 
VIDEO Nº: 127
TITLE:127.Speech Donald Trump - Virginia Beach VA - February 24 2016
DATE OF EVENT:24/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2017
DURATION:00.47.45 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:8476
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Thank you everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you everybody. Thank you very much. So nice. Thank you very much. Please sit down.
So we had a very exciting evening last night. And I went all around. You know the word ‘caucus’. Complicated, because you don't know how it's gonna work out. And they say it's hard to poll, but we polled fine, and we really won big last night. So, we ended up getting 46 percent of the vote.
And, you know, during the day I was walking. I saw all these people, and they're all saying, “Donald., we love you! Donald, we love you!”. But you never know what's going to happen! And…as soon as we turned on the television last night, when the results started coming in, it was obvious from the beginning. So, we had this…a really…extraordinary night.
And…one of the things that made me so happy is [that] we won…we, as you saw, we totally won with Evangelicals. I mean, we were big-league with Evangelicals, and…uh…it was…uh…it was such a good thing. And…we've worked very hard.
You know, I'm a…I'm…presbyterian. I'm Protestant. And…there really is. And I was…going to talk to Pat [MR. TRUMP REFERS TO MR. PAT ROBERTSON] later on, who’s a great gentleman, by the way. Over the years, I've met him; I've watched him; The job he's done over here is incredible. And…I just have to tell you, it’s an honor to be with Pat. And I look forward to…having him…grill me! He'll probably be grilling me…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But he's a great man, and a great guy. And I’ve known him really…; I’ve…the last  time I was with him was about four years ago. I was getting an award. The Boone Pickens award for entrepreneurshi. And Pat was there and I got to know him a little bit, and it was…uh…it was really great.
So, I think the reason we've been doing well, and…uh…doing…quite well in the polls, and…uh…leading by a lot with…almost everybody, uh…is that I talked about…what we have to do for our country. And our country is in deep trouble. We owe 19 trillion dollars. And most …most people don't even know what a trillion dollars is, you know. How many hundreds of millions is in a trillion? It's such a number. A name…you know, it's a name that 10 years ago, you never even heard the word ‘trillion’.
But we owe 19 trillion dollars. A very bad budget was passed, just about four weeks ago that's going to add at least two trillion to it. So we'll be up essentially to 21 trillion dollars. And you know, at a certain point it's…it's, it’s really the…you know, a point of no return. And…you really have to have somebody that knows what…he or she is doing. And…I do know what I'm doing. When it comes to business, I know what I'm doing.
It's…uh…an amazing period of time for me. It's been…great. In fact, my two sons are backstage. Maybe I'm allowed to bring them up, because I'm very proud of my boys. So maybe I'll bring them…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Maybe I’ll bring them on.
And…-THE CROW CHEERS LOUDER AS MR. TRUMP’S SONS APPEAR ONSTAGE. Oh, good! That's beautiful!
This is Don, and this is Eric, and they were with me for…the last week, and they go around making speeches. And this way, I'll send them…they’ll do a better job than me anyway! So I go into the room and I watch televisión. You know…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And they say, “the Trump's are making speeches”.
Say hello, Don.
MR. DON TRUMP INTERVENES.
MR. ERIC TRUMP INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.04.48:
 
Thank you. Thank you, sweetie.
So a lot of times people ask me to speak about success. Friends of mine and…uh…and they'll even make big payments, and we give it to charity and stuff. But I'll do it. And, so often I'll say, you know, the really successful people are the people not with the great wealth, but  with the great families, where they have…great…kids, and…wives, and husbands, and…those are the people that are the happiest. And…I don't know if I'm speaking against myself here, but the fact is that, you know, you can have…; I know…the most successful people in the world. I deal with them all the time. I know them. I know…I know them in many cases very well. These are not the happiest people. Generally. A couple [of them] are happy. Not too many! Because, you know, no matter how successful, they all want mor! And more…and more! It's never satisfying. And I guess I get a little bit guilty of that also.
But the fact is that the happiest people I know are the people with great families, that love their families, and when their families love them. So, it's something I talked about during…uh…success seminars. And, a lot of times, the people running the seminar don't…wanna hear that. That's not exactly what they wanna hear. But I have to be truthful.
So…and there’s a good example. I have two…really great…uh…boys. I have five children altogether. And they're all…been…they’ve fantastic. You know Ivanka. Most of you know Ivanka, who’s gonna have a baby in about a week. We've been waiting. We thought Iowa. We thought New Hampshire…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Right? We thought…South Carolina. We thought…Vegas would be an interesting place to have a baby! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. A much different…uh…deal! But…uh…she’ll probably…like in…during the next week or two, she'll have a baby. And she's been…uh…spectacular.
Then I have…Tiffany and I have Baron. And they're all…they’re all very good kids. So, uh…hopefully, they’ll stay that way.
Where's wood? I think I should knock on wood. I have to find him somewhere. Wait! …-MR TRUMP GOES BACKSTAGE IN SEARCH OF WOOD TO KNOCK. THE CROWD LAUGHS. Is anybody superstitious? Oh, that's real wood too! That’s not the…that’s…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…that’s the real deal. So anway. No, they're good kids. And it's really great.
What we have to do, uh…and I think the reason we're resonating is we have to straighten out our trade deals. They are horrible.
With China, we lose, in trade, 500…billion…dollars…a year. What kind of a deal is that!?
With…Japan…we lose…hundreds of billions of dollars. It's much smaller than China, but hundreds. We owe Japan one…point…six…trillion dollars.  We owe China one point seven…trillion dollars.
It’s sort of an amazing thing, right? They take our money, and then we owe them mone. They take our jobs, [and] we owe them money. They take our factories, you have no idea how many are closing up and have closed up.
And…I have have great relationships with China. I have great relationships with Japan! I have great relationships with Mexico! But Mexico is killing us at the border, and they're killing us in trade.
You know, you read the other day where Carrier is moving into Mexico. Did anybody read that story? I thought it was very sad. Carrier, they make air-conditioners. And they're moving in. And they released 1,400 people. And I guess somebody had a cell phone going, which I'm sure Carrier was not thrilled with, cause it went all over the world. And the executive was standing up saying, “we're…closing up and we're gonna move to…”; all those jobs are gone. And, “we’re gonna move to Mexico”.
And I said to myself, “well, how does that help us!? How does that help us?”.
So they're gonna make air-conditioners; they're gonna sell them across the border…; [they’ll] probably have illegals walking [them] in, because it's cheaper that way, you know. Nobody…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY-…nobody checks them. Well, nobody checks them, so, you know, just every…every illegal [and] walks across…
Well, Ford does the same thing, you know. And they're probably…when they, you know, Ford's building a two and a half billion dollar  plant. And they'll have illegals drive the cars across the border…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So…it’s very sad. Honestly? It’s very sad. It's so…it's so bad that sometimes you have to laugh, you can't even believe it. So, Ford is…is…building a massive plant.
Nabisco is moving from Chicago…into Mexico. I mean, Mexico is…is literally the new China. They're taking…our business. It’s  gonna become the car capital of the world. took a plant out of Tennessee, who's gonna…it was scheduled to be built in Tennessee…and boom! Tennessee's such a great place…; they took it. [The] last moment, it decided it's going to Mexico.
So we have to do something! And we have to have borders. If we don't have borders, we don’t have a country. And people can come into our country, but they have to come in legally. They can't do what they're doing.
We have right now a 179,000 illegal immigrants who are criminals. Who have criminal convictions. That means all [of them], 179,000…think…think of that! That’s…that’s like filling up Yankee Stadium …our times. We have…all over the country. These are…criminals! This is non just…you know, these are people that were convicted…of…a crime.
So, we're gonna…be very strong on the borders. We're gonna be very, very strong in trade. We're gonna be very strong in protecting our Second Amendment. We're gonna get rid of Common Core, which is basically education through Washington, which is a disaster, by the way, and you understand that. And, we're gonna get rid of…uh…Obamacare. Obamacare is…totally…it turned out to be a total disaster…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
And…and, it's…it's really hurting our country. It’s really hurting our country, because you have so many part-time jobs now, cause people don't wanna register under Obamacare. And you have…part-time…everyone has part-time jobs. I mean, you look at these people…they never had a part-time job in their life, and now all of a sudden companies are putting them on part-time. And now they have to go get a second job.
So, it's a very unfair thing. And…we're gonna get rid of it, and we're gonna come up with a plan. There's so many different plans. Whether it's the health care savings accounts or...or we have to get rid of the lines between the states. That's…only…there for one reason. Because all of these politicians, that I'm running against, and more, are taken care of by the insurance companies! And they're taken care of by the…oil and gas companies. And they're taken care of by everybody! I'm the only one that's not. [Do] you know why I'm not? Because I'm self-funding. I don't know if that's smart or not so Smart. But…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…but…but as a big contributor, I've been over the years a very big contributor, I understand! I mean, I understand what it takes.
Uh…we have a situation right now with drugs. We don't bid our drugs. Can you believe it? The United States is the largest…drug…buyer in the world. Drugs to make you better! Pharmaceuticals!  And we don't bid it out.
And a friend of mine, who's a doctor, [a] great guy, came up to me and said, “Donald, why don't we!? I don't understand it!”.
Well, once I found out what he was talking about, cause it's not my world, I knew exactly why! Because…the pharmaceutical industry takes care of all the Senators, and all the congressmen. They have a very strong lobby. And they don't wanna bid out drugs! If you bid them out, we'll save 300 billion dollars. 300 billion dollars! And we don't even do it! We’re gonna do it. Because what happens, if…I’m there, they'll be calling, “Donald, you can't do that! You can't do it!”. Trust me, I can do it. I…they can't do it! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Because they've been given millions of dollars! You don't know how corrupt it is. And…I guess it's called legal corruption. But, you don't know how corrupt it is. And…whether it's timber industries…anything! I'll do the right thing! By the way, I'm gonna be great for industries too! But I'll do the right thing! But we have to…straighten out our country.
And one of the things, bigger tan, is military. I mean, for years, we've been…seeing the military, and we see…I've been reading a better for years, where they order a plane that they don't want; or order…missiles that they don't want. They want a different one. Because the company making that missile has more political influence. So they're ordering things that even the generals don't want. And they're ordering too much equipenement…; and they’re ordening the wrong equipment…;
Those days are over. And we’re gonna make our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before. We need it more than ever…it’s the cheapest thing we can do, by the way. And nobody's gonna mess with us. I don't wanna use it. Nobody's gonna mess with us.
Remember, I'm the one…I didn't wanna go into Iraq. I stated…it…was one of the worst decisions ever made. We lost two trillion dollar; thousands and thousands of lives…; thousands of lives! We have wounded warrios, who I love, all over the place! And what happens? Iran is now taking over Iraq.
When you think of how Iran is doing lately…right? Between the Iran deal, we give them 150 billion dollars. We got nothing for it. We should’ve gotten our prisoners back long before we started negotiating. And all you do is say, “listen, we're not negotiating…until we get our prisoners back. We can't”.
And they'll say, “no”. And you leave the room. They didn't leave the room! They never left. They just stood there. Kerry. This is the worst negotiator I think I've ever seen…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He never left room!
And…but all you had to do is say, “we need our prisoners back”. This is like four years ago, when they started this longest negotiation I've ever seen too. But you say, “we have to have our prisoners back”.
They're gonna say, “no”. The Persians…I mean, Pat can tell you that. The Persians are great negotiators. And they're Smart! And it's tough! But you go in, you say, ¡we need our prisoners back. You don't want them. You don't need them. Your  people don't even know they're there. We need them. And we gotta have them”. And we'll make a better deal! Because it’s easier!
So then, they’ll say, “no”.
And we'll leave the room. We’ll say, “bye-bye!”.
And then we double up the sanctions, and within 24 hours, they're gonna call and say, “you get your prisoners back”, right?
Then you go in for seconds, because you have to do this. So you go in and you say, “listen, tss…”…and I tell the story, which is sort of cute. My father was a very good negotiator. And he thought I was too rough. He thought…he said, “too tough. You're too tough. You gotta just…take the lumps out”. He used to use the expression. He'd always go like this when he said…-MR. TRUMP DRAWS LUMPS IN THE AIR. “Son, take…the lumps out”.
So, if I didn't have my father, I would have said this: “we're not giving you…the 150 billion dollars”. So they’d be over there, and they'd be angry. And…you know, you’d probably never bring it back. But I'd say it very tough, “we're not giving it to you”.
But now, I learned so much from my father. So I take the lumps out. So now I’d say, “listen, we have a problema”. Now, in the meantime, our prisoners [would be/ are] back. They landed. I'd say, “did they land yet?”
“No”.
“I won’t say it yet. Let's wait till the next day”.
“Did they land?”.
“Yes. They just landed on American soil”. So now I say, “fellos, we have problema. [A] big problem. We e have a country…not doing well! We owe 19 trillion dollars…essentially we’re bust! [We’ve] got no money! We[‘ve] got no money. We just had a budget approved…for two trillion dollars. We’re 21 trillion. We have no money! Fellas, we can't give you the 150 billion”.
They’re gonna go crazy…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. They're gonna go crazy. One day. One day.
And now I’d say, “I’m sorry! I…I wanted to give it to you so badly! You have no idea!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. “I'm dying to give it you, but I can't! We don’t have any money!”.
So that's better than saying, “we're not giving it to you!”, right? Do we all agree? It’s the same…it's the same effect, except this way they recover faster. They probably both work. I know the second would work. The first one…you know, you could end up in a position where it’s gonna be a long time before…;
No way I would have given them 150 billion dollars. No way. And…in a million years. And one of the saddest things is the money's gone. And by the way, two days before the money left…see? The…The Art of the Deal. Hold that book up…-MR TRUMP POINTS TO A MEMBER IN THE CROWD OFF CAMERA. See? The Art of the Deal! He reads it…everybody…! Who didn’t read The Art of the Deal! Everybody reads The Art of the Deal!
But I always say, the Bible is much better! There's not a contest, right!? That's one of the great books,  but the Bible is much better.
Uh…so…so there are so many…; note ven close. Do we agree? I…I will tell you! Right? We agree…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. But The Art of the Deal has been a great book. Obviously, Kerry did not read The Art of the Deal. Probably, [he] didn't read the Bible either, but these are…-THE CROWD LAUGHS VIVIDLY. But it's a very sad thing. That whole…that whole episode with Iran is a very sad thing.
And then, two days before the…money is sent, they captured ten…beautiful, young…sailors. They put guns to their heads. They roughed them up guns in terms of at least mentally. They were devastated. And…they humiliated our country. They…humiliated the ten people. One woman and nine…men. And…that's the one…that’s what we're dealing with. Not gonna happen anymore, folks! It's not gonna happen anymore! We're gonna do…we’re gonna be the smart countr instead of the…dummies that everyone laughs at. They laugh at us! Cause we have people that don't know what they're doing! Like Sergeant Bergdahl!
We get Bergdahl…a traitor. They get five killers that they've covete. They've wanted for nine years, and those five killers are back on the battlefield or soon will be. But these are the ones wanted, these five.
So we knew he was a traitor…before we made. Because they had a general and a colonel…interviewing all of the people that he worked with, in the military. They knew he left! Six people died, looking for him. Five definitely, [and] probably six. Died! They went out looking for him. They tried to get him back. He left! And we get…; that’s the way we negotiate. We get Bergdahl the way we negotiate, we get Bergdahl the way we negotiate, we get Bergdahl, they get five great. They get five…great…killers. For them, the people that they want. [It’s] not gonna happen anymore. [It’s] not gonna happen.
So I tell these stories, and I goa round, and I meet with crowds. And we have tremendous crowds. We have, by far, the biggest crowds. Far, far, far bigger than Bernie. And Bernie's heading down now, I think. Bernie looks like he's over. And…[it] looks like Hillary's gonna be protected from the email scandal. By the Democrats. I mean, can you believe it!? So many people, for doing much less than she he did…are in prison! And…and…just…you know, devastated…THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…no, think of it! Think of it! For doing less than she did. And she looks like she's just gonna be…you know, she's gonna run.
Boy, did you ever see anybody so nice to the president though!? “Oh, the president is wonderful!”, she says. “Oh, the president! He’s great! What a…”. He…wants to do this. “Oh, that’s wonderful!”. Whatever he wants…; you know why she's doing that, right!? Do you know why!? I know why! Boy, oh boy! She's become…like a marshmallow. She's become…; she…everything he does, “oh, it's wonderful!”. Whatever he wants to do, “it's wonderful! The president…!”.
Man! I’ll tell you, she…it couldn't be. It…he…her life cannot be so easy. But uh…she is…what she she’s done is so wrong. And it's so unfair. And it looks like she'll be the nominee. And It looks like she'll be the nominee, and it looks like nothing will happen. But it’ll be something that will be discussed. I promise you. It will be discussed often, often, often…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, with that, I think we're really doing well. It looks like we're in a great…uh…trend. And we have tremendous support, and…we have tremendous support. And…we have tremendous support, and we have amazing people in this country. And one of the most amazing people…in the…whole country, is our…great…friend…Pat! Will you come out here, Pat? Look at him! One of the great people! …-MR. PAT ROBERTSON COMES ONSTAGE AND THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.,
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.19.15:
 
Thank you. It's great to be here. Good…good morning to be here. Supposing I lost, I probably would have called Pat: “Pat…uh…I don’t know if wanna be there today. Rigth?”…-MR. ROBERTSON LAUGHS. No, we had a great…we had a gread evening.
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.19.39:
 
Well, it’s a great building. It’s the old Post Office. Built in the 1880’s. It’s got…; it’s an amazing bulding, with walls that are five and six feet thick of solid granite. You know, they don't build them that way anymore. Today they use like…uh…plastic, right? And this is an amazing builiding. One of the most beautiful buildings in Washington.
And, for years it was the Post Office. And you always said…I would say to people, “if you can get the Post Office in a city, you always get the best location”, cause they're always there first, right? And this is the one for Washington.
So, they put it out to bid. And… every was one of the most hotly, every…it was one of the most hotly contested projects ever in the history of the GSA government services, where they…[it’s] sort of the landlord for United States real estate. [A] Big landlord. And they chose us. And it's a great honor, because…we were chosen in the Obama administration, which is sort of amazing. A lot of people thought we wouldn't be able to get it. But we had a…we have a great financial statement. They wanna make sure it gets done. And…we have a great track record for this stuff.
And, we're building now hotel, 300 rooms that is going to be…uh…I think one of the great hotels of the world. We’re…a year and a half ahead of Schedule,  and even more than that. But we're a year and a half ahead of schedule, which is a little unusual…when you're talking about Governments, cause there never…even…close…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
But we're one-and-a-half years, and were under Budget. And it'll open in September, of this year! And it was supposed to open up in September, in two years from now. And I thought I could do something…; you know, Eric and Don are working on it. And Ivanka is really in charge of that one, and…she's done an amazing job. And…it’s gonna be one of the most beautiful hotels. I think it'll be one of great hotels of the world.
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.21.45:
 
Well, I would do that. And we expect to…uh…cancel many of the executive orders that were passed,  executive, because you know, Obama has not been able to…run things…the way you're supposed to tun! You're supposed to get the congressman in, the Senators in…; you’re supposed to make deals like Ronald and Tip O'Neill. They were opposites, but they made deals and they liked each other.
And…I will say this, Pat. I've been involved in politics for a long time. All my life. I’ve gotten tremendous zoning changes; I deal in politics in other countries, cause we're building all over the world, and…we have jobs going up all over the world. A lot of jobs. But, I have never seen…division like you have now.
You know, it used to be go to a restaurant in Washington, you’d see a Republican having dinner with a Democrat and they're best friends. You don't see that anymore! There’s hatred! The country is so divided. Whether it's African American, white, Congressmen, Democrat, Republican…; I mean, it's just that…we have a whole…divided country. I’ve never seen anything like it! But, we used to see…and I used to be part of, Democrats and Republicans having dinners together with their families and their wives. And it was a nice thing! And then, it…you know, they'd be combat the next day. But  would be…they’d get along! And they get things done.
So today we have…a president that can't get anything done, and… he signs executive orders. So one of the first ones that knock out is his executive order on the Second Amendment where he's chipping away at it, which is so important, the Second Amendment.
And, the other one would be the one on the border! Where basically he wants people to pour into the country unchecked. And…the courts have been, you know, following that one, and…amazingly, we had a couple of pretty good decisions so far. But it's still out there. So I’d…I'd save the legal fees, frankly and get rid of it. I'd knock it out very fast. But…uh, cause we do have to, and I know you believe in this, we have to have strong borders. If we don't have strong borders…;
You saw the Pope, came out against me a little bit. But that was before, you know, he was very nice cause the next day he…issued a statement.
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.23.52:
 
You said that. Right. He was fine. I mean, he was…told, probably that, “oh, you have this man named Trump, and he wants to create very strong trumpet, he wants to create very strong borders that he wants to build the wall borders, and he wants to build the Wall”. We gotta build the wall. We're gonna build the wal. Drugs are pouring across the border. People are coming in just like…it's like we don't even…we don't even have a country! [If] You don’t have a border, you don't have a country.
So, but he was…he was good. He…uh…he was…a little bit strong at first. [It was] sort of interesting cuz [this] is a day before the election, right? And I said to myself, “oh, no!”.
And my people came up to me. They said, “Mr. Trump, the Pope just made a big statement about you”.
I said, “good or bad!?”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Now, you have to see, and we have the election like the next morning! So, “it’s good or bad?”.
They said, “not good”.
I said. “oh, this is a disaster!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And it turned out to be that he…you know, he talked about the border. And he did mention the wall. And then I said…the first thing I thought, I said, “but I've f seen the Vatican! That's the most incredible wall…; that wall goes up to that ceiling!”, right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. What about this?
So, I think he actually took a little heat. He, actually, was very, very nice to next day. You know, nobody explained to him about the crime. Nobody explained to him about the drugs pouring across. And…and the economy! And..uh…he…he was…actually very nice. But it was a very interesting period. You don't wanna hear the day before the election that the Pope said That’s not…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.25.30:
 
Other tan…and I…I think we…I could add to it a lot though because I'm gonna bring jobs back to the country. Our country has been stripped.
We've rebuilt China. And again, I like China! I think China's wonderful! I'm not China! I'm angry at our representatives! Our people! Our president, for…doing such bad deals! And not just Obama. This goes back, you know, this isn’t just now! But Obama has been…horrible, and…and others have been also!
And, so, I'm not upset with China! I have them as tenants in my back…I have the biggest bank in the world  as tenant in…one of my buildings, in Manhattan. Uh…I…I send millions and millions of dollars worth of condominiums to the Chinese. So I can't be angry at them.
Same thing with Mexico! I mean, I have great relationships Mexico. [The] problem is, in both cases, but…really in all cases. All countries! Every country is killing us! Because we have people that are political hacks…that are negotiating trade deals. They know nothing about it. And they have…the smartest, sharpest people…that they pick out when they're practically three years old. You understand that. [MOU1] They go up this pyramid chain. And they pick them out…very early. And…our people cannot deal with it! Because…we're not using the right…and we have the greatest business people in the world. We don't use them. So, Carl Icahn, as an example, endorsed me. Many of the business people endorsed me. The great ones. And we’re gonna use our greatest business people to negotiate deals! And we're gonna….not be losing this kind of money.
We have…horrible, horrible with Japan…and everyone else!
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.27.17:
 
So we have the highest taxes in the world, the United States. Think of it! With deficits like this and yet we have high taxes. I'm cutting taxes very substantially for businesses. We're gonna bring businesses back. We're gonna bring businesses back. We're gonna bring our jobs back. We're gonna make sure that…you know, look.
 
China…is one of the great…money…manipulators…currency manipulators, in history! Ever! Ever! There's nobody ever like this! Japan is really good! But China is even better. And they have done a number on us with…uh…with manipulation. With…devaluations. In fact, our dollar goes up, and everyone says, “oh, isn't that wonderful?”. In the meantime, look at Caterpillar. They can't sell a tractor. It's…it's a very bad situation going on.
 
So…and they have no…fear of us. They have no respect for us anymore.
In the South China Sea, just before I left, I was watching…where they’re building this massive, massive military complex. In the middle of the South China Sea! They're not supposed to be doing it! But they're doing it because they don’t respect our president. They don't…I mean, he gives them state dinners when they come over them. But he has no, they have no respect.
 
And we have a lot of power over China! We just don't know it. We have people that just don't know it! The power is straight! We rebuilt them. They are takingso much money out of our country. What they've done…and I said it, it's the greatest…robbery…in the history of the world, what they've done. We've rebuilt…China. You just take a look. We have rebuilt…they’ve taken so much money out.  And…we have to stop it! And we have to use our power! Cause we have a lot of power…because of trade. We have to stop it!
 
And…we can get them to do things like they have to solve the North Korea problem! We have a North Korea problem that you probably know better than I do! Cause I know that's also a part of the world that you look at. But…we have a big problema! You know they don't exist without China! But, China, Pat, says, “well, we don't have that kind of control!”. They're just toying with us! They have total control over him!
 
The other one that does is Iran!
 
So why didn't we, when we made our deal, a month ago…why didn't we insist that they take care of this guy…? Instead of us going over, always going over with the ships, and the weapons, and the planes…and…you know, dropping bombs if we have to….
 
And then you have South Korea, where…who I love! I buildings in South Korea! But, they make a fortune. I buy…television sets. I buy tremendous amounts of things from…there, cause we don't make television sets anymore, folks. I would like to make them here. We don't make them anymore. We used to make them! You remember, Sylvania, RCA…but those days are gone, right?
 
We're not even supposed to be talking about that, because it shows…uh…that we're not as young as we used to be…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But…but we don't make it anymore. And, here you have an economic behemoth, in South Korea. And…they pay us peanuts!  They make a…lot of money! And they’re good people! Everything's good! But…they have to take care of us. We're not in a position to be the policemen of the world. We have to be taken care of! And…so, there are a lot of things we can do when we’re president.
 
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.30.12:
 
Yeah, they claim it. Well, I would start with China. Because China has absolute power. The stuff comes through China. And also…I…I…I would have done…Iran, but I don't think you're gonna get anywhere with Iran now, because they're a hostile nation.
 
They took our money. They spent the money. They bought a 118 Airbus planes instead of Boeings. In other words, the money goes to Europe.
 
They bought a lot of things in Italy. They bought a lot of things all over Europe. And they bought missiles, which I didn't know they had the right to buy…! They brought a lot of missiles from Russia.
 
They gave us…nothing! We gave them 150 billion. Out of the 150 billion, they’ve spent a lot of it, nothing goes to the United States.
 
Uh…I would have…been very strong in the negotiation that Iran has to push them. And I would have been…I would…now be very strong on China. Because, again, we have a lot of power over China! Cause China takes out so much money…! So we’re gonna lose…again, I said before, 500…billion…dollar trade decicit with China. We can't do that, Pat! How are you gonna have a country if you do that?
 
So, I hate to tell you, folks: you need somebody like me. I'm good at this stuff. You…you know…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS.
 
You know, Pat…that…the politicians don't even know about it…? They don't even know…they don't about it means. They…they really don't. They talk about free trade. I'm a free trader mm-hmm. But…you gotta have smart trade too! You know, you have to…have intelligence.
 
And…I say, “there'll be a tax”. Like Carrier. I was just saying. Carrier is moving over to Mexico! They're gonna make…air-conditioners. They are gonna sell them to us. No tax. No nothing.
 
So we lose 1,400 jobs. They move to Mexico. They build a plant. They employ…Mexican people, which is fine. They make air-conditions, they sell them! I would tell them, “here's the story, folks. Here’s the story”. And this is the only thing you can do to stop it. I mean, in all fairness. Here’s the story:
 
“You're gonna make air-conditioners, we…wish you a lot of luck. I hope you build a nice plant. Enjoy yourselves,. But every time…you…put an air conditioner into this country, you send an air-conditioner, you're gonna have a 35 percent tax. They're not gonna move! They’re not moving! Because…you have to do it. That’s called…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…no, no, Pat! There are people who would say, “oh, you're not a conservative!”.
 
Well, I'm the most conservative guy in many ways, but you have to be Smart! You…otherwise everyone's gonna move! We're not gonna have anybody left!
 
You know, you know the kind of thousands and thousands of factories that have closed in our country. And Pat said it before: corporate inversion. You have people…they can't get money back in that they have… and they’re actually moving companies. Not for…because the taxes are too high, but because the taxes are too high, but they're moving companies out of the United States. Like Pfizer.
 
Pfizer is a great company! They're moving out thousands of jobs, plus they're moving to get money! Because there's two point five trillion dollars outside of the United States. They can't get it in, and yet the Democrats and the Republicans agree! Bring it in.
 
So all you have to do if you're Obama…is sit down with both. Within 10 minutes, you'd make a deal. There’s a case where everyone agrees and they can’t make a deal!
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.32.58:
 
I could tell you the story but I don’t want…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, I…I…I like that like that example, because…so, there's two and a half trillion. I think it could be five trillion. It could be more than that. But, you know, the government says it's two and a half. But they don't know. They have no idea. If they say two and a half, it's probably much more.
 
But here's a case where Democrats and Republicans are in total agreement! You know, it's one thing…! They disagree on health care, they…disagree on all these other things, and…we get it. All right? It’s tough.
 
But here's something they…they all agree on. We want the money back in our country. You know, what's not to agree on, right? So you can…work on a little tax, a little this, a little that…but, it should be…it should be ten minutes to solve that problem.
 
So they agree here. They agree here. The money is gonna come back in here. The money is gonna come back in. No Deal! They've agreed now for three years. And what that is, is leadership! If I were president, I would get them all in an office, big office, and I would say, “fellas, we've gotta make this deal”. “Folks!”, because we have a lot of women now and that's good. “We have to make this deal. We have to make this deal. And let's get it done”. I think you'd have it done in a half an hour! But you need leadership. You know, you can't fly to Hawaii to play golf…on a…Boeing 747…talking about the…talking about the carbon footprint…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. You know?
 
You know, Pat, he talks about the carbon footprint, right? And then he gets on a 747 to play golf, and he spews the stuff, and…comes back…a long time later! It wasn't like he came back the next day. He comes back…[he] played a lot of golf. He plays a lot of golf. So, anyway.
 
But…but, you gotta get people into an office and you gottta make deals!
 
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.35.00:
 
Well, we have some good ones. We have judge Alito, who's…terrific. Sam. You know. Uh...terrific. And we have…uh…judge Thomas, who I think is a terrific judge. He’s got a real strong…uh…a very, very good guy.
 
And…uh…we have some…that didn't work out as well. I mean, if you look at Justice Roberts, he could have killed the Obamacare twice! No matter what he does, it’s like…you know, he was appointed by Bush.
 
By the way, I will tell you that…senator Cruz is the one that pushed him. He was the one that most wanted him. In fact, he wrote editorials saying, “you gotta have…Roberts. You gotta have Roberts”. And Justice Roberts was a…a…terrible, terrible situation. Because he…approved Obamacare when everybody said it was gonna be terminated. He was the vote that…said,. “we're gonna keep it”.
 
Then he had a second time at it, which would have…also killed it, and he passed it then too. And some of the other judges are the conservative. I mean, the rumors are that some of them wouldn't even speak to him. But, what he did was terrible.
 
Now, he was a Bush appointee, and he was…really proposed…he was…the one that pushed him harder than anybody was Cruz. Senator Cruz. And…so Senator Cruz gave us Obamacare in the true sense, cause any…good…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true! It’s true! No…! In fact, they…you…you have…you have right now, they have editorials where he wrote…he wrote, actually papers, on why..he…should be…the one…chosen…signed by…Ted Cruz!
 
So, I mean, he has been…no matter what he does, he's been a disaster, such…because Obamacare is killing everybody. [It] is killing everybody!
 
MR. PAT ROBERTSON INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.30.12:
 
Pro-life. Uh…we want…we want…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It starts with that. It starts with that. A…a very conservative; very, very smart. I mean, like judge Scalia…would be a perfect…you know, that's…he was like a perfect…he was a perfect…uh…representative.
 
I’ve…I've always said that…uh…Justice Thomas, doesn’t enough credit? He is. He's a wonderful man. He is a wonderful guy….-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I’ve always said. And as I said, uh…judge Alito was…is a terrific guy.
 
So, uh…in that realm is what we're talking about, for me.
 
ANOTHER INTERVIEWER NOW STARTS MAKING QUESTIONS.
MR. TRUMP INTERVENES A COUPLE OF TIMES TO GREET AND THANK THE PEOPLE. THEN HE STARTS RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS AT 00.37.55:
 
Yes. Very simple. As what…I said, yes…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They…they've been…our most reliable ally, especially in the Middle East. And…it...you look at…you know, what's happened with Israel. They were so against this horrible…Iran deal. They were so against it.
 
And, I tell you what. Obama was the worst thing that's ever happened to Israel. You could look at it as he's not…a good president, and he's not doing a good job. And, you look at…Bibi Netanyahu…you look at he…has gone through. I mean, you could just see…the level of exasperation on that man's face. How…they just…the most basic things! They weren't winning anything.
 
Why did we make a deal like this with these people!? And they look at us like…they have no respect for us whatsoever. They can't believe themselves that they were able to get this deal. I don't get it! I mean, I don't get it. There are a lot of theories out there but, I don't get it.
 
This will be studied…and studied for a long time. And this will prove to be a very bad deal. This will lead to nuclear proliferation 100 percent.
And...all the money we gave. Everything we gave. Even the keeping of the hostages. And, you know, ultimately they released our hostages for 150 billion dollars they released [them]. So, it really looks like ransom. The other way, it wouldn't have been ransom! The way I said it and they would have…been back four years earlier.
 
No, I'm with Israel 100 perent.
 
THE INTERVIEWER MAKES ANOTHER QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 00.39.30:
 
Well, I'm a very strong constitutionalist. I mean, I feel so strongly about it. And we've gotten away. I mean, frankly, I think you could say it, not giving it a lot of thought. But all these executive orders, that's not a constitutional thing! And nobody ever saw this! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, we have…we have a president who…uh…just goes and does…uh… you know, he'll spend three minutes trying to talk somebody into it. You'll see, he's got a little burden, and he just goes and signs an executive. And he says, “hey, five years later the courts will decide”. So it's not the way it's supposed to be.
 
The good thing about executive orders is the new president can come in and immediately…void them. That's the one good thing…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The one good thing.
 
THE INTERVIEWER MAKES ANOTHER QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 00.40.30:
 
I can forgive. I mean, I'm pretty good at that. I…I do have…every once in a while there'll be somebody that went too far and I won't like it. I mean, you've…you've been hearing what I've been saying over the last few weeks, and…you know, things were said that we're lies, frankly. They were real lies. And, I won't mention, cause I can’t mention if Pat’s president, so I wanna…I gotta be…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…I’ve gotta be a good be a person, you know, uh…today. At least for the next hour, I'm sorry…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But there have been many…uh…there have been many untruths told. And…uh…it’s just…knowing! Knowing!
 
I mean, I think what happened to Ben Carson was terrible. When they said, “he left the race! He left the race! Here, come on over! Vote for me!”. That affected me too, cause I think would have won Iowa, if you wanna know the truth. But we're doing okay. We've got a second and three first, so I'm not complaining…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Am I…!? Yeah! But I like forfait better. I want forfeit.
 
But…but you know, what happened to Ben Carson…what…happened there was horrible. Uh…the notice violation, the…uh…you know, they called it a voter violation...that’s like a fraudulent document that was sent!
 
So there have been some bad things happening out there. You know, I tell people: Real estate is pretty tough and Real estate in Manhattan, you meet some tough people. These politicians are…not tough people!
THE INTERVIEWER MAKES ANOTHER QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 00.41.54:
 
Well, you know, it's interesting. As a…one of the magazines said, “Donald Trump is a world-class businessman”, and it was sort of interesting. I'm all over the world. And I deal with all Politicians! And, honestly, I never thought I'd be doing this. I just got exasperated. I…would have done in four years ago. I looked at it very seriously with Romney. I was actually leading in the polls…! And…I decided…you know, I had a lot of jobs going on; my children are younger, and now they can do a great job. And I've…excellent executives. But…but it's…this is not something I really…was gonna do, or really wanted to do! I loved what I was doing. The fact is that, as a businessman, you…get along with all politicians, or you have a problema! So I get along with Democrats…; I got along with…Liberals…and…Conservatives, and Republicans…! I got along with everybody!Cause that was my…thing! You know, it was very important!
 
I got along with Bob…where’s Bob? I saw Bob in the audience. Where's he? Where’s he? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. What…? By the way, and…and…a fantastic person. Okay? You know that. A fantastic… “stand up!”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He’s a fantastic…; he…was a fantastic person.
 
And…but I got along with…everybody! I get along with them, and…and…it was important! And I tell people! And…people would forgive me for that. They'd say, “well, you know, it's true”. But, as a…businessman, you wanna get along with Democrats, Republicans, everyone…; and I think for the most part…you know, that's been used on me, and I understand it. But once I explain it, most people…understand.
 
THE INTERVIEWER MAKES ANOTHER QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 00.43.36:
 
Actually, there are some names that I've…gotten that are…you know, that have been on…and we started over 17. We're now down to five. And…you know, some of people that have dealt with, I do have a lot of respect for, and I like.
 
Look, the…main…quality that you want is somebody that could be a great president. If something happens to you…that's gotta be…don't you think? That's gotta be number one.
 
Uh…and then I would want somebody that could help me with government. So most likely, that would be a political person, because, uh…you know, I'm…business, and I’m very good at what I do and all of that, but…and I'm also very, very political. I've…you've seen me…uh…you know, when you can get zoning on the west side of Manhattan…to build almost 6,000 units of housing, and you have to go through New York City politic, believe me, you're political. That’s as tough…;
 
I don't say…uh…Israel-Palestine, but it's about as tough a deal…it’s about as tough a deal…; I view that as the single toughest deal. Anybody can make that deal! And we're gonna give it a shot, okay? We’re gonna give it a shot. But a lot of good people have gone down trying to give that one a shot.
 
But…uh…the most important thing is you have to have…somebody that could be a great…president. But after that, you want somebody that can help you with legislation, getting it trhough, etcetera, etcétera.

So, I would say without, and…it’s true, I'm not thinking about a lot pf them. I'm thinking about getting the ball over the line, and…you know, get this thing done. And…it's a very interesting thing, cause some people know how to do that, [and] some people don't. But..., I need…I want…I do want somebody that's political, because I wanna get lots of great legislation that we all want passed. It's just sitting there. For years, and years, and years we have things sitting there that would be so good, including proper healthcare and other things.
 
So, we're gonna, we're gonna probably chose somebody that’s somewhat political.
 
THE INTERVIEWER MAKES ANOTHER QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 00.45.41:
 
Well, it's…a…an amazing question, because, you know, there's a six year statute of limitations. [It] might be five, but probably six.
 
And…the answer is, I would have…I would instruct them to take…take a look at it. You know, cause…it's not really our call to say ‘indict’. But, certainly, you would have to take a look at it, because you look at General Petraeus…; he suffered greatly. They gave him two years suspended, and lots of things…; uh…they wanted to take his rank away from him. I fought that very hard. I said , “this man suffered enough. Why don’t you focus on beating ISIS instead of…? And leave General Petraeus alone!”. Leave him alone! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And…I think it…I think it helped him. But they wanted to cut his rank way down, and a lot of other things they wanted to do. But, you know, he suffered greatly over this. And what he did is nothing compared to what she did.
 
So, I would…instruct…uh…my Attorney General. Please look at it, and if there's something there…there seems to be a lot there! Because you know, everyday we see people and we read about people that are experts in the field, and they…it…how often  do you see somebody saying she did nothing wrong? They’re all saying she did very wrong.
 
But they’re protecting her because she's the number one runner, and she's saying how…wonderful Obama is. Did you ever see anything like it? Every…single...thing…that he wants to do, she's saying, “great!”. So, she's doing it for that reason. Believe me, folks.
 
MR. PAT ROBERTSON CONCLUES THE SESSION.
MR. TRUMP THANKS THEM AT 00.47.25:
 
 
We'll do it again. Great job you’ve done. Thank you. Great place. Thank you, dear.  That’s so nice. So nice.
 
