Transcript - Remarks: Donald Trump Delivers a Speech at a Fundraiser in Utica, NY - August 13, 2018 | Factba.se

Donald Trump

00:00:00 - 00:00:35 (36 sec)

Thank you. You know, I'm I'm here for Claudia. She has been incredible in Congress. She's helped us so much. She is just a wonderful person. She said, "Could you possibly come up to this community?" -- that, as you know, I know very well because I have a lot of friends here. I'm looking at all the faces.

Donald Trump

00:00:35 - 00:01:05 (29 sec)

I think I know about a third of them, maybe a little bit more. Uh, and I just want to thank you very much for all you've done, and hopefully we put Claudia right over the top, where she belongs. I think she's -- I don't think she's gonna have any problem. But, you know, I look at the, I look at this area and this state Ed Cox is here, by the way, a great friend of mine. Where's Ed? Ed? How are you? Back there. What are you doing back there? Thank you, Ed, for being here.

Donald Trump

00:01:05 - 00:01:41 (36 sec)

New York Republican state committee. And I think it's doing OK, right? You know, uh considering the fact that we have the highest taxes in the nation in New York, and we should have no taxes if Andrew Cuomo, if he took over and if he -- think of it -- if they would have allowed a little bit of fracking and taken some of the richness out of the land, which by the way is being sucked away by other states. You know, they don't have state lines underground. You know what that means? That means it just goes down, down, down.

Donald Trump

00:01:41 - 00:02:02 (21 sec)

We don't get it. You look at what's happened in Pennsylvania with the money they've taken in, you look at what happened in Ohio with the money they've taken in. They're fracking, they're drilling a little bit, they're creating jobs, and this place, it's just so sad to see it. And we had the potential to do it better than anybody and it's now it's, it's dissipating, it's dissipating.

Donald Trump

00:02:02 - 00:02:22 (20 sec)

Because stuff flows -- do you understand that? It flows, and they probably have those little turns, you know, they make the turns at the border. It goes like this, right? And all of a sudden someday you're not going to have that underground maybe so much, and it's a shame because you could have had no taxes, you could have had -- you could have had the lowest taxes instead of the highest taxes.

Donald Trump

00:02:22 - 00:03:01 (38 sec)

And it's very sad to see what's happened with New York. I was actually thinking of running for governor, but then I decided -- you remember right? No, I was seriously, I was thinking, because I said, I said with, I said with some, the use of brain power and common sense, you people could have had a boomtown up here. This could have been Boom Town USA. You know, you have among the richest in the United States of sitting under your land and you don't take it and other people are taking it, meaning other states are taking it.

Donald Trump

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And I said to myself, "I think maybe I'm going to consider running for governor, very strongly, " and then I decided to run for president instead, and that worked out.

Donald Trump

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I want to thank Chele Farley. Where's Chele? She's around here someplace. Good luck. I know I see you on television a lot. You're working hard.

Donald Trump

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I think you have like three different parties. I don't think Ed's too worried about that, right? You're OK with that Ed, right? She's got the Conservative party also, and uh, I've watched you and I know you're really working hard. And honestly, on the merits you should win. You know, I know your opponent very well. She's been up to my office looking for campaign contributions over the years, and she's very aggressive on contributions, but she's not very aggressive on getting things done. And because he hasn't gotten very much done, if anything. Has she gotten anything done?

Donald Trump

00:03:57 - 00:04:07 (9 sec)

One bill. One bill to rename a post office. You just go in and fight. You may see some big changes.

Donald Trump

00:04:07 - 00:05:04 (57 sec)

You may see some things happen, you know, they saw it in my election. Of course, I felt I was going to win. We were having these massive crowds, and a lot of people that traveled with -- I'll never forget there was a certain show on television, and the two people that truly -- these were reporters -- they truly hated your favorite president. Hated, they hated. And they were watching a speech, I was making a speech. We had 25, 30, 000 people in this massive auditorium -- stadium, actually -- and they looked at each other, they just looked they saw, "Can you believe this?" They were not happy. That was the day before, and then the day of the election they said, "You know, I guess that's the way it goes, " but I felt all you had to do is see the enthusiasm. So, Chele, all I can say this: you uh, you may surprise a lot of people. You may surprise, because people know it's wrong, what's going on.

Donald Trump

00:05:04 - 00:05:24 (20 sec)

And she's just a puppet of Schumer -- you know that? He put her there. I've never seen anybody like this. Your opponent, OK, you're wonderful opponent was the most pro-gun person that you've ever seen. The day she got that given position, she all of a sudden became like, anti, like 100%.

Donald Trump

00:05:24 - 00:05:43 (19 sec)

So, uh, people get it. I found that. You know, in the campaign against Crooked Hillary, I found that people, I found that people get it. So I just wanted to, so I wish you luck and, Ed, keep up the good work. You're doing really well.

Donald Trump

00:05:43 - 00:06:08 (25 sec)

Uh, you vote for somebody other than our fantastic Claudia, you're voting for higher taxes. They want to raise your taxes. They want to actually end these massive tax cuts that everybody in this room has gotten, that have been so popular, that have really made our economy the strongest it's ever been in the history of our nation. This is the strongest economy we've ever had, with the best jobs market.

Donald Trump

00:06:08 - 00:06:57 (49 sec)

So they want to raise your taxes. They want to open your borders, you know, they want to open borders, OK? They want those borders to be open so nice and wide, let everybody flow in. And they think they're going to be Democrats right? They probably are, maybe. Who knows? They might not, but they want them to come in, that's one of the reasons. I really believe that's one of the reasons because a lot of other reasons don't make a lot of sense. But they want open borders. They don't mind crime because it comes with open borders. So obviously, they don't mind crime. They hate ICE because ICE, you know, is rough and tough, and that's what we need with certain kinds of people. I don't think that MS-13 fully understands the niceties of life. Do you think? So these people are great people. These are great people, but they're strong people, they're tough people. That's what we need.

Donald Trump

00:06:57 - 00:07:03 (7 sec)

They don't like law enforcement. They don't want to take care of law enforcement. They don't take care of our military. They don't want to take care of our vets.

Donald Trump

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Other than that, they're fantastic, do you agree with that? Other than that, other than that, they're wonderful. But -- and you better be careful because you do have that big, big gun plant. How far is that down the road? Where is -- [Spectator calls out "One mile"]

Donald Trump

00:07:20 - 00:07:43 (23 sec)

One mile down the road? Well, you better be careful because they want to end your second amendment, and they're putting a big move on it, and Cuomo wants to end your second amendment more than anybody. Cuomo wants to take away your second amendment. Now, he called me and he said, "I'll never run for president against you, " but maybe he wants to. Oh, please do it. Please, please.

Donald Trump

00:07:43 - 00:08:01 (18 sec)

He did say that. And maybe, uh, maybe he meant it. The one thing we know, they do say, anybody that runs against Trump suffers. That's the way it should be. That's the way it should be.

Donald Trump

00:08:01 - 00:08:17 (16 sec)

But you know, uh, really, uh, we talk about uh, Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi. Maxine Waters, the new face of the Democrat Party. Maxine Waters, she's a real beauty. Maxine.

Donald Trump

00:08:17 - 00:09:00 (44 sec)

Boy, oh boy, I watch her. Crazy Maxine. Low-IQ person, low IQ, and this is really what is steering, to a certain extent, the Democrats. I mean, she gets up and she wants people to be violent. She wants people to attack if they happen to be on our side, which is now turning out to be -- don't forget 306 to 223. That's a big difference. Remember, there is no way to 270. There is a way to 306, but not to 270. I said, I kept going up to Maine, Maine, Maine. I love Maine. Because I needed one and I went up to Maine and five times.

Donald Trump

00:09:00 - 00:09:31 (31 sec)

And they said why do you do -- I said, "Because I, because I believed the fake news." I said, 'You know, they said there's no way, but I needed one." So that's why, Chele, this is why. We have to, you know, just always assume and I ended up getting the one. I won that one that I wanted, but I didn't need the one because we got many more than the one. But I thought what I'd do is just do this a little bit different, and just read out some of the things that we've accomplished, because nobody's ever accomplished like we've accomplished.

Donald Trump

00:09:31 - 00:09:59 (28 sec)

And just it's -- look at this, page after page, and I've been here, right, I've been here for less than two years. And I can tell you -- and they'll go and check it -- the one thing with them, they fact-check, but even their fact checking is wrong. If I'm right, or if I'm 97.3 percent, right, they will say he's got a Pinocchio or he's lying. They are bad people.

Donald Trump

00:09:59 - 00:10:24 (26 sec)

Look at this: 3.9 million, jobs now it's 4 million jobs created since the election, which nobody would have believed. Here's one that you should use all the time: more Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history. So we have the highest employment in history. Think of it: the highest employment in history.

Donald Trump

00:10:24 - 00:11:01 (37 sec)

Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than three decades. We've created more than 400, 000 manufacturing jobs since my election. Now, you heard we weren't gonna do manufacturing anymore, right? And I used to say, "Excuse me" -- I went to the Wharton School of Finance -- I said, "Excuse me, uh, does that mean we're not gonna make things anymore? What are we gonna do, buy everything like from other countries? Let them have all the jobs?" And those are good jobs. Those are the real great jobs, but 400, 000 and that's going up to 600, 000 very quickly. And that's a number that was supposed to go way down and it's going way up.

Donald Trump

00:11:01 - 00:11:19 (18 sec)

And by the way, we've brought back the steel industry. The steel industry now is one of the hottest industries. I was with two or three people that are in the steel business, I don't know where they are, but uh, this is a great reception, by the way, we appreciate it. But a few people in the steel industry were saying how incredible the business is.

Donald Trump

00:11:19 - 00:12:01 (42 sec)

They never thought this would happen again, and it's become a great industry. And, you know, steel isn't like other industries. We need steel, you need it for defense, so we need aluminum, which is doing great. Economic growth last quarter hit 4.1. Everybody said the most you're gonna do is 2. It was 1.2 when I started -- 1.2 -- and I'll tell you it was 1.2 and heading south. It was going down. It was regulations that did it initially, and now it's regulations and the big tax cuts. So it's really -- new unemployment claims recently hit -- think of that -- a 48-year low, OK?

Donald Trump

00:12:01 - 00:12:18 (17 sec)

African-American unemployment, you've heard this, has just achieved the lowest level ever recorded. Ever recorded. Asian American unemployment rate achieved the lowest level ever recorded. Women unemployment rate.

Donald Trump

00:12:18 - 00:13:00 (42 sec)

Oh, only 65 years, sorry about that. Lowest in 65 years. Asian unemployment the lowest ever recorded. You know, here's a good one: lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma. How is that, is that a good one? Right? That's a good one. The veterans' unemployment rate reached its lowest level in more than 20 years. Almost 4 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since our election. You know what that means? That means they went out and they have a great job. They have jobs.

Donald Trump

00:13:00 - 00:13:28 (28 sec)

The pledge to America's workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4.5 million Americans. That number's now up to 5 million Americans. And we're committed to vocational education. You know, I went to school and I remember going to school as a young guy and I'd be an A student, we had good students, we had some people that weren't good students and at last they were terrible students, but they could blindfolded take apart a motor or an engine.

Donald Trump

00:13:28 - 00:13:40 (12 sec)

They could do things that we never even thought about doing. They had a great aptitude. I say vocational is very important. They had this great talent, yet they were lousy students, so we have to remember that.

Donald Trump

00:13:40 - 00:13:52 (12 sec)

Ninety-five percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future. That's the highest ever recorded. Signed the biggest tax cut and reform in history.

Donald Trump

00:13:52 - 00:14:32 (40 sec)

The tax cut's $300 billion have already poured back into the United States from overseas. I think that number will end up being about $4 trillion. This is money that would have never come back to us. As you saw, Microsoft is bringing back $230 billion. I had dinner the other night with Tim Cook, it was fantastic. And they're spending a tremendous amount of money of the United States and I asked him, "Would you have done it without our tax reform and our tax plan?" He said, "No, we wouldn't have done it." No. 1, you wouldn't have been able to get the money back in. Can you believe that? You couldn't bring the money back in. That's really good good stuff. You cannot bring the money back into the United States. Spend it someplace else.

Donald Trump

00:14:32 - 00:15:05 (32 sec)

We helped win the bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. I helped a lot. I was called by a big Democrat politician -- I don't know if he'll agree to it anymore to say -- but he said to me, Sir, would you take a call from the head of the Olympic Committee?" I said, "But I'm not president." This is when I wasn't president. He said, uh, the president won't return his phone calls. I said, why do you say that? He said the president will not, President Obama wouldn't return his phone calls. Would you take a call from the head of the Olympic Committee? I did.

Donald Trump

00:15:05 - 00:15:29 (24 sec)

I couldn't get him off the phone. He was a really nice guy. He was so -- no, he was so happy that somebody finally returned his phone calls. And we got the 2028 Summer Olympics and I made -- that phone call was before I took office, by the way. So that was good. Helped the United States, Mexico, and Canada in our united bid toward the 2026 World Cup. That's a big deal. It's a big deal.

Donald Trump

00:15:29 - 00:15:42 (13 sec)

We got ANWR, one of the largest fields in the history in anywhere in the world. One of the great, one of the great energy fields anywhere in the world. That's in Alaska. They've been trying to get that long before Ronald Reagan.

Donald Trump

00:15:42 - 00:16:07 (25 sec)

Nobody could get it approved. We got it approved. That's going to be one of the great energy [Inaudible]. We approved the Keystone and the Dakota-access pipelines in just about Week 1. They were dead. They were dead. I had dinner the other night with one of the gentleman involved in the Dakota access. He said, "Sir, we were dead." -- I never met him -- "We were dead. It was not going to happen."

Donald Trump

00:16:07 - 00:16:30 (23 sec)

Now it's open. Tremendous numbers of jobs were produced in building it and everything else. We got it started. Likewise Keystone. I think it's gonna be a total of 48, 000 jobs during construction and also environmentally better than the alternatives. Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions -- they were dying, they were dying. They were being put out of business.

Donald Trump

00:16:30 - 00:16:51 (21 sec)

Obamacare, we got rid of the individual mandate, which is the most unpopular aspect. I would have gotten rid of everything, but as you know, one of our, one of our wonderful senators said thumbs down at two o'clock in the morning. We had it all got but we'll get rid of it anyway. Obamacare is essentially decimated.

Donald Trump

00:16:51 - 00:17:26 (35 sec)

We've also come and, you know, once you get rid of the individual mandate, which we've done, that really was the end of Obamacare, but we've also helped where people that are still stuck on Obamacare -- we're trying very hard to keep their rates down. You know what I'm talking about, you know people are shocked that we've kept their rates down and the increases have been much less than people were projecting that they'd be because of what we've done not because of what -- they would have been 30 40, they were 120 percent when I was running for office, but we've worked very hard on that, Secretary Azar.

Donald Trump

00:17:26 - 00:18:01 (35 sec)

I had something passed called Right to Try. Does everyone know what that is? You don't want to know, in a way. That's when you're really sick, you're terminally ill and we have potentially a great cure but it's gonna take five years to get it approved in FDA or wherever, and we get, the people now are allowed to go and try those things, which may work and they may not work, but people if they didn't have money they stayed home they had no hope, and if they did have money they'd travel all over the world to try and find a cure. We have some case -- I'm very proud of it -- where they couldn't get it approved. This has been going on for 30 years.

Donald Trump

00:18:01 - 00:18:28 (28 sec)

Right to Try -- think of it -- great name, Right to Try, Right to Try. Maybe it's gonna work, maybe it's not. So now if you have some kind of an illness, you're terminally ill, you're very very sick, you have the right to try a potential cure. And it's good in a lot of ways. You also learn whether or not it works. You know, I mean, what's a better what's a better sampling? But you try and people are really happy about that. I'm very proud of that.

Donald Trump

00:18:28 - 00:18:51 (22 sec)

My administration's are providing more affordable health care options. So we're opening up many different options for health care, and we have association health plans, we have short-term-duration plans. We have all sorts of plans coming out many of them are already out. Some just literally got out over the last week. So I think it's going to be something great.

Donald Trump

00:18:51 - 00:19:26 (35 sec)

We have clean coal -- exports have increased, 60% last year -- clean coal, which is one of our big assets that we weren't allowed to use for our miners. You remember Hillary with the coal, right, sitting with the miners at the table? Remember? That wasn't so good for her. So the people of West Virginia and all over, you look at Wyoming, you look at so many different places where they just, Pennsylvania, where they loved what we did, and it's clean coal and we have the most modern procedures. But it's a tremendous form of energy in the sense that in a military way -- think of it -- coal is indestructible.

Donald Trump

00:19:26 - 00:20:08 (42 sec)

You can blow up a pipeline, you can blow up the windmills. You know, the windmills, [mimics windmill noise, mimes shooting gun] Bing! That's the end of that one. If the birds don't kill it first. The birds could kill it first. They kill so many birds. You look underneath some of those windmills, it's like a killing field, the birds. But uh, you know, that's what they were going to, they were going to windmills. And you know, don't worry about wind, when the wind doesn't blow, I said, "What happens when the wind doesn't blow?" Well, then we have a problem. OK good. They were putting them in areas where they didn't have much wind, too. And it's a subsidary -- you need subsidy for windmills. You need subsidy. Who wants to have energy where you need subsidy? So, uh, the coal is doing great.

Donald Trump

00:20:08 - 00:20:30 (22 sec)

American oil production recently reached an all-time high in our history and it's going higher. We're now the No. 1 in the world in that category. We're No. 1 and there are, nobody ever thought they'd see that, but we opened it up in a very environmentally friendly way. United States is a net-neutral gas exporter.

Donald Trump

00:20:30 - 00:20:55 (25 sec)

Think of that and we have a -- we're neutral, now we're going positive. We were even, now we're going to be very positive on natural gas. We're exploring, uh, natural gas at a level that we've never done before and we're using it at a very high level. Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris climate accord. That was another beauty. That was a beauty.

Donald Trump

00:20:55 - 00:21:15 (20 sec)

We signed landmark VA accountability legislation and passed VA Choice. So for 40 years, they've been trying to get these things, accountability and choice. Accountability is, you could do anything you wanted if you worked in the VA. and Choice is where, they can't get a doctor you go outside, you see a doctor, we pay the bill for our great vets.

Donald Trump

00:21:15 - 00:21:50 (35 sec)

They've been trying to get that stuff for 45 and even longer and we got it done. We secured a record $700 billion in military funding and $716 billion next year. And that's a record that I don't think it's going to be broken. I don't think we'll need to -- we're rebuilding our military, and that's a lot of jobs because it's all being built here. Everything's being -- we make the best planes in the world. We make the best make the best military equipment in the world, missiles and everything. We make the best equipment in the world. We make it here. So we have 700, 716.

Donald Trump

00:21:50 - 00:22:32 (42 sec)

Taking first steps to establish a space force, which we need. Confirmed more circuit judges. We confirmed more Circuit Court judges than any new administration, and by the time we finish we're gonna have more Circuit Court judges than any administration in history. In addition, we have already confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and we've nominated a great gentleman, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who is doing very well. These are great, these are great people, Ed, right?

Donald Trump

00:22:32 - 00:23:02 (29 sec)

Withdrew from the horrible one-sided Iran deal. Moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem after promises. We're protecting Americans from terrorists with our travel ban that just got upheld by the Supreme Court. Issued executive orders keeping open Guantanamo Bay. They wanted to close it, I want to keep it open and use it for the. ...

Donald Trump

00:23:02 - 00:23:41 (39 sec)

Renegotiating disastrous trade deals and imposing tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum and, frankly, on countries that are taking advantage of us and have been for many decades. We're imposing tariffs. And by the way, they impose tariffs on us, you ever seen anything like this? I'll have politicians come to me, "Sir, we want free trade." I said, "So do I." "Well such and such a country, you're raising the tariffs." I said, "Yeah, but they have massive tariffs on us -- 50%, in one case 100 percent, in some cases more than that. What would you say about that?" "Well, I understand that, sir, but we're now doing it to them.

Donald Trump

00:23:41 - 00:24:34 (53 sec)

That's not free trade." I said, "Well it's not stupid trade, either, right?" Unbelievable. No, these people are unbelievable. And, you know, again, your steel guys in the room, they can tell you what's going on. I see a couple of steel hats back there, but they can tell you what's going on, where U.S. Steel is opening up, I think, eight plants, and uh Nucor, and so many different companies have announced plans, some of them brand new, some of them expansions. There's nothing like what's happening in the steel industry right now, and that's because of what we did with tariffs. They were dumping steel all over this country. Dumping it. And in many cases it was a highly inferior product, really bad stuff, You know, steel could be bad, too, and we're doing beams and we're doing structural components with bad stuff. No, we don't want that.

Donald Trump

00:24:34 - 00:24:49 (15 sec)

Net exports are on track to increase by $52 billion over the next year. They don't even talk about that. That came out in the 4.1 report. To me, it was one of the great things -- $52 billion from what it was.

Donald Trump

00:24:49 - 00:25:38 (49 sec)

We've begun building the wall. We've spent now 3.2 billion. We've spent, we've spent 1.6 and we're spending another 1.6 and now we're asking for 5 billion and it's gonna, it's all happening. We're up in California and San Diego and various other places. We've got to stretch of 80 miles, that's just starting. We're doing well with it, but we having very little help from Congress, in particular from the Democrats in Congress, because they're just obstructionists. Most of them voted for a wall 10 years, ago 12 years ago, they voted.

Donald Trump

00:25:38 - 00:26:16 (38 sec)

But they're just a bunch of obstructionists. You know, I have 400 people that haven't been approved. These are great people like yourselves. They gave up their jobs in order to work in government and they're going every ounce of time. They're delaying it and obstructing. You know, their whole campaign is "Resist" and our campaign is "Make America Great Again." There's a big difference, big difference. That's why, I mean, even beyond Claudia, I think Claudia's gonna do great. You got to help her, got to make sure, because she's running against somebody that's a total puppet of Nancy Pelosi. [Note: The video feed cuts at this point.]