Trump Rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Well, I have the distinct honor of getting to talk with you again, but for this time to introduce the next president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. But before I do, let me just say… Sorry.

JD, JD, JD, JD.

I had to screw with you a little bit, right?

JD, JD, JD, JD, JD, JD, JD, JD, JD, JD, JD, JD, JD, JD.

How do you introduce the guy? Pretty much everybody knows everything about him. They know he was a great president and we want to make him president again. But what I thought I’d say is, what are the qualifications you need to be good president? Well, number one, you need to love this country, right?

Yeah.

We’ve got a lot of leaders who don’t love this country, but there are, frankly, if we’re being honest, a lot of people who love this country, you wouldn’t want to make president just because they love the country. You need something else. When I wrote my convention speech, and I wrote it mostly myself, had some help from some friends, but I was looking at the history of President Trump’s engagement with his country. One of the things that jumped out at me is if you think about the biggest mistakes we’ve made as a country, the things that have hurt my home state of Ohio, this state Michigan the most, you could have run through the list of things. I’d start with…

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Obviously. Obviously Gretchen Whitmer is a problem. I’m talking about even further back than that.

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NAFTA. Given China the sweetheart trade deal and letting him into the World Trade Organization, the Iraq war in 2003. On every single one of those issues, Joe Biden was wrong and President Donald J. Trump was right. Even though he was a real estate developer in New York, he knew instinctively what this country needed and how to put the interests of the citizens of this country first. Now, we had a hell of a four years with President Donald J. Trump, didn’t we?

Yeah.

In four years, he undid, I believe, 30 years of damage of terrible leadership. Are we ready to give him four more years?

Yeah.

Are we ready to hear from the next president of the United States, President Donald J. Trump? Come on out, sir.

(singing).

USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA.

Well, thank you very much. This is like a Michigan football game over here. This is pretty good. This is pretty good. I want to thank you JD for the introduction. You’re going to be a fantastic vice president of the United States. And I chose him because he’s for the worker. He’s for the people that work so hard and perhaps weren’t treated like they should have been, but they were treated that way four years ago. I can tell you that, but we’re going to get it back, bigger, better, stronger than ever before. Thank you very much. This is some crowd. I’m thrilled to be back in the great state of Michigan with thousands and thousands, and I mean lots of thousands up here. This is a hell of an arena. This is a hell of an arena.

(06:51)
But you are the hardworking patriots that we love. They have crowds of people outside. You’re not even going to believe it. They go blocks and blocks. But let’s forget about them, right? Let’s forget about them. Let me begin this evening with a very special thanks to Americans nationwide, including all of you here today for your extraordinary outpouring of love and support in the wake of the horrific last Saturday event.

(07:25)
When you think of it was exactly one week ago today, almost to the hour even to the minute.

Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.

Incredible.

Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.

Incredible. What a day it was. As I said earlier this week, I stand before you only by the grace of Almighty God. That’s true. I shouldn’t be here. I shouldn’t be here. Maybe JD or somebody else would be here, but I shouldn’t be here right now. But something very special happened. Let’s face it. Something happened. I want to thank Butler Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania for the incredible job they did and service they gave and all of the great citizens of Butler, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area and everyone else for the job they did, and the love that they showed us all. It was incredible actually. What a time that was. What a time that was.

(08:37)
Nobody has seen anything like it, and hopefully they never will again. And they had cameras blazing. I guess it was different in that way too, because we were right in the middle. See, look at all the news back there, and they were all blazing. They were going. No. They covered it fairly. They couldn’t believe what they were seeing either. So they did. You did cover it fairly.

(09:02)
Let me also thank Congressman Ronny Jackson from Texas. You know Congressman Ronny Jackson for the care and treatment he gave me as an outstanding doctor, which he is. He’s really an amazing guy. Where’s Ronny? Doc Ronny is here someplace.

(09:23)
Thank you, Ronny. Thank you very much. Great doctor. He was a great admiral, a great doctor. He is a White House doctor for Bush, Obama and a guy named Trump, and they said, “Who was the healthiest of the three?” He said, “Not even a question, Trump.” And I said, “I love that guy. I love that guy.” When he said that, that was my doctor. Even if he’s a congressman, that was my doctor. But he’s been a great congressman. Thank you very much, Ronny, for everything. We appreciate it. Ronny Jackson.

(10:03)
We continue to pray for the recovery of the two citizens who were wounded in that evil attack. David Dutch and James Copenhaver. Two really incredible people. We remain in contact and send our deepest respect to the families. Corey, as you know, Corey Comperatore was a brave firefighter who died. Funeral yesterday, shielding his wife and daughters from bullets who shielded them from the bullets of this horrendous person. Corey was a hero and we will carry his memory in our hearts for all time. Great hero.

Corey, Corey, Corey, Corey, Corey, Corey, Corey.

That’s great.

Corey, Corey, Corey, Corey.

He was a big Trumper, and we will never forget him, right? We’re all together. We’re all together. There’s never been anything like what you witnessed the other day with the convention. I don’t think there’s ever been a convention where there was such unity and love and even the… Now, I’ll say just for a second, the fake news even said it that way. I want to be nice. But the fake news reported it correctly. There’s never been such unity and everybody did a great job and the speeches and everything. It was just an incredible event. I’ll tell you what, Milwaukee was a fantastic place. This was a beautiful arena, and they did a really great job. Wisconsin is going to vote for us because we spent $250 million. When they go into the voting booth, they’re going to say, “We love this guy. Trump, he gave us 250 million with jobs, and they’re going to vote.” Wisconsin a very important state as we know. But they really did. Wisconsin did a great job. Milwaukee, they did a great job, and the arena was fantastic. And it was just love. It was like a big, beautiful four-day love fest. There was no fight. It was no fight, no screams, no shouting, no get-that-guy-off-the-platform. And in case we had the Hulkster with us, right? How good was he?

(12:24)
How good was the Hulkster? And Kid Rock called? He said, “I want to get…” Kid Rock is big and he wanted to get down and he did an unbelievable job. He was great. But all of them, everybody, we had so many great people there. It was really an amazing thing to see and it was really something. I don’t think there’s ever been a lot of people report. I think it was either party. There’s never been anything like it. And now we have something coming up where they’re going to go for the convention and they have a couple of problems.

(12:59)
Number one, they have no idea who the candidate is and neither do we. That’s a problem, but we’ll see. Hopefully they get it worked out. Sort of interesting. This guy goes and he gets the votes, and now they want to take it away. That’s democracy. They talk about democracy. Let’s take it away from them. But now we go forward as one movement, and really we’re doing a very… We have a very special group of people like the people here. You people built this country.

(13:28)
It’s one movement, and we’re more united, determined than ever before. We’ve never been so determined. Bad things happened last time. We’re not going to let them happen this time. Bad, bad things happen. We will never stop working to deliver a magnificent future for our people, and together we will fight, fight, fight, right? And we will win, win, win. Right.

Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.

Thank you.

Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.

I like this place. You ever walk in to a place and you say, “I sort of like this place”? Less than four months from now, we are going to win Michigan. We are going to take back the White House with a monumental landslide. And with your help, we are going to make America great again. Right?

(14:41)
At our convention on just a little while ago in Milwaukee and Thursday, it was my tremendous honor to officially accept the Republican nomination for president of the United States. And I used to say it in 2016, and I meant it a hundred percent, but I made it even more now because this country has gone wrong. We’re a failing nation. We’re a left at failing nation right now. This will be the most important election in the history of our country. This is going to be the most important election. We cannot let it slip by. We cannot let people cheat. We cannot let this slip by or we’re not going to have a country.

(15:24)
Because I do have other things I could be doing. It would be a lot easier. Although I’d rather be with you than sitting on some gorgeous beach watching boring waves coming in. No, I would rather be. Actually, I would. You know what. I think that’s one of the reasons we’ve been so successful together. You know I mean that too to, but we’re going to make our country more successful than ever before. Yet even as we gather this evening, we will… And take a look still the Democratic nominee. We are going to find out shortly maybe. I don’t know.

(16:02)
Let’s do this. Let’s do a poll. I love doing polls, right? I do a poll. I do lots of polls. Do you like make America great again or do you like America first or do you like them both? I like them both. Right?

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Let’s do a poll on candidates. Ready?

[inaudible 00:16:22]

So I’ll go, I’ll go. We’re going to do a poll in a few candidates. The press will like this because they won’t have to pay for the poll. You do these crazy polls and they charge you 250…. Look, there’s Mr. Wall. This guy is the greatest guy. This guy. He must have a lot of money because he’s at so many different rallies. He was at the one… That was a tough one, wasn’t it? That was something. You were right up in the front. You saw that. That was something. We’re going to do a poll, and it’s going to be a very nice poll.

(16:57)
Who’s your favorite candidate? Who would you like? Let’s do it. Who would you most like to run against? Because you could say, “Who’s the best candidate?” We’re saying, “Who would you like to…” We’ll start with Kamala Harris and then we’ll go and then we’ll go to Crooked Joe Biden. And then we could possibly discuss a few. So who would you like to most run against if you’re us, if we want to win? Ready? Kamala Harris? Crooked Joe Biden? All right. I don’t think we have to go too much further.

(17:44)
Well, you have a terrible governor here who did a terrible job. I’d like to run against her actually. I’d like to run against her. She’s one of the 20 that I mentioned. She’s the one that gave her husband full right title and interest to everything, but nobody else could do anything but her husband. Her husband was sailing in the middle of your lake, your beautiful lake. He’s out there sailing and everybody else had to be locked up, right? Her husband.

(18:17)
No, but things like that are mentioned during a campaign. Little things like that. No, she’s done a terrible job, but I hope… I’d be very happy with her. At this very moment, Democrat party bosses are frantically trying to overthrow the results of their own party’s primaries to dump Crooked Joe Biden from the ballot. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

(18:40)
And as you’re seeing, the Democrat Party is not the party of democracy. They’re really the enemies of democracy. The parties of corrupt insiders like Whitmer’s, special interests, and the failed political class. That’s what they are. Under our leadership.,The Republican Party is now the party of the people. We’re the party of hardworking Americans of every race, religion, color, and creed. We’ve become a very big party.

(19:10)
We become… Right, fellas? You know what I’m talking about. I love you guys. We love you guys. No, we become a very big party. We have increased in size. Nobody’s ever… Honestly, in history, there’s never been anything like this movement. And that may be in the history of the world, but let’s keep it down to the country for right now, because that’s the thing. But there’s never been anything like MAGA. When Biden says, “We have to stop MAGA, we will stop MAGA,” I said, “He doesn’t know what MAGA stands for. It stands for Make America Great Again.”

Make America Great Again.

How can you be against that? How can you be against that? And the other side is going around trying to make me sound extreme like I’m an extremist. I’m not. I’m a person with great common sense. I’m not an extremist at all. Some on the right, severe right came up with this Project 25, and I don’t even know. I mean some of them, I know who they are, but they’re very, very conservative. Just like you have… They’re sort of the opposite of the radical left. You have the radical left and you have the radical right, and they come up with this… I don’t know what the hell it is. It’s Project 25. “He’s involved in Project…” And then they read some of the things, and they are extreme.

(20:37)
I mean, they’re seriously extreme, but I don’t know anything about it. I don’t want to know anything about it. But what they do is misinformation and disinformation. They keep saying, “He’s a threat to democracy.” I’m saying, “What the hell did I do for democracy?” Last week, I took a bullet for democracy. What did I do against democracy? Crazy.

(20:57)
Hello, Chris. Here’s our great campaign, man. Chris, are you having a good time? Look at him. He is back there. Cool as a cucumber. So far, they’re giving us great credit for the best-run campaign they’ve seen in years. Isn’t that nice? Thank you, Susie. Thank you, Chris. Look how cool he is. Just sits there. Thanks. Try doing it with another candidate sometime. That gets tough, right? Anyway, thank you very much. Great job, Chris, Susie, the whole group. We have a great group of people. They love this country. They want to save the country. That’s what we’re doing. With your vote in this election, the Trump-Vance administration.

(21:53)
By the way, I made the right pick. He’s so good. They were all good. They were all good, but he’s really stepped up. But the Trump-Vance administration will begin rapidly reversing every single Biden-Harris disaster starting on day one. When you vote for Biden, you’re probably voting indirectly for Harris anyway, whether you’d like it or not. It’s common sense. It’s all common sense, right? We will end the inflation nightmare that you would’ve never had. We had no inflation.

(22:29)
See, there’s another thing. Biden always goes around, “I inherited 9% inflation.” And even the radical left reporters up there. Look at all of them. Whoa, they have a lot. They have a lot of them. They have a lot of them. Look at those cameras. But they’ll start turning off as soon as I start mentioning certain things. I’ll say, “The red light just went off.”

(22:52)
No, but actually the radical left reporters of which there are quite a few, I can’t believe it. I don’t know why they’d have them, but the radical left reporters say the guys wrote, “Wasn’t it until two years in that we became destroyed with inflation?” Inflation is a country buster. It’s a class buster. It busts everything. Low-income, middle-income especially, and they get bust. They’re busted. The country gets busted.

(23:21)
Look at Germany from centuries ago. Look at every country that’s had inflation. And we had, I believe, the greatest inflation in the history of our country. They don’t even report it properly because they leave the worst numbers out. They don’t talk about interest rates that went to 10, 11, 12% and you can’t get the money. So what does that mean, 12%, if you can’t get the money. It means it’s higher.

(23:43)
From 2%, we will seal the border and we will stop this terrible invasion that’s destroying our country. We’ll crush migrant crime. We’re going to crush migrant crime. Oh, we have a new form of crime now. It’s called migrant crime. The only good thing about these migrants coming in is they make our gang members and criminals look like the nicest people you’ve ever met. These people are much tougher. They come from all over the world, not just from South America. We’re going to return law and order to our streets and restore patriotism to our schools.

(24:28)
We gave you already the largest tax cut in the history of our country, larger than the Reagan cuts, but now we will give you an additional tax cut, a number of tax cuts that will make it. We took in more money after the tax cuts that we did prior. We took in billions and billions of dollars more after the tax cuts that we did. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. Everyone knows that.

(24:53)
We’re going to slash regulations. That’s what created all of those jobs and gave them bounce-back jobs. They’re called bounce-back jobs. After COVID, they bounce back. Everybody knows that when you have something like COVID, which rarely happens, but when you have something like that, they’re called bounce-back jobs. And we’re going to bring down energy prices very rapidly. It was energy that caused the problem and their stupidity. We’re going to bring it down very quickly.

(25:17)
Your energy bills will be cut in half, at least in cut in half. Some sections like in New England, I’ll be able to cut their energy by 60, 70%. It’s absolutely crazy what has happened with energy. We buy the oil from Venezuela. They used to be our enemy. I don’t know. We buy from Venezuela. It’s not really oil. It’s tar. And there’s only one refinery in the world that can do it. It’s very heavy, horrible stuff. It’s garbage. It’s tar. You lift it.

(25:50)
I said, “That’s not oil. We want light, sweet, crude.” We have the best oil. We have the best everything. We go to Venezuela. You know where they refine it? In Houston, Texas. It’s the only plant in the world that can refine that stuff. So we go to Venezuela. We pay them a fortune. We take that dictatorship. We make the dictatorship wealthy. These people don’t know what the hell they’re doing. They’re incompetent. They’re grossly incompetent. The biggest threat is because we have incompetent… That’s the threat to democracy. It’s a threat to our country. We have incompetent people leading our country. Grossly incompetent people.

(26:27)
America’s enemies will fear us. The United States will again command the respect that it deserves. Viktor Orban, the very powerful leader of Hungary said when asked, “What happened with the world that’s falling to pieces? There are wars all over.” He said, “Bring back Trump. It’ll all end. It all ended. We had no problem in the war.” And something beautiful is going to happen because we will bring back the American dream. And it’ll be bigger, better, and bolder than ever before.

(27:08)
Most importantly for the people of this great state, years ago, they gave me in Michigan, the man of the year. That was long before I was a politician. I was a business guy. I did well. I liked the state, but I don’t know. I heard a man of the year Michigan. I said, “That’s cool. That’s good. I’m going to make that trip.” I didn’t know why they were giving it to me, nothing, but they were giving it to me for, I guess, the fact that I employed a lot of people. I did real well.

(27:34)
This is probably 14 years ago. I came in and I said, “Why do you allow foreign countries like Mexico…” Mexico, we think of them as friendly, but they haven’t been too friendly lately. How about where they asked Biden to meet. Just to meet. They want $2 billion to meet. They wouldn’t ask that. See, they wouldn’t even ask me that because I’d say, “I will put 100% tariffs on everything you send into a country if you even think about asking.” They want $2 billion to meet. In other words, “We won’t meet with you unless you pay us $2 billion.”

(28:08)
And this is every single year they want $2 billion. It works the opposite of that. The exact opposite. But when you see the things that are happening to our country and all you have to do is know how to speak. When I watched the way our border was handled, we had the best border, the safest border, the border that saved my life. I was pointing to an immigration border signed when I made this turn, and that thing went that way instead of that way. So I owe immigration my life. It’s true. It’s true.

(28:54)
Now, think about it. I’m talking thousands and thousands, much more than even this. I mean, we’re restricted because you’re in this giant arena. That’s the one thing about outdoor. That’s good. You can have unlimited thousands and thousands as far as the eye can see. Nobody is over here or over here because there’s nobody there. It starts like this as far as the eye can see, and I said, “Look at the great results that we had on immigration. Just look at that.” Ping. If I didn’t say that…. And it’s because we had like a crane holding this massive sign. I call it the million dollar sign. They’re expensive. But that sign was very good. I think I’m going to sleep with it tonight. I’m going to sleep with it tonight.

(29:42)
I said, “What was that? What was that?” I looked, I said, “That’s not good. That’s not good.” So immigration, if you think about it, right? Immigration. I would’ve never been looking to the right, and I had to be. It was the only place that would’ve saved

They do these reports in The New York Times and all over the place where they had the shape, if he turns this way, this way, this way, if every shot was no good for me except for the one direct, direct and came whizzing by. I hope we have to never go through that again, everybody, because it’s so horrible, horrible.

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But most importantly, for the people of your state, this great state, I will rescue the US auto industry from obliteration. They’re going to obliterate your auto industry. Anybody that votes for the head of the United Auto Workers, this guy doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s approved all electric cars.

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(30:48)
Boo.

Elon, I love Elon Musk. Do we love him? I love him. I’m constantly talking about electric cars, but I don’t mean I’m against … I’m totally for them, but whatever the market says. If it’s 10% of the market, 12%, 7%, 20%, whatever it is, it’s okay, but you can’t have 100% electric cars.

(31:11)
So Elon endorsed me recently the other day, actually. He’s great, Elon Musk. He’s a brilliant guy. Every time I call him, he’s talking about, “I got a new idea for a rocket. You have to hear this.” No, it’s true.

(31:28)
The first time I ever saw this, I’m watching television like three years ago, and I see a rocket engine, motor engine, come down landing straight up into … No wings, no nothing, and it’s landing. I thought I was seeing things. What is that? It’s landing on a barge in the middle of the ocean. Then another one comes down, and another one, another one. I guess four of them came down, three or four, and they land upright. I said, “What the hell was that? I’ve never seen that before.” Now if that were government, you wouldn’t see that for another 50 to 100 years. But it was Elon.

(32:08)
Now think of that. I called him … And I’ve always had a good relationship with him. But I called him and I said, “What was that?” He said, “Well, we saved the engines. We saved the engines because it’s very expensive to build.” I mean it didn’t take me long to figure that if you save them, that’s good. But who the hell thought you could do that? No wings, no nothing. Just like these big, long, massive tubes. They’re landing gently right on the dot.

(32:33)
I said, “That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.” And you say, how long would it take government to come up with that one? I don’t think they ever heard of it. Perhaps they still haven’t heard of it. But he’s a very advanced person and he’s doing other things that are great and so or other. We have to make life good for our smart people. We have some smart people. We have to make life good for our smart people, and he’s as smart as you get.

(32:59)
But Elon endorsed me the other day and I read … I didn’t even know this, he didn’t even tell me about it, but he gives me $45 million a month. A month. Not 45 million. He gives me $45 million a month.

(33:24)
I talked to him just a little while ago to say I was coming here, “How’re you doing?” and he didn’t even mention it. He didn’t mention … I mean other guys, they give you $2 and you’ve got to take them to lunch. You’ve got to wine them, dine them. No, he’s a great guy. He really is. But he’s never mentioned to me, “Why are you hitting the electric cars?” because he understands I’m not hitting it. I think it’s incredible. I’ve had them, I’ve driven them. They’re incredible. But they’re not for everybody. Some people have to drive long distances.

(33:56)
And they tend to be more expensive. They’ll probably be made in China because China has all of that material. Oh, there’s the guy that I stood up here. Are you the same guy? The same muscles? Look at that guy. Are you the same guy? Yes? No kidding. It’s pretty good memory, right? Unlike somebody else that happened to be running again. He wouldn’t … Come on. Come on up here. Get up here. I’ve got to get this guy. This guy was central casting. Look at him. Look. Oh, I think he was standing on a box. That was the only thing. I said you’ve got … Come on up here. Don’t hurt yourself. Can you get him up? I like this guy. He’s a serious union guy. A United Auto Workers. Look at him get over there. It’s okay. He does not carry guns. He’s not … Come on up here. Look at him. Look at the shape he’s in.

I’m glad to see you.

[inaudible 00:35:02].

I’m glad to see you.

Come on, say it yourself here. That’s okay.

I’m glad to see this guy. I told you we’re going to get 85 million of us out there to vote for him. So let’s go home from this rally and do our part.

[inaudible 00:35:15]. Look at the arms on him. I may have height, but his arms are definitely more powerful, huh? Look at that guy. No, last time I was here, I saw him and he was so great. He was agreeing with us on auto. We want to bring car manufacturing back and what the deal with this thing with the all electric cars by … In six years from now? It’s ridiculous.

(35:45)
In the Midwest, they opened up chargers. They opened up eight chargers. You read about this. $9 billion they spent for eight chargers. That’s like a gas pump. I guess it would be like the equivalent of a gas pump for electric. They spent $9 billion on eight charges. This is eight little chargers, $9 billion. How do you do that? It would cost at that rate $5 trillion to create enough charges so it could run.

(36:15)
It doesn’t work and it doesn’t work on the trucks either. I was with Swift, big Swift company. “How many trucks do you own?” “29,000, sir.” 29,000? That’s a lot of trucks. One of the biggest. I guess, the biggest.

[inaudible 00:36:27].

I think he’s the biggest. He said, “They want to destroy our business. They want us to go all electric.” I said, “So what’s wrong with electric?” I said, “If you take a big, beautiful Peterbilt or one of the great manufacturers, how many times would you have to stop from New York to Los Angeles?” “None, sir. We go right there. We have something left over. That’s with diesel.” I said, “What about if it’s electric?” “We have six to seven stops, about three hours each.”

(36:55)
So immediately he’s saying that’s not working too well. He said, “But there are other problems.” He said, ” The truck is so much heavier that you’d have to rebuild every bridge in the country.” That doesn’t sound too good.

(37:06)
Then the third thing he said, that the battery is so much bigger than a tank, a big tank, for the diesel or for the gasoline, but the diesel mostly. It’s so much bigger that most of our payload would be holding batteries. In other words, we wouldn’t have any room for the product.

(37:22)
So let’s say you hear those three minor details. Typically you would end the conversation, would say, “That doesn’t work.” These people say, “We don’t care. We want you to go all electric.” Can you believe these people? They’re crazy.

Boo.

They’re crazy. No, they’re crazy. And they want boats to do the same thing. I was with, in South Carolina, one of the biggest boat manufacturers of smaller fishing boats from, let’s say, 16 to 35 feet. He said, “We have a problem. They keep pushing the beautiful outboard engines. You have Mercury and Evan Rude. I guess they used to have … I don’t know if they have it anymore, but those big beautiful outboard engines they have, they work great, or just interior engines run by a thing called gasoline.

(38:12)
So he said, “They want us to figure out how to go all electric in a boat. All electric.” I said, “Well, what is the problem?” He said, “We’d have to take the entire lower cabin where we have bedrooms and we’d have to make that into a battery. But the bigger problem is, sir, it won’t float because it’s so heavy. It won’t float. It won’t float.”

[inaudible 00:38:38].

I always tell the story with like, well, what would you do? Because my uncle was a great professor at MIT for 41 years. I think he’s the longest serving … Dr. John Trump. She knows. He was very, very smart. We have a very smart family, actually. But he was a great guy. I always thought … I was very interested in this, but the press kills me all the time. They say, “He keeps talking about sharks and this.” I don’t. I tell an analogy. If I’m in a boat, it’s all electric and it starts to sink. I asked the guy-

[inaudible 00:39:11].

… “Do you get electrocuted sitting over this?” and then I say … And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this, do you? Because it’s an analogy, I say … And if there’s a shark about 10 yards away, right where they are, right where all the congressmen are right over there, look at us, well, they’re sharks. They’re sharks. If there’s a shark about 10 yards away-

We love [inaudible 00:39:37].

… do I get electrocuted or do I go with the shark? I said because I will take electrocution all day long despite the environmentalists that say how wonderful sharks are. You ever hear these people? We had three killings by a shark this week and rip people apart, and then you have the environmentalists going, “Well, they didn’t mean to do it. They really … They mistook them for a seal. They didn’t want to hurt the child.” No, I don’t want that. Commonsense, right? I mean how about they catch a shark, vicious, that they’ve been after and they take him to a little deeper water and they put him back in? I wouldn’t do that.

(40:16)
Would anybody do that here? Let me ask you. This is Michigan. These guys wouldn’t do it, but they always get on me. They say, “Why is he talking about electricity and sharks? What do they … ” Well, they know exactly. It’s sort of a cute little story. Do I take electrocution or do I take death by a shark?

Shark.

I’ll always take electrocution. But isn’t it ridiculous? Think of it. Isn’t it ridiculous? They want to make a boat that’s far too heavy, that can barely float, and they’re driving people out of business. They’re destroying this country. They’re stupidly destroying this country. The army tanks are the other one. They want to make all electric. We make the best tanks in the world. They want to have a-

Boo.

So that as we go into a country to bomb the hell out of it, we will do it in an environmentally friendly way [inaudible 00:41:05]. With an army tank, again, the battery’s very big, very heavy, and doesn’t last long. You know what it is? It’s an army tank and it’s like you’re pulling a wagon behind the army tank. You’re pulling a wagon like a child pulls a wagon, and it’s loaded up with a battery.

[inaudible 00:41:22].

So we got to get back to commonsense. The aircraft, too. They want to make our jet fighters a biofuel jet fighter that shows 18% less efficiency. That’s the difference between winning and losing a fight. You know what happens? I say I’m not doing it. We ended all of that stuff. They brought it back. We will end it on day one. We’re not going to be doing that stuff.

(41:49)
In four short years, under my leadership, I did more for Michigan autoworkers and manufacturers than any president in the history of our country. Just as I promised, I withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would’ve totally destroyed your auto industry. I ended the disaster known as NAFTA. That was the worst trade deal ever made. That was the worst trade deal considered by them. That was so unfair to us with Mexico and Canada. The worst trade deal ever made, and replaced it with what they call the best trade deal ever made, the USMCA, Mexico and Canada.

(42:31)
I know it’s good because Mexico and Canada are right now, as we speak, working like hell to try and renegotiate the deal. Don’t do it, Biden. Well, he doesn’t know what’s going on. Don’t do it. He’s watching us now. He’ll say, “What’s that trade deal they’re talking about?” “Well, so they’ve been negotiating with us for about two years.” “I never heard of that negotiation. Where is Mexico anyway? Where is it?”

(42:59)
See, now the fake news will take the statement I just say, “Where is Mexico?” and they’ll put it on television. “Trump didn’t know where Mexico is.” Oh, they do. They do. It’s very dangerous. The biggest threat I have to my administration is sarcasm because they play it against me. When I show that he can’t walk off … He can never find the entrances off a stage. Look, one here, one there, two here. He could jump off the front, I guess.

(43:31)
Whenever I imitate him … I called my wife. She’s great. She’s great, our great first lady. I said [inaudible 00:43:41]. She looked great the other night. She made that entrance. She made a lot of entrances. She’s just something. But she walked in. But I told her the other night, I said, “How good was I? How good?” This was at a rally a couple of weeks ago. “How good was I?” “Well, you were really good, but not great.” “Why?”

[inaudible 00:44:00].

” Well, it showed that you didn’t know how to get off the stage.” Well, I was imitating Biden. So what they do is they show the imitation of Biden. They said, “Trump didn’t know how to get off the stage.” That’s our fake news.

Boo.

So we have to be very careful. So I haven’t done it in about three weeks. I’ll do it again, but maybe not right now. It’s toose. “Darling, you were great.”

Do it.

I mean I get these crowds, 50, 60, 70,000. In New Jersey, we had … We’re leading New Jersey by four points, by the way.

Whoo.

We’re leading Michigan by six points. A report just came out. Actually, we’re leading everywhere and nationally and that we have to keep it that way. Got to make sure they don’t cheat. Got to make sure they don’t cheat.

(45:02)
I took on China like no administration in history, bringing hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our Treasury when no other president had gotten 10 cents. China never gave us 10 cents. I got hundreds of billions of dollars from China, and I got along very well with President Xi.

(45:22)
He’s a great guy, wrote me a beautiful note the other day when he heard about what happened. He wrote me a beautiful … Most of the leaders do. A lot of them didn’t like what I was doing to them, but they also knew it was about time. The jig was up, right?

Yeah.

It was about time. But they wrote me. Almost all of them wrote me notes. It was nice. Now I have a good relationship with all of them. That’s a good thing. A lot of times the press would say, “He gets along with Kim Jong Un, North Korea.” He has a lot of nuclear weapons. I got along with him great. You are never in danger with me as your president. It’s a good thing to get along. Not a bad thing.

(45:59)
I used to tell him, “Why don’t you do something else?” All he wants to do is buy nuclear weapons and make them. I said, “Just relax. Chill. You got enough. You got … ” He got so much nuclear weapons.

[inaudible 00:46:11].

So much. I said, “Just relax. Go to a nice … Let’s go to a baseball game. I’ll show you what a baseball … We’ll go watch the Yankees,” or we’ll come watch Michigan at its home opener.

Yeah.

How about that? Are you going to have a good team this year? I think, right?

Yeah.

Pretty good. I heard good.

Thank you.

I heard good, but who the hell knows, right?

[inaudible 00:46:36].

Guy drops a pass. That’s the end of that season. It’s a risky business. I proudly imposed a 27.5 tariff on all Chinese auto imports to keep China and Chinese cars, keep them out of America. You don’t sell a lot of Chinese cars in here because of what … And if you did, it’d be fewer cars that you made. We’re going to bring back the auto industry because of-

Yeah.

We’re going to bring it back. We’re going to have them. If they want to come in and sell us cars, they can, but they have to build plants here and they have to hire our workers, and that’s fine. Nobody can say anything about it.

(47:11)
Under the radical Democrat policies, the US auto industry is being decimated. We lost 64% of our industry over the years. 64%. We were a giant. And now a lot of them are made in Mexico. Mexico has taken 35% of the auto industry.

(47:29)
We did something very strong. We did something very strong with Mexico. But when I was building the wall, I said, “You have to give us 28,000 soldiers,” and they laughed at me.

[inaudible 00:47:41].

I hate when people laugh at me. I hate it. I hate it.

[inaudible 00:47:45].

It was so disrespectful. They laughed at me. “We won’t do that. Why would we do that?” I said, “Because you have to. We’re building the wall. People are flowing in through your country. We want 28,000 soldiers to protect us while we’re building the wall.”

[inaudible 00:47:58].

They said, “No, no, no.” Then they said … After I said, “Look, here’s a story. If you don’t do it, we’re going to charge you a 25% tariff on every car that you send into America.”

Yeah.

Then it’s going to 50% next month, then it’s going to 75%, and then it’s going to 100%, and then I’ll stop. The gentleman representing the president … The president’s a great guy. He’s no longer president, but he’s a great guy. He was a great guy, still is. But he said, ” I’d like to discuss this with the president.” I said, “Five minutes. I’ve got to go. I have something much more important to do.”

(48:37)
He came back, he said, “Mr. President, we would love to give you soldiers to protect you all. Free of charge, of course.” That’s how I got those great numbers on that beautiful, beautiful graph that we talked about. They gave us everything I wanted. I got everything from Mexico, and then this stupid person, low IQ … He’s a low IQ individual. Take his IQ. I guarantee you it’s in the low 50s or 60s. And he’s negotiating against Putin, President Xi of China, Macron of France. Very smart guy.

(49:13)
I told him he was going to do something very bad to our country. I said, “That’s okay. You can do it, but I’m going to put a 100% tariff on all wines and champagnes that come in from France.” He said, “No, no, no, Donald, you cannot do that.” I said, “I’m doing it.” “Donald, you cannot do that. That’s not fair.” He’s going to charge our companies, American companies, 25% for doing nothing, for being in France. Big deal, right? Big deal.

(49:38)
So I said, “Okay. That’s all right. I’m charging you 100% tariff.” I gave it to all my people, minutiae. They’re all smart guys. They came back, “Sir, they won’t do it. They won’t budge.” I said, “They’ll budge.” I called them up and I talked to the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, who’s a nice guy. I said … But he likes France. I like the USA. Does that make sense?

(49:58)
I said, “Emmanuel, it’s so nice to talk to you. I understand you’re going to charge our companies 25%, Emmanuel.” “Yes, yes, yes, Donald. It was approved by … ,” whoever the hell approves the parliament. Whatever the hell they have over there, they were going to approve it. It’s been fully approved. “Yes. I’m so sorry.” I said, “Well, that’s okay. You can have it approved. But here’s a story. Starting tomorrow morning at 7:00, every bottle of wine and every bottle of champagne that’s shipped into the United States is going to have a 100% tariff on it.”

(50:30)
“No, no, no. You cannot do that. That is not fair.” I said, “It’s not fair for you to charge our companies 25%.” He said, “You cannot do it.” I said, “I’m signing the papers now. I will call you right back.”

(50:41)
He calls me back. “Donald, we would be delighted, Mr. President, to take that tax off. We have decided to take it off. It will be off by tonight, sir. It’ll be off by tonight,” and it was off. And it was off. You think Joe Biden does that?

No.

He doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing.

[inaudible 00:51:09].

Their policies are no good. Remember, whether it’s Biden or anybody else, they want open borders. They want all the same stuff. So it’s like … But, in particular, he’s pretty bad, I tell you.

[inaudible 00:51:20].

Can you imagine? These killers, these killers, these are sharp. The press gets angry. They said, “Is President Xi of China, is he a smart man?” I said, “No, he’s a brilliant man. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. He makes guys like Biden look like babies. They don’t even know whether they’re coming or going. Yes, he’s … ”

(51:43)
The next day headlines, “Trump calls him brilliant. How dare … ” No, no. Okay. Let’s say he’s not a smart man. Whatever makes you happy. No matter what you do, I say he’s a brilliant man. They went crazy because I called him brilliant. So I’m just going to have to say he’s okay. He’s okay. No, he’s very smart.

[inaudible 00:52:02].

You know what else? He’s a fierce person. Do you understand that? Some of the people here know that, what this means, especially some of the women. They know better than the men about fierce. I know the women. They know better than the men. They’re more fierce than the men. Oh, her. Her.

(52:21)
But, no, he’s a fierce individual. He’s a fierce man. Can you imagine when he meets this guy? He thinks Trump is playing a joke on him. He actually thinks that I’m playing a joke. He doesn’t believe what happened. He doesn’t believe the last election. He doesn’t believe … He thinks I’m playing a joke in him.

(52:39)
But can you imagine President Xi, Putin, all of them? They’re all smart, tough. They love their country or they want to do well with their country, whatever it is, all ideology. But we have to have somebody that can protect us. Orban was right. We have to have somebody that can protect us. Right now we have really low IQ people in there. The president in particular, he has about a 70 IQ and he’s going against 210. It never works out. It never works out. When I’m back in the White House …

Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

(53:18)
[inaudible 00:53:42].

When I’m back in the White House, the way they will sell their product in America is to build it in America. They have to build it in America and they have to use you people to build it. Thank you very much. It’s very simple.

(54:07)
We will build American by American. We’re going to hire American. We’re going to get it going. We’re going to get the auto industry back. It’s ridiculous.

Yeah.

I will revoke China’s most favored nations trade … You know, they have a most favored nations trade status. They’ve had it for years. We had it revoked, and then we had that stupid election, that ridiculous election, that everybody knows was ridiculous.

[inaudible 00:54:31].

But I will revoke it. They have a trade.

[inaudible 00:54:34].

Basically, they’re saying, “We’re just beginning.” They’re not just beginning. They’re teaching our people too much. I will pass the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, meaning if China charges us a 100 or 200% tariff or tax, we will charge them a 200% tax. Very simple. It’s called reciprocal. They charge, we charge. It sort of says … I shouldn’t say this because Franklin Graham … I told the story the other night, Franklin Graham, he’s such a wonderful guy. Billy Graham was his father, the greatest. My father used to take me to Yankees Stadium to watch Billy Graham. The place was packed. He would get up and he would rant and rave, and you left there and you believed that it was God, in fact, that helped me last week. You would believe it if you listened to Billy Graham.

Yeah.

Franklin Graham is right, probably. But he wrote me a beautiful letter. He says, “President Trump, I watch your speeches and your rallies all the time. I love your storytelling. There’s nobody that can do it like you. But, please, you’re hurting yourself very badly. Don’t use foul language.”

Yeah.

It made me feel bad, actually, because I don’t use much. I don’t use much. If it is foul, it’s not really foul. There’s really foul and there’s foul and then there’s a little off. Like some people, they don’t like the word hell. That’s a bad word. I mean that’s not good, or the word bullshit they don’t like, so I won’t use it. No, it’s true. But it’s more descriptive. There’s just no word to sort of-

[inaudible 00:56:12].

But he said, “So please.” So I’ve been really good, and for the last four or five times, I’ve really been good. But you lose a little something.

(56:21)
But reciprocal trade, it basically means you screw us and we’ll screw you. It’s very simple. I can’t describe it. I don’t think it’s foul-

USA. USA. USA. USA.

… but he’s probably right. To further protect Michigan auto workers, I will end the Biden-Harris electric vehicle mandate on day one. It’s going to end on day one. I will immediately terminate the green new scam and we’re going to use that money to bill roads and highways and bridges.

(56:59)
Under Biden and the radical left Democrats, inflation is wiping out our middle class. Groceries are up 57%. Gasoline is up 69%. Mortgage rates have quadrupled. They’ve gone up-

Boo.

… three, four, five times, and they never include that in their stats. They never include those things. They never include mortgage rates.

[inaudible 00:57:22].

You can’t get the money anyway. So what really is the number? Since Democrats took over, total household costs have increased by an average of $28,000 per family. Think of that.

Boo.

Under my leadership, we will throw out Bidenomics and we will replace it very simply with-

[inaudible 00:57:41].

… Maganomics. Maganomics.

Yeah. MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA.

I have to just interject. If you would turn off those cameras, because I don’t want this … See the screen up there of me? That’s very severe that comb over. That’s a severe sucker. What’s with that one? It looks okay from the other side. But that is very severe. I apologize. Man. I looked up there, I said, “Whoa.” Look at that. Wow. That’s like a work of art. Only look at that one. Don’t look … That one looks …

(58:53)
To bring down the prices of all goods, we will end the Biden-Harris war on American energy and we will drill, baby, drill. We’re going to start that day one. Under the Trump administration, we had energy independence, and soon we will have energy-dominant. We will be more dominant than any country by far. And we were … Just four years ago, we started off at number four. We got to number three, and then we had to beat Russia. We beat them. Then we had to beat Saudi Arabia. We beat them. We were like a rocket ship. Then we had this idiotic result.

[inaudible 00:59:30].

But we will be … And, again, we have more … ANWR in Alaska. It’s probably the biggest find anywhere in the world. The size of Saudi Arabia some people say. Who knows what it is, but it’s massive. Ronald Reagan tried to get it, couldn’t get it. That was easier in those days environmentally. They stop it with the environment … The environment is very important to me, and environmental is very important, but you can’t use it to destroy a country.

(59:54)
They stopped it. They stopped it for years based on the environment. I got it

… got approved, it was totally done. This is after since Ronald Reagan, who worked so hard to get Anwar. He wanted to be able to drill in Alaska. Think of it as the size of Saudi Arabia approximately bigger than Texas, bigger than everything, we would’ve had something that nobody else even comes close to. And on the first week in office, his department of the interior person who was just put in Department of Interior, she outlawed it. She said, “We’re not going to use it.” Stopped all work. They were ready to start drilling. It took them a while to get ready. They’re ready to start drilling. The money would’ve been incredible. The prices were very high. We’re the only country that stops drilling when the prices are at an all time high. And we stopped drilling, but we’ll get that back and I’ll get it back very fast. But Anwar, they cut it. Unbelievable.

(01:00:53)
And I will cut taxes even further than we did before. And that includes no tax on tips, right? No tax on tips. All the government does is harass everybody over it anyway. It’s like a big harassment operation. They hired 88,000 IRS people to go arrest everybody.

Boo!

So if you work in a restaurant, if you drive a cab, or if you do anything having to do with tips, I hope you’re going to remember bartenders. Let’s see, hospitality workers, a caddy, a barber. Barbers get tips. I don’t give mine a big tip because I don’t think they do a very good job. If you’re a mover, a driver, or anyone else who relies on tips, the money is going to be 100% yours. You better go vote. If that doesn’t get you out, if that doesn’t get you off your ass to go out and vote for Trump, nothing will. Got to do it, right? Got to do it. And as we rescue our economy, I will also restore the sacred and sovereign borders of a place called the United States of America, right? United States of America.

(01:02:14)
With Democrats in charge, the greatest invasion in history is taking place right now. This is an invasion of our country. You remember during the time I was trying to get the wall and I was getting all sorts of assurances and you couldn’t get it from Congress. It was incredible. So I did get a lot of money for the military, so I put an extra 10 billion. I put a little fund, an extra 10 billion. I then called it an invasion of our country, and I took it out of the military and I got it built. And now we’re going to build it larger. We have to close up the areas that weren’t built. We have certain areas where we needed to have them open for a little while, for getting all of our stuff back. I don’t like leaving brand new bulldozers and everything on the other side of the border, right? We want to close it up, but we had certain areas we had to close up. And when they took over, they said, “We’re not going to close it.” I said, “These guys actually do.”

(01:03:06)
I thought they were kidding. I thought they were not being serious. Who would want an open border? Who would want an open border where people come in from prisons and jails and mental institution?

[inaudible 01:03:18].

Either people that don’t love our country. Stupid people. They’re not stupid because anybody that can cheat that well on an elections. It’s not stupid. Or maybe a new thing’s emerging where they want to get people to vote illegally. And they don’t care. They have no shame. And we’re watching that. Our chairman is here, the Republican chairman is here, the whole thing. See, the big bosses is here in Michigan, so you’re going to remember that. But we’re working on that.

(01:03:48)
But they do. They’re trying to sign people up who just came in, who have no idea where they are, what they’re doing. They came in. And in many cases, they’re very rough people, but they came in, they’re trying to sign them up to vote. This is what they’ll do because think of it, if they have open borders, if they have men playing in women’s sports, they’re going to raise your taxes by four times. Four times. Think of it, what you’re paying now, you’re going to pay four times more. With policy like this, nobody can get elected. The only way you can get elected is to cheat, and they are really good at it.

(01:04:25)
That’s the only thing they’re good at. That’s the only thing they focus on. They have no good policies. They don’t do anything well. But they’re using these people and they’re trying to sign up the people. And we’ve caught them and we sue and we do all the things that you have to do, but they have no shame whatsoever. So that’s really one of the big reasons I think they’re allowing it because they’re not stupid enough to allow prisoners and people from mental institutions, people from insane asylums, and it drives them crazy.

(01:04:54)
Hannibal Lecter, the late great Hannibal Lecter would like to have you for dinner. He wants you for dinner. That’s the end of you, by the way. But no, these people are being dumped into our country and nothing good is going to happen from it. That’s why we have to do a big deportation and get them the hell out, okay? We have no chance.

(01:05:17)
Meanwhile, our crime rate is going up while crime statistics all over the world are plunging. We have become a dumping ground for the world, which is laughing at us. They can’t believe how stupid we are, how stupid, stupid, stupid we are. We’re destroying our country. They can’t believe what they’re getting away with, but they’re getting away with it at levels that they never thought possible. In Venezuela, crime is down 72%. Caracas, Venezuela is a very, very dangerous place. And now because of the great job they’ve done in removing their criminals into the United States, next year we’re going to have our Michigan rally in Caracas, Venezuela because it’s nice and safe, okay? Does that sound like a good idea to you?

Yeah!

Because we want safety. Now the press is going to write that. They’re going to say, “Donald Trump proposed next year’s Michigan rally in Caracas, Venezuela.” They’ll say, “Isn’t that horrible? Isn’t that unpatriotic?” You understand. This is what I have to go with. I’m only kidding, press. I’m only kidding. Although maybe it’s not a bad idea.

(01:06:29)
So El Salvador is an interesting one because I know the president, he’s a young guy. Young guy. And he’s been getting this great press, this great press that his crime rate’s way down and they’re training their criminals. Well, you don’t train criminals, okay? Maybe every once in a while you get lucky, but you don’t. So in El Salvador, murders are down 70%. He’s saying, “Yes, we’re teaching…” He’s different. Most of them just say, “Well, the United States is stupid, so we’re dumping all our criminals.” He does it differently. Smart. He goes, “We’re working with our people that are causing problems in crime.” He’s not working with them. He’s dumping them in the United States. And their crime rate, their murder rate is down 72%, 73% and going up.

(01:07:14)
I don’t blame them because if I was running one of those countries, and we’re not just talking in South America, but if I were running one of those countries, I would’ve been doing it much more. They’re also emptying their jails. The big thing is their jails. Those jails were packed. Now all of a sudden it’s like, “Oh, isn’t this wonderful? They’re doing such a wonderful job.” They’re dumping their criminals into the United States of America, and we are not going to take it anymore. Stupid people.

(01:07:45)
You are not going to teach a criminal not to be a criminal. Not going to happen. And you don’t have the time. You don’t have the energy because you have to do other things. That is why as soon as I take the oath of office, we will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country. Even larger than that of President Dwight D. Eisenhower many years ago. He was a big deportation person.

(01:08:26)
Under the radical left Democrats, Michigan communities are being overrun with migrant crime. You know that better than anybody, right? Does everybody agree? It’s being unbelievable.

Yeah!

In Oakland County, criminal squads of illegal alien gang members are hiding into trees and breaking into Michigan homes after dark, looting them for jewelry, purses. They’ve taken the women’s purses right out of their bedrooms, electronics, cash. They’re stealing. They’re the houses. Earlier this year in Kent County… Does anybody live in Kent County here?

Yeah!

Sounds good to me, but you’re not going to like this. A sadistic, illegal alien of which there are many criminals was sentenced for executing a 22-year-old Grand Rapids woman while she was in her car with her 1-year-old baby, shooting her at least five times with a rifle at point-blank range while the killer was wanted on an outstanding warrant for attempted strangulation of another woman. When I returned to the White House, we will stop the plunder, rape, slaughter, and destruction of our American suburb cities in town.

(01:09:39)
We will shut down deadly sanctuary cities. We’re not going to have them anymore. And we will shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement. We’re going to get the bad ones out. We’re going to get them out immediately. It’s not going to take long. We’re going to rely on law enforcement, and we’re going to give law enforcement back their dignity, respect, and power so they’re allowed to protect you.

(01:10:15)
It’s no wonder Joe Biden and his thugs are so desperate to stop us. They know that we are the only ones who can stop them. We’re the only ones. We talk about Biden like he’s a feeble old guy, and he is. He is. But it’s the people that surround him. I mean, he’s perfect for them. This is the fascists and communists and some bad people surround him. I know just about all of them. I can tell you about all of them.

(01:10:42)
Did you hear about our big victory in Florida last week? Did you hear? We won the big case? “We’re going to take down Trump. We’re going to take down Trump.” Now, when you have a great court system, when you have honorable judges, people that really love the country, good things can happen. But we won that case in its entirety. “That was the one that’s going to take him down,” they’ve been saying that for what? Eight years now, right?

[inaudible 01:11:09].

And here we are leading in every poll. We got to get it close. You got it close. You got it close. We don’t want to talk too much. I always say if we win, if we win, because I don’t like to say “When we win.” Because they cheat like hell. So if we win. But we got to get it close. We’re close four months. But you know what four months is in this racket? Like an eternity. Four months is like an eternity, but we’re leading by a lot, not just by a little. We’re leading every state, every important swing state by a lot, and we’re leading nationally by a lot, but we got to get it close.

(01:11:48)
The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020, and we’re not going to allow them to rig the president election in 2024. We’re not going to allow it.

[inaudible 01:12:04].

Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxist, communist and fascist indict me, I consider it a great badge of honor. I’ve been indicted more than the legendary Alphonse Capone, Scarface. He was a tough man. See that guy right there? Ultra MAGA. You’re ultra MAGA. He’s tough as hell. But if Alphonse didn’t like you, you would be in the foundation of a building rising someplace in you’re great state, right? He was a tough cookie, this guy.

[inaudible 01:12:53].

I got indicted more than Alphonse Capon. Think of it. My parents are looking down. I had wonderful parents. They never saw this for me. They never saw. Let’s see, I’m voting for… Oh, I don’t want to even read that one. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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But I’m being indicted for you. Don’t worry about these fake indictments.

[inaudible 01:13:15].

These aren’t indictments. These are Biden indictments. These are a sick, weak, pathetic man who can’t run an election so he indicts his opponent thinking that’s going to win, and in many cases it would. Third World countries do this a lot. Banana Republics do it a lot. We’ve never done it, and we’re going to teach them why they can never do it again, because it’s actually… Hard to believe, it’s actually driven our poll numbers way up.

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And then we had the debate. Did anybody watch the debate?

Yeah!

Poll. Poll. Who won the debate? Biden?

Boo!

Or Trump?

Yeah!

Poll. Free Poll. I just saved $300,000. Isn’t it something these pollsters, they… Oh, I have Tony Fabrizio and McLaughlin back there. I got to be careful, but I just saved 300,000 during that poll. 97 people have been interviewed, and Trump is leading by a little smidgen. I got 25,000 people here or something. They got so many people outside. I wish we could include them. I’d love to get them in. Would anybody like to leave now and let the other people come?

No!

That’s not nice. Never forget our enemies want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom. They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you. And in the end, they’re not after me. They’re after you. I just happen to be standing in their way, and I always will, right? I always will, fellas. So we have some exciting news today because we’re pleased to be joined by many outstanding Michigan patriots they are. I know every one of them, including your next US senator from Michigan, Mike Rogers. And Mike is just as adamant as me. He’ll vote to stop the invasion, end inflation, halt the outsourcing of Michigan jobs and bring back the auto industry. You are going to double or triple your auto industry within the next three years under Trump. Mark it down. Mark it down.

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Because we’re not taking their cars. We want them to build the cars here using you people to build them. Also with us is another good man who is running for Michigan Senate seat, Sandy Pensler. Do you know Sandy? So I have a big announcement to make then. Sandy has just announced that he would like to do something very important tonight. So you have Mike, who’s a total pro, Sandy who’s a total pro. I’d like to ask both of them to come on up. And I’d like to have Sandy make a statement first. Thank you. Come on up, fellas.

[inaudible 01:16:28].

Mr. President.

[inaudible 01:16:28].

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah! [inaudible 01:16:56].

Thank you, Mr. President. I was so inspired when President Trump kissed the empty uniform of Corey Comperatore. I flashed back immediately to a couple days after 9/11 at the local firehouse where I hugged the lone remaining survivor and looked out at 12 empty uniforms. Thank you for honoring all of them as well. My campaign was always about making America better. The best way to do that is to enact President Trump’s policies. Let’s go Trump! Let’s go Trump! To do that, we need control of the Senate. A divisive continued primary effort hurts the chances of that, and that’s not okay. So tonight I’m doing the right thing and ceasing my Senate candidacy. No, no, it’s not an “Ah.” It’s the right thing. President Trump endorsed Mike Rogers. Tonight, so am I.

Yeah!

Mike’s going to make a heck of a senator. So I want you guys to look around the room tonight because everything goes through Michigan, the presidency, the Senate, the House and the State House. Look around, make a pledge to each other. We’re going to fight, fight, fight like hell to save America and elect Donald Trump, Mike Rogers, and the rest of the ticket on the Republican Party. Thank you.

USA! USA! USA! USA!

Thank you, Sandy. I am honored to have you stand with us in all Republicans to win the state of Michigan. Thank you for your courage. Thank you for your leadership. You’re going to be an important voice going forward in our party in Michigan. And Mr. President, I want to say this as a former law enforcement guy, it wasn’t that the bullet took you to the ground. It was the fact that you got back up for America.

USA! USA! USA! USA!

You bet. I have spent my career working to protect America as an Army officer, as an FBI agent working organized crime in Chicago, as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. I have never seen a more unsafe America because of the Democrats over the last four years.

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Here’s the good news, Mr. President. You’ll have a partner in the United States Senate that will bring manufacturing back to Michigan. We are the arsenal of democracy. We will be again in this great state. And I’ll pledge to you, I will get Department of Justice reoriented to actually going after criminals. We are going to dismantle fentanyl distribution from here to the steps of China, and we’re going to tell China, “You sell in the United States. You’ll have a price to pay.”

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Mr. President, I’ll guarantee you this as well. With your leadership, winning the state of Michigan, winning for the United States, putting America back in Washington, DC versus Washington, DC and the rest of America, we will make America respected again. We will bring back law and order again. We will make America safe again. Let’s flip the Senate. Let’s elect Donald Day Trump and Mike Rogers to the Senate, and let’s get busy. Thanks, Mr. President.

[inaudible 01:22:22].

[inaudible 01:22:25].

We’re unifying the party, and that was beautiful to watch. Thank you, Sandy and Mike. And Mike, good luck. You’re running against somebody that’s such a bad senator. I was there for four years plus. I don’t even remember meeting that particular person. This is not a senator for Michigan. Mike Rogers is going to be a great senator. He’s got gravitas. He really knows his way. Highly respected in Washington. I mean, it should be an easy race. Nothing’s easy, but it should be an easy race. So good luck. Good luck. And thank you very much, Sandy, Mike.

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We’re also joined by members of Congress and the great people, friends of mine, warriors, Jack Bergman. Jack? Thank you, Jack. Great job. A real friend of mine, somebody I was very much in favor of right at the beginning, John James. Thank you, John. A warrior, somebody who helped me through a lot of different things. He gets things done, Bill Huizenga. Bill, thank you, Bill. Thank you very much. And another one. These are all great people. Tim Wahlberg. Thank you for everything you’ve done, Tim. You’ve been unbelievable. Always there for me, right? Always there.

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And a man from a slightly different location, a little bit down. You’re not going to get there with an electric car, unless you want to stop a few times, but he comes from a state known as Florida. Great place, and he’s so respected. He’s such an incredible man. Brian Mast. Brian. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. Oh, Brian. Thank you, Brian. What a guy he is. He’s a warrior. He’s a real warrior. Thank you, Brian. Michigan House Republican leader, Matt Hall. Thank you, Matt. Good job you’re doing, Matt. Are we going to win, Matt? Will you please make sure? We need these local ones, right? That’s right.

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Michigan Senate Republican leader, Aric Nesbitt. Thank you Aric. Great. Thank you. Good job.

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A congressional candidate who I hear is doing very well, Tom Barrett. Tom, get in there and win. Good.

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A friend of mine who was really brave, ran a tough phrase. It’s amazing, actually. Really did well. Her father was a very special guy. He was in the steel industry and he passed away, a battle with cancer. A long time battle, but he was fantastic, and I got to know him both very well. She’s a terrific woman. Tudor Dixon. Thank you, Tudor.

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Ambassador Joe Cella. Thank you, Joe. Good job you’re doing, Joe.

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Very important person in this room, Michigan GOP chairman, where are you? Okay. Pete Hoekstra. Oh, there he is. I fought like hell for him to take that job, right, Pete? I said, “Pete, you got to do it.” How are we doing, Pete? How are we doing? Huh? We’re doing good. If you’re in charge, he’s going to win. He was a congressman, a really good one, respected. He left. I made him ambassador. He was a great ambassador, and I then said, “Pete, you got to do it.” He lives here. I said, you got to do it. And we appreciate you doing it. Both of you, thank you very much. We appreciate it very much.

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RNC Chairman, he put on that show with a person named Laura Trump. How good is she? How good is she? She’s unbelievable. She made a great speech. And her husband made a very good speech the other night, didn’t he? Eric and Don. I don’t want to talk about anyone else. Only my kids, you know? But they all did well. Everybody did well, honestly. I do think Hulk Hogan, I thought he was incredible. I hadn’t seen him in a while. And I’ll tell you what, I’m not going to mess with him. We’re not going to mess with a Hulk there, but he was fantastic the other night. All of them, every single one. My granddaughter did very well. Look at she… Who said that? Who said my granddaughter? Wow. Kai. Kai is great. Great golfer. She’s a great golfer.

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But we have another man who’s very important and the RNC chairman, Michael Watley, who’s been incredible. Wherever Michael. Mike. Thank you, Mike. Great job. I said, “Michael, you have one job. We got so many votes, we don’t know what to do with them. You got to guard the vote. When those votes get put in, they can’t be missing. They can’t throw them out. They can’t stuff ballot boxes. They can’t cheat. Make sure.” He headed up North Carolina. And on that night a while ago, that certain election night, that miserable where we thought it was 1:00 at 10 o’clock in the evening, and then all of a sudden additional votes have been reported in various places. We don’t have to get into it. North Carolina held totally steady. He had 603 lawyers working. Other people didn’t have lawyers working, and bad things happened. But this guy held, and I said, “That’s the guy I want to run the party.”

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And Michael, I know you’re doing a great job and you’re going to do something very special. We don’t need votes. We need to guard the vote. You ever hear the expression, “too big to rig”? The more we get in there, the harder it is for them. My daughter and her husband, Tiffany and Michael, where are you? Tiffany and Michael, you’re around here someplace. Two great people. Fairly recently. Thank You, Tiff. Great people. And Michael’s father’s here tonight. Highly respected guy. Great businessman and a highly respected guy.

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From the moment we take back the White House from crooked Joe Biden and Kamala… I call her laughing Kamala. You ever watch her laugh? She’s crazy. You can tell a lot by a laugh. No, she’s crazy. She’s nuts. She’s not as crazy as Nancy Pelosi. Crazy Nancy. Did you see Nancy Pelosi is selling out Biden now? Did you see?

Yeah.

She turned on him like a dog. “Well, I don’t know if he should continue.” All of a sudden, where did that come from? She was 100%. All of a sudden she’s not sure. Not sure means he’s gone. But no, she’s crazy as a bedbug. She’s a crazy person.

[inaudible 01:29:38].

I believe we’re going to have the four greatest years of the history of our country, I believe it. And I believe that Michigan is going to have the greatest of all of any of the states because I’m going to bring back your auto industry. I’m not going to take this.

In Mexico, they’re building among the largest plants for auto manufacturing anywhere in the world, in Mexico, near the border. They think that they’re going to make cars and sell them into the United States and lose all our jobs. It’s not happening. And you know who owns those plants? China. China owns them. And we’re not letting it happen. We’ll put 200% tariffs on, 400, I don’t care what would… Whoever is building your plants, we’re not allowing any of those cars to come into the United States, okay? We’re telling that to Mexico, right? You want to build those plants?

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A friend of mine who builds plants, that’s all he can do. He’s a great guy, but his strength is plants. If you say, “Walk across the street,” he’s not that good at it. But to build a plant, he has no problem. He builds a great auto plant. So I said, “I’d like to see one. Take me.” He goes, “We’ll have to go to Mexico.” I said, “What about the United States?” “No, not so much.” He goes, “They’re actually some of the biggest in the world, being built right now in Mexico.” I said, “This happened over the last couple of years with this stupid president that we have.” Stupid. He’s a stupid person.

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And I can say it because once you weaponize justice… I would never talk about a president like that. Once he weaponized justice against me, I said, “Oh, wow, that’s really incredible. That’s never been done before.” I can do it and I’m knocking them out. But sometimes you have crooked judges. We have some real crooked judges, too. That’s the only way. The only I can lose is crooked judges, but we’ll get it overturned, anything that happens. But once he weaponized… I wouldn’t talk that way. In fact, before this happened, before he did this, I’ve treated him, not nicely, but I treated him with far more respect than I do right now. It’s one of those things.

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But we can’t let these companies come in and steal our wealth, steal our jobs, destroy our companies, and end up building it 10 miles across the border, and think we’re going to allow them to get away with it. We’re not. They have to build it over here and they have to use our people. So, it’s going to happen. And Michigan will benefit more than any state in the union, because they stole your auto industry, and we’re going to bring it back, and it’s going to be at a level that it was in its height. Okay? You hear that, John James? You hear that? We’re going to put John James in charge.

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And the amazing thing, it’s not even hard to do. It’s not even hard, it’s so crazy. If you want to build something in China, you’re building it here and you send it over there, “We don’t want it.” They’ll charge you like 250% tariff. “We don’t want it.” Then you get an invite. “Build your plant over here.” So, these companies, they go over there. Harley-Davidson did it in India. They couldn’t sell. They had a 200% tariff on motor bikes. I had them in the office, in the White House, the Oval Office, and the head of Harley-Davidson. I was disappointed in that, actually, that we were talking about it.

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I was telling him the problems and I was going to help them out. But I said, “How are you doing in India?” “No good.” “Why?” “We have a 200% tariff.” In other words, if we sell a bike, they have this massive tariff. And I said, “If you have a 200% tariff, that means, yeah, that means you’re not going to be able to sell any.” But they invited them over to build a plant, and Harley-Davidson went, and I guess they’re building the plant or built it or something. But that’s what they do. I don’t blame India; I blame us for allowing it to happen. It’s not going to happen anymore.

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I had it stopped, and then we had the COVID fight, we had to fight COVID. We did a great job. We never got the credit. We got credit for military, we got credit for everything, I defeated ISIS. We did unbelievable things. Unbelievable. We got the biggest tax cut in history, the biggest regulation cuts in history. When I go to the companies, the big companies, highly sophisticated, I said, “So, I got you the biggest tax cuts in history, and that was good for jobs, and I got you the biggest regulation cuts in history, and that was good for jobs. If you could only have one, would you take the regulation cuts or the tax cuts?” Every single person, and I must have asked the question 200 times over the years, said the regulation cuts were more important than the tax cuts. Can you believe it? You wouldn’t think that. But we got you the biggest regulation cuts in history. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we win the presidency… We, we win, we’re going to all win it together. I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled, and I will be the only one that can make this statement. I will prevent World War Three from happening. You’re very close to World War Three. If I was president, the Afghanistan disaster, which probably caused Putin to go in, and by the way, he wouldn’t have gone in with me. He would’ve never gone in with me, and he didn’t. And by the way, he didn’t. But the Afghanistan disaster, not the fact we’re getting out, I was getting out. After 21 years, you get the hell out. But I would’ve kept Bagram. It’s one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. We gave it to them so stupidly, it’s one of the biggest airfields in the world. We built it many years ago for billions of dollars. We were going to keep that. We were going to man it, keep it. Think of it, one hour away. You know who has it now? China has it now. How stupid are we? Should have kept that.

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And you know the lift? The lift should have been done at Bagram, not their little local airport where they had riots all over the place and then the bombs started going, killing 13 of our great people. Obliterating, I heard the number this morning, 47. That’s maybe the right number, because we’re looking at 47. You know that, right? Obliterated 47 great young Americans. Their legs gone, their arms gone, their face just wiped out. And hundreds of people besides, hundreds of people. The worst catastrophe, the worst, most embarrassing disaster, I think, ever, that happened ever in this country. And because of that, I think Putin looked at that, the incompetence, the stupidness of Milley and these guys that don’t know what the hell they’re doing. And he looked at it and he said, “This is a great time to go into Ukraine.” But he would’ve never done it with me.

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If I was president, the Afghan disaster would’ve never happened, Ukraine would’ve never happened, and October, October 7th, the attack on Israel, would’ve never happened. Remember, Iran was broke, Iran had no money, they were broke. Now they have $250 billion. But we’ll get along with Iran, we’ll get along with whoever we have to get along with. But it would’ve never happened, all of the things. And you know what wouldn’t have happened? Inflation wouldn’t have happened, because I had energy low, inflation was caused by energy going up twice. I will restore a thing called peace through strength. That’s what we have.

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Remember, I’m the only president in 80 years that had… I started no new wars. I finished some. Totally defeated the ISIS caliphate. In my next term, we will build a great Iron Dome missile defense shield over our country, a dome the likes of which has not been seen, and it will be entirely built in the USA, and much of it will be built right here in Michigan. Why shouldn’t we have the same protection that other countries have built? Why shouldn’t we have the same protection that Israel has and that other countries have? And Ronald Reagan wanted to do this many years ago, but honestly, we didn’t have the technology. Now we do. 301 missiles were shot at Israel, and almost every one of them was knocked out of the sky. It’s an unbelievable technology, and it’s our technology, and we’re going to use it for our country, and we’re going to be a lot safer than not having it. The Iron Dome, we’re going to build the great Iron Dome, the latest and the greatest, and much is going to be made right here in Michigan, as you can imagine.

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And we will not cut one penny from Social Security or Medicare. And you know they want to raise the retirement age. Biden wants to raise the retirement age on… And they’re going to. You know why? All of these immigrants coming in, they’re trying to put them onto Medicare and Social Security. So, not only do they want them to vote, they want to destroy Social Security and Medicare. It’s not going to happen. And we’re not raising your age one day. He’s going to destroy… First of all, he doesn’t have any idea what the hell he’s doing. But I kept that promise four years ago, you remember? “He’ll come in and raise Social Security.” I went through four years, it was never even a topic that was allowed to be discussed, because we have, between the liquid gold under our feet, and all of the other things and the growth mechanism that we have in this country, we don’t have to cut Social Security, which people have earned, and we’re never going to cut it.

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And when you hear that stupid guy, that low IQ guy, get up and say, “I inherited 9% inflation.” False. He inherited 1.4, but really nothing. And when he says, “He’s going to raise Social Security.” No, false. He’s going to raise it, because he’s stupid, that’s why. He’s going to raise it. Don’t believe it. They have this line, this line where it goes one after the other after the other. But one thing, it’s very simple, they’re going to raise your taxes four times and that’s there, because they don’t want to renew the tax cut. The tax cuts that I gave, it’s approximately a four-times increase, and they don’t want to renew them.

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But you can’t believe these people when they get up, Biden and… I watched Kamala the other day. Brilliantly put on Fox, I don’t know why Fox does it. Please Fox, will you please get smart? Will you please get smart? And she’s ranting, right? “He is going to destroy Social Security, he’s going to destroy Medicare, he’s going to destroy this.” It’s just made up, it’s just soundbites. It’s disinformation. That’s the other thing they’re good at. They say anything they want to say.

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I am going to protect your Social Security, we’re not going to be raising the number of years, we’re not going to raise it by one day, let alone one year or five years or 10 years, like some stupid people want to do. We’re going to grow our country, it’s going to be growth, and it’s going to be using the assets and resources that we have, much of it right under the ground. We’re going to rebuild our cities into beacons of hope, safety, and beauty, better than they have ever been before. We’re going to have to work with the Democrat governors and mayors on that. But our cities are just horribly run.

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And then we have our capital, our beautiful capital in Washington, D.C. We’re going to take it over, we’re going to clean it up, we’re going to renovate it, we’re going to rebuild it, we’re going to make our capital the most beautiful anywhere in the world. We’re going to get rid of the nightmare of murder and crime, and it will become the most beautiful capital anywhere in the world once again, but far more beautiful than it was before. And when you want to go from Michigan to see the Washington Monument… Yes, we’re keeping the name Washington, we’re not changing the name. Or the Jefferson Memorial, where there’s a big move to change the name, we’re not changing the name.

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Remember when they were knocking down statues, and I was president? And I found an old bill, and I reenacted the old bill. Anybody touching, knocking down, or even trying to harm any of our great statues or monuments, goes to jail for a 10-year period, with no commutation and no shortening of the sentence. And it was a beautiful sight, as we watched everybody leave town. They left town so quickly, they left town. We said, “Bye, everybody.” No, we have to meet people that have evil intentions. They wanted to knock down the Jefferson. If I didn’t get the military out to save the Jefferson Memorial, they would’ve done the job.

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But I found this old law that today, we’re almost incapable of producing things like that. 10 years, and there’s nothing like good behavior and you get out in two days. It’s 10 years in jail if you touch your monuments, if you even try to knock them down. I had a news conference, I signed it, and everybody left town. It was a beautiful thing to do. We’re not doing it. We won’t be changing the name of Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln, like they did our forts. I get out of office, they did our forts, right? We won two world wars in those forts, and now they have different names, many of them. Fort Bragg, and the people that live next to Fort Bragg, are not happy. They’re not happy. They changed the name. We won two world wars out of Fort Bragg, and then they decide to change the name because they think it’s politically correct.

Preach!

On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and any other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto the shoulders of our children. And I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate. And I will keep men immediately, day one, out of women’s sports. And I will fully uphold our very important, but under siege, Second Amendment, as I did for four years. And I got the full endorsement from the NRA, you saw that, they gave us their full, strongest endorsement. No, for four years I protected, and it was not that easy to do. We will protect innocent life, and we will restore free speech, and I will secure our elections. Our goal will be one-day voting with paper ballots, proof of citizenship, and voter IDs. Very simple.

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But until then, Republicans must win. We have to win, win, win, win, win. We want a landslide that is too big to rig. I said it before, I’ll say it, 100, 200, 300 times before that very spectacular date. But remember, November 5th is not really the date. It starts in early September, North Carolina and some others, because now we have these ridiculous laws where you can vote before the election, after the… We got to have one day voting. One day voting. What happened to those ballots that were over there last week? “Oh, sir, we moved them around a little bit.” Oh, really? Think of it, you vote two months early, nobody knows what the hell’s going on. Where are all the ballots that happened? Why are they using a shovel? They’re shoveling off. You ever see what goes on? Take a look at what happened in Georgia, they’re shoveling ballots into wheelbarrows, moving them around.

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If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of the United States and added them up, they would not have done near the destruction to our country as Joe Biden and his horrible Biden administration have done. They’re destroying our country. They are destroying our country. And we get up and we have levity, we have laughter, but honestly, there’s really nothing funny about it. They got millions and millions of people, many of whom are criminals and terrorists, flowing through, and people from mental institutions flowing through into our country, totally unchecked. And they move many of them into hotels. Some of them are luxury hotels. Hotel owners are making a fortune. They’re destroying the hotel in a certain way, but they’re making a fortune. And our military is living on the street with nothing. And yet they’re putting these people into luxury hotels.

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So, if you want to save America, get your friends, get your family, get everyone you know and vote. You got to vote early? Vote absentee? I don’t care how you vote. They will say, “Oh, sir, we have to vote early.” A lot of times you vote early, that’s gone. You got to vote, and you got to follow your vote. Make sure it doesn’t get canceled out. You can do it. Vote on election day. I don’t care how you vote: you’ve got to vote. Vote early if you want. Everyone say, “Vote early.” I don’t…

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Look, you got to vote, and you got to get out and vote, you got to protect your vote. That’s what Michael’s doing. He did it better than anybody else in the country in North Carolina; that stayed right here. When Georgia went down, when Pennsylvania went down, it stayed right there. All of a sudden in certain states, they found all these votes. A totally rigged election, we’re never going to let it happen again, because this time, if it happens, we’re not going to have a country. We won’t have even a semblance of a country left. And if you want to help us ensure election integrity, sign up. It’s called ProtectTheVote.com. Protectthevote.com, sign up. And that’s on election integrity, you got to watch and watch very carefully.

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So, in conclusion, from Marquette to Midland, from Lansing to Flint, and from Detroit to right here in Grand Rapids, we’ve had great victories in Grand Rapids. Remember when we won the state of Michigan? Now we did much better the second time, but I won’t mention that. But remember, and I was at Grand Rapids, and we came in and we had a crowd like nobody ever saw late in the evening. Remember that? You were there? And we had a crowd like nobody’s ever seen before. I said, “Why would we lose Michigan?” And we ended up winning Michigan. I was right.

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Actually, Bill Clinton told Hillary that, he was in Michigan, “You’re going to lose.” He was a good politician, he had a natural instinct. He said, “You’re going to lose Michigan, you’re going to lose Wisconsin.” They said, “Oh, why are we listening to this man tell us this?” And he was right. Wisconsin and Michigan. I said, “Why are we going to lose?” We had 49,000 people show up. She had like, 300 people show up. I said, “Why are we going to lose?” And we won, we won Michigan. And then we did much better the second time, but bad things happen. We’re not going to let that happen anymore.

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We stand on the shoulders of the brave Michigan patriots and tough Michigan workers who manned the first assembly lines. You remember that? Does anybody remember that? It’s a long time ago. Anybody remembers that, they’re extremely old. Is there anybody that wants to admit? They revolutionized industries and turned this state into a manufacturing powerhouse like no other. And we’re going to bring it back, and we’re going to bring it back. I’m not talking about lots of other industries. I’m talking about the auto industry, because it’s such a big industry. I can say we’re going to bring back cement, we’re going to bring back all sorts. I’m just talking very simple. It’s so simple, it’s going to happen so fast. You’re going to be at a level as though you were from 30, 40 years ago. You’re going to manufacture cars again at a level that you haven’t seen in many, many decades.

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You probably have to get rid of this fool, this stupid idiot representing the United Auto Workers, because he sells the auto… I’m much more popular than anybody with the auto workers. We’re going to get 95% of their vote. But they have a guy, he pushes the electric mandate, and they’re going to be made in China. They got to get rid of that guy, he’s bad news. Your Michigan ancestors gave us Motown, the Mustang, and the might of the American Midwest, and it really is a might. They forged the steel, laid the railroads, tilled the fields, fought the battles, and won the victories that made America into the greatest and most powerful nation in the history of the world. It’s true. It was the most powerful.

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But now, we are a nation in decline, and it’s a very serious decline. We are a failing nation. We are a nation run by fools and stupid people. We’re a nation that has lost its confidence, its willpower, and its strength. We’re a nation that has lost its way. But we are not going to allow this horror to continue. We’re not going to let it happen. Less than four years ago, we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again. With the right leadership, every disaster crooked Joe Biden has created can be fixed, and very, very quickly. Every problem can be solved, and every wrong can be rectified.

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By this time next year, America’s borders will be strong, sealed, and secure. Very easily. Get ready, Tom Homan. Inflation will be in full retreat. Our economy will be roaring back. Optimism will be surging. You will have your confidence back. We don’t have any confidence, that’s like an athlete that can’t sink the shot, can’t hit the ball, losses come. We’re going to have you hitting the ball again. We’re going to have you playing at the top of your game. The American Dream will be thriving again for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. Law and justice will reign all throughout our land. Freedom will be restored. The flame of Liberty will be burning bright. Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country, will be a fading memory of the past. And our great, silent majority, including the once forgotten men and women of our country, will be the ones shaping America’s magnificent future, when I am the 47th president of the United States of America. Thank you.

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Because we are all Americans. And together, we will show November 5th to be the most important day in the history of America. It will be the most important day. And when we turn it, our country’s going to be great again. And if we don’t turn it, our country is finished. You know it, and I know it, and everybody knows it. We are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God. And together, we will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. Thank you very much. Thank you, Michigan. Thank you very, very much. Thank you.

Don’t you ever feel sad.

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Lean on me when times are bad.

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When the day comes and you’re down.

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In a river of trouble and about to drown.

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Just hold on, I’m comin’.

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Hold on, I’m comin’.

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I’m goin’ my way, your lover.

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If you get cold, I will be your cover.

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Don’t have to worry ’cause I’m here.

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No need to suffer baby, ’cause I’m here.

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‘Cause hold on, I’m comin’.

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Hold on, I’m comin’.

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Hold on, I’m comin’.

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Hold on, I’m comin’.

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Let me hear you!

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Reach out to me for satisfaction.

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Let me hear you, Dave!

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What else you’ve got to do?

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Call my name, yeah, for quick reaction.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Now don’t you ever be sad.

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Lean on me when the times are bad.

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When the day comes and you’re down, baby.

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In a river of trouble and about to drown.

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Just hold on, I’m comin’.

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Hold on, I’m comin’.

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Just hold on.

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Don’t you worry.

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I’m comin’.

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Here we come.

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Just hold on.

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We’re about to save you.

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I’m comin’.

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Yeah.

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Hold on.

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Don’t you worry.

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I’m comin’.

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Here I come.