VIDEO Nº: 84
TITLE:84. Trump  Sioux City, IA (1 23 16) (Good Audio)
DATE OF EVENT:23/01/2016
RELEASE DATE:28/03/2016
DURATION:02.05.55
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:13695
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Wow!
THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
Well…you know, I wanna…I wanna thank the pastor. He’s a great man and a great guy. You know, about a year ago…sit down everybody! Come on! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. We have plenty of time. We have plenty of time.
You know, in New Hampshire they have the seven candidates…I’m going to New Hampshire about…on Monday. But they have the seven candidates and they’re doing a forum and nobody's showing up. The place is half empty. So they called, “why aren't you there?”. See? Cause I don't wanna fill up the place for them. Right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And it's a little bit embarrassing…that…of…but they are having a hard time.
But I wanna just tell you that, the pastor…is an incredible guy. And I watched him on…television a year ago, and he was talking about me! And I didn't know him at that time. And he said, “well, look. He's gonna be the best leader. He's gonna be the best for the economy. He's going to be the best on ISIS. He's gonna…uhm…take care of ISIS. And he's gonna take care of the border. And all of the things that I talked about! And he's gonna get rid of Obamacare and give us great health care, as opposed to what's going on…with all of the problems.
And all of these things…and he may not be as pure as we think, but he's really good! And he is a great Christian. And that's what I wanted to hear. And…and…I will tell you…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS-…I will tell you, Christianity is under siege…; whether we wanna talk about it or we don't wanna talk about it. And…if I said some of the things about…Christians that have said about the Muslims, where we have a problem, and it's a problem we have to talk about. And I brought it out. I took a lot of heat for bringing it out. And I will tell you that now, people are saying, “he did a great service”. Just like when I brought out illegal immigration…everybody went crazy about Trump, and, “how could you say that!?”. And then about two weeks later everyone's trying to say, “well, you know, Trump's right”. Cause they see the murder of Kate, in San Francisco; and Jameel, in Los Angeles…and so many others! The tremendous crime and what it does to your economy.
So I brought these things out. I feel I have an obligation to bring them out! You know, remember I'm self-funding my campaign, so I don't have anybody speaking in my ear…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't have people speaking in my ear, and telling me…like, “oh, you shouldn't say this”, “you shouldn't say that”. All of these different people…; I don't have lobbyists with me…; I know the lobbyists; I mean, I’ve used the lobbyists! I mean, I’ve done very well with lobbyists. But believe me, they….they control your candidates. And special interests, they control your candidates. But I've turned down millions and millions of dollars…; I feel foolish, actually, doing it, if you wanna know the truth. I said, “no, I don't want your five million dollars”; “no, don't give me two million dollars…”. I…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…I…I go back to my…; you know, it's just not my way of life! I always was like…hey, I have to say this! I was very greedy. Now I'm gonna be greedy for the country. We have to take in money. Greedy for the country! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Because we have very stupid people running our country. You know, when you look at these deals…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…they're very stupid. I used to say they're very incompetent, but they're really beyond. I think stupid’s a better work. You know…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Sometimes the press they say I resonate. I resonate with these big crowds, cause we get the biggest crowds. I mean, and…we were in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was incredible. In New Hampshire, we had a couple of crowds that were…unbelievable recently. But all throughout the time! And they said, “he's plain-spoken”. Plain-spoken! I went to [an] Ivy League college. I went to the Wharton School of Finance…; I have a better vocabulary than anybody back there…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS-…look at all those cameras! It's like…the…are we in the Academy Awards? Is this the Academy…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And look, they're all live. Look at that, all live. I never can make a speech without live cameras. You know, I always have to be careful. These other guys come in, then nobody's there. They have no press, they have nobody. Nobody cares…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
But…but, you know, when they say “plain-spoken”; and I…and then I started thinking about it. I said, you know, you can be…[a] super genius; you can have all of the things that you wanna have…; you can…uhm…do everything right; you could be the greatest academic in the world. But where is there a better word than stupid to describe what's going on? There is no better word. There is no better word…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. You know, you look at the different things.
So…so…I just have to say this, because…you know, I'm a…I’m a true believer. And you’re…many…true believers. I hope all. Is everybody a true believer in this room? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…Christianity is under tremendous siege. And…if I said that about Christians…I would have less back up than by saying it about Muslims. I had tremendous back up. Now everyone's saying, “wow! It was such a great thing to say because now everybody is talking about it!”. I mean, people are flying planes into the World Trade Center! Let's talk about it! People are shooting in California! People are shooting in Paris! A hundred and thirty people killed in Paris! Nobody wants to talk about it! We have a president…that doesn't wanna say…radical…Islamic…terrorism. He doesn't wanna talk about…radical…Islamic…terror! He doesn't wanna even mention it! It's like it doesn't exist! It exists! And I'll tell you something. If I said that about Christians…; and if I said, “band!”, I'm telling you, I would have had less…difficulty!
And that's pretty sad, because we're Christians. I'm Protestant. I'm Presbyterian. Are you surprised to hear that? Yeah! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I love…always like to bring my communion pictures along. Sometimes I'll bring a communion, but…I didn't want it. I think you believe me, right? You've seen.
But…but the power of…of…our…our group of people together. I mean, if you added up…; I was trying to do it the other day. I was with one of the great…ministers. And I said, “you know, if you think about this country…”, because now you're talking about men and women. You're talking about together. So the group is larger…Christian's…Christian's in this country…is larger than men or women. And I said, “how many Christians you think?”. And it could be like 240…250 million…? You know, a big portion of…; and yet we don't exert the power…that we should have!
Now, I think some of the churches are afraid of the attack status, to be honest. You know, they're afraid they're gonna lose their tax status if they get too political. Uhm…some of them just can't endorse. But you know, the fact is that…there's nothing the politicians can do to you if you band together. You have too much power. But the Christians don't use their power…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. They don't need your…they don't use your power. And…and honestly, you have…by far, it's the strongest…; I mean, you talk about lobbies, you have the strongest lobby ever. But I never hear about a Christian lobby. I hear great people…like the pastor. I hear some unbelievable people…! Many, many friends are ministers…and…lots of them have endorsed me already. But I have to tell you that…we don't hear about strength. And we have to strengthen, because…we are getting…if you look, its depth by a million cuts. We are getting less, and less, and less powerful…in terms of a religion, and in terms of a force. And honestly, whether it's one leader or a number of people…potentially you have tremendous power.
When they don't wanna say ‘Merry Christmas’ in department stores anymore. I won’t shop at places that don't say ‘Merry Christmas’. Guess what, I don't do too much shopping, because…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…no, no it's true. When I see…when I see these stores and they…you know, they have a red wall…and have nothing on it. They don't wanna say Merry Christmas anymore. I say, “why don't you say Merry Christmas?”.
“Well, we're not allowed to. The owner doesn't want us to the…”. You know, these big Department stores, they're not allowed to. And I'll tell you what thing: I get elected president…we're gonna be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again. Just remember that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And by the way, Christianity will have power without having to form, because if I'm there, you are gonna have plenty of power. You don't need anybody else. You're gonna have somebody representing you very, very well. Remember that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so it's an honor to be here. And I know you're packed. And you know, they have another auditorium that's even bigger than this, and it's packed! And…uhm…the press won't talk about that. They never talk about it…it’s something…; look at that, even up there, every little seat…right up there on the thing…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE STANDS. THE CROWD IN THAT SPOT CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm packed! Right up. And then we have thousands of people in another auditorium. It’s amazing.
And, you know, Cruz was here…a…couple of weeks ago, he got 500 people. We have thousands! He said, “300”. That’s right, 300…-MR. TRUMP REFERS TO SOMEONE IN THE CROWD IN PARTICULAR. THE REST LAUGHS. And you were there. But you got my head on, so I think I have…I think I have you. But…uhm…okay, I’ll say…I’ll reduce it. I mean, whatever it was. I mean, they always say more for other people.
I mean, Bernie Sanders comes in…this Bernie Sanders he is 3,000 people at an event, which was great. I had 12,000. Same day. They said, “Bernie Sanders ament…event was amazing, he had this massive crowd of people! Unbelievable! He had 3,000 people!”. I had 12,000 people. The news said, “Donald Trump was here today. He made a speech…”.[They] never mention the crowd! I said, “what…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's unbelievable! It's unbelievable!
And I'm telling you, right now. In Massachusetts. They're all…you know, most of the candidates are up there, you know wasting people's time, frankly, cause they got nothing to say. [A] guy like Jeb Bush, who the hell wants to listen to this guy? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Right. I mean, here's a guy…[who] spends a hundred million dollars…; a hundred million dollars! He's in practically last place. A new poll came out, he's a three percent. With a hundred…I…wouldn't you love it if he could give it to the wounded warriors…or the vets, or something? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He's terrible. He’s terrible. And that's why, you know, that's why we haven't had victories.
And by the way, speaking of victories…look: you have to go out and caucus. Or we’re wasting time. I’ll just…I’m giving you my word. I built this great company…I'm really good at this stuff. We will make our country so rich again! So strong again! We're gonna do it…we can't put these people in! They don't know what they're doing! When I say, “we're gonna create a border.”, “we're gonna build a wall”. They’re politicians at the beginning. Now, they’re trying to say, “oh, we're gonna build a wall”. They don't know how to build a wall! They…they wouldn't know how to…they don't know where to…they don't know where to go to the bathroom…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.[paa1] 
Look, they're politicians. But all of a sudden…every once in a while, now, I hear one of these guys, and I can’t…say, “we're going to build a wall!”. Oh, good! [Do] you think they know it's gonna be a pre-fabricated…? Or do you think they know anything about it? They don't know anything about: They'll never get it approved. They'll never get it done. You know what stop the wall? They were gonna build it years ago. Environmental impacts statements stopped the wall. Can you believe it? There was a snake, or a turtle, or a toad, or something…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true!
And yet China, in the middle of the South China Sea, is ripping the ocean apart, and building…military bases, right? You know, on landing, and runways for military planes. And I guarantee you, they weren’t worried too much about the environment. They don't worry about the environment. They worry about…you know, getting the job done. But it's…it's just so interesting.
So, when I look at what's going on, and when I see what's going on and the kind of crowds we have…but we're all wasting our time. You are, I am…everybody! And I'm wasting a lot of money, but I don't even count the money. Because, honestly…? It doesn't matter. We can turn this country around. We can make great deals instead of these stupid deals, like that deal with Iran. [It[ is embarrassing! And did you hear Kerry yesterday? He was saying, “yes, some of the money will be used for terror. We expect that”. Used for terror! Okay!? I assume they have…like…clauses at least! There's no clause in it! “Yes, we expect that some of the money has been used, and will be is for terror. [It] could be a lot…”.
And I'm saying, really, “can you imagine a guy talking about that?”. We gave them a hundred and fifty billion dollars…and he's talking about the money's gonna be used for terror! And it's okay with him! These are…these are not smart people! Maybe they’re smart. But they’re not street-wise. You know, we're being beaten, actually, by Mexico…; by China…; by smart people. But we're being beaten by cunning people. They're more cunning than our people. Our people are babies. You know, we negotiate…we talk about global warming, and China is…they're laughing at us. And then they said, “oh, yes we agree. We agree”. But China's agreements aren’t kicking for… like…many years, you know, you heard that. Our is kicking immediately. Their agreements don't kick in for many years. What do we have!? I mean, why…why are we doing this? It's so incredible.
They have noticed…I've made a lot of money with China. I do great with China. The largest bank in the world is a tenant of mine. [They] pay me a lot of rent. Great people! I get along great with them! I get along great with the Mexican. The Mexicans…I have thousands of Hispanics and Mexicans working for me. Tens of thousands! Over the years, tens of thousands! I think I'm gonna win the Hispanic vote! People say, “oh, no you're not…; oh, you”…no, I…I actually think…I think I’m gonna win…the Mexican…I think I’m gonna win…there's my man! There's my first vote! …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. There's my first vote! Beautiful! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you! That's great! Thank you! Thank you!
And…and you know, it's interesting, because in Nevada…you saw the numbers come down. I just…I’m number one in the polls with Hispanics. And everyone's like surprised. I'm not surprised! I create jobs. They don't want…you know, if people are here legally, they don't wanna…other people coming in and taking their jobs.
And…a radio announcer from New York, who has an all-Spanish network, was…on television the other day. And he says, “you know, it's really strange. All the people that call it the showm, they’re all Spanish…”, they’re Hispanic, [he] said, “all the people that call in, they all like Trump!”. So he's…saying…you know, and he was…asking me if I was surprised. I said, “I'm not surprised!”. Because, number one, I love them. They're great people! But number two, I'm gonna create jobs! I’m taking jobs back from China. I'm taking jobs back from Japan. I'm taking jobs back from Mexico.
I mean, Nabisco is moving their big plant out of Chicago, into Mexico. Right? Who wants to have that? Nabisco! “No more Oreos, you're right” …-MR. TRUMP REPEATS SOMETHING A MEMBER IN THE CROWD HAS SAID. THE REST LAUGH. My first statement, “no more Oreos”. That's a good thing, not a bad thing…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Especially…especially…hey, especially if they use that water. No more Oreos, we’re not using…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, no.
But, Ford is building their big plant…; a big plant was taken out of Tennessee. A group was gonna build a massive plant in Tennessee, and at the last moment they changed their mind. Autoplant, they're moving into their moving into Mexico. It's not gonna happen, this stuff! Then they build cars, and they built trucks, and they make…Oreos; and they sell it to us, because we’re stupid and they take right through the border. In the case of the cars, who's gonna drive the cars? The illegal immigrants, right? Right through the border. They’re gonna drive it! Why should you pay him? Boom, they'll come in! They can make a deal.
So…this is…not for me, by the way. For the current. Do…you do understand that. I have to clarify that, because you know what? The press will say, “well, he said he'd used illegal immigrants”. That's the way they are.
So we're gonna do things…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…believe me, these are…these are among the most dishonest people in the world…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They are the worst. The worst. They are…they are horrible people.
So I wanted to tell you a few things. Let's talk about different candidates, right? Should we? Yes? We don't have to be politically correct. Do I have to be politically correct? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. You know, this is a wealthy room. A lot of wealthy people in this room. I know that. I got a little briefing from Chuck. You know Chuck, right? And Sam. We know Sam. And he said, “a lot of wealth in this room”, right? A lot of wealth. So…uhm…that's good. That means that you work your asses off, for one thing. Is that right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And that's okay.
But let's…let's talk about…let's talk about some…; so we'll finish you off with Bush. The guy spends a hundred million dollars. He hits me with ads all the time. I wouldn't be talking about it, but every time I turn on television there’s an ad. Now he's got one about Hillary Clinton. It's like a Hillary Clinton ad! It's a great ad for Hillary Clinton! What the hell is…? I mean, this guy…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I don't think he's a smart person, I'll be honest with you. And he goes Jeb, right? [and] exclamation point. I said, “Jeb, use your last name. It's okay. It's okay”. “Oh, oh, I don't wanna do…”.
I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. He's got no…the poll just came out. He's got nothing. But he spends a hundred million dollars…; the only way he get…; I just got a…a call from The Wall Street Journal, “we'd like to have a comment”.
“What?”.
“Oh, Jeb said this and that about you”.
“Oh, what did he say?”
“He said that…you used to be…a little more liberal”.
I said, “so what? So was Ronald Reagan. What else?”. And they…by the way, they've heard it a million times before…; but the only time he gets…publicity was what he talked about me. So he talks about me. But…the good news is, it doesn't do him any good. You know, Perry talked about talking me. Lindsey Graham, this poor guy! This poor, poor guy…-THE LAUGHS. You know, in South Carolina, I was 38; he was 1, and he's the Senator from South Carolina! This poor guy! And then who does he endorse? Jeb Bush! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
And this is…you… “that’s right”…-MR. TRUMP RESPONDS TO A MEMBER IN THE CROWD WHO YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. And, that's probably why. And this is the guy that's going to take us to…to war. This is the guy that we're leading. You know, they're talking about…well, he, “I know so much about war”. What he's saying…about the war…with Syria is so wrong! It's so wrong! He doesn't know what he's talking about. And we'll be in there…you know, we've spent now probably five trillion dollars. Five trillion. We could have rebuilt our country three times over. And we listen to these people…these are people…that are not smart! I mean, these are people that don't know what they're doing. They don't understand!
I watch Lindsey Graham…and everybody says, “he's an expert on war”. He's an expert on war!? If…I had a fight with him right now, he'd be out of there in seconds…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He'd be out of there in seconds. This guy's not an expert! He's not an expert on anything! I don't think he's even an expert on getting elected, because you know, frankly, I've he had to run a race today, I don't think he'd get two percent of the vote in South Carolina. But, I see him…and I see this guy, and he's endorsing Bush. And I'm saying, “what a s…what a s…a waste of an endorsement. But the endorsement doesn't mean…; so Bush is gonna get all of his followers…you know what his followers are? Zero! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Zero! Did you see? He left the campaign at zero! So…you know, those endorsements, they don't…don't we don't wanna waste a lot of time with them.
But, you look at Perry; you look at him; you look at Bobby Jindal…; he was vicious toward Trump! He started off, he had five…he hit Trump and he had nothing. Okay? You can name all of them! I mean, honestly, Jeb had 17, now he’s down to two! Okay? After spending a hundred, wasting a hundred million…he’s lost that…; he uses his mother in the ad! And his mother’s a nice woman! But he uses his mother! I said, “Jeb, ISIS doesn't want you…to be using your mother. They wanna deal with you, Jeb. You're gonna get out yourself, Jeb!” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Weak! Weak, pathetic people; low-energy is a better term, right? Low-energy! [paa2] 
You know, the Chinese…the Chinese don't have low energy. They come into my office, they're raring to go. They got more energy! “Woah, let's go! Boom! Boom! Boom!”. They're not used to people like this, that fall asleep as you're talking to him…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So…so Jeb is a sad case:
And I have to…you know, let's talk about…you know, the one that we're closest with. Although, as you hear, the new polls are now…have us ahead in the great state of Iowa.We have…we're ahead…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, we're ahead. And I think substantially. Actually, you know, I think, I'm not sure that we were ever behind.
Uhm…CNN came out with a poll…three weeks ago, right? It was 33 to 20, Trump was up! Nobody reported it. It’s CNN. By the way, CNN's a major poll. So CNN gets reported by everybody. So then I'm watching CNN and they're talking about another poll, like a few days later. And it was a negative…; it was…you know, it was…we were like even. And then your Des Moines Register, which I think is a totally crooked paper; I think it's disgusting. I think it's…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, they do like…three, or four, or five hundred people. How do you do that? Now, if they take a few of those little people…put them in their pocket: Bing! Bing! Bing! All of a sudden, Trump doesn't look so good anymore, right? So the only poll I didn't do…you know, it's fine, but I didn't… I was second in that one.
But if you think…; so CNN does a poll; I'm up 33 to 20, that's a lot. I’m up 13 points in the state of Iowa. Cause in…by the way, nationwide, I'm killing everybody. We're…way, way up…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. In New Hampshire…we're way up. We're up by 21 points. In different polls…some more. South Carolina, unbelievable. Same thing. Up by…much more than 20 points. You go to Nevada? It's even better! And then the SEC…Georgia, unbelievable- By the way, Florida…! I'm at 48! 48! And…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and you have a sitting senator, Rubio, who actually is a nice guy…he's at eleven…; Jeb is at nine…; the guy was…the guy was a governor there, he's at nine! So they must know something. They’re smarter than all of us, they know…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…don’t forget that up. And Cruz is a little bit higher than Rubio.
So…but I’m at 48! And these guys are at 10, and 11…; and so…Florida is…you know, it's a very powerful state. Very important state. Very funny. You know, the…establishment…; the party…it used to be you get a portion of Florida, right? They changed it. So it's winner-take-all. Because this way, if Trump…you know, comes in second, or third, or fourth, which they expected…nine months ago…; if Trump comes in second…Trump gets like…nothing: okay? So it's winner-take-al. Because they figured that Bush…you know, the people are too smart! That bush or Rubio…you know, somebody that's a sitting Senator, should have an advantage of Florida, right? So they changed it so it's winner-take-all. I'm at 48, they’re at 10. I like the change…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I complained about the change! I said, “what are you doing I'm running against the next Governor and a sitting Senator…”, then all of a sudden it's winner-take-all .
“Well, Donald, we thought that would be good”.
“Well, I don't like it!”. You know, I'm complaining, right? “I don't like it!”. Then I saw a poll, about 3-4 months ago, while I'm complaining where was up by 10…I said…they called me, they said, “we never heard from you”.
I said, “well, I'm thinking about it” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And then they just came out with his new one, two days ago, where I'm at 48…and they’re at ten…and I said…they asked me, recently, they said, “so now what do you think?”.
I said, “I think it's very good that you did…; I think it's fair”, right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. So now it's winner-take-all. It's winner-take-all in the state of Florida
So, let's talk about Mr. Cruz. Senator Cruz. First of all Sarah Palin…everybody thought she was going with him. And she's a terrific person. Believe me, she gets very unfairly treated by the press. She's a terrific person. She's smart. She gets it. It's not fair the way they talk about her. And…I think a lot of the people in this room not know it. Let me tell you, she's smart! And Cruz thought that he was gonna get her. And frankly, he was down, and he'll tell the story! He was in Texas; he was running for the Tea Party…; he was at two percent. She came in and endorsed him, and he won. And he says [He] won because of her. And everybody assumed that Sarah Palin was gonna go with Cruz! And Sarah Palin has one of the best records…you know, we all talk about endorsements, what do they mean. I usually say they mean nothing. Very rarely you see an endorsement that means. Her record of endorsements is unbelievable. When she endorses people…I mean, they win! They were going over that at one of the show's, probably the best record of anybody. And we got a call, and…and Sarah and I have known each other a long time, and her husband is a great guy, and she's fantastic, and her family is fantastic. Actually, her daughters came, her daughters came out and endorsed me! A couple of months ago! I said, “wow, that's great!”. And…it was nice! They're just a great…I mean, they’re really a good family; and good people.
So…I get a call from Sarah, that she'd like to do this. And I was a little surprised, because I thought that probably, Cruz would be a natural fit, cause she endorsed him before. Now, she said, “what you have done is amazing. You've…you've done something with the party that…nobody has ever seen”. I mean, I'm on the cover of Time magazine this week. A really nice story, for a change. I mean, no bad…you know, it's not like too good…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…usually, I… “you read it”…-MR. TRUMP REFERS TO SOMEBODY IN THE AUDIENCE. Yeah. That story was so amazing. And written by a great writer. And he never called me!
I said, “I’m…I have the new secret to getting good publicity”. Don't speak to the writers. Because…I never spoke to the writer…; he's a fantastically talented guy…I found out, afterwards. Not just because he wrote a good story. But it was! It's a cover story. And it's talking about, basically, this movement. We have a movement going on, folks. We have a movement going on. I'll tell you…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's why I…just…I don't wanna…I don't wanna waste the movement by…you know, people saying, “I'm staying home; I'm not gonna caucus”, cause caucusing is a little tougher than voting. You know, when you go out and you vote, and you leave. Here you have to do it a little more time, but it's…very easy.
And by the way, if you could go to DonaldJTrump.com, that'll tell you exactly where to go. How to do it…; we have a really good website, unlike the Obama website. The Obamacare…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And I didn't spend…I didn't spend five billion for my website, I promise. Okay? They spent five billion, it still doesn't work. But…DonaldJTrump.com. It'll tell you everything. You have to write on top. It'll tell you everything. But…you gotta go out. I joke when I say, “if you're not feeling well…; if you're sick…; if you had a bad day…; if you had a fight with your wife, or your husband…it doesn't make any difference. You must go out and caucus”. Okay? You gotta do it. You gotta do it…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
And…you saw it yesterday. The…uhm…the big poll came out where…if the people go out, Trump wins…like in a landslide. If they don't go out, it's very close. In other words, if you just go by people…that have been doing it for years…; but they think they're gonna have a record…you know, a record crowd of people. And…uhm…I think you are. Just like they had in Fox. Roger Ailes. A great, great man. A great…one of the greatest men in the history of television. Roger Ailes, from Fox. And…he told me! I mean, they had 24 million, probably 25 million, after he suggested, but they had 24 million people, watch the debate. The first debate. They had 23 million people watch the debate…CNN debate, which is the largest audience and the history of CNN! That's not because of…uhm…Bush. And it's not because of all the people that were up…there…that will put you to sleep just…-THE LAUGHS-…to look at them! It's because of Trump, I hate to say it! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know?
And Roger…Roger Ailes told me. He said, “look, you know…we…we get…you know, these were not big audiences prior to this year”. He said they were shocked. They were shocked, when they saw the numbers. They were shocked. I said I wasn't. I wasn't shocked. And it was good. And the last debate, that was my favorite debate. I think we did really well. And…but we've done well in all the polls show. We've won virtually every debate! And…uhm…virtually, every single poll…; they have polls now were you…you poll, “won the debate?”…there’re polls on everything. I love polls! I love…because I'm number one in every poll. So I love them…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. If I was number two, or if I was number 10, I would never be…the poll…word ‘poll’ wouldn't be in my vocabulary.
But…Roger said, you know, never seen anything like this. And basically that's what Time magazine says. It said that's never been anything like it. So we don't wanna waste it. So you have to get out there.
So, with…with senator Cruz…; he's very devastated that he didn't get Sarah Palin. And he's…and…and…at least he's open. Actually, he was very angry. Then his daughter wrote a very brilliant letter…that got a lot of…I don't know, did everyone see that letter? She wrote such an incredible letter. And…everybody read it, it was all over the place. And…and he actually said…! She's…a great woman…and…which was nice. But…here's the thing: she went with me because she sees what's happening. She wants to make America great again. These politicians are not gonna be able to do it.
And I’ve said! Ted has a lot of problems! Number one: Canada. He could run…for the Prime Minister of Canada. And I wouldn't even complain, because he was born in Canada! Okay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He was born in Canada. It's a serious thing. They just did a poll…thirty-six percent of the people feel that it's a serious problem. So you have law professors. Lawrence Tribe. Harvard…Law. One of the great…uhm…one of the great experts on the Constitution. A true expert. And…he said…to a question…; he said it's untried, you don't know. The word don't know is not acceptable, cause you know the Democrats are gonna sue…if he ever got the nomination…within two days, there’s…there’s already two lawsuits [that have] been filed. But they don't have standing. I have standing to sue! Can you imagine if I did? Or should I do it just for fun? Huh? Should I do it? …-THE CROWD YELLS ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER IN FAVOR OR AGAINST.
You know, I'm the one that has standing. Any of the candidates have standing. It's so nasty, though! Uhh…I'm so good at that stuff! It's so nasty! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And then another…lawyer came out, and actually said, very top constitutional law. He said, “he does not have the right to run, because he was not born on the land”. Now, he was born on Canada. In Canada. He was born on…Canadian land. On…Canadian…soil.
And…you know, John McCain had the problem. But, with…John McCain was different, because he was born on a military base, and both of his parents were citizens. In this case, his mother was, but his father wasn't. But he was born in Canada! And there's a big theory out there [that] there's been going on for a long time, that…you know, he may not be able to run for president. Because you have to be born on the land…; you have to be natural to…; you know, all the different things. We don’t have to go into it.
But…there's a big risk that…if he runs, and if he should win, and I think we're gonna win without anything. I really believe that. I don't think it's gonna matter. I don't think it’s gonna matter. I really don't believe it's gonna matter. That's probably why I wanna save the legal fees, you know. If I thought it was gonna matter, maybe I do it. But maybe I wouldn't either. But I am…I have actual standing to do it, because of…uhm…you know, the fact that I'm a candidate against him.
But if he runs…and if they sue…! Let's say, they're running against Hillary. She's not going to jail, because she's being protected. So she gets the nomination, right ?And you know, the first thing they're gonna do is bring a lawsuit! So you have a candidate that you don't even know if he can run! And the problem that you have…you even have, as…voters, there’s doubt! In other words, there’s doubt! There’s serious doubt! And some people say there's no doubt that he's not allowed to run. And…I'm coming more and more to that way of thinking. When you speak to…uhm…the other person who just came out. I won't even give you names, you can look it up. But…but a person came out. [A] great constitutional scholar. [He] said he's not allowed to run. He cannot run, because he wasn't born on or land. And…that's a big thing. That's a really big problem!
So…you've got that problem. I said, “go to court. Ask for a declaratory judgment”. And I've done that numerous times! You go to court, in other words, there's a dispute, or you know there's going to be a dispute. You can go to court for a declaratory judgment. So the courts rule on it! And that way he has…ruling! Yeah, he can get a ruling. But even that has to go up! But…he can get a ruling. You go to court, you get a ruling. Okay. That's number one.
Number two, you know he's a man of the people, right? And…he's gonna take in the banks. And he's gonna rein in those banks. Because those banks have been ripping you off, right? And in his…declaration…you know, his financial disclosure form, which is a very important form! I mean, mine's a hundred pages, almost a hundred pages long, with…tremendous numbers in it. And…you know, I have very good people, and they do it…; and you know, I haven't been challenged. There's nothing to challenge! I don't think! And if there is, I guess, there is! Except…somebody could make a mistake, but…so he got two banks. He's a smart guy…but we didn't know that!
So they found out Goldman Sachs. So he has a low-interest loan from Goldman Sachs, and he's personally guaranteeing it. Then they find out, a week later, “oh, he's got another bank”. Citibank. So they say, “why didn't you disclose this?”. Well, the reason he didn't disclose it is because he wants to be a man of the people! He doesn't want to know that Goldman Sachs…; he doesn't want you to know that Goldman Sachs is making him low interest loans…; favorable loans…that he's got a personal guarantee. He's not gonna do anything bad to Wall Street! And he's not gonna do anything good, not that he should. But if you want…I think Wall Street’s making too much money. I think we gotta rein in some of these hedge fund guys. I mean, frankly, okay? I'm a Republican, and I'm telling you that…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
You got some of these hedge fund guys, they make a…transaction by taking a phone call about stock, and they end up making millions of dollars than they pay very little tax, okay? You know, we're taking that carried interest away under my plan. We're lowering it…by the way, we're lowering taxes, seriously, for the middle classes. We’re lowering business taxes seriously. But we're taking some of the perks away from some of these…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. I mean, some of these Wall Street guys don't wanna talk to me anymore. But we're taking away carried interest, which is a very big…thing for if you're a Wall Street hedge fund guy.
But…it's ridiculous! I mean, what's going on…on Wall Street's ridiculous. And who knows it better than me!? Who knows the system? Who knows the tax codes better than me? I tell…somebody said, “well, did you pay a lot of tax?”. Very little. The reporter said to me, “little? I've never that from a candidate”.
Remember Romney, when he said, “I don't know. I…I paid…I paid, and…I paid”. He was trying to build it up, “oh, I got…I paid, I think”. I paid as little as possible! So, it's an expense, right? That's the American Way! I don't know, you want stupid people? “Yes, I paid…”.
I think, I mean Romney was fighting so hard that he pays a lot…; I mean, I pay as little as possible! I use every single thing in the book! And…and I have great people. And…you know, it's…my things have been certified, and ratified, and go through…my money…; my numbers are so big I had to go through congress to have it approved. Can you believe it? I have to go through Congress! But…uhm…you know, but I pay as little as possible! And, you know, part of the reason I pay as little as possible…it’s the first time I've said that, I think, to a group.
But…part of the reason I pay as little as possible is because…of the way they…waste our money. Honestly…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…and you people are no different. When you see…2300 Humvees, armor-plated, the best in the world…; going over to Iraq, or going to Syria, or going to our soldiers…but not for our soldiers, we’re giving them to our allies, right? A bullet…a bullet is fired in the air and they run. And the enemy picks it up. And the enemy now has 2,300…; can you imagine that? 2,300…I figured that was a mistake. Like 23. I said 2…2.3? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. 2,300 of the best vehicles in the world!
Now, we have wounded warriors who I love, all of the place! These people are amazing. Their attitude! You meet them, they’re happier than I am! It’s true! I mean, they’re happier than me! They're happier than the people in the audience! These are amazing people. And, what…you know, they've lost their arms, they’ve lost their legs, that it…they’ve lost worse! And they're just an amazing people! Their attitude! They're always…like I need them so much…! …and I see…I get to see them so much through the vets; and I see him in New Hampshire; I see them in…; I see them all over! Iowa! But these are amazing…our most amazing people in a sense. And their attitude is so good. Had they had these Humvees, they'd be walking around like we are right now. They wouldn't be…you know, working so hard to get 15 feet.
They would be around like us! We don't have those Humvees now. The…the enemy took them over. And they took him over quickly. And…a friend of mine has a son who’s a soldier. He’s done three terms. Three…he's been over there three different times. And…his biggest complaint is that…we have old equipment. That we're using old equipment. And the enemy has all the new stuff. Because they take it away from our so-called allies, that we're…you know, giving hundreds and hundreds of millions…billions of dollars’ worth of equipment to them! And…this is separate from the Humvee story, cause that's a story that's pretty well known, but…they…these complaining…he said, “you know, Mr. Trump, we have…old equipment. We have the older rifles…we have the old of this; we don't have the best trucks; we don't have the best…the…the…you know, S…the…SUV's. We have all the old stuff! And…the enemy, we see…we're fighting people that have better equipment than us! And it's our equipment!”.
Again! We're incompetent! We don't know what the hell we're doing! And we shouldn't be backing people…that are gonna be running as soon as…a bullet is fired in the air…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
They just take…they take…they take our equipment like it's candy, okay? They take our equipment like it's candy. Billions and billions of dollars. These people are well-armed! And it's all the best stuff. And it's all our stuff. And our people don't have as much. Just remember that.
So…when I…see what we have, and that's why I mentioned guys like Lindsey Graham, cause he’s got the wrong theory. He's got the wrong…; don't forget, and now I…now I’m…bragging. You know, for years I didn't wanna talk about it, because…but now I…I'm open. 2003-2004. I was totally against the war! Because…I said, “if you knock out Iraq…”, what you're gonna do is you're gonna destabilize the Middle East; Iran's gonna take over Iraq, which they're doing…; they've already done it, essentially. They're gonna get the second largest oil reserves in the world. They’ve taken over Syria, they're gonna take over…they're…taking over Yemen. But they're only taking over Yemen, cause they want Saudi Arabia.
So we can protect Saudi Arabia, but they've gotta pay us! We don't get anything! What do we get out of it!? What do we get out of it!? Think of it. We protect all these countries, we get nothing! We get…they pay us…peanuts. We gotta start using our head. I don't mind protecting them. I don't mind protecting South Korea. I love South Korean. I’ve many friends. Probably not so much after this, but that's okay…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I gotta do…I gotta do what's right. No, I have no lobbyist in South Korea. I have no lobby. There's no lobbyists from South Korea saying, “you can't say that, Donald”. I guarantee you, these politicians…;
Because the things that we do are so…stupid. But they're not stupid. They’re smart, if you're a politician. It's bad for the country, but it's good for them. Because the lobbyist goes to them and says, “look, we gotta protect South Korea”. I get a retainer for millions and millions of dollars here from South Korea. I get a retainer for millions and millions of dollars from China. When you see these things, you think they're really dumb. But they’re not dumb for the politician. Because the politician is doing that, because he's going to get campaign contributions for years to come from South Koreann and from these other countries. That's why this all happens, folks. That's why, in front of a big group from Iowa, recently, I said…we had…must had 4 thousand people, and it was fun. And I said to them, “I feel so…so foolish…not taking the money! Can I take it!? I promise I won't be influenced!”.
And they all stood up, “no! No!”, they're screaming up. They knew! In fact, it was only one guy in the room [who] said “it's okay to take it”. But he looked like a shady character. He was probably a lobbyist. It’s true. One guy in a four thousand! One guy, “I think it's okay!”. But he really looked…I wouldn't want to do business with the guy, actually. He probably had some deal going.
But…but they are…when you look at the…the dumb things. Even in the Iran…you know, you look at the Iran deal. It's inconceivable that we would give them 150 billion. It's inconceivable that we would give them 24-day inspection periods. It's inconceivable that we would give them self-inspection, and that we wouldn't get our prisoners back. Now we get them back…you see what we did to get them back. We paid a ransom like nobody's ever paid. And by the way, because of what we did, you can have tremendous kidnappings all over the Middle East, and other places. Okay? We set a terrible…terrible precedent.
But the reason…you look at…many of those countries, in that deal, are getting…tremendous amounts of money. You know, Russia's making…missiles and…all sorts of military equipment for Iran. Other countries are right now…they're all knocking on Iran store…to get the money. And the only one that they're not giving any money to is us!
That Airbus, European, just got a big contract for 114 big jet liners. They didn't give it to Boeing! I would have said, “you gotta give it to Boeing”. You put a clause in. One sense: gotta give it to Boeing. I don't give a… “we're giving you a…; you gotta give it to…”. But I wouldn't have actually put that clause in. You know…why wouldn't I put that close? Because I wouldn’t have never gotten the money!
I wouldn't have needed it, the clause. I wouldn't have allowed them to have a hundred and fifty billion. I would have gotten the prisoners back first; wouldn’t have mentioned the money…; I would have doubled up the sanctions…; I would have the prisoners back before the negotiation. I then would have gone in, fresh. I said, “did the prisoners land yet?”
“Yes, yesterday. Just landed”. Then I would add my second meeting. I said, “we can't give you the money. We're a debtor nation. We owe 19 trillion dollars”, with the stupid budget deal we just made, by the way, it's gonna be 21…billion dollars. So, “we're not giving you the money! We can't do it!”. So okay.
 
So Cruz has a problem and so, the bottom line on that story is…these lobbyists, and these…people are making a fortune off these horrible deals. So the deals that you see, that you think are really…dumb deals, they're terrible deals for our country, but the politicians aren't so stupid! They're good for the politicians, because they are being lobbied on deals. They're being lobbied on deals! So they're doing things that are not good for our country, but they’re good for them. They're good for them!
When Ford goes in, they wanna build that big plant in Mexico. The politicians are all gonna say “yes”, because they're being lobbied. I'm gonna say, “no you can't do it. Or we're gonna charge you a hell of a lot of tax. Every time you want to bring a call back” …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…you know?
So…so Cruz has that problem. He has the bank problem. I got a lot of other problems! Plus the fact he was weak on immigration, we won't even say that. He took an ad recently, he's talking about eminent domain. Let's talk about eminent domain. “That Donald Trump is in favor of eminent domain!”. What do I know about…eminent domain?
Eminent domain is a power used by government, so that it can take land for highways…; for roadways…; for schools…; for hospitals…; for…for the different things. With government, whether it's city, state, federal…; for pipelines…;
So we have these people, these really…it actually…people that…have been living off the troth. The so-called Conservatives. National Review, you know, it's a failing magazine. Okay? It's failing! Nobody reads it! Nobody reads it! I mean, it's got nothing going! It's…so bad! And yet, they got together, and…in order to get some publicity, right? They did…they got, I think, 22 guys. 22…mostly losers…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Some of them I…like. I don't like any of them now, because they wrote something. But…no, some of them I like. They always asked me to be on the show.
Like Glenn Beck, he'd call me, “would you be on my show? Would you…?”. It wasn't that I didn't wanna do his show. I'm so busy. I wasn't able to do it. Then, he called my people; my people never told me. I Didn't do the show, so I…bottom line, and I understand that! I wouldn't do his show! So he got very hostile. Once he got very hostile, I didn't…I didn't wanna do it. You know, I could have probably called him and said, “let's do you show”, and he would have been fine, right? But that's the way it works. That's the way life works.
Uhm… [I] should have done the show. [I] could have done…; his show is failing. He's failing. He's always crying! You know, I like cries a little bit, but…not that much…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Wouldn't I look bad if I was crying? How would you guys feel about Trump would cry? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. How would…? How would China feel if I walked in crying because I couldn't make the right deal?
[Have] you ever see this guy, Glenn Beck? [Have] you ever seen Glenn Beck? Yeah, I cried when I was one year old. I was a baby…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And my mother, who was great, she was from Scotland, she said, “even then you didn't cry very much”. Okay. I don't wanna cry. You know, I think crying’s fine. But…I mean, I see this guy, he's a sad sack. And he cries…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
So Glenn Beck was one of the people that wrote…the…thing, and it…by the way, he is failing. His thing is going down the tubes. He got fired from Fox, and I see a thing the other day…where…it's a Glenn Beck from…a couple of years ago. [He] said he'd support Obama…or Hillary, over John McCain! I said, “what's that?”. I supported John McCain. And he had to apologize. He said to me, [that] I…; did you see where he said that I supported Obama over John McCain? I was on John McCain's committee! And you know what happened! I supported McCain, he lost. I supported Romney, he lost. I said to my wife, “this time I'm gonna do it myself”, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Enough. I don't like that.
But…but Glenn Beck is going to endorse today…oh I would much rather have Sarah Palin than Glenn Beck…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Look, Glenn's a loser, okay? Just so you understand. [This] guy’s…this guy’s a serious loser. So…Glenn Beck…but, so they show me a tape, just on the car over here. They showed me a tape, and it's Glenn Beck saying that he would endorse Obama or Hillary Clinton…; it was…I think from…I don't know, 08 or 09, whatever. That he would Obama…; he wants Obama or Hillary, over John McCain!
I said. “well, you know. I don't know if we're big fans of John McCain, but…[I] don’t know, I'm taking McCain”. Right? And here's a guy will…would have endorsed…you know, if…he was voting, [He] would have endorsed Obama or Hillary. So he's embarrassed he doesn't know what to do.
Then you have a guy like Bill Kristol. He's been predicting that Trump would never run. Bill Kristol’s…you talk about a guy who's down behind the eight-ball. This guy…his thing is going down the tubes! They're all going down the tubes! They're all!
So Bill Kristol comes out, and he's an angry guy. He goes on shows. They don't even let him go in the shows anymore. You know, nobody wants him. The good news about shows, they only want you if you get good ratings. That's why I get all this…publicity. Because I get good ratings! If I didn't get good ratings…; they don't care about polling numbers, they only care about ratings. See? The shows care about ratings. And by the way, I have a lot of vets right here. I love you people, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I can see the vets! I can see…; I can look at a guy, I can say , “you’re vets”. I see them!
And by the way, I've been endorsed by so many of the vet groups…it's been incredible. We're gonna take care of our vets, folks…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna build up our military. Make it stronger, and better, and…more…we're not gonna have to use it!
Our military is being decimated. Our vets are being treated horribly. Our vets in many cases are being treated worse…than illegal immigrants in this country. It’s…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…it's true! We're gonna take care of our vets.
So, Bill Kristol is…is a guy…they don't even want him on television. He's angry! Because I ran! And…I’ve…I’ve…somebody wrote something that was so great. It was so great. And…I had to read…just a few of these paragraphs, cause it was so, so well-written…! And it's something I don't like doing cuz I…you know, I hate to read stuff on…it’s so…so boring to read! Right? But this was…a very…Doug Ibendahl, who's a very respected guy. And he wrote a story. “So clueless…” about, you know, they did this…uhm…stupid National Review. How boring would that be? 22 people…; and some of these people…there's one guy named Brent Bozell! He comes up to my office begging me for money! He's got some kind of a deal…where he needs money for advertising something, whatever! I give him some money. [He] comes up again! [He] wants so much money! I don't know if he came up [for] the second ad, but…wants money! I don't give him money. Now he's writing articles [about how] Trump's a bad guy. This is what you have. You know, politics is a vicious business. It gets worse…; I thought [in] New York City real estate you'd meet the worst people, to be honest. Vicious people! Politicians are worse! But these are people who have done a great…a terrible job.
These are conservative people, which is good. But they've been living off the troth, and where have they taken you? Look who they've endorsed. Look at the failures. I mean, we have Barack Obama. We should have won those elections. We certainly should have won the last election. They endorsed Romney. They endorse McCain…which is fine! But they've been…they’re…they’re just…their attitude is wrong! You're not gonna win with these people.
So, Doug said…I don't know him…:
MR. TRUMP STARTS READING.
“So clueless is the gang of 22 they can't even see how they've stumbled right into the narrative Trump's been communicating so successfully for months”
I’ve been talking about…that’s why I have the crowds! Because we’re hitting a…a button. Whether it's our stupid trade deals, where China's ripping us. You know, China is gonna make…we're gonna have a deficit with China this year, 505 billion dollars. Not with me!
And…we'll get along with China. By the way, we'll have a better relationship with China! But they've rebuilt China with our…I mean, China has…it's probably the greatest theft…in history; [it] is what China has taken of our country. Probably the greatest theft in history. And then they devalue their currency. Now they'll do it again, and make it harder and harder to compete. And these people don't understand that.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“Just like the elected officials from both parties, the gang of 22…”, that’s the 22 writers who write for this…dying magazine…. It’s dying! I don’t think it’s gonna be in business any year from now.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
 “the gang of 22…has been at complaining about stuff year, after year, after year”.
True, right? They’re always complaining. They don’t do anything about it. They complain.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“But getting anything accomplished…? Not so much.
Many of the gang of 22 have been hanging around and chattering for decades, and some are active cogs in the Conservative Entertainment Complex, deriving their income by pandering to conservative anger while offering no real solutions”.
Isn’t that what’s happening? We don’t get anything! I mean, it’s…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY-…this guy writes so well,  I said, “I’m gonna have to…just leave a couple of these things”, cause it’s so good!
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“Donald Trump, represents a threat to these ineffectual poohbahs in the same way he represents a threat to do-nothing public officials”.
We have all do-nothing officials. I mean, ‘all’…only 95 percent. Even the press is better, cause you have 25 percent good press.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING:
“Jealousy is also seriously at work here. Trump is inspiring and exciting a broad spectrum of the country like no member of the gang of 22 ever has, or ever will”.
Uhm…it is! I mean, in all fairness, we're excited about this! They said, “Donald Trump is angry”. And I was supposed to say, “oh, no. I'm not. I promise I'm not an angry”.
I said, “wait a minute”. And I was up in the speech! This was during the debate, right?
And they said, “you're angry”. And a very good woman Nikki Haley said it. She's a friend of mine! But she said I’m angry. And so, they hit me with that question at the debate. I said, “you're right. I'm angry. I'm really angry! Our country is being run horribly. We're losing on trade. We're losing militarily. We can't beat ISIS. We can't do anything right! I'm angry! But I’ll be happy, very soon, if I win, because…we will take it all back, and it's gonna go quickly. We're gonna be happy, and we're gonna win again…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But they weren't expecting that answer.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“In just seven months of campaigning, Trump has already more Americans listening to the Republican message than the entire gang of 22 could muster over decades and decades”.
It’s true! I mean, we have…unbelievable! Nobody buys that magazine! And look at…look at what we have. Look at this room! Look it upstairs. The balcony, you can't see. The balcony is packed. The people [are] standing in the back of this master balcony…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And then…we have people listening across the road in his massive auditorium. Bigger than this one…where that one's full too. And unfortunately, I have to go see them. So, I'll be seeing you folks in a little while. I have to see them too! But we have to do it. I can't stand them up, right? I can't stand them up…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING:
“Trump understands that before you can advance the ball, you have to convince people to take time from their busy lives to listen! No one on the GOP side since Ronald Reagan has accomplished that like Trump” …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nice compliment.
 MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“No one else has come close and certainly no one from that ‘effete corps of impudent snobs’ to which the National Review thinks we should defer!”.
That’s what you have. They why live off the troth.
 MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“The gang of 22 had their chance. They've done a lot of bitching over the years, and it paid well for some”.
That’s right. They made money of it. But they don’t do anything for the country.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“But Americans care about results. They can plainly see that all of this is empty talk”.
It’s just empty talk.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“At the sime…same time when Americans look at Donald Trump's life, they gor a lot of assurance that here is finally a man, who shares their focus on actually getting results!”.
I’m a results person. When Obama sends people…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. When Obama sent those 50 people over, he announced, “I’m sending 50 people”. We shouldn't be announcing. Those people have a target on their back. They should go over. General MacArthur wouldn't be announcing. And General George Patton doesn't announce. He wouldn't have 50 people; he'd have a group of people…; he'd not…; you wouldn't need people. That thing would have been over a long time ago. Okay? You wouldn't need it…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“And Trump returns the respect by recognizing regular hard-working Americans are a lot smarter than any of their ‘ideological eunuchs’ in all their pontificating glory”.
It’s true! The people, my people…are so smart. And you know what else…they say about my people? The polls! They say I have the most loyal people. Did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. Okay? It's like incredible…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, they say Trump…-SOMEONE IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… “We love you too man”.  Trump's voters are by far, you know, the…uhm…I'm at sixty-eight, sixty-nine percent…; I'm at ninety percent…total. Like… “will you say absolutely…!?”. I think it's 68, or 69 percent. “Will you most likely stay…?”. That gets into the 90s. Other guys are like a 10. A guy like Jeb Bush has a nobody, but he's like…at…at…not…I mean, like they don't have people! They have nothing! Rubio? Soft. They're all…all soft. All soft. My people…stay!
Uhm…by the way, Cruz? Soft. When they heard about this thing, with…that he was born in Canada, that nobody knew…knew about? He lost a lot of people! He's gone down big in the polls! Ted Cruz's gun down big, big, big in the polls. That doesn't mean he's not giving us a fight in Iowa. That doesn't mean you can stay home. Okay? See you with the smile? …-MR. TRUMP REFERS TO SOMEONE IN THE CROWD SPECIFICALLY. THE CROWD LAUGHS.
It doesn't mean that. You gotta go out, because we can't take any chances!
It's like I said. I haven't spent any money. When Bush spends a hundred million and I spent nothing…I'm in first place, he's in last place. That's what we want for the country. Okay? Right now it's the opposite…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You look at education…we're number one in the world per student…cost. We spend more money than anybody, by far, and we're number 28 in results. So we have…number 28. Third…world…countries are ahead of us, right? We're number 28 in the world and yet we're number one.
Mine’s the other way! I spent the least on the campaign of anybody, and I'm in first place. That's great, isn't it? Now, I'm gonna change because…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I’m gonna change. Two reasons I'm changing. You know the reasons.
Number one: I feel guilty. I actually do! Because the reporters are saying, “when you're gonna start spending money?”. I'm 38 million dollars under budget. I thought I'd have 38 millions…; I spent like peanuts. I spent almost nothing. So they keep saying, “oh, are you gonna spend?”. Although they respect the fact that I was able to…; they call it earned media.
I get so much television. I go on television. I go on a show…15; then they have a commercial. So I'm here. They're talking about Trump. Then they say, “we'll be right back with another subject on Donald Trump”, okay? So now we go…another 50. I said “gee!”. If I put a commercial in between, people are gonna go crazy! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Right? It's too much! So I couldn't advertise! Cuz I get so…so many shows. The whole shows. An hour; two hours; all Trump. They don't wanna talk about the other guy. It's true! You look at New Hampshire today. You look at that auditorium. Seven of the candidates up there…; the place is half-empty! I got calls! They want to know, “why aren’t you there?”.  Now, I’m gonna be there Monday! But they wanted to know. [The] place is empty! Nobody cares about him. So, I couldn't do it. So I feel guilty! Number one.
And here's the second reason. I don't wanna take a chance. I don't wanna be cute. Do you understand that? I wanna advertise a little bit. I went into the hotel that I stayed in here last night…which was a very nice hotel. And…I'm watching all these ads! I'm watching it for Carson. I'm watching them for Rubio. I'm watching them for…Cruz! I'm watching all these ads! I don't wanna take a chance…because you may believe some of those ads.
By the way, those ads are total bullshit, okay? Bullshit! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS, CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, I'm watching! I’m…I’m watching these phony ads, and I'm saying, “you know what?”.
But honestly, it's true. I don't wanna take a chance. All right.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“...what voters are looking for this year is competence and accomplishment”.
It’s true, right?
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“And Donald Trump has an actual record of delivering both in spades”.
I built an unbelievable company. Don’t forget. When I did my financial filings, all these bloodsuckers were down there…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Uhg! They said, “yeah, maybe he's not as rich as everyone thinks!”.
[It] turned out I’m much richer than anyone ever thought…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I built one of the greatest companies. In fact, if I didn't run…and it was a…you know, not easy for me to say, “let's run”. Cuz it takes gut, don't kid yourselves. Coming down that escalator with my wife, that takes guts, but…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS-…but I will…I will say this. I will say this: I’m…I'm so happy I did it. It's been…so good. I will not be happy if I lose! I will not be happy if I did it…! You know, everyone's saying, “oh, what a great job he's done! …that it doesn't matter if he wins or loses; what a great job”. Cause we've totally changed the way the stuff is done.
I don't say that. And I told people that I got a call from one of the great writers. He said, “how does it feel what you've done?”.
I said, “what have I done?”.
“You've changed the whole way that people look at this. You've changed…there's never been anything like this. It was the summer of Trump. Now it's the autumn of Trump; and…how does it feel?”.
And I said, “it doesn't feel anything. Because unless I win, I just wasted my time”.
He said, “you don’t have to win”.
I said, “yes, I do. Because if I don't win, I wasted my time”. You all understand that. I feel that way! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
So just to finish…it's so…it's so good.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
. The gang of 22 is right to be terrified. A president who could get things done would expose them as the irrelevant creatures they truly are. It can’t happen fast enough!”.
Now here's a conservative guy. [He] loves the conservative…everything. And he writes a story…that was so on. And not because he’s saying good about me! What he's saying about them is true. They make money being conservatives. I don't even think they care about the country.
A guy like a Glenn Beck? I mean, the guy’s a stone-cold loser. And honestly, if I would have done his show, he would have said great things about me. I didn't do his show! I understand it. You know what? If I were in his business, and I couldn't get somebody on my show…I'm busy, it's hard…and maybe I have a person that was too tough…; you know, when you start doing well, they get a little bit tough. [Do] you understand? They think they’re hot stuff.
Somebody calls, “well, I don't know…!”. You know, at the beginning that was a, “please, would you do an interview…?”. Now? “Well, you know, I don't know if we…”.
So maybe that happens! I don't know! I don't know who they called! But I know that…they couldn't get me on the show. I guarantee [that] if I would have done the show, he’d have loved me. But now he doesn't. So he…but…and I don't respect the guy! I've seen what he's done. I've seen what he's done. [He] got fired from Fox, all that. But he's gonna endorse…uhm…Ted today. And that's fine.
Ted has gone way down. I think we have a chance to win this big. Uhm…I…I won't go through…because we discussed some things today that…I never discussed at speeches. I mean, this is sort of a first time. I did some things today that I don't do, but…the primary thing that I'm doing…; we’re now down at crunch time. This is now crunch time. It's no longer…you know, five months ago, six months ago…it's no longer June sixteenth when I announced. And when everyone said, “well…”.
Number one they said I wouldn't run. And a lot of these guys are coming along! Some of them said he's a great, great political talent. Maybe the greatest we've seen in the century!
I said, “wow, did he…!”.
They said, “he makes speeches for an hour and a half without any notes!”. Not bad! I don't use teleprompters. Isn't that nice!? Isn’t that nice? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Jeb Bush actually said it was actually…I thought it was very nice! Jeb Bush's said, on Meet the Press a couple of weeks ago, they were talking about…he said, “I do admit he's a gifted politician. He's a gifted, gifted politician”. Then he said it again!
And I said…my wife said to me, “why is he saying that?”.
I said, “I don't know! I would be saying that about an enemy”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I'm not saying anybody's gifted. I’ll say they’re all stiffs. You know, it's easier than…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
But you know…no, look, he was saying it. But, no, but…[a] lot of these people have come a long way. You know, I mean they were embarrassed because they all knew that I wasn't running, and then I ran. And then they said, “well, he'll never…form”, you know, “he'll never file Form A”, which is a brutal form, where you basically sign your life away. And…I filed…I filed it. I signed my life away.
And then they said, “well, he'll never…uhm…file his financials. Because you know, he’s got this massive company. And he'll never file, because he's not as rich maybe as people think. And that'll be bad for him”. And I would have filed them anyway, even if I didn't run, cause I wanted to brag about what a great company I built…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. True. Nobody knows because I'm a private company.
But I filed these papers, and…everybody…you know, you've heard only good things. I mean, they…believe me, they've gone over every inch of them. And…uhm…my company's phenomenal. Some of the greatest assets in the world. And…tremendous cash, very little debt…; you know, all the…good things. And I…I don't tell you that as a bragging thing. I tell you that because that's the kind of thinking that our country needs. I don't care about my company! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
I don't care about…and…and this is true, cause I don't care…; and if somebody said, “well, would you have a conflict…?”.
I don't care about my company once. If I win this thing…I won't even be thinking about it. Ivanka will run it…; my kids will run it…; it's easy. I don't need to…; I don't need to be…; I don't wanna waste my time. Who cares!? This is so important. What…you know? This is historic! I mean, if I buy another building in Manhattan; or if I buy a building in Scotland. I have…Turnberry. The great Turnberry resort. I have Doral…! I have the great Doral Resort of Miami. One of the great resorts of the world. They fixed it. It’s incredible. It's brand new, it's beautiful, and all these things. I love doing it! But I have some of the great jobs in the world! And…Turnberry is where…they…they…you know, where they play the Open Championship. The biggest tournament in golf…that…used to be referred to as the British Open. But…the Open Championship.
And you know, I own the greatest stuff. And I may never even see it again…if you think about it. Because I'm not gonna be like Obama where I fly on a…old 747; spewing…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
You know, he talks about the carbon footprint. So he's giving a speech, “I think our biggest threat is global warming”.
Oh, what about ISIS? What about Russia? What about now…Putin. Putin call me a genius, that's good. But I don't know if he's playing with me. We have to figure that out…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But I think I'll get along great with Putin! Wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along well with Russia? Wouldn't it be a good thing? Is that…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS-…right? I think I'll get along great with Putin. I think I'll get along great with a lot of people. You know? I…I think I'm gonna get along great with a lot of people. I got along with Democrats. I got along, when I was, before I was doing this. I got along with the Democrats. With the Republicans. With the Liberals. With the Conservatives…; I get along with people!
But wouldn't it be great if we actually did get along great with Russia!? And if we got along…; so we wouldn't have to spend all of these tremendous funds? We’re gonna do that anyway, because we have to build up our military.
By the way, building up our military, especially for you guys…-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE FRONT ROW-…that's the cheapest thing to do! Because nobody's toying with us. Nobody's playing with us, okay?
We're decimating our military. I don't know if you know it. General Odierno left and he said, “we are least prepared…that we've ever been!”. He did that on a show. Cause all our generals, you know, they speak on when they go in to talk shows. I wouldn't want my generals…; I don't want my generals on talk shows fellas, do we agree? I don't want them on talk show. I don't want it! Because…you know what? They'll say one little half a sentence, and the enemy learns something. I don't want our enemy to learn. I wanna be unpredictable. We need unpredictability.
A deal I made…uhm…one of the reporters called, a financial deal, and they called this guy on the other side, where I actually won. They'd never talk about my good deals. Ever. If I hit a deal which is tough…and I make bad deals good, you know? The sign of a great business guy’s…I could have a deal where boom! I'm building the thing, and it's alive…everything's going good, then you have a depression, right in the middle. I've had…numerous of them…; I make those deals work! You gotta be able to make them work! Those are the good guys. But they never wanna talk about, like great deals! You…I…said…they called up recently.
You know who’s the worst? The Washington Post. First of all, it's a tax scam. Because the person that owns The Washington Post, as you know, has Amazon. And what's to keep his taxes down! So he uses The Washington Post for power, so that they don't raise taxes, okay? And…is it Amazon? Yeah, it's Amazon. And…uhm…it's a tax game. The whole thing is a scam. But they are the worst. They write the worst stories…! And they call up about some deal…that was…took place 22 years ago. I said, “wait, do you wanna hear about a good deal?”.
“No, no we're not interested in the good deals”. Oh, that's good! Cause I got…I…I got so many good…I said, “[Do] you wanna hear about some good deals?”. Washington Post is a tax scam. Remember that. Remember I said it. It's a way of buying influence, that's all it is. It's a bite, cause it's a losing newspaper. But it's a way of buying influence, so they don't raise taxes on a much bigger enterprise than The Washington Post. Just remember that. Nobody understands that stuff.
A lot of people…I said that once before. People said, “well, what do you mean? I don't understand”. They don't understand.
I said, “[If] you don't understand, I'm not gonna explain it to you”. But it's very simple. Total tax scam.
But…but here's the thing. We're gonna make our country great again. You have to go out. You have to caucus. If we lose this thing…and losing to me is going to be coming in number two…; now, everyone says to me, “please, don't say…”; even my people. “Please, don't say that. Please, don't say that!”. Because if I come in number two, I could have said that's a victory. It's not a victory. It's not a victory. Not for me. It's not.
And…I will tell you. It's possible we don't win. I mean, it's possible. And I'm gonna go to New Hampshire. And we're gonna win in New Hampshire. And we're gonna win in South Carolina. We’re gonna win in Nevada. We're gonna win the SCC. But Iowa hasn't had a winner in 16 years. You picked a lot of losers, folks…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. [You] picked a lot of losers. You have picked a lot of losers. You gotta get back on the ball.
One other thing…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS-…you gotta get back on the ball! I mean, if you vote for Ted Cruz…-SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… “I love your voice. If you sound like Pavarotti, my friend”…; if you vote for Ted Cruz, you're not gonna win. You're not gonna win. And there's a real question as to whether or not he can run, but you're not gonna win. You gotta pick a winner.
And…I think we're gonna win! So they're all telling me, “oh, please don't say that. Please don't say that”. Because, you know, when I say that, they will put my face up here today, “I think we're going to win”…and…if I lose, and they will have, “I think we're gonna win! Donald Trump came in second place and was humiliated”…-MR. TRUMP MOCKS THE PRESS. Okay? I'm not humiliated. And if I come in second, I’m not. And if I come in tenth, I'm not humiliated. You go on to the next, okay? That's the way life is.
But I think we have a really good chance of winning. I wanna win. And DonaldJTrump.com. You have to go. You have to caucus. No matter what you're doing, because I promise you one thing: we will make America great again, and one other thing for Iowa.
You know, they're talking about putting you in the back of the pack. I don't know if you know it. This is an amazing…I have so many friends in Iowa. I stay here! I have so many friends in Iowa now. There's such incredible people. And…this is an amazing tradition. The whole thing. Even the caucus concept. You know, it's different! It's different. Most people vote. It’s a lot easier. But there's something about the caucus it's really cool. It means you have to wanna do it, you know? It means you have to really wanna do it!
And…it's just an amazing tradition. And Iowa is an amazing, a great place. Uhm…I…I love so many of the people here. And I get along so well. I wanna thank all of the evangelicals what they've done. They've been so great to me. The evangelicals have been…unbelievable. You see how I'm doing with them, and they like me. They understand me!
And the pastor, who spoke so beautifully. I mean, this…there's so many people that…I've gotten to know, and really, really gotten to love!
So…on…February 1st…you gotta go out; you gotta do your thing, cause we wanna have a mandate. We wanna make it big. And I promise you I will…work…my…ass…off, and we're gonna make America great again, okay? Thank you! Thank you everybody!
Thank you everybody!
