VIDEO Nº: 114
TITLE:114. FULL - Donald Trump Rally in Bluffton South Carolina
DATE OF EVENT:17/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:17/02/2016
DURATION:00.42.19 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:6305
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Thank You!
IN THIS VIDEO, MR. TRUMP IS INTERVIEWED BY MR. BILL LUKE.
 Hi Bill. You know, I said I was gonna come back. Remember last time? We had thousands of people. So, we had…people outside. So, we said, “we'll come back”, but we can only invite 500 people. So that's what we did. We have invited 500. Now people are going crazy, why weren't they invited…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…but, we invited the 500 people that we didn't get to the last time. So, I hope you enjoy it, okay? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.00.55:
Well, it's been an amazing experience. I've had a lot of fun. You probably saw the new polls that came out today. They've been fantastic. And…one just came out in Nevada where I'm at a number that's…beyond…belief, actually. Maybe I don't even have to go there at campaign! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I don’t know, it’s…; but it's been…uh…it's been an amazing experience…; uh…winning New Hampshire was great. We did really well in…Iowa. [We] should have won. But…uh, frankly, to be honest with you, somebody stole a lot of Ben Carson's votes, uh…and got himself a little extra cushion. We should have won that.
 But…uh…there's a lot of dishonesty in politics, I will tell you. Tremendous dishonesty. These people are…some of them that we're running against, in particular…uh…senator Cruz, he'll say anything. He'll say…uh…for instance, I'm very strong on the Second Amendment [and] he'll say, “Donald Trump doesn't like the Second Amendment. He wants to get away with it…do away with that.
I say, “where does he come up with this stuff!?”. And every speech I make, I talk about [the] Second Amendment…; I talk about different things…! Obamacare, you know, I'm…gonna get rid of Obamacare. We're gonna come up with a great, great plan…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. But Cruz will say…it's the most incredible thing, but Cruz will say, “Donald Trump loves Obamacare”. I love Obamacare…! Every single speech since it came out, I said [that] we're gonna get rid of it.
So, they really…I mean, they lie and…the reason I can say that nicely is that Rubio called him a liar also…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So once another guy called him a liar, it’s easier for me to call him a liar. But really, Cruz does lie. I've never seen anything quite like it.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.02.37:
Okay. Well, we're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. We're gonna get rid of ISIS. We have to! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. And…just so you understand, I didn't want…and it was very important to me. I didn't wanna go into Iraq. And it’s…you know, a long…time ago, 2003-2004. But even before then, I was totally against the war, because [I said that] you're gonna destabilize the Middle East. And I went into it very big league. “You're gonna destabilize the Middle East”. But, they went in. Then Obama got us out the wrong way.
But we have to get rid of ISIS! I mean, you know, maybe don't go into Iraq originally. We should have never ever gone in! But we did. So, we made a mistake. The country made a big mistake. And…[we/it] started all of this horrible thing that you see taking place, including ISIS.
But now you have ISIS, and they’re chopping off people's heads. They're chopping off Christians heads. They’re chopping off anybody's head. And…we gotta knock them out. We're gonna knock them out so strong. We're not gonna play games.
We're gonna make our military strong and powerful again. And, believe me, it's the cheapest thing we can do, because nobody's gonna mess around with us. We have no choice. It's the cheapest thing we can do!
Our military has been decimated. It's been absolutely decimated. And it's…you know, it's not in good shape. Believe me. In fact, general Odierno, when he left, he said it's…in terms of preparedness, it’s the least prepared it's been in a long time. We are going to make…our military…absolutely…strong…and powerful again. And we’re…we’re just…we don't wanna use it! But we have to have it! It's, actually, like a preventative. It's the cheapest thing we can do. So that's…totally important.
And we've gotta take care of our vets. We're gonna take care of our vets. Our vets are being treated terribly. We're gonna take care of our vets…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.04.24:
Right, we're gonna build a wall, folks. And no one…none of these politicians are gonna build a wall cause they don’t…know where to begin.
They come to me and they say, “you're not really gonna build a wall. Are you?”.
I said, “of course, I’m gonna build the wall”. The reason is…and it's simple. First of all, I know how to build…what I know how to do best is to build. Wouldn't it be nice to have a president that knew how to build…because we have to rebuild our country…? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
And knew how to negotiate! You know, I…I'm building a hotel that, actually, I got from the…uh…government. Can you imagine? The…the Obama administration. I got it from…the Old Post Office, on…Pennsylvania Avenue. Between the White House and the Capitol building. And…right smack in the middle. Best location. Right on Pennsylvania Avenue. And it's…under budget, by…a lot…! And it's two years ahead of schedule! And somebody in government said, “we've never heard of that before”. It’s under budget, ahead of schedule. It's two years ahead of schedule!
So, we’re gonna open it in September, and it was gonna open in a couple of years in September. But that's nice! Cause we know how to do that. Having…somebody…that has that ability…I've always had the ability: under budget, ahead of schedule. Having that ability when we have to rebuild our infrastructure…cause our country is crumbling: our airports…, our roadways…, our highways…, our bridges…, our tunnels…; hospitals…! I mean, everything we have, it's…it comes in…when you look at the way they build, it comes in double, triple, quadruple…! Let me tell you, people are making a lot of money off our country. They're not gonna make so much money…anymore.
And…here’s the other thing: I'm self-funding my campaign. So, I'm not controlled by the special interest, the pharmaceutical companies, and the…uh…all of the different…interests. Whether it's…the electrical companies…, the utilities…; they have…hundreds of them! They control the politicians, because they contribute. I don't take the money. So, I'm self-funding. I don't know if I get any credit for that, to be honest with you. I'm not sure, but…but I'm self-funding. [It’s] costing a lot of money…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. [It] costs a lot of money, but…[paa1] 
You know, the nice thing is they can't come to me and say, “well, we gave you money!”. You know, Ford, or General Motors, or somebody: “we owe you a lot of money. We need this. We need...we need that”. I'm gonna do what's right for you, folks. Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.00.55:
Oh, I get treated so badly! I mean, I was watching Fox this morning. They treat me so badly…! Fox treats me…like worse than anybody! Uh…but I…I get treated very badly by the media. I don’t even know…; I…I don't really understand why. They have pundits on that are…just one after another negative, negative, negative…it started where…actually nobody…you know, they all thought I wasn't gonna run.
And…they said, you know, “he’ll never run you. He'll never run”. And I ran. And then they look bad. And then they…just…they don't stop. And some of them have become much better. But I think Fox in particular, treats me so badly [that] it's incredible.
Uh…but…uh…it doesn't matter, I guess. Look…uh…we're leading in the polls by a lot. We won New Hampshire in a landslide…! It was a landslide victory. We won every…single…group. We won highly educated…, not educated…; we won women…; we won men…! We won young…; we won old…; we won every…virtually every group, I think. Every group! And…uh…it was an amazing victory. And uh…[it was] something really special.
But…uh…you know, I'm finding out [that] all I could do is tell the truth. You know, I tell the truth…about Iraq! I say, the war was a disaster. We spent two trillion dollars. [We] Lost thousands of lives. Thousands of lives…! We have wounded thousands all over the place, and…I…I love the wounded…; I mean, these guys have more courage than all of us put together. I have to tell you. All of us! And…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and…you know, I…I said, we should have never been there. And…you know, if…if Bush is insulted, I don't care if he's insulted. What difference does it make? It was a horrible mistake. We should have never been there.
Somebody says, “oh, that's not good, to criticize”.
I said, “criticize!? It’s one of the worst decisions in the history of our country, to go in!”. We've…totally destabilized the Middle East, which I predicted! I should get credit for vision! Because I predicted that [that] was going to happen! Because when you knocked out the one power, the other power just took it over!
Now Iran is taking over Iraq, just as sure, as you're sitting there. That…we…don't even have anything to do with Iraq anymore! We're gone! But think of it: we spent two trillion dollars! [We] could have rebuilt our country…! We could have done so much with that money…! And instead, we’re…worse in the middle than we were 15 years ago! I mean, right now, it's a disaster!
Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? Bad guy! But you know what he was good at? Killing…terrorists! They had no terrorists. We don’t have…; he was killing terrorists! Now, Iraq is Harvard…for terrorists. If you wanna be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It’s Harvard. And…what the hell…? What did we do!? You know, we spent all this money. [We] lost all these lives.  [We] have all these wounded warriors…; what do we get!?
And, Iran is taking…not only do they get the 150 billion, in this stupid deal that we made. The one of the dumbest deals I've ever seen. Ever! But now, they're taking over Iraq, that we…we handed them…! They've been fighting for years to try and take other over! Well, we decapitate the one country. They're now taking over. And people don't realize [that] Iraq has the second…largest…oil…reserves…in the world. So, we took it, and we just hand it to them on a silver platter. How…could we…have been…so stupid…? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
[It’s] very sad. I mean, honestly. It’s a…it…to me, it's a sad…it’s a sad subject to talk about.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.10.00:
Who is the Bernie guy…? Who is he…? Is there…? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Is there a Bernie guy? Oh, I guess he got thrown out. I guess…! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I don’t know, I don’t see him now.
Uhm…no, look. You know, this is…uh…something…and…and the main thing is you have to go and vote and all that. But if you don't vote for me, don't go vote. You know, I'd like to…; it’s a nice thing to say, “you have to go vote”. Did you ever hear these politicians? “It doesn't matter who you're voting for, but you must go out and vote”. I don't feel that way. If…just go and vote if you're gonna vote for me.
But it is so important. On Saturday you have to…; and it is true! We had such…an unbelievable turn out…! This was so, so great. And I…I…did I promise you that I'd come back and take care of the people? Other people forget that! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
Now, we have so many people…! They wanted to come, we said, “you can't come”. This was for the group of people where they got stuck outside. And there are…a lot more than this. But they invited 500…exactly 500 people. And…I just felt I had an obligation to do it. I was thinking about canceling this morning, because…I had something else, and I said, “there's no way I have the courage to do that”, right? Would I have been in trouble? Would I have been in trouble? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
And…I…you know, I know the tremendous support I have here, and I really appreciate it. And you know, Del Webb. I knew Del Webb many years ago. And…uh…he…uh…[he] was a…an amazing guy. He did a great job. I think…are you all happy with del Webb, I think so, right? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
Del Webb was a great developer, actually. A great developer, and…uh…one of the few great developers, so…congratulations.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.11.32:
Well, look. We have to have strong borders. We have to strengthen our economy. We have to get rid of our debt. We have to balance our budget. All of the things that we…that I talk about all the time! We have to have that strong military, because we can't have any chances. You know, we’re…being looked at by so many people. And weaponry today is unbelievably powerful. So, we have to be extremely careful. We have to be really, really diligent.
I've called for bans on people coming into the country, because we don't know what the hell's going on. I mean, there's bad stuff happening! There is bad, bad, bad stuff happening up here! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. When you have people happening up here. When you have people happening up here, when you have people flying planes into the World Trade Center…; when you’ve people shooting people that gave them parties for their wedding…! These two…radicalized, horrible people that…I mean, they were given parties…by the people they killed…for their children! Or their child…! And a wedding party.
And…they walk in, and they shoot 14 people, and kill them. You look at what happened in Paris, where you have the strongest…gun laws…in the world, practically. I mean, you can't have a gun. Unless you're a bad guy, you can’t have a gun! They walk in, they kill everybody.
By the way, the Second Amendment…? If some of the people on the other side that were shot had had guns, it would have been a whole different story in Paris. It would have been a much different story…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
So…you know, it's…very simple. It's…called Make America Great Again. We wanna make America great again. That's my whole theme! ‘Make America Great Again’. We're run by people that don't know what they're doing. We're run by incompetent people, and…or something! I mean, there's something wrong with them, because some of the deals…; how do they make the Iran deal? Who would make a deal so stupid as that? Who would make a deal like that!? Where we're giving them 150 billion and we get nothing…! And we get our…hostages back, as part of the deal! We paid a hundred and fifty billion dollars…for some hostages that…frankly, should have come out years ago.
And if you had the right negotiators, they would have. You would have gone in there, and you would have said, “we want…our back”.
They would have said, “no”. And you triple up the sanctions and you leave the room! And…24 hours later you got your hostages back. It's that simple! And you don't give them the 150 billion. You tell them we don't have it! We owe 19 trillion dollars. We don't have it. Sorry, folks. You know…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS-…seriously!
I mean, we have people…they didn't read The Art of the Deal, I can tell you that. We have people that are just…they don't have a clue. We…take a Bergdahl. Sergeant Bergdahl. We…you know, it's a traitor! So…we get Bergdahl…six people died looking for Sergeant Bergdahl, right? We get Bergdahl, they get five…of the greatest killers that they wanted and coveted for nine years! We get one, they get five. He’s a traitor, they’re the best they have. And they’re out now, on a field, or will soon be, killing people again. I don't get it. I don't get it. I…I say, “where do these people come from? Where do they come from?”. And we knew that he was a traitor! Because…when we made the deal, because they had a general and a Colonel go and interview, Bill, all the people…that knew him. You know, from his platoon. And…we knew…he was a traitor!
So why would we make a deal!? Let him keep him! I would have said, “keep him! You can have him!”. I'd give him back. I’d actually give him back. I’d fly over, [and] drop him, right on top. You know? Just…bing! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS.
No, but…you know? Think of it. Why would we do that? And who would make a deal like that? Where is the thinking? Who would make a deal…?
And that relates even to business! Because it's the same mindset. Like the Iran deal. The trade deals we have with China. We lose…you know, 500 billion dollars a year. We lose five…hundred…billion…dollars…a year. Now, this is a rich community, so that doesn't mean anything, that kind of money…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
But…but…you know, I mean, think of it. Think of how the country would be if we didn't! And I have the best business people in the world. I know them! We have…we have political hacks negotiating our deals. Right? Political hacks! I have the best business…people in the world! They're gonna negotiate our deals from now on. We're gonna make a fortune! We're gonna do great. We're not gonna lose like that!
We lose with Japan. We lose with Mexico…; you saw Carrier now, [it] is moving to Mexico. Uh…Nabisco is moving to Mexico, one of its big plants. Ford is…doubling up, [they’re] gonna move more to Mexico. They're gonna spend billions and billions of dollars on Mexico…! Why aren’t they spending it here!? I know how to get it so they're not moving to Mexico anymore. Believe me! It's gonna end. Mexico is the new China. Be careful…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.16.10:
And I love the…I love the question, because…every single other candidate is gonna cut the hell out of your Social Security. Remember the wheelchair being pushed over the cliff when you had Ryan…chosen as your…as your vice-president…? That was the end of that campaign, by the way., when they chose Ryan. And I like him! He's a nice person, but…that was the end of the campaign. I said, “you gotta be kidding”. Cause he represented cutting entitlements, etc. etc. The only one that's not gonna cut is me.
We're gonna make our country rich. We're gonna bring our jobs back. We're gonna cut a lot of costs out of a budget. Stuff that's…waste, and…disgusting ways. We're gonna take care of our…our veterans, and all of that…but there's tremendous fat.
You know, we can take care of people! We can run a better…country…with less money! And actually, it’d better…; it’s like when I built a building, I built a better building for less money than the guy across the street. He spends more money…and my building is better! And it looks better! And it's got a better architect. And it's got a better…design! You know, we can…do it better! There’s so…much fat.
So, we're gonna take the…the...you know, fraud, the waste and the abuse out of Social Security. For instance, they have…I…as I read, thousands of people that are over a 106 old. Now, you know, that…and hopefully we can all make it up to that age, but we know there's not gonna be thousands of them, okay? That means there's fraud! Somebody's collecting…thousands…! That's just one…little…example…of what's going on.
We're gonna save Social Security. We're not gonna cut the age. We're gonna give you the full benefits. You've paying into it all your life. And every other candidate that's up here, wants to cut your Social Security. They're gonna cut it! They're gonna cut it. And…I’m not gonna cut it. I'm gonna bring money in, and we're gonna save it. Okay? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. Believe me. That's a big thing! Nobody else is gonna be able to do it.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.18.12:
I'm pro-life. Yeah. I'm pro-life…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIDIMIDLY. Who…who in here is pro-life? No one here is pro-life. Yeah. Okay, good. No, I’m pro-life.
It’s a simple…; I mean, Cruz said, “I…I…; he’s not pro-life!”.
I said, “I'm not!!?”. I'm pro-life! You can't lie about people like that! And…I…it’s just incredible! And again, I've been in business. And I've dealt with some rough hombres. Much tougher than Cruz! But…I've never dealt with anybody that lied so much. And then he says he's religious. No wonder, I'm winning the…evangelicals by like two-to-one. I'm winning the evangelicals. I won them in New Hampshire, as you saw. And I'm winning with them here by a tremendous amount. But, you at…a…you just…you just can’t do it! In the end, it catches you. What he did to Carson was disgraceful. With…you know, “he's out of the race. He's out of the race. He quitted”.
Then after the race was over, he called [and] he apologized. He got thousands of votes. But he called up [and] he apologized like…two minutes after the polls closed. You know… “oh, let me call him! Oh, Ben, we’re sorry we did that. We made a mistake”. Okay. I don't think Ben accepted the apology. I wouldn't have accepted the apology! But he…uh…he…he lies. He just…really lies, and we can’t let that happen.
The one advantage I have is, when he says something about me, like…for instance, I’m pro-life and he’ll say I’m pro-choice. And I…got a call from a reporter: “I hear you’re pro-choice”.
“Who told you that?”.
“Cruz”.
“Cruz! It's unbelievable! No, I'm pro-life!”. And, I say to myself, how can a guy be so dishonest!? How can he do it!?
And just this morning, I heard a couple of other candidates saying the same thing. And yet he'll talk about religion, and he’ll talk about…all of the things he talks about…; but you know, the advantage I have is that I have a big mic. I…I can speak! And what we have to speak before Saturday! Because after Saturday, in this community, it doesn't matter! But at least I'm able to get my word out, Bill…pretty quickly. Other people can't get the word out. And again, what happened…I'm telling you, what happened to Ben Carson was a disgrace…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.20.22:
Well, I have [a] relationship with him, other than he a called me a genius. He said, “Donald Trump is a genius. And he's gonna be the leader of the party. And he's gonna be leader of the world or something”. He said some good stuff about me, and these characters that I'm running against said, “we want you to disavow that statement”.
 I said, “What? [The fact that] he called me a genius? I'm gonna disavow it? Are you crazy!?”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Do you believe it!? How stupid are they!?
“We want you to disavow the statement?”. I'm not gonna disavow…;
And besides that, wouldn't it be good if we actually got along with countries? Wouldn't it be, actually, a positive thing, right!? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. Do we have to always fight? I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows!? I mean, who knows!? But I think we would have a good relationship.
But I can tell you, he has a horrible relationship with Obama. It's ridiculous. And he takes advantage of Obama. Nobody's gonna take advantage of me, folks. They're not gonna take advantage of me, and that…that's…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS-…believe me.
But I…you know, I mean. if we got along with Russia, that would be…sort of nice, wouldn't it? Let Russia drop…; For instance, Lindsey Graham. You have a guy that’s one of the dumbest humans I have ever seen…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He may…be…he runs against, okay? He runs against me for president. He starts off at 6 percent, and he hits me! And I…I start…although I did give out his phone number. I mean, that's right…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY-…but anyway! He starts hitting me, saying vicious things. And…now he starts going down: he goes to five percent, four percent…; he ends up at zero! Zero! Here's a guy running for the Presidency, [and] he's at zero! He leaves in disgrace, in my opinion. I think he's disgraced. He comes here [and] he thinks this is gonna be good. He had…like…two points here, and I had…42, right? I was at 42.
He's a sitting United States senator, from South Carolina, [and] he’s at two percent. I saw him on television this morning, and I think he lost it! He's saying, “Donald Trump, he’s…; he couldn't even talk! He was shaking! The hatred!
They…say, “what do you think of Donald Trump?”.
“Oh, woah, woah!”. He went crazy! The guy is a nut job! I mean, what the…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And honestly…? Honestly…? Honestly…? I don't want his endorsement. I don't want anything to do with him. And his…his thinking! He says, “I know so much…!”. He knows about the military!? I could push him over with a thimble! Boom! This guy knows…let me tell you: this guy knows nothing!
He's the kind of thinking that we've had…that’s why we're in there for 15 years! Remember what I said: we're in there for 15 years, right? [In the] Middle East. We're spending trillions and trillions. Probably four, or five trillions. You know, two trillion in…Iraq, but that was as a of…two years ago, right? You and I talked about it last time. We’re in there for probably four, or five trillion, maybe more than that. We could have rebuilt our country, we could’ve…; because of guys like Lindsey Graham!
So, I listen to his military…he wants to fight Assad, and he wants to fight ISIS. At the same time. But they're fight each other. So, and they’re fighting each other, we’re fighting them. Think of it! Think of it! I gotta take care of ISIS. I don’t care…;
We're…we’re backing people…rebels. You know, they call them the rebels. The freedom rebels! All these…they have all these glamorous names, right? Look at what happened to Libya. Look at what happened to Iraq with the…you know, look at what's going on!
We've got to [be] fair…we give billions of dollars of equipment. Billions. If they win, they're worse than the guy that they took over from, right? That's what happens. Look at Libya, what a disaster, with Qaddafi! We got rid of Qaddafi. What do we have in Libya!? It's a total…it is…such a disaster!
Look at Saddam Hussein! We just talked about it! What a disaster. But we have a guy…who doesn't have a clue about the military. But he thinks that he does! With his thinking…remember this, we have been in there, for 15 years, and we are far worse off now than we were 15 years ago! 15 years ago, we didn't have people…coming around…I mean, the whole thing! And…in all fairness, we…went after Iraq…they did not knock down the World Trade Center, okay? It wasn't…the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center.
We went after Iraq; we decimated the country…Iran's taken over. Okay. But it wasn't the Iraqis! Uh…you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center, cause they have papers at there that are very secret. You may find it's the Saudis…okay? But you will find out! But it wasn't Iraq.
So, you say…but when I look at a guy like Lindsey Graham, then I hear his theory on the war…you'll be in there forever! You'll be in there…and you’ll end up starting World War Three with a guy like that too. We don’t want World War Three over…Syria. Okay? We don’t want World…do we agree with that? We don’t want World War…; But…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
But, I watched him on Fox today…I have never seen a guy…that…I don't think I've ever seen a guy's so totally out of control. They mentioned my name. He went literally…crazy this morning. So, he got out of the race, Bill. He was at…is this correct? He was at zero! Zero! And he still didn’t wanna get out of the race.
You know, I often say, these guys that are at zero, why do stay? Wouldn’t you sort of…? I think I'd crawl in a corner and I'd hide! I would just sort of put out a release: “I've…left the race”. I wouldn't even give a news conference. I'd be too embarrassed!
But anyway, I…I think he's a disgrace. I think Lindsey Graham is a disgrace, and I think you have one of the worst representatives of any representative in the United States .And I don't think he should run…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS-…I don't think, in this state…; remember, I was at 42, and he was at two…when he was running. In this state I’m talking about! He was at zero…nationwide…I mean, the guy was at zero nationwide. I don't think he could run for dog catcher in this state and win again. I really don’t. Other than that, I think he’s wonderful.
He's a terrible…he’s a terrible representative…I…I gotta tell you: he’s a terrible representative for the state.
How do you like him, Bill? I think Bill feels the same way, but he's not gonna say it.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.26.11:
Well, they’d be professional people. I mean, they’d be good people. We have a lot of people in different positions that have no right to be there. I mean, and they know nothing! I’d put people in that have great ability! We’re…we’re…we’re gonna put…in terms of…our…trading areas, as an example. We're gonna put…you know, great business people there. They're great people. They don't wanna get paid…! I'm gonna put wealthy people there! They became wealthy for a reason! Right? You know, we're gonna put the best…negotiators there. But the cabinet, we're gonna have all the best people. We're gonna find out who they are! And it's not gonna be a politically correct choice, either! We're gonna have people that are gonna be proper! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…and if somebody's politically correct, and somebody else is gonna be outstanding, we're picking the outstanding one every…single…time. We have politically correct people all over the place! Our country is so politically correct that we're going to hell! And…and…we're not gonna do that! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.27.10: 
Absolutely! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, this question was in the previous debate, okay? And…they asked it to Ted Cruz, “what do you think of waterboarding…?”; and, “what would you do…?”; and, “how bad…?”; and he was like really weak on it. He was, “well, I…”. He didn’t wanna get involved, cause he thought waterboarding was…bad. So, it’s…of course it's bad. But it's not like…it's not chopping off heads, folks. Okay? That I can tell you.
So, they asked him and he…really gave a very incomplete answer. It was a terrible answer. He was stumbling and mumbling and he's going like, “well, I don’t know…; I…uh…uh…uh…uh”. Okay.
Then they asked the question to me, “Well, what would you do?”.
I said, “approve it immediately, but I'd make, also, much worse”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
They said, “what do you mean?”.
I said, “I’d do it much worse!”. I said, “they're chopping off our heads…in the Middle East. They wanna kill us. They wanna kill us. They wanna kill our country. They wanna knock out our cities.  And don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks? Torture…; you know, I have these guys, “torture doesn't work”. Believe me, it works. Okay?
And, [paa2] waterboarding is your minor form. And some people say it's not actually torture. Let's assume it is. But they asked me the question, “what do you think of waterboarding?”. Absolutely fine. But we should go much stronger than waterboarding. That's the way I feel. They're chopping off heads…; believe me, we should go much stronger. Because our country's in trouble. We're in danger. We have people that wanna do really bad things!
Remember the power of weaponry. This isn't a hundred years ago, where we fight hand-to-hand combat. This is weapons that are so destructive…so destructive…that the world could end. We have to be very strong. We have to be very vigilant. We have to be very tough. Waterboarding is fine, but it's not nearly tough enough. Okay? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.27.10:
Well, the education system is…is a mess in this country. We have…uh…the top 30 countries…uh…we're number 30, on the list. We spend more on education per pupil than anybody else. And [the] second place doesn't even exist! We’re so…high. We’re so far above. And Common Core is a disaster. It's education through Washington, through bureaucrats. And I'm terminating Common Core, and we're bringing it to local levels. And we're gonna have real education.
So in…education, in the list, you have Sweden…; Denmark…; Norway…; China…top four or five. And then you have…the United States at number 30. And then between you have third world countries. Countries that you never even heard of…are better than us! And yet, when I see…; so we’re number 30, and we’re number…in terms of…in terms of…spending, we're number one.
So, think of it. We spend the most money, and we're…at the bottom of the list, or…however you wanna define the list. It’s pretty sad, isn’t it? And we have education from Washington. We terminate Common Core. We're bringing education to the local level, and…people do a great job with that…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
I mean, who's…who’s gonna do a great job than you and your children and educating, let's say, your grandchildren. You want your children…! Your daughter, your son…they're gonna be on the school board, etcetera, etcetera. [We] gotta bring it to the local level. They do it with love! They don't do it with…you know, the…these bureaucrats in Washington. I'm not saying they're all bad! But many of them are and they want checks! They want big checks! They get paid a lot of money! Look at the money we spend at…[the] Department of Education.
So, we're gonna end Common Core, [and] bring it to the local level. [It is] very important.
MR. BILL LUKE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.27.10:
I would win. I would…no, seriously, I would…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. I would. No, I’ve won many club championships, actually. I’ve been…I…how…who’s is the best golfer in the room? So, do you have a club champion in here? Is there a club champion? Huh? Is there anybody who is, let's say, a 5 handicap or less? Who's a 5? Whoa! That’s…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY IN THE CROWD-…stand up! That's very good! They'll say, “he's not a 5!”. That's very good! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. What's your handicap? Well, that’s very good. [You are a] Good golfer! [There is a] Good course too, right? [Is there a] Good course here? I hear [they are] good.
If I win, I'll come back and play. If I don't win, you'll never see me…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
No, I’ve…I love golf. You know, when the president plays golf, it's okay. But he should play with people that he wants…; you understand. People that he wants to…make deals with. Congress people. And people from other countries! Not just his friends! You know…;
So, he talks about the carbon footprint. And as you know…the carbon footprint, I mean…; does anybody…who believes in the carbon footprint? Does anybody believe in it here? I don’t know…;
So, he talks about the carbon footprint! The environmental…! All this stuff. And then he flies on a massive…Boeing 747 to Hawaii…with the old engines. You know, cause it's a very old plane. Old engines, spewing…; [he] plays golf for like two or three weeks. A lot of…! You know, he plays more golf than the people on the PGA Tour, right!? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And then he flies back. And then he has a news conference on the environment…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. The carbon footprint.
Listen, I just wanna…Bill, I wanna thank you. And…but I wanna thank the folks. I…I really…it was very important for me to come back and take care of the people that we couldn't see…the last time. And…I really appreciate it. I'd love your support. I don't want your money at all. We’re doing all of that myself. But I do want you to get out on Saturday and vote. And…you know, the theme is…see the hat? The beautiful red hat, make America great again. And we're gonna make America great again. And we're gonna make it…; we actually have a chance, and…and…I say this…over the last couple of weeks I’ve been saying it. I've met so many incredible people in this country. I think we have a chance to, actually, make it greater than before. But we can't have Hillary…; we can't have Bernie…; we can't have these people that are gonna destroy it.
Uh…you'll end up paying 90 percent…95 percent tax. Would anybody here mind paying 95 percent tax? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I don't think so. I think that's not gonna happen. I think it's not gonna happen.
But, I…I really wanna thank for being here, and…we'll see you soon! Get out and vote! Thank you! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
