VIDEO Nº: 50
TITLE:50.  Donald Trump Rally Spencer Iowa 12/5/15
DATE OF EVENT:05/12/2015
RELEASE DATE:05/12/2015
DURATION:01.18.19 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:11988
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Oh boy! What a good job! What a…beautiful introduction from Sam! …–between Sam and Chuck…–MEANING THE HOSTS–…and ourselves we have something really, really special going on.
 
So here's what happened. I was not supposed to make it, because the weather was really bad. And they said, ‘Mr.…Mr. Trump, I don't think he should fly today’. I said, ‘I'm not gonna let Spencer down! We're not letting it down!’. So…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…so here we are. Here we are.
 
It's been really…an amazing…period of time. What's happened. The CNN, you saw, I guess…I guess. Did everybody see the poll that came out yesterday? –CROWD CHEERS. We are…and where's my Tana…–MEANING TANA GOERTZ, A FORMER CONTESTANT FOR THE 3RD EDITION OF THE TV SHOW. She’s somewhere here, I'll tell you, from The Apprentice. She has been working 24 hours a day. She's been so amazing.
 
So CNN…came out with a poll…we are killing it folks! I mean, we are just…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But, you know, honestly…? …it's like Sam said before, that we can't get complacent…if…yeah, sit down, everybody…–AFTER MR. TRUMP SEES SOME PEOPLE SITTING DOWN. Come on, we're gonna make this like a family chat. We’ll make it like a little bit of a family chat. I don't know, I think…ehm…here's the story: you people have better seats…–MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE PEOPLE IN THE FRONT, but they could have become more famous…MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. You see…? …because…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they have the camera.
 
We…have got problems in this country. We have got a hidden enemy. We've got an enemy that doesn't wear uniforms. We've got an enemy that's…very vicious, very violent, very sick. And we've gotta take them out. And we're going to take them out…strongly. And we don't need people…that…are politicians…that complain about my tone. Like…Jeb Bush said, ‘oh, his tone is a little bit tough’. Tough! …–MR. TRUMP LAUGHS TO SOMETHING INAUDIBLE THAT A MEMBER IN THE CROWD HAS UTTERED. THEN HE TURNS AROUND TO MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH THAT PERSON.
 
You know, I think I have a great temperament. I built an incredible company. In fact, when I found my papers everyone said, ‘oh, we won't file his papers, because you know, maybe he's not as rich as people think, and all that…’. So I filed my papers. And actually before that. And…and I tell the story. I was in New York…and it looked like the Academy Awards, down in Trump Tower. There were so many cameras, I've never seen anything like it. And you know, they all want us to do badly, okay? You know, cuz the press is unbelievably dishonest. Unbelievably! Most of it, there's some good ones. But most of it. Unbelievably…! I could tell you, oh! I think I'll write a book about them when this whole thing is finished. This will be a book. I don't know if anybody's gonna be interested enough to read it, but who cares!? …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But I will tell you, they're very dishonest. And…I look down…I know, there they are. They will…they never show the audience, by the way. And people, by the way, people are still pouring in…and I wanna thank the fire marshal, because they sort of…you know, they have people at the doors, just in case there's a problem. But I said, ‘look, it's all concrete and steel, it's not gonna burn…’, …–CROWD LAUGHS. And they were great, okay?
 
But we have a lot of people outside that are still coming inside. So I appreciate it. Now, we could always wait about a half an hour. Should we wait…? …–CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. I thought you were gonna say that.
 
So…I've been watching, and I've been speaking, and I've been talking about trade, and China. And how China's ripping us. We're losing…450 billion dollars here in trade imbalance. Think of that number: 450 billion dollars! Just think of it: cuz people say, ‘oh, he must mean 450 million’. Most people don't even know the difference for 20 million, a billion…billion! It's a lot of millions! 450 billion dollars a year…trade imbalance. Meaning…they send to us that much more than we send to them. Not a good deal! Okay!?
 
I have Carl Icahn…one of the great businessmen of our time. I have so many business people, they're all endorsing me. And we're gonna have the toughest. The smartest. The sharpest. People that you will be so proud of. You may not like them personally. Who cares!? Right!? Who cares!? …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
No, I tell the story about…about you know Caroline Kennedy. She's a lovely young woman. I…I like her, because my daughter likes her, Ivanka. Do we all know Ivanka? …–CROWD CHEERS. Yes. She's coming here! She's gonna be coming. In fact, in a couple of weeks I’m bringing my sons, Zach I…and by the way, members of the NRA…–THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION. They're really great marksman! I mean, they're great shots. They've been members for a long time, and big Second Amendment people. And I am, the biggest of all Second Amendment people, I can tell you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
You know, I met a wonderful couple. They own a gun shop. Where is…where's that couple? They were great. Where are they!? Oh, there they are. Stand up! Just stand up! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. And I said…I said, ‘don't worry folks. If I get in you're gonna do just fine’. You know? Thank you…–MR. TRUMP LOOKS THEIR WAY.
 
You know, it's sort of interesting, though. We all know the problems. And we see. But…take Paris. If…a few people had guns…on their bel. Or their shin, in their jacket…instead of being slaughtered…you might have lost some…you definitely would have lost the bad guys. But it wouldn't have been hundreds of people…with many more expected to die…during the hospital dying now.
 
And then you go to the tragedy that we just had in California. Nobody has a gun, except the bad guys. The scum! The scum! They’re scum! And nobody has a gun. Nobody can protect themselves. They got lucky that they left. They left…cuz they didn’t wanna die. You know, it's a whole big hoax, ‘they wanna die’. They don’t wanna die. They talked about ‘they wanna die’. They don't wanna die. They are chicken shit. Believe me…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no, they don't wanna die.
 
So they left early, because they didn't wanna get caught. They got caught. And…and by the way, how good did the police do. Right? Did they do great!? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And in Paris…! …they did great. I mean, they did a great job. They knocked him out. Not easy! Dangerous as hell. And then you have all these people protesting against the police. And you could always have a problem. The big deal is…that the problems always seem to get on television, and it…makes everybody look bad. And it’s such a small, tiny percentage.
 
But the police in our country, overall, they do such an…unbelievable job! I've gotten to know them, and they do such an unbelievable job……–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean like in California, look how quickly they reacted. And the school, from a few months ago. A gun-free zone. You know the gun-free zone means? That means…that's like…the meat! That's like the meat…for these killers! Look how fast the police got there. They didn't get enough credit. They got there within minutes. And they knocked him off. And it was still a tragedy! I mean, so many people!
 
But…look at the military. How about the military base? First of all…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS…–first of all…one of the first things I’ll be doing…is ending all of that gun-free nonsense on military bases. Can you believe this? …–CROWD APPLAUDS. So…we lost six guys to one guy that was a nothing. A Zero! A zero. But two of our guys that we lost…were world-class soldiers. Highly decorated. And the other ones were…great soldiers. But two of them…I think one was one of the great marksman…he's not allowed to carry a gun on a military base! So this guy walks in, shoots them! Kills them! They were…I mean…great people, they couldn't have a gun. I will end that my first day in office. My first day…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Oh, we're gonna end a lot! We're gonna end a lot. We're gonna end Sanctuary Cities really fast. I can tell you that…–CROWD APPLAUDS. Sanctuary cities. The nice part is…you don't have to worry too much about Sanctuary Cities in Spencer. But…it is…have you ever seen anything…? It's almost like a free zone. You kill people and you're…fine, because you're in a Sanctuary…it is so insane…what's happening to our country.
 
So, when I announced…and it took courage to announce! I mean, you know, I'm a business guy! And all of my life, I've heard…that if you're a very successful person, you can't run…for political office, and certainly not for president. And I understand it. And a lot of it's because of the people back there…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS IN THE BACK. But…I understand it. But I said, ‘I don't care’. And I made the decision.
 
You know, the head of…Comcast, great guy, Steve Burke; HE–…came to my office, a couple of weeks before I announced. And he said, ‘Donald, we wanna renew The Apprentice’. Now, people would say, ‘oh, that's…’…a lot of money! Even if you're rich it’s a lot of money! It, at least, pays for my airplane fuel. That's a lot of money! …–CROWD LAUGHS. But, he said, we wanna…we wanna renew you…for a long time. And I said, ‘I can't do it, because I'm gonna run…I think!’. Cuz I wasn't sure until I got on that escalator. Remember the famous escalator? Hopefully that picture on the escalator…goes down in history…as being a really important day for this country, in a very positive day…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right? Hopefully!
 
But I said to my wife, Melania…I said, ‘well…look at that’. And you looked down, at that garden level of the Trump Tower in New York…and I said, ‘boy! That is a lot of press!’. You couldn't even get the press. It was so much! Honestly? It looked like the Academy Awards. So she came down in her white outfit waving. And I came down. I just took a deep breath. I said, ‘all right, let's do it. Come on. We gotta straighten out the country’. It's so…bad…what's happened. It's so incompetent! We're run by stupid people. They're stupid people…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They're stupid.
 
Whether it's sergeant Bergdahl…where we get a dirty rotten traitor. Six people…were killed…looking for him. And now he's not even gonna get a sentence, it looks like. Can you believe it? You know, 25 years ago, he's shot! 50 years ago they don't even…wait a week! 70 years ago they do it the first hour. Right!? He knows! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEONE SPECIFICALLY IN THE CROWD.
 
Today they announced probably he'll be receiving no punishment. Can you believe it? Six…young…great people. Soldiers. Killed…looking for him. He deserted. So here's our deals. And these are the same deals we make with Iran, the same deals we make economically, with China, Japan, Mexico…
 
We get Bergdahl, at dirty, rotten traitor, who’s no good, and they get five… of the biggest…worst…killers…that they have in that part of the world. And those guys are all back now on the battlefield, trying to kill everybody…and us! INAUDIBLE–…and that's what we get. And that's the way we negotiate. And we knew! I said, ‘well, maybe…they must have made a mistake. They probably didn't know he was a deserter’. I mean, he's a dirty, rotten traitor! And they knew! Because they had a general, and a colonel, interviewing…his…people, that he worked with that he was with! And they said, ‘no, he deserted ‘. So they knew before they met…and they made deal anyway. I don't know what's with these people. I don't want them. Maybe we can send them back. Let's fly them over. We’ll dump him right in the middle; throw them out of the plane…should we give them a parachute or not? I say, ‘no! No, don't give him a parachute!’. I don't want…! Why…!? …why would we wanna waste a parachute…? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. See? …see? We don't…run…our country actually…with love. We're not…we're not treating our country right. We're not treating…the people…of our country right. When you do things like that…you're running it, not with love, you're running it…with stupidity. But you're running it with almost…there's a certain hatred that you…you're just doing the wrong thing.
 
And…the way we negotiate…is just…I use Bergdahl as an example sometimes. Because…while it's not an economic thing, although it actually is, to a certain extent…that's the deals we make. We don't know how to make deals. I was gonna tell you, Caroline Kennedy, she's in charge of Japan. She's the Ambassador's to Japan. She’s a wonderful young lady. I mean my daughter thinks she's very nice. So I like her. That's all I know about her. When Ivanka says somebody's nice…that doesn’t mean I'm picking her to negotiate…on cars! …by the…millions!
 
But…I don't know if you saw 60 Minutes. So I was on 60 minutes …–AN AMERICAN TELEVISION SHOW–…recently. And Putin was on the same night. We got along very well, we never met each other. He was in Russia, I was in…New York. Oh, we got along! …and we…they got great ratings that night, I'll tell you…–CROWD LAUGHS. We can do fine with Putin. But…with Kennedy, they had her in 60 minutes, because she's the Ambassador to Japan. And I think I'm telling the story…pretty much like…I remember it. She walked in, she went into the White House, she said, ‘I'd like a job’. ‘I'd like to help’, which is very nice. And they said, ‘oh, what would you like to do’’. She said, ‘I…I don't know’. They said, ‘how would you like to be…the Ambassador to Japan?’. She goes, ‘really!’’. She couldn't believe it! What a job! Wouldn't you like to get…? I…I might even take that job, that's pretty good! …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
Look at that lady…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A WOMAN TO HIS RIGHT SIDE AMONG THE CROWD. ‘I love you, the way you hold that book up. Stand up, darling. Look at you’. That's love! I know she's voting for ‘Trump’. I…look at us too! ……–CROWD APPLAUDS. No, no. It's…I love HER…the people are so amazing. I just see the way she's holding that book… ‘thank you, darling. I–…appreciate it. Would it be terrible if she said, ‘no, no, I'm actually voting for…’, let’s see, who do I…? who do I like…!? I don't wanna use any name, because it's so far behind…I don't wanna give anybody the buzz…–CROWD LAUGHS APPLAUDS. ‘I appreciate it. Thank you sweetheart’.
 
So…with Japan…so she ends up getting it. The Ambassador to Japan has a big…is a big factor…in…what happens…to us and Japan. Japan is…run by Abe……–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO MR. ABE SHINZO, THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN–…one of their strongest leaders that they've had in many years. He's devaluing the hell out of their currency. Just clobbering us. They're sending cars…by the millions! I mean, you go out to Los Angeles, I was a few months ago and I saw boats…the biggest ships I've ever seen. Cars are pouring off their ships…into us. You know what we send them? Practically nothing! We give them a little beef. But they send it back. And by the time it gets there, you don't wanna touch that beef. I think they call it ‘Kobe beef’ there, don't they? And they sell it for much more. See what they do? They call it ‘Kobe beef’ after a while, cuz it sits for about seven months, cuz they can't get it in. And then they charge you about 10 times more for it. So it's pretty good yet.
 
But…but we send them very little…they send us the cars. And…we have so much leverage…if we had people, if we had business people…and they rip us. And in the 60 Minute piece I saw Abe, they’re winning, and dining her. They’re giving her dinner. State dinners, they have a table…she's not gonna negotiate with these people! We want…our great, great negotiators. I know them! I know the good ones, I know the bad ones. I know the ones that are overrated. I know ones you haven't heard of who are better than all of them. We have great people. We have the greatest business people in the world! And they wanna do…I've had so many calls…from people…that are…very rich; very, very successful…some well-known, some not. They all wanna be involved! They don't want jobs! They don’t want money! They are worth…you know, hundreds of millions, and billions of dollars, in some cases. But they all wanna help…because they see what I'm doing.
 
Corporate inversion. That's where…companies are now leaving. This is the new thing. Because our tax laws are so bad…now, they're gonna do something about it, because I've been making a big deal. But the politicians I'm running against…they never even heard of Corporate in…they don't even know what it is. That's where…companies are moving out of the United States.
 
You know, in the old days they'd move from New York to Florida, because the taxes were lower, Or…other reasons. Now they move from the United States to another country. Asia…Europe…they go…Pfizer, as you probably heard…you know, Pfizer is a hell of a company…that’s a big company! Pfizer is moving …they wanna move…to Ireland! Now, I like that, cuz I own a lot of property in Ireland. Hopefully they'll be fairly near. My property value will go up, right? …–CROWD LAUGHS. And I bought a lot! When Ireland crashed, three, four years ago, I bought…some of the best price. That's what I do! I do it really good! …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
I was gonna tell you…that when I filed my report, everybody said, ‘wow! He's really…that's amazing!’. Because…when I came down the escalator, just to finish that story. So I come down the escalator, then they said, ‘oh, well he'll never announce’. I announced. Okay. Now, they say, ‘well, he'll never file form A’. Form A is only one single page where you, basically, sign your life away. I filed. They said, ‘whoa! ‘Oh, well, he'll never file his financials, because he's probably not worth as much as people think’. So I filed my financials…and by the way, I filed them. They thought I’d ask for extensions. You're allowed that many extensions. You could take them forever. I didn't ask for one…in fact, I filed them early! I didn't ask for one extension. And they turned out …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…yeah, it’s pretty good!
 
It was almost a hundred pages long. Some of these politicians ask for extensions…and it was a one-page document, that…you know, they have nothing. And I'm not saying it's not wrong to have nothing. But…I built a great company! Tremendous cash flow, everybody is shocked. I have some of the greatest assets in the world. Unbelievable…values. Almost no debt. Very little debt. Very, very little. And…I'm not saying that in a braggadocious way, cause I don't care about that. It's the kind of thinking we need in our country now. We have to have it! It's the kind of thinking we need! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. It’s what we need! We don't have a choice! We owe…19 trillion dollars.
 
We just made last week a horrible budget deal. I guess you saw. And I always…you know, I joke, but it's really not a joke! All these people…and…we know whether the…the way the Democrats are coming from. Hillary Clinton is a disaster, by the way. She'll be a disaster…–CROWD CHEERS AND BOOS. No, she'll be a disease. Look…and I've been saying it: she doesn't have the strength, or the stamina…to be President. You need somebody with tremendous strength. Tremendous stamina…did you ever noticed…did you ever noticed…? … ‘thank you darling’ …–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO A MEMBER IN THE CROWD WHO YELLED SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. Do you ever notice…? ‘I think she said ‘you've got it. I think that's what she said…’. …–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO THE PARTICIPANT WHO YELLED. THEN THE PARTICIPANT INTERVENES AGAIN AND MR. TRUMP INTERACTS WITH HER–… ‘you better believe it! You bet! You got it too! Look! Stand up! Look how nice you are! That's very nice!’ …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. ‘Thank you darling!’. I do have it!
 
But…do you ever notice…? …she'll do an event…and then you don't see her for like a week. You know what happens? She goes home and goes to sleep…–CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true! Then she'll do another event, you don't see her! Then she'll…ask questions, after like three days of negotiating with these guys. She'll…ask questions, but it's all scripted. Everything scripted. Then…it's not what we want. It's not what we want. We want strong, quick…we need brutal! We need…we need…somebody that can take on China. Take on…I'm talking now trade. But even militarily. So China in the…South China Sea…is building a massive military base, and airfields. Not supposed to be doing it, right? They're not supposed to…but they have no fear of this country. But we have tremendous power over China, economically. But…Obama doesn't know that. He has no idea. If we stopped allowing China…to do business with us, there wouldn't be a China. It would be a revolution over there. They have sucked the money out of our country…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…and out of Iowa, by the way. Out of Iowa. But they've sucked the money out of it. I say it's probably…the single…greatest…theft in the history of the world, what China has done to us.
 
And you know what? I like China…it’s nice…the people are great; they buy my apartments…I…they…I rent the bank…the biggest bank in the world is from China…they're a tenant of mine. They just renewed their lease. I can't believe they renew their lease. Can you believe…? I talk about that. Can you believe…!? My guys come in, ‘Mr. Trump, ehm, would you sign this?’ ‘Why?’. The…ehm…I won’t way what bank, I…they got enough problems with this. But…certain bank. Just check it out. Largest in the world. Like…like by a factor of…a lot!
 
They said…they are renewing their lease. I said, ‘there's no way!’ …after what I say!? They're renewing. Because…you know what? They respect. In BusinessWeek magazine they had an article. The 10 things that Chinese people most want. One of the ten things was ‘anything Trump’. Can you believe that!? Can you believe that!? …–CROWD APPLAUDS. But…but that's because they're smart. They…they know. They know.
 
I have a lot of friends from China. And…they can't believe they get away with what they get away with. They can't believe it! They…they say, ‘Donald, I don't believe we can get away with this stuff’. They just did the biggest devaluation…of their currency…that…has been done in…two decades, in 20…years. We thought they weren't gonna do any more devaluations. But they see…we're all screwed up. We have a president that's a…a rank amateur, –HE–…doesn't know what he's doing, and he's got so many other problems…that they can do these things…and nobody's gonna…do anything about it! They're doing things that they never thought they could do…against us. And they're taking our jobs, they're taking our base, they're taking our money…they're taking our businesses.
 
Look what they did with Boeing! Boeing got an order to build planes. They gotta build massive factories now…plants…in China. And China wants to take all of their intellectual property…and …oh, it’s unbelievable. And we allow it to happen. But the reason they were able to get away with the devaluation…that's already been now three months. And…nobody even talks it…nobody even talks about it! And every time they do that…every single time they do that…your businesses get killed. Your businesses get killed.
 
I'll tell you Japan…a great story. And I've told this and…some…some of you have probably heard it, but…a friend of Mines an excavator. He's a great excavator. He buys a lot of equipment, he's an expert, and so he does. And digs…he digs holes! I like my business more, but that's okay. He loves his business. But he's always bought Caterpillar Tractors, always. And by the way, speaking of…tractors, so you know, I'm a very large customer of John Deere, right here. I give them millions, and millions, and millions of dollars. You would be shocked…and probably disappointed in me if you found out how much money I paid a John Deere. But it's a great company.
 
But my friend always…bought…Caterpillar Tractors. Always. A long time. And he's got a great company. You know, good company, I…I would want it, to be honest. But…for him it's good. And he buys Caterpillar Tractors, and…fine. So I see him one day, and he doesn't look so happy. And he felt guilty. He said, ‘you know, I feel guilty’. ‘Why?’. ‘I just bought a tremendous order of Komatsu excavators’. I said, ‘whoa! Why? You've always bought Caterpillar’. He said, ‘yeah. But…Japan had devalued…the yen…to such an extent…!’. It was so massive…that Caterpillar could not compete.
 
I said, ‘which is a better product?’. ‘They're both good!’’. Honestly? Komatsu is a good product. I know Komatsu. Caterpillar is a little bit better. But he got such an unbelievable deal…! …and he felt badly about it. He said, ‘but I owed it to my wife. I owed it to my family. I owed it to my employees…I have to do what's right!?’. And I said, ‘there we go’. And take a look at what's happening with Caterpillar. Take a look! I mean, just look! They’re having a hard time. Because…countries are devaluing their currency.
 
China has played it better than anybody in the history of the world. And think of it: we owe right now China…1.5 trillion dollars. Okay? Think of it: we owe them money! They robbed us blind, and we owe them money! That's like a magic act! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
We OWE Japan the same thing, 1.5 trillion dollars. They sell their cars…keep selling, selling…and…what people don't understand…we have all the strength! We have…if we say…look: ‘you're not treating us right. We can't have these imbalances. It's gotta be fair! We don't have to make…but we…it's gotta be fair!’. We can't lose in Japan's case at 75…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…no, 75 billion dollars! A year! I mean, we're talking serious money! And serious numbers of jobs! And…you have the right messenger…? …you have the right person talking? I will tell you, you will do that…so easily…!?
 
So I just wanted to say that…all of this has been my…speech…for the last five months. And it's done well! I mean, it's taken me to the top of the polls…I think…even the pope…folks there won't mention for…I think for five months, whatever the time is…I've been at the top of the polls. I mean, you're…they're saying, ‘when is he going away?’. I love these people. They wish! They wish!... –CROWD APPLAUDS. They wish!
 
These…these are people, they…they just wish, ‘oh…please! Please!’. I mean, they probably don't pray. That's maybe their problem…–CROWD LAUGHS. But if they did, they’d say, ‘please, take him away’. But what happens is…I watched a couple of them…three months ago. So I started off with…you know…? …I started off with nothing, I…have…I’m not running. And my wife said to me, she’s very smart, she said, ‘if you run, you know you'll win’. Cuz she's with me a lot. And I do get a good response. I employ a lot of people. People like me. I built a great company. People like me. I like people! And I do a good job! And she sees… ‘thank you!’ …–MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES A MEMBER IN THE CROWD WHO REPORTEDLY YELLED ‘I LIKE YOU’. ‘I like you too! What's your name? Look at that guy! Lord, I'm not gonna mess with…! Stand up! What's your name? I like you. You're gonna vote for ‘Trump’, right? I love you. I love this guy! I know my people! …–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
Wouldn't that be…? You know…it’s…it's always risky doing that. Cause if he said, ‘no, I'm voting for some stiff…’, that I'm running against…it's always risk…–CROWD LAUGHS. That could happen! That could happen!
 
Ehm…but, she said… ‘you're gonna run…and…if you run…you are gonna win. If you don't…run, you'll never get any poll numbers, cause nobody believes you're gonna run…even if they put you in a poll’. So they put me in these polls… ‘Donald Trump is running’, and I didn't do so well. Like…I do like a lot of these guys that…do it. Like two percent, three percent…like a lot of the guys…shouldn't they drop out? What are they doing!? …–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
I said, ‘you know? I'm a little bit nervous, cuz I'm only getting two and three percent. I'm not getting much’ …you know, when they put me in. And most of them…didn't put me in, cuz they said, ‘he's not running’. But then they put me into a poll and I get like two, three percent. I said, man, that's not very good! I'm a little bit nervous! I don't wanna run!’. And then I get two or three percent, I feel like a jerk! Right!? … –CROWD LAUGHS. I feel like…she said, ‘no, no, no. If you run, you will win. You'll go right up. Because nobody believes you're running!?’. It's true!
She said…she's better than these pollsters…that…you know, they…–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS–…pay these pollsters a fortune, right? They pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Bush, Hillary, Marco Rubio…they pay them…hundreds of thousands of dollars. And you know, they're very smart people. They're tough, and mean! And they shout at their candidate: ‘You said the wrong thing! You said this! You’d…!’’. Because they’re making all this money, they wanna show how tough…
So in the meantime, they can’t…they can’t…they…they're afraid to say anything! But they’re paying them all of this money…
 
So she said to me…so, I don't have that. But I have people that I trust. But my wife is really good. She said, ‘no, no. It doesn't mean anything. I'm surprised you got anything. Nobody thinks you're running. Even though they say, “if Donald Trump runs…”, nobody thinks you're running, they're not gonna waste him up’. She said, ‘you actually have to run’. So I said, ‘all right, you know what? Let's give it a shot’.
 
And then I…I told you the story! I take a deep breath at the top of that escalator. Cuz I didn't know if I wanted to do it like one minute before I went down the escalator! …–CROWD LAUGHS. I look down into that beautiful garden, and I said, ‘man, that's a lot! That's big stuff!?’. So I took a deep breath, and she went down waving…and I went down waving not as elegantly.
 
And I went out…and I started talking about illegal immigration. And things that nobody ever talks about. And I went right to the top of the poll almost immediately. So she was right! She was right! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. She was right.
 
And…and it's been…it's…real…honestly? …it's been a fantastic experience. I…I'm totally against Common Core, I'm gonna end Obamacare…we’re gonna repeal it…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, think about Common Core. How stupid is it!? You have the greatest parents in the world, right here, in Iowa. They love their kids, they wanna be involved…with their kids, and with their schools, or with their principals, and we're running your schools from Washington DC by bureaucrats. How stupid…!? So…and we have a number of these candidates, like Bush, like said. I didn't wanna mention Bush. Cuz he's gone! He's gone!
 
You know, somebody said, ‘why did you hit Bush so hard?’. Because…oh, look at this guy! Put this…look at this! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Look! It’s because when I…when I started, you know Bush, was expected to win. And…then it was Walker was expected to win. And then it was another one, that was, and…you know, I just went through them, like bong, bong…–MEANING KNOCKING THEM DOWN. CROWD LAUGHS. I talked about him for a…and then it was Walker, and…and you know, and then…it was…in all fairness, Ben Carson…I was a little rough on him, but I told the truth…right? You know, with the belt…with the…ehm…hammer, and the mother…–CROWD LAUGHS. And I said, with the pathological…! I mean, I'm just being honest. I'm just saying what he said! I said what he said! And he's a nice guy too. And I liked him.
 
But I went through…and I just tell the stories. And by the way, I have plenty of ammunition left for the ones that haven't quitted yet. And we have…we have a lot…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no, no…actually! A couple of they…they just wrote a story about that. That everybody that's come against me has gone down like a rock. That should happen for our country! Right? That should happen! But if you think about it…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, it's sort of fun. I love you people. It's sort of fun. Cuz, you're…we're all the same.
 
It's…like it starts off with Perry. I thought he was a nice guy, governor of Texas, right? And all of a sudden…and he was very nice, oh, Mr. Trump…’, and…you know…about 2, 3 weeks he's not registering, but he's had about five, or six, or seven…percent. And all of a sudden…I get…I have this vicious attack! …at me. And that I shouldn't be allowed to get onto the stage, with these…governors, and Senators. I shouldn't be allowed. I say…first of all, many of them…weren't good governors…and some of them, like in all fairness…Rubio doesn't even vote!
 
If I were in Florida…and if…I put my faith in a young guy, where the ink isn't even dry on his election, now he wants to run for president. And if he didn't vote…I tell you what, I'm gonna have such an easy time beating him in Florida. And, to be honest…look, Bush is doing badly in Florida, and so is Rubio. And I'm winning by so much. And people were like…surprised. But if I were a person in Florida…I mean, I'll tell you already. There are other things I can say. But if i send a young guy…up to Washington, to represent me. And he virtually never goes. He’s hot the worst voting record…in the United States Senate. And last…week, they had a major meeting on Homeland Security. How important…is homeland…security? And he didn't wanna go…he went to a fundraiser instead, in Los Angeles, so he didn't go! I think…I think…I should win Florida pretty easily, to be honest with you. And he's not…and he's not gonna be able to do it. He's not gonna be able. That’s not the guy.
 
So with all of this…and I see what happens, and I ran. And…I've been number one from the beginning. And it's been an amazing experience for me! I got a call…from…one of the great writers of the world. He's…you know, not of my persuasion…meaning he's very liberal guy. But he's a highly respected person. I won't use his name cuz I don't know if I can. And he called me because you want to ask me a question. Fairly recently.
He said, ‘Mr. Trump…’, and I have a lot of respect for this guy, actually; ‘Mr. Trump, how does it feel?’.
I said, ‘how does what feel’’.
‘What you've done. Because in the history of politics…nobody has ever done…what you've done. You're an outsider. You are a business guy. Business guys weren't supposed to be able to do this. You've been leading the polls. It was the summer of Trump’, this was…two months ago. … ‘it was the summer of Trump…’.
I said, ‘well, now we'll see if it's gonna be the autumn of Trump’.
He said, ‘but how does it feel?’.
I said, ‘it doesn't feel anything. I don't feel anything! Because unless I win, it's just a waste of time’.
He said, ‘no, no, no. Even if you don't win…what you've done, is an incredible thing. They're talking about it all over the world’.
And I said, ‘no…’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. ‘No, no, I disagree’. And I said…I said… ‘I disagree with you’. Respectfully. ‘I disagree’. ‘If I don't win…I've wasted my time’. I really mean that, cause I won't be able to do anything. Because we can do things…did somebody agree with me here? …–MR. TRUMP HAS HEARD A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELL SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. Done a lot of bad…a lot of people think whatever they…honestly? …–CROWD APPLAUYDS TIMIDLY.
 
You know, look: Romney…–MEANING MR. MITT ROMNEY IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION–…lost. Okay? Romney lost. He let us down. He should have won. That was an election that should have…won. And for the last month…I don't know what happened to him! He disappeared! I called! I said, ‘why aren't you going on…Jay Leno? Why aren't you going on…? Cuz say what you want about Obama. Obama was on those shows, you couldn't…ugh! You couldn't watch them anymore! …–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. So many shows! And Romney was putting in applications…to build a nine…car garage in Malibu, California or wherever it was. Not good the week before the election. They don't…people don't wanna hear you building a nine car garage.
 
But I said, who…? where…? …I called his people too! I said, ‘why aren't you getting him out there?’. That was an election…that should have been won. No, remember this: he didn't inspire. Nobody gets crowds like I'm getting. We're getting crowds…last night we had 10,000 people, it was a…in North Carolina. Raleigh, North Carolina.
 
The other day in Sarasota, Florida. We had 12,000 people…on a very hot day! …right in the middle of a…beautiful…incredible people. They're all incredible! The people I meet…are…so…incredible. That's what gives me…faith in our country! It’s what gives me faith in our country! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They’re so…incredible!
 
We had 35,000 people in Mobile, Alabama. Amazing! They were gonna use a hotel. I figured 500 people. You know, we did it early on. Well, in about…seven minutes, the management…–MR. TRUMP MIMICS A TELEPHONE–… ‘we can’t handle this!’. We went to the Convention Center, that holds ten thousand. They said after about two hours, ‘we can't handle it’. We ended up going to a football stadium, with 35,000 people.
 
We…we had at…at Mark Cuban’s Arena, the Dallas Mavericks. Mark called. He said, –DO–… ‘you want to use the Arena?’.
And I said, ‘yeah, what day is it’’.
‘Thursday?’.
‘When’ When are you talking about?’.
He said, ‘Monday!’’.
I said, ‘Monday!? How big is it!?’.
‘It's like 20,000 seats’.
 
We filled it up in a day! …a day and a half! There's something happening… we have the…by far the biggest crowds. And the beautiful thing that I see is…it's love! I'm telling you! It's like a lovefest. And…and the people…the people…are…you know, people would say, ‘well, what's the difference between like…Iowa, and Dallas?’. And…I tell you! I guess there's differences. I guess there's differences. But…the one thing…the enthusiasm…that everybody has…to make…America…great…again…is unbelievable! It’s un…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…it’s unbelievable! I’ve…I've never seen anything like it!
 
And you know, I tell this story: a friend of mine is a very successful guy, cuz sometimes I’ll be speaking to…you know, 25, 35 thousand people. We went to Oklahoma. We had 20,000 people, in a field! In a park! It was incredible! But I'd speak to friends, and they’ll said, ‘how do you speak?’ Cuz…you know, I don't read the speed…the…the…the…right? No teleprompter, right? No teleprompter. I don't know.
 
But…you know, you speak without…a speech. You're not reading your speech, you're not using a teleprompter, which I'd love to do, it's so easy! But it doesn't come from the heart…and then you can't talk about what happened in California…two hours ago. Or what happened here or there…cuz you know, you gotta get your speech, ready to write! You gotta get your…ehm…consultants…to check everything is perfect! But you…you…and you know, it's not the same. You wouldn't have too many people. It's boring! Okay? This is the way we have to do it! And this is the right way to do it.
 
But there aren’t a lot of people that are gonna speak for an hour and a half without notes! Do we agree!? I mean…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…but, we know…we know what we're doing, and we know what we're talking about! And we know how to do it! And we know how to do the job!
 
But a friend called, and he says, ‘how do you speak?’. I had one…22,000 people…and…he was with me. One of the very successful people. He said, ‘where are your notes? Where is your speech? There's no teleprompter’. And…and we're in a stadium! I said, ‘I know…you're speaking from your heart!’. Now, I know the subject! I've been doing this stuff for a long time! I know…I know the subject. But…I said, ‘it's really easy!’. And it was a great evening, standing ovations all over the place…it was an amazing! He said, ‘I've never see anything like that’. He said, ‘how do you do that?’. I said, ‘it's easy! Because there's such love…! …in all of these places that I go to! There's like love! It's like…we're all in the same team! And…you know…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…we're all on the same team!
 
And, you know…sometimes I see like a liberal guy, or some somebody will stand up…from Black Lives Matter, or…which is fine, and…they…they'll stand. Or somebody will stand up for something else. And I say, ‘you know, I'll bet you if I spoke to them…I could convince…’, unless…there are some people that are bad people, okay? We know that. And…you have that. And you have that anyway. But you have a lot of good people…that don't agree with us. But I'll bet you…that in many cases…if I spoke to them…I'd say, ‘Look! We're all in the same thing! We have…a country…that's a debtor nation. We have people that are dying…in the military. Our vets are being treated horribly…we’d…’. Nobody wants…what…who wants that!? Nobody wants that! We're gonna take such care of our Vets! We're gonna make our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before…we're never gonna have to use it! We're never gonna have to use it!
 
It's a little like our gun shop. I mean, we're gonna make our military so…so powerful…that we're not gonna have to use it! People are taunting us right now! Because they know we have generals that don't know what they're doing! We have generals that are on television! I don't want my general on television!
 
We have Obama says, ‘I'm sending 50 men…to Iraq’…–CROWD LAUGHS. Why? Why does he say that? They’re going to Iraq…probably go into Syria…why would he say that? Why does he say…? Why does he have to get up and say…? These…people…! …have a target on their back. They're being hunted, they're being looked for. If he didn't say it, they wouldn't know! These are our special, special…people. And they got…–CROWD APPLAUDS. Why does he say it!?
 
You know, we're led by stupidity. I'll tell you something. I'll tell you…no, it's…it’s a stupid…it's a stupid group of people. I used to say ‘incompetent’, because it's a nicer word. Would you believe it…? …–CROWD LAUGHS. I'm now reduced. I went to the great Wharton School of Finance, and I'm reduced to saying ‘we're led by stupid people’, because there's no better word. There's no better word! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's a terrible thing. It’s a terrible thing.
 
But I see that! …and…and…so we have a president that announces that we're sending 50 people over there. Those people are in such trouble…I mean, you'll be reading about it. We have a president…we shouldn't have been to Iraq! I said…–IT–…a long time…and I should get points for this, cuz I'm the most militaristic person in this room. I am! I mean…I…I believe…I…I am…all in. But…I don't want have wars! I don't have wars. When…Hillary and Jeb –MEANING HILLARY CLINTON AND JEB BUSH–…on the same day, said…they don't like my tone! My tone! …–CROWD LAUGHS. They don't like my tone. My tone is a strong tone. And that's what we need! We have people with the heads being chopped off all over the world, in the middle…–CROWD APPLAUDS. And their heads are being chopped off if they’re…if they're Christians!
 
I'm a Christian! I'm Presbyterian! Nobody knows that, but that's okay. I told Chuck and Sam…–THE HOSTS OF THE EVENT–…you should give…especially for this group, give them my confirmation picture. You won't believe it. I was actually very good looking, you know, ...INAUDIBLE.
 
But…no, but I'm…I’m a Christian. They're cutting off Christians’ heads! And they…that's like…medieval times! And he talks about ‘tone’! Tone! …–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOUR TONE!’–… ‘you better believe it! I do! …–CROWD LAUGHS. So…thank you!’.
 
But…so we have…we’re in a crossroads. This country has a great chance…to be…more amazing than ever before! I really believe that! We're gonna get rid of the regulations…that are driving the farmers out of business... –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna get rid of the estate taxes that are making a lot of the farmers sell their farms. I understand that! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, no I understand it! I understand that! No, no, I understand it. I…I…I understand that. You know, you have farmers out there. They're wealthy, but…did a little bit cash…short. And all of a sudden, their farm is worth a lot of money…but, the only way they're gonna get…pay their tax is by selling their farm. They don't wanna sell their farm! And we have it too! In…you know, in…Real Estate is sort of that kind of a business. You have assets…but in many cases, if you haven't stopped…or whatever, you might not have the cash necessary.
 
People are forced…and many businesses are like that! Where they’re good businesses, you employ a lot of people, and then you end up selling the farm to somebody that's never gonna take care of it, doesn't love it…gonna reduce the payrolls, gonna get rid of a lot of the people that have worked for you for years. And then you have to justify…why…cut…the estate tax. We're gonna get rid of the estate tax. It's a very bad thing. And it is killing people in Iowa. I know that for a fact…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
We also…we also, as you know, I…I came out with a…tax plan…you know, cause the press wants it, with the tax……they always want it. But we're going to cut taxes way down, especially for the middle class, and for businesses. Way down! Way down! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're right now…the highest…taxed…nation…in the world. We are going to be one of the lowest taxed…nations in the world…–CROWD APPLAUDS. And the middle class is a big recipient, and so is business.
 
And we're gonna do things that are gonna keep our companies from leaving this land. And we're gonna keep our companies here. And we're gonna let them bring the two and a half trillion dollars. …–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. You know, they have two and a half trillion at a minimum overseas. They can't bring their money back. They can't bring that money back. And you know, the Republicans, and the Democrats, both agree they should be able to. For three years! They can't make a deal. I think they're gonna make a deal. I read something this morning. That's cuz I have been breaking them down on this. They all…everybody agrees. Who agrees…!? I…I mean, who wouldn't say, ‘bring your money back?’. They can't bring their money back because of…the complexity of the taxes, the taxes being too high, and bureaucracy. And I have been talking about this and now you have…companies leaving.
 
I think…and…the…the amazing thing is…I use this…it's one of the few cases! Republicans and Democrats both agree…! …that we should do it. And for three years they've agreed, they can't do it. They can't get together, they can't do it. Because there's total gridlock in Washington…–MEANING WHERE THE GOVERNMENT–…and we have no leader in Washington. That's the only reason…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…so for…the first five and a half months…I've talked more or less about this stuff. About China, about Japan, about Vietnam…and other places…ripping us big-league. About many other places. Everybody's ripping us, just so you understand, to finish it…every…I don't know of any nation that has not. If they're not…they got something wrong. Because…we're meant to be ripped, be…by the way we do business.
 
Mexico is killing us. Mexico is killing us at the border…and they're killing us on trade. Nabisco is moving a big plant from Chicago…into…Mexico. Big, big plant. Ford is building a two and a half…billion-dollar plant. Think of it…!  Two and a half billion…one story plant, two and a half billion…? You guys know what that is? You know how big that is!? That means they're gonna close a lot of plants up in Michigan and various places in the United States. I won't let it happen! And then they're gonna make cars…trucks and parts, sell them into the United States, no tax…how does that help us folks? It doesn't! I'm a free trader! But where does that help us…when we allow that to happen!? So…we're not gonna let it happen!
 
What…I have been doing…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…what I've been doing…for the last and…and I’ve…I've been talking about the economic things. Then we had Paris…it's almost two weeks now. So we had Paris…and all of a sudden I started talking a little bit differently. And I must tell you…I feel so strongly…if they had the guns, it wouldn't a bit like that. But…! …but…! …the cops, the police, all over! What a job! I talk about this now all the time.
 
Now…one of the reasons I shot up to the top…they…–THE PRESS OR THE POLITICIANS–…say what do I know? I just speak from the heart. One of the reasons I shot up to the top…is because of my stance on border. We're gonna build a wall! It's gonna be a real wall! It's gonna be a great wall! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna build that wall…! It's going to be a great wall! And people aren't going to come through that wall unless they come in legally! And if they come in legally, I love it. Come in! And we'll take as much as we can…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But they're not gonna come in, unless they come in legally. And that's…for sure! And there's gonna be a real wall!
 
You know, they've wanted to build a wall, a lot of people don't realize this, but they've wanted to build a wall for years. How about this…environmental impact statements? They couldn't pass…the environmental test to build a wall. Can you believe this? There was probably a snail, or a turtle, or a…frog…–CROWD LAUGHS. No, I mean, it's…it's out of control!
 
I…I said the other day, jokingly, to a friend in China. He's come in, and he bought a big apartment, and I said, ‘so tell me, what…you're doing in the South China Sea?’. He said, ‘oh, yes, we are doing that, right!’. They got like…a…thousand excavators, massive! I jokingly said to him, ‘how long did it take for you to get your environmental impacts statement?’. And he looked, ‘what? What are you talking about?’ …–CROWD LAUGHS. They started work the next day! Let's do it here, boom! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. We are…so…behind the time.
 
When I said, ‘bomb the oil’, and I've been saying it for years, right? I actually said, ‘bomb the oil, keep the oil, take some of the oil…give it to the families of the soldiers…that were killed…in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Syria…give it to the soldiers’ …–CROWD APPLAUDS. And give it to the Vets! …that are living not as well…think of it! We have illegal immigrants…that are treated better than our great Vets! We have illegal immigrants treated better…than our Vets! I see some of the Vets here…–CROWD APPLAUDS. We have…illegal immigrants…they're going for driving permits…they going for…I mean, it's unbelievable.
 
There's one town in California…where they wanna run for the City Council. They wanna take over the…they're illegal immigrants, and they wanna take over the Town Council! And they're debating whether or not they should let them do it! …–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Where are we coming from, folks!? Where are we coming from!?
 
So…I've always said: ‘take the oil, because that is ISIS's source of wealth!’. They've got another source of wealth, and a lot of people…politicians aren't smart enough to understand this. They have a source of wealth…from banks. Very intricate banking channels. A lot of money coming in that way…well, am I so good at that!? Oh! Will I do numbers of those banks!? …–IN A DESPERATE TONE. I know so much about the banks! I mean, who's done better? I mean, think. Who’s done better!? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I’m the king! I’m the king of banks! I am the king of banks!
 
So…I said, ‘knock out the oil. It's the source of wealth. It's the primary source of wealth. Knock the hell out of it’. They all left! They came out the other day and they said…you know, few weeks ago. And one of the generals was…he…and he was told by Obama…what to say. Cause Obama's like our general! Can you believe it!? We don't even listen…I think…I honestly believe…he's like running the war! He doesn’t know what the hell he's doing! And they say, ‘oh, that wouldn't work; that wouldn't work’. Well, they started bombing the area right after Paris. Right around Paris. And…and you look at what's going on!
 
So…they want to bomb the oil. I said, ‘no, no, no. You gotta do one more step. You gotta bomb the oil, and then you gotta keep it!’. Cause…to the victor…belong…the spoils, right!? .. –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…we spend…two trillion dollars in Iraq, wounded warriors…all over the place. We have…soldiers so badly…hurt. Thousands of lives lost…Iraq. We get nothing! Nothing! Iran is now going over to take over Iraq. That'll be a better deal than they just made with the nuclear, where they get 150 billion dollars. And they basically don't even have reporting requirements. I mean, if you think about that deal…think about it! This was made…by people…you'd almost say they're evil people, but I don't think they are. I don't think they are. I think they're just people that don't know what the hell they're doing. They definitely didn't read those –THE– Art of the Deal books that you have over there…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CROWD. Obama didn't, and secretary Kerry didn't.
 
But…they get 150 billion, 24 days…if we think they're building a nuclear…weapon…they have 24 days…before we can go in. But the 24 days doesn't start for a long period of time. Think of that! So they¡d…they probably have forever.
 
Then in some sites, which are the worst…! …they have the right…to self-inspected. ‘Oh, yes, we've inspected our site. No we're not building nuclear there, you dumb son of a bitches’ …–CROWD CHEERS, LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. So sad! No…! ‘No, we're not building nuclear there…’.
 
How about during the deal…did you ever see where the chief negotiator is calling us ‘stupid’? And…they go back to Iran, and they celebrate…this is before the deal is signed! You know, if I ever left a deal…and people…outside…were saying, ‘what a dope! What a great deal we’re making…!’…I would never sign! I’d just leave! I…I mean, this is…almost no deal! And you know the funny thing? I think Obama…I kept waiting for him to leave! I think you would have looked so smart if they get up from that table, left, doubled up the sanctions, and then went back…and won all the points. I think he would look great! I kept waiting for him to do it! He didn't have the proper advisor. He had…–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…he had…people that…weren't so sure. Believe me. If you would have left…the table…
 
And then, here's the other thing that really…is…so…disturbing! We have four prisoners…okay? Four prisoners. We don’t get them. And they didn't wanna bring up the name, and they didn't wanna even talk about it. So we have four prisoners…we gave them 150 billion, we gave them everything. We caved…on…every…single…point! We don't even get our prisoners back! And now you watch! They will call and they’ll say, ‘we are willing to talk now about the prisoners’. And we'll give them…more. It's always the same! That won't happen with ‘Trump’. That I can tell you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That I can tell you. It won't happen with ‘Trump’. You are going to be…so…well…represented.
 
And I…I sort of joke, but it's not joking…but the…end part is. I said. we're gonna win…so much! We're gonna win, and win, and win. We’re gonna win on trade. We're gonna do so great with ISIS. We're gonna blow them off the face of the earth…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna win so much…!
 
We're gonna win on healthcare. We're gonna get rid of Obamacare, we're gonna replace it…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. There's something so much better, and some…and…and by the way! Do you see what's happening to your premiums!? They going through the roof! Thirty-five, forty-five, fifty-five percent! And in ’17…a report says, this isn't me! This is a report! In seventeen…–2017–…it's got to be restructured. Re…every…it's a disaster! All the wrong people are signing…meeting the people that aren't paying it! They're all singing in. The…numbers are tiny! But the losses are astronomical!
 
So in 17…oh! Here’s another thing I have to…I gotta worry about Obamacare now! …on top of everything else…I win! Whoever the next president is…has to worry about Obama, cause it…implodes…of its own weight…in ’17. Okay!? So, but…I don't care about that, cuz I’m getting rid of it anyway, so what the hell difference does it make? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But I say…I say… ‘we’re gonna win so much…in so many different ways…that you're gonna get tired of winning!’. Then I say, ‘I'm only kidding, we never get tired of winning’, right? We win!
 
But I've changed up…my speech a lot, over the last…ehm…over the last…few weeks. And I now talk about safety security. The boarder much more. I deemphasized China a little bit, cuz I can handle that out of my pocket. That's gonna be so easy…oh! …–CROWD LAUGHS. I don't even know if I use one of my Wall Street killers. It's too easy! It's like Ford! I tell the story…you know, has anyone heard the Ford plant joke…? You know, has anyone heard it?
 
So Ford…I told you before, Ford's building a plant. IT–…doesn't help us. So, I'd say to the head of Ford…I’d say…now, now, just so you understand: if Jeb Bush, if Rubio, if Cruz…if any of these guys they all have special interest money…so somebody will call them, and say you’re gonna let it happen. Me? Self-funding. The only one I'm working for is you, folks. I'm the only one! I'm the only! … –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody's gonna control me, except…you people…–MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE CROWD. Cuz I don't care! You know, I built this great business…I don't care! It's…it’s…like…in my business? I have…no, I couldn't care less! My…I’ve…Ivanka, I have the kids…my executives, they’ll run it. I couldn't care less about…! This is the big potato! I love this! It's gonna be so much fun! And…it's gonna be easier than you think.
 
Now, we gotta do it fast. We can't go through another four years. At a certain point…you’re not gonna be able to do it anymore. At a certain point you're not! But I would say…to Ford…so they announced two and a half billion dollars…how many plants are they closing in the United States to do that!?
 
They also…Mexico. And I respect Mexico. And I love the Mexican people. I have thousands of Hispanics that work for me. I have tens of thousands of people over the years that have worked for me! I mean, nobody…every poll says I'll be the greatest jobs president. By the way, they say the greatest jobs president…in…the one that just came out, I lead by massive numbers on the military, on the border, on the economy…–CROWD APPLAUDS. The only thing I don't think I do…a…as well on is personality, but I think I have a good personality! Who cares!? Who cares!? Right!? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, it's like…who cares!? I'm actually a nice guy, I love people! But…who cares!? If…if…it's not about…it's about the economy, it's about the military, it's about making this great again. We have some nice people! I don't care! We…need…smart…tough…sharp people! Because we're being destroyed! We're being destroyed! …–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY
 
So…I very much switched up. So it was very interesting, because…when the tragedy in Paris happened¡…many of these…idiots that are in…television…you know, they get paid quite a bit of money…we call them ‘the talking heads’. They said, ‘oh, there's been a terrible problem in Paris today. Trump will go down!’. And I went way up. Because they said, ‘he's the strong one. He's the one that's gonna protect us. He's the one…that's smart’…–CROWD APPLAUDS. ‘He's smart! He's the one that's smart!’. So I go up!
 
Do you ever notice…how many times was I supposed to go down!? I won't tell you the events, cuz you might think too much about it, right? But how many events were… ‘Trump is going down! This should be the end!’ …–CROWD LAUGHS. A week later the polls come out. ‘He's up seven points, what happened??’. That's happened what? About nine times now, I think. Right? …–CROWD CHEERS. I don't know. I'll tell you what has happened. I love this. I love the size room too, it's like a family chat! … –CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. It's been…no, no, it’s true! You can't get the same feeling in a stadium. You know, when you're in a stadium, and you're talking to…you know, okay. This is like a family! It's like a fireside chat. I love it. I love it! I love the people! Great people…–CROWD APPLAUDS. Great people. I know you people! I know! I'm the same thing. If I were here, I'd be doing the same thing as you. I…I…I…really do, I understand the people.
 
But…when you look at it…so…they've told…me, and they've told everybody so many times! And they're so devastated. Now, they're devastated because…they look us…so foolish. Because they've been saying, ‘well, he won't run’. I ran. ‘Well, he won't file form A’. I filed form A. That's life away. ‘Well, he won't file his financials’. I filed my financials, and they're through the roof. ‘Well, he'll only last for a month, and then he's just gonna have a good time. And then he's gonna go away’. Did you ever hear that one where I'm doing this cuz I’m gonna have a good time? This is not a great time! I mean, it's a hundred degrees up here! I'm sweating like crazy! …–CROWD LAUGHS. Got laryngitis…! …I got every…and I’m doing, I’m having a great time! Right!? It’s great! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But I do have a great time!
 
But…they said…how about that one? They said, ‘he's doing this to have a great time’. I'm not doing this ever great time. I'm doing it because we can do something…that's so…unique. We can do something that's going to be so…amazing! We can do something…that…when you remember this meeting…in a couple of years from now, you're gonna say, ‘that was the start of something great’. We're not gonna take this nonsense anymore…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…from these totally incompetent politicians, that don't know what they're doing…and I see it! And I deal with them! I mean, look! I dealt with politicians all my life. You know, people say, ‘well, Trump is not political’. You know how much…? I gave, last year, 350 thousand dollars…to the Republican Governors Association, and I never even got a ‘thank you’ letter! …–CROWD LAUGHS. They took the money, gave it to all these people, I never even got a ‘thank you’! I've dealt with these guys…my whole life! I've been on the other side. I was the fair-haired boy.
 
Now…I'm like…an interloper. But…I love it. I'm having such fun! And the reason I'm having fun…is because I…know…what…we…can…accomplish! And…what…we…can…do…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Okay, so…! So we're running…you've gotta get to the Caucus. You've gotta get there. You've gotta get…even if you're not feeling good. If you're feeling horrible. If you had a horrible fight with your wife, or your husband…–CROWD LAUGHS. It could happen! If you caught your husband cheating the night before, you gotta go to the Caucus…–CROWD LAUGHS. Right!? Right!? And vice versa! Gotta make it a double! You've gotta get there! You've gotta get there! You've gotta get there! Because…we can't…take a chance! We're on the cusp of something that's going to be so great. With common sense, with smarts, with love, with dedication…with loving your country! It's…it's…–CROWD APPLAUDS. We have a chance…we have a chance…to do something…so…incredible!
 
So…I just wanna say…if I get in…we're gonna do great well…–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘WHEN!’. MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES IT–…well, I appreciate it. Who said that!? …–CROWD CHEERS. Well…I'm trying to be modest. Actually somebody from CNN asked me today. ‘What do you think your chances are…?’, you know, the poll we’re…I think we’re 20 points above…and…and we’re way up…–CROWD CHEERS–…is it 20? Yes, can you believe…!? We’re 20 points higher than the next guy. Can you believe that!? .. –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's a lot!
 
You know, if you think of it…think of this. You've got…we had 17, they've gone by the wayside, okay? A couple…a lot of them are gonna start to fall out like…you know, fast now. But…when you think of it…if you're a thirty-six…percent, and then on the bottom issues like security, economy, leadership I'm much higher than those numbers! But if you have 15 people left. And you have thirty-six percent of the vote. And you have 15 people…one guy has that…that's pretty good!
 
I was gonna say before, cuz I think it's sort of…So when I started…I started here…–MR. TRUMP MARKS A HEIGHT IN THE AIR. Went up, went up, went up. And they kept saying, ‘well, now he's reached his level’, you know, six. Then it went up to nine. ‘Well…I'm surprised to see this…but he’, you know, George will, the guy's a moron…–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. Karl Rove. Karl Rove, a…moron! He still thinks Romney won the election! …–CROWD APPLAUDS–…no, I'm telling you. He's going around saying, ‘Romney won the election. Romney won the election’. This guy's raised hundreds of millions of dollars, he didn't win one race!
 
This is…not what we want anymore. We need smart, sharp, quick, cunning…cunning…the word is ‘cunning’! Mexico's beating us…because their leaders are more cunning than ours! I don't say ‘smarter’, they're more cutting than us! But…you gotta get out and vote. And if you don't get out and vote, it's all gonna go away.
 
They didn't vote for Romney. He didn't inspire them…–MEANING THE PEOPLE, THE VOTERS. I hope I’m gonna inspire you. But he didn't inspire. He just didn’t inspire, for whatever reason…–CROWD APPLAUDS. And he would have been far better than the alternative that got in. But…what people don't realize…is that if the people…that should have voted republican…got up and voted, he would have won! You know, they talking about different groups, ‘you need this group…’, believe me, I'm…really good at this stuff. If…you…cause…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE FIRST ROW–…there's plenty of you that are sitting there feeling very guilty right now. Okay! Who didn't vote last time? Come on! …–NOBODY OR FEW PEOPLE RAISE THEIR HANDS. Oh, come on, I don't believe it…! You think I’d believe that!? That's hard to believe…well, you people are amazing. Oh, that's right! That's right! You people really are into it that. I…that's right. Chuck told me. How many people back here…–MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND–…didn’t vote? …–MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND SO WHAT HE UTTERS IS INAUDIBLE.
 
I'll tell you, you've pretty good people! I've gone to other places, and the entire place raises its hand! Okay! We gotta get to…I…I don't think I have to talk too much to you people about this. That's great! Well, that's the way it should be! You should vote! We gotta get out! You gotta get to that Caucus. You gotta get out. And we gotta win this thing. And I can promise you this one…very…strong…point: I will put my heart and soul…into running this…country…so well…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And…you…very nice, thank you…–THE CROWD KEEPS CHEERING FOR LONG AND THEN STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP’ REPEATEDLY. Amazing! Amazing!
 
I will put my heart and soul. I will work like you've never seen anybody work. But…you know, if you're in the White House…who wants to take a vacation!? You’re in the White House! You're gonna be there for four years, eight years!? Maybe eight!? Let's…let’s…say it’s eight, we'll make it even better. But you're in the White House…what's better than the White House? Why these vacations? Why when you take a plane to…California…does your wife have to take another plane to California two hours later? Couldn't you use one plane? But, why? But, listen: you're in the White House, there's…so…much…work…to be done!  You're there for a period of time! You gotta work really, really hard.

But I promise you this: we're gonna work hard. More importantly, we’re gonna work smart! You know, I know a lot of people they work hard, but they don't work smart. We're gonna work hard. We're gonna work smart. I'm gonna get…the most incredible people you've ever seen…to straighten out our problems, including the Veterans Administration, which is a horror show. We are going…it's a disaster. It is! It's a disaster. It's…it's…it’s corrupt…and it's a disaster, as many of our…institutions are. And we are going to bring this country to a level…that maybe will be higher…than it's ever seen before. We can do it, cuz the people are so amazing. I've gotten to know the people…–CROWD APPLAUDS. We are going to do it.
 
And for the folks of Spencer, and around…! …I just wanna tell you…it's your amazing group of people. I mean, even the fact…when I say, ‘who didn't vote?’, very few people…you vote! Cuz this is what…you're supposed to vote! You go to some areas… ‘who didn't vote’’. The whole room raises their hand! That was amazing, actually! I'm very impressed! But…–CROWD CHEERS. We're gonna work hard, we’re gonna work smart, we're gonna make America great again! Thank you very much! I love you!
 
Thank you! Thank you very much!
 


