why does he have to talk about it? You know the movies…‘Shoot First, Talk Later? –CROWD CHEERS. Right? Right? Right? Shoot first…you talk about it later!
 
But…why does he have to do it? ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’. I like that movie, right? –CROWD LAUGHS. Do we like that? Remember? The bad, boom! –MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES SHOOTING A GUN-…from the bathtub. Shoot first! The guy was doing too much talking up there, right? Shoot first, talk later.
So he announces that he's sending 50. Number one, that's not a great announcement. Because 50 doesn't sound like too many. Number one. But…you know the target that's on their heads right now? These young, brave…people that are going over to this part of the world…and they're the best. They're the best. You know, they're sending…some of our really great ones. But why do you have to tell the enemy…that we're sending 50 people. Why do you have to say it? They…just think about it. Just think about it. Why didn't we have to say that…? …hey! …we shouldn't have been in Iraq! Now we're leaving…why did he have to say when we're leaving…!? That we're leaving Iraq! And he gives a date, a time, a place…we're gonna be gone. So the enemy…sat back, they waited. And ay…! -MR. TRUMP SHOWS DESPERATION-…they've caused problems. Right? They’ve caused…it's just…terrible. But…! …we're gonna solve the problem. We're gonna to be tough, but we're gonna be smart, we're gonna be sharp, we're gonna get other people to do a lot of the work, because they should be doing the work. We're doing the work! It's always us! It's always us! You have the Gulf states. So rich. So much money. So much money. Not doing much folks. Not doing much. They’ve gotta do it. We protect them! We saved them…without us…? They’re gone! We save them! What do they give us…?  They give us nothing! But you have so many…that should be doing…
 
Let me give you an example! France. You have a horrible attack…and by the way, Paris is one of the places in the world…that's toughest on guns! All right? And France! So you had all of these people sitting in these different places…no protection whatsoever…and these animals come in and start shooting up. There was nothing anybody can do. I know one thing. In this room it's a whole different story, right? It's a different…it's a different story.
 
Now…think. You know, I take a lot of heat, where I say ‘guns’ you gotta have one. I'm a big, big, big…! …Second Amendment person –CROWD CHEERS. Big. Big! And I take heat from some people. But…and I tell them…and…last night I said, ‘you know, if 20 of those people…’ …not…you don't need more, but could have been more. Could have been all of them. But if 20 of those people…that were…shot…viciously. And if you heard the stories…-MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES THE TALK DONE BY THE TERRORISTS, APPARENTLY-…‘come on over: boom –REPRESENTING THE GUN FIRING. Come on over: boom. Come here: boom. One after another, after another. Hundreds of people. Plenty are dying and will be dead.
 
Now, if you had…twenty-five people in there that had guns...okay? It would have been a totally different story folks! They would have been the Shootout at the O.K. Corral…right? –MR. TRUMP SPEAKS METAPHORICALLY OF THE WESTERN LEGEND GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL THAT TOOK PLACE IN ARIZONA BACK IN 1881; THE CROWD CHEERS.
 
And you would have had…death. But it would have been their death. And there could have been something. But you’re talking about hundreds of people! Innocent people! Just gone down. And…horrible. People that said…that saw it, they said. ‘it’s never gonna be the same’. Just the…the sight…of what took place… ‘never gonna be the same’.
 
So we have to remember things like that. We have to remember our schools! Where they had…a school recently, as you know…in a gun-free zone. And they go in, and they shoot and they shoot and they shoot…and in the case of the school…they had good, quick police. But still! It's just terrible. We need our Second Amendment. We need protection, and we're gonna have it! We're gonna have it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're going to have it! How about the gun-free zones on military bases…? …where a military, who were trained…! Right? Our military, trained with guns. Trained with weapons! And they can't use the guns, that a guy walks…and start shooting .And there are…and…a couple of them, were highly decorated, unbelievably talented guys, dead! They're dead…because they weren't allowed to have their gun! So we're gonna change things folks –CROWD CHEERS. We’re gonna change.
 
So…today…I don't know…is it coincidence? Or incompetence..? …or what is it? But…today, as you know, President Obama. Friday –CROWD BOOWS. Friday. Doesn't…doesn't…get it! Friday: five prisoners…same day! It's almost like…is he doing this on purpose? Ha! Probably! I think…maybe! Look at all those people pouring in, over there! Look! –MR. TRUMP POINTS FAR, TO THIS RIGHT. THE CROWD CHEERS. They continue…no, no…it's amazing! They continue to pour in! They’re pouring in. There are still thousands of people outside! Should we wait!? No! –CROWD LAUGHS. Right? To hell with them! Right? –CROWD LAUGHS. Right? They'll get in! They'll get in! They'll get it! And they'll see about half of what we had to say. Do me a favor though: explain the rest of it to them. They know it anyway! But explain the rest of it too. But that's a lot of people out there. It's an amazing area. This is an amazing place! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
You know you know what we have. We have something all of us in common. We love our country! We love our country! We just love our country! And we're gonna see…some amazing…we're gonna see…some tremendous things happen. I have an expression…you know, I was being a little bit mistreated by the press. I announced…that I was gonna run. And it takes courage to announce! I mean, what do I need this for? Right? What the hell? I could be home relaxing! Instead we're here together, it's a lovefest! Right? –CROWD CHEERS. I really like this better.
 
But…when you think…I announced. And I talked about a thing called ‘illegal immigration’. Who knew that it was gonna to turn out? This is a subject…that…I don't even think was going to  be part of a campaign. And boy did I make it part of a campaign! –CROWD CHEERS. And…the press hit me left and right, left and right…for two weeks…Rush Limbaugh said, ‘this man has taken more incoming than any human being I've ever seen’. And then he you and then he doubled down! He went and he said, ‘no, it's much worse than what I said’. And it is. It's a horror show.
 
And…we are going to build a wall! It’s gonna happen! –CROWD CHEERS. Gonna be…it's going to be built! And it's gonna to be a real wall. It's not gonna be one of these jobs…-HAVE- you ever seen the walls they build…? They’re four feet tall…trucks drive over. They have ramps; trucks loaded up with drugs, and just drive right across. No, we're gonna build a real, beautiful, big, high wall –CROWD CHEERS. Anybody gets to the top of that wall…? They're gonna be afraid to come down. It's a long way! And we're gonna have a door in the wall. And you've heard this before. We're gonna let people come in. But they're gonna come into our country legally! They're gonna come in legally –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So what happened, and…and you know, when…when I see, and I watched, a little while ago, and…when five people are released from Gitmo –MEANING THE GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE-…think of it: on the same day as the shootings! You say, ‘is this right? Is this possible? Is somebody trying to just like torment…everybody here, and everybody…?’. They released five people. Sent in a private plane…back…to where they can go and fight! You know, they all go back to fight. Okay? They all go back. They get released to the UAE…and they're supposed to be under house arrest. Could you believe this? House arrest –CROWD LAUGHS. And they go back to fight. They go back to fight. And they're good fighters. And these are the people that they wanted. The worst to me…was Bergdahl –MEANING SERGEANT BERGDHAL. We get Bergdahl, they get five killers…who they've wanted for…nine years! And we get sergeant Bergdahl…a dirty rotten traitor…-CROWD CHEERS. Ah! And we're just gonna have a different country!
 
Now, I have to tell you this: we're doing really well! –CROWD CHEERS. And you know what that means. You know those guys back there –POINTING TO THE CAMERAS- are very dishonest…many of them. Some of them are nice. I see a couple of them…uh –CROWD LAUGHS. No, actually some… ‘oh, he's a nice one’ –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT ONE SPECIFICALLY. But we get a lot of dishonor, and stuff. And they say, ‘Trump likes to talk about the polls, and other people don't talk about the polls’. You know why? Cuz they're all losing, you don't talk about polls! –CROWD CHEERS. I talk about…no, it’s true! It's true! I was thinking that, cuz I heard one of them said ‘Trump is always talking about the polls!’. That's because we're winning. In fact…! …while I was on the plane, we just had another good poll come in. A really good one: Trump, 31 or 32, whoever it is second like it 21 or 22. We're killing them. Great! I love it! I don't care! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
By the way, I don't think this should happen…but you know, I'm self-funding my campaign. We're gonna…which I think is a big deal. Which I think…-CROWD CHEERS. Other than the little things where women, and people send in small amounts of money…I have to! What am I going to do…? Send it back? Somebody said, ‘well he's not really self-funding, because people…’. Its peanuts, folks. Believe me, it’s peanuts! And it's little…how do I send back a woman 17 dollars? How do I send back fifty dollars, or a hundred dollars? And I'd love them not to even bother, but they do it. And…in a way, it's a great…investment in the country. I mean, that's the kind of stuff that I love! I love to see it.
 
But…but I'm self-funding the campaign, turning down millions, and millions, and millions of dollars. I feel so stupid! I feel so foolish! It's not like my life! You know my life has been accepting millions and millions of dollars, not turning it down. This is the first time I've ever turned it down! But I'm turning down a lot. And recently somebody said, ‘I'd love to help you campaign’. You know, it's amazing. When you're number one, everyone wants to give. And the reason they wanna give, is because they want things when you get elected. That's all. It's very simple. It's not me. I mean, I've heard from some people that haven't heard from a long time: ‘Don, congratulations, you're doing phenomenally. Listen, is there anyway…?’ And I'm talking big money. Millions of dollars, millions. When a guy gives 5 billion to…let's say Jeb Bush. Or five million to Hillary. Or five million to Rubio. Rubio, oh! –MR. TRUMP SHOWS DESPERATION; CROWD LAUGHS. I don't get it! I don't get it! But when they give all of this money, they expect something folks! Don't forget, I was on the other side of the equation. I was the fair-haired boy for years! Then when I said I'm actually running, I became like an interloper –CROWD LAUGHS. I became a total interloper.
 
But…you know, we've had the debate. The debates…I…I love these debates! I love doing them! The problem is…okay. So they do…there’s polling on the debates, right? And they have Drudge, who's great. He's a great guy, by the way. But they have Drudge, and they have Time Magazine. I was on the cover, other than that I have no power with Time. Recently! A couple of Times I was on the cover. But they have Time and they have slightly…they have all these things. And…I win every one of them by a lot, right? And then I go home, and I say, ‘I wanna watch’. And they talk about who won the debate. And they say, ‘well, Trump was okay…’ –IN A MOCKING TONE. THE CROWD LAUGHS. I mean, they don't say I was bad. That's the good…you know, THEY… they say, ‘he was…he was alright. But Rubio…!’. I say, ‘Rubio!?’. He was standing next to me, and made a lot of mistakes. He stuttered a lot. There was a lot of stutter. And one of Ann Coulter, who wrote an excellent book, by the way. Excellent book! She wrote an excellent book! Right? –CROWD APPLAUDS. You know the name of a book? –A MEMBER IN THE CROWD CALLS IT OUT-… ‘Adios America’ –CROWD LAUGHS. Do you think she's kidding? She's not kidding. But…she wrote a good book, and she said she can tell before the debate who's gonna win! Because she knows who they're gonna say. And it doesn't matter! It doesn't matter!
So I watched Marco…and he's up, and he's…saying different things about ‘parental’. ‘Parental, parental’. Everything's about ‘parental’. More important is my children. More…you know, all the things that you would expect to hear. His children are more important. Everything is more important! ‘parental, parental’. And then he said, ‘presidential was the most important’, and he meant ‘parental’ but he said ‘presidential’. It’s a huge mistake! –CROWD LAUGHS. And I was going to correct him! Nobody said anything about it! It was a big mistake, because he wanted to say ‘parental’, but his ambition got in the when he said ‘presidential’. Right? You know what I'm talking about! And there was a lot of stuttering, and a lot of missteps. And then he…I got him…and I heard he won the debate. I said, ‘how did he win the debate? He made mistakes!’.
So it's a very unfair system folks. I'll tell you. It's a very unfair system. But here's what I've learned! And more than anything else…I swear this is true! The public is really, really smart! They're really smart! They get it! More than any…and I'm surprised I'm saying it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They really, really…get it! The press does not want to give certain people the fair shot, which is true. I happen to be one of them, it's okay! For instance…I go home…and my wife always says, ‘oh, were there any people there?’. Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. No, it's true! They show me…on television! All night! They have…look! Look how many cameras are going! They're all going! They never show the crowd. They never fan and show the crowd! –CROWD BOOS. MR. TRUMP NOW TALKS TO THE CAMERAS-…show the crowd! –THE CROWD STARTS CHEERING-…Show the crowd! Show the crowd! Go ahead, do it! That's the crowd! –MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND AND SALUTES EVERYBODY. And even after I tell them to do that, sometime…look at this room! All the way back into the corners! I mean this isn’t even meant for this! This is a convention center! Look at the crowd! But you know, they don't wanna to do it. And even sometimes I'll say, ‘show the crowd!’. And I go home I say, ‘I'll bet they showed…’. They don't even turn it! They don't turn it! They don't want to have…people see…what's happening. What's happening here is a movement. I'm telling you, it's a movement! This is not…we are tired of stupid people running our government –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, we are! They’re stupid people!
I used to say they're incompetent. I don't…but I don't really care. Either we're gonna win or not. Somebody said, ‘what happens if you don't win?’. ‘Bye-bye!’’. I'm going…I'll go to TurnBerry, I'll go someplace that I own, and I’ll enjoy my life, and that's the end of that. I…want to do something special…with you! With everybody! Because everybody…wants to make…America great again! We have so many problems! We're gonna to make it so great! –CROWD APPLAUDS. And when I say that, I really mean, and I really believe we have this potential. Because the people is so incredible. When I say that… ‘better…than ever…before’, I really think we have that potential. We're gonna make it better than ever before! But we have to be smart! And we have to be cunning! And we can't have a trade imbalance of 450 billion dollars a year with China! And we can't have a trade imbalance of 75 billion dollars a year with Japan! And we can't have a trade imbalance of 45 billion dollars a year with Mexico! I love Mexico! I love the people of Mexico! I have thousands of employees! I have thousands of people, Hispanics, working for me. I'm winning poles with the Hispanics! People don't wanna to say that. In Nevada I'm leading the poll by a lot –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm leading the polls with African-Americans…if I keep going with the African-Americans, the election is gonna be over! Still, go out and vote! Because I had a number of twenty-five percent!
One of the announcer said, ‘if Trump gets 20 five percent of the African-American vote, the election is over, he wins!’. It's true! It's true! –CROWD CHEERS. And I'm going to! Because…people understand…that I'm going to bring jobs back from China! I'm going to bring jobs back from all of these places…that for years…have been ripping us off! Like where the…the dumbest human beings on earth! And it's not you! It's not you! It's our leaders! They’re so grossly…they don't know…what they're doing…or…! … they're bad people! And I actually, maybe I'm naïve…I don't think they're bad people! A lot of people are gonna go, ‘no, they're bad, they're bad’. –MEMBERS IN THE CROWD YELL ‘THEY ARE BAD’. MR. TRUMP HEARS IT-… ‘they're bad’, he said…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE PERSON THAT SAID IT LAUGHING-…who cares!? The bottom result is it's the same! We're getting killed! It's not gonna happen any longer!
The Iran deal. We give a country that hates us. A hundred and fifty billion dollars. Somebody said they’re gonna work on nuclear weapons. They don't have to! They can buy them! They don't have to work on them! How about the self-police? They’re gonna self-police. Iran! Is going to self-police! How stupid are our people!? They're gonna self-police! They're gonna…then…you…when they don't…they have 24 days. But before you get to the 24 days, it's a whole process. So they'll have forever…to clean up the place. And I always say, and paint it battleship gray. The floor, right? I always used to paint garages, for my father. Battleship gray. Come on pap, I like it. ‘No, let's use a different color’. Pap, let’s use battleship gray. But they're gonna fix it up! I mean, how crazy is it? And how about our prisoners!? We don't get our prisoners back! They're still over there! Our prisoners are still over there! How can they be so ridiculous!? Why aren't we getting our prisoners!? We've got four men, that are wonderful men! They didn't do anything wrong! They're in Iran! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We just gave them…the single greatest deal ever negotiated, probably with a country! One of the worst deals I've ever seen negotiated of any kind! I mean, Kerry doesn't know what he's doing! We just gave them…but he's got a leader…and they never even asked for the prisoners. You know, he question was… ‘what about our prisoners?’. The answer? ‘We don't wanna complicate the deal’. You know how…? You say, ‘I want my prisoners back first. You don't want them! We need them for our people! Because our people don't like…that you're holding people in your jails’. The worst jails from what I understand there are on earth! One of them is in jail because he's a Christian! A minister. He's a pastor…-MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS OUT SOMEHTING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP AGREES WITH THE INVERVENTION-… ‘right, exactly!’.
 
And I met his wife a couple of times. She doesn't know what to…she's…she's such a lovely woman! Doesn't know what…what to do! So you have four people… in prison. Right now! They should have come out! And I don't mean at the end of the deal. Before! You start negotiating, you say, ‘fellas, fellas, fellas…’ –CROWD APPLAUDS. It's so sad! You say, ‘fellas, before we start negotiating…’. This is like three years ago. Do you ever see a deal take so long!? You know any rip-off deal like that has to take a long time, because they have so much to draw…they’re taking so much. We didn't get anything. But you say, ‘fellas, before we start…gotta give us our prisoners back. You don't want them. We do. It'll set a good tone for the negotiation. Gotta give them back’. Now they'll probably say, ‘no, we can't do that’. We’ll say, ‘bye-bye…bye!’. Now you leave, you double up the sanctions. They will call, I guarantee you…within 48 hours. Probably sooner. 48 hours. You'll have your prisoners, let's start negotiating. And from there you make a good deal. I would have never given back the money, by the way.
The biggest problem I have…that…if I win…everyone goes crazy, ‘when! When!’. But it is still an ‘if’. I mean, I still have these stiffs I have to run against. Do we agree? –CROWD LAUGHS AND CALLS OUT ‘YES’. These politicians…I can't stand politicians! I'm a politician now, can you believe it!? And I can't stand it! All my life I've dealt with politicians. They're so easy! They're so easy to deal with. And now I'm a politician! –CROWD LAUGHS. I can't believe it! I…look at those people! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AGAIN TO HIS RIGHT SIDE. There's still pouring in! Do you believe it!? –CROWD CHEERS. Look at them! They're still coming in! Watch this, ‘worry folks, the evening is over goodnight’ –CROWD LAUGHS. No, now I'm a politician. So it's one of those things…it's fine. I don't think…I’m gonna go…can I still say I’m in the real estate business…or something? Okay? You don't mind, do you? I want to negotiate like a real estate guy from New York rather than a politician. Right?
So a lot of things have happened, and we're gonna make this thing so great. Here's…here's a few of the ideas. And…some of the press has actually been good to me. Cause I've had…a lot of vision. And you gotta get points for vision when you're running for office, right? You gotta get points. So I said, ‘don't go into Iraq’, and I said that, in all fairness, I’m the most militaristic person in this room. Although you got a couple of beauties over here with your hole…with your outfits on. And maybe a couple of them help me. This…look at this guy over here, is pretty military. I don't know, I think I may top you though –MR. TRUMP POINTS RANDOMLY TO PEOPLE. I'm looking at some of these guys. Some pretty tough people in this room. But I’m the most…look, I believe…I want to make our military so strong, so powerful, so incredible…we'll never have to use it! Nobody’s gonna mess with us! Nobody! Nobody! -CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, General Ordierno the other day, he left…ehm…the office…in…ehm…about two months ago. I’m watching him on television. He said, ‘our forces are right now, the least prepared, that they’ve ever been!’. I think he meant since WWII, but…but…regardless! Whether it’s ever or WWII. It’s probably ever! And he said that. Then I talk all the times. We have the generals…they’re always interviewed on television. Always being…I don't want them! I want them to be unpredictable! I don’t want our generals being interviewed, so the other side can watch. They can watch! And they can say, ‘oh, ah, ah…!’ –MR. TRUMP PRODUCES SOUNDS MEANING RECOGNITION. You know, we're not…we're not dealing with stupid people! You know, it used to be…we would have a military. You'd have uniforms here, uniforms there…the one with the most uniforms standing wins the war. Right? There's a little different now. Now you're talking about sneaky, dirty, underhanded people…that wanna kill our civilians. They wanna go after our civilians. They wanna kill…not only our civilians, all over the world! And it's gonna be stopped. It's gonna be stopped!
Somebody criticized me the other day, because they asked me what I do. And I said, ‘I'm gonna bomb the shit out of them’ –CROWD CHEERS. It's true! I don't care! I don't care! They've gotta be stopped! –CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’. They've gotta be stopped! And they should have been stopped a long time ago. Look, so in Paris the other night, a horrible thing. And then all of a sudden we attack…and…and France attacks. All these different sites that they have, right? Why didn't they do this…a year ago? Two years ago? Why didn't they do it!? Why do they wait? They always wait for a tragedy to happen. They’re never forward. They're always waiting for…
So you say, ‘oh, wow, these are training centers camps…’, by the way! What did they attack!? They attack the oil! Remember I've been saying for two years… ‘attack the oil!’. Everybody said, oh, Trump, with the oil. Trump…!’. But I said more than attacking. I said, ‘attack it, take it, and keep it!’. That's what I said! -CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So now they're attacking the oil…and…a couple of the…people said. You know, that was really Trump side. And I’ve been saying this for two years! Because…a big source of their wealth is the oil! They're making a million dollars a day, a lot of money! Make it a million dollars a day! And I kept saying, ‘why are we doing this?’. ‘Why are we doing this?’. They're better at the internet than we are! And they're training people…to be terrorists and killers! On the internet! And they're taking them! And then they'll go, and they'll go away…! …which is fine. They'll go away. But then we let them come back into the country! Because nobody wants to take away their rights! Do you believe this!? It's so unbelievable! So they go and they fight for ISIS…they come back into our country, and we accept them back!
And at some point they won't be going away! They'll be shooting us here. All right? They're not gonna be going over to Syria. They're not gonna be going over to these other places! They'll stay right here. And then we have a president…with all of the problems…and you probably heard, that at least one and probably more…of the killers, the animals that did what they did in Paris, came out of the migration! Right? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’. They came out of the migration!
So we have a president…that wants to take hundreds of thousands! Hundreds of thousands…! …of people…and move them into our country. And we don't…-CROWD BOOWS-…no, think of it! And we don't even know who they are. There's no paperwork. There's no anything. And all you have to do is look at the website for Obamacare to know that we're never gonna figure it out –CROWD LAUGHS. Five billion dollars for a website that still doesn't work! And by the way, Obamacare is gonna be repealed, is gonna be replaced. –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s gonna be over! It’s gonna be over!
So…we have…no documentation on these people. And I said, you probably saw…a couple of weeks ago…I’m looking at this migration, and it’s a terrible thing! I have a bigger heart! I mean, I have a tremendous heart. I wanna take care of people! But I look at this great migration. And I tell my wife the other day…I said, ‘you know? They’re all…they seem like…so many man! And they’re strong! They’re strong looking guys!’. Not as strong as you, but that’s okay! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A PERSON THAT INTERRUPTED. No, but they’re strong…looking guys. They’re powerful looking guys! So I said, ‘why aren’t they back fighting for their country?’ That’s number one. Then I said, ‘is this a Trojan horse?’ We all know the story of the Trojan horse. And now you look at what’s happening…in Germany!
So I used to be a fan of Merkel. I used to think she was…terrific. A big leader. A great leader! I think that what she did to Germany is a disgrace! Is a disgrace! It’s a total disgrace. And they walked all through Europe to get to Germany. What we should have done, for a lot less money…because on a humane basis you wanna do it…is do in Syria! Take a big swatch of land. Which believed me, you get for the right price. Okay? You take a big swatch, and you don't…destroy you all of Europe! I mean they destroyed…by the time this is finished…where do you see Germany!? Where do you…? Of all places…Germany! Where do you see what happens to Germany!? They're having riots in the streets. They're having crime that they've never had before. Wait and you’ll see the end result of what happens to Germany and Merkel. No longer a fan. I may have to deal with her. But you know what? I'll tell you right now. No longer a fan. No longer a fan. Wait and you see what happens.
So what I like is build a safe zone in Syria. Build a big beautiful safe zone. And you have…whatever it is. So people can live. And they'll be happier. And one thing I noticed: even with people that work for me, where they come from countries that you wouldn't think are so great. I would say…moving back to Syria is not the greatest thing, right? But you know what I find? People come and they work for me…legally! Okay? Legally! But they come to work for me. When they retire, or when they leave…what they really want? They wanna go back home to their country! You know, that's sort of…amazing to me because…a lot of the countries, I would say, ‘why would you wanna go back?’. But they wanna go back to their country.
Now in Syria’s case I think it's probably similar. So you keep them in Syria. You build a tremendous safe zone. It'll cost you tremendously much less! Much less! And…they'll be there. And the weather is the same. And all of the different things. And then when this horrible situation…that’s so horribly run…cause we don't know what we're doing. When it's all over, they move back, and they go back into their cities, and they rebuild their cities, and they start out, and they start over again. I really believe that! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
I mean they're gonna learn German? They're gonna learn all these different languages? It's ridiculous! The weather! A friend of mine lives in Minnesota. And he calls me says, ‘can you imagine…?’. So 130 degrees in Syria, and now they want to send some up to Minnesota, where’s 30 degrees. But these people are gonna to be very, very…unhappy –CROWD LAUGHS. It's cold! And beautiful! But it's cold! So…I look at what's happening worldwide, and a lot of it is because we don't have the leadership at the top. We're always getting into things…that we shouldn't be getting into. And if we take…anybody.
You know, I've heard they've already taken a few thousand people in. I…you’ve heard that. Just comes in. They just come in. And I've told people…and I said to anybody that's listening: anybody that's brought in…to this country…from the migration…is going to be out. We're not gonna do it! We're not gonna do it! We're not gonna do it! We're gonna have a country again. We're gonna have borders…we're gonna have a country again! Right now we don't have a country. People are coming in, pouring in…including from that part of the world! They're pouring through our southern border. We're told…and I was in Laredo, Texas, recently. And I met with the border patrol. These are fantastic people! They're told to stand down! People walking right in front of them. They're told…you can't do anything: ‘stand down!’. So here you have these great people…tough people, and they're standing here like that. They're all equipped, everything's fine…people are walking right waving at them. You see what's happening. You see what's happening –MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS OUT ‘WE NEED A STRONGER PRESIDENT; MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… ‘we need a strong president, that's right’.
But you know what? I…I'll tell you what. You said it. But let…let me add to it, because I know what strong is. You need a strong president, he just said it –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE MAN FROM THE CROWD WHO INTERVENED-, but you need a smart president too. It's gotta be smart. I know a lot of strong people. But if they're not smart…that's not so good. That's a bad combination. You need smart! You need strong! You need cunning! You need everything! Because we're being killed! Worldwide we're being killed! And we can't do it anymore! We can't take it! We owe 19 trillion dollars. It's now going up to 20, or 21 trillion, with this ridiculous budget. Did you ever see a budget passed so easily before in your life!? One of the things that disappoints me, and…I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative guy…but when I look at the republicans…you know where the democrats are coming from. But the republicans fold on every point! I thought…when we won the senate, and we have the house. I thought it would be different! I think we're doing worse now that we've ever done! We get nothing! We get nothing! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
So…with the oil, you saw it. With Osama bin Laden…in a book that I wrote in the year 2000, I said, ‘Osama bin Laden’s gonna come, and do damage to us’. And nobody believed it. And then they say, ‘well, what does Trump know? I mean, he's a real estate man. He's a successful businessman. He knows nothing about…’. I know more than these politicians. These guys don't know anything! So I write a book, called The America we Deserve. Probably the only book I’ve ever had there wasn't a rousing success. But with…my new book is great. ‘Crippled America’. Tough name, right? It's doing great. The worst picture of myself I've ever had up. It's the worst! Because how can you have a smiley face with ‘Crippled America’ as title?
But I don't…I don't wanna be a critic. I don't wanna just be a critic. Because…what the book is…is it's all the problems, and how to fix them. Because…we don't want to just talk about the problems. We wanna talk about how to fix the problems, right? We gotta talk about how to fix the problems.
So…we have a country…that…when it's run properly, and beautifully, and democratically…and we don't have to sign our little orders that…we can't get the Democrats involved. We can't get…
What…what he's doing with orders…and we had a great thing with the executive orders the other day. The courts overruled Obama…-CROWD CHEERS-…do you believe it!? Do you believe it!? Finally! Two to one! A two to one decision!
But anyway, so I write a book, ‘The America we Deserve’. It was sort of a political book. And…it was…political for whatever reason. But I talked about the problems of the country, and…you know, what else has changed…except the problems that have gotten worse. And one of the things I said is Obama’s coming in. And one of the announcers said, ‘no way he said that!’. Now, the reason I said it is because…I really watch, and I really love…studying our country. And studying…politics. And I really…love it! I think that…what's going to be is…I think that that will be one of our strengths, frankly. I'll be the greatest job producing President that God ever created…but…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But…on leadership I win huge…on everything…like 72 to 2. I mean, we have unbelievable numbers. So high that I say, ‘why do we have to have an election?’ What do we need an election for!?
But on leadership, on military, on the economy, on all these things…the numbers are…the only thing I don't get so good is like… ‘do you like him?’. And you know what? I think I'm a nice person, but they say, ‘do you like him?’. But I think that's probably the least important thing. We want somebody that knows what the hell they're doing now! Right? -CROWD APPLAUDS. We need somebody that knows what they're doing!
So…I predicted…Osama bin Laden. So one of the guys said…on one of the news casts… ‘no way!’. Then said , ‘yeah’. ‘When was it!?’. ‘Two thousand’. ‘That was a year, or year and a half before the World Trade Center came down’. ‘No way!’. Took the book, looked at it, and said, ‘Whoa! Look what Trump…! …Trump predicted Osama bin Laden was coming in…to do…damage! I don't believe it!’. Good guy that said it. Straight shooter. Couldn't believe it. Well, in my book I talk about that. In my book I predicted terrorism. Cause I can feel it. I can feel like I feel good location, okay? In real estate. My father always used to tell people, ‘you know? He may be my son, but everything he touches turns to gold’. When my father said that, that was a great compliment. Cause he was a tough cookie. But he said…! …and he said, he has an instinct for location, ‘you have an instinct about things’. I really believe I have an instinct for this kind of thing. And…I see what's happening. And when I said ‘Osama bin Laden’…that was a great thing! When I said ‘terrorism’, in the same book!
Now they really like my books much better when I talk about business and success and things like that. That’s…those are the books that are all the best sold. This book was probably the least selling book and yet it was, in a certain way, pretty cool! But…I love that book. But I love what the predictions are. And a friend called me up the other day, said, ‘forget about Osama bin Laden…in that book…you predicted ‘terrorism’! Nobody knew this kind of terrorism before, but I felt it! And you have to have somebody…that has an instinct to lead this country. And I know the people I'm running against. Believe me! Believe me! First of all, Hillary is the worst –CROWD APPLAUDS. I mean, she's…no, no, she’s terrible. She’s terrible. No, no she's terrible. Hillary…is terrible. And you know, she was the worst Secretary of State in history. And now she wants to be President, great idea. Great idea. Remember when she was shot down with the helicopters…it got off for ba, ba, ba, ba, ba…so many different lies. So many lies. And frankly, the email scandal. I don't know if that's over. Probably she's being protected by the democrats. Probably.
But I…all I know is that people have been treated very harshly, including General Petraeus. For doing five percent of what she did. Five percent –CROWD APPLAUDS. You know, he was given a sentence that was an unbelievable come down, for a guy that was as good a guy as he was. And many others. For doing a tiny fraction of what she did! But she's being…I mean she's being protected! So I believe…probably, I will get a chance to run against her. I love that. I love that. I love that. And polls already say that I'm going to win against Hillary, but I’ll tell you what. I really believe…that we will win, we will have such a victory.
You know, if Mitt Romney had people like yourselves, that got up and voted…right? He just said it –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEONE IN THE CROWD. People don't realize it. I'm gonna to do great with Hispanic vote. Better than…I think I'm gonna win the Hispanic vote. But…I will tell you. Had Mitt Romney…who didn't do great with the Hispanic vote. But had the people like yourselves got up and voted…and for some reason there was no inspiration. They just wasn't. I don’t’ know what it was. He didn't…he didn't get the people out. And…I said…before the…whole thing was over. I said, ‘why aren't you…?’. Say what you want about Obama. He was on Jay Leno, he was on Letterman. He was on all these shows. I say, ‘are you guys gonna go on and…like do some shows?’. ‘No, I think we have it made’. You know, they believed what they were saying on some of the televisions…and...that is an election that should have been won!
But remember this: had some of…many of you folks in this room tonight. Had you gotten up and voted, he would have won the election. He would have won the election. They didn't…there was no inspiration. And I'll tell you what. Nobody has crowds like I'm getting. These crowds are… crazy. Look at this crowd! I mean, look at this crowd! Look at this crowd –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I guarantee, everyone in this room… ‘who is not going to vote in this room?’. Seriously. ‘Who is going to vote!?’ –CROWD CHEERS. No, I know. No, we have a whole thing!
So…let's go a little further into the border. Because the border has so much to do! Somebody said…I was gonna mention before…Ann Coulter. She said, ‘Trump just became president’, with a well-known quote. Cause when they saw the problem…in Paris, that has so much to do with what we're talking about. So we are gonna have a border, we are gonna have the wall. We're going to get rid of…people that we have in this country, who are here illegally. Some of whom…are excellent, great people. But they have to come back legally. They have to! They have to come back legally. They have to. There’s nothing we can do. We can do we either have a country or we don't. They have to come back legally.
And then again, we have some people…who are…really bad dudes. You know that. We have gangs in Los Angeles…they're all illegal. We have gangs that are a hundred percent illegals. We have problems in Chicago. We have…don't even mention the drug problems. The drugs that pour across the border. So many other problems! And that causes problems! But we have people…that are so bad! They are gonna be gone…so fast out of this country –CROWD APPLAUDS.
And they're going back where they came from. And I'll tell you something. I'm not putting them in our prisons, which are brimming now, you can't even get…
We're not putting them so that we have to protect them for 45 years. We're bringing them back…to the country they came from. Let that country worry about it. Let that country pay for it. We're not gonna load up our prisons, our hospitals, we're not gonna do it. We're not doing it –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
This is no longer going to be the stupid country that everyone thinks we are. Because our leaders are so bad…and so pathetic. So we're taking the bad ones…and this is going to be before the wall. Before the wall. We're taking the bad ones. They're out of here. They gone back. And we're going to get rid of them. And they're not coming back in folks. They’re not…that…there's no way they'd come back in. They're not coming back. And that's going to happen as sure as you're standing there. And that's gonna be one of the first things that happen.
The first thing is I'm going to take Obama's executive order, where he said everyone just come on in, come on in folks, come on in .And we are gonna end it! We're are gonna end it! We're not gonna have that: The only thing good about an executive order is the new president can come in and terminate it with just a signature. I don't have to go to Congress. I don't have to go anywhere. It’ll be terminated in the first 10 minutes…of my…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and by the way, prior to entering, I guarantee you this: those four prisoners that we're talking about…prior to my taking office…I guarantee you, those prisoners are home. They're gonna be sent off –CROWD APPLAUDS. They're not gonna play games. They're not gonna play games with us. Those four prisoners are coming home before I ever take office, I guarantee you that. You watch. As sure as you're standing there, they're coming home, or there's gonna be held to pay. It's gonna be hell to pay. Believe me, there will be hell to pay.
 
So…we're gonna straighten out our country from the standpoint of immigration. We're going to make great, great trade deals. We're no longer going to be a laughingstock on trade. We're no longer going to let our jobs go out to other countries –CROWD APPLAUDS-…which, by the way, the immigration causes a big, big…you know, it's not just what we're talking about. Tremendous numbers of jobs lost. And you know, our real unemployment rate…is it the 5.2 percent. That was done for political reasons by politicians that want you people to believe they're doing a good job. Our numbers probably twenty-five percent. We have close to a hundred million people…they look for work…they keep looking, they look…when they give up, they’re considered, statistically, as though they're employed.
Our real number is between 20 and 25 percent. And I guarantee you this: if our number were really 5.2, that phony number…every time I see it, it sickens you! ‘5.2, unemployment is down’. The people have given up looking for work! They've given up looking for work! And I guarantee you, I don't know how many people are in this room tonight…but it's a hell of a lot! If it's 5.2, I have 15 people standing in the front row. And they probably not get a vote for me anyways those 15.
So we're going to straighten it out. We're gonna do so many things…that are gonna be just so, so great. MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘THE VETERANS!’-…the veterans. I love the veterans! Hey! Who…who in the room is a veteran? Raise your hand! –PEOPLE RAISE THEIR HANDS-…amazing. So…-CROWD CHEERS. So…our veterans…our veterans…are in many cases, not treated as well, as the illegals, you know that? Right? They have a waitlist…the longest…three months ago on a Wednesday, I'll never forget, I’m reading it. The longest wait list in the history of the Veterans Administration. People are waiting five and six days. Can you imagine yourself…? …and some of you probably have this problem. But can you imagine yourself going to a doctor's office in waiting five or six days and you’re sick? And people are dying by the tens of thousands. They're dying because they're not getting the care! Our veterans are the greatest people! –CROWD CHEERS. They’re are great people!
Our veterans are our greatest people! I love them! I've gotten to know so many over the years. I go to New Hampshire, I go to Iowa, I meet so many veterans. And…some…the…the tales are just…terrible. When you hear what they go through. For simple…medical care! …where they can be better quickly. Quickly! And they…they can't get it. One…one man was telling men, was in the service for 22 years. Fought in wars, everything, did everything…! Missing an arm, and he said, ‘you know, I waited, and waited, and waited. And after the end of five days the doctor told me, “I'm sorry, I'm going on vacation”’. This is what happens though. This is what happens, and we're going to straighten it out.
Now I put in a plan a policy plan. You know, the press wants policy. The people just want results. But the press once policy. I put in a veteran's…plan. And…among other things, covers a lot of territory and it's gotten fantastic reviews. But, look. You have doctors…they're leaving the profession because of Obamacare, because they need more accountants than they need nurses. But you have people…-CROWD CHEES-…it's true! They need more…I have a friend, he's a doctor, he's gonna quit! He's not a you…old guy! I say, ‘why?’. He said, ‘because it's impossible’. He said, ‘we…need…so much in accounting…’. And he said he has more accountants that he has nurses!
So we're gonna to take our veterans. And…if they have a way…which they always do, we're gonna let them go to a private doctor, or a private hospital…or public hospital! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Whatever it is! We're gonna pay the bill. And you want to know something? That's gonna cost us…number one, it's gonna be great for them. They’ll love it! It's going to be great for them. But you know what else is gonna be great? It's gonna to be great…it's gonna cost us a lot less money! So if they're gonna wait…they're gonna go to a private doctor, the doctor is gonna take care of them, we're gonna pay the bill, we’ll work out some kind of a schedule, so we don't get ripped too bad, cuz doctors do have a tendency to get a little grosser, all right? We will. Don't worry about it folks. We’ll beat them…but will be fair.
But…they're gonna go out, see a doctor, see a public hospital, private hospital, they're gonna get taken care of…quickly, beautifully…nobody's gonna be dying…! …that shouldn't be dying…! …and everybody loves that plan! How do the Vets feel about that? Okay? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Yeah, no we've gotten…we've gotten like a tremendous…a tremendous response.
All right, so here's the story…-SOMEONE IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP PAYS HIM MIND-… ‘what? I…I like it. I like what you just said’.
So what happens…what happens is the following: Amnesty? Amnesty…? …is..forget it. You know who's running, right? You know who's going. You know what's happening, right? Amnesty…no amnesty. They leave the country. In a nutshell, our military is gonna be taken care of. Our vets are going to never be happier than they're gonna… we're gonna treat them better than any Vets, anywhere. Our Vets are gonna be treated…fantastic –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna win on trade. And you know I always say, we don't win anymore! We just don't win! We used to win! We don't win anymore! When was the last time you saw our country win? We don't win anymore! We're gonna win so much! I joke sometimes, I say, ‘we're gonna win so much, you're gonna get disgusted, and tired, and bored’. But we never get tired of winning! Ever!
We're gonna win on trade! We're gonna win on health care! We're gonna win on education! And you know, in education…by the way, we’re 28 in the world. Third world countries are ahead of us! And yet, we spend more per student…! …by double…! …than any other country! And yet with 28. In my campaign…I'm proud to tell you, that I've spent less or just about less. I mean, a couple of these clowns, how they're even running is like hard to believe. Okay? They spent nothing! Pataki! I mean, this guy he's got zero! Spent no money…one of the worst governors in the history of New York! He's got zero! And he's running, and now he wants to try and get on Saturday Night Live, because I was on…he wants equal time! So we have guys that shouldn't be, under any circumstance they should be out. But think of it: I spent the least money, and I had the best result. I'm number one. Wouldn't it be great of our country can do the same thing? Think of it think! Think of it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Now, I'm gonna be spending a lot of money…because these characters will take out some…you know, ads., it will be untrue, and they'll take out ads, and…I’ll…I say, anybody that hits me gets hit ten times harder, okay? –CROWD CHEERS. But…so I'll be spending a lot of money. But think of the results. So far I’ve spent the least amount of money, and I have the best result.
So…we're gonna win on trade. We're gonna win on everything folks. We're gonna have a country that you're gonna be proud of. Just like this crowd, which is so great. We are going to look around
today…you're gonna look around, you're gonna see each other…I'm telling you! This is something special happening. Everywhere I go. It's…It's not just here. I go to…Iowa. I to New Hampshire! I go to South Carolina! I go to North Carolina! I go to Texas! I was in Virginia! I was in Oklahoma! It's the same thing! The people love the country. They want results! They wanna see something great happen! They wanna to win again! They wanna be proud of our country  
And I can only tell you this: I have never worked so hard, but I don't care, because I love it!
 
I'm staying in…we are gonna win this, and we're gonna turn our country around –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And you're gonna be so proud…of your country. And you're gonna be so proud…of your president. You're gonna be so proud of your president! …because I don't care about anything. No special interest, no nothing. The insurance companies…? I couldn't care less! I don't even like them! I mean, they’re making a fortune, by the way on Obamacare. They were a big supporter of Obama. They are making a fortune on Obamacare. The insurance companies…the car companies…I don't care. I don't care. We're gonna have our car company stay here. We're not letting them go to Mexico so easily, where they go and build two and a half billion dollar plants, and they take our jobs, and then they sell us cars, and there's no tax, no nothing…and we get nothing out of it! You are gonna be proud of your country! You're gonna be proud of your president! You are going to see…something that is…going to take place quickly. I'm not talking about years, and years, and years…! We can do things quickly! We'll get it done quickly! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
The American dream…and you know this, and a lot of people have said it. The American Dream is dead! But we're gonna make it bigger, and better, and stronger…than ever before –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we are going to make…America…great again! And I love you all! Thank you.
 
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