VIDEO Nº: 174
TITLE:174. Speech Donald Trump - Pittsburgh PA - April 13 2016
DATE OF EVENT:13/04/2016
RELEASE DATE:26/10/2017
DURATION:00.45.07 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:8319
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Thank you, Pittsburgh. We love Pittsburgh…–THE CROWD CHEERS. Thank you very much.
Wow, a great crowd huh? Wow, just beautiful, thank you. [It’s] So nice! [It’s] So nice!
We are going to bring back…your coal industry and your steel industry. We're bringing it back! Remember that…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're bringing it back, folks.
So, I know Pittsburgh, [I] have a lot of friends. Big Ben is a friend of mine! Big Ben. Do we love? Big Ben! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. A lot of friends. And…uh…I will tell you this: I asked…when I came over, I said, “give me some stats on how…Pittsburgh's doing”. And…it's no different really than the country. The country is doing lowsy. We're losing our jobs. They're moving to other countries. They're moving to Mexico. They're moving all over the place. They fire their people, they make their product, [and] they send it in here. No tax, no nothing. Give me a break, okay? It's not gonna happen. So…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
There are few places in America that have been more devastated economically by our trade policies than Pittsburg! We know that. We…know what's happened. Don't worry, we're bringing it all back! Don't worry about it, okay? Don't worry…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
According to the Federal Bureau of Labor…these are just stats! I'm just getting them from the books! According to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, Pittsburgh has lost one-third…of its manufacturing jobs since 2001. One-third…–THE CROWD BOOS. This happened to be, by the way, the year that…China entered the World…Trade…Organization…–THE CROWD BOOS–…and started ripping us off, okay?
From the Pittsburgh Business Times, United States Steel Corp said Wednesday [that] it would be cutting about 25 percent of its non-unionized workforce, including jobs in Pittsburgh. All over the country, we're getting just devastated. Also, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Pittsburgh also lost…20 percent of its construction jobs since 2007…–THE CROWD BOOS.
And we love the place! You know, we love…I…it…just so you understand, I went to school in this state, right? We know that, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So, I know! I know a lot about Pennsylvania, and it's great!
How's Joe Paterno? We’re gonna bring that back? Right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
How about…how about that whole…how about that whole deal? And we do love Penn State. Do we love Penn State!? I mean, in all fairness!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We love Penn State. But we love Pittsburgh, right!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
The state of Pennsylvania has lost more…but this…listen to this one! …more than 40 percent of its manufacturing. I mean, when you think of it…35 percent since 2000. So, it's lost 35 percent of its manufacturing since the year 2000. Pennsylvania, we know this, provided steel to the entire world! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It'll happen again…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
A wage-earner could support their entire family on an income in the mill. And you know, that's a different thing now. And now they're being laid off all over the place. And by the way, I have to tell you something, steel…? We're bringing it back! And, I said it: coal. Clean coal! Clean coal, we're bringing it back, big league. Big league! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
The politicians, who are…you know, a little bit smarter than you think, by the way. Some are…dummies[MGF1] , but…a little bit smarter. Just so you understand, I'm self-funding my campaign. When I come here, I'm paying for it, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But the politicians are all taken care of by their special interests. They're all...; you look at a guy like Cruz, he's in favor of TPP…–THE CROWD MUTTERS. TPP! Lyin' Ted! LyiN…lyin' Ted! A big liar! …–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘LYIN TED!’.
So he wants…the…Transpacific…you know, the Trainspacific Partnership, which is a big rip-off. That'll be another NAFTA deal. That'll be disastrous for our country…–THE CROWD BOOS. And he made it impossible for…us to negotiate their single…greatest…weapon against us, which is currency devaluation. He wouldn't let it happen! And it's no good to start off with. But without currency devaluation and their big league, it's a disaster! It'll take so many jobs from this country, from this area. We're not gonna let it happen! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, the agreement is 5,000…pages…long; [there are] many countries involved. Those countries have read every single little word…! They've analyzed it 15 different ways from China…! And you know what? Although China's not in the deal, I have to be honest. But they will be in the deal if the deal turns out to be as good everyone's saying for those competing with us, China will come in through the backdoor and they'll be there, too. Don't worry about it.
But when you look at it, think of it: they…5,000 pages; every word by those countries! And we…I get…most of the people doing it, they don't even read the documents, folks. They don't even read the documents. And in the end, I refuse to use…bad language. But in the end, we will be taken advantage of. You know why? Because the United States is represented by incompetent people and/or dishonest people! And we're gonna have that practice stopped. We're gonna use our toughest, our smartest…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and we're gonna stop it!
So, it's one of the great betrayals. It’s…it really is too. This is the town of the Pittsburgh Steelers, which we love. We…uh…do love the Pittsburgh Steelers…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And you're gonna have a good season coming up. We've gotta keep Ben good and healthy. You're gonna have a good season. It's Steel City, and when I'm president, guess what? Steel is coming back to Pittsburgh, and a lot of other things are coming back. So, that's the way it is.
You know, we were…uh…I just did Sean Hannity. We did [a] big, beautiful show, right from a…little bit different location, in Pittsburgh. So it's on tonight if anybody wants to watch. By the time we finish, you will have had enough. You'll go home saying, “buh, I don't wanna watch anymore! I've had enough!”. Don't watch Sean tonight, but it's a pretty good show. We just did it. We had a packed theater, it was an incredible place. And we had it packed, and there's love in that room.
There's tremendous love in what we're doing. This is a movement...–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE–…I love you too, man. I love you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
What we have going, folks, we have a movement going. You know, I've been in upstate, New York now for the last four or five days. And when you see what's happened to…upstate New York in particular, and different places in New York, it could make you…absolutely cry. It really could. Jobs being taken, 60 percent, 70 percent of the jobs. The manufacturing, forget about it. The people are incredible! Like you! The people are incredible people. They stick with it. They wanna make it great, and they wanna make America great again! But they wanna bring it back! They wanna bring it back…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I'll tell you what, we're going to.
You know, when you see these companies…you saw recently Carrier Air-conditioner, where they fired 1,400 people like it was nothing, and they're moving to Mexico. And then they're gonna make their air conditioners…–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY–…they're gonna make their air conditioners; they're gonna send them over...–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT–…he says ‘build a wall’. You're right. We're gonna build the wall. Don't worry about it. We're gonna build the wall…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The AUDIENCE THEN CHANTS ‘BUILD THAT WALL!’ REPEATEDLY.
Are you ready? And who's gonna pay for the wall!?  …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. 100 hundred percent, okay? 100…;
You know, Mexico…and I have great relationships with Mexico, the Mexican people, Hispanics…; uh…thousands of them work for me, they're fantastic…; in Nevada, which I won. I won the state of Nevada. They did a poll…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY–…they did a poll, and the poll came out where the Hispanics: “who's most popular? Donald Trump”. People…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…that live here legally, they love Donald Trump! Because they don't want their jobs taken away. They don't want crime. They don't want the problems that are being caused in our country. We have huge problems. So we are, in fact…we're going to have a strong border.
Just so you understand, uh…15,500 Border Patrol people last week endorsed me. They've never endorsed a presidential candidate before…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Ever! And you know they're great people! They wanna do their jobs, and they're told to ‘stand back!’. We're like Swiss cheese. “Stand back, let everybody just walk in”. [It’s] Not gonna be anymore. We either have a country or we don't. If we don't have borders, we don't have a country. And people are gonna come into our country, but they're coming in legally; legally, legally…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona, who does he endorse? Donald Trump, right!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. We have so many…great endorsements. So many great…; You know, uh…if…if you just look, you…I mean, Sarah Palin endorsed. Jeff Sessions, Senator Jeff Sessions endorsed. So many! Michael Savage, you're right! …–MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES A MEMBER IN THE CROWD–…Michael Savage endorsed. But so…many, unbelievable…;
Jerry Falwell Jr.'s been so incredible. Liberty University. Jerry Falwell Jr…has been…so incredible. And when I win with the evangelicals so often, I go to South Carolina and they said, “well, that's a Cruz…stronghold”. I don't think he has any strongholds…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Lyin' Ted! Lyin' Ted! …–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘LYIN’ TED!’.
Yeah, no, the…the evangelicals do not like liars, folks! You know I say, he walks in with the Bible held high…! He walks in, it's Lyin' Ted, Bible held high! [He] Puts it down and then he starts to lie.
[Do you] Remember what he did with…Ben Carson, who endorsed me? A great guy. [A] Great guy! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And he goes to Iowa, during the election, election day! And he said, “Ben Carson is out of the race”. This is…people…are voting! So, ‘vote for Lyin' Ted’. And they all believed him! And then right after the election was over, he called Ben to apologize, okay? This is a…this is what we have representing us.
And you know, worse than that…worse than…and…it…how about this? He's always saying, “I'm the only one…that can beat Donald Trump! I have proven it! I won Utah!”. Now, the week of Utah…was the week of Arizona, which I won in a massive landslide. Many more delegates, right? So he goes, “I won Utah!”. He doesn't say that I won Arizona, and got many more delegates! But he said, “I beat Donald Trump!”. So, he's got 10…and I've got 21, or 22 states. But he doesn't say that! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Lyin' Ted! It's an unbelievable situation. Somebody said, “what've you learned about politics and politicians?”.
Now, you know, all my life I've dealt with a lot of politicians, and many of them are very…dishonest people. I've known that for years. But, …–SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘Hillary!’–…I had no…oh, Hillary!? You talk about Hillary!? …–THE CROWD BOOS. She's the most dishonest of all. That's the one! That's the one! Hillary, what a…;
You know, they're saying that maybe…well, she can't be president for a number of reasons. She'll probably skirt by. What do you think? They're protecting her. They're protecting her. Did you see where Bernie Sanders said…? Bernie Sanders, do you believe this? …–THE CROWD BOOS. Did you see…where Bernie Sanders said “she's not qualified to be president”, right? And then he sort of low-keyed that a little bit, cause he was getting heat. And he said…what did he say? Do you know what he said? “Bad judgment”. [She] Gots bad judgment! She does have!
First of all, she voted for the war in Iraq. She wanted to go to Libya. You know who's got Libya right now, her baby? You know who's got Libya right now!? And the oil!? ISIS! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And you know what our country does about it? Do we do blockades? Do we blow the hell out of it? Do we do it? No, they're making a fortune! They have some of the finest oil in the world. Nice and high. [It’s the] Highest quality. ISIS has it! What do we do!? Nothing! They do whatever they want.
[Do you] Remember I said, “keep the oil?”. [Do you] Remember? “Keep the oil”. “Don't go into Iraq”, I was always against it. They went in, destabilized the Middle East. Then Obama gives a certain date when we're gonna go out; [he] takes everybody out…that's when you should've kept some there…! But I always said, “keep the oil! Keep the oil!”. We didn't do it. We didn't do it. So, we left!
Now I say, “knock the hell out of the oil!”. We don't do that, because…it may have an environmental impact. Can you imagine!? Can you imagine…General George Patton, one of the toughest guys, General George Patton; General Douglas MacArthur, were they say, “we don't wanna bomb the oil cause it may have an impact on the environment”. What…what are we doing!? What are we doing!?
So we now have…Libya in play. Benghazi…all of that. That was Hillary's baby. And now, what do we have…? Now what do we…? [Do you] Remember the famous phone call? Who would you want answering your…phone at three in the morning!? …–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘DONALD TRUMP!’–…she wasn't there to answer it! You're right, me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'll be there. I'll be there. I'll be there, folks. Bad judgment! She's got bad, bad judgment.
I'll tell you what, if Hillary Clinton becomes president…and we'll beat her! And we'll beat her easily. If Hillary Clinton becomes president…and Ted Cruz can't beat her. First of all, I have a chance of winning New York. [If] You win New York, you have a whole different math. Nobody else can do that. And the numbers are incredible! If you look at New York…I think I had a 43 point lead. 43 points! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…you know, everybody knows my relationship to Pennsylvania. And I've been here. I used to play Cobbs Creek. Does anyone know where Cobbs Creek is? Cobbs Creek. I used to play it, believe me. But Cobbs Creek. But, really knows my relationship to Pennsylvania, and it's a special relationship. And we're gonna keep it going. But here's what we have to be careful of.
In Colorado, right now, they're picketing and going wild, because the bosses and the establishment, and the people that shouldn't have this power, took all of the power away from the voters. So the voters never got to vote! And the voters didn't know that except when I got up and complained! Because they did it after I joined the race, and they figured I'd probably win Colorado, which I would. I would win Colorado. Like my polls here! And I'll…explain that!
So in Colorado, they're all delegates. And, we had delegates that go in, they don't take them. And then they take these others. So, they get the delegates…without voting! The people don't vote! Here's what's happening here. So…we vote, and…whoever wins gets 17 delegates. But, whoever doesn't win can get like 35 or whatever the difference is between the…;
So think of it, you…beat somebody badly with the people! Because it's a rigged system, folks. The Republican system is a rigged system. And so is Democrats' system, by the way. Because, you know, whether you like Bernie Sanders or not, I happen to think he's terrible, but that's okay. But whether you like him or not…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no, no, whether you like him or not, you turn on television [and] every week [they say]: “Bernie Sanders wins! Bernie Sanders wins!”. Next week, “Bernie Sanders wins”. He wins every weekend! And then you listen to the pundits, “but he can't win!”.
And he said, “what’s going on?”. Then I say, “oh, it’s a rigged system”. You know, they have things called super-delegates. And we have a different system, which is equally rigged. And what is does is allows the bosses…to pick whoever they want! And whoever they want is a guy like Romney, who's a stiff; who, frankly, blew the election last time! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He blew the election, because that was an election…that should've been won.
Look, I backed John McCain, and that was tough, because he inherited…a problem. But, I backed John McCain and he lost. I backed Romney, and he lost. That one should've been won. And this time I said, “you know what? We're gonna do it ourselves”. Let's do it ourselves. We're gonna win…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…but you can't let the bosses take it away! So, I would…let's say I win the state, cause we're up by like 20 points, a lot! The polls just came out, and we're up by a lot. And you see these crowds. [The] Same thing with Sean Hannity for tonight. They had this theater, it was packed! He said, “I've never seen anything like it”. This great spirit. This great movement. This…this is a movement like they haven't seen. People are saying they've never seen anything like this. They've never…seen…anything like it.
Actually, a pundit who hates me…I won't use his name but maybe you saw it…said, “whether you like him or not, it's the one of the great phenomenas that we've ever seen in the history of this country”.
I said, “was he talking about me? I can't believe it”. But, what we've got, forget about me, what we've got…is one of the great phenomenas! I go to Dallas, Texas. We fill up the Maverick stadium. I go to Mobile, Alabama, 35,000 people. We have 20-25,000 people!
The other night, we had 20,000 people in Albany, New York. And the people want results! They're tired of it! They're tired. The politicians talk…; and you know, a lot of times I'll give a speech, I'll say how to fix a solution, cause…nobody's gonna be better at bringing jobs back than me. Nobody. Nobody's even close…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody is even close.
And I'm not going to be affected by people that gave me money, because I've turned down tens of millions of dollars. I feel, like, so stupid for doing that! My whole life I take money. Money…! That's my business, right? I take! I keep taking, taking, taking! I built this incredible company. I started off…I mean, think of it! I started with a million dollar loan. I built a company that's worth more than 10…billion…dollars, okay? More! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…over a relatively short period of time. [It has] Some of the greatest assets in the world; very little debt; tremendous cash flow; and I say that, not to brag! I say that because that's the kind of thinking, at least for a little while…that's the kind of thinking we need in our country. We’ve 19 trillion dollars…; we're sitting on a bubble. We've gotta straighten out our country. We've gotta rebuild our military. Our military is being decimated. It's being decimated.
We gotta knock the hell out of ISIS! We gotta knock 'em out…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We've gotta take care of our great veterans! Our veterans are not being taken properly care of, and we're gonna take care of them…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We've got repeal and replace Obamacare, which we've gotta do. We will! Obamacare is a disaster! You look at your premiums, they're going up 25, 35, 45 percent. Nobody understands…and you know, [you] can’t use it. The deductible is so high…! You can't use it! Unless you're close to death or probably dead, it's impossible! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. The deductibles are so high. Obamacare is a catastrophe. By the way, in '17 it's gonna implode anyway, okay? It's dead. Unless the Republicans revive it again.
You know they did a budget…two months ago, the Omnibus budget. It pays for the Syrians coming in. It pays for illegal immigrants coming in…–THE CROWD BOOS. It pays for Obamacare…; Folks, those…days…are…over. Over…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So I only say to you, you gotta go out and vote. We're gonna make this so incredible. You're gonna be so happy. You gotta go out and vote. And when you vote, remember this evening, but you gotta go out and vote. And, for those of you that are trying to be delegates, and a lot of times they're rejected. And I'm not blaming…Pennsylvania. I'm not blaming anything. I'm just saying the system is a corrupt system. It's a rigged system. We gotta change it.
You know what!? If I just accomplish that, where you can the people that you vote for…; I have millions of more votes than Cruz. You know, if you add up the different primaries. Millions! And millions more than Kasich! He's only got one state!  I mean, John…who voted for NAFTA, by the way…; anybody votes for NAFTA, it's a problem. But…John, we have 32…states right now that…we…we went through the process. So, John's one for 32, and that's his state! And had I campaigned there for two more days…;
You know what happened? I was winning Florida. It was Florida, and Ohio. And I had to win Florida! That was a big one. And, I campaigned. And what happened is, they came out with a poll that I thought was a dirty poll. You know what a dirty poll is? It's a phony poll. It was done by NBC,  The Wall Street Journal, and I was leading by 14 points, 15 points, 18 points…I'm doing great; and then all of a sudden, right before, a couple of days before, they came out with this phony poll; The Wall Street Journal, remember, NBC. And I said to myself, “wow!”. I was only up like 6 points! I said, “oh…!”.
And they had a story: “Trump is imploding! It's over! Trump is a disaster! This is…!”.
And I'm saying, “oh no, I'm gonna lose the state of Florida! I can't believe it. I was just up almost 20 points". So, instead of going to Ohio for two more days, which I was all set to do…I stayed in Florida! And the…the poll turned out to be wrong! And I won by…20 points! I won by a…landslide! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And if I would've gone to Ohio for two more days, I would've won Ohio. I would've won it. But you know, I had to stay. And we…we did great in Florida. And we did great in Ohio, too! But, I wasn't able to go, because I believed this phony, phony, dirty poll. And that's the way it is.
That's the way politics is. Somebody said, “what's the difference between the tough businessmen?”, cause I deal with toughest people in the world in terms of business…; and we're gonna use some of those people, the smartest and the best…to negotiate our trade deals, folks! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. To negotiate our trade deals.
They said, “what's the difference between them... and politicians?”. I said, “well, one is that…”…and I'm not talking about every politician, just most of them. Politicians are much more dishonest, okay? And that doesn't mean that the business guys are honest. The business people are much tougher. They're much, much tougher. But the politicians are…much more dishonest; much more deceit; many more lies. And it's a big difference, I mean, to be honest! But the business people are much tougher. They’re tough ones. The top, you take the top! And they're much, much tougher.
But we're gonna use those good ones! I know the best in the world! And right now, we have political hacks negotiating the biggest…deals…in the world, which is trade deals. They're bigger than any deal you can make with companies. These are countries, making deals with us. And just ripping us! They're ripping us apart!
And that's why, when I come to Pittsburgh, when I go to upstate New York, no matter where I go, I look at these…; and…and, you know, I ask for this…–mR. TRUMP SHOWS HIS DOCUMENTS FROM WHICH HE READS STATS–…work from every place I go! I say,  “do me a favor: give me a little chart of how the community is doing”. Whether it's Pittsburgh, or Albany, New York, or Rome, New York, or…any place.
I was in Rochester the other day, we had 15,000 people. We’d…I mean, it's unbelievable! I say, “give me a chart!”. And I have a guy that does this stuff! I don't even know where he gets it! It's all the top stuff. And he gives me…like a page or two pages, like some of the stuff I read you. I didn't even read you the bad stuff! I don't wanna make you depressed…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But, I say, “give me a chart! And do it quickly, I want it….”; you know, every time I…go make a speech. And I…so far, I made so many speeches! Every chart is negative! There's no chart that's positive! It's like every chart! They're losing their jobs…; manufacturing's out…; in your case, the steel business has been decimated…; the coal business has been totally decimated…; we're gonna bring it all back, okay? We're gonna bring it…; I'm so good at this…! I'm so good…! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna bring it all back. You're gonna be so happy.. You're gonna be so happy.
So, just a couple of things. Just a couple of things, cause then you'll go back home. You'll go home, and you'll watch Sean Hannity, okay!? I'm…hey, I’m saying that as the CNN camera rolls, okay? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Oh…let…let me tell you. Hey, by the way folks, folks! These are…–MR. TRUM POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…the most…dishonest people. These people are far wors…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they're far worse than the politicians! …–THE CROWD BOOS. They are far worse than the politicians! Okay!? It's called, ‘the media’! ‘The media’. They are the worst![MGF2] 
You know, I…I have to tell you. I…I sort of get a kick out of it, but…so, we've won a lot of states that I wasn't supposed to win. Like, we won the entire South! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, a little thing like…we won the South! Alabama, Arkansas…so many…everything. And Cruz, Lyin' Ted, was supposed to win.
So we had a little mishap, because of the dishonesty of the system…in Colorado. And The New York Times writes an article today, like, you know, negative. And I said, “well, why don't they mention all the states that I won!?”. They don't do that! They don't talk about that! They don’t…they never talk about positive! If people call me like…for instance, “we wanna talk about a certain deal! 14 years ago, the deal didn't work”.
I said, “what about the thousand…what about all these deals that worked out so great!? You know, I built a fortune!”.
“Uh, well, we're not interested in them. We wanna talk about…something!”.
And I'll say, “but wait a minute, that's been written about 97 times”. And, actually, a lot of times by the time you really rejigger it, it turns out to be successful. You know a really good businessman, when the economy crashes and you're in the middle of a big job…maybe it's a building, or a deal, or a factory, or something, right? The really good ones are the ones that can take a catastrophe, and make it…good!
I've taken some deals that should be terrible and made 'em better than if the economy stayed strong! And the reason you lose it is sometimes the economy, and…you know, who's going to be blamed for the economy!? The…the politicians, maybe. But, the really good ones are the ones that can take a bad condition, and you go in and you beat up the banks; and you go in, you know, the people don't like the banks. But you know, frankly, they're fine. But you go in and you have to make deals with the banks, you do sorts of things…; but the beauty, and the really best ones are you can take a…what what…what should be a bad deal, and make it a phenomenal deal! And then sometimes, make it better…than if the economy had remained strong! It's really a true story!
But I say, sometimes they'll call, [and] they say, “we wanna talk about a certain deal!”.
I said, “man! When was it!?”.
“Well, it was 18 years ago, and…!”.
And I’d say, “what about the good deals? Do you ever want…?”.
“No, we're not interested in them”. These are…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…the most dishonest human beings, I'm telling you. They are the worst. So, that's the story! That's the story! That's the story! …–THE CROWD BOOS. Do we agree on that, folks!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Terrible. Terrible human beings![MGF3] 
So, look, here's the story. Here's the story. We can't let them…! And I think I'll probably do well with the delegates, who knows!? You know, if the bosses don't like Trump, they're gonna put their own delegates, etcetera. But you can't let them…win! You can't…–THERE IS A SUDDEN NOISE COMING FROM THE CROWD–…oh, that's alright. Let him be. He’d a very weak…uh…uh…he’s got a very weak voice. Very weak voice! …–THE CROWD BOOS AND THEN CHANS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Very weak!
You know, it…it's…it's funny. Let me see, who is that person!? Let me see! Raise your hand! Who are you!? Are you a…are you an agitator!? Let me see! Who is it!? Who is it!? Are you the one!? Your voice is very weak! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, it's so weak! Look, he's leaving now! Who is he!? Bye! …–THE CROWD BOOS. He's going home to mommy…–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
I actually wanted to talk to him. I actually wanted. Because, you know, when you think it…first of all, my rallies…you know, they give us the bad press. First of all, they never tell about how many…look at this place, it's packed! And we set it up a few days ago! They never talk about the size. When I have 25,000, 35,000…they say, “Donald Trump had a…[he] gave a speech today, and…it was fine”, but…that's it!
I say to my wife…I come home; I say, “did you see the size of that crowd?”. Because they always put it on cause I get good ratings. So, it's always on. But they always show just my face! In fact, that's the one thing I like about the protester. The only thing…that gets those cameras to move into the audience to show how big the crowds are are protesters! Because they view it as a negative! So, they move the…;
You know, for years…I'm telling you! For the last year, I didn't think that cameras could move, cause they're always like this! Except when there's a protester in the back corner of the room, the camera…it looks like a pretzel, it does so many turns! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's crazy! So, I love my protesters, because it's the only way people…; in fact somebody said the other night, “man, that crowd in Albany was big!”.
I said, “did they actually show it?”.
“Yeah, there was a protester in the audience, and they panned to the…”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. That's the only way they show it! Otherwise they never show it. We have the biggest crowds. We have the most loyal…people!
You know, a woman was on television three nights ago, and the announcer…you know, coming on with a negative question, said, “let me ask you”, because…I'll tell you. Honestly? I think I'm gonna do fantastically with women. We're gonna bring security to the country…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna bring….; I mean, look at…look at the crowd. Look at how many…; women, please raise your hand! How many…!? Look at this! …–THE WOMEN IN THE CROWD CHEER AND APPLAUD.
They went…this was like three days ago. And they had this really negative wise guy announcer. And they went up to these…fantastic women. She was a woman, a…probably 50 years old. A fantastic person. She had 10 people behind her, friends of hers. And she had a Trump sign, and Trump buttons…and, they said, “well, what does it take to get you off Trump so that you wouldn't support…!? What could he do!?”.
She said, “stop talking right now. There is absolutely nothing he can do…to get me not to vote for him!”.
And I said, “Ah…!”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's true!
Now that's severe, I agree! But that's okay! And then the women, her 10 friends behind her said, “that's right, that's right!”. And you know what I wanted to do? I wanted to get up and I wanted to grab that…television set and just kiss it! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I just…I love those…I love…I love our people.
Our people, you know, they say…first of all, I think we have the smartest people…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I think we have…; and in some of these demographics, we…uh…we are just winning by every age group. In fact, in New York. I'm leading with women…! I'm leading with high education…! I'm leading with low education…! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TOMIDLY. I'm winning in every category! We're winning with the military! We're winning with the vets, always! We always win with the police! Our police…do an incredible…job, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Our police do an incredible job.
So folks…so, when I started this, it was about borders, cause I know about borders. And it was about jobs; it was about the economy; it was about…all of that. It was about trade! Because our trade is being taken. China, we have a trade deficit with China of 500…billion…dollars…a year!
Then they say…you know, these…people, they think they're…conservatives, okay? I'm a conservative, okay? But I'm conservative on a lot of issues, more conservative than them on a lot. And free trade is fun. I like free trade. But you need smart people to have free trade. We need smart leaders, smart negotiators…; and we don't have that. We have very dumb people doing this for us folks. Very dumb.
So, I like free trade. I like free trade. But here's the problem: so, we have 500 billion dollar trade deficit. Now, I consider that semi-loss, okay? You know, a lot of it it's loss. They like to say, “that doesn't mean we're losing”. Believe me, it means we're losing.
Somebody said, “well, you have to pay more for the product if you make it here”. Cause we're going to start making Apple computers, and Apple products, and other products…in this country, not in China! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so some genius said, “well Donald Trump doesn't know the product will cost…”.
And I said, “you know what? It might cost a little bit more, but we're gonna have a lot more jobs!”. We're going to have a lot more jobs! Add the two of them together and I'll take the second category! Because we're gonna have jobs again in our country! Cause our jobs are all leaving. So, that's the deal.
But here's the story. So we lose 500 billion. Billion! Not million, billion! It's so much more…it's inconceivable! And then they'll say, “this is terrible. He'll start a trade war”. Well, when we lose that kind of money, maybe we're better off! Just don't do business! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And here's what's going to happen in the real world: as soon as they realize a guy like me is in there, that's serious, a guy like me is in there, that can't be bought off by the special interests, where I say, “oh, okay. Uh…we'll let China continue to rip us off, because some of these guys own companies that do business in China that make a lot of money off our economy”.
Me? I’m…I'm working for you, folks. That's what I'm doing this for! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's what I'm doing this for! That's 100 percent…what I'm doing this for.
You know, this country's been great to me. This country…; I don't need this! This is not something I needed. My family always says to me, “dad, why'd you do it!? Why, why do you…?”.
I do it because this country has been so great to me; so great to my family…; and I'm gonna give back, and we're going to give back the ultimate way! We're gonna give it back! We're gonna make our country so strong, so great…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDL–…and it's got so much potential!
You know, when I go around, and I see crowds like this and I see people like this, we have phenomenal people! We can do better than anybody! We make better products that China. The problem is China cheats! They devalue their currency! They're not supposed to do it! And they do it because we have so many other problems, they get away with it.
There was a period about a year ago, where it…they had just maxed out on…on currency. They had just maxed out on devaluation. Then Obama gets into this big thing with Russia, and this and that…! So many problems…; I mean, [do] you know what China does? They give themselves the biggest devaluation in two decades, okay? 20 years. They give themselves the biggest devaluation in many, many years. [Do] You know why? Cause they figured, we're run by stupid people. Nobody's watching! [It’s] Not gonna happen anymore, folks!
And then the heads of China come over, and we give them steak dinners, magnificent state dinners. And they're ripping us blind!
Now, just so you understand, I do a lot of business with China. I have the largest bank in the world in one of my buildings in Manhattan. They pay me rent, a lot of rent. And it's a…massive bank, the biggest in the world. It's from China. I sell condos from tens of millions of dollars to people from China. I have the Bank of America building in San Francisco with a great partner. It's…from China! That's how I got it, from China! I've made a lot of money with China. China's great. I have no problem with China. China's wonderful. I'm not angry at the Chinese leaders. I'm angry at our leaders for being so…damn…stupid! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so, when we have a trade deficit with China of more than 500 billion dollars; and we have a trade deficit with Japan that's through the roof. You gotta see these cars, they come pouring off the largest ships you've ever seen. You go to Los Angeles, the docks. And I looked at cars. It looks like a NASCAR! …which by the way, the owner of NASCAR, Brian France, a great guy, endorsed me. And, he is a phenomenal…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…phenomenal [guy].
But when I see those cars…it reminds me of NASCAR! They come pouring off those boats! It looks like they're going 50 miles an hour, boom, boom, boom! …into our system. And you know what? You talk about trade and balance? They send us millions of cars, [and] we send them practically nothing. And what do we get? And then we defend them…and then it's all wonderful. But, we gotta get paid something! We gotta get a little…I mean, we gotta do something!
Folks, we're getting ripped by everybody! We're getting ripped in NATO! And I don't want to break up NATO. You know, I said, “the countries that we're giving a free ride to, 28 countries, they gotta pay up!”. Most of them have a lot of money! They gotta pay up! [Do] You know why they don't pay up? Because nobody asks them to pay up. So, we pay for them…the biggest percentage of NATO! To protect them, we pay!
So I said, “listen…”, and I said it to The New York Times and I said it…to The Washington Post. And then they totally…printed it differently than what I say! I said, “they gotta pay up!”. I say, “NATO's obsolete because it doesn't cover terrorism”. It was...it's 68 years old, it's time!
And you know the funny thing about it? Some experts that do nothing but study NATO…and I don't,. You know, I don't much about NATO, but I have a lot of common sense! I mean a lot, lot, lot! Some of these experts that have been studying NATO all their lives, they said, “huh! We never thought of that!”. [Do] You know why? [Because] They're so close. [Did ] You ever…do something where you're so close to it you don't see the forest for the trees, right? You're so close to it!
They said, “wow! Trump said it was obsolete. You know, it's obsolete. We never thought of it!”. That's all they do, all day long, and they're geniuses! And then they said, “well, wait a minute, they owe us tremendous amounts of money”. Well, they do! And, I don't want them to pay currently. I want them to pay all of the money that they owe us for many years in the rears. They owe us a lot of money! We've been protecting them. Without them they would be a part of…Russia! They would be a part of something. Lots of bad things would happen. I don't mind keeping NATO together. But people have to pay up! People have to pay up!
We defend Saudi Arabia, one of the richest countries in the world. More…so much money…! Before the oil went down. Now they're making a fortune, but before the oil went down, they were making a billion dollars a day. We defend them! They wouldn't be there for a very long if we weren't around. Right? Every time there's a little problem, we start sending our beautiful planes, our beautiful ships…; [it] costs us a fortune. They don't pay us! Oh, that's such an easy negotiation! They have so much money! Why aren't they paying us?
And I'm not talking about…protection money. I'm saying they gotta pay a fair price! Because we can't continue to be the policemen of the world. Defend all of these countries, and…continue to lose money! We can't do it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We can't do it!
So I said, Japan! Japan's a phenomenal country. I have so many friends from Japan. But I said, “they have to pay us!”.
So, The New York Times said, “Donald Trump…wants Japan to arm!”. Because you always have to be prepared to walk! It's possible they'll say “no”, in which case we'll say, “sorry, we can't do it! We can't do it!”. And if they arm, they arm.
And frankly, you have the maniac in North Korea. We take care of South Korea too. We have 28,000 soldiers on the line. But you have the guy in North Korea. And…he's probably crazy. [He’s] Gotta be pretty smart! You know, any guys who takes over a country like that, [and] it’s that young, can't be a dummy, right!? Is that right!? But he takes over the country. Now they'll say, “Donald Trump…respects him”.
I don't respect him! I'm just saying he's probably a smart guy! I mean, who goes in and takes over a country at…his young age!? With all these generals that are all killers, I mean you gotta…give him credit. Watch, the press will say, “Donald Trump…thinks he's wonderful!”. …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I don't think he's wonderful![MGF4] 
You know, Putin said, “Donald Trump is a genius”. So the press said, “he should disavow the statement that Putin…Donald….Putin said ‘Donald Trump's a genius’”.
Now, you know what? He's not gonna get me with that statement! But, he said, “Donald Trump is a genius and he's gonna be a great leader or something!”. The press, and the guys I'm running against, wanted me to disavow the statement!
I said, “I'm gonna disavow a statement when somebody calls me a genius? I'm not disavowing anything!” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS VIVIDLY. Besides that, honestly, wouldn't it be great if we actually got along with Russia!? Wouldn't it be great!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Is there anything wrong with that!? Wouldn't it be great if we could get Russia…and they've already been doing some of it, but maybe not as much as we'd like…! …wouldn't it be great if we could get Russia to be dropping bombs all over ISIS!? I would not mind! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's very expensive! Very expensive!
And then you have guys like Lindsey Graham, where he gets up and starts, “we should be doing that! Russia should not be involved, we…!”. I don't mind if they…!; [do] you know how expensive it is, where they spend a half-a-million-dollars a bomb!? In fact, they left! Now they said, “we've had to...”. [Do] You know why!? It was probably so expensive [that] they said, “we gotta get the hell out of here!”. They just left!
But here's the story folks: we're gonna get smart again. We're gonna get smart. We're gonna get smart with our military. We're gonna make our military…so strong, so powerful…that nobody's gonna mess with us…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna go…from making the worst trade deals in…history, in the history of any country, to having…great trade deals, where we bring jobs back; where we bring money back; where we bring factories back; where we bring your steel industry back.
China…is dumping…steel…all over the United States! Okay? It's killing you! Now, maybe we get a little lower price, but we lose all the jobs! Remember that. They never talk about the second part! We're gonna create jobs, so people can pay! We're gonna create good jobs too, real jobs! We're gonna to build United State Steel back. We're gonna get these coal…companies back. They're dying! They're dying! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I mean, I'm going to West Virginia…very soon, and I look at West…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…are you from West Virginia? Oh, I love West Virginia! What a great place! I was there twice…–INAUDIBLE. I have…a great friend in West Virginia. And…I think he's gonna run for governor, actually. [He’d] Do a good job. But…I have a great friend in West Virginia. But what they've done to the coal mines…? What they've done…to the energy world, the energy that we have…? What they've done to stop us from taking our energy…out of the ground, is…is incredible. So, what…and I look forward to being in West Virginia by the way, I do…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'll bet you, I must poll awfully well in West Virginia! I think I do. I think I do.
So, here's the story: we don't win anymore. We don't win with trade. We don't win with our military. We can't beat ISIS. We don't win with anything! Our healthcare stinks…; we don't win with anything!
Folks, we're goona start…winning…again…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna win with trade. We're going to win with our military! We're gonna take out ISIS very strongly. We're gonna win with our vets. We're gonna take care of our veterans. We're gonna win with education. We're getting rid of Common Core, we're gonna bring it local…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna win with health care. We're gonna win with our borders! We're gonna build a wall and Mexico's gonna pay for the wall! It's gonna be there…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.  
And we're gonna start winning again, because we don't win at all. We don't win at all. You look back over the last long period of time…where have we won!? We don't win on trade! We don't win with military! We don't win with anything anymore! We're gonna start winning…so much…that you're going to be calling me saying, “Mr. President, I was at your rally in Pittsburgh. We don't wanna win anymore. It's too much. We can't take it”.
[Do] You know what I'm gonna say? “I don't care! We're gonna keep winning! Because we're gonna make our country…so…strong…again!” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
And you're gonna go out, and you're gonna vote; and you're gonna remember this evening, and you're gonna say it was a great evening. But more importantly, when you vote, you're gonna say, that was most…important…vote…that you ever cast at any time in your life…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…cause we're gonna bring our country back, and we are going to make…America…great…again!
Thank you very much, Pittsburgh.
Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you everybody. Thank you.
