VIDEO Nº: 67
TITLE:67. 1/9/16 - Donald Trump - Full Ottumwa Iowa Event
DATE OF EVENT:09/01/2016
RELEASE DATE:10/01/2016
DURATION:00.58.20 Mins
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:11406
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Wow!
Thank you!
Thank you very much! Wow!

It's a beautiful place! Beautiful people! Much more importantly! I wanna thank you.

I was just doing Meet the Press, so you have to watch Meet the Press tomorrow morning, right? Everybody watch. And…you have to get Time Magazine. Time Magazine, we are all on the cover, because it's basically a story about us. And…they're essentially saying that we're kicking ass. We are…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We are. We're taking the country back. We're gonna take our country back. We're gonna make our…ourselves! We're gonna make everybody proud of us again. You know, we don't win anymore, folks. We don't win anymore. We're not winning anything! We can't beat ISIS. You know, in the old days would beat other countries…I won't mention names, because right now they happen to be allies, right? We think! What's allies? Half of the Allies are stripping us blind. But they're allies. But you know, in the old days would beat countries…here we can't beat ISIS. Well, that's gonna change. Oh, we're gonna kick their ass! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.

And you know, the main thing, and it's so important, because I'm going from here to another section of Iowa. I love Iowa. We are having such an amazing time, and the relationships are so good! And the polls are essentially tied! I don't get it! I don't think…cuz I guarantee, if other people come in here…that I'm tied with…? …there's like…a small crowd. I know that! So I don't know, I think…you know, I think this whole thing with a poll now…I will say, CNN has this at 33 to 20. So CNN, wherever the hell you are……–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…uh…! CNN has us at 33 to 20, we're up. And…others are doing…and FOX came out yesterday, and it's pretty much tied, and we're doing fine. I mean, we're sort of like tied with Ted Cruz. And you know, we'll talk about that, And we'll talk about Ted. And I like Ted and everything else, but he's gotta straightened out his problem! Gotta straighten it out! You can't have that problem, and go and be a nominee! You gotta straighten it out! It's gotta be taken care of! So if anybody wants to discuss that later, we'll discuss it. Maybe we won't discuss it now, we'll just make people feel a little depressed if they're on Ted’s side, I will say, CNN has this at 33 to 20. So CNN, wherever the hell you are…–CROWD LAUGHS–…but…I do believe we're winning; and the easiest thing for me to do is say, “well, I don't care if I come in second, third, or fourth…it's wonderful! In New Hampshire, we're doing phenomenally, you probably heard. In South Carolina we’re through the roof. In Nevada we're through the roof. and the SCC we're doing great…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.

And…I say to my friends, cuz I'm here a lot! And I'm gonna be here so much you're gonna be so sick of me. Don't get so tired that you refuse to go to Caucus. Don't do that. But I'm gonna be here a lot over the next three weeks, a lot! And…I will say this: “I think that…the easiest thing I can do…? …is just say ‘I'll be happy’”. I think we're gonna have an amazing night; and…Iowa…you know, you haven't been good at picking the winners, folks. We gotta pick a winner this time! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You gotta pick a winner! No, you haven't been good! In fact, some people say, “oh, it doesn't matter if you win Iowa…”. No, don't let him talk to you that way! Don't let him talk to you that way! You have not picked a lot of winners! And…that will make me feel good only if I don't make it with Iowa. You know that. I'll be saying that big league. They haven't picked the winner in years! –CROWD LAUGHS. All right, but you know what? If you pick me, you're gonna pick a winner, because we're gonna win. I'm telling you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And it's time that that happens. It time…it's really time that that happens.

You know, now the folks at ethanol, that do the ethanol, and it's a great, you know, it's really a great product! It's a great thing! It's important, it's more fuel! We need fuel, we don't want to ever be…held at gunpoint again. We don't want that to happen! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And as you know my primary opponent, in Iowa…only in Iowa, cuz actually Ted isn't doing well at all in New Hampshire, but in Iowa he’s doing well. And my primary opponent was totally opposed to ethanol, and the ethanol industry, because he's…with the oil industry. You know, he's from Texas…I guess it makes sense, he's from the oil. But…and all of a sudden, he was getting clobbered, and all of a sudden he said, “uh, oh…I'm for ethanol”. You can't do that! You can't do that with…you know, three weeks ago, you're not allowed to do that! So…nobody really believes it, but…you know, I've been there…the folks, the ethanol folks, love Trump. They've been very, very supportive of me, and I love them. And I think it's very important that they carry it out, and I'm not a guy that just said it today and I'll say…you know…, because that's a big change in my opinion. That's a very very big change, okay? Very important.

So let me go over some of the numbers, cause I think they're important. And…I really want you to understand that…we are going to go out. I think, you know, when you're on the cover of Time…I've been on the cover of Time now sort of like three times, because I was on the year-end review, I was on…and I should have been on a fourth! They picked Chancellor Merkel! Poor Germany! They're rioting right now in the streets of Cologne…rioting! What's gone on is unbelievable…with the crime, with the rape! With what's going on in Germany…is un…thinkable! There was a country that didn't have these problems…they didn't know about these problems! And…I don't know what went on! Millions of people coming in; and what's…what's happening in Germany…is…un…believable! What's happening in Paris…! …is unbelievable, and I'm not talking about the attack; I'm talking very simply about Paris is not the same place. It's not the same place! And we better get smart! We allowed two people…we allowed…–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…right? We'd better get smart! No, we got to get smart! –CROWD APPLAUDS.

And you know I've taken the attack. First of all, when I announced, I came…very, very strongly against illegal immigration. Did I take heat!? Rush Limbaugh…everybody said, “never has anybody received so much in coming”. And I understood. Believe me, I didn't…I said, “is it gonna be like this for six months? That's a lot for six months!”. Within two weeks all of a sudden people are saying, “well, you know, he's got a point, and, but…”.

Then they had beautiful Kate, in San Francisco, and she was killed, shot in the back, by somebody came in five or six or seven…they have no idea…times. I wonder whether or not he was pushed in because they didn't want him and they're smarter; you know, their leaders…Mexico, China, all over, the leaders are smarter, more cunning than our leaders, and they do things to us that we don't even know what’s happening. But all of a sudden, Kate, she's killed. Jamiel in Los Angeles is killed. A veteran, a woman 66-years-old…raped, sodomized, and killed, a few weeks ago in Los Angeles…by…an illegal immigrant. And this is three instances…all over, all over. Not…not even to mention the jobs, and the economy, and all of the other things that are happening.

So we have to get smart, and what happened there is all of a sudden people are saying, “you know, Trump might be right. He might be right”. Now they're all saying, “Trump is right”. Now, illegal immigration…that's true…! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. If I didn't bring up illegal immigration, you wouldn't even be talking about it today, folks! I brought it up, I took a lot of heat…and then, it's people are realizing what a big problem it is now.

We're gonna have a border; it's gonna be a very strong border; We're gonna have a wall, because walls do work when they're real walls! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna build a wall. Mexico is gonna pay for the wall, because they make a fortune! Mexico's making a fortune! I respect Mexico. I have thousands of Hispanics that work for me. Over the years I have had tens of thousands of people working for me! But I have thousands of Hispanics, thousands! In Nevada, just recently, I won the poll. Hispanics are voting for Trump, and I said that was gonna happen! The people that are here legally…–CROWD APPLAUSD. The Hispanics that are here legally…the Hispanics that are here legally, they're voting for me! And I've been saying this. And then all of a sudden they announces, “I can't believe this! This is really surprising!”. I easily won in Nevada with the Hispanics. And I'm gonna win a lot of places with Hispanics. African Americans are with Trump. They're gonna be with Trump! The relationship I have with the African Americans is great! And actually one poll came out at 25%! And the analysis…this is for the Republican Party, which is a very unusual number, because usually it's 5%, 4%, 6% maybe 7%. They said, “wait a minute. If Trump gets 25 percent of the African American vote, the election’s over. He wins! He wins! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…you know, he wins!”. Because they're smart! They know I'm bringing jobs back from China. I'm gonna bring jobs from Mexico. I’m gonna take our jobs back.

We're gonna start making things. You know, Newton, Iowa I was very much involved with Newton a number of years ago. It was on 60 Minutes, and I saw what was happening, you know that, right? And I helped a lot of people in Newton, and I just thought…I…I was watching 60 Minutes, I felt so badly! Where people are moving to Mexico for the most part. Companies are moving out! And Newton was treated very unfairly! And that's one community! But…we have communities all over the country, that are being treated unfairly! And frankly…you know, we have corporate inversions, where companies are now going to move out of the United States; they're gonna leave the jobs behind, they're going to other places all over the world…? Pfizer's…moving to…uh…can you believe it? They're moving to Ireland; they're gonna leave thousands, and thousands of jobs! Two and a half trillion dollars are right now is offshore, it's outside of the United States. I think the number is actually much bigger than that. You know, when the government gives you numbers, they don't know what the hell they're talking about…–CROWD LAUGHS. They don't know. It's true! They don't know what they're talking about. I think it's actually being…; but you know you can't get the money back in? So they have money…sitting outside…outside of this country…everybody agrees, Democrats and Republicans that it should come back in, and use it for jobs, and things in this country. They can't bring it back in! They can't agree. So they agree…but they can't sit down around the table and get it done. Everybody agrees it should come back in; they can't do it. Because we have lack of leadership. We have a president that's not a leader. So now what's happening…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…not a leader!

So…so now what's happening is companies…are moving out of the country to get their money and to get lower taxes and other things. My tax plan, by the way, was put in…got great reviews. We're lowering the hell out of the taxes for businesses, and for the middle class. We're gonna lower it. We are…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…and we're also simplifying the system. You're not gonna need H&R; Block anymore, and give them half for the money you have…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna simplify the system, it's gonna be so simple! But your taxes are going way, way down. And the middle class has been forgotten about in this country. It's been totally forgotten about! The farmers have been forgotten about…if you think about it…–CROWD APPLAUDS. No, I mean, I know…I know farmers! I have some great friends that are farmers. You know, when somebody dies in the family…when they die, they can't pass things on, because…they're sort of rich, but not necessarily in cash…? And they have to pay so much estate tax, that they have to sell the farm in order to survive! And if they hit the wrong cycle, or the wrong timing…they can't sell the farm? They end up losing everything! So we're gonna change that. We're gonna change the whole estate tax thing! It's not fair! And farmers in particular…! It’s not fair! –CROWD APPLAUDS.

So…and…and one thing I have to also say: Look, I know a lot of people in Wall Street. I'm self-funding my campaign, I don’t need any of their money, so I couldn't care less, okay? I couldn't care less! I couldn't care less! And I will tell you, every single other candidate other than me…! …is getting tremendous…did you see the money they’re taking in!? Now, I'll…I’ll tell you…I'm good at that. You know, I've always taken in money; I like money; I'm very greedy…–CROWD LAUGHS. I'm a greedy person; I shouldn't tell you that; I'm a greedy…I've always been greedy; I love money, right? I’ve taken a lot…I made a lot of money. I'm worth a whole…a…if you would have told me…when I was at the Wharton School of Finance, that I would have done…what I've been able to do…I wouldn't have believed it!

But I built an unbelievable company; very, very little debt…tremendous some of the greatest assets in the world; tremendous cash flow; tremendous cash…sitting there; I filed my papers, you know, with the federal elections. Everyone said, “well, maybe he's not as rich as we think, so maybe he'll never file”. But I filed! In fact, I would have filed if I didn't run, because I wanna brag, I love to brag, all right? But the truth is…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…in business…and this is okay. In business you wanna be a little bit greedy, so I’m greedy! I wanna give all that up, I don't care! You know, my kids, Ivanka…good kid, they’re all good kids…they run it. I have great executives, they run it, it’s easy. It's gonna be easy. But you know what? I wanna be greedy for our country. I wanna be greedy. I wanna be so greedy! I wanna be greedy for our country! I wanna take back money! I want…you know, we owe right now…Japan, 1.5 trillion dollars, they have our debt. China, 1.7…trillion dollars…you know what it is!? Trillion! Think of it! Japan comes in, they sell us cars, they make a fortune…millions of cars! They devalued the hell out of their currency over the last couple of years, by the way, just so you know. It's very hard to compete with them. You just have to ask Caterpillar Tractor about that. Caterpillar tractors are having a very hard time competing with the Yen, because they devalue the yen…the dollar goes up, the yen goes down…they can't compete! They can't compete! Look what's happening to Caterpillar! Look at John Deere! I love John Deere, you know, I’m…one of the larger customers of John Dear, you don't even know that. I buy millions of dollars of…of…stuff! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I buy millions! I would say over the years, I mean, I think the numbers even low, but way over 10 million dollars’ worth of John’s. Who knows that about Trump, right? But I buy a lot of stuff! Tractors, all over the place. And the product is great!
But it's tough when an American company has to compete with other countries that manipulate their currency, like Japan, like China, like other places, okay? Vietnam. Watch Vietnam! They are doing a number. But these countries are…totally…they couldn't care less about us! You know, we wanna do something that's good for the world…the global warming…good for the world; watch Obama talking about the carbon footprint…and then he flies over to Hawaii in an old 747 with the old engine, spewing the hell out of it…–CROWD LAUGHS. And then he gives a speech about global warming and the carbon footprint…–CROWD LAUGHS. No, think of it. Think of it. No, think of it. And he's playing…and he’s playing a lot of golf! He's played more than most PGA touring professionals play! –CROWD LAUGHS…seriously! He's played a lot of golf! But he was over there for a long time. But think of it, gets into Air Force One…which is a very old…Boeing 747; with the old, really big engines. And…if you're a believer in carbon footprint, you don't like this! Right? I mean, how many people believe in the carbon footprint? Ah! I'm shocked! I'm shocked! –THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT RAISED THEIR HANDS CANNOT BE TOLD. THE CROWD LAUGHS.

I was just given a bill. I flew my plane into a certain location, they sent me a bill for $2,200, a carbon tax. I said, “what a scam! What kind of a scam is this!?”. And my plane’s a good plane, I mean it's efficient! But think of it, he flies the 747 to Hawaii and back. And then he gets up and gives a speech about global warming, you know? Give me a break! I mean, there's not one person in the whole room that talks about carbon...it…okay, look: we're gonna protect you, nobody's gonna attack you, seriously. Who believes in the carbon footprint? One…? Oh! –SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘AL GORE’, A FORMER DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. THE CROWD LAUGHS–…Al Gore…and…and you know where he is now right? –CROWD LAUGHS. MR. TRUMP KEEPS ASKING THE CROWD. Are you believing it…!? Two!? Two? Okay, so two people out of 1,700…–CROWD LAUGHS. I'm with…I'm with two 1,700, okay? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I thought it would be more than that! I mean, I thought it would be more than that but I…I think…you know, if you're gonna play the game, you gotta play the game, okay? So…and you can't…you can't be doing what he's doing.

So anyway, so on…some of these numbers. So Reuters…Trump, 41.1; Cruz, 16; Think of that! Carson, 12; Oh, poor Jeb, he's way down! Wow! –CROWD APPLAUDS. He spent 68 million dollars on his campaign…I won't even tell you what his number is, it so ridiculous! Okay, think of this! FOX last night came out with a poll, the nationwide poll: Trump, 35; Cruz, 20; Rubio, 13; and the rest are all quite low, that's good.

But here's one that I loved: Trump versus Hillary Clinton! Has anyone heard of Hillary Clinton? Has anyone heard of Hillary Clinton!? –CROWD BOOS. “Oh, it's so terrible what Mr. Trump is saying! I don't like his tone”. We have people, the heads are being chopped off all over the Middle East, she does…she's worried about tone. We need tone, believe me! We need tone! –CROWD CHEES AND APPLAUDS. We're tired of these politicians…this weak…I'll tell you what, I'm doing this…I didn't need to do this; believe me, I had such a nice life, it was good; the company was good; the family's nice; everyone's good; I love everybody! I had to do it. Because I'm so tired of these weak, disgusting, corrupt politicians that we have running our country. That's what it is…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They're corrupt! They're corrupt!

And remember this: a lot of deals like the Iran deal; but a lot of deals…there…you think that they're stupid, the politicians. And many of them are. But many of them are just…corrupt. They take their packs…guys put 5 million, 7 million, 2 million, 1 million…into Bush's pack; and Hillary's pack; and and…and Marko’s pack; and all of these packs! And frankly, Ted Cruz has…you know…haha…two guys that have given them a fortune! One is oil, and one is something else…remember ethanol, you're not protected. I guarantee you that. I guarantee you that. But Ted has guys! They're all…but every one of them! They have people that put up millions, and millions of dollars! Those people control those candidates, okay? So…if it comes to a vote, and they need to put up their hand that's good for the country…and these people don't want them to do it, they're not doing it, folks! …because they want them to be there for the next election. What a politician is really good at, is getting reelected and continuously to get…to the right source.

Remember this: seven months ago I was a big donor! I gave three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Republican Governors Association! I gave…I mean…it was like crazy, I give to everybody! I even give…I give the Democrats, I give to Republicans…I give to everybody! You know why!? Cuz…when I…when I call somebody, when I need help…I'm…I’m a businessman, really successful! I go…everybody likes me! And it's the way the system is. And I don't say it's a good system. And I'm not saying it's even a bad system! I'm only telling you, I'm not…taking anything, and I can't be…I have to do what's right for you! Remember that! I have to do what's right for you! You're the only one I'm working for! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.

And you know, I've always been told that a very successful person can't run for president. I've been told that! And I understand! I've done hundreds of deals! Hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of them! That's what I do! My whole life is deals! They're coming out of my ears! They're coming all over! I mean, I did hundreds of deals! And they've been for the most part great. And when they were bad…in fact, a couple of guys wrote about a recent deal. When they were bad, I made them good! That's the sign of a good business guy! Sometimes, you know, they're bad because the economy changes! Like…Atlantic City. You read about Atlantic City. I made a lot of money in Atlantic City! I mean, I made a lot of money! One of the very smart guys said, “Atlantic City? Trump walked away with a fortune!”. I made a lot of money! Now, I used every single trick in the book, and this and that. But…you know, if you're on my side, you wanna be on my side! Because the economy went bad; the politicians destroyed Atlantic City; lots of bad things…and yet I made…I came out great! The sign of a good businessman is when you take…or woman, is when you take something that shouldn't work and make it good. And I've taken deals…you know, it's very important…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I've taken deals where I'd have things…in the middle of a…depression, all of a sudden; you know, you have a building is going up, things are great, then all of a sudden…bing! the politicians, or something happens where the world collapses…and you go from having strong times to bad times; and you're in the middle of a project. When you can take those jobs and make them good, that's the sign of somebody…that you want on your side! And that's what I do, I make things good! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.

So…and Atlantic City's a story! In fact, they did a story recently and the front page of The Wall Street Journal! It was actually a good story. It said, “Trump made a lot of money in Atlantic City!”. And you know, people say, “oh, I know you did great, but you didn't do great in Atlantic's”. I did great in Atlantic! I made a lot of money! But it was always a fight because it was always behind the eight-ball; the politicians were always making stupid decisions; they didn't fix the airport like they were supposed to…they wasted tens of millions of dollars doing the wrong thing. They built their Convention Center in the wrong location…I said, “don't build it there! Build it on the Boardwalk. Expand the existing, you'll spend one-third the money, and it'll be three times the size!”.  They didn't listen to me; probably somebody had a deal over in the other area, where they own some land or whatever…crooked politicians, all the time. And…you know, they built it in the wrong location, and they destroyed…! Atlantic's city suffered!

But I said, when I saw the stupid moves being made, I did a lot of things; and plus I got out seven and half, eight years ago, which was great timing. Actually, the smart people give me a lot of credit. I only tell you these stories…because you're about to pick somebody. We're a country…that has…19 trillion dollars in debt. We're in trouble! There's a bubble! You see the stock market is starting to…you know, see what's going on, right? Some of these people shaking their heads like this…–MR. TRUMP SHAKES HIS HEAD–yeah, cuz they were in the stock market. But this it's starting to have some very bad weeks, and some very bad numbers. I tell you because I'm really good at that stuff! I know Wall Street. I know the people on Wall Street. we're gonna have the greatest negotiators in the world, but at the same time I'm not gonna let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us. We're gonna tax Wall Street; we're gonna get rid of certain things that they should have; you know, they…you know, I've been talking about it, very strongly. Certain things that they…want. And they want them badly. And it's not fair to give it to them. And I'm gonna tax…because I don't care about the Wall Street guys, but you know why? Because I'm not taking any of their money! I have had so many calls from the richest people; from the richest guys; you know, they see you're number one in every single place, except Iowa, where I'm tied. And you're gonna change that in…on February 1st. You're gonna change. Everywhere else! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Everywhere else I'm number one! Everywhere else! But you're gonna change that. I have very little doubt. Very little doubt.

But you know they come to me and they say, “Donald , we would like to give you some money. Where do we where do send it?”. And I said, “you can't send it”. They say, “what!?”. And I feel sort of like…foolish! And the last time….I…last time I really did this was in Iowa, a two months ago, we had 4,000 people; and I was in the audience, and I said…I feel forced, because you know, all of these guys some are friends, some are enemies…even my enemies are offering me money! They…they want…they wanna give me anything! Because once you take money, you have a psychological barrier, you know, you have to sort of help them, right?

So I'm with this group in Iowa, and and it was Iowa, and I tell you, it was an amazing evening! We had a great evening! And then I said to them, “listen, I feel a little guilty. All of my life I've made a lot of money. I've really been good at it. And…I take money! That's what I do! I accumulate wealth and money. And I'm offered massive amounts of money by all these guys because I was number one, then two, and I'm offered all this money; and I'd like to take it, cause I feel stupid not taking it to be honest, okay?”. I feel like President Obama feels, okay? I don't feel good…–CROWD LAUGHS. I don't feel good. I don't feel good about myself not taking it. They're offering me this tens of millions of dollars…by the way, Bush had a hundred and twenty-eight million…? I'd blow him away in one day, I'm telling you. If I took money, I would blow him away. I would have a PAC that would have so much money that it…it would be like one of the great PACs of all time in history; it would set records, right?

So I'm saying to the group in Iowa, I say, “so here's the deal I'd like to do…I feel guilty not taking it. It's not my life! My whole life has been doing it, now I'm saying no I don't want it! I promise…you, let me take it, and I will be a hundred percent fair. I won't do anything for the people giving me the money; I will be totally loyal to you, 100 percent. Could I have your vote?” …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Oh, listen to this! –CROWD YELLS, ‘YEAH!’. THIS IS NOT THE OUTCOME MR. TRUMP WAS EXPECTING. Oh! Oh! The other group was much tougher than you, they stood up and they started booing. Look at that, I have some people that said I could take it! Whoa! I didn't know that, this group stood up and they would say, “no, don't take it! Don't take it! Don't take it!”. How do you feel about that? “Take it or don't take it?”. Okay, ready? Take it! –AN APPARENT MINORITY YELLS ‘TAKE IT’. ‘Take it’. Let's go ‘take it’! And then we'll go ‘don’t take it’, ready? So…tens of millions, ‘take it!’…–ALMOST NOBODY YELLS SAYS ‘TAKE IT’. Do I have one person!? –CROWD LAUGHS. SOME OF THEM YELL ‘TAKE IT!’. Who's…? Oh, there's a beautiful lady in the front row! And there's a guy with number 25. Who's number 25 that you like? Who is it? Huh? –MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS A NAME. Oh, that's good!

All right, so, ‘take it’; so far I have two people out of 1,700…two people…are there any more that's they ‘take it’? In other words, and here's my promise: “I'll take the money and I'll be totally loyal to you, I won't be influenced”, right? Anybody else? I have two people. So so far, I have two people…on the carbon footprint; and I have two people…–CROWD LAUGHS–…on taking the money. Okay. Who says I should not take the money? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That’s right. I'm leaving Iowa! All right! I'm not taking the money. And you know, it's funny; it was a little bit of awakening, cause my people said, and other people from other campaigns said that…really it was interesting. They said, “if you actually have the ability to do that, that's an amazing selling point. And it's an amazing point”. I said, “I have the ability!? It's peanuts…! …compared, you know, to what we're talking about. I mean, it's a compare…the bigger money, is the fact that I'm not doing any deals, I'm turning away things that I could have made…”.

I'll give you an example: the head of…and this is small time compared to some of them! I turned down a deal in Asia yesterday cuz they said…I can't go to Asia! How would you feel if I went over to Asia to do groundbreakings? I don't think so! It doesn't work well when you're running for president, do you agree? Ladies and gentlemen, we’re gonna build a beautiful building in China. Here's a shovel, and let's do it. And the people of Iowa are gonna say, “what the hell is he doing in China right now?”. No, but I’m turning down deals. The head of Comcast, who's a great guy; Steve Burke his name is. He's a fantastic guy. And…one of the great executives of the country. He came to see me, just before I announced. He said, “Donald, we wanna renew The Apprentice”. You know, we had great years! I mean, The Apprentice has been one of the great stories, and one of the most successful shows. And he said, “we'd like to renew it, and please, and we’d like to do it…”. He came up with a head of NBC. And I said, “Steve, I just…you know, I'm gonna run for president”. And he said, “no, no, don't do it!”. I said, “no, I'm gonna run for president”.
So you know, nobody believed I was gonna do it, sort of interesting. My wife said, “if you run, you will win!”. She's my best pollster, right? She said, “if you run…”–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. She would say it! She said, “but you have to actually announce, because nobody believes you're gonna run”. And Steve Burke didn't believe I was gonna run. He said, “no, no, no, we wanna do…”, and they actually announced…The Apprentice! …which was a little confusing, cause they announced The Apprentice is going, and I said, “I'm not”, because nobody thought I was gonna run! And then I have a big chunk of that show, as you know, and…and…with Mark Burnett, and…uh…Arnold Schwarzenegger is gonna do it, and I hope he does a good job. How do you think Arnold's gonna do? …–A MINORITY APPROVES IT JUDGING BY THE APPLUSES. Huh? I think so! Okay, ready? “Will he do as well as Trump?” …–CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. Honestly? I agree with you! …–CROWD LAUGHS. He won't. But he'll do…he'll do nicely. I hope he does nicely. If he doesn't…I'll say, “Arnold…? …you're fired!”…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, I think he'll do fine. I hope he does that fine. Whatever. Whatever it is, I'm on to something else; and what we're on to is doing this.

But I give up a lot. You know, when you are a politician you run, and you run, and you keep running, and you win some, and you lose some, and you raise money, and you do whatever it is you have to do…when you just keep going. With me, it takes courage to run for president. I've never done this before, and you know, I stood in the Trump Tower. And I looked down into the atrium, and I saw the largest crowd of press, all these guys back here…–MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE CAMERAS. I saw the largest…number of cameras I think I've ever…it looked like the Academy Awards…–CROWD LAUGHS. And I said to my wife, “we really have to do it, because there's so many mistakes…that are being made in this country, that are simple mistakes; that are mistakes that are made out of either incompetent stupidity, or because of the fact that other people are controlling the process, and they want certain things done for their good, not for the good of the country”. I said, “we have to do it”. And a large portion...portion…believe me, a large…portion…is exactly…that third item. A large, large portion. And I said, “we have to do it”.

So we have now the famous escalator scene, where we're coming down the escalator, and I was…stood there, and…we talked about all of the problems, many of the problems of the country; and…I'm very, very proud. I mean, that's why I want you to see Time Magazine. I'm very, very proud of what we've been able to do, in terms of changing the dialogue; in terms of bringing people on, so they're looking at things that they would have never looked at; like…the illegal immigration. And then, as you know…uh…last two weeks ago, I…I was very, very strong about solving a very deep-seated problem that we have…in this country…and…throughout the world! And that's…radical…Islamic…terrorism. It's a huge problem! –CROWD APPLAUDS. Huge problem!

And…and I took a lot of heat! I mean, that was a lot of heat that I took. It was incredible! I mean all, over the world I've been…I've taken heat. And now they're all saying, “you know, I'll tell you something the…the…uh…what you've done is…amazing; because the whole world is talking about the problem now, and they weren't talking about it! They were accepting things the way they were, and now they're talking about the problem!”. And…I wanna get the problem solved. We have to solve that problem. That's an unbelievable problem. There is…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…there is tremendous hatred and anger there. And…you know, if we don't solve that problem…we're not gonna be able to live as a country anymore; you're gonna have people like…you saw what happened last night with Philadelphia, with the gun shooting. I mean, c’mon…who ever heard of things like this!? It's so many things happening! And…we're gonna solve the problem…and…we're…but you can't solve a problem, unless you're willing to talk about it and address it. Is that right!? I mean, you're not allowed…–CROWD APPLAUDS.

And…and we have a president that doesn't even wanna say what the problem is. He will not issue the words “Radical Islamic Terrorism”. He will not talk about it! He won't talk about it and…I don't even understand why he's not doing anything…wrong by saying it! You look at what happened in Germany, with the tremendous crime! With New Year's Eve! And the rapes, and all of the carnage it took place in Germany! Germany! And now the German people are rioting in the streets, saying, “what the hell are you doing to us!?”. We have to solve a problem; and hopefully we can solve it in a really rational, smart way.

And I know Muslim people, and they're wonderful people; and one of them at a very, very high level called me, and said, “you've done us a big favor, Donald, because it's a problem that has to be addressed”. The hatred is so incredible! It's so incredible! And the danger! I mean, when we have people willing to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center…and many other things…! …uh…we gotta solve it. We gotta…we have to get to the bottom of it. Uhm…airplanes blowing up…you look at what's happened over…just the last little while! Just last night, you look at what's happening!

So we are going to work together with lots of other people. I will say this: the community, that community, has to be more open toward us, because…the two people, where she came over on a fiancee permit, or some nonsense…I never…did anybody ever hear this!? And she was very radicalized already, and a lot of people said she then came over and radicalized the guy…but people knew what was going on! It wasn't just…they had pipe bombs all over the floor of their apartment! They had pipe bombs all over the place! They had different things all over the place that wasn't like a normal situation! Other people saw it! And they didn't wanna report it! We need help! We have to have people report! And the greatest people…our police…our police are under siege! They're under siege! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Our police are not being treated properl! And you have to call your local police and say, “you know, I see 24 pipe bombs sitting on the floor of this guy's apartment”. That's not too normal! Is it!? I know they're not gonna go farming in Iowa, right!? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So…they have to get out, and they have to…or they're just not against…I mean, they're just not with us, okay!? If they're not reporting something like that…but many people knew! I mean, beyond the mother! The mother knew! She walked in the apartment all the time; she sees all this stuff, she doesn't report. Well, it's a mother…! But the mother has to report! They have to report! They have to report it! –MEMBER IN THE CROWD SAYS PRESIDENT MR. OBAMA IS ONE OF THOSE. Your president is what…!? Well, look he's gotta get smart. He's gotta get tough. We gotta knock the hell out of ISIS. We gottA get rid of them.

You know, I was very much against the war in Iraq, for a long period of time, since 2003, 2004. In fact, they did…headlines; because I said, “if you knock out Iraq…”…you had Iran and Iraq, and they were sort of like equals, and…in militarily. And I said, “if you knock out one or the other…”, in this case if you knock out Iraq, … “you're gonna destabilize the whole Middle East, because Iran is gonna come in and take”.

Now, think of what Iran's done, how brilliant it is. If you own stock in Iran, you'd be very, very wealthy, okay? What happens is this Iran…makes this deal, because they're much better negotiators, and Kerry is an incompetent negotiator. We don't even have our prisoners back! We don't have anything! So he takes this deal, and he makes this deal, and it's one of the worst deals I think I've ever seen of any kind; we give him a…a 150 billion dollars! 150 billion! We get nothing! Right!? So he makes this deal…and I've been saying, over the last period of time; and first of all, I would have gone in…and this would have…three years ago! Can you imagine!? This is the longest-running deal I've ever seen!

I would have gone and said, “we want our prisoners back, before we start negotiating”. And they would have said, “no”. And I would have lifted up; I would have walked out of the room; I would have said, “bye-bye, see you sometime. Call me when you're ready”. I would have left the room. I would have increased the sanctions…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they were dying with the sanctions! I would have doubled, and maybe even tripled up in the sanctions, and I guarantee you within 48 hours, we would add a phone call in Washington DC, “please come, we wanna immediately give you back your prisoners, wake up, we have them delivered, right? That would have been number one…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It would have been number one! I would have never…in a million years, told them about the money…upfront! …because…I wouldn't give them back!

So now we have our prisoners, “go home, enjoy your lives”, right? It cost nothing. Now I would go back and say, “listen before we start, I wanna tell you, we're not giving you back any money. We're a debtor nation; we are 19 trillion dollars”; say we don't have it: “we don't have it. We're not giving you back your money. So let's start negotiating now”. So now we have our prisoners, we keep the money, wouldn't that be nice!? And we'll make a good deal! We'll make a good deal! All right? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.

So they made one of the great deals. And you know what!? For two years I've been talking about this deal, how stupid it is, and how our people are so incompetent; and the way we were treated even during negotiations, where they're dancing in the streets in Iran, they’re dancing and saying how stupid our negotiators are. We haven't made the deal yet! If I ever made a deal and the other side's talking about “I'm stupid, I'm making a terror”, I don't care how good the deal, I'm not making it, right? I mean, the abuse we took during the deal!

And now, I don't know if you heard that, one of the saddest things, they now wanna negotiate they wanna start a brand-new negotiation for our prisoners. Do you believe this!? They wanna negotiate now! Could I have them for…uh…the deal! They now wanna start a brand-new…and now we have sanctions anymore; you're not gonna be able to get any of these countries…cause remember this, Russia…and Putin likes me! Putin says, “Trump is brilliant!”. I love that, when he says I'm brilliant! I…will…but Putin says, “Trump is brilliant. He's the real leader; bah-bah-bah”. Now, I don't know if he means it, if he doesn't mean it. I don't care! I like it! Okay!? –CROWD LAUGHS. And these these characters I'm running against…they think I should disavow his statement. So he calls me brilliant, he says I'm the real leader, I'm the best leader…and sort of is interesting, because we run 60 Minutes together. I was on, separately, didn’t meet him! I was here, he was here…–MR. TRUMP POINTS TO BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT–…and we got great ratings that night, so CBS likes us, right? But we are great ratings. But he made these nice statements! And then you have the people I'm running against saying, “disavow the statement”. I said, “why? I'm gonna disavow he calls me these nice things? I'm not gonna do this about anything!”. Who the hell knows if he means it or not? But if he does or not, I still like it, right?

But you know what? We have to be able to get along with the world! So here's what's happening: they now say that they wanna start negotiating for our prisoners, “but we want a lot”. Now, the Persians are great negotiators. So now, we're starting a negotiation to get our prisoners back. And Kerry said he didn't wanna bring up the prisoners. It wasn't like we negotiated and lost the point. Secretary Kerry, and President Obama said, “we didn't want to negotiate for our prisoners, because…we…didn't wanna complicate..., the word they used, the negotiations”. Who the hell…what's complicated? We want our prisoners back. That's…that's complicated, right? You go in, “we gotta have our prisoners back. Bad for you, bad for everybody. You don't care. Your people don't care. They don't even know you have them. We need them. We'll make a better deal because our people won't be so angry”, meaning the United States. “Give us our prisoners”. That's what you say! And I'm telling you, they'll say, “no”, and then you're due, and then you'll go get them. Okay.

But now, they wanna start a brand new negotiation. And they say, “we want a lot”. I can't believe it! I get so angry when I see it! I get so angry when I see it! They should have been out three years ago, four years ago, frankly. They should have never been there! One’s there because he's a Christian minister! He's a pastor! ….–CROWD APPLAUDS. They should have never, ever been there!

So…I've been saying, but think of this! I've been saying…that that's one of the really great deals ever made. And then I said to myself, two weeks ago, “you know, what that's not the greatest deal. They also made a vigorous deal. They took over Iraq for nothing!”. Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world. We lost two trillion dollars; incredible beautiful young soldiers; male and female; young, beautiful soldiers; wounded warriors all over the place; I see him all over…I love them! They're stronger than all of us. That…the energy, the feel that they have; that…the life that they have; the smiles! They're always smiling, and…they're amazing people! Wounded warriors; no legs! No arms! No…just the worst. I mean, they've been just so badly battered. And we get nothing! We have nothing.

Remember I said “keep the oil?”. I said, “keep the oil! If you're going out…”,they shouldn't have been in their first place. “You're going out, keep the oil”. We have a president that gave them an exact date when we're leaving. So now the enemy says, “oh, that's good; let's pull back for a little while. We'll go and after they leave”, right? That's what happened! And you form ISIS. And now ISIS is tough. But not…I mean, tough for our people! Not tough for General MacArthur; not tough for General Patton! I mean, we don't have the right people! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We don't have the right people!

So now they end up taking over the oil. They end up…you know, Iran has second and third largest oil reserves in the world. A lot of people don't know that, that Iraq has actually the second and third largest oil reserves in the world, and…massive oil reserves. We just gave it to Iran! They've been after it for…forever! They've been fighting ever since the oldest person in this room was born! They've been fighting, right? Fighting! Fighting! They keep fighting, fighting! We just knocked out one, the other one walks in takes it over, says, “thank you very much. And also, by the way, close the door on the way out”; and we're negotiating…and Russia, by the way, is now making their missiles. Everybody…that was doing the sanctions, you know, is now participating…and taking a lot of the money that we gave…; Russia is doing armaments and missiles; other countries are doing other things; everybody but us. They won't deal with us!We are run by the stupidest people…–CROWD LAUGHS. It is so hard to believe what's going on with our country! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.

So…the Iran deal is a disaster. Syria is a disaster. You look at what's gone on with Libya; you look at what happened there. The migration started because of Hillary Clinton, and because of…and by the way, I forgot to tell you, very big…uh…I love this! Trump, 47…just last night; Clinton, 44. Trump beats Clinton. Right. That's good…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Tthat’s good. That’s good.

Uh…Iowa! Before we said, okay. CNN, Trump, 33; Cruz, 20; that's good. I like that one. Then we have…that's good; yeah, that's good; Oh, I won't read you the one from your paper here, the Des Moines Register…I don't like that paper…–CROWD BOOS. It's a dishonest fact. I mean, what do? They do like 2, 3 4 hundred votes…and…I don't think, I'm sure they'd never take three, or four of them or ten of them, and put them in their pocket. I'm sure that would never happen. But that one…and I'm not even down by much. I'm down by…and then I'm winning in another one; winning at another one…; the other one came out last night, and that's pretty even; it's…it’s…is…like statistically tied. So we've gotta…uh…win Iowa. Uh! We gotta win it, okay!? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So we're gonna win it, okay?

Otherwise, I'll tell you what. Otherwise, we're wasting our time, folks. We're wasting our time. I'm gonna be a nice footnote, cause they're all saying, even the Time Magazine, he said, “what an incredible job. Makes no difference if he wins or loses. Makes no…what an incredible job”. I don't wanna be…we either win or we lose. There's nothing else. There's no like “he did a great job”. It's like in baseball, he did really good, but they lost the game one to nothing, okay? What difference does it makes!? No, nobody…nobody knows…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD LAUGHS. MR. TRUMP ACNOWLEDGES IT AND THE REST OF THE CROWD LAUGHS AS WELL. I think she's found that very funny.

So we have a couple of…you know, one of the things that I like about speaking…randomly…and…and…off-the-cuff is that we could talk about things that happened 15 minutes ago; and there's no teleprompter, right? We don't have teleprompters…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we don't have speeches. We don't have speeches. I'd love to read a speech, it will be so easy, “ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for being here. I love Iowa very much, it's great, Papapa, Papapa”, right? We don't do that. We speak from the heart, and we speak from the brain…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.

You know…I'm fortunate…I'm fortunate to have a very good memory. So I can do this, but…but you know, and I do get certain credit for it, but the beauty is that we can speak about current events, because if you have to go to a speechwriter, and a pollster, and then have them write four or five extra paragraphs, that's no good. So you look at North Korea; so we talk about…Iran, and that's a disaster. But they don't have nukes yet. They will have them, by the way, unless I get to be President. If I get to be president, I promise you folks, they won't have them. And Israel is the biggest target, and they'll be very happy. They'll be very happy, because Obama totally sold Israel out. He totally sold Israel out. But…but if you look at…if you look at North Korea, this guy…this maniac…me…maniac…I mean, he's like a maniac! Okay!? And you gotta give him credit! How many young guys…he was like 26, or 25, when his father died…take over these tough generals…and all of a sudden, you know, it's pretty amazing, when you think of it…how does he do that!? Even though it is a culture, and it's a cultural thing; he goes, and he takes over; he's the boss, it's incredible! He wiped out the uncle; he wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy doesn't play games! And we can't play games with hi! Because he really does have…missiles. And he really does have nukes.

And here's what we do! We tell China, who we rebuilt China! They have taken so much of our money, with trade. They have taken everything; they have taken our jobs, our money, they've taken our base, they've taken so much…! And…I’m…literally, it's one of the great thefts in the history of the world, what they've done to our country. Because we've had people that don't have any idea…by the way, …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…go ahead, you can clap, I don't mind.

You know, one of the one of the magazine said, “Trump's a great speaker, but he has one problem: he speaks through his applause”, meaning I'll say something like that, I'll get applause…but I…you know why? Because I'm so excited about what we're all doing together, and the future of the country, that I don't want to hear your applauds; I just wanna give you the next, because I know exactly what I'm gonna say, forget the applause! But I really mean it! It's such an exciting thing that we're doing together! And whether I go to Dallas, where we had 21,000 people, in the…in the arena, in the Mavericks arena, Mark Cuban was great to us. Whether we go to Mobile, Alabama; no matter where we go; Oklahoma, we had 20,000. We had more…I think much more than that! We’d this huge field…we had a big Convention Center, and after about two hours, we realized that wasn't gonna work. They formed in a huge field…thousands, and thousands of people! We’re all the same! You know, we're all the same! We all want the same thing! It's amazing what's going on in the country! It really is! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's amazing! It's amazing!

And you know, you can call it a silent majority. You know, they say, “oh, you shouldn't use that word”, because I don't know…I guess it had connotation for many years ago, with Nixon and this and that. But…I don't even use the word! I say it's a noisy majority. It's no longer silent! We're fed up with what we're seeing! And we've become a noisy…we're really a noisy majority! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And believe me! We are a majority if you get out and vote. If you don't get out and vote…like last time, Obama should have lost! He was a failed president, doing a terrible job…and in all fairness, Mitt…I don't know what the hell happened. I said, “why aren't you on television? Why aren't you doing Jay Leno? Why aren't you doing David Letterman? Why aren't you doing these shows!?”. Cause say what you want about Obama, he was on every show! He was on everything! And I say this: “we're gonna win”.

One of the reasons we're gonna win is, I think…Hillary will probably…I don’t know…look, she shouldn't be allowed to run, okay? Oh, would I love to run against her…!? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. She shouldn't be. And some really bad stuff came out last night! I don't know if you saw it, but basically last night she admitted that she's totally aware of what the hell's going on, and she knows how to play the game pretty well . But she shouldn't be allowed…look, she shouldn't be allowed to run. But…on the assumption that they say, because they're Democrats right now, that, “let's just close our eyes, closed our eyes”, even though they destroyed General Petraeus and many other people, who did far less than she did. On the assumption that she runs, I don't think…she has the strength, or the stamina. She comes in, and you need a president, whether it's a nice thing or not to say, we can't play games anymore. She'll come in to see Iowa; she'll come in to Iowa…and she'll see people, and they'll have around the little plastic table, a few people that have been vetted by 400 people, and they'll get these kids, “Oh, Mrs. Clinton, what do you have for breakfast?”. “Oh, do you like oatmeal?”. “Yes, I do”. “Oh, great”… …–CROWD LAUGHS; and then she'll leave, and she'll wave. And then she goes away for a week. You don't see her! One thing with me…hey, I'm believing here, I'm going to another place! We're going to do the same thing all over again, okay!? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Oh, strength! Stamina! We need strength and stamina!

Look: it's like I said about Jeb Bush, guys got no energy! We need energy! We need energy! He's a low-key individual. But…we need energy! Because we've got ISIS. We've got…borders that are a mess. We've got Obamacare, that it's so…everything's a mess! We don't have victories anymore! We don't win anymore! We're gonna start winning! We're gonna win so much, that you're gonna sick and tired. You're gonna say, “please, please, Mr. president, we're sick and tired of winning; please let us have at least one loss, it's no longer exciting to win!”. And I'm gonna say, “no way! We're gonna keep winning, and I don't care if you like it or not!”…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS We're gonna win! Oh, we're gonna win! I've been…I like to win. I like to win.

So I just wanna leave you with this. Uh…you do have a problem, and you have a big problem with North Korea. And we're gonna talk to China. And we're gonna get along great with China! And I love China, because…they buy my apartments; they spend me…you know, fortunes in Manhattan; they give me…millions and millions of dollars for these apartments, and they're great, the biggest bank in the world is a tenant of mine at one of my buildings; biggest bank by far. I mean, when I talk about big, we're talking about seriously big. Citibank is like a little subsidiary compared to this bank. And…they make a tremendous amount of money with the United States, as we've been talking about. We're gonna go, then we're gonna say, “you gotta take care of the Korea problem”, “you gotta take care of it”. Everything comes through China. And they tell our people, because our people are…novices, but they say, “well, we don't have that much control”. They have total control. They wouldn't eat, they wouldn't live without China. And China is massive. Everyone's afraid over there of China. China can handled the problem! I want them to handle it! We don't have to handle everything! We handle everything! We don't have to…! I will get China to handle the problem. If they don't handle the problem, we'll have to take it up on trade. You know, we're gonna…it's gonna be very costly for them. If they don't handle the problem. But I wouldn't say that, because I would never want to threaten anybody, okay? Never. Under any circumstances, I never wanna threaten. So I won't threaten them.

I'm just telling you…that they will…do it. And they should do it. And frankly, they have a bigger problem than we do, cause they're right next door. And Japan has to help us out, because they are really…I mean, you know, they're very suspect. They would be…look at what's going on over there. They're already sending planes to find out what's going…what's happening. And South Korea has to help us out! Because we're defending South Korea! We’re defending all these people! We need help! We need help! We're powerful…but I wanna make our military very much more powerful. I wanna make it so powerful, so tough, so strong…that nobody's ever gonna mess with us folks. It's the cheapest thing we can do! It's the cheapest thing we can do! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.

And I'll tell you this: I know all the politicians. Many of the people that I'm running against, I've contributed to! I've had notes and letters from some of these people, “oh, thank you so much for the money you sent”. Many of the people, it's embarrassing on this stage! I…Almost most of them! I've contributed to. I said to the them the other day…you know? “That on; yes; that one yes; that one yeah;”. It's like almost all of them in some form. And I said to myself, “isn’t it ridiculous? I'm running against these people I've contributed to, all of them”. I understand politicians better than anybody. They're never gonna get you to the promised land folks. They're never gonna take you there. They're never gonna solve the problem of the border. They're never gonna get you the world. Now they're starting to say, “well, we should build a wall!”. Remember this: every time somebody says “we should build a wall”, please think about me, okay? Just think about me……–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And they won't build it.

And by the way, by the way, they won't build it, because they wouldn't know where to start. They they're not gonna build a wall. But they gotta talk it, because they’re saying that there's been…a fever, for Trump, and for the wall, and for the border…and when…when CNN did their recent poll, “who is the best on ISIS?”; ‘Trump’, by a vast majority! Not…I'm…talking about by…close to 50%! And you have 14 or 15 people! I'm getting 50 percent! “Who's best on ISIS?”. “Who's best on terrorism?”. ‘Trump’, by a vast majority, close to 50%. “Who's best on the economy?”. That one I would expect. I'm way, way up, way over 50%. I think over 60%…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Well, it's true. “Who's best on jobs?”. ‘Trump’. I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. That I can tell you. That I can tell you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And we're going to be a respected…we are going to be…and so important, we're going to be a respected…country…again. We're not gonnna be laughed at. We're not gonna be…smirked at. People aren't gonna think of our leaders as being stupid people. We're gonna be respected again. Mexico is going to respect us. And we're gonna respect them too. And we're gonna get along with them just fine. But they can't keep taking Ford. And Nabisco. And so many of the companies that you have even in Iowa, and New England was wiped out! You take a look at New England, what's happened there…can't work that way!

You know, these deals have to be a double-sided deal; I'm a free trader! But I also want smart trade it's gotta be smart. And that doesn't mean we have to take advantage of others, but it's gotta be at least fair. So these things are gonna happen. Carl Icahn, one of the great businessmen, and so many others have called me; they'd like to get involved. If I took a Carl Icahn, and if I took some of the others, all of whom you've heard of. These are the greatest in the world. We have the greatest in the world! And if I say, “Carl take a look at China”, trade with China. I wanna make it fair, because they stuff…they…they bring things over to us…no tax, no nothing! You wanna do business over there? It's almost impossible. And by the way, they tax the hell out of you when you send your product. Not supposed to be that way! It's not supposed to be that way! It's supposed to be a fair deal! But it's not a fair deal! I could tell you a hundred stories, it's not a fair deal! So when I take somebody like Carl, and other of the great business people…they don't want money! They don't want a salary! They're rich! They made a lot of money! Because they're smart, because they have that ability to negotiate and make deals!

When I take Carl and say, “do me a favor, you watch over our trade with China”. In a very short period of time you, people, are gonna be very happy! Because that's the way it works; because we're really good at what we do. And honestly, I play with these people. There's no every single debate…I'm not a debater! I've won every debate, according to the polls! I mean, I've won every debate…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The last debate…no, it's…and you don't hear that from these crooked…you don't hear that from these crooked guys, like Karl Rove. He's a totally dishonest guy. You don't hear that. They don't talk about that. And and you know, Krauthammer, and others; although Krauthammer is getting better, I must tell you. He's coming a long way! He's doing much better. But…but…these…Karl Rove, I mean, some of these people are so uhm…George Will…! Take his little spectacles away, he's a stupid person……–CROWD LAUGHS. I'm telling you, without…no, no, no! Remember the war? “You must go in and attack immediately!”. Now, what do we have in Iraq? Okay? “Attack immediately”…take a look at his record. It's a horrible record. And I…I really mean it. Take those little…spectacles away, and he doesn't look like a smart person. With the spectacles he looks smart.

But…every debate! So when I came out, I said, “let's see, I debate”. They said, “how do you think you'll do the first debate?”. I said, “I've never done it before. What do I know? I've never done it before!”. And then Drudge, who's a fantastic man by the way; but Drudge, and you have Slate, and you have CBS, and you have all these polls come down. I mean, all great polls. Time Magazine has a poll online…poll…right now. I've won…every…single…poll…of every single…company, for every single debate! And I'm not a professional debater, and they have hundreds of thousands of people! But…I tell it like it is. I tell the truth. I tell it like it is. And I know how to fix our country! Karl Rove, I mean, some of these people are so uhm…George Will…! Take his little spectacles away, he's a stupid person…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.

And…you know what? If I don't make it, I'm gonna love you folks just as much. And honestly? If I don't win, on February 1st, if you people don't do what you should do, because I'm telling you, I'm gonna make America great again. But if you don't do, it…I will…still…love…the folks in Iowa. Yeah, maybe not…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I will still love the people in Iowa, cuz I've developed so many friendships. But I just think…it’s so important…! We're gonna make America great again on February 1st. You have to get to that Caucus. You have to go out do a job. And…we're gonna bring your friends. You know, don't sit home. Don't sit home. Get out there. It's so important…I think it's one of the most important elections we've ever had, because our country is going to hell, and we're gonna turn around; and we're gonna make it so great again. And…! …we're gonna make it, in my opinion, we have a chance to make it greater, and better, than ever before. Thank you very much everybody! Thank you! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you.

Thank you very much everybody! Thank you! Thank you! February 1st, everybody! February 1st!

