VIDEO Nº: 134
TITLE:134. Donald Trump Campaign Rally in Valdosta Georgia
DATE OF EVENT:29/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:04/05/2016
DURATION:01.10.30 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full  
Nº OF WORDS:6415 
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Wow!
Oh, you people are amazing! So here's the story. Here's the story. I love you! I love you! I love Georgia, frankly. Georgia! Georgia!
So here's the story. We have 7,500 people in the room. Outside, we have 12,000 people! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. And we set up speakers. Would anybody like to give some of the people outside your position? Would? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. Please, raise your hand. We'll get you out of here fast right, okay? I'm only kidding.
So we had a lot of good news today! CNN! CNN just came out with a poll. [It] just came out. Trump, 49 percent! Little lightweight Marco Rubio! 16 percent! Lying Ted Cruz, 15 percent. Good guy Ben Carson 10 percent. And Kasich six percent. So we're 49 percent,. can you believe it!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Man! And we got the endorsement yesterday of Senator Jeff Sessions, who's an incredible guy. And we have Sarah Palin…! And we have so many incredible people! We have…uh…I'll tell you, uh…Jerry Falwell Jr. You know, we're winning at every level with Evangelicals. [What] Jerry Falwell Jr did…was…unbelievable. And maybe that's one of the reasons that we've had such help.
But the Evangelicals…; The Tea Party people…; We’re when he with old! We’re winning with young! We’re winning with highly educated! We will…-THE CROWD CHEERS. Right? We're winning with a little bit less than highly educated, which is okay. I love you! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. And we're winning with the veterans. I love the veterans! We’re winning with the military…-THE CROWD CHEERS. In other words...we're winning with everybody!
So, I just wanna thank everybody. It's been so much fun! Who would have known this was gonna happen?
So, I have a special treat. I love NASCAR. Do we love NASCAR? I love it…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
So, we had an endorsement, a little while ago. And, you know, my son Don is very, very friendly with the folks over at NASCAR, and in particular Brian France. And…how good is Brian France? Is this guy like a winner!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. And, you know, I've grown up in George Steinbrenner, The Yankees. He was a great friend of mine. And so many of the owners, and honestly, Brian France, there’s nobody like this man. There's nobody like him. The job he's done …; and the and the family is so incredible.
So, some of the NASCAR folks came…over here today, because guess what? They are endorsing Donald Trump! Can you believe this!? Can you believe this!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, I'll tell you what! If the people that like and watch NASCAR vote for Donald Trump, they can cancel the election right now! Nobody can win! Nobody! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Nobody can win!
So, what I wanna do, I'll bring them up individually, but these are incredible. First of all, the owner the whole deal, the big guy, Brian France. Brian come on up here! Come on up! …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. He's getting pretty dapper. You know, [he] used to be one of the beaches of Daytona. Look at him! Brian, we love you! [Do] you wanna say a few words, Brian, before we…?
MR. BRIAN FRANCE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.05.03:
 
All right. So, we have some of the great drivers. One of the great drivers in…of the world in history…the great, the legendary Bill Elliott. Come on, Bill! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We love Bill! Bill!
MR. BRIAN FRANCE INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.05.55:
 
Oh, do these guys have guts! I could not press it. I'm telling you. You know, I wanna go about 60, that's enough, right? For most of us!
So we have Ryan Newman, great! Ryan! Come on up here, Ryan!
We have David…you know I'm gonna say. David Lee Regan! David, come in!
And then, because of genes, he was really helped a lot. You know, Bill and his incredible wife had a son. And the son…you got it. And the son, I don't know! Are you gonna be upset if he turns out greater than you, Bill, or are you gonna be happy? He's gonna be thrilled! That's a good father! That's a good father! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I know a lot of fathers that [if] they have a son that becomes successful, they're not happy! That's a great father! Most fathers aren’t that way. Chase Elliott! The hottest young driver in the world! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 Say something!
 MR. ELLIOTT INTERVENES AND SHAKES HANDS WITH ALL OF HIS GUESTS ON STAGE. THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.07.45:
 Thank you fellas. That's cute. They just said, “keep that wall going”. We're gonna keep the wall going. Believe me. Believe me…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
So, it's been an amazing period of time. And…I…you know, I just have to thank NASCAR so much, cause that's something that…to do is just incredible. These are incredible people; incredible…athletes; Brian's an incredible guy, who I've known for so long, and the job he's done is is legendary. So, I just…uh…I just could not be happier that…they were here.
I just wanna discuss a few of the things. Tomorrow's a really big day. We have to get out and vote. You know…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…you know, I don't want your money cause I'm self-funding, right? I'm self-funding…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I don't even want Brian's money. Brian's good for some money, but I don't want Brian's money. What I want is…I want…everybody, with…I guess I just heard we have 13, 14,000 people outside. They hear me very well. We have a good mic system, but…I just want you folks to go out…and vote.
We have the…head of Time, one of the top riders of Time magazine here. He did a story 3, 4 weeks ag, talking about a movement. And I said, “what are you talking about? You're gonna do another story?”. We're gonna…where is he, by the way? Where is David? Where the hell is David!? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He did such an amazing story! And he's talking about a movement. This is, in fact, a movement. This is not like me. This isn't about me. It's about you! It's about all of us. I'm just the messenger! And…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm just a messenger, folks.
And there's not…there's never been! You know, they've said! I've gotten calls from a lot of the biggest writers…; uh…the media's back there. A lot of media, but they’re very dishonest people, but some are good and I’ve…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…oh, they’re terrible. They are so terrible! They are terrible, but you know, no, 20 percent of them are good! 80 percent are bad. 40 percent are disgusting…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
But, you know, the end result, it doesn't make any difference. What we have going is so special, it's incredible. It's incredible.
So, the big thing, and I'm gonna…well, I will tell you one more time before we finish, which will be in a little while. We'll talk about a few things, like…uh…the wall…; we'll talk about…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Like not getting ripped off on trade; like rebuilding our military; like…taking care of our vets! …-THE CROWD CHEERS.
But, I just wanna say. So, you know, I'm self-funding. That means that…nobody's gonna say, “oh, please, Don. I gave you a contribution! You've gotta help me with the pharmaceutical in…industry! Or you have to help me with something!”.
No, no there's not gonna be any of that. [Do] You know that in…bidding, that when…we’re the largest purchaser of drugs in the world, right? In the world! By far!
So, I mean, drugs like to make you better, right? And…do you know that in bidding we don't bid? It's like if you go out to buy to get some drugs at your local pharmacy, the government is paying a similar amount of money? That we would save…billions, and billions of…dollars!
Now, the problem is that all of these guys that I'm running against they're all taken care of by the pharmaceutical industry…; they're taken care of by all of the industries…; and when it comes time to bid they say, “oh, no, no. You can't have them bid. They gave me a million dollars and they gave me five million dollars”. It's a bad system! And we're gonna change the system. We're gonna clean it up. We are gonna clean it up…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, we could save as much as 300…billion…dollars if we went out and bid. 300 billion. That gets to be big money, right? That gets to be big money.
The numbers of…of fraud, waste, abuse in the system are incredible. We're gonna take care of Social Security. We're gonna cut in terms of…not cut what you're getting! We're gonna cut all of the waste, fraud, abuse; and we're gonna save you Social Security without cuts! Just mark my words…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And we're gonna have something that's gonna be so exciting. And look I…I deal with these people. Now, I've dealt with politicians all my life. Somebody said, “Oh Donald hasn’t been political”. I've gotten zone changes. I've been all over the world. We're doing…over a 114 projects now. All over the world! All over! And I dealt with politicians. I dealt with politicians worldwide. And I wanna tell you, they're never gonna get you to the promised land, folks. They're never gonna do it.
And….-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, I saw this like…like this little Marco Rubio, this this guy…!  I call him ‘lightweight’. I call him ‘lightweight Marco’. No, I see him…I'm on the stage, you saw Chris Christie endorsed me the other day, right? [A] great GUY. [A] tough guy…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And a few weeks ago, we're at one of the many debates. These debates, they’re…they’re…just brutal! They're coming out of my ears! Who wants to do any more debates!? It's enough! And we have another one coming up, I think, on Thursday! The last one, I was double-teamed, and I won every single poll…had me winning! Can you believe it!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And these two guys, I see them backstage, they're talking! You know, “you do this. I'll do that. You do this. Don't cut me off”. And then they're high-fiving, and they're actually, there's one picture where I'm standing here, in the middle…; by the way, I've been in the middle from the beginning. Brian would like that…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. I've been in the middle from the beginning, from virtually the time I announced. The middle means…like that's the one that's winning. And I've been in the middle right from…the beginning. And that's great.
But I see these two guys, there's a picture in one of the…newspapers. Big picture! I'm standing here like this…-MR. TRUMP STANDS IMPASSIVELY; there's a little bit of a break, and they're both behind me, shaking hands! Like, “oh, isn’t everything wonderful?”.
So, every…single…online poll, Drudge is an incredible guy, by the way. Incredible. Drudge, Times, Slate, every…everybody! Every one of them! Every…single…event, I've been number one in this…whole…thing, with the crazy debating.
And…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and the reason is…I've never done this before! You know, I'm not a politician. These guys, all they do is talk. It's all talk, no action! They debate. They talk. Nothing gets done. They then go to get campaign contributions, “yep, I promise I'll do this. Will you give me a contribution?”. That's what they do! But, I am so…convinced, that our country…can be greater than ever before. I am so convinced! That's why I'm doing this! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Greater…than ever before.
But, this guy…I watched him, and he's standing there. Think about this negotiating with the Chinese. I do a lot of business with the Chinese. I've made some great deals. I have the Bank of America building because of the Chinese. [A] Big chunk of it. I have 1290 Avenue of the Americas at sixth Avenue, in New York. The largest floor…or just about the largest floor plates. This massive building. Chinese. I deal…I have the largest bank in the world, the Chinese banks has 400…million…customers! [It’s the] largest in the world. They’re a tenant of min at one of my buildings, in Manhattan. I sell tens of millions of condos…; dealing with the Chinese is fine! But, their leaders are too smart for our leaders. They're killing us, folks. And we can't let it happen anymore…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
Carl Icahn is one of the great businesspeople. You know Carl. And so many other business people. I have the greatest negotiators in the world. We use political hacks to negotiate these massive trade deals. Bigger than any deal…! Even Brian would say these deals are big, okay? Bigger than any deal, we lose every year, with China, 500…billion…dollars. Think of it. 500…billion…dollars.
And this has been going on forever! We always lose! We're gonna start winning! We're gonna win! We're not gonna lose. Why are we losing? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We get these political guys, they're in there because they gave campaign contributions, or whatever. Or they raised money. I have a good friend of mine, Mel, here. But I won't tell you his last name. But he does very well in this world. He raises a lot of money for politicians. He said to me before, “can I raise money for you?”.
I said, “I don't want any money!”. [Do] You know much money I turned down? I would have made Jeb Bush's 148 million, which was so far the biggest…; I would have made…that fund look like peanuts! I could have had…; I turned down money, after money…! And you know, it's not my life! It's not my life! My whole life has been money! “I want money! I want money!”. Greedy! I was greedy! Greed! I want more money! More money!
Now they come up, “Donald, I'd like to give you ten million dollars for your campaign”.
I go, “I don't want it!”. It's hard! Because my whole life…; so I take money, take money…!; now, I'm gonna be greedy for the United States! I'm gonna take, and take, and take! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. MR. TRUMP SAYS HELLO TO THE PEOPLE LOCATED BEHIND HIM.
Oh, we're gonna take, take, take, take! We're gonna become rich again, and then we're gonna become great again!
A wonderful woman came up to me at one of the events. She said, “Mr. Trump, I love you. I'm gonna vote for you. But please, don't say you're gonna make us rich again. That doesn't sound good”.
I said, “it sounds good to me!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. We can't be great…unless we're gonna make ourselves rich again! We have to make ourselves rich!
We're losing all of our jobs…to China! To Japan…! The cars coming in from…by the millions, they come in…; I was in Los Angeles. I saw the largest…ships…you've ever seen in your life, with cars. It looks like a NASCAR track. They're coming off that thing so fast…!; I'm not sure the Chase could drive the car as fast as these guys drive off the bus. I don't even know how they do it. But I'll tell you what. They come off like just…you never saw anything like it. You know what…we do? We get nothing! We do nothing! We give them beef! We give them beef! This is the trade. It's a tiny fraction. You talk about a trade imbalance. A tiny fraction.And you know what they do with the beef? They don't want it! They send the boats back. You know that, right? They don't even take it! And then we go again and they send it back again. The third or fourth time they take it. And by that time it's all rotted! And you know what they do with it they sell it as Kobe beef and they charge you ten times more, right? You know that. It's terrible! But no, they…they literally…the…the imbalance that we have!
Now, Mexico. Everybody talks about the wall. Everybody! The wall’s gonna be built, folks. The wall’s gonna be built. We're gonna have a strong border…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna have a strong border. And by the way, by the way…who's gonna pay for the wall!? …-THE CROW YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. 100 percent. 100 percent!
So, Vincente…Fox…was on television the other day, throwing out the f-bomb! Can you imagine if I did it!? I would be so gone! I wouldn't be up here tonight! If I did that…;
So he is saying, “there is no way…we're gonna pay for the you know what wall!”. And I watched this guy, and I watched the anger! And you know why he's angry? Not because of the wall. Because nobody's ever told them ‘no’. Nobody ever tells them ‘no’. He can't believe that a guy named Trump…he even got the Pope after me! Right!? The Pope! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. The Pope was after me.
Listen to this! I'm in South Carolina. I love…South Carolina. And by the way, I love Nevada. I love South Carolina. And do I love New Hampshire! New Hampshire got it started. And by…and I promised the people of New Hampshire…that we're gonna stop the heroin from flowing in. Can you believe it? They have such a problem. We're gonna stop it. We're gonna stop it at the border. It's coming in from the border. We're gonna stop it.
So here's the story. So the Pope…! We're ready to vote…in South Carolina. And I'm doing great; I'm up; and the polls are showing…; everything is gonna be wonderful; and my people come: “Mr. Trump, could we speak to you?”.
“What?”.
“The Pope”.
I'm saying, “the Pope!?”. That's big league, let's face it…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Is that bigger than Brian France? I'm not sure, I don't know. I don’t know. The Pope…the Pope is big league.
They said, “Mr. Trump, the Pope just made a big statement about you now”. This is like eight hours before the election.
I say…”uh!”. I took a deep breath, “is it good, or is it bad?”:
They said “Mr. Trump, it's really bad”.
I said, “oh! This could only happen to me”…-THE CROWD LAIGHS. The Pope is hitting me, just before the election in South Carolina. I said, “what is it?”.
“He didn't like the idea…that you're building a wall. And that you're gonna wall off the United States from Mexico”.
I said, “yeah, but he doesn't understand. Tremendous criminal elements are coming in. Tremendous drugs are pouring in. People are coming into the country illegally. He doesn't understand that. We have to explain it to the Pope! He's not hearing that side of it”.
They said, “no, it's very serious”.
So, the Pope came out with a nasty statement. And here's the good news: he corrected the statement the following day. Just in time. Just in time. Just in time! …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. That was a close one. That was a close one. Now I like the Pope again, okay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But with this guy, Fox, I watched the anger in his face, and he was really angry at the fact that somebody who… “how dare you tell Mexico…!?”; because they have gotten their way…; and I love Mexico! I love the Mexican people! I respect the Mexican leaders! The problem is, the Chinese leaders, the Mexico leaders, the…Japanese leaders, all of them! They're too smart for our leaders! They're killing us!
They devalue their currency…hey, I know the game better than anybody. Oh, do I know the game! That new TPP pack, you know Trans-pacific partnership, we're making it with 12 different…; it is so bad! …-THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. You know, the biggest…thing they have is devaluation! It's not even covered in the agreement. [It’s] virtually not covered. That's how they beat us. They don't make a great product! They make a good product. It's fine.
A friend of mine, I tell this story all the time. He's an excavator. He buys Caterpillar. That's what he buys. He buys Caterpillar. And he…for years, for his whole life he's bought Caterpillar he sees me, fairly recently. And he's depressed. I said, “what happened? Is your wife leaving you, finally?”. She's wanna leave him for years. Oh! I probably…; oh! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Am I gonna be in trouble with him when he hears this! Hopefully she's not watching cause she would know exactly who I'm talking about. But that's okay. It's gonna end! This…relationship is one of the truly worst relationships…; it’s one…maybe the worst relationship I've ever seen, okay? I hate to say and I don't believe in that stuff, but I'm doing him a big favor, okay? I'm doing a both the big favor. Okay!
So, what happens…what happens is…he's depressed! And I say, “so, what's the problem?”
He said, “I just ordered a tremendous amount of Komatsu…equipment, from Japan”.
I said, “is it good?”.
“Yeah, it’s good”.
“Is it as good as Caterpillar?”.
“No, but it's good. It's very good”.
 I said, “why?”.
He said, “they have so…devalued the yen…that I owe it to my family; I owe it to my company; I owe it to my employees; I have to do what's right for my company!”. And he bought a tremendous amount of Komatsu…tractors and excavators. And I could see he was very upset!
And now you take a look at Caterpillar; take a look at their stock; see what's going on; a lot of bad things are going on! These companies, and these countries, they're devaluing and they're devaluing like grand chess masters!
China is the best of all! China is killing us, folks! China…has…I…I say it! It's the single…greatest…robbery…what China has done to the United States. I love you too, darling! It's the single…greatest…robbery, what they've done to the United States, in the history of the world! There's never been a robbery like this! We have rebuilt China. We have rebuilt China. Because we don't have the right people negotiating for us. And we have the best people in the world! We have the best business people…in the world! We don't have the right people negotiating. And it's gonna end, folks! It's gonna end! It's gonna end fast!
And then I hear, you know, I like to say I'm a common-sense conservative…? I'm actually very conservative! [When] It comes to the military; it comes to the wall…; we're gonna get rid of Obamacare…very, very much! Right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. THEN IT STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Thank you.
We’re gonna get rid of Common Core. Our education is gonna be local. Local…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And I've seen it! I…this…this Common Core is a disaster. Do you know…in the world…30 countries, in the world. We’re number 30th! We’re last. We’re last, on education. We’re number one per pupil in cost. And number two doesn't even exist, because we spend so much more than number two, you might as well forget number two.
You have Denmark…; Sweden…; China…; Norway…; The United States is number 30. And yet, we’re number…one in cost.
You know, it's very interesting, my campaign. Somebody wrote an article. One of these…uh…people back there. One of these of many. Oh, boy! That's a lot of cameras! [Do] You know…do you know the biggest problem with my speeches? [They] are always live. I got like all these cameras. That's why I can never make the same stump speech. All these other guys, they go and they read the same speech, right?
“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you thank you…”. 12 minutes, everyone’s sleeping, and then they leave, okay? You can't do that if you're live television every night. It's nice to have that ability. We don't wanna teleprompter president again, do we? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. No more teleprompters. No more. It's too easy! Tell me what I should say, write it out, I'll read it. Bah, bah, bah.
[MOU1] But, you look at what's going on…you look at what's going on in the world. It's gonna change. It's gonna change so fast for us. I'm telling you! We can do things so fast! My campaign…I spent less money than anyone else, and I'm by far the front-runner. I mean, by far! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
My son Don…where is Don, by the way? Is Don here? Where is Don? Where's my boy? He's done such a great job! Where is Don? Come here! My son Don, and Eric, and Ivanka…; come here Don! …MR. DON TRUMP JOINS MR. DONALD TRUMP ON STAGE.
My boy is working on a big project on Pennsylvania Avenue. You know, he loves his dad, and his sister, and his brother. They know. I mean, those are the three that are grown up and they're doing a great job. And they know I wanna be on Pennsylvania Avenue, right? So I got from…the Obama administration, can you believe this? The most valuable site. The…probably the most heavily bid on site in the history of the General Services Administration. It's called the old Post Office. It was built in the 1880s. It's an incredible building. We're converting it to a hotel. The reason I got it is I had…the greatest statement. One of the best statements they've ever seen. They wanna make sure it gets done. And we had a great concept. We're building a super luxury hotel. It'll be one of the great hotels of the world. Not only of the country. It's a great thing! They did the right thing. They chose Trump. What can I tell you?
We're right now…-THE CROWD MUTTERS-…we're right now two years…right now, we're two years…ahead of schedule. Two years! Of course, we're going by government schedule. And by the way, the people that GSA are terrific people. They've really good people. Really talented people. Of course, if they didn't choose me, I don't know if I'd say that, but these are minor details…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But I think they started out with over a hundred bidders, then [they] broke it down to ten. All the great hotel companies…; all of the great real estate companies…; and we got it! Because of the statement, and because of the concept. And I will tell you. Don…loves that project. And Ivanka, and Eric. Because they know…that we're gonna make America great again. They know that I wanna live on Pennsylvania Avenue. And they know if I don't make the White House, I can still live on Pennsylvania Avenue…cause this is on Pennsylvania Avenue, right!? Right!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Say something!
MR. DON TRUMP INTERVENES.
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.28.24:
I will tell you this. You know, a…a lot of…people asked me to speak on success and what it…takes to be successful, and all this. But, you know, I've known a lot of very successful people. The most…successful…people are the people with great families, I will tell you. Not the most money, but the people with the great families
 
When you have…I'm just gonna interject this in between trade, in between the second Amendment, which by the way, we are gonna keep and solidified! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But, but I must tell you, it's the people…with the great wife, or the great husband, and the great children, that love their children…and…and adore their families. Those are the happiest people. Not the people with the most money. I speak against myself, perhaps, maybe not…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But I'll tell you what: cherish your family, because there's nothing more important. Just remember that. Okay!
 
Now back on the trade! So, the Second Amendment is under siege. And I'll tell you what else is under siege: Christianity. It's under seige…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
 
 
I've had tremendous support from pastors; I've had such incredible support from pastors, and ministers, and…clergy!
 
And, you know, it's amazing. I'm winning all of the…Evangelicals. If you look at…if you look at South Carolina, Ted Cruz was supposed to win that easily, and I won in a landslide. And I won…the Evangelicals.
 
And, Jerry Falwell Jr. got up and made the most incredible speech. He talked about his father. The…I was very complimented, because he said nice things. And you know, everybody…that walks through, that goes through, they all go through Liberty University. Jerry's…Liberty University. And he knows all the candidates. And he came out and endorsed me, Jerry Falwell Jr., which was a really great…thing. And…people saw…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But, he said about me, of all of the people, he said that I…most…remind him…of his father, who he adored. And he tells the story that, in theory, Jimmy Carter…should have been endorsed by the Evangelical leaders! And, they went…and his father! And they went, and they loved Ronald Reagan. But Jimmy Carter was perfect! [He was a] Sunday school teacher. [He] knew the Bible, without…question. A good person. A very good person. And you had Ronald Reagan, who was a little bit different…a little bit different. But, Jerry Senior felt that Ronald Reagan would be a better president. He was tougher; he was stronger; he was much more into the military, and protection.
 
And, he went out, and took a lot of heat on it! He went out and didn't endorse Jimmy Carter. He endorsed Ronald Reagan. And it turned out to be a great, great decision, right? [A] great decision…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And…and so Jerry Junior felt similarly. But you know, for him to go indoors…because they don't endorse. They don't like to endorse. They don't get involved in that. But he just felt so good. And I really think between Jerry, and Paula, and…and so many different people from…the church, and…and…just…the ministers and the pastors…; I've had such incredible support!
 
So, for the Evangelicals among you, I love you, and we're gonna do things…good things together. Believe me…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And one thing that came up, by the way, which I think is very important. I was at a meeting with many, many pastors, and ministers. God bless America. You're right! Good man! Stand up! …-MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND TO LOOK AT THE PERSON WHO JUST YELLED THAT. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I like that. I like to hear that.
 
And by the way, when it's Christmas, we're gonna start saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again, folks…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. Okay? [You’d] better believe it! You haven't noticed? The stores! You go [on] Christmas time, [and] they'll have like a red wall and there won't be anything on it!
 
And I have friends that, frankly, aren't Christian! And…I'm Protestant, I'm Presbyterian. But our friends are not Christian, and they like saying ‘Merry Christmas’!. And you put, ‘Merry Christmas!’, ‘Happy Holidays!’. The stores! You go to Macy's; you go to these stores…[and] they don't have ‘Merry Christmas!’. We're gonna have… ‘Merry…Christmas…in our stores again! All right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUIDS.
 
So…so I was at a meeting with probably 55, or 60 pastors, ministers, people…great people of the church. And, they were talking. And…I said, “let me ask you a question, how many Christians, Evangelicals and Christians all together do you think we have in the country?”. And they probably figured like 250, 260 million.
 
I said, “so, as a political bloc, that's bigger than women. And it's bigger than men!”. There is no political bloc like that! Why is it that we get pushed around? For instance, I made the statement…about Muslims…great respect! I have many friends that are Muslims. But there's something going wrong here, folks!
 
And I said, “we have to do something temporarily. We have to find out what's going wrong. We can't let the Syrians come in. We don't know who they are. We don't know where they come from…!” …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We don't know where they come from…!
And I said [it]! We have to figure out what is going on! We have Paris, and you have in…in…Los Angeles! And you have so many different things happening! The event that took place in California, with the 14 people killed…by the woman, who radicalized the guy! They get married, they go, they kill people…that is supposed to be their friends! Something’s going on, right?
 
But I said…but I said to the people assembled, I said, “let me ask you this question…”, because the…cause it’s so, to me, important! I said, “you have such power! But you guys are all afraid to use your power! What is it!?”.
 
And then after about two minutes I figured out! During the Lyndon Johnson administration, the power was taken away! Because they're gonna lose their tax-exempt status if they get a little bit political! So, you have people that are incredible pastors, and ministers, and…everything! And they're strong people, and they're great people…and they're afraid to go out and fight for Christianity in the truest sense of the form…; so I said, essentially, “what you're telling me is that a man, or woman on the street, walking down the street, has more power than you do…and you're a minister! …or you're a pastor! That's something wrong!”.
 
I said, “we are gonna work like hell to get rid of that legislation, so that you can have your power back!”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. “You gotta have your power back!”. And we're gonna do that. We're gonna get that done. I don't know how it was allowed to happen. But the fact is, we have the most powerful group of people in this country, by far, and then not treated properly. Cause Christianity, piece, by piece, by piece is being destroyed. So, we're gonna get it back, folks. Remember what I said. Just remember what I said…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So, just in finishing. [The] Second Amendment [is], very important. I talk about the case with the 14 people, because…they were killed. If there were guns on the other side of the room…; if a couple of like…this guy! That guy, right there. That guy the big guy, with a beautiful beard, with a beautiful…almost as good a head of hair as I have…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. That guy, right there. Better! Better! He's got better!
 
But, if…if we had a couple of people in that room, if we had a couple of people…; as an example, the worst…-THERE IS A SUDDEN NOISE IN THE ROOM, APPARENTLY A PROTESTER. THE CROWD BOOS. Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! All right, let him…; come on, quiet! Get out! …-THE CROWD BOOS. Get him out! Get him out! Thank you. Thank you.
 
That’s okay.
 
It…it’s sort of crazy, right? You know, whether you're Republican; whether you're Democrat; Liberal; Conservative…; we want certain things. We wanna have a beautiful family; we wanna have good, safe borders; we wanna have a strong military; we want protection; we wanna have jobs, which are being taken away from us, left and right.
 
You know, you wouldn't think…you’d think everybody would be like on the same side! There's like six, or seven things you wanna have! You wanna have freedom of religion. You wanna have things. You wanna have certain things! And, you would think that people would sort of all be in the same, but, every once in a while you have that happen, and it's fine.
 
Listen. Listen. Paris…is the toughest…in the world for guns. You can't have a gun. France is probably the toughest…nation…anywhere in the world for guns! The only one that has the guns are the bad guys, right? So you have the strongest…gun…control…laws in the world in Paris and in France. And you have these thugs. These…these scum! These garbage. They walk in, two, three, or four different places, and they start going, boom! Boom! “You, boom! You, boom!”.
 
And you know what, folks? If we would have had a few guns firing bullets in the opposite direction, it wouldn't have been that way…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPALUDS VIVIDLY. [It] wouldn't have been that way. It wouldn't have been that way.
 
You have a 130 people dead. You have many, many gravely injured, lying in the hospital. Many of them are gonna die. It's a horrible scene, they tell me. But you wouldn't have that scene.
 
So, we're gonna protect that Second Amendment, and believe me. It's…not…gonna be…touched! [It’s] not gonna be touched…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
 
So…so, just in closing; you gotta vote. You've gotta go to…tomorrow's a big day. And I want Georgia…! I want you to lead the pack! We're gonna have a lot of success! We’re gonna have a lot of success…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But I love Georgia, and I want you to lead the pack if you can.
 
But look: we don't win anymore…; we don't win on trade…; we don't win at the borders…; we don't win…with our military! Our military, the…the great, great, the greatest military in the world! We can't even beat ISIS! Oh, we're gonna knock ISIS out so…fast! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Our health care is horrible! It's highly expensive. It doesn't work. It's broken. It's gonna be terminated. So, we don't win in health care. We don't win at anything! We, certainly, don't win with education…;
 
Here's the story, folks: you're gonna look back on this night, and you're gonna say in two years, and three years, and four years, and in…20 years; you're gonna say, “this was an amazing evening”. Cause it is a movement. You're gonna say…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY-…you're gonna say…you're gonna say…that was an evening when Donald Trump stood up, and he said…and he said…and she will be a great first lady. Say that again! She's…she will be…-APPARENTLY SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD HAS PRAISED MS. MELANIA TRUMP.
 
You're gonna say, that was an evening when we really became great again. We are going to win…at every…single…level! We are gonna win with health! We are going to win with education! We are gonna win at the borders! We're gonna win with our military! We're gonna win, win, win, win…! …THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
 
We…are going…to mak… America…great…again. Greater…than ever…before!
 
I love you! Go out and vote! I love you all! Thank you, Georgia! Thank you! We love you! Thank you!
