VIDEO Nº: 89
TITLE:89. FULL Donald Trump Rally Lexington, South Carolina 1/27/16
DATE OF EVENT:27/01/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/01/2016
DURATION:00.42.04 Mins
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:8132
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Wow! Great book! Great book! Well, I wanna thank you.
You know, you have thousands of people outside! It’s crazy! It's crazy...-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
It’s…uhm…it’s been like this no matter where we go, it’s packed; and…I mean, they’re gonna have, uhm….I guess they’ve 4000 outside that are not coming in.
We could have maybe gotten a bigger barn…? As they said, wear a hat! They said to me, “wear a hat tonight…because we're in a barn”. But this is a pretty nice barn. It's a friendly barn! And that’s for sure, right?
So I just wanna thank everybody. I'll tell you what. South Carolina has been..with me from the beginning. But whenever I needed…see, I love, I love those polls…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, those are polls! But whenever I needed a little solace, when I thought maybe…some of the poles weren't looking so good, we’d come over here [to] South Something, [it] was always like a big, big margin. We’re just…killing everybody! It's like…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…amazing! Amazing people! You're amazing people. And it's an amazing state.
I wanna thank Henry. And I wanna thank Peg. And I wanna thank Henry junior, because that is a great family; and…uhm...and to have your endorsement is…; so respected, and I really appreciate it that I’m here. Really appreciated. Peg, thank you very much. Really appreciated…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. So nice!
Well, we're gonna get it don. You know, uhm…I sometimes start off, but...we have to start off a little bit differently. You know why? It’s getting to be crunch time. We’ve…gotta...do it. We're led by people that don’t…know...what they're doing. We have no idea. It's embarrassing! Isn’t it like embarrassing all the time!? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YEAH!’.
You know, I say, “we don't win anymore!”. We don't win,! We never win! When was the last time we had a win? We don't win anymore…ever! Ever! Even remember…our…our…sailors two weeks ago? So what did we do wrong? We did nothing! We did nothing. So all we did nothing, we did nothing. So all we did nothing, we did nothing. So they go little of course. [They] probably should  n’t have been there...but who cares, right? And these guys…are...in a banking position, ten people…; ten people...one woman, nine men, in a begging position…with their hands up high, and guns to the head their head. And…we made a deal with these people. We made a deal. We made a deal where we’re giving them a hundred and fifty billion dollars…-THE CROWD BOOS. No, think of it.
You know, the hardest part about…taking over that deal, cause they’ve gotta take over bad deals. I love to take over bad deals. You buy bad deals, you buy them cheap. Some of the guys here, we can…we really do. We have some great business people in this audience. I know about four of them. They're killers! Okay? I know them! They don't look like much. You know, they come into the t-shirt. I know one of them is a total killer…! I said, “you look like hell, but the mind is still good”...-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It’s one of those…;
But we have great business people here. And…when you look at the kind of deals that we’re making in the United States it's like…what are we doing? What are we doing? And we can't keep doing it! It can't happen!
So, we're gonna change things. But, it’s now…getting to be that time! Very soon you're gonna getting to get the chance to vote, and, you know, the polls…-SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-…”thank you, darling. I appreciate it. Where is she? She’s this one stuck in the corner back there? It's an amazing thing. No, it's amazing.
You know, in Dallas…we had 20,000, 21,000 people. In Mobile, we had 35,000 people...-THE CROWD CHEERS-…every place we go! Every place we go.
I would have loved…it's so nice outside. Let’s just go outside and do this, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. I don’t know. My only problem is these guys, The Secret Service guys mind…I don’t know…but I love that…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I love it! I love it! I love it!
But...uhm…we're going to do things. And…the key is…we have to mobilize. We have to get out and vote. And…every poll shows us so good; every poll…says it's going to happen. And I'll tell you what: once we get there, we're gonna beat Hillary. Hillary is not gonna be hard to beat. She's not gonna be hard to beat…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I mean, I assume it's Hillary. I assume. I assume. Cause, I don't know! I don't know! Is she gonna be the clinker…; is she gonna be? ...-THE CROWD CHEERS. I don't know! I don’t know!
I mean, General Petraeus, they ruined his life. They ruined his life! …over...like 2% of what she did. A General Petraeus…some many others….; and it looks like…boy, she's being so nice to Obama! I mean, so nice! “He's great; he's wonderful…”. I wonder why…can I do and figure that out? …-THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. It’s…uhm...something…it’s something that's going to happen, but we're going to beat…;
You know, in the polls…the most recent polls, we beat Hillary every time, and we beat her pretty easily. Are they okay!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Ooops! .Somebody went down. Okay, you just help her out…-MR. TRUMP REFERS TO SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. Good. Oh, I love you! We love her! Look at that! Thank you honey! We love you! We love...do we love our people!? ...-THE CROWD CHEERS.  Do we love…?
We love our people. There's a woman….; she waited eight hours…to be in the front row…and she faints. We got to bring her back, right!? Maybe she fainted at how good-looking. I don't know. I don’t know. Who the hell knows, right? But she's okay. She’s okay? Okay? Hey, right? Okay? Good. [If] she’s not okay, I'm not gonna be too happy.
So…we gotta get out; we gotta vote; and here's what we're gonna do:
When I started on June 16th, I made an announcement, the famous escalator ride. And it…it’s so hard! I mean, honestly, it's hard! It takes guts! Like…I love our police. By the way, do we love our police? ...-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We love them. We love them. They’re all over. They're the greatest people…; and it's hard! It's hard to do that. It's hard to do this. I’ve never done it before. I've never been a politician before.
And on June 16th, I went down the escalator. The famous escalator ride, with Melania. And I said [I] gotta do it! Too…many…things…were happening…; too many bad things! You look at our trade deals. And…in…in the case of farmers…by the way, how badly are you being treated with the regulations…? The farmers in this place…, and the farmers all over the country…are being treated almost as bad as our vets; which are being treated like the worst. You know the vets…are being treated...like the worst. Right? No, we're gonna change it! You know, the Vets, by the way, the vets…you have a case, it just came out…where they're waiting four, five and six days...to see a doctor…; at the end of the five or six days, sometimes the doctor leaves…because he's going on vacation…; I mean, things happen! And these people are dying…! And they’re lying by the thousands! I didn't even realize you….; They’re dying…by the thousands. And they’re, in the true sense, they're our greatest people! They wounded warriors, the Vets. Everybody said…we have illegal immigrants that are taken care of better...than our vets. It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s not gonna happen!
So...so I made the journey down the stairs. And down the escalator. And it looked like they were having the Academy Awards in Trump Tower. I've never seen so many cameras…. So…but look over here! Look back there! Look. Look at that! that's a lot of cameras, right!? …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE BACK WHERE THE CAMERAS ARE. THE CROWD CHEERS. I mean…that is a lot of cameras! But…and especially tonight, because you know, from here…from here, where do I go? ...-THE CROWD YELLS ‘IOWA!’. On to Iowa. What am I gonna do there? Who the hells knows!? We're gonna raise...you know what we're gonna do? We’re gonna raise a lot of money for the Vets. That’s what we’re gonna do….-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We are gonna raise...a lot of money! I’m going to Iowa tonight! We just came back. I was there yesterday. I was there last night. We just came back. And...it's an amazing state. And it's a very interesting state, because the whole caucus system is so different. And it really is. It's an amazing state with amazing people. I think we're do really well there.
Then we go to…New Hampshire, where we're leading very big…almost like here, in terms of the lead is…tremendous. We have like a 20-point lead. And…then we come here and…; you know, if we could do well in Iowa, I really think we could run the table.
Now, if we can’t, I think we're gonna win New Hampshire…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. But I think we're gonna run the table. If we can…if we can win Iowa, and we’re doing great; with the evangelicals…; with everybody! With the Tea Party…! And...I think it’s…going...to be…something…;
I think it's gonna be a great experience. Because what we have going…and it's really important! It's a movement! It's not like a normal situation! We're on the cover...and I say “we”. Cause it’s “we”. I’m like a messenger, it doesn't mean anything…! It’s “we”. We are the cover of Time Magazine. And if you read that story…it's the most incredible story about what's happened. And they used to call it the “silent majority”. Now they’re calling it the “noisy majority”. We're fed up...we're fed up! We’re just fed up with that’s going on!
Oh, look. Let me see that magazine. Let me see. Bring that up here…-MR. TRUMP TALKS TO A MEMBER IN THE CROWD. Bring that. I love this magazine! I never liked Time Magazine much until they started writing good about me, right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Right? No, you gotta get…this story is so incredible! Because it…look! It's me speaking to a lots of people…thousands of people…and everybody's in love with our country. They’er so disappointed…! Thank you, baby…-MR. TRUMP TOSSES BACK THE MAGAZINE TO THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD. THE CROWD LAUGHS.
So we're going to…start doing things. And…it…lots of…lots of things have happened. Lots of things have happened. And...now I have competition. We started off with 17 people, right? Am I allowed to talk about the competition? Nobody cares, right? I can say bad things.
First of all, Hillary…? [She’s] gonna be easy! Bernie…! Oh, poor Bernie…! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.  Oh, my god! Ugh! That’s...that’s like a dream. That's a dream! That’s a dream! Well, I don't know who's gonna happen. And maybe it’s Biden! You know, they're talking about Biden coming back, who cares!? It doesn't matter…-THE CROWD BOOS. It doesn’t matter.
But we have….competition. We have people that were born in Canada. We have….-THE CROWD LAUGHS. We have…guys like Rand Paul, they can’t even…he’s a the United States Senator, [and he] can't even get on the stage…! He goes…he’s… "I should be on the stage! I should be…!”.
We have all these people…Jeb Bush spent over a hundred…think of it: over a hundred…million…dollars…; and he's nowhere! He's nowhere! And he spent a lot on me! The only reason I mentioned his name…it’s so much…tens of millions of dollars…; every turn I turn on [the television] there’s an ad about me! And then I go up in the poll! There’s some problem with this ads, cause I keep going up in the poll! …THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, he spends…uhm…think of it! Think of it. He spends a hundred…million…dollars; he's got a hundred and twenty-eight million that he raised. You know, he's putting it up…? Donors…; lobbyists…; special interests…; and they go to Jeb…; and they go to Hillary…; and they go to…all of them! They go to Ted Cruz…! He's put…[he’s] got a lot of oil money put up…; and the banks...you know, the loans, and all that stuff…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. The loans…; the birthplace…; There's a whole mess there…! There's a big mess going on with Ted. I mean…; and his polls are sinking. He’s sinking like a rocket. He's nervous as hell. I watched him tonight. But he’s hitting me because he thinks that…maybe...I was not treated fairly. You know that, right? Does everyone agree with that? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…and you know, in life...cause when I fight for you, I'm fighting the same way. You have to be treated fairly. That’s why…if we would have walked away from the Iran deal…as an example. When  they said, "we want this…; we want that…;”. If we would have walked away…; for instance, our prisoners should have been back here three or four years ago, when they first…made prisoners…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. Not this stuff. This is baby stuff. And we should have walked in, and said, “we want our prisoners before we can start!”. Right? Call them “hostages”. But we want our prisoners before we start! If you don't give them, we’re not doing it! They're gonna say “no”; and we walk out and we leave! Right!? You just leave! That’s what you do! You leave!
And then you double up the sanctions, and they'll call up within 48 hours and they'll say, "we will…absolutely! …we’d love to give you your…prisoners”. And they’ll give them! And then you go back in the second time, and you say, "listen, you know that 150 billion dollars? We have a problem. We owe 19 trillion dollar. We don’t have any money…; cause it’s nice to be…. My father always used to say, “take the lumps out”. Rather than saying, "no you can't have it!”. You know, a stupid person goes, “no, you cannot have it!”. You don’t have to. You don’t have to. Just say, “hey, we don’t have any money…it’s…for…no good! We have no money. We can’t give you a hundred and fifty billion”. Can you believe!? Do you see where they're spending all the money!? In Europe! They're spending it…they’re giving it to Russia…; but they're going all over Europe! They ordered a hundred and fourteen plane…Airbus planes, made in Europe. Not Boeings. Not Boeings.
And did you see secretary Kerry the other night? Our great secretary. Right? Secretary of State. He said...-THE CROWD BOOS-…he said, “No! Well, we would expect some…uhm…money to be spent…some money to be spent on terror…”. Everyone said, “what? He just…did he just said…?”. In other words, they expected it. "We haven’t seen it yet…but it’ll happen probably…”.
Can you believe this!? Here we are, we gave them them a hundred and fifty billion…; did anybody see that!? …where he was…; he was talking the money…. They expect some of that money will go to terror. And I said to myself, "what are we doing!? Why are we doing it!? And what the hell are we doing!?”. We…need…great…people…in our country. We have the greatest negotiators in the world. We have the greatest business people in the world. We have to get with it, folks. Or we're not gonna have a country left. We're not gonna have a country left! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…I’ve been saying about the Iran deal…; I…I love talking about the Iran deal, cause it's impossible to believe
First of all, it's so simple to understand. They have a 24-day period. So…if they…we think they're building nukes in a certain place…24 days. What people don't tell you…is they have a lot of time…before the twenty...four days kicks in. Think of it! 24 days! Why can’t you go in and say, “let me the…let me take a look”, right? Why do you meet twenty…four...days? But the 24 days could be months and months, because there's a whole process before you start…before the clock starts ticking. Right? So…we have that.
Then we have an area where they self-inspect. “We think you're building nuclear weapons over there. Could you please tell us?” …-MR. TRUMP MOCKS THE IRANIANS. THE CROWD LAUGHS. “Oh, yes, we will...we'll self-…”.
[They] call up the next day, “no, no, no problem! We’re no building…”. It’s…-MR. TRUMP LAUGHS IRONICALLY-…isn’t…isn’t it ridiculous, now!? I mean, is it…is it…just ridiculous? So… you look at that. You see that. And it's going on all over the place.
Now they take the hundred and fifty billion…. They start buying missiles from Russia…[can] you believe it? Missiles. Frankly, the 24 days doesn't mean anything; self-inspection doesn’t mean…; because…[why] the hell do they have to worry about nuclear? The…you…with the money they have, they can just buy it! They’re gonna buy it! And you’re gonna have nuclear proliferation. And we didn't know. And by the way, for those people…I happen to be one of them, that…feel strongly about Israel…; Israel is…the word thing that ever happened to Israel is Barack Obama! The worst thing that’s ever happened! …THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The worst!
So…we’re gonna…I was endorsed by Carl Icahn. A great businessman. One of our great businessman. And so many others! In fact, they wanna have press conferences, right? And unlike the Senator, nobody knows who they are. Some of these guys are great! They are brutal, brutal people. “You would never wanna go…there”. I’m looking at this young, beautiful, young woman…-MR. TRUMP TALKS TO SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD-… “you wouldn't wanna have dinner with any of these people believe me. “Is that your father? Huh? You don't want your…it’s…it’s…believe me”. These are not nice people. Who cares!? They're great negotiators. We have the greatest negotiators in the world. We have the greatest…business…people…in…the world!
We're gonna use them down. We're gonna when we have to use with Japan. And when we have deals with China. So China, we lose…five…hundred…billion…dollars…a year in trade deficits. Five hundred billion dollars! How can you do this? By the way, this has been going on forever. It goes on forever.
What China has…and I love China; they treat me great…; I've made great deals with them…; I do…sell them apartments all the time…; They’re…I’ve banks that are [in] my building…the biggest bank in the world is one of my buildings…; [it] pays me a lot of rent. They love the building! I can't believe they wanna stay…it’s got my name on it…! But…uhm…I love to put my name on things, I have to tell you…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But they came in, I just extended their lease! And I'm rough on China! You know, I respect China! I’m not angry at China! I’m angry at our people! Because…I wish our people would negotiate the same way. Why should this be?
But…they come in the other day. The lease is…has to be extended. So they wanna extend. They only wanna be in my building. I say, “are you sure!?”. You know, I can’t even believe it! Cause who speaks tougher…about China? Look: China…and they know it! They understand it! They understand it is the truth, so therefore they don’t mind. China…it’s the greatest…theft...in the history of world, what they've done. It’s true! They’ve taken our money…; They've taken our our jobs…; They've taken our base…; They've taken everything! They've taken…so…much. And again, it's our fault! It’s not their fault! They can get away with it!
They talk about free trade. All these guys say, “well, Mr. Trump, you're not a free trader”.
I say, "no, no, you don't understand something”.
When China…puts it in here for something, and when I have friends...that cannot sell their product in China…. Because number one, they charge him so much much tax [that] it's impossible to believe. They call it a “tariff”. But they charge so…much…tax…[that] it’s impossible to believe. When they do that, folks, it's not fair! It's not fair! We're being ripped off at every…single…level of government…. And that's why we owe 19 trillion dollars! And then we make a budget like we did two weeks ago…it’s gonna add another two trillion dollars, right? “You see that!”…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A MEMBER IN THE CROWD. She’s waving. She’s agreeing with me and she's like really young and she even agrees…! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But…we can't do this! So we're gonna be at 21 trillion dollars. We're gonna make this country so strong…; so great….
Let’s start talking about a couple of areas. We are going to create the border. So powerful, right? …THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So powerful.
You know, when I…uhm…when I started…this…journey, it's a journey…! It’s actually a journey. But when I started this journey…I talked about…-MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT… “We’re gonna build a wall”. Who’s gonna pay for the wall!? Tell me!  …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. A hundred percent! Hundred percent! All right, we’ll talk about that.
But when I started, you know I…I gave my speech, and I talked about illegal immigration. It was like the world fell in. Nobody was talking about world father. Nobody was talking about world father. Nobody was talking about illegal immigration! And then two or three weeks later, everybody came back. Everybody was sort of coming…toward me. They said, “you know, maybe he’s right”. Then you had the killing of Kate, in San Francisco; by an illegal immigrant, who came in five times. [He] shot her in the back! Beautiful Kate. Great Kate: And Jamil in Los Angeles…; and…so many others! The…the female…person…the person…; this wonderful woman! She was a veteran! [She was] Raped, sodomized, and killed in Los Angeles…; about three months ago…by the illegal immigrant. And…[he] should have never been here. We…he should have never been allowed to be here.
So what we're going to do…is we're going to have tremendous borders, And we're gonna build a wall. It's gonna be a real wall. It’s gonna a beautiful wall. It’s gonna be big, strong…nobody’s coming through the wall…. The only way they're coming through is if they come through legally. Okay? Or…we're just…we’re just not gonna have a country! We’re just…not going to have a country.
So I gave the speech…and I talked about illegal immigration. I talked about Mexico. I talked about a lot of things. It turned out to be all true! And…of a sudden, everyone was saying, “oh, this is brutal! He's never gonna…he's gonna fade very fast”. Well, you know, up, up, up.
Remember when the numbers started coming in? I started at 3…I wasn’t too happy…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I started at 3; then went to 6; then went to 12…; then it started just like…it was like a rocket ship. Yesterday we had a poll. Forty-two…can you imagine! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Forty-two. Actually, I hate to say…there’s one state that is beating you: Florida. Forty-eight…in Florida! Forty-eight to eleven…; to twelve…; and to nine…! I mean,  we're 48 in Florida, which is a very, very important stay for us. I mean, really, really important.
So…all of a sudden really important, though, these poll numbers start coming in. Then CNN were those all those cameras back there….; CNN does a poll…and they say, “who's best on ISIS?”. Trump. By a lot! I don't mean by like…even 48, I mean like…more!
“Who's best on security?”, “who's best on the economy?”. Trump. …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘TRUMP!’. I will be…the greatest jobs president…that God ever created! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, it’s true! We need jobs!
No, I mean, when I look. Look. When I look at some of these…-MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… “are we gonna take care of women?”. Do we love women? Right!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. See!? See, here I can say: We respect women…; we cherish women...; we love women…; and thank you. Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you. Thank you very much.
I…I like this woman. She’s fantastic. It's called…it’s called spirit. But we are going…and we are gonna take care of going…; and we are gonna take care of women; we are going….
You know, when you look at women's…health…issues…; I saw where Jeb Bush was asked about it, and he said, “no, no, we don't wanna put money into that”. I wanna put money into that! We’re going to put! There's women's health issues…that…some people don't wanna fund! You know that! And…we're gonna take of…everybody!  We're gonna take care of everybody.
But I’m We're doing well with women…for a lot of reasons. But one thing is they feel…they want security in the country. And everybody feels that I will give us the best security in the country. And I will…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I will.
And…we are going to build…we are going to build our military…so big…; and so strong…; and so powerful…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…right? There’s nobody…nobody…I mean, nobody gonna be taken advantage of us.
And you know, it's funny. So with…Iraq. Everyone said…like…I…I…know…remember when we had…uhm…Hillary. She said, “I don't like his tone!”. They’re chopping off heads in the Middle East, and she's worried about my tone. “I don't like his tone…! It's not nice!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Okay? “It’s not nice”.
And Jeb said the same thing! And they said it the same day! Jeb Bush didn't like my tone! Here's a guy [that] wastes a hundred million dollars, right!? And he doesn't  like my tone! It’s just crazy!
By the way, speaking of Jeb…he's in favor of Common Core, is the worst thing there could be…-THE CROWD BOOS. And he’s very, very, very…think of this…weak on the border! Remember, “they come in…”… “people come in as an act of love”. You can’t have that! Whether…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLÑE. MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES IT-… “he’s a nice person”…or not…. We don't need…; I…do we care of…if a person’s nice!? Today…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLÑE. MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES IT-… “we don’t need nice”. We’re tired of the nice ones, right? We’ve had plenty of nice. We’ve had plenty…we’ve had plenty of nice.
But I was thinking about it. So you have - but a guy like him, who spent over a hundred…million…dollars on a failed campaign. Right? Over a hundred million. He’s here…right? …-MR. TRUMP SHOWS WITH HIS HANDS-…and he’s money is here. He spent this much.
Me!? My campaign…I'm number one, by a lot! …and I haven’t spent any money…I feel guilty! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. I…I…you know, I spent. I spent a little mony. But very little. Relatively…like almost nothing.
Now, I'm going to start! Right? Why am I gonna start? Because…I feel…guilty! Right? And because I don't wanna take any chances! I don't wanna be cute! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, I’m gonna start.
I'm 38 million dollars under budget. I gonna have 38 million dollars spent. Well, actually like 44 million dollars spent, right up to this point. I spent like nothing! And it's almost like, “how can you?”.
So you go on television…like tonight I did O'Reilly. Bill O'Reilly. Good guy, right!? In fact, when you go home, you'll see the second Bill O'Reilly, the one that comes on, whatever the hell time. Like at 11 o'clock like. But he’s a good guy. It was a tough interview! I have to tell you! It was an interesting interview, but you’ll see it when you go home.
But when you think…. So you have somebody…who spends money and is here. Think about this: our education.  We have the Common Core, it’s not working. We spend  more…than any…country…in the world on Education. Any by country in the world! By far! It’s not even close! It’s like we’re here…-MR. TRUMP SHOWS WITH HIS HANDS-…and the second per…second country…is…off the charts. Your best countries are Norway…; Sweden…; China…; in terms of education, right?  They’re number one, two, three…; we’re number twenty-eight. So we spent the most…and we have like one of the worst results. We have third-world countries…that do better than us. Third-world countries.
Wouldn’t it be nice…if it was like my campaign? Where…we spend the least and we have the best. Isn’t that…? Wouldn’t that be nice? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s what we have to do! We can do that! That’s what we have to do. All right.
So…I'm running against these people. And…you know, again, some are very nice people. I won’t…I refuse to say badly about…you know, bad about some of them. I refuse it. I can’t do it. Meh, okay, so I will…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
By the way, we got the endorsement of Sarah Palin…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You saw that. Right? Right? Do we love Falwell? Do we love Jerry? We love Falwell. One of the great people. I’ll tell you what: what’s he’s done at Liberty is great. And the…beautiful thing about…Liberty University…virtually every…candidate has gone…to Liberty University…; made a speech…at the most beautiful campus you've ever seen…; everybody goes down…; it's an incredible school. And…Jerry Falwell Jr. came up and…he chose us. We…got a call, as you know, three, four days ago, and…he’s endorsing Trump. That’s tells so much because everybody goes there! Everytbody wants to go there! Everybody does go there It tells you so much. Sarah Palin tells you so much!
We got an endorsement from…Sheriff Joe [Arpaio]. Does everybody know? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay? How tough is…? I mean, this is a man! This is no games with Sheriff Joe. He likes our border position. When he says “good”, that means I have the best border position. Let's face it, right?
But…we have…certain people that we have…to beat! And…we have to beat to get there. But a couple reasons, and a couple of things a lot of people don't even know. I'm self-funding my campaign. I'm not getting money from all these people….-THE CROWD CHEERS. So…so very importantly, I'm not getting…I'm putting up…and you know what? I get offered millions, and millions, and millions of dollars. I feel millions so foolish not taking it! My whole life I've taken money. Right?  I've taken. “I want. I want…”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. You’re like greedy. “I want more. I want more”.  Now, I do, but I want it for the United States. We’re gonna take in money. We’re gonna take in money. We’re gonna take it in…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’re gonna take it in. We’re gonna bring it in.
But I have these candidates, and they say all sorts of things…and…uhm…; a bunch of it is…well, some of it is right! I mean, frankly, some of it is right. Uhm…one of them…uhm…Ted Cruz is talking about domain: “Donald Trump…is in favor of eminent domain!”. And Ted is a great debater, but he’s not a good speaker. Do you know what I mean? When you talk to him, it’s like you’re in a debate: “Hello, Donald, how are you!?”…-MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES MR. CRUZ IN A THEATRICAL VOICE. THE CROWD LAUGHS. It’s like… woah!
No, no, he’s a good debater. I like him. Although, who the hell won the last debate!? Did Trump win it!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Actually…! Can you believe we’ve already had six debates? Can you believe how far…!?
When I did this I’d never debated before! I’d created jobs…; I do deals…; I do buildings…; I do stuff all over the world…; I’d never debated! So…I get on the stage, like a number of months ago for the first debate…I had no idea! It worked out fine…; I got a very unfair question from somebody but we don’t even talk about that…-THE CROWD BOOS-…we don’t talk about that. I refuse to…; I refuse…I refuse to talk about that.
But…but every single poll…you know, they have dating…thy’ve everything! They have polls for everything! But…every…they have…these debating polls. And every…single…I think just about it, at least. I have to say “just about”, cause if there’s like…one out of sixty, they'll…I’ll…I’ll have a headline tomorrow: “Donald Trump exaggerated…!”.
But virtually every…single…poll…; Time magazine…; Drudge…who’s a phenomenal guy, by the way…; all of these different polls…Slate. They came out, and [said that] Trump won the debates! Every…every debate. I mean, every debate. Right from the beginning…which is great! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And then the last debate, where they talked about…uhm…New York values…; and New York City values…; and it was a terrible thing, frankly. Cause I was there, and I saw what people went through. And I saw the death. And I saw the destruction. And I'll tell you what. Everybody loved New Yorkers. New Yorkers are…actually very good people. And…and they have a lot of energy! They have a lot of energy! High energy! As opposed to…Jeb! Nah…they have high…they have…-SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD SAYS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE-… “thank you man”. They have high energy!
But…so we went in, and we have the debates…but they talked about eminent domain. That Donald Trump loves eminent domain! I don’t love anything! I mean, eminent domain…;
So here's the story:  they take your property, because they have to build a highway. They take a piece of it! They might take the corner of it…!; they might take more of it….!; they might take less of it…!; But…eminent domain is a taking! Now, when they take your property they pay you a fortune. If you’re smart! Because they pay you fair market value for your property.
But if didn't have eminent domain…you…and did you see these characters? These…stupid…22 people. They wrote these things from this dying magazine…it’s called The National Review. Play…[the] thing is death as a doornail! No, no, it’s dead! They say, “we are conservatives!”. And somebody…somebody said, “Donald Trump is not a true conservative!”. I’m trying to say…what’s wrong with these people? They are so out of it!
So they talk about eminent domain. So…! Without eminent domain, you don't have roadways…; you don't have railroads…; you don't have hospitals…; you don't have schools…; you don’t have anything!
So they say, “he loves eminent domain”. I don’t love it! You need it! You gotta build a road…! You gotta build a highway…! You gotta build a railroad!  Excuse me! All these people like the Keystone pipeline, right? They all like the pipeline, right? They these people like the Keystone pipeline, right? They all like the Keystone pipeline. You wouldn't get 10 feet of the Keystone pipeline without eminent domain! And they take ads, “Donald Trump…likes…eminent domain!”. And this is what I go through.
Then we have…and I told him! I said to Ted! Ted…you…have…a problem! Ted Cruz was born…in a place called Canada.  Has anyone ever heard of Canada? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’. Right? He was born in Canada…it’s a big problem. Lawrence Tribe, a…great constitutional lawyer from Harvard said It’s a problem! It’s…you know, , unsettled law. He called it ‘unsettled law’, meaning…there’s a big doubt.
So you have many lawyers coming up saying it’s un…settled…law! Meaning who knows!?
Now, the Democrats have already started a suit. But they're gonna start a major suit if he ever got the nomination. So how can a guy…run for office when he's got this cloud over his head? You know, on real estate, they call it…well…you know what it is. [It’s] called cloud on title, right? It's got a cloud! It’s a cloud on title! He’s got a cloud on title! It's called “he was born in Canada!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He was a citizen of Canada until 15 months ago! Now he said he didn't know that. He didn't know! Smart guy! He didn’t know! He didn't know he was a citizen of Canada!
Here’s a guy [who] was a United States senator from Texas, he was a citizen of Canada…and he didn't know! So he's got a problem.
Then another couple of constitutional lawyers, just yesterday, came out. And they said, “no, no, it's not just, you know, unsettled. It is settled!”. You’re not allowed to do it! You saw that. They came down…you’re not allowed to do it.
Now, here’s the thing. Nobody in this room knows whether you can do it or can’t do it. But it’ll take years to figure it out in court! And I said, “go for what’s called a declaratory judgement”. You go into the court…; you ask the court for a ruling…; because…it’s… unsettled law! You ask…the court…for a ruling.
But how can a guy…and he's sort of in second place…and he’s…way, way behind…frankly…which I’m very happy about. But…how does a guy run…and then be very critical…of me? He’s always critical. How does a guy run…? But of course, everybody’s critical. I mean…uhm…today I heard a couple people say such nasty things about me! It’s…these are nasty…these politicians, you know? They're all talk, no action…but they are nasty people. They’re terrible…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
But you say to yourself, “how does the guy run…for the office of president…when there is a very major possibility…that he’s not allowed to do it!? It’s a real problem! So you gotta go and find out! And it has had an impact! Because I think 36 percent of the people considered it to be unsettled law….and many of them considered it to be much more than unsettled law. And you have to be able to do it. And I don't bring it up, so I won’t bring it up. Okay? Is that all right? I’m not gonna bring it up…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But it's a problem! Okay? It’s a problem.
Then…in the case also of Ted, you do a personal…financial…disclosure form. And you have to sign it, and you’re sort of signing your life away! Now, he borrowed a lot of money….as you know, from Goldman Sachs and from Citibank! You gotta…you have to say that! Because he wants to be Robin Hood…; he wants to convince everybody that he's the most honorable guy in the world… “and he's gonna fight for you! And those banks aren't gonna anything! And they’re not gonna…; we are…we have the banks totally under control”. So he didn't put his banks down.
So now it finds out that…he had a million dollars…at very favourable rates. From Citibank and from…Goldman Sachs. Golmand Sachs, okay? You’re gonna have a problem there, folks! I mean, we’re gonna have a problem!
So the nice part about me…is that…I don’t have any of that stuff. I don’t have it! I’m putting up my own…; I’m not…I’m not into Goldman Sachs…; I don’t care about Goldman Sachs . I built a great company…; very important…! When I…ran, a lot of people said, “oh, he’ll never run!”, right? All these pundits. These geniuses. These people back there…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. Morons! You are morons! Okay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, they are morons. The pundits. Really smart. They are the worst! They’re the…uhm…;[U1] 
I…I think knowingly too. I think they’re probably, not actually, as dumb as we think. I think they knowingly say the wrong thing. But you know what happens…? You know what happens? It’s sort of interesting. They said, “Donald Trump will never run. He’ll never run…uhm…don’t worry about it”. Then I…well, then I ran. I announced.
He said, “oh, he announced! Oh…you know”, like George Will. He’s got the little spectacles, right? Those little tiny…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And he looks like a genius because of the spectacles. But if you took the spectacles off this guy…he wouldn’t look…he’d look like a dummy, okay? Which is what he is. So anyway…!
So… “Donald Trump will never run”. Then I ran. Then he said, “Well, he’ll never sign Form A!”. That’s where you sign your life away, right? You sign…you know, your name, your life is…like…over. It’s like…brutal! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So you sign your life away, right? I signed Form A.
Then he said, “well, he’ll never ever…show his corporate papers and show all of his papers, because maybe he’s not as rich as everybody thinks”. So…I put them in.
And then they said…, “and he’ll never do it…fast…the worst is he’ll take…forever!”. You know, you get all these extensions in government. You need 45 days…another 45 days…; you can extend…forever! I said to my accountants, and I paid them a lot of money…whose a largest…a thing…ever put in to the…uhm…federal elections…and by far. Almost a hundred pages.
I said to my…people, “I wanna get in early. I don’t want any extensions. Just get it done!”. These guys worked 24 hours a day…did a great job…! They put it in. The press…they were like…like…you have a…you have...you know, scavengers. You never saw anything like it. They were waiting! They were gonna find…, “oh, Trump is not as rich as we thought. We hope this time…”. And then they found out, “wow!”. I built a great company!
In fact, what they don’t know is…if I decided…cause I was really undecided. Even if I wasn’t gonna run, I was gonna submit my financials. Can you believe it? Cause I wanted to brag about the company I’ve built! I’m a private company! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…I built…I built a great company…; and…it’s got some of the great assets in the world. You know, Miami Beach Doral, [a] country club and…I’ve got so many others…; it’s Turnberry, in…Scotland, on the ocean. Eight hundred acres on the ocean. And…all of these companies. These are great, great…buildings…; they’re great…jobs…; and I have many other businesses. In addition to writing The Art of the Deal and many books! In addition to The Apprentice, which is one of the most t successful shows on television…!
And I…by the way, NBC wanted to renew! And I said, “[I] can’t do it!. I mean, I can't do it…!”. Because you are not allowed to do that if you run for office…; you know, the whole thing. It’s [a] little complicated thing. So we chose Arnold Schwarzenegger. How will Arnold do, by the way? How do you think of it? Who’s gonna be better, Arnold or Trump…-THE CROWD YELLS ‘TRUMP!’. Yeah, I think so. You gotta be very quick to do that show. When you’ve have Omarosa and these people…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…you’ve gotta be very…quick! You cannot be slow-moving. You gotta move! Your…lips, have to move them; The mouth has to move. The body has to move. So it’ll be interesting to see. But I hope he does well, because I have a big chunk of it. So we’ll see.
You remember Martha [Stewart] did, right? Right? Right? …-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘FIRE OBAMA!”. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… “Fire Obama”. President Obama? No, I would have saved him. Let me save him for something. We’ll all do together. We have to save that for the big leagues, right? We have to save that. We’re gonna be together. We're gonna have some of the four, five thousand people outside. We gotta get them together for that one. Don't we agree!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. I mean, these poor people, they are standing out there….! They probably think they're getting in; they’re not getting in!  I’m gonna out of here, you’re gonna be out of here, [and] they’re gonna be still standing! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So anyway!
So…things are gonna happen…with our country. What did happen, though…I talked about the border. I talked about trade. I talked about China. I talked about Mexico. How Mexico is just killing us. And they’re good people! I have thousands of Mexicans and…Hispanics that work for me…; I'm winning the polls with Hispanics in Nevada! They just had a Hispanic poll, I’m winning; …which I always said I would.
I'm doing unbelievably with African-american in the polls…! With the African-americans. We’ve have won 21 percent. Republicans get 7 percent and 6 percent. Somebody said, “if he actually got 25 percent…of the african-american vote…the election is over”. Is over! So…we’re gonna do great…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’re gonna do great.
And you know why? Because I bring back jobs!  We're gonna bring jobs back from China. We're bringing jobs back from Japan! We're bringing them back from Mexico! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. We're not gonna let things happen like, as an example, Pfizer is moving to Ireland! This big, massive, drug company. Moving to Ireland! Because of taxes. And other reasons: And they can't bring their money back. Corporate inversions.
So…we’re gonna do so many things. You're gonna be so happy. You're gonna be so proud. So, just…leave it on this. Look: it is…an unbelievable honor…to have done what I’ve done. People are calling…even people that can’t stand me, like some of them…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS-…but one in particular, who’s a highly respected writer. [He] said, “nobody's ever done what we've done…what we've done! Nobody’s ever…”. We’ve totally changed the dialogue of…of politics! That's why… the cover of Time Magazine.[U2]  Nobody’s ever done it!
 We you are going…to do something that's gonna be so special. This is a movement that is so special. We are gonna win in so many different aspects. We don't win  now; we don't win anymore. We’re gonna start winning so much…!  We're gonna win on trade. we’re gonna win with the military. I mean, can you imagine…? We have a military that can't beat ISIS. Okay?  Now, ISIS, they say [that are] 30,000 people. Can you imagine General Douglas MacArthur saying, “well…we can’t do it”? And I see these people! They’re on talk shows, the military people…saying how tough ISIS is!
General George Patton, I mean he would be…he would get them before he got over to the talk show, but he doesn't do talk shows! Okay?
We will beat…we will have our military great. We're gonna take care of our vets…so well! We’re gonna take care of…we have to take care of our vets-…THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We have to take care of them. We're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare, which is a total…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…total…disaster. It’s a disaster! We’re repealing and replacing Obamacare.
You know, I don't know if see…I mean, I know you see it, otherwise you wouldn't have just gone crazy like that, your premiums have gone up 25, 35, 45 percent! …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YEAH!’. Your…your deductibles are worse than your premiums, you never get to use it. You have to die to use it! …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YEAH!’.
Your…your…the Obamacare is a disaster. It's going to die on its own weight.  Because in 17’…unless the Republicans give up more money and keep extending! The Republicans are making it possible!
You know, look. We know where the Democrats are coming from, okay? We understand that. The problem we have is these Republicans that we send to Congress…and their hard-lined: “we're gonna stop Obamacare! We're gonna fight ISIS…!”. They’re all this hard… Then all of a sudden, they get to Washington! They look at the angels on the ceiling…; …-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…they look at the beautiful columns…; they look look at the beautiful marble floors…; and they just keep raising their hand. What happened to them? That's not gonna happen to me! It's not gonna to me. Not gonna happen to me…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…I…I’ll leave you with this: very soon. It’s gonna be happening. You know, uhm…on February 1st , we started off. You know who we start with, right? Iowa. Unbelievable people. Unbelievable place. I think we're gonna do great there.
 
We start with Iowa. We go over to New Hampshire. And then guess where we are. We’re here…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And for that period of a week and a half…I’m gonna be here so much…[that] you’re gonna be so sick of me! I’m gonna be here. We don’t wanna take chances. You’re gonna say, “get the hell out of here Trump! We can’t stand you anymore!”.
But let me just tell you something. We’re gonna win and then we’re gonna beat Hillary or whoever the hell they put in front of us. We're gonna beat them. Cause nobody's got this going…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And folks, I started off by saying we don't win anymore. We are gonna start winning. We're gonna win with the military, right? We're gonna win at the borders. We're gonna win with trade. We're gonna win with healthcare, and Obamacare is gonna be gone…but we’re gonna win with healthcare. We're gonna win so much…! …you're gonna be so proud…of your president. You're gonna be so proud of your country.
 I love the people of South Carolina. From day one I’ve loved them. We will be back a lot. Take care of yourselves. Make sure you vote! You've gotta vote!
 We love you!


