Trump Brutally Lambasts Biden After President's 'Democracy' Speech In Valley Forge

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Former President Trump speaks at a "Commit to Caucus" event in Sioux Center, Iowa.

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00:00:00 This is a packed house.

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00:00:04 Audience Members: USA!

00:00:05 USA!

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00:00:11 USA!

00:00:12 The President: Thank you very much.

00:00:14 We're going to take our country back.

00:00:15 We're going to take our country back.

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00:00:18 So sad to see what's happening.

00:00:21 Hello, Iowa.

00:00:21 And a very, very happy New Year.

00:00:23 We're going to have a great year.

00:00:24 Hopefully, it's going to be one of the greatest years ever.

00:00:26 You know why?

00:00:27 Because in November, it's going to be big.

00:00:29 It's going to be bigger than anything that's ever

00:00:30 happened to this country, I think.

00:00:32 It really is of that magnitude.

00:00:34 And I appreciate such a big turnout.

00:00:36 We come to every little part of this place, and

00:00:39 the people are greater and greater every stop.

00:00:42 And we want to hit every corner.

00:00:43 And we're really honored to see the crowd that we

00:00:45 had the turnout, that we have your incredible people.

00:00:47 You built this country.

00:00:48 You built this country.

00:00:49 (applause)

00:00:53 Ten days from now, the people of this state are

00:00:55 going to cast the most important vote of your

00:00:58 entire lives.

00:00:58 I believe that, too, very much.

00:01:00 I used to say that 2016, and I believed it then.

00:01:02 And now I believe this is even much more important.

00:01:06 Our country is going -- our country is going to

00:01:08 hell.

00:01:08 You don't mind me using that horrible word, don't

00:01:10 you?

00:01:11 I use that word because our country is really in

00:01:14 trouble.

00:01:15 It's in trouble like it's never been before, in my

00:01:17 opinion.

00:01:18 We have a man who is grossly incompetent dealing

00:01:20 about -- dealing with nuclear war.

00:01:23 He's dealing against Russia.

00:01:24 He's dealing against President Xi of China.

00:01:27 If you would deal with these people, you'd say

00:01:30 it's not a fair fight.

00:01:31 By delivering the massive victory, it's going to be

00:01:35 -- I think it's going to be, really, a tremendous

00:01:37 victory in Iowa, because I'm seeing polls that are

00:01:39 phenomenal.

00:01:39 But the -- the main thing I got to ask you -- look,

00:01:42 we got to get out and vote because, you know, bad

00:01:44 things happen when you sit back.

00:01:45 (applause)

00:01:46 And they said, "We love him.

00:01:49 We love the job.

00:01:50 We love the job he did for the farmers, for the

00:01:53 whole state.

00:01:53 But let's sit home and watch it.

00:01:56 Maybe it'll be a little bit cold at night or a

00:01:58 little bit rainy."

00:01:59 So important that we get out and vote and really

00:02:01 show it -- show the strength.

00:02:03 Because the only way we can get heard is if you

00:02:05 sit home and want to watch the great results on

00:02:08 television, then you say, "Is it too late?

00:02:10 We got to get out there fast."

00:02:12 But that's not going to happen.

00:02:13 But if you would, get out and vote.

00:02:15 Even though, you know, the polls have us way, way

00:02:17 up, strange things happen.

00:02:20 So, if you don't mind -- look, she's shaking her

00:02:23 head.

00:02:24 You're right.

00:02:25 We've seen some very strange things happen.

00:02:28 But I'm not worried about that.

00:02:30 I -- you know, the one thing I'm worried --

00:02:31 here, I'm worried about it a lot of other places.

00:02:33 I'm not worried about it here.

00:02:34 What I'm worried about here is we have to just

00:02:36 get out and show the support because that's

00:02:39 going to make a big difference in November.

00:02:41 We're voting now, but it's going to make a big

00:02:42 difference in November.

00:02:45 By delivering a massive victory in Iowa, you'll

00:02:47 send a thundering message to Crooked Joe Biden.

00:02:50 He's a crooked man.

00:02:51 He's an incompetent, crooked man.

00:02:53 (applause)

00:02:56 You're going to send it to the fake news media right

00:02:58 back there.

00:02:58 "Well, that's a lot of press for this corner,

00:03:00 this beautiful -- this beautiful location." You

00:03:03 know, they said, "You didn't really have to come

00:03:05 here." I said, "Like hell I don't have to come here.

00:03:07 I have to come here." (applause)

00:03:09 "If I didn't come here, I'd be in big trouble.

00:03:11 I'd be in big trouble." Brad, my first supporter --

00:03:17 you know, he's right here.

00:03:18 I think -- I call him the Marlboro Man.

00:03:20 Right, Brad?

00:03:21 He's right here.

00:03:22 He said, "You better get there, sir.

00:03:23 You better get there." I said, "I'll get there."

00:03:26 But all the evil and all the sinister people trying

00:03:28 to destroy our nation -- and that's what happens.

00:03:30 They are destroying our nation.

00:03:32 I don't know how much more our nation can take.

00:03:35 When you look at the border, when you look at

00:03:36 Afghanistan, the way we got out -- we were going

00:03:39 to get out.

00:03:40 We were going to get out with strength and dignity.

00:03:43 And the way we got out was something -- I think

00:03:45 the most horrible day, the most embarrassing day or

00:03:48 moment in the history of our country.

00:03:51 And that led to a lot of other bad things, including

00:03:53 Russia going into Ukraine.

00:03:55 A lot of other bad things that led to it.

00:03:56 With your vote for our campaign on Monday,

00:03:59 January 15th, you'll declare that we are going

00:04:02 to take back our country, we're going to defeat

00:04:04 crooked Joe Biden, and we're going to make

00:04:07 America great again.

00:04:09 (applause) Right?

00:04:15 And it all starts right here.

00:04:17 You know, because of me -- I will tell you, I'll

00:04:19 take full credit.

00:04:20 I'll take 100 percent of the credit, if you don't

00:04:22 mind, Governor.

00:04:23 (laughter) Go first in the nation.

00:04:27 And you are first in the nation, and that's

00:04:29 something that was very important to me.

00:04:31 You know, you have a great tradition in Iowa.

00:04:33 A great tradition for farming and plenty of

00:04:35 other things, but you have a great political

00:04:38 tradition.

00:04:38 And they wanted to move you to the back of the

00:04:40 pack.

00:04:41 I said, "We're not doing that to Iowa.

00:04:43 We're not doing it." Maybe somebody else someday,

00:04:45 hopefully, long down -- because I'll have signed

00:04:48 those rights into your corner for a long period

00:04:51 of time.

00:04:52 You'll be here.

00:04:52 I said the -- I said from day one, right?

00:04:54 I said, "We're never moving you." You know,

00:04:56 and you have forces that want to move.

00:04:58 You notice the Democrats moved.

00:04:59 You did notice that?

00:05:00 A couple of people maybe noticed that.

00:05:02 But they moved.

00:05:03 But you didn't move because of what I did.

00:05:05 It all starts here in Iowa at 7 p.m.

00:05:07 on Martin Luther King Day.

00:05:09 7 p.m.

00:05:11 So don't stay home.

00:05:12 If you want to save America, each and every

00:05:14 one of you, get out and vote and really bring your

00:05:16 friends.

00:05:17 We talk about 10.

00:05:18 Bring 10 people, but bring whatever it is.

00:05:20 You can also bring more than 10 people, I guess.

00:05:23 But bring whatever you have to bring.

00:05:25 Before going further, I want to send our support

00:05:27 and our deepest sympathies to the victims and

00:05:30 families touched by the terrible school shooting

00:05:32 yesterday in Perry, Iowa.

00:05:35 To the entire community, we love you, we pray for

00:05:38 you, and we ask God to heal and comfort, really,

00:05:41 the whole -- the whole state, and the pain -- the

00:05:43 pain that you have.

00:05:45 This is something that's very unique to your state.

00:05:48 We're really with you as much as anybody can be.

00:05:52 It's a very terrible thing that happened.

00:05:55 And it's just horrible to see that happening.

00:05:59 That's just horrible.

00:06:00 So surprising to see it here.

00:06:02 But we have to get over it.

00:06:05 We have to move forward.

00:06:07 We have to move forward.

00:06:07 But to the relatives and to all of the people that

00:06:11 are so devastated right now, to a point they

00:06:13 can't breathe, they can't live -- we are with you

00:06:16 all the way.

00:06:17 We're with you, and we love you and cherish you.

00:06:19 (applause)

00:06:19 We're also really delighted today to have

00:06:26 some of the great endorsers and my great

00:06:28 friends, state senators Lynn Evans, Kevin Allantz,

00:06:33 Jeff Taylor, and Brad Zahn.

00:06:35 I told you Brad was the first one in the nation.

00:06:37 (applause)

00:06:38 He endorsed me three months before I ran.

00:06:40 Where's Brad?

00:06:42 The Marlboro Man.

00:06:43 Where is he?

00:06:46 Come here, Brad.

00:06:47 Get up here, Brad.

00:06:48 Come here.

00:06:48 Want to say something?

00:06:51 Come on.

00:06:52 (applause)

00:06:52 That was easy to endorse you.

00:06:58 And he is the best President of my lifetime.

00:07:01 (applause)

00:07:01 The 47th President of the United States, Donald J.

00:07:09 Trump.

00:07:09 (applause)

00:07:10 I said, "Who's that guy named Brad in Iowa?"

00:07:15 Because this was three months before I even knew

00:07:20 I was running.

00:07:20 I bet.

00:07:21 I never wanted to say it.

00:07:22 I had no idea I was running, Brad.

00:07:25 But he said, "If that guy in New York wants to run,

00:07:27 he's got my endorsement.

00:07:28 He's going to do it.

00:07:29 He can turn it around.

00:07:30 He's the only one I know that can turn it around."

00:07:32 And he was actually the -- and I endorsed him, he said.

00:07:35 I said, "That's my first endorsement."

00:07:37 So when I finally got to meet him, which was

00:07:39 around 2015 -- in 2015, so it's a long time already.

00:07:44 But a lot of great things have happened, and then we

00:07:47 had a lot of bad things happen the last three years.

00:07:49 A lot of bad, bad things happened.

00:07:51 But I was very honored by Brad.

00:07:53 And there's a special feeling you have for some

00:07:55 people, you know, when that happens.

00:07:57 And I have that special feeling from him.

00:07:58 He's a great person, and he loves this state very much.

00:08:02 He does a great job.

00:08:03 Today, I'm also proud to announce that our campaign

00:08:06 has been endorsed by pastors and faith leaders

00:08:08 in every single one of the 99 counties.

00:08:12 That's almost, I think, a first.

00:08:14 (applause)

00:08:16 Thank you very much.

00:08:19 God is with us.

00:08:20 I think so, right?

00:08:21 Thank you very much.

00:08:23 You're great people.

00:08:24 That's a great honor.

00:08:25 I think that's a first, too.

00:08:26 All 99 counties.

00:08:29 The stakes for this election could not be

00:08:31 higher under crooked Joe Biden.

00:08:33 Our borders, if you noticed -- and I'm sure

00:08:35 nobody has noticed -- our borders have been erased.

00:08:38 They've been obliterated.

00:08:40 We have people coming in -- millions and millions of

00:08:43 people coming in.

00:08:44 They're coming in from prisons.

00:08:46 They're coming in from mental institutions.

00:08:48 They're terrorists.

00:08:50 Millions of people are coming in that shouldn't be here.

00:08:53 If you look at the world's -- not just the three or

00:08:56 four nations that we think about, whether it's Mexico

00:09:00 or any one of the nations.

00:09:04 You could also -- by the way, you know, we also

00:09:06 have a northern border that's not exactly doing

00:09:08 too well.

00:09:09 But if you look -- Honduras, El Salvador, any

00:09:13 one of these nations -- it's not them, it's

00:09:15 everybody all over the world.

00:09:18 They caught prisoners the other day from the Congo.

00:09:21 When I say "caught," they catch them and they

00:09:23 release them.

00:09:25 We used to catch them and release them into Mexico.

00:09:27 Do you remember?

00:09:28 We released them into -- it was called "catch and

00:09:30 release" -- into Mexico.

00:09:33 And they gave that up.

00:09:33 You think that was easy to get from Mexico?

00:09:35 No, but they did it.

00:09:37 They did it.

00:09:37 They did it very gladly.

00:09:38 We didn't have to pay.

00:09:39 Now they want billions of dollars to help us with

00:09:42 this problem.

00:09:43 And with me, they never even asked for billions of

00:09:45 dollars.

00:09:46 I said, "You're going to pay billions of dollars if

00:09:48 you don't help us with this problem." But all

00:09:51 over the world, we're talking about -- not just

00:09:53 the countries near us or the countries only in

00:09:55 South America.

00:09:56 They do.

00:09:57 They come from the Congo.

00:09:58 They come from Africa.

00:09:59 They come from Asia.

00:10:00 They -- many people from China.

00:10:03 They happen to be about the age of this gentleman

00:10:05 right here.

00:10:06 You know, around 24 -- perfect -- perfect age.

00:10:10 In his early 20s.

00:10:12 Just perfect for the military, isn't it?

00:10:14 Huh?

00:10:16 Twenty-seven thousand people from China, all

00:10:18 males, all between 20 and 25.

00:10:22 Perfect for the military.

00:10:23 I wonder what that's all about.

00:10:25 So it's a pretty scary thing.

00:10:27 We have them coming in from Russia.

00:10:29 The same thing.

00:10:29 So you all seem to be between 19 and 24 or 25.

00:10:34 I wonder why that is.

00:10:36 We're going to be paying a price, but we'll take

00:10:38 care of it.

00:10:39 We get in, we're going to be taking care of it.

00:10:41 We're going to have no choice but to take care

00:10:43 of it.

00:10:43 We're not going to have a country.

00:10:44 (applause)

00:10:46 But our middle class is being crushed by Biden's

00:10:48 crippling inflation.

00:10:49 The inflation has been the worst that we've ever had.

00:10:53 They say 72 years, sir.

00:10:55 Be accurate.

00:10:56 I say, "I think it's the worst we've ever had."

00:10:57 There's never been anything like this.

00:10:59 We have -- food prices have tripled.

00:11:01 And every single thing you do -- the energy prices.

00:11:04 Look at what's happened to energy.

00:11:06 Violent criminals are running wild in Democrat-run

00:11:09 cities, while law enforcement has been

00:11:11 weaponized against Christians and

00:11:13 conservatives and people of faith.

00:11:15 It's weaponized against Christians.

00:11:17 It's really weaponized.

00:11:18 I don't know how many Catholics are in the room.

00:11:19 Maybe not that many here.

00:11:21 (applause)

00:11:21 Are they?

00:11:22 Well, what are we doing with the Catholics?

00:11:24 I mean, they are going -- they're persecuting

00:11:26 Catholics.

00:11:27 And then the Catholics -- it's 50/50 between

00:11:29 Catholics and us.

00:11:30 Trump.

00:11:33 50/50.

00:11:33 And I say, "You know, it's amazing."

00:11:35 I got a call from the Cardinal, New York.

00:11:39 A very good man.

00:11:40 And he said, "Sir" -- this was during the pandemic.

00:11:43 He said, "Sir, we need billions of dollars to

00:11:46 help us with our education.

00:11:48 Our schools -- we're losing a fortune."

00:11:51 And I got him the money.

00:11:52 It was very important to get it because they do a

00:11:54 tremendous service and they have great schools,

00:11:57 but they were hurting badly during that.

00:11:59 And I was able to get him the money.

00:12:02 And then I look at the voters.

00:12:04 It's like 50/50.

00:12:05 And I say, "Why?"

00:12:06 But now they are persecuting Catholics, in

00:12:09 particular.

00:12:09 I don't know what's going on with the Catholics.

00:12:10 You guys are Catholic.

00:12:11 What's going on with Catholics?

00:12:13 Why are they doing this with Catholics?

00:12:14 Something is happening.

00:12:16 But they're doing it with Christians and they're

00:12:18 doing it with parents and they're doing it with a

00:12:20 lot of people.

00:12:20 And you explain -- you explain that one.

00:12:23 Let's go and get the parents at the school

00:12:25 board meetings, right?

00:12:27 It's ridiculous.

00:12:29 But we have wars in Europe.

00:12:31 We have war in the Middle East.

00:12:33 China is threatening Taiwan.

00:12:34 Iran is inches away from a nuclear bomb.

00:12:36 They're going to have a nuclear bomb, they say, in

00:12:38 34 days.

00:12:40 And we -- when we were in charge, Iran was broke.

00:12:44 Iran had no money for Hamas.

00:12:46 They had no money for Hezbollah.

00:12:49 They were broke.

00:12:50 Now they're very rich.

00:12:51 They have $250 billion, they say.

00:12:54 Not including the $6 billion they got for a

00:12:55 hostage trade.

00:12:58 We got five and they got five.

00:12:59 I said, "All right, that's good.

00:13:00 That's better than they usually do."

00:13:01 Usually, you know, we give up -- well, we gave up

00:13:05 the king of terror.

00:13:06 You know, we -- last -- with the basketball player,

00:13:09 Brittany Griner.

00:13:12 We -- we gave up -- we gave up the greatest

00:13:17 purchaser of military arms and equipment -- and

00:13:21 very deadly equipment -- in the history of the

00:13:24 world, they say.

00:13:26 He was called the "Phantom of Death."

00:13:30 So, they got him and we got Brittany.

00:13:33 (Laughter.)

00:13:35 And -- and that was a tough trade.

00:13:38 That was a tough trade.

00:13:39 But, you know, at least she's standing now for the

00:13:41 National Anthem, I think.

00:13:43 But she didn't stand too much.

00:13:44 She was -- she always wanted to tie her sneakers

00:13:47 during the National Anthem.

00:13:48 I didn't like that.

00:13:49 I didn't like it.

00:13:50 That was the time -- when she heard the National

00:13:51 Anthem, that meant it was time for her to tie up her

00:13:54 sneakers.

00:13:54 I don't like that.

00:13:56 But our military has gone woke, and we're teetering

00:13:58 on the edge of World War III.

00:14:00 We've never been closer than we are right now to

00:14:03 World War III.

00:14:05 There's only one candidate in this race who's going

00:14:08 to be up to the task of saving America from every

00:14:11 single Biden disaster, starting on day one.

00:14:14 Number one, I know the -- the players on the other

00:14:17 side, and they always respected your country.

00:14:19 I don't want to say they respected me, but, boy,

00:14:21 did they respect this country when I was in

00:14:23 charge.

00:14:24 They respected us.

00:14:25 (applause)

00:14:25 Like they've never -- like they've never respected us.

00:14:29 Right?

00:14:30 You wouldn't have had Ukraine.

00:14:31 You wouldn't have had Israel being attacked.

00:14:35 Russia wouldn't be attacking Ukraine.

00:14:36 But you wouldn't have had the attack on Israel.

00:14:39 You wouldn't have had inflation.

00:14:41 You wouldn't have had any of this stuff.

00:14:43 You wouldn't have China longing to go into Taiwan.

00:14:47 You know, they're just waiting for the right

00:14:48 moment.

00:14:49 They wouldn't even talk about it.

00:14:51 They weren't even talking about it.

00:14:52 No, they -- and they won't be, I promise you that.

00:14:55 But with your vote in these caucuses, we're

00:14:58 going to finish the job and we're going to get it

00:15:00 done.

00:15:01 And we're going to actually be stronger than ever

00:15:03 before.

00:15:03 It's hard to believe because you see the

00:15:04 damage that's been done.

00:15:06 No President has ever, ever -- you -- and, you

00:15:10 know, I often say you can take the 10 worst

00:15:13 Presidents in the history of our country, you can

00:15:15 add them up, put them together, and they

00:15:17 haven't done the damage that Joe Biden has done

00:15:19 to this country.

00:15:19 What he's done to this country is unthinkable.

00:15:21 Biden's record is an unbroken streak of

00:15:25 weakness, incompetence, corruption, and failure.

00:15:28 Other than that, he's doing quite well, isn't

00:15:30 he?

00:15:30 Don't you -- (laughter) -- that's a hell of a

00:15:32 list.

00:15:33 That's a hell of a list, right?

00:15:35 That's why Crooked Joe is staging his pathetic,

00:15:38 fear-mongering campaign event in Pennsylvania

00:15:41 today.

00:15:42 Did you see him?

00:15:42 He was stuttering through the whole thing.

00:15:44 He's going, "I'm going to -- he's a threat to

00:15:47 democracy.

00:15:47 I'm a -- " (laughter)

00:15:50 They've weaponized government.

00:15:51 He's saying, "I'm a threat to democracy."

00:15:53 He's a threat to da -- da -- democracy.

00:15:57 Wow.

00:15:58 (laughter)

00:15:59 I couldn't read the word.

00:16:03 He's a threat to democracy.

00:16:04 You know how bad the press is?

00:16:05 You know what they do?

00:16:06 They take me saying that, like that, and they say,

00:16:09 "Trump couldn't say the word 'democracy.'"

00:16:11 (laughter)

00:16:12 Look.

00:16:13 No, that's what they do.

00:16:14 They're so bad.

00:16:16 You know, I don't know if you saw it.

00:16:17 I was on Sean Hannity -- a good guy, a really good

00:16:19 guy, right?

00:16:20 And we did a town hall, and he says, "Tell us --

00:16:25 you're not going to be a dictator, right?"

00:16:27 I said, "Sean, I'm going to be a dictator for one

00:16:31 day, for drilling and for closing the border.

00:16:34 And after that, I'm not going to be a dictator."

00:16:37 (applause)

00:16:42 So -- so remember the way I said, "I'm going to be a

00:16:45 dictator for one day," for those two things.

00:16:47 And then, after that, I'm not going to be.

00:16:48 So I said, "I'm going to be a dictator for one day,

00:16:51 for drilling."

00:16:52 Right?

00:16:52 "For drilling."

00:16:54 And then -- so what do they do?

00:16:56 What do they do?

00:16:57 We say, "Drilling and the border."

00:16:59 Then I go -- and then, after that, I'm not going

00:17:02 to be a dictator, Sean, one day.

00:17:04 So they have me on the news all over the place.

00:17:06 "I'm going to be a dictator."

00:17:08 Cut.

00:17:08 (laughter)

00:17:09 They -- did you see that?

00:17:12 This is the fake news media.

00:17:14 They have the first part, "I'm going to be a

00:17:17 dictator."

00:17:18 Cut.

00:17:18 And they had to cut it fast because I kept it

00:17:20 going fast because I know exactly what they do.

00:17:24 They had me -- the other day, I was imitating

00:17:26 Biden because he can't walk off the stage.

00:17:27 Right?

00:17:28 You know, he could -- (laughter)

00:17:29 -- no, he can never find the exit.

00:17:30 So they had me turning around and looking for him.

00:17:33 (laughter)

00:17:35 (applause)

00:17:40 You can never find -- I mean, these stages have a

00:17:45 lot of stairs on them.

00:17:51 Some of them are four or five stairs.

00:17:53 And he did.

00:17:54 He had, like, so many stairs.

00:17:55 He couldn't find it.

00:17:56 And they showed me that I couldn't find the way off

00:17:59 the stage.

00:17:59 In other words, they said, "He couldn't find the way

00:18:02 off the stage."

00:18:04 And it's just terrible.

00:18:05 They're so bad.

00:18:06 They -- you guys are so dishonest.

00:18:07 You're so pathetic.

00:18:09 That's why they're all going out of business,

00:18:10 I'll tell you.

00:18:11 They are just so pathetic.

00:18:13 And, you know, it's so important -- having an

00:18:14 honest media is so important, but they just

00:18:17 aren't.

00:18:18 And it's, a lot of times, what they don't say.

00:18:19 It's not only what they say; it's what they don't

00:18:21 say.

00:18:22 But -- so I have to be very careful with sarcasm

00:18:24 because I'm a little sarcastic sometimes, and

00:18:26 you say something -- (laughter)

00:18:27 -- and everybody there is laughing, having a good

00:18:29 time.

00:18:29 But they put it on as though you mean it.

00:18:31 You know, it's -- so you can't have any fun during

00:18:34 these rather terrible times, if you think about

00:18:36 it.

00:18:37 Because Biden -- I mean, if you -- if you take a

00:18:40 look at what he's doing on the border, or inflation,

00:18:44 or our military, that horrible day in

00:18:48 Afghanistan.

00:18:49 You look at what he's done with energy.

00:18:51 All throughout the world, we're an embarrassment as

00:18:54 a country.

00:18:54 We've become an embarrassment as a

00:18:56 country.

00:18:57 The only reason Biden is at Valley Forge, abusing

00:19:00 George Washington's legacy -- I mean, he's

00:19:02 abusing Washington's legacy, and he never

00:19:05 sticks up for Washington.

00:19:06 You know, they've taken the name "George

00:19:08 Washington" off many schools and many

00:19:10 different -- can you believe it?

00:19:12 The name "George Washington" is coming down

00:19:14 from many schools, many in California.

00:19:18 And he ought to stop that.

00:19:20 But it's a legacy to -- it's really a slander and

00:19:24 a horrible statement he's making to 75 million

00:19:27 Americans.

00:19:28 That's what they say.

00:19:29 It's much more than that.

00:19:31 You saw the numbers that came out yesterday on the

00:19:33 election.

00:19:34 Everybody saw those numbers.

00:19:35 They were released.

00:19:36 The fake news doesn't want to talk about them.

00:19:39 But it's a disgrace, what happened in 2020.

00:19:41 It's a disgrace, and everybody knows it.

00:19:44 I think they have 81 percent of the people

00:19:46 understand that.

00:19:48 But he knows he can't show his face at the

00:19:51 southwest border or in East Palestine, Ohio,

00:19:55 where I love those people.

00:19:56 They were great people.

00:19:57 I went there early when they had that really bad

00:20:01 situation.

00:20:02 And he went to the autoworkers' factories.

00:20:05 He's given away our auto business to China, mostly

00:20:08 to China.

00:20:08 You could sit down if you want.

00:20:10 Go ahead.

00:20:12 See?

00:20:12 I'm not kidding with those people.

00:20:14 That's it.

00:20:15 And you can't stand up in the front, right?

00:20:18 But thank you very much.

00:20:19 But, you know, people are waiting for three, four

00:20:21 days in these things.

00:20:22 That's cold out there.

00:20:23 That's a long wait, right?

00:20:24 It's pretty cold out there.

00:20:26 I said, "Where's my coat?"

00:20:28 I had to walk 15 feet from the car to the -- I

00:20:31 said, "Do you have a coat?"

00:20:32 And these people are waiting for three days.

00:20:34 So that's good.

00:20:35 That means you're hardy.

00:20:36 You're hardy people.

00:20:37 You're strong people.

00:20:38 Thank you.

00:20:38 Thank you very much.

00:20:39 (applause)

00:20:41 But if you take a look, Crooked Joe cannot talk

00:20:46 about a single issue that matters to hardworking

00:20:49 Americans, because he's failed you and he's

00:20:51 betrayed us on every single issue.

00:20:55 And on policy, he's the worst ever.

00:20:57 And people have known that for a long time.

00:20:59 Secretary of States have said he doesn't know what

00:21:01 he's doing.

00:21:03 Obama said it.

00:21:04 A lot of people said it.

00:21:06 But he doesn't know what he's doing.

00:21:08 You look at what's happening in the Middle

00:21:09 East, you look at what's going on with Ukraine.

00:21:12 He doesn't know what he's doing.

00:21:15 Biden and the radical-left Democrats lie to us

00:21:17 because they know that Americans can't stand the

00:21:21 truth about them because they know how badly

00:21:23 they're doing.

00:21:24 They are doing so badly.

00:21:25 You know, they start off with a base.

00:21:27 Because people said -- a friend of mine called up

00:21:28 -- we're leading by 11 in a number of places.

00:21:31 Now, 11 is a lot, but a friend of mine called up,

00:21:33 "How come you're only leading by 11?

00:21:35 This guy can't put two sentences together."

00:21:37 I said, "Well, they start off with a base like about

00:21:40 39."

00:21:40 He said, "38."

00:21:41 So that's -- he said, "That's interesting.

00:21:43 It's hard to be a 38, isn't it, Democrat?"

00:21:45 But Republicans have to do it the old-fashioned way.

00:21:47 We have to earn every one of them.

00:21:49 But they have a base.

00:21:50 I won't exactly tell you what that base is, but we

00:21:53 all know what that base is.

00:21:54 They have certain people that are going to vote

00:21:55 Democrat almost no matter what.

00:21:58 But I'll tell you, the union part of that base is

00:22:00 coming to us.

00:22:01 The union part.

00:22:02 I can also tell you another -- the Hispanic

00:22:05 part is coming to us at levels that nobody has

00:22:07 ever seen before.

00:22:08 (applause)

00:22:10 We're leading with Hispanics.

00:22:11 That's never happened before.

00:22:14 And African American is coming to us at a level

00:22:16 that I don't think any Republican has seen.

00:22:21 Because they understand that this man is not

00:22:24 capable.

00:22:24 He's not a capable person.

00:22:25 I mean, if you had a store and you wanted to

00:22:29 take a week off, you wouldn't put him in charge

00:22:31 of the store.

00:22:31 (laughter)

00:22:32 No, you wouldn't.

00:22:34 Would you trust him to run your store?

00:22:36 I don't think anybody would.

00:22:38 That's a little -- it's a little, you know, thing.

00:22:40 If you have a store, would you trust the President

00:22:43 of the United States to run your store?

00:22:45 He couldn't do it.

00:22:47 This election is our last chance to save America.

00:22:50 Very important.

00:22:51 The battle begins in Iowa on January 15th, and Joe

00:22:54 Biden's banana republic ends on November 5th, 2024.

00:22:58 (applause)

00:23:04 And I believe -- because the stock market is doing

00:23:07 okay for the last six months, but I believe the

00:23:10 reason is because we're leading in all the polls.

00:23:12 I think if we weren't, the stock market would be

00:23:14 going down at a level that you haven't seen.

00:23:17 And I think if we don't win, I think you're going

00:23:18 to end up in a stock market like you had in

00:23:20 1929 -- not a recession, a depression.

00:23:23 I believe that.

00:23:23 I have to say it.

00:23:24 I really believe you're going to end up in a

00:23:26 depression if you take a look at what these people

00:23:28 are doing, how they're wasting all this money on

00:23:30 green -- the Green New Scam.

00:23:32 It's called the Green New Scam.

00:23:34 It's horrible.

00:23:35 (applause)

00:23:37 Horrible, horrible.

00:23:39 With your help, we're going to bring our country

00:23:41 back from disaster.

00:23:44 Our country is a disaster.

00:23:46 Laughed at all over the world.

00:23:47 Since 2016, you and I have been in this battle

00:23:51 side by side.

00:23:52 I mean, we won -- we won twice, and we're going to

00:23:54 win a third time.

00:23:55 We're going to win by more now, they say.

00:23:56 We're going to win by more in terms of November.

00:23:58 We're going to win by more than we did even the first

00:24:01 two times.

00:24:02 And we won nicely.

00:24:03 We won very nice.

00:24:04 Look, I did get you $28 billion, in all fairness.

00:24:07 Right?

00:24:08 Who the hell else would get you $28 billion from

00:24:11 China?

00:24:11 The farmers of America.

00:24:13 I say, the farmers of America are not voting

00:24:16 against Trump.

00:24:17 They're all smiling.

00:24:19 They opened us big.

00:24:20 Remember, I said, "Here's what you do.

00:24:22 We're going to take a little while with China,

00:24:24 but we're going to end up winning the negotiation,

00:24:26 and we're going to make a great trade deal." You

00:24:27 know, I don't even talk about that trade deal.

00:24:29 I talk about USMCA.

00:24:31 I talk about all the many trade deals I made and

00:24:33 re- -- and redid because you had such crazy deals.

00:24:36 I used to say, "Who makes these deals?

00:24:37 They're so bad." But I don't talk about China.

00:24:40 But China was probably the biggest of them all.

00:24:42 Fifty billion dollars they have to buy.

00:24:44 They used to buy 10, 12.

00:24:47 Fifty billion they had to buy.

00:24:48 Now, I don't know if they're watching it

00:24:50 because I don't think Biden is going to enforce

00:24:52 anything because China pays them a lot of money.

00:24:54 You know, it gives them a lot of money.

00:24:56 So he's a Manchurian candidate.

00:24:58 And the two -- you know what a Manchurian

00:24:59 candidate is?

00:25:01 This young gentleman.

00:25:01 He doesn't know.

00:25:02 Don't -- you don't want to find out.

00:25:04 He's a Manchurian candidate.

00:25:06 We took on the entire corrupt system in

00:25:08 Washington like no one has ever done before.

00:25:11 And together, we stood up to the failed

00:25:13 establishment, the corrupt media, the deep state,

00:25:16 the globalists, the warmongers, the Wall

00:25:18 Street special interests, and open-border fanatics.

00:25:21 I mean, a lot of these Wall Street guys, they

00:25:23 know me, they like me, and I see that they're

00:25:25 endorsing, like, Nikki Haley -- Birdbrain.

00:25:28 They're endorsing Nikki Haley, who does not have

00:25:32 what it takes, by the way.

00:25:33 I'm just telling you.

00:25:34 I've spent a lot of time with her.

00:25:36 She does not have -- I hope you enjoy her, you

00:25:38 know, with her little quips.

00:25:40 Like, "How did the Civil War start?

00:25:42 What was the --" "Well, it had to do with

00:25:44 government.

00:25:45 No, it was slavery." You know, I never questioned

00:25:47 her on that.

00:25:48 I never wanted to pile on.

00:25:50 But you'll find out about Nikki, and you're going

00:25:52 to find out that Ron -- you got to have a little

00:25:55 personality, you know?

00:25:56 (Laughter.)

00:25:57 We took him from practically zero.

00:26:00 He begged me for the endorsement.

00:26:01 I gave him the endorsement.

00:26:02 He was like a rocket ship.

00:26:03 One day, he was leading, and he won.

00:26:06 And then I helped him win the general.

00:26:07 And then, four years later, they said, "Will

00:26:09 you run against the President?"

00:26:10 And he says, "I have no comment." I said, "That

00:26:13 means he's running."

00:26:14 (Laughter.)

00:26:14 "Oh, man, this guy is running.

00:26:16 I got him elected.

00:26:17 He's going to run against me." So I started hitting

00:26:20 him very hard.

00:26:20 And a lot of my geniuses backstage -- they paid a

00:26:23 lot of money -- "Sir, don't go after him.

00:26:26 He's a Republican." I said, "I don't care if he's

00:26:27 a Republican or not." I said, "He said he has no

00:26:30 comment.

00:26:31 I got him elected." But you need a personality

00:26:34 still, and there's not a lot of personality there.

00:26:36 So, you know, you need a personality to charm

00:26:39 foreign leaders.

00:26:41 You think President Xi is easy to deal with, and

00:26:43 Putin?

00:26:44 And do you think Kim Jong-un, North Korea?

00:26:48 You're going to get into a nuclear war.

00:26:49 If Hillary won that election, you would be in

00:26:51 a nuclear war.

00:26:52 Who knows where you'd be right now.

00:26:53 Because nuclear is a level that nobody wants to even

00:26:57 think about.

00:26:58 And, you know, again, now we have the problem with

00:27:00 Iran, and they're going to have it.

00:27:02 You know, when I busted up that whole Iran

00:27:04 situation, they were supposed to make a deal,

00:27:07 but they didn't do anything.

00:27:08 They didn't do anything.

00:27:09 And now they're going to have a nuclear weapon that

00:27:10 they allowed them to sell.

00:27:12 I told China, "If you buy oil from Iran, you can't

00:27:15 do business in the United States." They said, "Well,

00:27:17 we're not going to buy any more oil.

00:27:18 Thank you very much." And I said that to many

00:27:21 countries, and they were doing literally no

00:27:23 business.

00:27:24 They were broke.

00:27:25 And then Biden came along, took off all those

00:27:27 sanctions in one day, and all of a sudden you have,

00:27:31 you know, the greatest sponsor of terror anywhere

00:27:33 in the world, probably in history.

00:27:34 And they're giving money to everybody that wants to

00:27:37 blow people up.

00:27:38 But we didn't like that.

00:27:39 But it is what it is.

00:27:40 But they didn't do anything.

00:27:41 I took away the -- I took away all of their

00:27:45 economic power.

00:27:46 And, by the way, I wanted to make a good deal for

00:27:49 them, too.

00:27:49 I think everybody would have been happy.

00:27:50 But they cannot have a nuclear weapon.

00:27:52 That was the only thing.

00:27:53 The one thing -- I said, "You cannot have" -- had

00:27:56 that election not been rigged, we would have had

00:27:59 a deal with Iran in the first week.

00:28:02 In the first week, after the election.

00:28:04 Not even in January.

00:28:06 After the election, we would have had a deal with

00:28:08 Iran.

00:28:09 But they didn't do anything.

00:28:10 I terminated the deal, which was not easy to do.

00:28:13 And then you were supposed to make a deal.

00:28:15 They didn't do that.

00:28:16 These people are incompetent, and

00:28:18 they're very dangerous for our country.

00:28:20 We achieved more than any administration in the

00:28:23 history of our country.

00:28:24 We fought long and hard to rescue the Republican

00:28:27 Party from the likes of Mitt Romney, Karl Rove,

00:28:30 this Paul Ryan guy, who is the worst.

00:28:33 And there's no chance -- remember Paul Ryan?

00:28:35 Wheelchair off the cliff.

00:28:37 Remember this guy?

00:28:39 He is bad news.

00:28:40 And he works at Fox now.

00:28:41 He's on the board of Fox.

00:28:42 You think that's good?

00:28:43 No wonder -- no wonder Fox has changed.

00:28:46 There's no chance we're going to let them claw

00:28:48 their way back into power and establishment like

00:28:52 Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.

00:28:54 You know, the other day, they had him on our

00:28:56 program, Ron DeSantis.

00:28:57 His name is DeSantis.

00:28:59 But they had him on our program.

00:29:00 Ladies and gentlemen, we're proud to have the

00:29:02 Governor of Florida, Mr. Ron DeSantis.

00:29:05 They said, "No, no, no.

00:29:07 It's DeSantis."

00:29:08 That's good branding, right?

00:29:09 When they can't even say his name.

00:29:12 Governor -- yeah, Ron DeSanctimonious, actually.

00:29:15 The abbreviated version is Ron DeSantis, right?

00:29:18 But he's got a bad seed there because any guy

00:29:23 that would do that -- when you get somebody elected,

00:29:24 you say, "Let the President have this time.

00:29:28 He'll do a great job."

00:29:30 And everybody said we did a great job.

00:29:31 "Let the President do a great job."

00:29:33 (applause)

00:29:34 And he's young.

00:29:35 He'll take over.

00:29:36 But he's a bad seed.

00:29:37 (applause)

00:29:38 He won't -- he won't be getting my endorsement.

00:29:43 I can tell you that.

00:29:45 Our country -- thank you very much, darling.

00:29:47 I like you too.

00:29:48 Who said that?

00:29:49 Who was in the -- thank you.

00:29:50 But look at that.

00:29:53 You look -- thank you, darling.

00:29:55 (applause)

00:29:56 Got a nice voice, right?

00:30:00 I heard that voice.

00:30:01 I said, "Just stand up, please, if you want."

00:30:03 Thank you very much.

00:30:04 Very beautiful.

00:30:06 Our country is dying, and there's no time to waste

00:30:09 for your vote or another establishment career politician.

00:30:13 We have to straighten out our country.

00:30:14 We have to straighten.

00:30:15 We got -- we got badly hurt when the gift from

00:30:19 China poured onto our shores, COVID.

00:30:22 You know, the day before that happened, I had

00:30:25 John McLaughlin, the great pollster.

00:30:27 He was in my office with some other pollsters, and

00:30:30 they said, "Sir, I'll be honest with you.

00:30:34 You can't lose."

00:30:35 This is the greatest poll numbers I've ever seen.

00:30:38 You know, we're a couple of years -- two and a

00:30:39 half years in.

00:30:41 And they said, "You can't lose."

00:30:43 If George Washington came back from the dead and

00:30:46 Lincoln came back, and they teamed up as

00:30:48 President and Vice President, sir, you'd beat

00:30:50 them by a lot.

00:30:51 I said, "That sounds good."

00:30:52 The next day, I go into the Oval Office.

00:30:54 They say, "Sir, there's a problem in China.

00:30:56 There are a lot of people dying in Wuhan."

00:30:58 Remember I said it was the Wuhan lab?

00:31:00 I never changed.

00:31:01 It was the Wuhan lab.

00:31:02 But other people said, "Oh, it's a cave from 2,000

00:31:04 miles away with bats."

00:31:06 Then they blamed France.

00:31:07 They blamed -- they blamed everybody.

00:31:09 It ultimately came back to Wuhan, which is what I

00:31:11 said.

00:31:11 I never changed.

00:31:13 But they said, "There's a problem over there.

00:31:15 A lot of bodies lying around this particular

00:31:19 facility."

00:31:20 I knew what the facility was, and I said, "That's

00:31:23 not good."

00:31:24 But who would have ever thought?

00:31:25 And we did a phenomenal job.

00:31:26 We never got credit for that.

00:31:28 Look, kind of -- we got credit for a great

00:31:29 economy.

00:31:30 We got a lot of credit, too.

00:31:31 But we really did a great job in that.

00:31:33 Nobody knew what the hell it was.

00:31:34 But they said, "You would -- there was nobody that

00:31:39 could ever have come even close to us."

00:31:41 Look at how the farmers were doing.

00:31:43 And by that time, we had a deal with China.

00:31:45 We had everything cooked, and we made USMCA.

00:31:47 Everybody said, "You'll never be able to change

00:31:50 NAFTA."

00:31:50 Remember NAFTA?

00:31:51 That horrible, horrible deal?

00:31:52 One of the worst trade deals ever made.

00:31:55 But a vote for Donald Trump in these caucuses is

00:31:57 a vote to secure our border.

00:31:59 It's a vote to stop the invasion of China.

00:32:01 We have millions of people from parts unknown.

00:32:04 We don't even know where the hell they come from.

00:32:05 They come from parts unknown.

00:32:06 It's a vote to rescue our economy, and it's a vote

00:32:10 to reclaim our democracy from crooked Joe Biden

00:32:13 and the entire criminal class in our nation's

00:32:15 capital.

00:32:16 They're criminals.

00:32:17 What they're doing with voters and what they're

00:32:18 doing with the weaponization of the

00:32:21 system and elections -- what they're doing is

00:32:23 incredible.

00:32:23 I mean, I've gotten indicted more than Al

00:32:26 Capone.

00:32:27 (laughter)

00:32:29 Do you know Al Capone?

00:32:30 Scarface, you know?

00:32:32 He had a scar from here to here, and he didn't get it.

00:32:35 I always say, "Playing tiddlywinks," right?

00:32:37 He was a rather rough guy.

00:32:40 And if he had dinner with you and he didn't like the

00:32:42 way you smiled, they'd shoot you the next day.

00:32:43 You'd get killed, probably, the next night.

00:32:46 But you'd be gone.

00:32:48 He got indicted less than me.

00:32:50 I got indicted because I said we had a rigged

00:32:52 election, and it turned out I was right.

00:32:55 It was rigged much worse than anybody thought.

00:32:58 (applause)

00:32:59 But unlike every other candidate in this race

00:33:05 with me, you know in your heart that I will always

00:33:08 put America first.

00:33:09 We put America first.

00:33:11 And with God's help, our job will get done, and

00:33:14 it'll get done like it did before.

00:33:16 We did more.

00:33:17 I mean, we rebuilt our military.

00:33:18 We got the biggest tax cuts in history.

00:33:20 We got the biggest regulation cuts in

00:33:22 history.

00:33:22 Right to try.

00:33:23 Hopefully, nobody in this room needs it.

00:33:26 But, you know, we have space age.

00:33:27 We have the greatest doctors and laboratories

00:33:29 in the world, and people couldn't use it.

00:33:31 If they were sick, they'd go to Asia, they'd go to

00:33:34 Europe, they'd go all over the world.

00:33:35 If they had money.

00:33:36 If they didn't have money, they'd go home and

00:33:37 they'd die.

00:33:38 I got right to try so that we could take

00:33:41 something that wouldn't be approved for five or six

00:33:42 years by the FDA.

00:33:44 I moved that up, too, by the way.

00:33:45 That used to be 12 years.

00:33:46 We cut it down in half.

00:33:48 And it was going further.

00:33:49 But right to try gave you the right to sign a very

00:33:52 quick document and get whatever it is out there.

00:33:56 You know, they used to say, we can't do that, sir.

00:33:59 There's great liability.

00:34:00 Supposing they die.

00:34:01 Say their terminal, their terminal, only terminal.

00:34:03 You have to be very, very sick.

00:34:06 People that are very sick that you wouldn't believe

00:34:10 the results.

00:34:10 The results are thousands and thousands of people

00:34:13 are living right now.

00:34:14 You know, the laboratories didn't want it because a

00:34:17 lot of people would die and they didn't want that

00:34:19 in the record.

00:34:20 Doctors didn't want it.

00:34:21 Our country didn't want it because we didn't want the

00:34:23 liability.

00:34:25 And they signed something saying you have no

00:34:26 liability whatsoever.

00:34:27 There's nobody has any liability, but we got to do

00:34:29 it.

00:34:30 The terminally ill.

00:34:31 These are terminally ill people and we are saving

00:34:34 thousands of lives.

00:34:36 And it sort of worked out the opposite for some of

00:34:37 these great laboratories because instead of having

00:34:40 liability, they're showing it really works

00:34:42 because you're bringing people that were going to

00:34:44 be dead very soon and you're bringing them back

00:34:46 to life.

00:34:47 And, you know, some of the stuff that they've done is

00:34:49 incredible.

00:34:50 So I'm very honored by that.

00:34:51 They've been trying to get that for 54 years and

00:34:53 they didn't get it, but I got it.

00:34:55 And we had to get it through Congress, too.

00:34:57 Thank you.

00:34:57 (applause)

00:34:58 And that had to go through Congress.

00:35:00 You know, much of it you hear about all these

00:35:02 executive orders, but a lot of the stuff to get it

00:35:04 done and get it done right has to go through

00:35:06 Congress.

00:35:06 And we got that through Congress.

00:35:08 It was a great victory.

00:35:10 And victories cannot come soon enough for our

00:35:13 country.

00:35:14 As we speak, the last remnants of our open and

00:35:17 broken border are crumbling into rubble as

00:35:19 millions and millions of people storm into the

00:35:22 United States in the largest illegal mass

00:35:25 migration in the history of the world.

00:35:26 There's never been a country in the world -- a

00:35:29 third-world country, Banana Republic -- there's

00:35:33 never been anything like what you're watching on

00:35:36 television.

00:35:37 And they pretend like they've got it under

00:35:41 control.

00:35:42 Last month, they set a record -- hundreds of

00:35:44 thousands of people, bigger than practically

00:35:47 any city in your great state.

00:35:49 I think bigger just about than any city came in

00:35:52 just last month.

00:35:53 And numbers like nobody's -- and they pretend like

00:35:55 it's under control.

00:35:58 It's not under control.

00:35:58 It's totally out of control.

00:36:01 And part of the reason they want them to come in

00:36:02 is, in my opinion -- because, look, they're

00:36:05 not stupid.

00:36:06 Anybody that can cheat on an election like that is

00:36:08 not stupid, okay?

00:36:09 Because their professionals are cheating.

00:36:11 But anybody that can cheat like that, they're not

00:36:13 stupid people.

00:36:15 So there's two things, and then a third.

00:36:18 Number one, they're stupid.

00:36:21 Number two -- right?

00:36:23 Number two, they hate our country.

00:36:26 And number three, they want those people to vote.

00:36:28 And that's a bad one.

00:36:30 That's the one that scares us most.

00:36:32 And I'm telling you, they're signing people.

00:36:35 That's what they're doing.

00:36:36 And I believe now that that's why they're

00:36:37 allowing these people to come in.

00:36:39 People that don't speak our language, they're

00:36:41 signing them up to vote.

00:36:43 And I believe that's why you're having millions of

00:36:45 people pour into our country.

00:36:47 And it could very well affect the next election.

00:36:50 And I believe that's why they're doing it, because

00:36:53 they know what they're doing.

00:36:55 You know, they could do as well in running the

00:36:58 country, in making deals with other countries so

00:37:01 we don't get ripped off every time.

00:37:03 Every deal we have is a horrible deal.

00:37:04 I mean, Europe is laughing at us.

00:37:07 Look at Ukraine.

00:37:08 We're in for $200 billion.

00:37:10 Europe is in for $20 billion.

00:37:12 Why?

00:37:13 And Europe is a very similar size when you add

00:37:14 up the countries.

00:37:15 Very similar economy.

00:37:17 So they're in for $20 and we're in for $200.

00:37:19 When I was doing NAFTA, I went, I said, "You know,

00:37:23 the NAFTA deal is so unfair.

00:37:24 But NATO -- you take a look at NATO, every deal

00:37:27 is horrible."

00:37:28 I haven't seen any deals that are like good deals.

00:37:30 So we renegotiated with South Korea, with Japan,

00:37:33 with Abe, who was so great.

00:37:35 But, you know, what happened to Abe?

00:37:36 It was horrible.

00:37:37 He was a great, great gentleman, great man.

00:37:40 But we renegotiated the Japanese deal for the

00:37:42 farmers and for manufacturers, and it

00:37:44 worked out to be really good.

00:37:47 We started off with a horrible base because the

00:37:49 deal was so -- it was so one-sided.

00:37:51 You know, they sell millions of cars, and we

00:37:53 -- I said, "Shinzo, let me ask you a question.

00:37:56 How many cars are we selling in the middle of

00:37:58 Tokyo?

00:37:59 How many Chevrolets are we selling in the middle of

00:38:00 Tokyo?"

00:38:01 "I don't believe any."

00:38:02 "That's right.

00:38:02 We have none."

00:38:03 You know, it was a very one-sided deal.

00:38:05 And we changed it around a lot, especially for the

00:38:09 farmers, frankly.

00:38:10 Especially for the farmers.

00:38:12 But we changed -- we changed all of these

00:38:14 things around.

00:38:15 And we were -- we were rocking and rolling.

00:38:17 If you look back 10 years, if you look back

00:38:21 five years, you'd see that there was a statistic

00:38:24 that was scary.

00:38:24 China was going to overtake us in 2018 or

00:38:28 2019.

00:38:30 And we were hitting it so good.

00:38:33 And we picked up so much.

00:38:34 We left them in the dust.

00:38:36 We left them in the dust.

00:38:37 They never even came close.

00:38:39 And I always say, if we have a smart President,

00:38:41 that will never happen.

00:38:42 But now we're giving it all back to China, what

00:38:45 we're doing.

00:38:46 And, you know, he wants to end the tariffs.

00:38:47 These tariffs are bringing in billions of dollars

00:38:49 that I put on China.

00:38:50 No President has ever given -- no President has

00:38:53 ever gotten 10 cents -- not 10 cents -- and he

00:38:55 wants to give it back.

00:38:57 So far, he hasn't been able to because it's so

00:38:59 much money that he hasn't been able to pull it off.

00:39:02 But he would like to give it back, the tariffs.

00:39:04 And if they do that, if they do give that back,

00:39:06 China will literally take over this country

00:39:08 economically.

00:39:09 It's a -- it'll be a horrible thing.

00:39:11 But, you know, putting those tariffs on was not

00:39:13 the easiest thing to do.

00:39:14 But they paid us hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:39:17 And as I say, I always say proudly, and my people

00:39:19 say, "Please don't take Iowa for granted.

00:39:22 Don't take our -- sir, please don't take -- you

00:39:25 can't --" because I always say, "How the hell do I

00:39:28 lose Iowa?

00:39:29 I got the farmers of this country.

00:39:31 Twenty-eight billion dollars.

00:39:32 How the hell do I --" (applause)

00:39:33 And they're always saying -- right?

00:39:37 But they're always saying, "Sir, please don't" -- I

00:39:39 said, "I'll take my chances.

00:39:42 Nobody else."

00:39:42 Look, Ron DeSanctimonio was against the farmers,

00:39:46 and he was against ethanol.

00:39:48 Nikki is against farmers.

00:39:51 She wanted to decimate Social Security.

00:39:54 So did he, by the way.

00:39:54 He wanted to move the age up to 70.

00:39:56 She wanted to go higher than that.

00:39:58 I mean -- and these people -- one thing about a

00:39:59 politician -- because I dealt on the other side of

00:40:01 politics a lot, too.

00:40:03 One thing about a -- they always go back to what

00:40:05 they originally had.

00:40:06 That's their -- that's their inclination.

00:40:09 They always go back to what they -- where they

00:40:11 originally were.

00:40:13 But I was for all of your things, and I was for your

00:40:15 ethanol.

00:40:16 And ethanol -- let me tell you, it's always a battle

00:40:18 with ethanol.

00:40:19 It's not easy.

00:40:20 But I saved ethanol, and they will get rid of it

00:40:23 immediately.

00:40:24 They're going to get rid of it immediately, I can

00:40:26 tell you that.

00:40:26 Despite -- even though, all of a sudden, they

00:40:28 become ethanol people.

00:40:29 You know, this industry is going to give Ron a

00:40:31 little party.

00:40:32 Like, 12 people are going to show up because of his

00:40:34 stance on ethanol.

00:40:35 Tell him to go back a year and a half and take a

00:40:37 look at his stance -- his real stance.

00:40:39 A record 300,000 illegal aliens were detected

00:40:42 crossing the border in December alone.

00:40:44 That's the largest number in history.

00:40:47 That's the biggest number in history.

00:40:49 And under the Trump administration, we had the

00:40:52 most secure border in the United States in U.S.

00:40:55 history three years ago.

00:40:57 (Applause.)

00:40:58 So you went from the most secure border -- with, by

00:41:01 the way, the least number of drugs pouring into our

00:41:04 country in 22 years, okay?

00:41:06 And that's not acceptable.

00:41:07 Look, the way -- if you want to stop the drug

00:41:11 epidemic into our country, which is killing, in my

00:41:13 opinion, 250,000, 300,000 people -- they always say

00:41:16 100,000; it's not 100,000; it's much more

00:41:17 than that -- you know what to do, right?

00:41:20 You know what to do?

00:41:21 (Applause.)

00:41:22 He says, "Vote for Trump."

00:41:26 Well, that's another way of saying, "Yeah, you could

00:41:27 say --" That's very good.

00:41:29 I like that.

00:41:29 No.

00:41:30 The death penalty for drug dealers.

00:41:32 If you do the death penalty, you stop it.

00:41:34 You know, a drug dealer, on average, will kill 500

00:41:38 people during his or her lifetime, right?

00:41:41 Five hundred people.

00:41:41 When you think of it, that's really bad news.

00:41:44 But, on average, will kill 500 people during his or

00:41:47 her lifetime.

00:41:49 And when I went to China and I saw President Xi, I

00:41:52 said, "Do you have a problem with drugs?"

00:41:53 "No, no, no, we do not."

00:41:55 "Oh, why?"

00:41:56 "Quick trial."

00:41:57 "Quick trial."

00:41:58 I knew what "quick trial" meant, right?

00:42:00 "Quick trial."

00:42:01 Unlike our trials that last, you know, 400 years,

00:42:03 except if I'm being tried.

00:42:04 If I'm being tried, they go quickly.

00:42:06 They set records.

00:42:08 If I'm being tried for bullshit, they go fast.

00:42:10 (Applause.)

00:42:12 Mine -- I'm setting records.

00:42:14 They've never seen -- in Washington, D.C., they've

00:42:16 never seen speed like that.

00:42:18 Other guys, they'd be in court for seven years.

00:42:20 Mine gets done in, like, two months.

00:42:22 It's -- nobody's ever seen -- what a -- what a two-

00:42:25 tiered system of justice we have in this country.

00:42:27 It's horrible.

00:42:28 It's horrible.

00:42:30 But if you want to solve the drug problem, that's

00:42:33 what you do.

00:42:34 I said, "You have -- no, we don't have any."

00:42:35 They used to have a fantastic problem.

00:42:37 They used to have a tremendous problem with

00:42:39 drugs.

00:42:40 It ruined the country, actually.

00:42:41 Japan took over China.

00:42:43 A smaller nation took over China because they had --

00:42:45 the opium fields, they had -- they had drugs,

00:42:47 tremendous drugs, and -- amount of drugs.

00:42:50 And now they don't have drugs.

00:42:52 And it's -- they do it because if they -- they

00:42:55 say, "If you get caught selling drugs, you get the

00:42:57 death penalty."

00:42:58 And you go quickly.

00:42:59 It's a quick trial.

00:43:01 And everyone said, "Well, let's get the hell out of

00:43:02 here."

00:43:03 The drug dealers said, "Darling, I think we're

00:43:05 going to head to the United States.

00:43:07 Let's sell them in the United States."

00:43:08 So, that's the way.

00:43:09 But I'm not sure this country is ready for it.

00:43:11 They should be ready for it because they're

00:43:13 destroying our country.

00:43:14 They're ruining families.

00:43:16 Many people in this room, I'm sure, have been

00:43:18 greatly affected by drug-addicted kids who

00:43:20 would have never -- that would have never happened

00:43:22 if you -- if you didn't have these drugs pouring

00:43:24 in, usually mostly over the southern border.

00:43:27 But we had it down to a record low for about 25

00:43:30 years, just in what we were doing.

00:43:32 We built 561 miles of border wall.

00:43:35 You know, I always get a kick out of this because

00:43:37 they say, "Oh, you only built 59 miles."

00:43:41 No, no.

00:43:41 If there's a piece of 2-by-4 laying on the

00:43:43 ground that's 40 years old and rotted, but it used

00:43:47 to be like to stop a bicycle from coming --

00:43:49 whatever.

00:43:50 If there's a little piece of steel laying there and

00:43:52 it hasn't been painted in 100 years -- it used to be

00:43:55 there many, many years ago -- laying just on the

00:43:57 ground, flat, nothing else.

00:43:59 They consider that a renovation when you build

00:44:01 a big, monster wall.

00:44:03 So they say, "No, no, he only built 58 miles."

00:44:06 No, no.

00:44:07 We built 561 miles of wall.

00:44:09 And that's why we had the safest border.

00:44:10 That, and in all fairness, Mexico giving us 28,000

00:44:16 soldiers -- worth billions of dollars, by the way.

00:44:19 Twenty-eight thousand soldiers.

00:44:20 I went to the President.

00:44:21 I said, "You have to give us 28,000 soldiers for

00:44:24 the border."

00:44:25 "No, no, no.

00:44:25 We won't do that."

00:44:27 The head of the State Department, who was very

00:44:29 much involved with Mexico, said, "You'll never

00:44:32 get it, sir.

00:44:33 We've been trying to get that for years.

00:44:35 You'll never get it."

00:44:36 I said, "No, we'll get it, 100 percent.

00:44:37 And we'll also get remain in Mexico, and we'll also

00:44:40 get catch and release."

00:44:42 You know what catch and release -- they catch them

00:44:43 and release them in our country.

00:44:44 Well, we got catch and release.

00:44:46 We release them in Mexico.

00:44:47 We catch them and we release them in Mexico.

00:44:49 (Applause.)

00:44:49 And we got nine other things that were just as bad.

00:44:53 We got nine other things.

00:44:54 You know, your medical component -- if you're

00:44:56 very sick, you don't come into our country.

00:44:57 I'm sorry.

00:44:58 You can't come in.

00:44:59 You know, we don't want people catching various

00:45:01 diseases that were very prevalent and are

00:45:04 prevalent right now.

00:45:05 So we did a great job.

00:45:07 But they said, "That won't happen."

00:45:08 And the Chief Representative -- a very

00:45:10 handsome guy, good-looking guy -- came in to see me,

00:45:14 representing the President of Mexico, who happens to

00:45:16 be a great guy.

00:45:16 He's a socialist, but you can't help -- can't have

00:45:18 everything, right?

00:45:19 But he's a great guy, actually.

00:45:21 He was a friend of mine.

00:45:22 But I said, "You have to do this."

00:45:23 But he came over, and I said, "Here's what we're

00:45:25 going to need."

00:45:26 I told the person representing -- you know,

00:45:29 dealing with Mexico from the State Department.

00:45:31 I said, "Here's what you have to do.

00:45:33 Give me your top 10 things."

00:45:34 Then I went to Border Patrol -- Brandon Judd.

00:45:37 I went to Tom Holman.

00:45:38 Great.

00:45:38 These are great people, by the way.

00:45:40 And I said, "Give me your top 10 things that you

00:45:41 need."

00:45:42 "Sir, they'll never do it."

00:45:43 Took you 100 percent.

00:45:45 The person in the State Department -- a woman who

00:45:46 was really very good, but she never won a battle

00:45:49 with Mexico because they wouldn't do anything,

00:45:50 right?

00:45:51 Because they -- you know, they don't listen to our

00:45:54 people.

00:45:54 So I said, "No, they'll do everything.

00:45:55 Give me the top 10."

00:45:56 So I took the top 10 things from everybody.

00:45:58 Add them up.

00:45:59 We took the top 10 things.

00:46:01 All tough to get.

00:46:02 Like, remain in Mexico is tough, right?

00:46:03 You know, you don't remain here, you remain -- you

00:46:06 got to take a look at Tijuana.

00:46:08 Until Biden came in, he just let everybody flow

00:46:10 right into the country.

00:46:11 So it's so crazy.

00:46:12 It's so crazy.

00:46:14 But I said, "No, we'll get them."

00:46:15 So he comes in.

00:46:15 I said, "Listen, we need 28,000 soldiers free of

00:46:18 charge."

00:46:18 "No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:46:20 We're not doing that."

00:46:22 He looked at me like I was crazy.

00:46:23 I said, "No, you're going to do that.

00:46:24 100 percent."

00:46:25 He goes -- I said, "We're going to need -- remain

00:46:29 in Mexico."

00:46:29 In other words, everybody has to remain in Mexico.

00:46:31 They can't come into the United States.

00:46:33 You got to remain in your country.

00:46:35 And then if we want them, we'll take them.

00:46:36 And if we don't want them, they'll go back to their

00:46:38 other country.

00:46:39 "No, no, no, no.

00:46:39 We won't do that."

00:46:40 Then I said, "Catch and release.

00:46:42 We're going to catch them.

00:46:42 We're going to release them in your country."

00:46:44 "No, no, no."

00:46:45 I said, "No, you'll do it."

00:46:46 "No, you will."

00:46:47 "No, sir, you don't understand me.

00:46:49 I will not do that.

00:46:50 I will not."

00:46:51 I said, "No, no."

00:46:53 "Okay, you ready?"

00:46:54 "A hundred percent, you're going to do it."

00:46:56 He didn't know what was going on.

00:46:57 He didn't understand it.

00:46:58 He said, "I won't do it."

00:46:59 I said, "You're going to do it."

00:47:00 And here's the story.

00:47:02 If you don't do it, I have legislation in front of me

00:47:05 that I have the right to sign.

00:47:07 I'm going to tax all of the cars that you stole

00:47:10 from our country when you manufactured them.

00:47:12 You know, they stole 32 percent of the

00:47:14 manufacturing ability of the United States over the

00:47:16 years -- not through me, before me.

00:47:19 Every car coming across and every product coming

00:47:21 across from Mexico into the United States is going

00:47:24 to have a tariff of 25 percent on it.

00:47:28 And that's more money than all of this stuff

00:47:30 that we're talking about put together.

00:47:31 (Applause.)

00:47:33 And he said -- he's going like this.

00:47:36 (Laughter.)

00:47:37 He can't breathe, you know?

00:47:40 It's like a little choke -- a little choke going on.

00:47:43 But he said, "May I have a few minutes to make a

00:47:46 phone call?"

00:47:47 I said, "Let me guess, you're calling the

00:47:48 President, right?

00:47:50 Give him my regards, but try and be back within

00:47:52 five minutes."

00:47:52 He comes back within five minutes.

00:47:54 He said, "Sir, it would be a great honor to supply

00:47:56 you with 28,000 soldiers."

00:47:58 (Applause.)

00:47:58 "It would be a great honor to have all these

00:48:03 people, including the criminals, remain in Mexico.

00:48:06 We would love to have that.

00:48:07 That's just what we want.

00:48:08 That's just what we need."

00:48:09 He gave me every single thing.

00:48:11 And that person in the State Department -- a

00:48:13 really nice woman, but she wasn't much of a

00:48:15 negotiator, frankly -- she said, "I've never seen

00:48:18 anything like it.

00:48:19 I've been here for 25 years.

00:48:20 I've never seen anything like it."

00:48:21 I got every single thing.

00:48:22 Then, when Biden came in, he gave away almost all of it.

00:48:25 Right?

00:48:25 Gave away all of it.

00:48:26 It's -- it's crazy.

00:48:28 And Ron DeSantimonio's and Nikki Haley and all the

00:48:31 rest of the PAC will never do what it takes to

00:48:34 secure the border.

00:48:35 They'll never do what it takes to make our country

00:48:37 great again.

00:48:37 They're never going to do it.

00:48:38 I know them.

00:48:39 I know them all very well.

00:48:40 They don't have what it takes.

00:48:42 Nikki Haley has been in the pocket of the open

00:48:44 borders establishment donors her entire career.

00:48:47 And she's a globalist, you know.

00:48:49 She likes the globe.

00:48:51 I like America first.

00:48:53 The people in this room like America first.

00:48:56 (applause)

00:48:58 And Nikki Haley's campaign is being funded by Biden

00:49:02 donors.

00:49:02 Did you know that?

00:49:03 Biden donors.

00:49:04 Because they're trying to get her, like, in

00:49:06 particular -- here, we're doing so well.

00:49:07 I think they've sort of given up.

00:49:09 Do you notice?

00:49:09 They're sort of, like, out of here.

00:49:11 But in New Hampshire, they have a lot of Biden

00:49:15 donors and contributors.

00:49:16 They're putting money into her campaign.

00:49:18 That tells you -- that should be enough to stop

00:49:20 her right there.

00:49:21 Well, she stopped.

00:49:22 Hey, listen, they had a poll -- last week, it was

00:49:24 a classic -- just to show you how fake the media is.

00:49:27 So, the headline was, "Haley Surges." I said,

00:49:31 "Uh-oh, this is bad.

00:49:32 I better read this little thing." So, I went up

00:49:35 seven points to 74.

00:49:38 Okay?

00:49:39 I went up seven.

00:49:40 She went up two points, and Rhonda Sanctimonious

00:49:43 went down one.

00:49:45 So, instead of being down two points, she was even

00:49:47 with Rhonda Sanctimonious now.

00:49:49 So, the headline -- and she was at 10, and he was

00:49:52 at 10 -- either 10 or 11.

00:49:55 I was at 72 or 74, and the headline was, "Haley

00:49:59 Surges." That's because it's fake.

00:50:05 The media is fake.

00:50:06 So, anyway, we like these little quips.

00:50:08 You think they're under teleprompter?

00:50:10 You think Biden could tell you stories like that?

00:50:12 He'd get lost.

00:50:14 Can't find his way off the stage.

00:50:17 Now, think of it.

00:50:18 You think he ever goes off teleprompter?

00:50:19 He's no good when he's reading the teleprompter.

00:50:22 He read it today; he got all confused.

00:50:24 He didn't know where the hell he was.

00:50:25 He's reading about -- he's saying that, "I'm a

00:50:27 threat to democracy." And he had a hard time with it.

00:50:31 She opposed my border wall, Nikki.

00:50:34 She condemned my strong borders policy.

00:50:36 And in 2016, she stabbed the Republican Party in

00:50:39 the back by siding with Barack Hussein Obama

00:50:43 against a thing called the Trump Travel Ban.

00:50:45 We didn't want to have people from countries that

00:50:47 hate us coming into our country.

00:50:49 We don't want our shopping centers blown up, if it's

00:50:52 okay with you.

00:50:52 We don't want our people killed and decimated and

00:50:56 bombed and shot and everything else.

00:50:59 So -- and it passed.

00:51:00 It went through the Supreme Court, and it just passed.

00:51:03 And, you know, we had no terrorism problems in this

00:51:06 country, and the whole world didn't have.

00:51:08 You know, I got to tell you, because he's a great

00:51:09 man.

00:51:10 He's actually a great leader.

00:51:10 He's a very tough man.

00:51:11 He's the toughest man in Europe.

00:51:13 One of the tough -- probably the toughest

00:51:14 leader, maybe, anywhere.

00:51:16 Viktor Orban from Hungary.

00:51:18 Anybody hear of him?

00:51:19 He's tough.

00:51:19 (applause)

00:51:21 But he's a very good man.

00:51:22 But they asked him a question, "What would you

00:51:25 do if you were President Biden?

00:51:28 What would you do?"

00:51:30 What would you do?

00:51:30 Because the whole world is blowing up -- Israel,

00:51:33 Ukraine, and Russia.

00:51:35 The whole Middle East is just -- it's a counter --

00:51:38 it wasn't that way three years ago.

00:51:39 Three years ago, everything was good.

00:51:42 Iran was not going to do anything.

00:51:43 Nobody was.

00:51:44 We're going to get -- we're getting along with

00:51:45 everybody.

00:51:45 They knew.

00:51:47 North Korea is now acting up again, as you know.

00:51:49 Kim Jong Un.

00:51:50 But he liked me.

00:51:51 The press hates when I say that I like him.

00:51:53 He liked me.

00:51:53 They hate it.

00:51:54 They say it's terrible.

00:51:55 And that's not a bad thing.

00:51:55 You know, he's got a lot of nuclear weapons.

00:51:57 It's nice if he likes you a little bit.

00:51:59 He wouldn't return Obama's phone calls.

00:52:01 He didn't want to even meet with him.

00:52:02 But they said, "What would you do?"

00:52:05 And they really said -- I mean, Orban was

00:52:07 incredible.

00:52:08 He said, "What I'd do is I'd resign from office

00:52:11 immediately, and I'd say, 'Bring Trump in here to

00:52:13 run.'" Because when he ran this world, we didn't

00:52:15 have problems with Russia, with Ukraine, with Israel,

00:52:18 with Iran, with China.

00:52:21 We didn't have problems with anybody.

00:52:22 They feared him.

00:52:24 Now, he said they feared him.

00:52:25 (applause)

00:52:27 You know?

00:52:27 He said they feared him.

00:52:29 I don't want to say that.

00:52:31 That's him saying it, because I don't want to

00:52:32 say they feared me.

00:52:33 But they respected me, and they respected our

00:52:35 country.

00:52:36 And they feared our country.

00:52:37 But he said they feared him and they weren't going

00:52:39 to mess around.

00:52:40 But still, we didn't have problems with anything.

00:52:42 And we didn't have problems at the border.

00:52:44 We had the most secure border we've ever had.

00:52:45 Everything was nice.

00:52:47 And this guy could have gone.

00:52:48 You know, he likes going to the beach.

00:52:49 Somebody on his campaign said, "You look great in a

00:52:51 bathing suit."

00:52:53 Now, when you know -- what is he, 82 or 81?

00:52:56 Look, there are -- look, I'm not that far behind,

00:53:00 but I'm 100 percent up here.

00:53:01 I feel I'm better than I was 25 years ago.

00:53:03 (Applause.)

00:53:08 I think I'd know it.

00:53:10 I think I'd know it.

00:53:10 I really -- maybe you'd -- maybe you'd know it, but

00:53:12 you don't want to know it.

00:53:13 You know, that could be also like that.

00:53:14 But I think I'd know it.

00:53:15 You know, when you say, "It's great to be in

00:53:18 Idaho."

00:53:18 Is that where we are?

00:53:19 The worst is when he said, "It's great to be in

00:53:21 Florida."

00:53:22 And he was here.

00:53:23 (Laughter.)

00:53:24 There were no palm trees here.

00:53:25 Did they have palm trees here?

00:53:26 Not too many, right?

00:53:28 No, but I think -- but he said that.

00:53:31 He said, when Trump was President, the whole world

00:53:34 was safe.

00:53:35 There was nobody going to play games.

00:53:38 They feared him.

00:53:38 He said they feared him.

00:53:40 But let's say they respected me, but they

00:53:42 feared our country.

00:53:43 And there were no problems.

00:53:45 And we didn't have any -- we had no problems with

00:53:51 Islamic people that want to come in and blow the

00:53:55 hell out of our cities.

00:53:56 We had nothing.

00:53:57 Now, I didn't want to say that when I was President,

00:53:59 but, you know, we had gotten through three and

00:54:01 a half years.

00:54:02 And I really wanted to say it, but I didn't like the

00:54:06 idea of saying it because, in the next day,

00:54:07 something happens.

00:54:08 I said, "Boy, do we look --" It happened to them.

00:54:11 They would say, "Well, we're doing fairly well."

00:54:12 They weren't doing great, but they were doing

00:54:13 fairly -- then Israel was attacked the following day.

00:54:15 Right?

00:54:16 You saw that.

00:54:17 They said, "Well, we're doing pretty well there,

00:54:18 too, and we've been very nice."

00:54:20 Well, they were so nice that it's the worst

00:54:22 problem that Israel has had, certainly -- probably,

00:54:26 possibly, ever.

00:54:27 We're going to find out pretty soon because it's

00:54:29 moving along rapidly.

00:54:30 And the biggest problem is we have no leadership on

00:54:32 our side.

00:54:33 We have no idea what we're doing.

00:54:34 We have no idea what to ask for.

00:54:37 We have no leadership on our side.

00:54:38 But Viktor Orban -- most respected man, probably

00:54:41 the toughest man in Europe, maybe beyond

00:54:43 Europe -- he made that statement.

00:54:45 I was very honored by that statement because I'm

00:54:47 only about making our country great, saving our

00:54:50 country, and I want to help the world, if

00:54:52 possible.

00:54:53 If possible, we'll help the world.

00:54:55 A lot of it you can do with a phone call.

00:54:57 I mean, I can tell people on a phone.

00:54:58 I can say, "You can't do that.

00:55:00 You can't do that."

00:55:01 I told it to a very nice, good friend of mine, the

00:55:06 head of -- you know, France.

00:55:07 They make nice champagne and wine.

00:55:10 And they were going to tax our companies.

00:55:12 Our companies were going to be taxed very

00:55:15 substantially in France.

00:55:16 They were putting a big tax on American companies.

00:55:19 And I had my people call up and say, "We're not

00:55:21 going to allow that to happen."

00:55:23 And they didn't care.

00:55:24 And my people spent two months -- they're capable

00:55:26 people, but they couldn't do it.

00:55:28 And I said, "Let me do it."

00:55:29 And I spoke to Macron.

00:55:32 Do you know Macron?

00:55:33 He's a nice man.

00:55:34 He's actually a nice man.

00:55:35 But he's for France, you know?

00:55:36 I'm for the USA, and he's from France.

00:55:39 And I said, "Emmanuel, how are you?"

00:55:42 "Oh, Donald, I am fine.

00:55:43 Thank you so much.

00:55:44 It's such an honor to talk to you.

00:55:45 Thank you very much."

00:55:46 You might not like me so much after this call,

00:55:48 however.

00:55:49 "I understand, Emmanuel, that you're going to be

00:55:52 taxing American companies doing business in France."

00:55:55 "Oh, yes, yes, yes.

00:55:56 It's -- that has passed.

00:55:59 I'm so sorry to tell you, but that has passed."

00:56:01 I said, "Well, I don't think it's passed.

00:56:03 I really don't think it's passed.

00:56:04 Or if it has, you can unpass it.

00:56:07 Because if you don't take that tax of American --

00:56:09 you know, I want to protect American companies.

00:56:11 That means you and a lot of people.

00:56:13 Why should they tax American companies?"

00:56:15 (Applause.)

00:56:15 I said, "If you don't take that tax off, I'm going

00:56:18 to tax -- at 100 percent, I'm going to tax every

00:56:21 bottle of champagne and every bottle of wine that

00:56:23 comes into the United States of France."

00:56:25 And I know that's a soft spot for them, right?

00:56:27 That's like a soft spot.

00:56:29 And he goes, "No, no, no, you cannot do that.

00:56:31 That is not fair."

00:56:32 I said, "That's okay.

00:56:32 You got five minutes to tell me yes.

00:56:34 And after that, I'm sorry."

00:56:35 He calls me back in five minutes.

00:56:37 "We have agreed to do that.

00:56:38 We are taking off all of the --" I did that in

00:56:40 about four minutes.

00:56:41 I'll give you -- add it totally up.

00:56:43 My guys were working on it for two and a half

00:56:44 months and getting nowhere.

00:56:46 But you can do a lot of things if you're

00:56:48 President, if you know -- if you know how to do it.

00:56:52 If you know how to do it.

00:56:54 And I still remain friendly.

00:56:55 I mean, you don't have to burn the bridges.

00:56:57 I mean, he respects it.

00:56:58 They respect that more than some dope that

00:57:01 doesn't know what's happening.

00:57:02 You know, they respect you more.

00:57:03 They like -- they almost like you more.

00:57:05 You know, they came out -- all these guys, they

00:57:06 like me.

00:57:08 Boris called.

00:57:10 He wants to come.

00:57:10 They all want to come see me.

00:57:11 They like me.

00:57:12 And yet, there's nobody been tougher, like Russia.

00:57:15 They all say, "Oh, Russia, Russia, Russia."

00:57:18 I ended the Russian pipeline.

00:57:21 It was called Nord Stream 2.

00:57:23 That was the biggest thing they've ever done.

00:57:25 And I ended it.

00:57:27 And Biden, his first day in office, approved it and

00:57:31 let it be built.

00:57:32 And I had it stopped.

00:57:34 And Putin would say, "You know, they say we're

00:57:37 friendly and that you're nice to me.

00:57:38 I'd hate like hell to see if you were not nice to me."

00:57:41 Because think of it.

00:57:42 I ended that.

00:57:43 I had tariffs and I had all sorts of things on

00:57:47 Russian -- Russian citizens.

00:57:48 But I got along with Putin.

00:57:49 That's not a bad thing.

00:57:51 But there's nobody -- he would tell you, "You're

00:57:53 not going to get it."

00:57:54 The historians will someday tell you there's

00:57:55 nobody that's been tougher on Russia.

00:57:58 And Russia would have never, as we said, would

00:58:00 have never, ever in a million years gone into

00:58:03 Ukraine.

00:58:03 That only started when I left.

00:58:04 Once I was out, all of a sudden, they start

00:58:06 forming.

00:58:07 And I thought he was doing it for negotiation

00:58:09 purposes, but -- and they could have had a deal, by

00:58:11 the way.

00:58:12 They could have had -- that could have been a

00:58:13 deal.

00:58:14 That's a deal that would have been easy to make.

00:58:16 And instead of a deal, it's now all those

00:58:19 millions, I think.

00:58:20 I think the numbers are going to be much greater

00:58:21 than you're hearing.

00:58:22 You know, when you see that they knocked down

00:58:24 nine buildings in a city in Ukraine, and two people

00:58:29 were hurt.

00:58:29 No, no, no.

00:58:30 Many people were killed.

00:58:31 Many people were killed.

00:58:32 I think when you see the real numbers, you're going

00:58:34 to see numbers that are shocking how bad they are.

00:58:36 And that's something that would have been easy to

00:58:38 do.

00:58:39 Even without a deal, he wouldn't have done it,

00:58:40 because part of the reason he did it is Biden

00:58:42 let energy prices -- barrels of oil go up so

00:58:45 high that they made a fortune.

00:58:47 So they did it for that because he was making a

00:58:50 -- it went over $100 a barrel.

00:58:52 And at that, he could prosecute a war and make a

00:58:55 fortune.

00:58:56 He's the only guy that ever had a war and made an

00:58:57 absolute fortune.

00:59:00 And it shouldn't have happened.

00:59:01 And this guy is always talking, you know, the

00:59:03 Green New Deal and all this stuff.

00:59:05 But in the meantime, he's allowed a lot of these

00:59:07 countries that, let's say, they're not particularly

00:59:10 friendly to us, to make a fortune because the oil

00:59:12 price went up so high.

00:59:13 It's a shame.

00:59:14 The guy is grossly incompetent.

00:59:17 What's happened is horrible.

00:59:19 Because I had it at $40 a barrel.

00:59:21 At $40 a barrel, he didn't have the money to go in and

00:59:24 fight Ukraine.

00:59:25 At $100 a barrel, the guy is making a fortune.

00:59:29 So, with Biden, he keeps the oil price up, and it's

00:59:32 very high now.

00:59:32 But now he's going to do something artificial to get

00:59:35 it down for the election.

00:59:36 Watch.

00:59:36 But as soon as the election is over, it's going to be

00:59:38 over for you.

00:59:40 You know, he tapped into the strategic reserves

00:59:43 that I had so much to do with bringing it up, and

00:59:46 then took it almost down to the lowest point.

00:59:48 It was down to the lowest point, they say, in

00:59:50 history, because he wanted to keep gas prices low

00:59:53 during -- it wasn't meant for that.

00:59:55 But he wanted to keep gas prices low so that the

00:59:59 election would go and you wouldn't have had to pay,

01:00:01 you know, $9 a gallon.

01:00:03 You'd pay $2.5, $3 a gallon.

01:00:06 It's called artificial pricing.

01:00:08 And he did that.

01:00:09 And as soon as it was over, it went way up.

01:00:12 Now it's still high.

01:00:13 But it's coming down because they're making all

01:00:17 sorts of moves on other countries.

01:00:19 We're getting oil now from Venezuela.

01:00:21 We're getting oil now from Iran.

01:00:23 The people I wouldn't let them buy from -- Iran --

01:00:27 they're now sending us oil.

01:00:28 Can you believe it?

01:00:29 The whole thing is crazy.

01:00:31 Mickey Haley would sell you out, and Ronda

01:00:34 Sanctimonious would sell you out so quickly.

01:00:37 And they're going to all grant amnesty to Biden's

01:00:41 illegal aliens when Biden comes in.

01:00:44 And, sadly, the establishment losers and

01:00:47 sellouts lagging far behind us in the Republican

01:00:50 primary cannot be trusted on taxes, on trade, or on

01:00:53 anything else.

01:00:53 You can't trust them on taxes.

01:00:55 They want to raise your taxes like crazy.

01:00:57 They're globalists, and they always will be, and

01:00:59 they always want to take care of global countries.

01:01:01 And somewhere along the line, they think that's

01:01:03 good for us.

01:01:04 I think they probably believe it.

01:01:05 Or they're crooked, you know.

01:01:07 Some are crooked.

01:01:08 I really believe some are crooked.

01:01:09 But I think some probably believe it.

01:01:11 They can't explain why because it doesn't make

01:01:13 sense.

01:01:14 No, it's about America.

01:01:15 It's about America first.

01:01:17 We have to take care of our own country.

01:01:18 And we can help others, but we have to take care

01:01:20 of our own country.

01:01:21 There's nothing you can do to change these people.

01:01:23 (applause)

01:01:25 They'll betray you just like they betrayed me.

01:01:28 I mean, I told you that the Sanctimonious -- I got

01:01:30 him elected.

01:01:31 He went up like a rocket ship as soon as I pressed

01:01:33 that little button.

01:01:34 Now it's truth.

01:01:35 Truth is the best, right?

01:01:36 But is everybody on truth?

01:01:38 I hope.

01:01:38 Truth is the one.

01:01:40 That's the one.

01:01:41 But at that time, there was no truth.

01:01:43 It was before.

01:01:44 And I tweeted a little statement, and he went up

01:01:48 like a rocket ship.

01:01:49 He went from getting killed -- he was dead; he

01:01:52 was going to leave the race -- to winning the

01:01:55 race, just with one little press of a button.

01:01:57 It's an amazing thing, isn't it?

01:01:59 But there's never been anything like it from,

01:02:01 you know, the standpoint of an endorsement.

01:02:03 So he won.

01:02:04 But Nikki said she would have news conference.

01:02:08 This is a great President.

01:02:10 I will never run against him.

01:02:11 Right?

01:02:11 You've seen that.

01:02:12 Have you seen her clips?

01:02:13 She's got nine of them.

01:02:14 There are a lot more than that, but we don't want to

01:02:16 bore you.

01:02:17 But, no, I will never, ever even consider running

01:02:21 against the President.

01:02:22 He was a great President.

01:02:24 Then, a year and a half later, I've decided to run

01:02:26 for President.

01:02:27 So great.

01:02:28 I don't know.

01:02:29 There's something about a lot of these -- because I

01:02:31 don't consider myself a politician.

01:02:33 I consider myself -- like you, we're workers.

01:02:35 We know how to do things and make money.

01:02:37 (applause)

01:02:40 But, you know -- and if she said she wanted to run,

01:02:42 let her say it up front.

01:02:43 Don't let her just play you around like that for

01:02:46 years and, you know -- "I never run against the

01:02:48 President.

01:02:49 He's so good."

01:02:49 She actually said I was a great President, and I was

01:02:52 a great President.

01:02:52 Look at all the things we did.

01:02:53 (applause)

01:02:54 With -- against -- I love the way they say it.

01:02:57 A lot of people say, "You are."

01:02:59 "You are."

01:03:00 That's sort of cute.

01:03:01 A lot of people don't understand what they mean

01:03:03 by that.

01:03:03 (laughter)

01:03:05 But Iowa does not want politicians like Ron

01:03:08 DeSantis or Nikki Haley, who both support a 23

01:03:13 percent national sales tax, which is a disaster.

01:03:16 You don't want politicians like Ron and Nikki, who

01:03:18 both want to gut Social Security and Medicare and

01:03:22 hurt our seniors.

01:03:23 And, you know, if you look at it, Ron voted three

01:03:25 times to raise the retirement age on Social

01:03:28 Security -- over 70.

01:03:30 And Nikki would take the retirement age to way, way

01:03:35 higher than even the number that Ron is talking

01:03:38 about.

01:03:39 I don't know why they want to do that.

01:03:40 You know, we have so much wealth underground.

01:03:42 We have so much liquid gold, I call it, underground.

01:03:44 You don't need to do this.

01:03:45 You don't have to destroy our senior citizens.

01:03:47 (applause)

01:03:48 When we drill, baby, drill, you're going to --

01:03:49 we're going to make so much money.

01:03:51 We'll be supplying the world.

01:03:53 Unlike DeSantis and Nikki Haley, we'll always

01:03:55 protect Social Security and Medicare for our

01:03:57 seniors.

01:03:58 Just remember that when you have to vote.

01:04:00 We're going to -- although I think -- is there

01:04:01 anybody in this room that's not going to vote

01:04:03 for Trump?

01:04:04 Just out of -- no, don't raise your hand.

01:04:06 It could be dangerous stuff.

01:04:07 (laughter)

01:04:07 They're going to say, "He incited an insurrection."

01:04:10 These stupid bastards.

01:04:13 "He incited an insurrection."

01:04:15 No, but is there -- quietly raise your hand.

01:04:18 Is there anybody here that's not going to vote

01:04:20 for Trump?

01:04:23 That's very nice.

01:04:25 They're actually -- they're upset by even the

01:04:27 question, and they're upset.

01:04:29 They don't even like that question.

01:04:30 Well, I appreciate it.

01:04:31 But on my first day back in the White House, I will

01:04:34 terminate every open borders policy of the

01:04:36 Biden administration.

01:04:37 (applause)

01:04:40 We'll stop the invasion on our southern border and

01:04:43 begin the largest domestic deportation

01:04:45 operation in American history.

01:04:47 We have no choice.

01:04:49 We have no choice.

01:04:50 Not like we have a choice.

01:04:52 I will shift massive portions of federal law

01:04:55 enforcement and all of the people working on

01:04:59 immigration.

01:05:00 You know, they're not even allowed to work.

01:05:01 They sign people up and they -- they're brought

01:05:03 into the inner sanctums of the country and just

01:05:06 leave the border open.

01:05:07 They don't even want the border.

01:05:08 How about where the governor of Texas, who

01:05:10 endorsed me recently -- Governor Abbott, which was

01:05:12 a nice endorsement.

01:05:13 (applause)

01:05:14 He's become much more popular since he endorsed

01:05:16 me, actually.

01:05:18 But he endorsed me.

01:05:19 And they're fighting because the federal

01:05:22 government wants to cut the barbed wire.

01:05:23 You know, the barbed wire.

01:05:24 They call it "razor wire," but it's pretty tough

01:05:26 stuff.

01:05:27 But they have it along the Texas border so that --

01:05:29 because Texas is just being inundated.

01:05:31 What they're doing to Texas and Arizona is just

01:05:34 horrible.

01:05:35 And they're in court now because they're cutting --

01:05:38 did you ever see them?

01:05:38 They're with splicers.

01:05:41 They're cutting.

01:05:42 They're cutting sections.

01:05:43 They want people to come -- they're cutting it.

01:05:45 And the people are waiting to be let into the country.

01:05:48 The whole thing is crazy.

01:05:51 And we're not going to be doing that stuff.

01:05:54 We're going to be -- we're going to be bringing our

01:05:56 country back.

01:05:57 You know, people say, "You're conservative."

01:05:58 It's not a question of -- we're all -- I think

01:06:00 everybody in this room is the same.

01:06:01 We're people of common sense.

01:06:03 Right?

01:06:03 (applause)

01:06:04 We're people of common sense.

01:06:07 Liberal, conservative -- we're people of common sense.

01:06:09 I mean, you got to have borders and you have to

01:06:11 have honest elections.

01:06:12 And everything else is sort of -- almost everything

01:06:15 else is less important.

01:06:16 But you have to have borders if you're going to

01:06:17 have a country.

01:06:18 And you have to have -- you have to have free and

01:06:21 fair elections, which we don't have.

01:06:22 We have these mail-in ballot things where

01:06:25 thousands and hundreds of thousands and areas are

01:06:27 sent out.

01:06:29 And we have no idea where the hell they're going and

01:06:31 where they're coming from.

01:06:32 And many pay -- yeah, they're garbage.

01:06:34 Some of them go into the garbage.

01:06:36 Yeah.

01:06:37 They're -- especially if they're Republicans, they

01:06:38 put them right into the garbage.

01:06:40 No, it's a shame.

01:06:41 You'll never have an honest election with a

01:06:43 mail-in ballot.

01:06:44 Remember that.

01:06:44 You never -- Jimmy Carter said it.

01:06:46 You know, they formed the Carter Commission, and he

01:06:48 was there with a couple of other respected senators

01:06:50 -- older senators.

01:06:51 And they came up, and the big point of their report

01:06:55 was, "Never do mail-in ballots because you'll

01:06:57 never have an honest election."

01:06:58 He said that a long time ago.

01:07:00 And France just went to same-day voting, all-paper

01:07:04 ballots, and voter ID.

01:07:06 And they had 36 million people vote for Macron.

01:07:09 (Applause.)

01:07:10 They voted for Macron, just to bring him back, so

01:07:13 he's not going to be too upset.

01:07:15 No, they voted for Macron.

01:07:16 He won the election.

01:07:17 And by 10 o'clock in the evening, everybody went

01:07:19 home, and they had a real election.

01:07:21 You know, they have watermark paper now, which

01:07:23 is very secure.

01:07:24 They can't really produce it.

01:07:25 You can't copy it.

01:07:27 It's watermark.

01:07:27 Because they'll try and cheat there, too.

01:07:29 But it's the best system there is.

01:07:32 It's really the system that we started with when

01:07:34 you get right down to it.

01:07:35 But it's better because they have -- the paper

01:07:37 technology is incredible, what they can do.

01:07:39 And we'll immediately restore and expand the

01:07:41 Trump travel ban for those countries that are

01:07:45 terror-plagued, and they want to come into our

01:07:47 country and hurt our people.

01:07:48 We're not going to let them come into our country.

01:07:50 (Applause.)

01:07:51 They ended that.

01:07:52 They want everybody to come in.

01:07:54 Come on in, everybody.

01:07:55 Come on in.

01:07:55 Yes, you killed nine people, but we think

01:07:57 you're going to be much better now.

01:07:59 Not one thing has gotten better, if you think about

01:08:02 it, under crooked Joe Biden.

01:08:03 The country is a mess.

01:08:05 We're a laughingstock all over the world.

01:08:07 Under the Trump administration, you were

01:08:09 better off.

01:08:09 Your family was better off.

01:08:11 Your neighbors were better off.

01:08:13 Your communities were better off.

01:08:14 And our country was better off.

01:08:15 The whole country was better off.

01:08:17 America was stronger, richer, safer, and more

01:08:19 confident.

01:08:20 And it's not even close.

01:08:22 When I was behind the beautiful Resolute desk at

01:08:26 the Oval Office -- and it is a beauty, I will say

01:08:29 -- it's no wonder the same corrupt forces that have

01:08:31 been fighting us every step of the way are now

01:08:34 breaking every rule and shattering every norm in a

01:08:37 lawless attempt to keep us from defeating them at

01:08:40 the ballot box.

01:08:41 Nobody has ever seen what's happened right now.

01:08:43 And it's a double-edged sword, you know?

01:08:45 It can happen the other way, too.

01:08:46 It's never happened, the weaponization of justice,

01:08:50 like they're doing right now.

01:08:51 The DOJ is very corrupt.

01:08:53 What they're doing is very corrupt.

01:08:54 People aren't going to take it.

01:08:56 Joe Biden is a threat to democracy.

01:08:58 He's weaponizing law enforcement for a

01:09:00 high-level election interference.

01:09:03 It's all about election interference.

01:09:05 And I don't even know if it's him because I think

01:09:07 he's grossly incompetent.

01:09:08 But he's surrounded by people that are fascists

01:09:10 and communists, and they're vicious, and

01:09:12 they're very smart.

01:09:13 For example, as I was landing for this visit, I

01:09:16 was informed that the corrupt New York State

01:09:18 Attorney General, Letitia James -- she's a corrupt

01:09:21 person -- is now -- and New York is going so bad

01:09:25 with the crime, it's like you can't even walk down

01:09:27 to buy a loaf of bread.

01:09:29 Letitia James, a real bad one, is now demanding that

01:09:33 I pay $370 million in penalties where I did

01:09:37 absolutely nothing wrong.

01:09:39 My financial statements -- you've been reading about

01:09:41 it -- are great.

01:09:42 They're great.

01:09:44 The man who did the check of the -- said one of the

01:09:46 best financial statements I've ever seen.

01:09:48 My financial statements are great.

01:09:51 And they're very conservative, just the

01:09:52 exact opposite of what the highly political and

01:09:56 totally corrupt New York State Attorney General was

01:09:58 trying to say before she got to see my statements.

01:10:01 She ran for office on a "I will get Trump" -- did you

01:10:04 ever see her?

01:10:05 "I will get Trump.

01:10:06 I will get him.

01:10:07 I'm going to get him.

01:10:08 I'm going to kill him.

01:10:09 I'm going to get Trump."

01:10:11 If a Republican ever said that, that have him put in

01:10:14 jail for insurrection.

01:10:17 She and the judge fraudulently valued

01:10:19 Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, which is

01:10:21 probably the greatest home in America by far, at

01:10:24 $18 million.

01:10:25 That sounds like a lot, but it's not.

01:10:28 Because it was good for their narrative, doing

01:10:31 that, when -- and it was fraudulent for them to do

01:10:34 that -- when, in fact, it's worth 50 to 100 times

01:10:37 that amount.

01:10:39 We had people come in -- a billion dollars, a billion

01:10:41 five, whatever.

01:10:43 But it's a very valuable property.

01:10:44 But they said -- the judge said it was $18 million.

01:10:48 I had people call up, "I'll take five."

01:10:51 They never used the New York State statute.

01:10:54 They have a statute that they use.

01:10:55 It's vicious.

01:10:56 Vicious.

01:10:58 They never used the statute for this before.

01:11:00 I was not allowed a jury.

01:11:02 I had no jury.

01:11:04 It's up to a judge who comes out of the clubhouses

01:11:06 of New York.

01:11:07 Think of that.

01:11:08 How would you like to be in that position?

01:11:10 There was no victim because the banks made a

01:11:13 lot of money.

01:11:14 Good.

01:11:15 Great loans.

01:11:16 The banks testified.

01:11:16 In particular, one bank testified.

01:11:19 Great.

01:11:20 Everything was great.

01:11:21 There was no default.

01:11:21 There was no damages.

01:11:22 There was no nothing.

01:11:23 Only a very happy bank that got 100 percent of

01:11:27 its money back.

01:11:28 And in addition to getting its money back,

01:11:30 made tremendous profits.

01:11:33 This case should never have been brought.

01:11:35 It should be in the commercial division.

01:11:38 The rigged judge would not let it go.

01:11:40 He wouldn't allow it to leave his side.

01:11:42 He took it, and usually it gets sent in because of

01:11:45 its complexity -- although it wasn't complex

01:11:47 because it turned out to be very simple.

01:11:50 The statement is phenomenal.

01:11:52 He said the best statement he's ever seen.

01:11:54 And it should have never been allowed to be

01:11:59 presented to this judge.

01:12:00 It should have gone into the commercial division,

01:12:02 like all other cases like this.

01:12:04 But he kept it.

01:12:05 And he's a radical Trump hater.

01:12:06 He hates Trump, like, with a passion, I guess.

01:12:08 I don't know what it is.

01:12:09 He has a passion for hating Trump.

01:12:12 And I should have never been gagged.

01:12:14 They had a gag order.

01:12:15 They wouldn't let me talk.

01:12:16 I can't talk about certain very important

01:12:19 things -- much more important than people

01:12:20 understand.

01:12:21 The judge ruled that I was guilty before he even

01:12:24 started the case.

01:12:25 In fact, I got a call, "Sir, you've been found

01:12:27 guilty." I said, "No, the case starts in two weeks.

01:12:29 I know, but he found you guilty before the case

01:12:31 starts." Other than that, it was an extremely fair

01:12:35 case.

01:12:36 Now the corrupt AG just announced a little while

01:12:39 before I walked into the doors.

01:12:42 So, if you don't mind, I was a little bit angry

01:12:46 when I walked in.

01:12:48 Did you notice the anger?

01:12:49 Maybe not.

01:12:50 But the corrupt AG wants $370 million as a fee for

01:12:55 what I did, and I did nothing wrong.

01:13:00 Nothing.

01:13:01 $370 million, which is much more than any loan.

01:13:04 Much more.

01:13:04 That was peanuts.

01:13:06 This is weaponization at a level that nobody has ever

01:13:08 seen.

01:13:09 So, violence is out of control.

01:13:12 People are fleeing New York.

01:13:14 Businesses are fleeing New York.

01:13:17 Car thefts are up 191 percent in New York.

01:13:21 A hundred and ninety-one percent.

01:13:23 They should pay me.

01:13:24 But it's prosecutorial misconduct, and it's a

01:13:28 DOJ witch hunt because it's in total coordination

01:13:31 with Biden's deal.

01:13:33 So, they're charging me a $370 million fine for

01:13:37 making a very small loan that the bank wanted to

01:13:39 make, because that's what they do.

01:13:41 They loan money, and they love my statement.

01:13:42 They're like me.

01:13:44 But I borrowed the money for that reason.

01:13:46 The bank wanted me to -- but, you know, they are

01:13:48 in the business of loaning money.

01:13:49 That's how they make money.

01:13:51 And it was a great loan for them.

01:13:52 They got all their money.

01:13:53 They actually testified.

01:13:54 There was no default during the term of the

01:13:57 loan.

01:13:57 I actually paid the loan back early.

01:13:58 It was a great loan.

01:13:59 I'm very under-leveraged.

01:14:00 We have great cash, great everything.

01:14:02 We built a great company.

01:14:04 And these fascists, what they're doing to our

01:14:08 country is just unbelievable.

01:14:10 So, I did nothing wrong.

01:14:12 It was -- in every way, it was like a perfect --

01:14:15 the bank was so happy.

01:14:16 They testified.

01:14:18 No, everything was good.

01:14:20 Same thing with every other thing.

01:14:21 They were looking at things.

01:14:23 Three hundred and seventy million for doing nothing

01:14:26 wrong.

01:14:27 I took a loan.

01:14:28 I paid the loan back, and they charged me $370

01:14:30 million, which I guess is more than two times the

01:14:33 loan, something like that.

01:14:35 But as a very intelligent person just stated on

01:14:38 truth, New York AG Letitia James has decided to

01:14:42 increase the amount she wants from Donald Trump

01:14:45 in civil trial.

01:14:46 Initially, she requested $250 million, and he did

01:14:49 nothing wrong.

01:14:50 He did nothing wrong.

01:14:52 They only want to hurt us because they don't want us

01:14:55 running for office, because we're leading

01:14:57 Biden, Crooked Joe, by a lot.

01:14:59 And this is all this is.

01:15:00 This is a terrible intrusion into politics

01:15:04 and into our way of life.

01:15:06 But now she wants $370 million, and she wants it

01:15:12 fast, and it's a disgrace.

01:15:15 I've never seen anything like it.

01:15:16 I hope everyone can see this for what it really is.

01:15:20 This is the gentleman writing.

01:15:22 He goes -- he goes, "This is nothing more than a

01:15:24 shakedown of a leading candidate of her opposing

01:15:28 political party."

01:15:28 She thinks she's going to make hay with Washington.

01:15:31 But this is a coordination with the DOJ.

01:15:33 The DOJ is doing this case with them.

01:15:35 In fact, they moved one of the top political

01:15:38 operatives from the DOJ in Washington into the DA's

01:15:41 office and into, also, the Attorney General's office.

01:15:45 How would you like to be me?

01:15:46 You think my life is a lot of fun?

01:15:48 Our founding fathers would be turning in their graves

01:15:51 if they could see this.

01:15:52 No American should be okay with a political party

01:15:54 being weaponized against their enemies.

01:15:57 This is not democracy, he says.

01:15:59 This is not constitutional.

01:16:02 This is wrong in every aspect.

01:16:03 And the judge and the AG should be arrested and

01:16:06 punished accordingly.

01:16:08 And how much longer can we allow this to happen or

01:16:11 in our country?

01:16:12 And all of this is being done because we're beating

01:16:15 them so badly at the polls.

01:16:17 In the new morning consult poll, we're trouncing the

01:16:22 Republican primary field with Trump at 66,

01:16:25 DeSantimonious at 11, and Haley at 11.

01:16:29 That's not bad.

01:16:29 (applause)

01:16:30 You know, we're beating DeSantis in Florida.

01:16:35 Poll just came out.

01:16:36 I'm at 88.

01:16:37 He's at, like, 11.

01:16:39 Because the people got wise to him.

01:16:42 I think he screwed up his career pretty good, I'll

01:16:44 tell you.

01:16:44 But he deserves it.

01:16:45 We're also leading big here in Iowa.

01:16:47 But, again, take nothing for granted.

01:16:50 We had the Des Moines Register come out with a

01:16:53 great poll recently.

01:16:54 They've never been really nice to me.

01:16:55 They've always -- I've always been leading, but

01:16:57 I'd end up doing better.

01:17:01 But they were respectful.

01:17:02 Actually, it's a very professional pollster, the

01:17:05 Des Moines Register.

01:17:08 But it's amazing.

01:17:08 I mean, the numbers have just been amazing in Iowa.

01:17:11 The numbers are amazing in New Hampshire.

01:17:13 But, you know, polls are a little bit like -- they're

01:17:15 a little bit like the media.

01:17:17 They have polls that lie.

01:17:18 They had one poll in New Hampshire where I was only

01:17:20 leading by six or seven points.

01:17:22 You know, normally you'd be happy, but we're leading

01:17:24 by maybe 30 points or something.

01:17:27 But that caused a big stir.

01:17:28 You know, everybody said, "Oh, Nikki is doing great."

01:17:31 But, you know, it's a crooked poll.

01:17:33 In the general election, we're crushing crooked

01:17:35 Joe Biden by historic margins.

01:17:37 In Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia,

01:17:40 North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, and every other

01:17:43 swing state, if there are any.

01:17:47 The radical-left Democrats rigged the presidential

01:17:50 election in 2020, and we're not going to allow

01:17:53 them to rig the presidential election in 2024.

01:17:58 Not going to allow it to happen.

01:18:05 (Applause.)

01:18:08 A little hot.

01:18:08 You know, this room wasn't designed exactly

01:18:11 for this, but it -- I'm sitting up here, so I have

01:18:13 200 degrees in this damn room.

01:18:15 I'm trying to be cool, but if you don't mind, I'm

01:18:18 going to just do this a little bit.

01:18:22 Every time the radical-left Democrats, Marxists,

01:18:25 communists, and fascists indict me, I consider it a

01:18:27 great badge of honor.

01:18:28 I'm being -- and it's true.

01:18:30 It's true.

01:18:31 I'm being indicted for you.

01:18:32 I'm being indicted for you.

01:18:33 Never forget, our enemies want to take away my

01:18:36 freedom because I will never let them take away

01:18:39 your freedom.

01:18:40 I'm not going to let it happen.

01:18:44 (Applause.)

01:18:45 They want to silence me because I will never let

01:18:47 them silence you.

01:18:49 And in the end, they're not after me; they're after

01:18:51 you.

01:18:52 And I just happen to be standing in their way.

01:18:54 (Applause.)

01:18:58 But this is big stuff.

01:18:59 This is far more than a campaign.

01:19:01 This is the greatest political movement in the

01:19:03 history of our country.

01:19:04 I look around, I see all the MAGA shirts and Trump

01:19:06 and Trump and MAGA, MAGA, MAGA.

01:19:07 (Applause.)

01:19:08 Like that beautiful woman back there with her Trump

01:19:11 sweatshirt.

01:19:11 I like that sweatshirt a lot.

01:19:14 But together, we ended the NAFTA disaster -- the

01:19:16 worst trade deal ever made -- and replaced it

01:19:19 with that great -- greatest trade deal maybe

01:19:22 ever made.

01:19:22 USMCA and all of you are beneficiaries.

01:19:24 You were getting killed for decades with NAFTA.

01:19:27 Now you got -- you know why I know it's good?

01:19:29 Because Mexico and Canada are calling every single

01:19:33 day they want to renegotiate the deal.

01:19:35 They said, "Nope, the deal is no good for them."

01:19:37 That makes me feel good, you know?

01:19:38 Because I'm negotiating for you.

01:19:40 Because with NAFTA, they wouldn't -- they wouldn't

01:19:42 let us negotiate anything.

01:19:44 I took on communist China like no administration in

01:19:46 history, bringing hundreds of billions of dollars

01:19:49 pouring into our Treasury, when no other President

01:19:52 had gotten literally 10 cents from China.

01:19:54 Not one President got a dime from China.

01:19:57 I then gave the farmers of our country $28 billion

01:20:00 straight out of the tariffs I took from

01:20:02 China, a large part of which came to a particular

01:20:06 state known as Iowa.

01:20:07 Have you heard of it?

01:20:09 Have you heard of it?

01:20:11 And just as I promised, I also stood up for Iowa

01:20:15 ethanol, and I stood up under a lot of great odds.

01:20:20 And I did it -- I did it myself.

01:20:22 I didn't have a lot of help, I have to tell you,

01:20:23 from some of your -- from some of your people.

01:20:26 I didn't have a lot of help.

01:20:28 I issued a historic rule declaring that E15 would

01:20:30 be made available all year round -- right?

01:20:32 -- instead of the eight months, and letting them

01:20:35 use the existing pumps, which saved hundreds of

01:20:37 millions of dollars and created a lot of jobs that

01:20:40 otherwise wouldn't have been created.

01:20:42 I said, "What's better, the older equipment or the new?"

01:20:44 And I'm not surprised they -- I hear it all the time.

01:20:46 "Well, the older pumps are much better.

01:20:48 They're much stronger.

01:20:49 They're made much better."

01:20:50 I said, "Let's leave them."

01:20:51 Right?

01:20:51 "Let's leave them."

01:20:52 They're actually saying it's better.

01:20:54 Ron DeSantis spent his entire career as a raging

01:20:57 opponent of ethanol.

01:20:58 He will destroy ethanol.

01:21:00 I will protect ethanol for four more years than the

01:21:02 White House.

01:21:03 And I think, for Iowa, that's a big thing.

01:21:06 (applause)

01:21:07 Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly

01:21:10 after I win the presidency -- and we win the

01:21:12 presidency because we're going to do it together.

01:21:15 It's "we" more than "I."

01:21:17 I will have the horrible war between Russia and

01:21:19 Ukraine settled -- absolutely settled -- and

01:21:22 we will restore peace through strength all over

01:21:25 our planet.

01:21:26 (applause)

01:21:30 And I'm the only candidate who can make this promise

01:21:33 and mean it.

01:21:34 I will prevent World War III.

01:21:37 You are very close to a world war.

01:21:39 You know, you don't have to be into it too much to

01:21:42 know.

01:21:43 You just have to see what's going on.

01:21:44 You are very close to a world war.

01:21:45 And it would be, most likely, a nuclear war.

01:21:48 And if it's a nuclear war, it's obliteration.

01:21:51 It's a level of power that nobody has ever seen and

01:21:55 that nobody can even express.

01:21:56 And that, frankly, shouldn't even be talked

01:21:58 about.

01:21:58 You know, we wouldn't talk about it in my

01:22:00 administration, and nobody else did either,

01:22:02 outside in other countries.

01:22:04 But we wouldn't talk about it.

01:22:05 Now, every day, they're talking about nuclear,

01:22:06 nuclear, nuclear, nuclear.

01:22:09 It's so devastating.

01:22:10 It just -- don't talk about it.

01:22:11 Don't talk about it.

01:22:12 I will end Biden's inflation nightmare, save

01:22:15 our nation from debt and economic despair.

01:22:19 And we will, right from day one, we're going to

01:22:21 drill, drill, drill, drill, baby, drill.

01:22:25 (Applause.)

01:22:28 Somebody said -- an oilman told me -- and he's a

01:22:31 great guy, a very successful guy -- they

01:22:33 say he looks at a piece of land, he takes a straw.

01:22:37 Now it has to be a paper straw, so maybe it

01:22:39 doesn't work.

01:22:40 (Laughter.)

01:22:40 You know, the paper straws come wrapped in

01:22:42 cellophane.

01:22:43 You ever see this?

01:22:44 I mean, what's going on?

01:22:45 You got paper straws, they're wrapped in

01:22:47 cellophane.

01:22:48 This country has gone wild.

01:22:51 But this man, he's such a great oilman, a really

01:22:54 amazing guy.

01:22:55 He takes a straw and he puts it into the ground

01:22:59 and oil comes out.

01:23:00 The big companies go out, they spend billions

01:23:02 looking for oil.

01:23:03 This guy looks just like this -- just a straw, and

01:23:06 the oil comes out.

01:23:07 Now, we kid when I say that, but he's very good

01:23:10 at finding oil.

01:23:10 He's a fantastic guy.

01:23:11 And we know so much about the industry, and it's

01:23:15 knowing through common sense, knowing through

01:23:17 intelligence, knowing -- you know, that's what's

01:23:19 going to fire up our factories.

01:23:21 Wind is not.

01:23:21 It's intermittent.

01:23:22 It's extremely expensive.

01:23:23 It's 40 times more expensive.

01:23:27 And, you know, we need stuff that's not expensive.

01:23:30 China -- I see this guy, John Kerry, flying in his

01:23:33 private jet to China to talk to them about coal.

01:23:37 Please don't do it.

01:23:37 In the meantime, they're building one coal plant a

01:23:40 week, and it's -- now I understand it's even two.

01:23:42 But talk to them about energy.

01:23:44 Talk to them about coal.

01:23:45 And then he leaves.

01:23:45 I think he leaves.

01:23:46 Oh, we had great conversations.

01:23:48 In the meantime, they're building a plant a week.

01:23:51 And, you know, remember this.

01:23:53 The currents -- both sea and air -- they fly right

01:23:56 over our country.

01:23:57 You know that.

01:23:57 The current -- the water comes down the Pacific,

01:24:00 right out of China.

01:24:01 So when they dump their garbage in the Pacific, it

01:24:03 comes right down along our coast on the -- on the

01:24:06 West Coast, past Los Angeles.

01:24:09 And much of it pours onto our land.

01:24:11 But our waters are very dirty because they dump

01:24:14 their garbage in the ocean.

01:24:18 And about -- it's about a four- or five-day journey.

01:24:20 The tides bring it by.

01:24:22 Nobody ever talks about that.

01:24:24 But the same thing with the air.

01:24:25 When the coal spews out of their plant, when the

01:24:28 smokestacks are roaring -- because they're big

01:24:31 industry, and that's what fires up big industry.

01:24:33 We want clean coal.

01:24:35 We want to take care of our miners.

01:24:36 You know, they have clean coal.

01:24:38 They have natural gas.

01:24:39 It's fantastic.

01:24:41 So much less expensive.

01:24:42 They don't want you to use it anymore.

01:24:44 They want you to use things that don't work and

01:24:46 that won't fire up.

01:24:47 But when they fire up their plants and all of

01:24:49 that pollution comes over the seas and it comes

01:24:53 right over our land, and then they want us to have clean.

01:24:56 I say, "Wait a minute.

01:24:57 We're going to be clean, but it's all flying."

01:24:59 Just remember that.

01:25:00 Does that make sense?

01:25:01 In other words, it's all coming through the

01:25:03 currents, through the air.

01:25:04 It all comes.

01:25:05 You can -- they can name it.

01:25:06 They can say exactly where it's going to be and when.

01:25:10 And here we are, you know, working to try and compete

01:25:13 with them, and they're using fossil fuel and

01:25:16 we're supposed to use wind.

01:25:18 Wind.

01:25:19 And, by the way, you know who makes the windmills?

01:25:21 China makes the windmills.

01:25:24 And they say that, if you're a big believer in

01:25:27 this, that the pollution coming from the making of

01:25:30 those massive steel structures is so great

01:25:33 that you can never save on the environment because

01:25:36 it's so great, if you're a believer in that.

01:25:38 But they're made all in Germany and they're made

01:25:40 in -- mostly in China.

01:25:42 We're such fools, you know?

01:25:43 We're such stupid fools.

01:25:45 We had a very interesting time because, in 2016 --

01:25:49 I used to talk about the border because the border

01:25:51 was bad, but nothing like it is today.

01:25:53 But I think I won, maybe, on the border, to a

01:25:55 certain extent.

01:25:57 And I did such a good job that, in 2020, I couldn't

01:25:59 talk about it.

01:26:00 You know, they wouldn't let me talk about it.

01:26:01 My people said -- well, I don't want to say like

01:26:03 Biden.

01:26:04 They said -- you know, where he says, "They

01:26:05 wouldn't let me."

01:26:06 They can -- you're President.

01:26:07 You can do whatever you want.

01:26:08 But my people said, "It's not a good thing to talk

01:26:10 about it because, sir, nobody cares about it."

01:26:12 Because I did such a good job with the border that

01:26:16 they said, "Nobody wants to hear it, sir."

01:26:18 They forgot.

01:26:19 I did such a good job that it was no longer an

01:26:22 issue.

01:26:22 And that's okay.

01:26:23 But now it's so bad.

01:26:25 The border is a very big thing.

01:26:26 I think the border is -- the economy and the border

01:26:28 -- and inflation, which is part of economy.

01:26:31 But it's something we have to talk about.

01:26:33 And if we don't straighten it out -- we're not going

01:26:36 to have a country.

01:26:37 We're not going to have a country.

01:26:38 So I think the number will be more than 15

01:26:40 million by the end of their crazy term.

01:26:43 And if that's the case, that's bigger than New

01:26:44 York State.

01:26:45 And many of these people should not be in our

01:26:47 country.

01:26:48 And day one, I will also cancel crooked Joe Biden's

01:26:51 insane ethanol-killing electric vehicle mandate.

01:26:56 (applause)

01:26:59 I mean, the problem is -- very simple.

01:27:06 You know, a simple statement.

01:27:08 They don't -- they don't go far.

01:27:12 I'd like to make it much more complex.

01:27:13 It sounds like, you know, science.

01:27:15 No, they don't go far.

01:27:16 The batteries are too big.

01:27:18 They're very big, very heavy.

01:27:19 Dangerous.

01:27:20 I just picked up a new point.

01:27:22 In cold weather, they're really bad.

01:27:24 Dangerous in very cold weather.

01:27:26 So you get pretty cold weather up here, I can

01:27:28 tell you from my little 12-foot walk outside of

01:27:30 the car.

01:27:31 (laughter)

01:27:32 But in cold weather -- and, you know, they're

01:27:34 very expensive to make.

01:27:35 And they're all going to be made in China because

01:27:36 they have the materials for that.

01:27:39 They're going to all be made in China.

01:27:40 So the autoworkers are going to be screwed by

01:27:42 this guy.

01:27:44 But, you know, now they want -- you probably heard

01:27:46 also -- they want trucks to be all electric.

01:27:48 And if you take, like a Peterbilt, take the big

01:27:52 18-wheelers, whatever they are, you can go from one

01:27:55 side -- the East Coast to the West Coast -- on one

01:27:58 big, beautiful tank of diesel fuel without a stop.

01:28:03 They can go 2,000 miles.

01:28:05 And we can go -- with electric, they can go, I

01:28:08 think I heard, you'll go, if you're lucky, 300

01:28:12 miles.

01:28:12 So that would mean they'd have to do seven stops.

01:28:15 You talk about a supply chain problem.

01:28:17 And I met with some of the big trucking companies,

01:28:20 and it took me about a minute to understand this

01:28:22 because, you know, it was supposed to be fast

01:28:25 studies if you're President.

01:28:26 We have one that's a very slow study.

01:28:28 But it wouldn't matter because they must know

01:28:30 this.

01:28:30 And they explained -- one man said to me -- a big

01:28:32 guy, one of the biggest guys in the business --

01:28:34 he said, "You know, for 50 years, I've been in the

01:28:37 business, and every year, the trucks got better and

01:28:40 better, faster, stronger, more beautiful.

01:28:44 Every year, they made them better." Even the

01:28:47 quarters behind -- they said, "Tell me about --

01:28:49 what is it like in one of those trucks?" They said,

01:28:51 "Sir, it's like the most beautiful apartment you've

01:28:53 ever --" Do you know what I'm talking about?

01:28:55 They have, like, a place where they literally live.

01:28:57 They live in those trucks.

01:28:58 Those trucks are everything to them.

01:29:00 But he said, "For 50 years, every single year,

01:29:04 these trucks got better, more fuel-efficient.

01:29:07 Everything was better." It's a beautiful thing.

01:29:11 If they make us go to electric, we will go back

01:29:14 50 years.

01:29:14 We'll be starting all over.

01:29:16 It'll be primitive.

01:29:17 We'll be starting all over.

01:29:18 And it made a big impact on me.

01:29:20 It's a very sad thing, what's happening.

01:29:21 And they don't want to hear about it.

01:29:24 They want our Army tanks to be all electric so that

01:29:26 we -- so -- think of it.

01:29:28 Now, the problem is, there, they don't go far

01:29:30 again, but the battery is so big that you'd have to

01:29:32 pull a truck behind them.

01:29:33 (Laughter.)

01:29:34 It's true.

01:29:35 They actually have a design -- the Army tank,

01:29:37 and it's pulling like this because the batteries are

01:29:39 massive.

01:29:40 Like, the trucking thing, too.

01:29:42 In the truck, about half of its capacity would be

01:29:45 devoted to a battery.

01:29:46 Can you imagine?

01:29:47 Can you imagine?

01:29:48 And yet, they explain this to the people in the

01:29:50 administration.

01:29:51 They don't care.

01:29:52 They really don't care.

01:29:53 But the Army tank is a beauty.

01:29:55 They want to be environmentally friendly as

01:29:57 we go in and blast the crap out of some nation.

01:29:59 (Laughter.)

01:30:00 You know, we're going to go in, we're going to be

01:30:01 environmentally friendly as we blast that our way

01:30:05 through their front lines.

01:30:06 But we're doing it in an environmentally friendly

01:30:09 manner.

01:30:10 How crazy are we?

01:30:11 They have jets now.

01:30:12 And I ended it, but they -- I'm sure they picked it

01:30:15 up.

01:30:16 They said, "Sir, we have a fuel that is unbelievably

01:30:20 good in terms of the environment." These are

01:30:22 our fighter jets, right, that I bought about.

01:30:24 I bought -- I rebuilt our entire military.

01:30:27 The entire military is rebuilt.

01:30:28 They had jets that were 55 years old.

01:30:30 (Applause.)

01:30:31 We had fighter jets that were 55 years old.

01:30:34 China copied our most beautiful plane ever made,

01:30:36 I think, is the F-22.

01:30:38 Check it out.

01:30:40 China has a copy of it.

01:30:41 I looked -- that's an F-22, but why does that

01:30:43 have the China flag on it?

01:30:45 But it's an F-22.

01:30:46 They copied it.

01:30:47 Most beautiful plane you've ever seen.

01:30:49 But now they want to go in a form.

01:30:52 It's a biofuel.

01:30:54 But I said, "Give me the downside." "Well, sir,

01:30:56 the downside is it's 15 percent less efficient."

01:31:00 That's the difference between shooting down and

01:31:02 being shot down, right?

01:31:04 Fifteen percent less efficient.

01:31:06 So why are you trying to protect -- as you fly into

01:31:10 an area that you want to obliterate, you want to do

01:31:12 it in an environmentally friendly way?

01:31:15 These people are crazy.

01:31:17 And we're not going to stand for it.

01:31:19 And all of that stuff is going to be written out on

01:31:21 day one.

01:31:22 It's all going out.

01:31:22 You know the steps when you make your speech in

01:31:24 front of millions of people, and you're making

01:31:26 the beautiful speech, looking down to the

01:31:28 white -- that was one of the great scenes I've

01:31:30 ever seen.

01:31:32 By the way, I think J6 had an equal amount of

01:31:36 people.

01:31:37 It's the biggest crowd, I believe, I ever spoke to.

01:31:38 You never hear about that, do you?

01:31:40 You have the hostages -- the J6 hostages, I call

01:31:43 them.

01:31:43 Nobody has been treated ever in history so badly

01:31:45 as those people.

01:31:46 Nobody has ever been treated in our country.

01:31:49 But I think that -- you know, they always show

01:31:51 whatever it was -- a thousand people coming

01:31:53 down.

01:31:54 Remember the words?

01:31:55 "March peacefully and patriotically." Right?

01:31:57 "March peacefully." You ever hear Maxine Waters?

01:32:00 You ever hear her say about what to do with

01:32:02 Republicans?

01:32:02 "Kill them.

01:32:03 Go in there.

01:32:04 If they're having lunch, go in there." And if I --

01:32:07 can you imagine if I said that?

01:32:08 No, I said, "Peacefully and patriotically." The

01:32:10 whole thing is just very unfair.

01:32:14 But those J6 hostages go into jail for 20 years and

01:32:19 18 years and 12 -- doctors, lawyers,

01:32:23 carpenters, electricians, truck drivers.

01:32:27 It's one of the saddest things.

01:32:29 It'll go down as one of the saddest things in the

01:32:32 history of our country.

01:32:34 And they went there to protest a rigged election.

01:32:37 And now, when the facts are in, they -- now they

01:32:39 see it is a rigged election.

01:32:40 You saw the numbers come out last week.

01:32:42 It was a rigged election.

01:32:44 And those people have to be -- many of them.

01:32:46 I guess there's some.

01:32:48 By the way, there was Antifa and there was FBI.

01:32:53 There were a lot of other people there, too,

01:32:55 leading the charge.

01:32:57 Leading the charge.

01:32:58 You saw the same people that I did.

01:33:00 But just as I did before, I'll appoint strong,

01:33:03 highly qualified, pro-Constitution,

01:33:05 Supreme Court justices who will interpret the law

01:33:09 as written.

01:33:09 (Applause.)

01:33:11 And I hope they do that.

01:33:13 We have some big things going in there.

01:33:15 I just saw the Supreme Court just before it came.

01:33:17 I got some beauties today.

01:33:19 I had the one and then I had the other.

01:33:21 The Supreme Court is taking the case from

01:33:23 Colorado, and so they'll make it the same.

01:33:26 (Applause.)

01:33:28 And you know what I do find?

01:33:31 And, you know, maybe say it, maybe don't, but I say it.

01:33:35 A Democrat judge appointed by, let's say, Obama,

01:33:38 they're down and they say, "We're appointed."

01:33:41 That's the end.

01:33:42 When you are a Republican judge and you're

01:33:45 appointed by, let's say, Trump, they go out of

01:33:48 their way to hurt you so that they can show that

01:33:53 they have been fair -- fair, honorable people.

01:33:59 It's an amazing difference.

01:34:00 I've never seen anything like it.

01:34:02 You appoint some of these radical-left Democrats,

01:34:05 and they, right from the beginning, you say,

01:34:07 "We're dead."

01:34:09 And the Republican judges want to go out of their

01:34:12 way to be fair and unbiased, and even to a

01:34:15 point where they hurt you.

01:34:18 And I guess it's a different wiring system or

01:34:22 something, but all I want is fair.

01:34:24 I fought really hard to get three very, very good

01:34:28 people, and they're great people, very smart people.

01:34:30 And I just hope that they're going to be fair

01:34:33 because, you know, the other side plays the ref.

01:34:35 Like Bobby Knight, the great Bobby Knight.

01:34:37 He played the ref, you know?

01:34:38 He'd throw chairs.

01:34:39 He'd smack people.

01:34:41 He'd do everything.

01:34:41 And they'd say, "Bobby, stop it.

01:34:44 Stop it, Bobby."

01:34:44 He was a great friend of mine.

01:34:45 He endorsed me in Indiana.

01:34:46 He just passed away.

01:34:47 He was a tough guy, big, tough guy.

01:34:50 He was great.

01:34:50 But he was a winner.

01:34:51 He knew how to win.

01:34:52 He had the last undefeated team in basketball.

01:34:54 I guess he won three World -- three national

01:34:56 championships.

01:34:57 He was a -- without really the great, great player.

01:34:59 You know, he had teams.

01:35:01 And Bobby would scream at the refs, his scream.

01:35:04 And his people would say, "Bobby, stop it.

01:35:05 Stop it.

01:35:06 Stop it, Bobby.

01:35:07 You're not going to win."

01:35:08 And he said, "Yeah, but I'm going to win on the

01:35:09 next one."

01:35:11 So, what they do is -- I watch him on "Deface the

01:35:15 Nation" this weekend.

01:35:16 "Ladies and gentlemen, it's Donald Trump on

01:35:18 'Deface the Nation.'" They hate it when I say

01:35:21 that, but it's sort of true.

01:35:23 And they're saying, "Oh, Trump owns the Supreme

01:35:27 Court.

01:35:27 He owns it.

01:35:28 He owns it.

01:35:29 If they make a decision for him, it will be

01:35:32 terrible.

01:35:32 It'll ruin their reputations.

01:35:35 He owns the Supreme Court." He put on three

01:35:37 judges.

01:35:37 "He owns the Supreme Court.

01:35:39 If they rule in his favor, it will be horrible

01:35:43 for them, and we'll protest at their houses,

01:35:46 and we'll do all of the things that you say." And

01:35:49 that puts pressure on people to do the wrong

01:35:51 thing.

01:35:52 What they're doing is no different than Bobby

01:35:53 Knight.

01:35:54 They're playing the ref.

01:35:54 I watched that.

01:35:55 I said, "Man, they're really good.

01:35:58 They're really good at it.

01:36:00 And I just hope we get fair treatment, because if

01:36:03 we don't, our country is in big, big trouble."

01:36:05 Does everybody understand what I'm saying?

01:36:07 I think so.

01:36:08 (applause)

01:36:09 Because they'll cover that completely

01:36:10 differently.

01:36:11 They'll cover that in a much different manner.

01:36:13 But I'm just saying it's a very unfair situation

01:36:17 that takes place.

01:36:18 So I will direct a completely overhauled DOJ

01:36:21 to investigate every radical, out-of-control

01:36:23 prosecutor in America for their illegal, racist

01:36:27 enforcement of the law.

01:36:29 And I'm also going to indemnify all police

01:36:32 officers and law enforcement officials

01:36:34 throughout the United States to protect them

01:36:36 from being destroyed by the radical left for

01:36:39 taking strong actions on crime.

01:36:42 We're going to protect our police.

01:36:44 They're afraid to do anything.

01:36:45 They're told not to do anything.

01:36:46 When they walk into a department store in

01:36:48 Chicago, and they walk out carrying television sets

01:36:51 and everything else, and the police, they want to

01:36:53 do something, but they're told not to do it.

01:36:55 And then if they do it, they get in trouble.

01:36:58 We are going to indemnify them.

01:37:00 They have to stop crime.

01:37:01 And they can stop it, too.

01:37:02 They'll do a great job.

01:37:03 We're going to rebuild our cities into beacons of

01:37:06 hope, safety, and beauty better than ever before.

01:37:09 We're going to rebuild our cities.

01:37:10 Our cities are in trouble.

01:37:11 And we'll work with Democrat mayors and

01:37:14 governors if we have to.

01:37:16 But we will.

01:37:17 No, we will.

01:37:18 Look, they are all run by Democrats, and they are

01:37:21 all just about in horrible shape.

01:37:24 Safety will again be restored so that children

01:37:27 can go outside and play in the park without being

01:37:29 beat up, molested, or shot.

01:37:31 Is that okay?

01:37:31 (applause)

01:37:32 Even if you're in Iowa, you like that one, right?

01:37:35 You know.

01:37:36 (applause)

01:37:38 Because what's happened to our cities, you have to

01:37:39 see, you wouldn't even -- they're not even

01:37:41 recognizable.

01:37:42 You know, San Francisco -- I own a big building in

01:37:44 San Francisco.

01:37:45 And San Francisco was a magnificent city 10, 12,

01:37:51 15 years ago.

01:37:52 And today, you look at what's happened to San

01:37:54 Francisco, it's so sad to see it.

01:37:56 But all of them -- Chicago, New York,

01:37:59 Philadelphia, Los Angeles -- all of them, they're

01:38:01 all run by Democrats.

01:38:03 We're also going to fight to give you much better

01:38:06 healthcare.

01:38:07 We want to give you much better healthcare than

01:38:08 Obamacare.

01:38:09 Now, look, I'm not -- you know, they like to cover

01:38:11 that.

01:38:11 I'm going to -- we're going to give you --

01:38:13 Obamacare is a disaster.

01:38:14 It's very expensive.

01:38:15 For you -- forget about for the country for a

01:38:17 second -- for you, it's a horror show.

01:38:19 There have been tremendous complaints

01:38:20 over the last two years, especially recently.

01:38:23 We're going to get you much better healthcare at a

01:38:26 lower price for you.

01:38:28 And that will be either working on Obamacare or

01:38:32 doing something new.

01:38:33 But we're going to give you much better -- because

01:38:34 you have lousy healthcare and it's too expensive.

01:38:37 On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut

01:38:40 federal funding for any school pushing critical

01:38:42 race theory, transgender insanity -- (applause)

01:38:49 -- and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or

01:38:52 political content onto our children.

01:38:55 I will not give one penny to any school that has a

01:38:58 vaccine mandate or mask mandate.

01:39:01 (applause)

01:39:06 And who believes I have to say this?

01:39:08 But I do.

01:39:09 And I will keep men out of women's sports.

01:39:11 (applause)

01:39:16 I will fully uphold the Second Amendment.

01:39:18 We will protect innocent life and we will restore

01:39:21 free speech.

01:39:22 And I will secure our elections.

01:39:24 Our goal will be one-day voting with paper ballots

01:39:27 and voter ID.

01:39:28 That's our goal.

01:39:29 (applause)

01:39:31 And every Republican governor should do that

01:39:33 right now.

01:39:34 There's no reason to wait.

01:39:36 These Republican governors that don't do it, they're

01:39:38 not on our side.

01:39:39 But until then, Republicans have to win.

01:39:41 If you took all of these things that I'm saying,

01:39:46 there has never been anything like what's

01:39:48 happening to our country right now.

01:39:51 Joe Biden has been a disaster.

01:39:52 He's the worst President we've ever had.

01:39:54 He's the most incompetent, and he's the most corrupt

01:39:57 President.

01:39:58 So if you want to save America from crooked Joe

01:40:00 Biden, then get every patriot you know, make

01:40:03 sure they're registered Republicans -- have to be

01:40:05 registered -- and then get them out to vote in

01:40:08 their local precinct caucus at 7 p.m.

01:40:10 on Monday, January 15th.

01:40:13 Now, I'm going to be there, okay?

01:40:15 I'm going to be there.

01:40:16 I guess I should go maybe Des Moines.

01:40:18 I'd come here.

01:40:18 I like you people, but maybe Des Moines.

01:40:20 Is that the best thing?

01:40:21 But I'm going to be -- she said, "No, come here."

01:40:24 We have to get them out.

01:40:25 So I'm going to be here, and I'm going to be

01:40:28 working it just like everybody else.

01:40:29 We have tremendous numbers of precinct captains here.

01:40:32 All these people with these gorgeous hats.

01:40:34 I want one of those hats.

01:40:35 It's the only way I can get one of those hats is

01:40:37 if I actually become a precinct captain.

01:40:40 I don't know if I'm qualified to be a

01:40:41 precinct captain, but I'm going to try.

01:40:43 But I thank you very much, by the way.

01:40:45 I appreciate it.

01:40:46 But I'll be here, and we're going to be working

01:40:49 the caucuses.

01:40:50 Personally, the whole world is watching, so

01:40:53 learn how to caucus and find your caucus location,

01:40:56 which is often different than where you normally vote.

01:40:58 It's ia.donaldjtrump.com.

01:41:03 So, in conclusion, from Fort Dodge to Cedar

01:41:09 Rapids, from Des Moines to Davenport, from Waterloo

01:41:13 to Sioux Center, we stand on the shoulders of

01:41:17 generations of Iowa patriots who tamed the

01:41:20 wilderness, braved the elements, tilled the soil,

01:41:23 worked the fields, built the factories, and poured

01:41:26 out their blood, sweat, and tears to make this

01:41:29 country into the greatest nation in the history of

01:41:32 the world.

01:41:33 And it's not great any longer, but it will soon

01:41:35 be greater than ever before.

01:41:36 I promise you that.

01:41:37 (Applause.)

01:41:40 But now we're a nation in decline.

01:41:43 We are a failing nation.

01:41:44 We are a nation that has lost its confidence.

01:41:47 It really has, hasn't it?

01:41:48 Lost its confidence.

01:41:50 It's a sad thing to say.

01:41:51 Think of it.

01:41:52 A nation that's lost its confidence, lost its

01:41:55 willpower, lost its strength.

01:41:57 We are a nation that has lost its way.

01:42:01 But we are not going to allow this horror to

01:42:04 continue.

01:42:05 Three years ago, we were a great nation, and we will

01:42:07 soon be a great nation again.

01:42:10 It was hardworking patriots like you who

01:42:13 built this country, and it's hardworking patriots

01:42:16 like you who are going to save our country.

01:42:19 We will fight for America like no other group of

01:42:23 people has ever fought before.

01:42:25 Ever, ever, ever.

01:42:27 2024 is our final battle.

01:42:29 It is our final battle.

01:42:30 If we lose this battle, we lose our country.

01:42:33 You have to get out there.

01:42:34 You have to make sure they're honest with their

01:42:37 voting.

01:42:38 And what they did in 2020 was horrible.

01:42:40 All of the problems that we have today, you

01:42:43 wouldn't have any of them.

01:42:44 You'd have a lot more living people on our

01:42:45 planet, too.

01:42:47 With you at my side, we will demolish the Deep

01:42:49 State.

01:42:50 We will expel the warmongers from our

01:42:52 government.

01:42:53 We will drive out the globalists.

01:42:54 We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and

01:42:57 fascists.

01:42:58 We will throw off the sick political class that hates

01:43:01 our country -- and they do hate our country.

01:43:04 We will rout the fake news media, and we will

01:43:07 evict crooked Joe Biden from the White House on

01:43:09 election night 2024.

01:43:12 (Applause.)

01:43:18 The great silent majority is rising like never

01:43:21 before.

01:43:21 And under our leadership, the forgotten man and

01:43:24 woman will be forgotten no longer.

01:43:26 You're going to be forgotten no longer.

01:43:29 We will love our country.

01:43:30 We will take care of our country.

01:43:32 We will pray to God for our strength and for our

01:43:34 liberty.

01:43:35 And we will pray for God, and we will be with God.

01:43:39 We will pray for God, and we will be with God.

01:43:44 We are one movement, one people, one family, and

01:43:46 one glorious nation under God.

01:43:49 And together, we will make America powerful again.

01:43:52 We're going to make it very powerful.

01:43:54 (Applause.)

01:43:56 We will make America wealthy again.

01:44:01 We will make America strong again.

01:44:04 (Applause.)

01:44:06 We will make America proud again.

01:44:09 We're going to be proud.

01:44:11 We will make America safe again.

01:44:16 And we will make America great again.

01:44:21 Thank you.

01:44:22 Thank you very much, everybody.

01:44:23 Thank you.

01:44:23 Thank you, fellas.

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