(singing).
Donald Trump (00:44):
Wow. What a group. What a group. Thank you. Thank you very much. Wow. Hello, Phoenix. Hello, Phoenix. We love Phoenix. We’ve done well in Phoenix. I love this place. I even wore a special tie. Look. Because it represents the sun. It’s nice and shiny. And you got thousands of people outside that didn’t get in. So, I don’t know about… I don’t know if they’re going to be so thrilled.
(00:44)
But I’m thrilled to be back in beautiful Arizona with thousands and thousands of proud, hard-working American patriots, which is what you want. And I want to thank a special person, Charlie Kirk, for his tremendous leadership, as well as everyone at Turning Point Action for making this event possible. They’re really helping with the election and doing a phenomenal job. Yeah.
(03:03)
Also, we have a lot of real warriors here tonight. Thanks to certain members of Congress with us. Eli Crane, where’s Eli? Where is Eli? What happened to Eli? I just saw him back there. There he is. Eli’s doing a great job. A very non-controversial man. And he loves your state, and he loves our country, Andy Biggs. Andy. Thank you, Andy. Great guy. A woman I can’t believe she’s leaving Congress. She would have won by about 99%.
(03:42)
But she’s doing something very important. She’s going to Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. And she has my complete and total endorsement. One of the greatest people. She was just a warrior with impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two hoax because everything’s a hoax. These people are sick. But I just want to introduce a special woman, Debbie Lesko. Debbie. Debbie, ah, there you are.
(04:13)
Thank you, Debbie. Great job. That’s an important job. We got to get them on our side, Debbie. They’re Republicans, but they act like Democrats. We got to get them on our side. Another friend of mine, somebody that’s incredible, he’s tough, he’s strong, he loves you and he likes me a lot because he’s always fighting for me, Paul Gosar. Paul. Paul, thank you. You got a good location. Good. Thank you, Paul. Great guy. Great, wonderful patriot. All of them. They’re warriors.
(04:46)
And sometimes it’s not easy. I’ll tell you, but they are really something very special. A Congressional candidate who’s doing a really terrific job, his election was rigged the last time, I will tell you that. They don’t like… They say, “Oh, please. Don’t say that.” These elections, let me tell, if we could have honest elections in this country, I would have stopped campaigning two weeks ago. We would’ve had it made. But we don’t have that.
(05:14)
So, we’re watching it very carefully. And I’m working my ass off to make sure we get too big to rig. Too big. We want to be too big to rig. There gets to be a point where they can’t rig it. So, we have an expression, Charlie and I were just talking, it’s called too big to rig. Congressional candidate, Abe Hamadeh. Abe, thank you very much. And a friend of mine, and a really incredible woman, who’s worked very hard, and she had another one of those elections, the machines just happened to be broken.
(05:52)
Only the Republican machines, however. That was a strange situation. She had lines going back two miles. And I’m sorry, sir, you’ll have to come back about 12 o’clock in the evening. The machines happen to be broken. But she’s out there and she’s a warrior, I’ll tell you. And she’s a very fine person, and a great, great, she’s a great family person, and a great person who loves our country. You’re going to be your next senator. She’s got to be your next senator because she’s running against somebody who’s for open borders. Do you like open borders?
Crowd (06:19):
No.
Donald Trump (06:19):
I don’t think so.
Crowd (06:19):
Boo.
Donald Trump (06:47):
You got to elect Kari Lake. She’s going to be fantastic. Kari Lake. Kari. Thank you, Kari. She’s incredible. She’s going to do a good job. The campaign is just beginning. And on this day we remember and thank the immortal heroes of D-Day who landed at Normandy 80 years ago. 80 years. I spoke to some of them today actually. They’re the hearts and they’re in our hearts of this country. They really are. They’re the heart of the country, these great people. Greatest generation. Thank you very much. That’s true.
(07:14)
And it’s really tremendous we talk about great people. These are great people right before me. And I appreciate you being here, especially in these numbers, these throngs. But we have a job to do. We have to make American great again. We’re going to do it. We’re going to do it better than ever. And we are going to do it better than ever before. We had the best economy. We had the best border. We had the best of everything. And now we got to do it all over again. We’re going to do it even better. I just went through a rigged trial in New York.
Crowd (07:41):
Boo.
Donald Trump (07:48):
With a highly conflicted, and I mean highly conflicted judge, where there was no crime.
Crowd (07:55):
No.
Donald Trump (07:55):
It was made up, fabricated stuff. They didn’t want to bring the case. They could’ve brought the case seven years ago. It’s only when you run for office they bring cases. But they would’ve done that seven years ago, then not in the middle of my presidential campaign where we’re beating Biden, by the way, by a lot. Did you see? And by the way, right after the announcement of this, more campaign funds were given to this campaign than any campaign they think in history. Almost 400 million dollars. 400.
(08:28)
No, but it’s never been, nobody’s even seen because they know it was rigged. They know it’s a corrupt system. They know all about it. But with your help, less than five months from now, and we’re going, and I’ll tell you what, we have to change the system. We have to straighten out what’s going on in these courts. We got a rigged deal going, this whole country. And we’ve got to do it. And those appellate courts have to step up and straighten things out, or we’re not going to have a country any longer.
(09:33)
But we’re going to win the great state of Arizona. And we’re going to tell crooked Joe Biden, “You’re fired. You’re doing a lousy job, the worst job. The worst president in history. Joe, you’re fired.” How did he do today? Does anybody have a report?
Crowd (09:42):
He shut it down.
Donald Trump (09:43):
In a few moments, I will be taking questions. I’m going to be taking questions. So, I don’t know. I’m not like Joe. Tell me who’s going to have… You ever see that? He’s got a press conference that lasts for about two minutes. And he goes like this, he’s reading a card, “NBC, Jim. Jim.” And then they ask him a question, and he picks up the same paper and he reads the answer. They never did that with me. No. We’re going to have people asking questions. Whatever they ask is okay. Is anybody going to be watching the debate with this character?
(10:18)
They offered me this debate. And they thought I wouldn’t take it because it’s on CNN. It’s fake Tapper. Does anyone know him, fake Tapper? They wanted it to be sitting down, seated, and zero audience.
Crowd (10:35):
No. Boo.
Donald Trump (10:35):
And they want it to be short also, very short. And I said, “I’ll take it. I’ll take it.” Because you know what? They thought I wouldn’t take it, being on CNN. And Dana Bash is very tough to Trump. Dana Bash, another beauty. So, I have Dana Bash and fake Tapper. And they thought, “Here’s what we’ll do. We’ll offer him the worst thing that could be offered. These two anchors, Dana Bash, fake Tapper. CNN, no audience, nobody.”
Crowd (11:04):
Nobody.
Donald Trump (11:05):
“Your children, your wife, nobody can be there.” Oh, that’s going to be interesting for him though.
Crowd (11:10):
Make them pay.
Donald Trump (11:10):
Nobody can be there.
Crowd (11:10):
No.
Donald Trump (11:13):
And they want you sitting down. So, I said, “I’ll take it.” They thought what was going to happen is that I’d say, “I won’t do it.” And then they’ll say, “Trump doesn’t want to debate.” I want to debate. We should have many debates, frankly.
Crowd (11:35):
Yeah.
Donald Trump (11:35):
We have to find out why they like open borders where people pour in from… Right, Paul? Why do they… Who could like an open border? More importantly, why do they want… We’re the party of common sense. As an example, it’s big stuff. It’s bigger than people think. Why would anybody want to have men play in women sports? Why? Why?
Crowd (11:51):
Boo.
Donald Trump (11:51):
Did you see the records that are being set in weight lifting? These are records that are not going to be beaten any time soon. Maybe in 1,000 years from now. But they’re being in swimming, and running. And it’s so unfair. And so horrible. Really, so demeaning to women. Who would want this? I mean, who would want it? We are the party, and we’re conservative, all that stuff. But you know what? More importantly, more importantly, we’re the party of common sense.
(12:22)
We want strong borders. We want a powerful military. We don’t want wars. We want to have great education for our children. We want to have low interest rates. And we were energy independent just three-and-a-half years ago. And today, we’re saying to Venezuela, “We need your energy. Please help us.” It’s so sad. It’s so pathetic. We’re going to lower your energy costs by 50% within one year. We’re going to drill, baby, drill. We’re going to get those prices way down.
(12:45)
But first, I want to talk to you about crooked Joe’s and his criminal obliteration of our Southern border. You people know better than just about anybody about the Southern border because they are pouring through your state at levels nobody’s ever seen before.
Crowd (13:06):
And Florida.
Donald Trump (13:07):
Two days ago, Joe Biden signed an executive order to officially declare his formally approval and support for the largest border invasion in the history of the world. So, this has been the largest invasion in history. We are being invaded. This is not people coming in.
Crowd (13:26):
Why?
Donald Trump (13:27):
These are people coming in totally unchecked, unvetted. They’re pouring into our country. Far from closing the border, Joe Biden’s order. This is his new order. So, he’s getting killed in the polls. People say that, “Look, this is really bad what’s happening on the border.” So, they come up with something that’s fake. Just like everything else they do. It’s all fake.
Crowd (13:47):
Amen.
Donald Trump (13:47):
The impeachment’s a fake. The court cases are a disgrace to our country.
Crowd (13:52):
That’s right.
Donald Trump (13:53):
Everything is fake. So, they come up with this order. I won’t say it because I don’t like using the word bullshit in front of these beautiful children. So, I won’t say it. I will not say it. But this thing allows millions of people.
Crowd (14:10):
Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.
Donald Trump (14:24):
This allows millions of people into our country. Joe Biden’s order is pro-invasion, pro-child trafficking, pro-women trafficking, pro-human trafficking, pro-drug dealers. And in all, it’s really they bring death and they bring destruction into our country. It’s really pro-illegal immigration. It’s great for illegal immigration. It doesn’t do anything. It makes it worse than what you have right now.
(14:50)
By the way, if he wanted to close the border, I didn’t have to go to Congress. I had the best border we’ve ever had. I had the most secure border we’ve ever had. When I ran in 2016, I ran largely on the border. Border was really bad. I fixed it. And when I ran in 2020, I said, “I want to talk about the border.” And all my genius’ said, “Nobody wants to hear it, sir. Nobody wants to hear about the border.” I said, “Well, let’s talk about that nobody did though because I fixed it.”
(15:17)
It was so good we couldn’t talk about it. It’s pretty bad when you do such a good job that you can’t talk about it. But they said, “Don’t talk about it.” And they were right. Nobody cared about it because I fixed it. The problem is this border is, I say, 100 times worse than it was in 2016. 2016 was beautiful by comparison. But we’ll fix it again. And we’ll make it right because we’re not going to have a country.
(15:43)
Without borders, you don’t have a country. Biden’s action this week establishes a annual minimum of approximately two million illegal alien border crosses. In other words, he thinks he’s getting tough. He’s only going to allow two to three million people into our country.
Crowd (15:58):
Boo.
Donald Trump (15:58):
Where do they come from?
Crowd (15:58):
Yes.
Donald Trump (16:04):
Not including the millions that will continue to pour through as got-aways. You know a got-away? Those are unreported people. They got away. It’s called they got away. It’s a good name.
Crowd (16:13):
And they are?
Donald Trump (16:14):
They walk into our country, nobody knows they’re here. That’s not even including that Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States by far.
Crowd (16:21):
Yeah.
Donald Trump (16:30):
He is destroying our country. The only good thing, Jimmy Carter’s a nice man. Do we agree? Jimmy Carter is a brilliant president. Jimmy Carter is a brilliant president by comparison. His administration by comparison is brilliant. So, as an older man, not feeling great. And he’s a nice person. I know him a little bit. Nice person. But Jimmy Carter’s happy now because he says that his administration is brilliant compared to Joe Biden.
(16:57)
Joe Biden is the worst president in history. We have to win on November 5th, which will be the most important day in the history of our country. I’m telling you. It will be. I used to say in 2016 I’d say that not with the same conviction. But I felt in 2016 and 2020, I didn’t have to say we had a country that was just amazing. We had the greatest economy in history during that short period of time. We had the greatest in history, the greatest jobs, greatest tax cuts. Maybe the biggest tax cuts in history, biggest regulation cuts.
(17:35)
Everything was good. But I’m telling you that this election coming up on November 5th, 2024 is going to go down as the most important day. Because if we don’t win, it’s we, it’s all of us, it’s millions of people, if we don’t win, this country is finished. I really believe that. I think it’s finished. In addition, crooked Joe’s action dramatically expands the Biden migrant smartphone app. Do you believe this? He’s talking about a smartphone. He has no idea what a smartphone is.
(18:07)
That allows illegal aliens to gain free entry to be released into the United States at the push of a button. Pretty hard. You go like this, “Ding. I’m here.” Welcome to America. Biden’s order is not a border security plan. It’s a concession to the fact that he has lost control over our border. He’s totally lost control over the border. And it’s a really dangerous place. He’s conceding death. And he’s conceding defeat at the border.
(18:39)
On day one of my administration, I will be rescinding crooked Joe’s outrageous executive order. And I will be slamming the door shut on the Biden migrant app. And I will terminate every single open border’s policy of the Biden Administration as soon as I take the oath of office. It’ll take place on the exact same day.
Crowd (19:12):
USA. USA.
Donald Trump (19:12):
I don’t need to wait weeks.
Crowd (19:12):
USA.
Donald Trump (19:12):
It’s going to be on the same day that we take together, we all take the oath of office. Okay? The result of Biden’s action this week will be more innocent Americans killed by illegal alien criminals. More children trafficked and sold into slavery. And millions more illegal aliens pouring into our country. And many will come through a very beautiful place known as Arizona, right? Arizona. And I’ll tell you, it’s so sad to see what’s happened here, right?
(19:41)
Some said, “Do you remember you had your sheriff, Sheriff Joe?” Yeah. Where is he? Is he here? I used to love that guy. Where is Sheriff Joe? Hey, Joe. Come up here. Come on. Get up here, Joe. Sheriff Joe. No games. There were no games. There were no games being played with Sheriff Joe. I didn’t know he was here. Come here, Joe. I don’t kiss men. But I kissed him. We had a real border with this guy. People said he was too tough. Now they’re saying, “Where is Sheriff Joe?” He’s 170 years old. But we want him back. Joe, say something.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Hold on. I want to see your birth certificate. He doesn’t believe my age. You think I’m 73?
Donald Trump (21:08):
I think you’re about-
Speaker 2 (21:08):
What?
Donald Trump (21:08):
… 50.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I love this guy.
Crowd (21:10):
We do too.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
When NBC came up to me and said, “John McCain, your hero.” I paused. Because four months before, I woke up and told my wife…. Thank you for everything you’ve done for Ava. Never forget that. Never. So, I said about McCain, “I’m not going to bad mouth him. He still served our country.” But when I woke up I told my wife, “I finally found the only hero I ever had in my life. And that’s him.” And I’m like the president, I’m not a typical politician. We talk too much sometimes. But you know what? You talk from the heart.
Crowd (21:53):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Unfortunately, you get in trouble for that. And what he did for my wife, Ava, I will never forget it. When my wife came down, my wife used to watch Fox, who I never watch anymore.
Crowd (21:53):
Boo.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Except for your guy. And because she used to watch Donald Trump, and when I told Donald Trump about my wife, that she had cancer, he’s called my wife, not once, seven times. You didn’t have to do that. So, with all the-
Speaker 3 (23:00):
To all the media out there they bad-mouth me every day, I love the media that badmouths me because my polls keep going up, so keep bad-mouthing. They’re doing him a favor. Keep bad-mouthing. Anyway, Mr. President, from the heart, and by the way, June 14th, you and I, birthday, the same day.
Donald Trump (23:00):
Thank you, Joe. Thank you. Grab that rambling, Joe. You did perfect. You don’t want to pull a Biden. Thank you. This guy did some job on the border. He wasn’t appreciated, actually, and now he’s appreciated because you understand what he did. He did an amazing job, and a good man, great wife. He had a great wife, actually, and thank you very much. I didn’t know you were here, Joe, actually. I’m glad you were. If Joe Biden truly wanted to sign an executive order to stop the invasion, he only needs … think about it … a single sentence. And he would say, “I hereby immediately reinstate every single border policy of a gentleman named Donald J. Trump.”
(24:25)
Less than four years ago, I handed Joe Biden the strongest, most secure border in U.S. history. We built 157 miles and some people say 571 miles. We added 157. We were ready to get it up. It was going to go up to 200 and they didn’t want to put it up. But we built 571 miles of wall. We were going to add over 200. They ended up selling it. It was all made. All we had to do was flip it up. It was going to go up very quickly. Then we had a horrible thing happen during the election. You know better than us. And they ended up selling it for five cents on the dollar. Very expensive stuff.
(25:12)
Just with the border patrol spent. They wanted steel, they wanted concrete, they wanted rebar. They wanted 7,000 pound concrete. They wanted hardened steel, very good stuff. And they wanted the panel on top that was called an anti-climb panel. They never liked it visually, but they said, ” It does work. We checked it.” The same guys, we hired mountain climbers. Could you believe from Mount Everest? That’s pretty good. And they couldn’t get up when you had the anti-climb panel. I’m giving you this little trivia effects. The panel on top. They hated it because they said, “It doesn’t look good.”
(25:47)
But then when they found out they couldn’t climb with the panel, without the panel they had no problem. I said, “Let’s put the panel in. It looks just fine.” But we ended all of the catch-and-release. We shut down asylum for them. Remained in Mexico, Safe Third Agreements in title, and we brought illegal immigration to the lowest level on record under the Trump administration. If you cross our border illegally and you got caught, we send you back to the place from which you came.
(26:14)
And they weren’t allowed to do that with Obama and Biden. When I first came in, I said, “You got to get them on MS-13.” We took out thousands of MS-13 criminals, we sent them back to their place. We had plenty of them here. We got them all out. But I was told, “Sir, you’re not going to be able to do that.” “Why?” “Because Honduras, and El Salvador and some of the other countries, they wouldn’t take them back under any circumstances. They wouldn’t take them back.”
(26:50)
I said, “What do you mean?” “We put them in buses, they block the roads. We put them in planes, they put big planes on the runways so they couldn’t land. They won’t take them back.” “How long has that been going on for?” “10 years, 12 years. It’s been going on for a long time.” I said, “How much money do we pay those countries?” “Sir, we give them 750 million a year for economic development.” “Okay, you do 750? Okay. As of effective immediately, inform them they’re not getting the 750 million.”
(27:18)
That was in the evening. That was on a Thursday evening. On Friday morning here, like, early 7:30 in the morning I got almost simultaneously three calls, not coordinated, separate calls from the heads of the three countries. And I said, “What’s up?” “Sir, we understand that you’re upset about something. Please, there must be a misunderstanding.” I said, “You won’t take the criminals that you send over in caravans.” And they have a lot to do with it. They put the people that they don’t want in those caravans. “You won’t take those criminals back, then you’re not getting any more money from the United States at all.”
(28:01)
“Sir, there must be a misunderstanding. We would be honored to take back MS-13 caravans.” And we started sending them back by the thousands, by the [inaudible 00:28:13]. When crooked Joe Biden got in, and he took the most secure border in U.S. history, and he quickly turned it into the worst border nightmare. I believe in the history of the world, there’s never been a border where they allow 18 million people, and I think that’s the real number as of now. 18 million people in April. Border crossings were up one thousand percent compared to the same month last year, one thousand percent compared to last year.
(28:48)
And by the way, last year it was a thousand percent compared to the … there’s never been anything … a guy like Sheriff Joe must be going crazy when he hears this. If one person got in, he’d go wild. One person. How do you feel about tens of thousands? How do you feel about millions of people? Millions of people in total. Crooked Joe Biden has imported more illegal aliens than the populations of 40 out of our 50 states. And soon that’s going to be a much higher number. It could even almost top … I think it’s going to end up topping the … I’ll tell you why.
(29:26)
If this guy got reelected, the country is finished, your border is finished. You won’t have … We won’t have a country anymore. It’ll be a disaster just on this one issue. And we’re not talking about nuclear proliferation. We’re not talking about all the other issues that he has no idea what the hell he’s talking about. If you think about it, Ukraine being attacked by Russia would have never happened. It would have never happened. Just wouldn’t have happened for a lot of reasons, including the fact that energy was [inaudible 00:29:59] and Russia makes its money with energy, basically.
(30:00)
But it would have never happened, would have never done. It wouldn’t have happened, and it never did. People say, “Well, how does he know?” Because for four years it never did. And watch China and Taiwan. Watch what’s going on with that. Another thing, Israel would have never been attacked, ever, never, ever, ever. Iran was broke, Iran was broke. They didn’t have the [inaudible 00:30:26] Hamas. Iran was broke. Israel would have never been attacked.
(30:27)
And you know what else? I could say 30 different things, but just to add one more, you wouldn’t have had any inflation. We would have had no inflation for sure. And now you’re suffering with numbers that nobody’s ever seen before, and it’s all unsustainable. But the Biden invasion is no accident. It’s a deliberate demolition of our sovereignty and of our borders. Somehow somebody’s going to explain to us why they would want this to happen. I guess it’s probably votes. They probably think these people are going to be voting.
(31:01)
And interestingly, I don’t know if you … it just came across the wires, I’m leading now with Hispanic voters. [inaudible 00:31:22]. He stopped the completion of that wall. He instituted catch-and-release across the entire Southern border, and he releases them in our country. I had catch-and-release too. You know what my catch-and-release was? I released them in Mexico. How about they remain in Mexico? I started something that we never had before. Remain in Mexico, and remain in Mexico.
(31:48)
You had to see Tijuana. It’s probably the fastest growing city in the history of the world. They couldn’t come into our country until we checked them out, and most of them didn’t check out. He knowingly ripped up the remain-in-Mexico policy, which was not easy to get. When you go to Mexico, you say, “Listen, we want to have hundreds of thousands, even millions of people standing by the border on your side. They’re not allowed.” Do you think that was an easy thing to get? And I got it, and I got 28,000 soldiers free of charge from Mexico.
(32:19)
And I said, “You’re not going to give … we’re going to charge you a nice, big, beautiful fat tariff of 25%, 50%. It’ll go up to a hundred percent.” And they said, “We would be delighted to give you 28,000 soldiers.” And now, last week I heard they want to charge the United States billions of dollars, billions, just for the privilege of sitting down with them and negotiating. Can you imagine? They wouldn’t be doing that with us. We willfully … think of it. He terminated my Safe Third Agreements. It’s a big deal. Safe Third is a big deal.
(33:01)
He rescinded Title 42. People are allowed into our country that are very sick with disease that can be easily spread, and they’re allowed into our country. It’s a big problem too. You see that. He threw open the gates to millions of fighting-age males from all over the planet. You saw that 29,000 people from China, every one of them looks like he’s ready for the military. I said, “Are we crazy or … What the hell are we doing to our country?” This guy is so incompetent, he’s so bad. And the only chance they have is all of this weaponization stuff. They’re going after everybody.
(33:39)
If they focused the same energy on Making America Great Again, I probably wouldn’t have even run. I ran because I saw such stupidity. And I won because you all admit it. The very first bill that crooked Joe sent to Congress was a plan to give mass amnesty to millions and millions of illegal aliens. Even if we don’t know anything about them, and they take care of them, but they don’t take care of our vets. I had a 92% approval rating with our vets. If Joe Biden wins this election, he wants to turn every single illegal alien that he led in across the borders into a voting citizen.
(34:31)
I believe that’s the only reason this is happening, because nobody could want to … There’s no other reason that this is a good thing. And for that … You know, it’s interesting. They cheat so much, they don’t really need that. That’s the way I look at it. So, I almost don’t even think that’s the reason, but it probably is.
(34:45)
By contrast, I want to send Joe Biden’s illegal aliens back home where they belong. Because quite simply, Joe Biden wants an invasion. I want a deportation. [inaudible 00:34:51]. There’s Mr. Walden. Stand up for the next one. I love that. By day. He’s a CPA who does very well. I get the [inaudible 00:35:28]. He’s been to about 200 rallies, I think. Right? Pretty close. That’s great. That’s good.
(34:50)
On day one, I will seal the border, I will stop the invasion and we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation. Under crooked Joe Biden, the world is emptying out their prisons, and state asylums and mental institutions. It’s emptying out all of these places at levels that nobody’s ever seen, and sending us the most vicious criminals, savage gang members, sadistic cartels pouring into our country. It’s loaded up with horrible, horrible criminals. And they’re pouring into our country in levels never seen before. We’ve never seen anything like this before.
(36:29)
And it’s only going to get worse. Do you see what’s going on in New York where they’re fighting, they’re having fistfights with policemen in the middle of the streets, fistfights? I’ve seen people get shot. I’ve seen fistfights. Those are long term and it’s horrible. Nobody’s ever seen … and in their country, they’d be executed immediately if they did. They know that. But it’s taken them a little while to get acclimated. You’re going to have migrant crime added to regular crime at levels that nobody has ever seen before anywhere in the world. That’s what’s happening.
(37:04)
And I have to say, Arizona’s being turned into a dumping ground for the dungeons of the Third World. They’re all coming in. In Venezuela, crime … Think of this. Venezuela. Next time we’ll meet in Venezuela, it will be safer. In Venezuela crime is down 72% because they’ve taken their criminals from Caracas and all of these different places, and they’ve dumped them in the United States. They’re emptying out the jails all over the country. All over our country, we’re being affected and affected badly.
(37:40)
And all over the world, if you look, the jail populations are at the lowest levels they’ve maybe ever been at. They’re at levels that nobody’s seen for 25, 30 years. And also mental institutions, they’re taking people out. Very, very sick people. And they’re dumping them into the United States. Congratulations, by the way. They’re dumping them into the United States of America. The mental institutions throughout the world, and I’m not talking about South America, I’m talking about in Africa, the Congo.
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They’re letting their prisoners from the Congo, rough guys, come into the United States. Congratulations. They’re letting people come in from Asia. They’re letting people come in from all over the world. The Middle East, they’re coming in from Yemen, they’re coming in from all over. They’re coming in by the millions and they’re coming in from the prisons and the mental institutions. And can you imagine the money they’re saving? And can you imagine how much nicer it is?
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But Venezuela, the crime is down 72% because they don’t have their criminals. They’re taking their gang members in a rough fashion and they’re busing them into our country. And there may be … is there any criminal from Venezuela in the room? Please raise your hand. There probably is, we just don’t know about it. No, but think how bad that is. And I’d do it. If I were the head of these countries, Honduras, El Salvador, I would do it in a heartbeat. Anybody. It is all over the world we’re talking about.
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I have to say, I would be the first one that would have done it. And I wouldn’t be having 50% jail populations. I’d be down to zero. They’d all be in the United States of America getting money for all of the different things that they get. They get cell phones, they get hospitalization, they get education. Even though they can’t speak a word of English, they’re taking the seats of people and the instructors don’t get English, and they have somebody speaking in some cases, languages that we’ve never even heard of.
(39:43)
There are a lot of languages that we don’t have here. We have nobody that even speaks these languages. And they’re sitting down in a school, taking a student’s place that might be a hard-working good citizen, the child of citizens. And they’re taking their place. Our country is going to hell. And we’re going to stop it. We’re going to stop it. Two great officers of the New York Police Department … these are great people, by the way, the New York’s finest. And they are fine. They are fine people. They’re great people, were shot in Queens, New York, by a migrant who crooked Joe released it into our country.
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This monster infiltrated from Venezuela and was quickly given administrative amnesty by Joe Biden. Got amnesty along with a taxpayer-funded hotel room, which is a very nice room, by the way. Very curious. While he engaged in multiple suspected robberies before shooting two of our finest people, of New York’s finest people. In Palm Beach County, Florida, last month, an illegal alien criminal, who Joe Biden released into the United States, was charged for kidnapping an eleven-year-old girl from her front yard and sexually assaulting her in the back of a van.
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And, of course, there was this horrific case of Laken Riley, who was incredible. I met the parents, maybe … the young nursing student, beautiful person, beautiful top of her class, from Georgia, who was savagely beaten and murdered by a bloodthirsty Biden migrant allowed in through Biden. After crooked Joe set him loose into our country, then they set him loose right into our country. Instead of apologizing to Laken Riley’s family, Joe Biden apologized to her killer for calling him illegal. Do you remember that? “Oh, I’m so sorry. Oh, I’m so sorry. I called him illegal.”
(41:57)
He actually apologized. He apologized to this guy. And remember when Biden could not even pronounce Laken’s name correctly in probably the worst State of the Union anyone’s ever heard.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
Exactly.
Donald Trump (42:09):
Under the Trump administration, we will not be apologizing to illegal alien criminals. We will be holding down [inaudible 00:42:23]. With his actions on the border, Joe Biden is the ringleader of one of the most vile criminal conspiracies of all time. Aiding and abetting human traffickers, child smugglers and terrorists. That’s what he’s doing. They have no fear. They know nobody’s going after them. They can do whatever they want. And that goes with drugs. More drugs are coming into our country right now than at any time in our history, times five or times six.
(42:49)
We’ve never had massive amounts of drugs pouring into our country. We fought it like hell. We were fighting. And by the way, you’ll never solve the problem without the death penalty. When I was in China, I was with President Xi, 1.4 million people, strong guy. And we got along well until COVID. I said, “The hell with it. It wasn’t …” What they unleashed on the world was incredible. But we got along well. And he was going to stop the fentanyl coming into the United States.
(43:27)
But I said to him, “Do you have a …” At the first meeting, a little naive question, but not so bad. “Do you have a drug problem?” “No, no, no. We do not have a drug problem. No.” “You don’t you have any?” “No, we have no drug problem.” “Why?” “Swift trial.” I said, “What is swift trial? Swift trial. What swift trial is, they catch the drug dealer and they give him a swift trial, meaning a very fast trial. At the end of the trial, if he’s guilty, they execute him.
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Every drug dealer, every drug dealer in China said, “Let’s get the hell out of here. Let’s go to the United States where you don’t even get a slap on the wrist.” Right? And I don’t know that our country’s ready for it. And I’ll be honest with you, if you really knew the stats, a drug dealer on an average during that drug dealer’s life will kill approximately 500 people. Do you know that at all? 500 people will die. Families, family members, children, young children, girls, boys, parents sometimes too. 500 people on average. And when you hear that, it doesn’t sound so severe.
(44:41)
We’d set up blue ribbon committees at the White House. We’d get socialites from New York, even socialites from Arizona. They’d sit around the table, they’d talk about it for five minutes, and then they’d start talking about what restaurant they’re going out to dinner. This is not … these people are really tough and they’re smart. The cartel people, they run these things like the best corporations in the country. They say they run more efficiently. They know how to do it. They’re horrible people. They’re killing hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.
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And when I mention it, and I do it, I do it purposely, I mention the death penalty. And without it, you’re never going to solve the problem. If you look at Singapore, if you look at other … The only countries essentially that don’t have a problem are people with either really strong crime prevention or countries with the death penalty. And Singapore is another one. They don’t even know what you’re talking about when you say you have a drug problem. “Do you have a drug problem?” “No. My God, why would we have a drug problem?”
(45:47)
We have an unbelievable drug problem. We lost last year, in my opinion, 300,000 people. That’s bigger than a war. That’s bigger than a war. And so many times they’re young people, and so many times it was a mistake. They
Donald Trump (46:00):
… thought they were taking something else. If you take the head of a pin and put something, a little fentanyl, on the head, if it’s a little bit larger than the head of a pin, you’re dead. You have no chance. And this is pouring in from China, and I had a deal with President Xi, he was going to give the death penalty to anybody manufacturing fentanyl in China and selling it to the United States. But then when the election was rigged and didn’t turn out right, he didn’t have to do anything. And this group definitely didn’t want to pursue that. But we had a deal. They weren’t going to be sending the fentanyl into us any more.
(46:34)
But we have to do something with Mexico. 300,000 people are dying a year. Those are the real numbers. They like to say 100. They like to say 90. It’s been that number for a long time. It’s 300,000 people, and it’s probably more than that, and we’re going to have to take very strong action because we can’t let that happen. That’s like being in a war. You take a look at the Civil War, you take a look at wars that we’ve had, where the numbers are not so much more than that. Double for the Civil War. That was a war within our country. And you take a look at this, we cannot let this stand any longer. We cannot take it from China, from Mexico, from anywhere else. We have to clean out the problem.
(47:14)
And the people that do it, the tougher they are, the less of a problem they have. It’s actually a very simple solution. In addition to all of the Biden migrant crimes stealing innocent American lives, Crooked Joe is also responsible for more women and children being sold into slavery than anyone else in modern history, because we are so weak on the borders now. We were so strong. This guy goes to the beach all the time. You ever watch him in a bathing suit? Somebody told him he looks good. Oh, Joe, you look great in a bathing suit. You’re 83 years old, you look fantastic. He can’t lift the chair. The chair weighs about three… You know those chairs, aluminum. Hollowed aluminum. They weigh like… They’re built for old people to lift and for children to lift. He can’t lift.
(48:05)
Well, today he couldn’t get up, right? That was not good. What the hell happened to him today? It’s always an adventure. He falls out of airplanes, he falls out of helicopters. What the hell is going on? But because of Biden’s policies, millions and millions of children have been separated from their families and pushed into the hands of the coyotes and the cartels. And 88,000, I don’t know if you… If it were me, it would be the biggest story. 88,000 children are missing. You know that. Think of that. 88,000 children are missing under this administration, and they have no idea. And unfortunately, many of those children are dead, just like many of the hostages held by Hamas are dead when they can’t make a deal. You know when they can’t make a deal, that’s a big problem. And they’re finding out that a lot of them are gone, a lot of these people are gone right now.
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But there’s the thing. Again, it never would’ve happened. October 7th, Israel, the attack on Israel would’ve never, ever happened under the Trump presidency. When I’m President, I will use Title 42 to end the… And we have to do this, to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries, and we will do it immediately. Have to do it. We will save countless women and children from slavery and servitude. You know, when you talk about all of the people that are essentially kidnapped, it’s another word for it, most of them are actually women. Most of them, they put them in trunks of cars. They have cells built in cars. They close… It’s 100 degrees out, it’s 115 degrees out. They put women into that to try and sneak them across the border. And they can do it very easily, because the borders… We have an open border into our country. But most of those people are… Just think of yourself, think of your family. Most of them are women.
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The Biden border invasion is also an all-out war on the working class minorities of our country, and it’s a flat-out economic warfare on African American and Hispanic American families and workers. These people are taking the jobs of African Americans, they’re taking the jobs of Hispanic Americans, and they’re tremendously affected. And you know who else is affected is unions. Unions are being absolutely slaughtered, because people are coming in and they’re taking those union jobs. And I think you’re going to see unions start to speak up pretty soon.
(50:47)
The illegal immigration is hurting Black and Hispanic families more than anyone else. In less than four years, Joe Biden has imported millions of low wage migrants and given them welfare, free healthcare, and work permits to undercut American wages. People with jobs, that have had it for a long time, are being fired all over our country. Now, real income for African Americans is down more than 6% under Crooked Joe Biden. Think of it. So that’s the African Americans are being… And it’s one of the reasons… By the way, have you seen the polls? Okay. The polls for African Americans are loving Trump, because they’re seeing what’s happening. And criminal justice reform, and I funded the colleges, and Black colleges and universities. Nobody else did that. Nobody else even thought of it. And what we’re doing is we’re getting tremendous numbers. Numbers that nobody I don’t think anybody’s seen before, of African Americans coming over to vote for us, and we need those votes, because we have to turn this country around.
(51:51)
Simultaneously, illegal immigration is causing rent and housing costs to skyrocket, absolutely skyrocket, because we have 15 million new migrants. We have no place to put them. We have no place to put them. And that number is building so… We have absolutely no place. In everything that he does, Joe Biden puts illegal aliens first. He puts the cartels first. He puts the open borders, these lunatics first. And he betrays the American citizens. He’s betraying the American citizens. Again, I say it all the time, he’s the single worst president in the history of our country. You know, until I got indicted… I got indicted, four times. Can you believe it? I never spoke… I spoke, I’m a politician, I guess. I can’t stand the name, but I’m a politician, I guess. I ran. I won. The only thing I did wrong was I beat somebody that I wasn’t supposed to beat. We won the election in 2016. And then in 2020, as we all know, I did much better than I did in 2016. We got millions of more votes, but a lot of bad things happened. They used COVID to cheat, et cetera, et cetera. We’re not going to let that happen again.
(53:10)
But as your president, I will put African Americans first, Hispanic Americans first, Asian Americans first, women first, men first, people with the powers from the top schools first, people without a diploma [inaudible 00:53:26]. But basically I’ll put all Americans first. I’m going to put them first because my loyalty is to American people. And starting on day one, I will shift the massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement, including parts of the DEA, ATF, FBI, and DHS, if you know what that all is. I will deploy the US Navy to oppose a full blockade, like I had on the cartels, because when the land gets tough to get across, they swing it out with the boats. And we will stop that, we already did, and deny them access to the waterways of our region. We will put the cartels out of business.
(54:07)
And I will make clear to every federal department and agency that we must use any and all resources to stop this invasion of our country, including moving thousands of troops if necessarily, currently stationed overseas, to our own borders. We protect other countries, but we don’t protect our own country. Before we defend the borders of foreign countries, we will secure the border of our country. I think that makes sense.
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But first, and most importantly, because without this, it’s only going to go bad, we have to win this November. We have to win. Now remember, it starts in mid-September. It’s early voting, mid-September. North Carolina goes early, Pennsylvania goes very early. September 22nd in Pennsylvania. So it’s really long before the November 5th date, but we use the November 5th, because that’s the day that we will have a chance like we did years ago. We turned our country around. We made America great again. In fact, I couldn’t use that slogan. I wasn’t going to use that slogan in 2020, because America became great again. We were respected all over the world. And now I can use that slogan, because our country is a failed… We’re a failed nation. We need a victory that’s too big to right. You know what that means. We need everybody to get out and vote.
Audience (55:30):
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Donald Trump (56:03):
Thank you. You know, it’s interesting. We talk about Second Amendment. I’m the one, I just got recently the endorsement of the NRA, which I appreciate, very strong. Very strong. But I was talking to them, and gun owners, for whatever reason, don’t vote. They really don’t vote. Vote in very, very low numbers. The gun owners have to get… Also, evangelicals and Christians don’t vote like they should. If they would vote, we couldn’t lose this. Nobody that could beat us. So we have to get the evangelicals, we have to get the gun owners, we have to get these people to vote. And if they vote, nobody can beat us. And if they don’t vote, they’re going to take away your guns, because the Second Amendment is totally under siege. They’ll take away your guns. You’re not going to have protection, and other reasons that you want guns.
(56:51)
So the gun owners have to vote. The Christians. The evangelicals have to go out, they have to vote. So I’m asking everybody to go out, and we have to swamp… You know the word swamp? I fired Comey. I fired a lot of people. I fired a lot of people. We were doing a job. But this is a different swamp. We have to go to swampthevoteusa.com. Swampthevoteusa… It’s a different version of the word swamp. I never liked the word swamp, and then I said it one time at a big arena. The place went wild. I said, I sort of like it. I sort of like it. Frank Sinatra told me he never liked singing My Way, except everybody liked it so much, and then all of a sudden he liked it the best. So we like the word swamp, because it’s meant so much, but we have to… Swampthevoteusa.com. That’s where you go to get the information to request your ballot or pledge to vote early in person, or even on election day.
(57:52)
The main thing, you’ve got to vote, and you got to sort of watch your vote because these are crooked people. You got to watch your vote. Watch where it’s going. And if you want to volunteer to help us turn out or target voters in your neighborhood, we have a lot of people that want to vote for us, but they don’t vote. We got to get them to vote. We need trumpforce47.com. Trumpforce47.com. And with your vote, we will end Joe Biden’s border nightmare. We will fire his failed and weak, horrible, the worst ever administration. We will rescue the state of Arizona. We will make America great again. We will make it great again, greater than ever before.
(58:44)
And now we’re going to do something a little different. You think Biden does this? If they ask him one question, he just leaves. They ask him one question. No, we’re going to take some questions. We don’t do this often, because it gets a little bit sloppy, I must say. But they look like nice people. But whatever question you’d like to ask, it can be a horrible, embarrassing, vicious question, or it could be quite nice. I don’t care personally, because it’s called we answer… You ask a question, we answer the question. Yes, darling, please.
Speaker 5 (59:16):
Thank you, Mr. President, for taking the time to answer this question. I am a mother, a wife, and a woman, and I also foster and adopt kids. Growing up near the border, I’ve seen firsthand how unsecured borders have impacted my family and our community. I worry about the illegal drugs being brought into our community, and what could happen to my children. What steps can be taken to reduce the drugs being brought into the country as well, and safety and well-being of families and the community?
Donald Trump (01:00:00):
Thank you, darling. Very good question. It’s a very basic question. It’s a little bit what we’ve been talking about, but it’s going to be at a level that we have never seen in this country. Even as good as I did, I created the safest border in history, we’re going to make it so good. All Biden had to do is let the people stay there, keep the same policies. We wouldn’t even be talking about this as an issue. And I think in a certain way, it’s just one of the truly big issues. We’re going to make our border very powerful, very strong. We’re going to stop drugs from coming in. We’re going to stop this whole thing with human trafficking, which is a big part of your question, and we’re going to make your homeland safe for you to stay with your family, where thousands of people aren’t pouring in and looking through your windows and what they’re doing here in Texas.
(01:00:46)
And by the way, the Governor of Texas has done a very good job of closing it out. But here, they haven’t done that. They haven’t done that. And in California they haven’t. 82% of the people are coming in now through California, Arizona. So we’re going to have to close it up. We’re going to close it up. We’re going to use federal powers to close it up. Thank you, darling, very much. Good question.
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Yes sir. You’re a good-looking guy. Look at that guy. Looks like a banker from Wall Street.
Speaker 6 (01:01:22):
You can see I’m an old man, and I have grandchildren that I want to see taken care of, and I [inaudible 01:01:29] and I want them to know that they can have the same life that I have had.
Donald Trump (01:01:33):
That’s very nice.
Speaker 6 (01:01:44):
What are you going to do about that?
Donald Trump (01:01:45):
We’re going to make sure that they have the same… You know, you’re… I mean, I can just see how incredible you are by the emotion of that, and the way you asked the question. We’re going to make sure they have the same life that you had or better. We’re going to make it safe. We have to give authority back to law enforcement so they can properly protect people, because right now the law enforcement is just not allowed to do their job, because crime is so bad. Crime is so bad in the cities that one of the things I said is we’re giving immunity, we’re going to guarantee people…
(01:02:21)
You know, they lose… A law enforcement person, they go and stop people from robbing stores, you go to some of these departments where 500 people walk into the stores, they walk out with air conditioning, they strip the whole store, the company goes out of business, the store is vacant for 25 years, the whole city becomes a slum. And if you do anything as a law enforcement person, they take away your house, they take away your family, they take away your pension. We’re going to make it so that we’re going to give them essentially immunity. We’re going to make it that they are not going to be losing their pensions, they’re going to be able to do their job.
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And we’re going to get life back to where… I know exactly the life that you’re talking about. It was a life of common sense. It was a life where there was no crime, there was nobody getting bopped over the head when they weren’t looking, getting pushed into a railroad train or a subway. It’s just horrible what’s taking place. It’s horrible. It’s evil. We’re going to get it back to common sense. We’re going to have law and order. Thank you. Great question. Thank you. Great question.
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Yes, ma’am.
Speaker 7 (01:03:26):
Thank you, President Trump, for coming down. We really do appreciate you.
Donald Trump (01:03:29):
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (01:03:33):
I’m in the unique position of having two children that are in their thirties, and a set of girls in their… That are teenagers. I know what I did have to do with the 30-year-olds, I know what I now have to do with the teenagers. I have trackers on those girls, and I’ve taught them evasive action when driving through our county, because of the high speed pursuits of the human trafficking.
Donald Trump (01:03:51):
Who would believe you have to even think about doing that?
Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Never with the original two.
Donald Trump (01:03:53):
No. I know that.
Speaker 7 (01:03:58):
How would you handle the criminal activity that is running rampant because of this open border? Because all of this is from this open border.
Donald Trump (01:04:05):
Okay. Strength, and we’re getting them back. We’re bringing them back. In some cases, we’ll keep them here. There’s some real bad ones. But don’t forget, when we keep them here, they cost us millions and millions of dollars per person. It’s so crazy. We’re getting them the hell out of our country, and we start with the criminals. And you know what? Our local police know who they are, they know their first name, their middle name, their last name. We have to give authority back to the local police who are fantastic [inaudible 01:04:36]. Thank you very much. We’ll get that stopped, and soon.
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Yes, sir, please.
Speaker 8 (01:04:39):
President Trump, so great to have you here. Thank you for your time.
Donald Trump (01:04:44):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (01:04:56):
I’m a veteran Air Force individual. But foremost, I am a father and a husband, and I find it frightening that we have illegals crossing our border from countries like China, the Middle East, and other dangerous countries. How will you prevent all this national disaster happening at our southern border?
Donald Trump (01:05:11):
So, we can do things that nobody does with this… We have tremendous economic power. And by the way, if we’re on careful, we’re not going to have that for long, either. That’s going to go down the tubes with everything else. But if China or some other country is behaving badly, we have things called tariffs that are so severe. Mexico. Look at Mexico, what they’re doing. I can solve that problem, I believe, in one day. You send people through, you allow people to come through your country, with hundreds of miles they have to walk, hundreds, through… By the way, those caravans, I thought I came up with the name, maybe somebody else did, but they’re caravans of thousands of people, the young women in particular, but the people, but the young women in those caravans suffer so badly. And there’s so much death. So much death. And this is all caused by Biden, where people think they’re going to walk into the United States. It’s just another form of death.
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We are going to be so tough, and if a country is not going to behave, we’re going to tariff the hell out of that country, because one of the things… One of the powers that we have… And if we have to, we’ll do more than that, but I don’t think you’re going to need it. I don’t think you’re going to need it. You know, I had a very good relationship with China, yet I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. No president… We wouldn’t have any steel factories, any steel mills in the United States, if I didn’t do what I did. I was taxing them at 25% and 50%, perhaps going up very substantially. But we wouldn’t have industry, certain industry… They would’ve been gone.
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And it’s not only China, it’s other… Every country tries to take advantage of us. The European Union is brutal to us. They don’t take our cars, they don’t take our food products, they don’t take anything. We have a tremendous deficit. You know, European Union sounds so nice. They’re very tough. We have hundreds of billions of dollars of deficits. We had that really going great. Then COVID came in, and I had to take care of that, or we would’ve had a country that was 1929. If I didn’t pour money at COVID, we would’ve had a country that was a 1929 Depression. We handed over a stock market that was higher than just prior to it coming in.
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But we’re going to be very tough on countries, because you can stop it at the source. If you stop it at the source, it’s much easier than really having battles at the border. And we’ll stop it at the source. And I’ll go back to President Xi, and he’ll honor it, I believe. Death penalty for those people that send these horrible drugs into our country, and you’ll see it stop very quickly. Thank you.
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Yes, ma’am.
Speaker 9 (01:07:50):
Hello, President Trump, thank you for being here.
Donald Trump (01:07:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (01:07:59):
We love you in Navajo County, by the way. I’m a mom of three, and when I go to the grocery store to fill up the fridge, costs are out of control. So what do you think we can do? We need to bring those costs back down.
Donald Trump (01:08:10):
Got to bring them down. We have the greatest inflation, in my opinion, in the history of our country. They say in 47 years. Somebody else said 78 years. I say it’s in the history. You look at the cost of food, and you look at the cost of energy, and you see where it is. And I think we’re almost 50%… They like to say 24%, 28%. It’s much higher, and they don’t include a lot of the things that are really bad. I’ll give you an example. Interest rates. So interest rates went from 2.5% with me up to close to 10%, and you can’t get money anyway. But we have a very sick country. It started with energy. Now it’s all over. And now energy isn’t as bad as food, it’s not as bad as rent, it’s not as bad as a lot of things, but energy’s going to bring it all down. If we cut
Donald Trump (01:09:00):
Cut your energy in half. You’re going to see a difference, the likes of which you’ve never seen before. We’re going to get rid of inflation and we’re going to bring that number down; not just where you don’t have inflation. We’re going to bring those costs down. The biggest thing I hear is people going out to the grocery store. They make the same amount of money, but they can buy half of the product. They buy half and it’s the single… I’ll tell you what. It’s the single biggest… I even have them here. I have something here. Huh. Because you asked this question, I think I’ll show it. Should I show it? Look, Tic Tacs. This is what inflation does.
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Look. Not good, right? I kid, but there really is no kidding. It’s serious. People can’t live; people that had a comfortable life under Trump making the same kind of money. We had many more jobs and they had all bounced back, jobs. They bounced back from Covid. They were going to come back, but people that made the same amount of money, they live half as well because costs are so high. Inflation is known as a country buster. It busts up countries. It busted up Germany years and years ago. Anytime you have inflation that’s not checked, not controlled, it’s a country buster and it’s going to bust up our country because we’ve never had inflation so bad. So we’re going to get the energy down. We’re going to get the food prices down. We’re going to do a lot of cutting also, and we’re going to make our country very livable.
(01:10:47)
We had almost no inflation, and now we have record-setting inflation, and it’s killing people. Thank you, Donald, very much.
Donald (01:11:00):
Thank you.
Pastor (01:11:00):
Thank you, Mr. President, for taking my question.
Donald Trump (01:11:00):
Thank you.
Pastor (01:11:01):
And when you talk about energy, it’s a perfect segue to my question, and here’s my question is this; I’ve watched gas prices under the Joe Biden administration just soar, and we are no longer energy dominant, as you mentioned.
Donald Trump (01:11:16):
Can you believe it? Right? By the way, to interrupt, we have more, I call it liquid gold, under our feet than any other nation in the world, Saudi Arabia, Russia, but we don’t use it. We don’t use it. We don’t use it because of these people that are absolutely… They’re crazy. They’re crazy. We don’t use it. Drill baby, drill. The man just said it right there. Go ahead.
Pastor (01:11:46):
Exactly, Mr. President. I’m a pastor and I’m watching the members of my church hurt over how much, just like what you’re saying, the gas costs is just to get to work, go to school and go to church, and therefore my question is this, what are you going to do to help the everyday American who barely afford the price of gas? And before you answer that, Mr. President, I just want to say this as a pastor. Scripture says, “Where sin abounds, grace abounds, all over the world,” and we want to thank you for tapping into the greater grace.
Donald Trump (01:12:13):
Thank you. Thank you. You can be my pastor any day. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. We can get energy started. You have places in this country that are very high. Your energy is very high, but you have the New England states that are the highest in our country. It’s crazy, and if they had a pipeline going from Pennsylvania through New York, but New York won’t approve it. If they had a pipeline, they would cut their numbers down by 50%. I predict, and I will tell you, I’m going to get energy costs down to much less than 50% of what they are now, all throughout the United States. I’m going to do that, and once that happens, interest rates are going to fall. Interest rates will naturally follow.
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It’s not as complicated as people think, and I did it. We had no inflation. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country, and we’ll do it again, but we’ll do it even better. Thank you, Pastor. That’s a very nice question.
Speaker 10 (01:13:19):
President Trump, it’s an honor.
Donald Trump (01:13:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (01:13:31):
I enlisted in the Army Reserve because I love my country, like many of us do.
Donald Trump (01:13:32):
Right.
Speaker 10 (01:13:33):
Our national security is at risk with endless wars. What is your plan to bring us back to peace?
Donald Trump (01:13:40):
That’s a good question. When I ran against Hillary Clinton… I don’t use the word crooked anymore. I don’t use the word anymore. I removed that word. I use it for Joe. I thought it was more accurate. I had Sleepy Joe and I removed it into Crooked Joe. I thought it was slightly more accurate, but we had a situation going with all of these people, everything. They wanted to say that I was going to create World War III. “Look at him. Look at him. He’s a radical. Look at him.” I was a radical for not having wars, and if you look at Victor Orbán from Hungary, small country, strong man, very powerful man, runs it strong. He didn’t take illegal aliens. He didn’t want them. He said, “I want my people to be Hungarian. I don’t want to have my shopping centers blown up,” et cetera, and they asked him a few weeks ago.
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They said, “Let me ask you, Mr. Prime Minister. What’s going on with the world? The world is blowing up. You have Ukraine, Russia. You have Israel. You have all these places that are at war with each other. What’s going on?” He said, “There’s one thing going on.” He said, “Donald Trump isn’t president. If Trump is president, it’s all going to end. They all respected Trump.” He said that.
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They said that, “Oh, look.” Hillary said this, “Look at Trump. Just look at this guy. He’s going to go to war. He’s going to take us”… No, no. Look at me. I’m the one that kept us out of war for 78 years. It was 78 years until another president. Look, that’s a long time. I kept you out of wars. I totally defeated ISIS. I rebuilt our military and countries respected us. I totally rebuilt our military, and I rebuilt our Veteran’s Administration. I took good care of our vets. 93% approval. We were going to make sure there’s no wars. We don’t want that wars. I call them endless wars. I call them wars where people don’t even want us involved. Now, Ukraine’s a very interesting case because we spend hundreds of billions of dollars in Europe.
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Don’t forget. We have a little thing called an ocean in between us. Europe should be paying much more. Nobody asks them to pay more. I asked them to pay more for NATO and they paid a lot more. That’s where they got all the money because they were all mostly delinquent, other than eight nations, but they would always say, “Trump is going to get us into war with his attitude.” No, my attitude kept us out of war. We defeated ISIS. Totally defeated ISIS. We got out of Syria. We got out of Iraq. I got out of these wars because I’m a big believer. I want to spend our money in our country doing great things in country.
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You drive down the highways, our country’s falling to pieces. Our infrastructure is falling, and then these guys, all they want to do is spend money on the Green New Scam. It’s a Green New Scam. I mean, the things they’re spending money on, it’s like throwing the money out the window, and we don’t want to do that. We want to fix our roads and highways, and we want get rid of the electric mandate for the car. How about that? [inaudible 01:17:05]
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And by the way, I’m a big fan of electric cars. I’m a fan of Elon. I like Elon. I like him, and I think a lot of people are going to want to buy electric cars, but if you want to buy a different type of car, you’re going to have a… You have to have a choice. Some people need to go far. Some people don’t want their car built in China. I know there are advantages to… Basically, people have to have a choice, and you know what? You have to have a choice also in education. You got to have choice of education, and have a choice in what you buy, and that has to do with electric. The electric cars don’t go far, and by the way, they’re incredible. He does an incredible job with Tesla, and I tell him, I said, “You know”… and I think he agrees with me, frankly, but you can’t. They don’t go far.
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The same thing with the trucking industry. I met with the trucking industry the other night. They said, “They want us to switch to electric trucks.” They have to stop six times going to California. With a load of diesel, they don’t have to stop at all. How the hell can you do that? You’re going to destroy our supply chain. You’re going to destroy everything. You put everybody out of business. So we are going to do things based on common sense. We’re not going to allow men to play in women’s sports. We’re not going to allow people to pour into our country. We’re going to get your taxes way down. We’re going to save your Social Security. We’re going to save Social security.
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Biden is putting your social security at risk by allowing all of these people to pour into our country. It’s a big risk and we’re not going to stand for that. He is putting Social Security at risk. With me, your Social Security is 100% safe. Okay? Now you.
Speaker 11 (01:18:54):
Thank you, Mr. President, for taking my question.
Donald Trump (01:19:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (01:19:05):
I’m a retired vet who had to close down my business because of the disastrous Biden economy. It’s been tough. What’s your plan to make sure other small businesses don’t go through the same [inaudible 01:19:16]?
Donald Trump (01:19:15):
Well, they have to… It’s incredible. We had it going and I poured money in to our country, and I’m sure you were a beneficiary at the time, but I poured money to keep those businesses going and to keep people employed because of covid. Covid was a disaster, and we were able to get through that and we got through without going into a depression, but with Biden, he’s spending money on the world. He’s not spending money on you. He’s spending money on things that don’t work. He’s got the most expensive forms of energy ever where everything’s subsidized. He’s got windmills all over the place. Every time you see a windmill going up, you need tremendous subsidy. Now, it kills your birds. It ruins your landscape, ruins the value if you have a house. If you can see a windmill, your house is worth half, but it’s also the most expensive energy there is.
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We have to get back to the basics and we have to be able to help people like you; not to help his friends who make all this crap, and much of it’s made and a lot of it’s made… Most of it’s made in China. It’s made in China. There’s something going on. Why somebody would want to do these things where the product is made in China… That goes for electric cars, too, by the way, but the windmills are all made in China and some in Germany, but most of them are made in China. What the hell are we doing? Right? We’ll take care of you. You watch. Thank you. I understand exactly. Just hang in. Yes, sir?
Jorge Rivas (01:20:42):
Mr. President, thank you very much. My name is Jorge Rivas. It’s truly an honor to be talking to you again.
Donald Trump (01:20:49):
Thank you.
Jorge Rivas (01:20:50):
And real quick, my wife Betty would like to say hi to you real quick.
Donald Trump (01:20:52):
Oh, wow. Look at her. Thank you, Betty. Thank you very much.
Jorge Rivas (01:21:01):
Latinos really do love you, Mr. President.
Donald Trump (01:21:14):
Thank you. I love you, too. Thank you. Thank you.
Jorge Rivas (01:21:14):
Besides loving you, we’ll also pray for you, Mr. President.
Donald Trump (01:21:14):
Thank you, Jorge, very much.
Jorge Rivas (01:21:29):
My wife and I own a small restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, Sammy’s Mexican Grill, and since the pathetic Joe Biden Administration took over, the prices of everything that we used doubled just a couple months after they took over. So would you be helping us out and is there going to be some, “Drill baby, drill”?
Donald Trump (01:21:43):
Yeah. That’s a real good question. We’re going through questions and I have time. What the hell else do we have to do today? Let’s stay. I have time, but you notice that the questions are basically about the border. Think of it all these, almost everyone about the border, they want border security and they also want help on inflation because you’re getting killed with inflation. The price of bacon has gone up five times. You can’t order bacon. I don’t order it anymore. It’s too expensive. Bacon, as an example, has really… Eggs, all of this stuff, it’s gone up at levels that nobody has ever seen before, but I believe the energy’s going to bring it down. I think we can bring it down, and then once it starts that spiral, it’s going to be a beautiful thing because when they say we’re at 4% now, they’re not including the fact that you might be 45, 50% higher than you were four years ago. So it’s not 4%.
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We have to get it down. We have to bring it down. The best way that we can bring it down is with interest rates and energy, and the interest rates are going to follow the energy down, and that’s going to follow the bacon and the eggs down. Okay? Thank you. Thanks very much. Thank you. Thank you. I like that. I like that hat. Thank you. Thank you very much. Who else?
Jose (01:23:03):
Mr. President, it’s an honor to stand before you.
Donald Trump (01:23:03):
Thank you, my honor.
Jose (01:23:11):
Thank you, sir.
Donald Trump (01:23:11):
Thank you.
Jose (01:23:13):
My name is Jose and I own a small business that provides services for special needs children and adults.
Donald Trump (01:23:19):
Right.
Jose (01:23:20):
Thank you so much. I have a question for you this afternoon. Time and time again, we come across, “Hey, American citizen families that are denied services that their child requires, while on the other hand, we see others rushing across the border free and easily receiving, sir, easily receiving assistance.” What will we do, Mr. President, about the influx in immigration, the strained resources because of this widespread and open border, sir?
Donald Trump (01:23:56):
So we have to get them out. Look, it’s not sustainable for us to have 20 million people that we have to take care of and all. It’s just not sustainable, and their countries, I know the leaders. I know them just about all. Their countries are doing this because they’re smart. I would be the leader of the pack. If I ran Honduras, if I ran El Salvador, if I ran some of these countries that are sending vast numbers of people, I would be emptying out our prisons. I’d say, “Listen, send them to the stupid people in the United States who are led by idiots. Send them into the United States. Let’s have empty prisons and let’s never let them come back in.” Venezuela said the other day that, “We’re never allowing the people that they sent out to come back into Venezuela.” That’s not going to happen, but they said that.
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So they are sending them out and they’re saying, “You can never come back,” because they’re letting the bad people. We are going to stop that and we’re going to deport, and we have no choice. Dwight Eisenhower was so far the biggest deporter. He was a president that hated to see what was happening. He had a lot of people pouring into our country. It was really hurting our country badly, and in many cases people would say destroying our country because they were just coming in. Nothing like what you’re witnessing today, by the way, but he did very big deportation and very successful deportation. If we had a choice, it would be nice not to have to do. We have to do it because this is not sustainable for you or for any other business in this room.
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It’s not sustainable for our country. So we’re going to deport and we’re going to get it back and we’re going to bring our country back and we’re going to make our country bigger, and better, and stronger than ever before. Thank you very much.
Janet Garcia (01:25:48):
Hello, Mr. President. My name is Janet Garcia. I’m an army combat veteran, a prior federal police officer. [inaudible 01:25:55] I’ve seen my fair share of challenges in my life. I’m a domestic violence survivor, as well as a sexual assault… I’m a single mother and the crime rates rising, I’m really worried about the safety of our communities and families. What specific steps are you planning to take to tackle and make our community safe again?
Donald Trump (01:26:14):
We have to back our police. We have to back our law enforcement. We have to bring them back the respect, and their honor, and their dignity, and they’re great people. We have to do it, and the people that are most affected are really the minority communities. Those are the people that are most affected, and I really think that’s one of the reasons that we have so many African American people supporting us. Nobody’s ever seen anything. They’re leaving the Democrats in numbers that nobody’s ever seen before because they’re not feeling safe. They’re not feeling safe. Thank you. That’s a great one. Thank you. Please. That’s a beautiful baby.
Emily (01:26:52):
Thank you.
Donald Trump (01:26:52):
Can’t do better than that. That’s beautiful. Go ahead.
Emily (01:26:57):
Mr. President, my name is Emily. This is my daughter Felicity. We live in Northern Arizona. It’s beautiful and quiet, and nice, and everything, but it’s also in a rural area. My concern is that the nearest equipped trauma hospital is over an hour and a half away. What can your administration do to give rural Americans better access to hospitals?
Donald Trump (01:27:24):
Well, we’re going to be helping rural America. You know, rural America votes for Trump. There’s nobody going to take that away. We’re going to help you. Thanks for your question. We started a process with rural hospitals and other things in rural America, and I’m going to keep that going. They ended it in the Biden Administration, as you know, but we’re going to keep that going. Rural America, look, it’s the backbone. It’s the heart of our country. We’ll take care of it. Okay? You just hang in. We’ll get it done. Okay. How about one more that’s a good one? We’ll end on a good one. Always end on a good one. Right?
Speaker 12 (01:27:48):
We got to follow the baby, so we don’t know about that.
Donald Trump (01:27:58):
That’s right.
Speaker 12 (01:27:59):
So I’m add advocate for many senior citizens-
Donald Trump (01:28:07):
Good.
Speaker 12 (01:28:08):
… and they are struggling financially. Their Social Security checks do not make it through the month. They have to sometimes pick between food and medication. They’re concerned that they’re not going to be able to survive four more years of Biden. What can you say today to give them some hope and encouragement?
Donald Trump (01:28:22):
Vote for Trump. Thank you. That was better than most of them. Thank you.
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So we’ll just end by saying it’s been an honor to be with you. So interesting, though. Everything was about the border, and about inflation, and the economy. It’s incredible, and every question… Some of it sounded repetitive, but it wasn’t really repetitive. It was just from the heart, and frankly, it very much is about the border. The border’s destroying our country. We’re being destroyed in many ways. We’re not respected outside of our country. I say we have the enemy from within and we have the enemy from the outside, and I’m telling you. We are in more danger from the enemy from within with these lunatics, these fascists, these communists, and we’re going to stop that also, but it was so interesting to get those questions because they all concern the economy, inflation, and the border, and we are going to take care of it all.
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We’re going to make America greater than ever before. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good night.
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Charlie Kirk (01:31:22):
All right. President Trump, give it up one more time. Everybody. We need to make it too big to rig. Please go visit the tables out in the hall, apply to become a ballot chaser. Apply to volunteer. Let’s win this November. Thank you so much, everybody. God bless.