VIDEO Nº: 205
TITLE:205. Speech Donald Trump SPEECH After Indiana Primary Victory in New York NY - May 3 2016. India
DATE OF EVENT:03/05/2016
RELEASE DATE:26/10/2017
DURATION:00.20.38 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:2869
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Oh, boy, oh boy, oh boy! …–THE CROWD SINGS AN ANTHEM. Beautiful! West Virginia.
Oh, this is beautiful. Thank you very much, everybody.
I actually wish…the primaries were not over! It's no fun this way! I want the primaries to keep going! But everybody's out! I'm the only one left! That's okay, right? Right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. Right!?[MGF1] 
Yeah, it ended…uh…two days ago. And we just kept going one, two, three four…one after another, and…we had a great time. I've never done this stuff before! Am I doing a good job, right!? [Am I] Doing a good job? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
And I'll tell you what folks, you heard me the other night, I wasn't thinking even about you. I'm thinking about the miners all over this country! We're gonna put the miners back to work! We're gonna put the miners back to work! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. We're gonna get those mines open. Oh, coal country, what they've done…;
And how about Hillary Clinton? I was watching her three or four weeks ago…–THE CROWD BOOS HEAVILY. [Do you] See? I'm gonna put the miners back to work, and she said, “I'm gonna put the miners, and the mines out of business” …–THE CROWD BOOS. And then she comes over and she tried to explain her statement. That's a tough one to explain, wouldn't you say? I watched her sitting at the table with a very good group of people, and one of the miners in particular…he was not exactly happy with her. He wasn't exactly happy.
So, I…uh…who do we have…? Who is a minor in this group!? Who is…!? Uh…stand-up! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. You're all standing up, anyway. I'll tell you what, folks. You're amazing people, and…we're gonna take care of a lot of…years of horrible abuse, okay? We're gonna take…and you can count on it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. You can count on it, 100 percent. 100 percent.
And you knew that! Because I just had a poll, it's irrelevant now, because that whole thing is…but I was…like…I think it was the highest poll I've ever had! And there were three people! So, I could have waited! Maybe they…they would have waited another week, I would have been happy!
So, I wasn't going to come today! They all said, “you don't have to come…because…you know, the contest is over, and you're the nominee of the Republican Party. Congratulations…!”. And…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY–…oh, you gonna be so happy…! You're gonna be so happy…! But they said, “you're now the nominee”. And, “you don't have to come to West Virginia!”.
I said, “well, let me ask you. Do they know I’m coming?”.
“Yes”.
“How many tickets have you sold? How many people…?”.
“Well, we have 32,000, but the arena holds about 15,000”.
I said, “does that mean the place is gonna be packed?”.
“Yes”.
“Does that mean people are standing outside right now, next to loudspeakers?”.
They said, “you look at…more…as many as you have gere, you have more outside!” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
I said…[can you] imagine?
Now, we love the people outside, but your location is better, do we agree? Right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
But…so I said, “so, wait a minute. You have like 15,000 people in here, and you have…thousands outside, and we're gonna notify the people of West Virginia that I'm not coming?” …because I don't have to come! I've won all your delegates, I don't even have to do anything! “There's no way I don't go to West Virginia!”. We're gonna have fun, okay!? We're gonna have fun! Right!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. It’s true.
There's always been something about West Virginia. And…I'll…tell you a little secret. I've always been fascinated by the mines! I always have, I don't know why. You know, I love construction, I love the whole thing. I can tell you more about Caterpillar tractors than…uh…the people that work there. I just…I just know…I love that business! You know, I love construction, and I love…; and I’ll tell you: I've just always been fascinated by the mines. And the courage of the miners! And the way the miners love what they do! They love what they do, you know?
And…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY–…I was talking to some of the people, and I said, “well, why don't they move? Why don't they go someplace else?”. Of course in this country, you can't really go anywhere else, because…you can't get a job! Because our jobs are going to everyone else but us. You know, we're sending our jobs to Mexico…; China's taking our jobs, Japan…they're all taking our jobs, folks…–THE CROWD BOOS. That's all gonna change very rapidly, I promise! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But the miners don't wanna leave anyway! Is that right? You wanna stay here. You wanna open the mines. We're gonna open the mines. I see over here ‘Trump digs coal’…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A SIGN IN THE CROWD. Look at that, ‘Trump digs coal’. That’s true. That’s true, I do…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, I've always been fascinated by it. I've been fascinated by the whole…sequence of doing it. Uh…it's incredible the engineering now that's involved, and the safety, and…all that's…taken place over the last…number of years, especially over the last ten years. And, all of its getting…safe, and as it gets safe, they're taking it away from you in a different way. And…I just think you're amazing people, and you watch what happens. If I win, we're gonna bring those miners back. You're gonna be so proud of your president. You're gonna be so proud of your country! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You watch.
And the other night, you know, we had a big night. We won…Indiana. And, that was a great night…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I had so much help! Bobby Knight, boy did he helped me, wow! Bobby Knight…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we had Lou Holtz, and we had the great coach from Purdue…; we had a lot of people. Uh…Digger Phelps…;
But I’ll tell you, Bobby…went…and he called me…like a year ago. And, Bobby is Indiana. [He] Won 900 games. [He] Won three championships, [he] won the Olympics, [he] won the PanAm[Erican] Games.
And about a year ago, before I was gonna run, cause I've been doing this like for nine and a half, [or] ten months. Before I really made up my mind, I get a call from Bobby Knight, who I never met, but I know Bobby Knight. He's tough, he's smart and he knows how to win! That's a good combination, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. By the way, that's what the country needs!
And he calls me up, and…I recognized his voice immediately. [He] goes, “Mr. Trump, this is Bobby Knight. I hope you run!”.
I said, “Bobby, run for what?”. Okay? Cuz I'm telling you, that was three, [or] four months away. He said, “I hope you run Mr. Trump. [If] You run for president, you are gonna make this country great again. I've been following”.
And you know what he is, he’s an expert on talent! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He’s talent! And he said…he said, “I just hope you run!”.
I said, “well, you know Bobby, I really appreciate it. I haven't made up my mind yet, but…I'd love you a number, and…let me call you back if…you know, if I decide to run”.
He said, “well, you have my support. Call me back”.
So, you know, a lot of time goes by. And then the race is…and I'm winning, and winning, and doing really great. But it's…you've been hearing me say it's a rigged system. But now I don't say it anymore because I won, okay? It’s true…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. You know, now I don’t care! I don’t care! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And the only way I won was I won by such big margins, because it is a rigged system!
But, the only way you can do it…it’s like a boxer! You gotta knock them out! Then you can't worry about the judges, but…but…it's true! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I tell that story. You knock them out, and you don't have to worry about the judges, right?
And I won by so much! And, what happened with Bobby is…a friend of mine from Indiana…the Hilbert’s…I said, “who’d be a good endorsement?”, cause this was so long ago that Bobby called.
He said, “well, Bobby Knight would be…the greatest endorsement you could get, but…you know, I doubt you could get Bobby Knight”.
And said, “I think I can!” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, I'm sitting up my desk and I’m looking through all the stuff. I didn't put it on iPhones, right? I like the notes better, right? You know, the old fashion…bop, bop, bop. [You] Put it under a pile of stuff, right? And, I'm sitting at my desk, and…I look and there it is, Bobby Knight.
And I call him up, and he picks up the phone, and we're just about ready to go to Indiana, and he goes, “I've been waiting for you to call!” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
I said, “that's right Bobby. You're gonna endorse me?”.
He said, “I'm gonna endorse you. I'll see you next week”.
And…we went into an arena like this, and I will tell you, the place…went…crazy! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, about a month and a half before, I was ten points down. And then I went once…without Bobby, just went. We had…tremendous receptivity. And by the time…just for one day, and I left. And we were…like two points up. And then I went for the final four, or five days. I stayed there, and all I did was watch bad ads! I watch these horrible, phony ads, done by people that…I…in my opinion are not honest people. But they were…really…well, some of them weren't so wrong, actually; a couple of them were, but for the most part! But, bad ads. One of them was Club for Growth. They came to my office, they asked me for a million dollars. I said, “I'm not interested”. And then they advertise against me. I mean, can you believe that? It’s called welcome to the world of politics.
So, I'm looking and…one ad after another…; and I said to my people, “there's no way we can win”. They spent nine million dollars or so. They had thousands of these ads…in Indiana! I called my people, I said, “there's no way”. I just watched a program, [and] at an intermission, they had four ads. All negative ads to Trump.
And my guys said, “no, you're gonna win”.
I said, “all right, let's see”. And we won Indiana in a landslide. It was amazing! Amazing! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It was amazing!
And Bobby, and all of the guys…uh…they were…they were incredible, that endorsement though, was an amazing endorsement, cause he's revered…in Indiana. And outside of Indiana, they know who Bobby Knight is, because he's generally speaking [or] beat your basketball teams. You know, it's one of those things. So, that was great.
And then a couple of weeks before that, I won New York in a landslide…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. And…New York is good! [I] won everything. And the nice part about New York is [that] they know me well. And the same thing with the ads, negative ads, negative ads…! You know that thing, ‘never Trump’. [Do] You know why it's never Trump? Because I'm gonna stop the gravy train for all these consultants, and all of these people that are ripping off our country! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s called ‘the gravy train’. So, ‘never Trump’.
By the way, a lot of these ‘never Trump's’ are calling up, “uh…Mr. Trump, I admire you greatly, sir. We'd love to join the campaign”.
I said, “didn't you do a horrible ad of me two weeks ago? And weren’t you on a show…were you said horrible things?”. I said, “how do you pivot from that to saying you think of a wonderful person?”.
He said, “no problem, sir”. [Do] You know why? [Because they’re] Politicians! They can do that. I have a hard time doing it. They can do it.
So, now it's really caught on, and everyone's happy, and…then we had, as you know, two weeks ago we had five! We had Maryland, which was unbelievable. All victories, by landslides! We had Maryland, Pennsylvania, where the miners are there, and the minors there are just absolutely…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they're dying for work! They're dying for work! And they're great people! I…they're great people!
I don't know if they're as good as the West Virginia miners, what do you think? I don't know. I don't know…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't know who's better. I don't know. They're damn good! But they're great people, and…[they’re] dying for work!
And I was in Pittsburgh, and I was around Pennsylvania…; so we won Pennsylvania. We won Connecticut. And in Connecticut, I won everything from Greenwich, to the poorest areas. They said, “he won Greenwich…”…we have very wealthy people; “and he won the poorest areas. He won everything!”. I won with men. I one with women…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…very important. Boy…!
These…­–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS­–…these people! You know, the media is the…most…dishonest…group of people! But boy, they're killing me with the…with the women! And I think I'm doing great! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, every state…I've won with women, big league! So, I've won with men and women! I've won with rich, and poor! [I’ve won with] Highly educated, less than highly educated! White…! African American…; we've won…with every category. So, I won the five states.
And then I won…Indiana. So, we won all of this stuff! And then, it was all of a sudden like…they just had enough. They couldn't stand Trump winning. And they couldn't stand the fact that a person that has never done this politically before, and a person that self-funding his campaign…I don't take the contributions…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And by the way, for the general election, I'm gonna help raise money for the party, and they'll work with us, but we're gonna need…; you now here the Democrats are gonna raise two billion dollars. [Can] you believe it? This is politics. Two billion dollars. And I'm also gonna put in a lot of money in the general, but…we're helping to raise money. We have a great group, and we're raising money for the party. And we're gonna get a lot of other people elected with us, I will tell you.
So…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…so…so, it's been amazing, folks! It's been amazing, and…and that's when. I mean, this was gonna be next, and…uh…I really wanted to come here, and I just didn't have the heart…to say, “thanks a lot West Virginia!”; you know, I didn't have the heart.
I have…by the way, I have a team of people…that were so great! And they were so disappointed that I won early! They wanted to win like now, so they get a little of the credit. I said, “hey, we just picked up all the delegates! We don’t have to do anything, right?”.
But I'm just glad to be here, cause I love you people, real…the real people! You’re the real, real…people! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You made this country great! Remember that, you made this country great. They didn't have ridiculous regulations that put you out of business. They didn't have these ridiculous…rules and regulations that make it impossible for you to compete.
So, we're gonna take that all off the table, folks! And you’d better do well, and you’d better compete! And make me proud of you, okay!? You'll be proud of me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But make me proud of you!
So, I got a fantastic endorsement…a little while ago. And, you know, your coal Association, West Virginia Coal Association just…endorsed me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Well, let's put it this way: it was between me and Hillary! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND BOOS. And…and we…we really affectionately call her ‘crooked Hillary!’, right? Crooked Hillary…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, it was between me and crooked Hillary.
And…[do] you know how long they said they were in the room? About like…20 seconds! That's how long it took…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. But I'd like to ask a couple of the guys to come up, because they are fantastic people. And if I could have Chris come up and Bill, Bill Rainy, and Chris, or…I guess Chris is gonna represent Bill. Bill’s back there, and getting up on the stage [is] not so easy for him right now. But Chris, come on up if you would, please! Thank you very much. I love this!
[Do you] See? I come here, [and I get an award. It's probably a hat! Or it's probably a hard hat. I like hard hats, let's see if it's a hard hat! It's a hard hat! It’s a hard hat! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. TWO PEOPLE COME ON STAGE AND INTERVENE.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.18.32:
I'll leave it. Leave it. Nice! Nice! Yeah, put it on, right? …–MR. TRUMP PUTS ON THE HARD HAT. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you, everybody. That is great! [Does] My hair look okay!? [It] Got a little spray. Give me a little spray!
You know, you're not allowed to use hairspray anymore because it affects the ozone, you know that, right? I said, “you mean to tell me…”, cause you know, hairspray is not like it used to be. It used to be real good…–THE CROWD LAIUGHS. When I put on that helmet…and by the way, look! …–MR. TRUMP COMBS HIS HAIR–…it really is mine, right? Look at that! Right? [It’s] My hair. Give me a mirror!
But, no, in the old days, you’d put the hairspray on, [and] it was good! Today you put the hairspray on, [and] it's good for 12 minutes, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. But, you know, they say that you can't…; I said, “wait a minute. So, if I take hairspray, and if I spray it in my apartment, which is all sealed, and…you're telling me that affects the ozone layer?”.
“Yes”.
I say, “no way, folks. No way”, okay? No way! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's like a lot of the rules and regulations you people have in the mines, right? It’s the same kind of stuff.
So, well I wanna thank you folks, cause that's an honor. Believe me, it's an honor, and you're gonna see what happens. You're gonna see. [If] I get elected, you're gonna see what happens. It's gonna happen fast! And you're gonna be back to better than ever before…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And honestly, that means all kinds of energy. It means all kinds of energy. We never wanna be in a position like we were in before, where we were literally controlled by people…OPEC, and others. But we were literally…we were in the hands of these people. [It’s] Not gonna happen again, folks. [it’s] Not gonna happen again. So…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…so congratulations.
And now what you…I want you to do is save your vote! You know, you don't have to vote anymore. Save your vote for the general election, okay? Forget this one, the primary is gone. Save your vote for the general election in November. And we're gonna show you something, and then you're gonna show me something, okay? Look at that! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay, thank you.
So, we'll talk a little bit about trade and jobs. We'll talk a little bit about…the borders. Are you big border people? Are you big borders, huh? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The wall! Everybody wants the wall! We’ll have the wall! We’ll have the wall! Well, that's very nice, we'll build that wall…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘BUILD THE WALL!’. We'll build the wall! We’ll build the wall, don't worry about it. Who's gonna pay for the wall!? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. [There’s] Not…even…a doubt, okay?
Although I must tell you, Vincente Fox was on television last night, and he apologized, and I accept his apology. I thought it was very nice. Did you see it!? Uh…uh…honestly? I thought it was very, very nice. Because I was giving him a little hard time about something, and…he apologized. He was the…former president of Mexico, and I thought it was very nice that he apologized, okay? That's good. That's good, cause we’re gonna have great relationships with Mexico.
But we need a border. We need…you know, the border, just like I got the…from West Virginia Coal Association, the endorsement, last week I got the endorsement from 16,500 Border Patrol agents…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It’s the] First time in their history! [It’s the] First time in the history that they've ever endorsed the presidential candidate. So, it's…uh…it was…that was an honor, I will tell you. It…very important.
The...country…is in trouble, not only…the miners, not in only coal, although I think your industry probably, because of regulations, and nonsense regulations, in many cases…but I think your industry's probably been hit harder than maybe anybody. But, many industries have. The over-regulation of our businesses is destroying…families, is destroying jobs, is destroying businesses…and is really hurting our country. And in a sense, it's…destroying our country! And we're gonna change that. We're gonna change it fast.
When I came down the escalator with Melania, my wife, and I came down on June 16th, and I said, “come on, we have to do it”. And if you wanna see the press, see all those press right back there? …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…it was…you have never seen…you have never seen anything like it. It looked like…the Academy Awards. And they were all over Trump Tower. And I…it's not something I really wanted to do! I mean, doing this…takes guts! Like you have! But it's a different kind of guts. I don't think I have your guts! I don't think I have that to be honest…–MR. TRUMP GIGGLES. But doing that took…you know, a lot of courage.
I didn't wanna to. I have this great company, this great business. I have a great family, and this is hard work! You know, I've been away for…you go away for a week, and you make three, four, five speeches a day sometimes, in front of…massive crowds like this. And the press will never report how many people there are here. It’s 28,000 people including outside, folks. But, they won't…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they won't report it. They won’t report it.
And we didn't really…have to be here! You didn't have to be here either, because of the race being over. But, you wanted to be here, and I wanted to be here. But, I came down, and I talked about…basically two things: trade and illegal immigration.
And [do] you know what? It was…a pot of gold. And I don't say that is something that I'm proud of from the standpoint of winning! I hit a nerve, because the country knew how out of control illegal immigration was…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They knew how totally out of control [it was]. And they knew, and mostly for me, because I've been talking about it for years on different shows on television…they knew from me, very strongly from me, they knew…how bad our trade deals are! We have the worst trade deals maybe ever…negotiated in the history of mankind! Other than that, they're wonderful deals, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. These are the worst deals.
And let me tell you something, the Clinton administration…–THE CROWD BOOS–…of which Hillary was definitely a part, she was a part of almost everything, “almost”, I say, not everything. Almost. Terrible! Terrible! I didn't think the people…of West Virginia thought like that! That's terrible! You should be ashamed of yourself! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Terrible, terrible people.
But, the Clinton administration approved a thing called NAFTA, which has…–THE CROWD BOOS–…single-handedly taken vast amounts of our businesses, and in particular manufacturing business, and brought them into other countries, brought them into Mexico.
And I wanna tell you, I live in New York, and I know New York and New York State well, and it's a great place with great people. But I toured up in New York State. And I went to Syracuse; and I went to Rome, New York, the real Rome, Rome New York. And I went to Albany. And we were getting crowds like you wouldn't believe. And I went out to the island, Bethpage, and…Suffolk county, and…different places; and I would see building, after building…and some of these buildings were really big! Empty! Empty! Businesses left years ago, it…the same thing that you're having! Not as bad, but the businesses left years ago, and they moved to Mexico. And they moved to other places. And frankly, China took businesses and everything else.
And I get these…statistical charts. I have these statisticians that love…that. I'd rather be a coal miner than a statistician, but what can I say? But…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…but they’re good! And after about ten different speeches, in different states, cause I’d go to Pennsylvania, and Maryland, New York…I realized they're all the same! I didn't even need my statistitians. Because  it would say, “manufacturing down 50 percent, from…10 years ago, or 15 years ago”. And all the same! Uh…population down. Median income, way down.
You know, many people in this room haven't had…a pay increase in 18 years. 18 years. And you're working harder…you're working, in some cases, two jobs, and you’re making less money! It's not gonna be that way anymore, folks! It's not gonna be that way anymore! [It’s] Not gonna be! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. 18 years…you're working harder! Two jobs! [And] You’re make it less money? [It’s] Not gonna happen!
And what's happening is NAFTA was, again, I think it was probably the worst piece…of economic development…[do] you know what it was for? Economic development of Mexico, not of this country! These are people that make these deals…that are either taken care of by their contributors and donors, or they're stupid! It's very simple! Or they're stupid! Or they have no common sense, they're incompetent…but, I think they're not incompetent! I think they're much smarter!
A friend of mine, the other day, saw a deal that was made. [A] Smart guy, very smart, very successful. He said, “Donald, how stupid could the politicians be?”.
I said, “they're not stupid, they're smart!”. They took care of one of their donors by allowing this particular deal to happen.
He said, “what do you mean!?”.
I said, “do you think anybody…would allow a thing like that to happened?”. And they took care of their donors!
And you look at…like the Clintons with the foundation, it's a disgusting situation, okay? Hey, [do] you know what? I gave money to the foundation! I figured, “you know, maybe they'll use it properly!”. I didn't know they were gonna use it to fly around in private jets, okay?
A lot of people gave money to the foundation! But some of the money given…? I mean, you take a look! What was given for the money? The whole thing is a scam! Our whole system!
Let me tell you, our system…is broken! It's badly, badly broken. And if we don't fix it, we're not gonna have a country left, folks, I'll tell you. We're not gonna have a country. And crooked Hillary, whether you look at the emails…? Remember this: Bernie Sanders, and I'm no fan of Bernie Sanders, although he does have one thing right! He knows we’re being ripped off on trade. That's one thing he is right about. Now, he can't do anything about it, so…I don't know what he'll do. He'll say…he has no plan for it, because…he has no idea. But he knows one thing, he knows we’re being ripped off on trade!
I know what being ripped off long before he did, and I know how to fix it, okay? We'll fix it. We'll fix it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…so that we get the benefit!
But, when you look at what's going on…and, you know, a case when I left Indiana, [a] big thing…out there, and I've been talking about it for months! I think that helped me. Three or four months ago, I saw that 1,400 people were laid off…by Carrier air-conditioner, you know the story. They're laid off, they announced, “we’re firing these people”; great people! They followed me all over the place in Indiana! Every place I went, I had Carrier people! I fell in love with them, they fell in love with me, it was like crazy! I said, “where are my Carrier people”, right?
But they said, essentially, “you’re fired”, like The Apprentice: “you're fired!” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…no, the guy…the guy wasn't nice about it! He wasn't nice about it. And…he looked like a…an upper…middle…management guy. And they had a cell phone going, one of the people that got fired, and it was all over the news. And without that cell phone, I wouldn't know about it, nobody would know about it, it would just be another statistic like it’s happening to you, and happening all over.
So, Carrier’s gonna move to Mexico. [It’s] gonna make their air-conditioning units, of which I buy a lot…I'm a Carrier person, I'm a Trane person. You know, I buy a lot of different things. And, they're gonna sell them back to the country, no tax, no nothing!
So, all we get is unemployment! That's all we get. All we get is the destruction of families, and people's lives. We get nothing! And believe me, I'm like…a…really smart guy, I went to the Wharton School of Finance; and you don't have to go to Wharton, you don't to go to Wharton. You could not…you don't have to go to high school! We get nothing! And everybody in this room knows it.
So, I watch these…conservative people, and they don't like what I'm saying! They don't like what I'm saying, because they want free trade! But free trade only works if we have smart people on our side, and honest people on our side, and we don't have that! We're getting beaten by every…single…country…! Every…single…country in the world that does business with us, beats us on trade! We're losing over 500…billion…dollars a year, trade deficit, with China!
We're losing 58…billion dollars a year, with Mexico! [It’s] Not gonna happen anymore, okay!? We're gonna balance things out! We’re gonna make it fair! We've rebuilt China!
When I talk about the wall, these guys that were on the stage…and now I like them all. I love them, they're fabulous people. You know, after you win, you like everybody, right? I like them…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
Somebody said, “[do you] like this one, this one, this one…? Cuz you spoke so harshly”.
I said, “I love them, they’re my best friends”. But…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY–…they would come up to me, and they’d say, “Donald! You know you're not gonna build a wall. You can't build a wall!”.
I’d say, “why not? Explain to me why”. Cuz I'm a really good builder, that's what I do best in all…which is good! [If] You get a president that can rebuild our infrastructure without having a coast of over under ten times what it was supposed to cost…! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, [do] you ever see these jobs, where…there would’ve cost…they were gonna cost a 100 dollars, and they end up costing 1.2 billion dollars? Do you think somebody made a couple of dollars on these jobs!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And then you see the contractors, who are smart people! And then they're moving into mansions, and they move to Palm Beach, Florida…! And…it's the good life! Only in America, folks! We're gonna stop it! We're gonna stop it, all right? We have to rebuild our infrastructure! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But we're not gonna let that happen.
So, here's what I'm gonna do: you know, I've been watching…for six years now, [it] was five as of about two months ago, now it's actually turned. For six years, I've been watching our government talking about how they're not gonna let…businesses move, they're gonna give them incentives. They're gonna make low-interest loans…they don't need money, they're rich! They don't need money! They wanna make them loans, they wanna do all sorts of things…; I mean, they, in a couple of cases made up low-interest loans, and then they moved! Okay, can you believe it? They took the low interest money, and then they moved anyway!
So, for six years I've been watching. You don't wanna do that. [It’s] Too complicated, [it] doesn't work…; I’ll tell you what works: you explain to the head of Carrier, or Ford, or Nabisco…; you know, Ford is building a two and a half billion dollar plant…in Mexico. Two and a half billion dollars! [Do] You know what that does to Michigan!? [Do] You know what that does to the automobile industry!?
And now…that was two years ago, now…it's working out for them! Nobody talked to them from our country and said, “you can't do it”. There have to be consequences when you do that! All those thousands, and thousands of jobs…; and it was announced two weeks ago that now they're doubling down, they're gonna build it much bigger! You saw that, right!? They're gonna build it much bigger! What are we…? Stupid…are we stupid people!?
So, here's how you solve the problem. You solve the problem by informing any of these companies, but we'll use Carrier as the example, that “every single air conditioning unit that you make and comes across the border to be sold in the United States”, and now the border is a strong border, not a weak border, it's a strong border! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. But, “every single air conditioning unit…that you make, that comes across the border, you're gonna pay a 35 percent tax on that unit, okay? That’s all! That’s all! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Now, if you inform them before they leave, they're not leaving! Because boy, can that change those numbers rapidly! And if they have left or if they decide to leave anyway, which is possible, [do] you know what's gonna happen!? We're gonna make a lot of money for the country, okay!? And every business!
Why should Ford leave this country, go to Mexico, build cars, trucks, and parts…in one of the biggest plants in the world, sell the cars, trucks, and parts…to the United States, pay no tax, and leave all these places empty in Michigan and other places!? [It’s] Not gonna happen anymore! We're not the stupid people anymore! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
When they sell a car, and that car crosses the border…you know, in the old days they’d just have it driven in by the illegal immigrant, drive right over the border…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY–…right? Why not!? Nobody stops them! Just take that car and drive it right over the border. What's happening with that is a disaster, okay? Illegal immigration.
But why should Ford…make these products, sell them to us…having let go of thousands and thousands of…great workers, and why should they be able to sell it without a tax!?
Now, I'm a conservative, but the conservatives hate me…for suggesting that you would dare tax somebody! …–SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘WE LOVE YOU, TRUMP!’–…I love you too…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, I love you too! But this…is so easy! This is so easy!
And I tell people…when I tell, and I wanna do it myself so badly, but you know, they keep talking about ‘presidential’. It's not presidential when the president calls up the head of a damn air-conditioning company! But it's so much fun for me! I love this stuff. I don't take vacations. I'm not like Obama, where he takes Air Force One to Hawaii, stays there for two to three weeks, plays golf, comes back…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY–…right!? Air Force One, a Boeing 747, spewing out stuff! And then he has a news conference, and he talks about “the carbon footprint must be saved!”. Give me a break! Give me a break! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVISLY. [It’s] Crazy! [It’s] Crazy!
So, I wanna call myself, right!”? And I guarantee you, what will happen is the following. He'll say, “Mr. President, I'll call you back”. He'll then hire a lobbyists, but they can't get to me! They'll hire special interest, they can't get to me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
Now, if it's Hillary, they’ll hire the one that says ‘Hillary’ on the forehead. You know, on stamp! “I’m the lobbyist for Hillary, pay me millions of dollars. I'll take care of anything! I’ve given her million of dollars, I’ll take care of anything”.
So, what happens…is…they will call back the following day. I’d say, “listen, don't talk to me. Just give me a ‘yes’ or ‘no’. The next day they'll call back and they'll say, “Mr. President, we're not leaving the United States. We’re not leaving” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…okay? We can’t let them leave!
We…are…losing all of our jobs! And I'm not talking about mining jobs! I’m talking about every kind of job there is. You have a different predicament. And by the way, [do] you know the one place where was…where was selling coal…? [It] Is China! So, China can use the coal but we can’t. You explain that one. China can use it…;
So, here's what we're gonna do: we're gonna be the smart people again. We're gonna be…the really smart people again! We have rebuilt China! We have…a country, where the roads, the hospitals, the…transportation, the airports…they’re third world!
You go to places in the Middle East…! …you go to China!; …you go to Japan! [And] You see trains that go 250 miles an hour! You see our trains, [and] they go, ‘chug, chug, chug…’ …–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…on tracks that are a hundred years old, right!? Right!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're like a third-world country! So, we're gonna change it, folks! We're gonna change it. We're gonna change it.
Now, just to end up. First of all, you know, I usually say, “you're gonna leave here, and you're gonna go home, and you're gonna say the country started winning; but you're gonna go out, and you're gonna vote…”; I don't say that anymore, I can come back! Cuz I'll come back! But in November, you're gonna go out, [and] you're gonna vote! That's gonna be the greatest vote you ever cast, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
The vote was supposed to be on Tuesday! But now I can say, “stay home! But get twice as many people in November”, right!? Because we have to win…we have to win…the general election!
We cannot take…Hillary Clinton anymore. We cannot…we've had enough of Clinton. You know, again, NAFTA was given us…it was given to us by Clinton! That was a Clinton deal, signed by Clinton, and has been the most destructive thing! We can't take any more of the Clinton stuff, which is another four years of Barack Obama! You can't take it, folks! You wanna have your mind slows, a 100 percent…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And when she said, recently, two weeks ago…and I watched it! I said, “does she make a mistake?”. But when she said…she's gonna…close the miners, and close the mines…–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. I gotta tell you, [do] you think she was kidding? Do you really think? Okay? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. And then she comes here, two days ago, and she's begin for your vote, “well, I didn’t really mean that! I didn’t really mean that…”.
But that's her true feeling! That's her true feeling, okay? [Do you] See? She didn't have a teleprompter once, when…you know, when she said that. That's why she uses a teleprompter! She uses a teleprompter, because she can't make that kind of a mistake, okay?
I don't have teleprompters, folks. Is it better? Isn't it better, right!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's better![MGF2] 
So…so, here's the story. We all had a good time…tonight, considering the subject matter is no good! You know, the subject matter stinks! I mean, our country's in trouble, so the subject matter’s bad. But the subject matter will be good, because we are going to make America great again! It's gonna be good, not bad! Good! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, I'll be here again before November…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'll be here again. We gotta take care of the other people outside! When you let some of those people in the next time, please? Let them in. But…and I wanna thank them for being here. They're hearing me on a speaker. They probably think it's a recording.
But here…here’s the story, look: we're gonna start winning again. We don't win anymore. We don't win…–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOU TRUMP!’. I love you too, darling. Look…–MR. TRUMP GIGGLES. THE CROWD CHEERS–…these people are wild! West Virginia!
So…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY–…and John Denver, by the way, was a friend of mine. He was a good guy, John Denver. That is…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…that is a great song.
So…so, we don't win anymore, but we're gonna start winning again. And we're gonna win with our military. You know, our military has just been…so far behind…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And remember this: West Virginia…has a massive…number, disproportionate to almost every other state, of veterans! And we're gonna take care of our veterans! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna take care of our veterans! We are gonna take care of our vets! Our vets are our great people, and we're gonna take care of our vets, because they have not been taken care of. In many cases, illegal immigrants are taking better care of than our vets, and that's not gonna happen anymore! [It’s] Not gonna happen! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we're gonna start winning…with our military, we're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS, by the way…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna take care of our vets.
Our educational system is gonna get so much better, it is a disaster right now. We're getting rid of Common Core! We're bringing education local! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare, which is a disaster…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna protect, and cherish our Second Amendment, [which is/it’s] so important! It's under siege! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna have strong, powerful borders. We're going to have the wall. Mexico will pay for the wall! It will happen, believe me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we're gonna let people come into our country! We're gonna let a lot of people come into a country, but they're coming into our country legally! Legally! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And we're gonna make great trade deals. We have the greatest business people, and the greatest business minds in the world. We're gonna use our great business people to make our trade deals. They're dying to do it. They don't want money…they’re like…they wanna play, they wanna do it, they wanna…they love the country in their own way! Some are nice, some aren’t so nice…; but I have the backing of some of the greatest business people in the world. They wanna do it! They wanna see America be great again! And we're gonna do it.
So, we're gonna take these horrible, horrible…trade deals, that are made by people that have absolutely…no right to be dealing with the top people of China, the top people of Japan…; these are political hacks, and we're taking it away! And we are going to make…instead of these horrible deals, we're going to make unbelievable trade deals that bring jobs, and money, and economics…back to our country! All right? Back to our country! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, you've gotta remember, in November…[it] seems a long time away, but it's not far at all. And I'll be back, and I'll be back I’m sure more than once or twice even, cause this is a very important state to win! This is a very important state to win! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But you, your family, your friends…you're all gonna get out to vote. And I will tell you, you will look back and you will say it was the single greatest vote you ever cast. America will be great again. [it] Will be ‘America first’. We'll start winning, winning, winning! And you are gonna be very proud!
And for those miners, get ready, because you're gonna be working your asses off! All right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. Thank you, everybody! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you, everybody! Thank you! Thank you, folks!
