Transcript - Speech: Donald Trump Delivers a Campaign Speech in Des Moines, IA - January 24, 2015 | Factba.se

Donald Trump

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

Thank you. Wow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's so nice. Isn't he a great guy? He doesn't get a fair press. He doesn't get it. It's just not fair. And I have to tell you, I'm here and very strongly here because I have great respect for Steve King. I have great respect, likewise, for Citizens United and David and everybody, and tremendous respect for the Tea Party.

Donald Trump

00:00:35 - 00:01:02 (27 sec)

Also -- also, the people of Iowa. They all have something in common, hard working people. They want to work. They want to make the country great. I love the people of Iowa. So that's the way it is, very simple. With that said, our country is really headed in the wrong direction with a President who is doing an absolutely terrible job.

Donald Trump

00:01:02 - 00:01:33 (31 sec)

The world is collapsing around us, and many of the problems, we've caused. Our President is either grossly incompetent, a word that more and more people are using, and I think I was the first to use it, or he has a completely different agenda than you want to know about, which could be possible. In any event, Washington is broken and our country is in serious trouble and total disarray.

Donald Trump

00:01:33 - 00:02:02 (29 sec)

Very simple. Politicians are all talk, no action. They're all talk and no action. And it's constant. It never ends. And I'm a conservative -- actually, very conservative and I'm a Republican, and I'm very disappointed by our Republican politicians because they let the President get away with absolute murder.

Donald Trump

00:02:02 - 00:02:23 (21 sec)

You see always, "We're going to do this, we're going to--" Nothing ever happens. Nothing ever happens. You look at Obamacare, a total catastrophe. By the way, it really kicks in in '16 and it is going to be a disaster. People are closing up shop. Doctors are quitting the business. I have a friend of mine who's a doctor, a very good doctor, a very successful guy.

Donald Trump

00:02:23 - 00:02:41 (18 sec)

He said, "I have more accountants than I have patients." And he needs because it's so complicated and so terrible and he's never had that before, and he's going to close up his business. And he was, you know, very successful guy. And it's happening more and more. But you look at Obamacare with a five billion dollar website.

Donald Trump

00:02:41 - 00:03:18 (37 sec)

I have many websites, many, many websites. They're all over the place. It's like for $10. OK? Now, everything about Obamacare was a lie. It was a filthy lie. And when you think about it, lies, I mean, are they prosecuted? Does anybody do anything? And what do the Republican politicians knowing about it? He lied about the doctor, he lied about every single aspect.

Donald Trump

00:03:18 - 00:03:37 (19 sec)

You can keep your plan, and you've all heard that hundreds of times. That's like the state -- the -- the real estate, location. Look, I don't even say it anymore because everyone goes location, location. But you have heard this about Obamacare and it's disgraceful. It's a big, fat, horrible lie. Your deductibles are going through the roof.

Donald Trump

00:03:37 - 00:04:05 (28 sec)

You're not going to get -- unless you're hit by an army tank, you're not going to get coverage. And people that had plans that they loved, that they really loved, don't have those plans anymore. So it's a real, real disaster. And somebody has to repeal and replace Obamacare, and they have to do it fast and not just talk about it. Now, we have to build a fence, and it's got to be a beauty.

Donald Trump

00:04:05 - 00:04:30 (25 sec)

Who can build better than Trump? I build. It's what I do. I build. I build nice fences, but I build great buildings. Fences are easy, believe me. I saw the other day on television, people just walking across the border, they're walking. The military is standing there, holding guns, and people just walking right in front, coming into our country.

Donald Trump

00:04:30 - 00:04:56 (26 sec)

It is so terrible, it is so unfair, it is so incompetent, and we don't have the best coming in. We have people that are criminals. We have people that are crooks. You can certainly have terrorists. You can certainly have Islamic terrorists. You can have anything coming across the border. We don't do anything about it. So I would say that if I run and if I win, I would certainly start by building a very, very powerful border.

Donald Trump

00:04:56 - 00:05:30 (34 sec)

Again, the politicians talk about it. They do nothing about it. Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, everything is Benghazi. What happens? Nothing. IRS, e-mails, I get sued all the time. OK? I run a big business. You know, I've always said, it's very, very hard for a person that's very successful -- I've done so many deals, almost all of them have been tremendously successful.

Donald Trump

00:05:30 - 00:05:50 (20 sec)

You'll see that when I file my statements. I mean, you will see. You'll be very proud of me, OK? But I've always said and I've said it strongly, it's very hard for somebody that does tremendous numbers of deals to run for politics, run for political office, any office, let alone President because you've done so much.

Donald Trump

00:05:50 - 00:06:13 (23 sec)

You've beaten so many people. You've created so many -- and look, Obama, what did he do? No deal. He never did a deal. He did one deal, a house. And if you did that house, you'd be in jail right now, OK? He got away with murder. But I can tell you, e-mails, IRS, the e-mails, thousands of them. They were lost.

Donald Trump

00:06:13 - 00:06:43 (30 sec)

They were lost. If you were in my world, you would know e-mails can't be lost. They can't be lost. So why aren't our Republican politicians finding out where those e-mails are? They talk about executive orders and they talk about immigration and they talk about, well, we have to stop the border. That's the end of it. Believe me, if I did something, you would have a border that would be great.

Donald Trump

00:06:43 - 00:07:05 (22 sec)

But they talk about it and then you have a President that does an executive order. Nobody even heard of an executive order. He doesn't exempt to let people come in, and nobody does anything about executive orders. Why didn't they go to court and ask for a declaratory judgment, which is something that when you know somebody is going to go after you and when it's in writing.

Donald Trump

00:07:05 - 00:07:33 (28 sec)

And he's been saying it for a long time. He said, "I'm going to approve this and that." Why didn't our Republicans go in and get a declaratory judgment from the courts, because you could have started the process six months earlier. Instead, they have a very weak lawsuit that probably by the time it's finished, I know so much about this, six, seven, eight years from now, everyone's going to forget about it. We'll be into a different mode, and our country will be further destroyed.

Donald Trump

00:07:33 - 00:07:56 (23 sec)

So we have to do something. Jobs, China, I mean, I've made so much money fighting against the Chinese. One of the best deals I ever did was against the Chinese. And they respect me for it. And I know them. And they say, "We can't believe what we're getting away with. We can't believe how stupid your leaders are." They -- they told me that.

Donald Trump

00:07:56 - 00:08:15 (19 sec)

Now, they don't know I'm going to go on to make a speech about it, but why not? But they tell me that. And by the way, especially for the folks here that sell so much goods, I mean, you -- the goods you sell are incredible. I don't know if you've been watching what's happening with the devaluations of so many countries in the euro.

Donald Trump

00:08:15 - 00:08:47 (33 sec)

[Inaudible] China is going crazy with a devaluation. I never thought they'd have the guts to do what they're doing. They are devaluing down to nothing. And what it's going to do is make it impossible for you to sell your product. It's going to make it impossible for you to compete. And they're getting away with it. And they wouldn't have even done it two years ago, but now they feel we're so weak and we have so many different problems all over the world that they can do it. But you watch, this devaluation of all of it. I mean, the euro, China, Mexico, everybody is devaluing.

Donald Trump

00:08:47 - 00:09:09 (21 sec)

And when you hear the dollar's getting stronger, it sounds good. You know, it's one of those things, sounds good, be very careful. Be very careful. Because we're just going to lose more and more business to these foreign countries that really know what they are doing. They have it set. Don't forget, another thing, China became the number one economic power a year ago.

Donald Trump

00:09:09 - 00:09:34 (25 sec)

That was unthinkable. To think that that was going to happen. It was absolutely unthinkable. So it happened and it's very, very sad. Now, we've spent two trillion dollars in Iraq. We got nothing. They don't even respect us. They don't even care about us. Until they started getting their ass kicked, then they call, "Please come back and help us." We want you out.

Donald Trump

00:09:34 - 00:09:56 (22 sec)

We want you out. Then all of a sudden, a new group forms, ISIS. By the way, you know how they form? They took the oil. And for those of you that know and love Donald Trump, there are some of you, have I been saying for four years, "Keep the oil." [Audience shouts "Yeah"] So now ISIS has the oil, and the stuff that ISIS doesn't have, Iran is going to take.

Donald Trump

00:09:56 - 00:10:15 (18 sec)

So we get nothing. We have two trillion dollars and we have thousands of lives lost, thousands. And we have -- what do we have? I mean, I -- I walked down the streets of New York and I see so many wounded warriors, incredible people. And we have to help those people. We have to help our vets. We have to help our military.

Donald Trump

00:10:15 - 00:10:34 (19 sec)

We have to build our military. But -- and we have to do it fast. We have to do it fast. We have incompetent people. They put people in charge that have no clue what they're doing. It needs money. We have to make our country rich again so we can do that so we can save Social Security because I'm not a cutter.

Donald Trump

00:10:34 - 00:10:52 (17 sec)

I'll probably be the only Republican that doesn't want to cut Social Security. I'm not a cutter of Social Security. I want to make the country rich so that Social Security can be afforded and Medicare and Medicaid. Get rid of the waste, get rid of the fraud. But you deserve your Social Security. You've been paying your Social Security.

Donald Trump

00:10:52 - 00:11:14 (22 sec)

And -- like I like Congressman Ryan, I like a lot of the people that are talking about, you know, cutting Social Security. And by the way, the Democrats are eating your lunch on this issue. It's an issue that you're not going to win. You've got to make the country rich again and strong again so that you can afford it, and so you can afford military and all of the other things.

Donald Trump

00:11:14 - 00:11:40 (26 sec)

Now, we have a game changer now, and the game changer is nuclear weapons. We really do have to get strong and we have to get strong fast. We can't let Iran get a nuclear weapon. We can't do it. Can't do it. We cannot let that happen. You know, in the old days, I would have said, 100 years ago, 50 years ago, 30 years ago, "Pull out.

Donald Trump

00:11:40 - 00:11:59 (20 sec)

Let them fight each other." Here we are in Syria, we're fighting people that want to overturn Syria. Think of this, we're fighting ISIS, but ISIS wants to overturn the government. Maybe you let them fight for a little while and then you take out the one that remains, OK? But think of it. No, think of it. ISIS is fighting them and we're bombing the hell out of them.

Donald Trump

00:11:59 - 00:12:19 (19 sec)

But we want Syria to fall. There's so many things -- there's so many things. But the one game changer that we have to be careful with that we never really had to think about too much before other than a certain number of years ago is the nuclear. Nuclear today, it's not like soldiers in uniform shooting rifles.

Donald Trump

00:12:19 - 00:12:51 (33 sec)

You can take out the east coast of this country. You can take out large sections of the Midwest. You can take out things that were unthinkable, the power. And we have to be in a position where that never, ever, ever happens. We've never had this before. We have a situation in Afghanistan. We're spending tremendous amounts of money there.

Donald Trump

00:12:51 - 00:13:14 (23 sec)

We're trying to do the right thing. We have a leadership. Again, no leadership respects us. You know, leadership of other places never respect stupid people, OK? That's one thing you're going to fuck. The same thing is happening there. And I never knew that Afghanistan, until a year ago or so, Afghanistan has tremendous wealth in minerals.

Donald Trump

00:13:14 - 00:13:36 (21 sec)

Different, not the oil, but minerals. And we're fighting here. And on the other side of the mountain, China is taking out all the minerals. They're taking it out, trillions of dollars and millions of dollars of minerals. So we're fighting here and they're taking it out, looking at us and saying thank you very much, sucker.

Donald Trump

00:13:36 - 00:14:00 (25 sec)

It's really, really crazy. So we have to rebuild quickly our infrastructure of this country. If we don't -- the other day, in Ohio, a bridge collapsed. Bridges are collapsing all over the country. The reports on bridges and the like are unbelievable. What's happening with our infrastructure? I go to Saudi Arabia.

Donald Trump

00:14:00 - 00:14:23 (23 sec)

I go to Dubai. I'm doing big jobs in Dubai. I go to various different places. I go to China. They're building a bridge on every corner. They have bridges that make the George Washington Bridge like small time stuff. They're building the most incredible things you've ever seen. They're building airports in Qatar which they like to say cutter, but I've always said Qatar.

Donald Trump

00:14:23 - 00:14:43 (20 sec)

So I'll keep it Qatar, what the hell. But they're building -- they're building an airport and have just completed an airport, the likes of which you've never seen. In Dubai, an airport the likes of which you've never seen. And then I come back to LaGuardia where the runways have potholes. The place is falling apart.

Donald Trump

00:14:43 - 00:15:02 (19 sec)

You go into the main terminal and they have a terrazzo floor that's so old, it's falling apart and they have a hole in it and they replace it with asphalt. So you have a white terrazzo floor and they put asphalt all over the place. This is inside, not outside. And I just left Dubai where they have the most incredible thing you've ever seen.

Donald Trump

00:15:02 - 00:15:20 (18 sec)

In fact, my pilot said, "Mr. Trump, this is such an honor." I said, "It's not an honor. They're just smart." But you look at LAX and you look at Kennedy Airport and you look at our airports, generally, you look at our roadways where they're crumbling. You look at all of the things that are bad. I'll give you an example.

Donald Trump

00:15:20 - 00:15:44 (23 sec)

And this is in part of what I was going to say. But I ride down the highways and somebody makes those guardrails, you know, the guardrails, the ones that sort of go like this that are always bent, rusted, and horrible. Did you ever see more than like 20 feet which isn't corroded or bent or the heat, if it gets too hot, it just crushes, and they've been selling this thing for 25 years.

Donald Trump

00:15:44 - 00:16:06 (23 sec)

Why isn't somebody stop them and get something that works because they don't know -- they don't know what's happening. Somebody made a lot of money on that. They don't know what's happening. So we have to make our country great again. We have to rebuild our country and we have a long way to go. We are just in such serious trouble because we owe so much money.

Donald Trump

00:16:06 - 00:16:28 (22 sec)

Now, we owe it to the Chinese, a lot of it. We owe it to other countries. They're the ones that hold the debt, and then we give them money. We have countries that we owe money to and yet we're giving them subsidies. I just ordered thousands of television sets, and between LG and Samsung, and I mean, you know, no American company comes to see and comes to bid.

Donald Trump

00:16:28 - 00:16:45 (16 sec)

It's South Korea. Now, whenever they have a problem with North Korea, we send the battleships, we send the destroyers, we send our airplanes. We're going to protect them. What are we doing? Why aren't they paying us? Why aren't they paying us? What are we doing? I ordered thousands and thousands of sets all the time, for some reason, South Korea.

Donald Trump

00:16:45 - 00:17:09 (24 sec)

You know, whether it's China, South Korea, but, in this case, televisions, South Korea. And why aren't they doing something to justify what's going on? Now, we have a very important election coming up. We have a presidential election coming up and we have some good people. Nobody like Trump, of course, but these are minor details.

Donald Trump

00:17:09 - 00:17:33 (24 sec)

We have some good people. It can't be Mitt. Because Mitt ran and failed. He failed. Man, I liked him. Look, like him, dislike him, the 47% statement that he made, that's not going away. The Romneycare from Massachusetts is not going away. What do you think? They're going to say, "We won't bring that up this time.

Donald Trump

00:17:33 - 00:17:55 (22 sec)

It's not fair because it was a long --" That doesn't work. But more importantly, he choked, something happened to him in the last month. He had that election won. And let me tell you something, that election, sort of like a dealmaker that can't close a deal. I know many of those guys. They get it up to the one yard line, they go, [Inaudible] "I can't close it." And -- or a golfer that can't sink the three footer to win the tournament.

Donald Trump

00:17:55 - 00:18:13 (19 sec)

And there are many of them. Most people are like that. I mean, most people are like that. You can't give somebody another chance because, actually, I think this election is tougher to win than beating a failed president. I really do. I think beating Obama would have been a much easier one than the one that's coming up, which is sad to say but true.

Donald Trump

00:18:13 - 00:18:46 (33 sec)

So you can't have Romney. He choked. You can't have Bush. [Audience shouts "No"] The last thing we need is another Bush. Now, I made that statement very strongly and now everyone says the last thing, you know, they copied it and then, you know, I'm always [Inaudible]. I'll be accused of copying the statement, that's the bad [Inaudible]. But I said it. I was the one that said it first, and I mean it. The last thing we need is another Bush.

Donald Trump

00:18:46 - 00:19:08 (22 sec)

Now, he's totally in favor of Common Core. That's a disaster. It's bad. It should be local and all of it. But he's totally in favor of Common Core. He's very, very weak on immigration. Don't forget, remember statement, they come for love. I say what? Come for love. You got these people coming, half of them are criminals.

Donald Trump

00:19:08 - 00:19:35 (27 sec)

I mean, they're coming for love? They come in for a lot of other reason and it's not love. And when he runs, you got to remember, his brother really gave us Obama. I was never a big fan. But his brother gave us Obama because Abraham Lincoln coming back from the dead couldn't have won the election because it was going so badly and the economy was just absolutely in shambles that last couple of months.

Donald Trump

00:19:35 - 00:19:58 (22 sec)

And then he appointed Justice Roberts, and Jeb wanted Justice Roberts, and Justice Roberts basically approved Obamacare in a shocking decision that nobody believes. So you can't have Jeb Bush, and he's going to lose. Aside from that, he's not going to win. So Mitt -- and -- and you just can't have those two.

Donald Trump

00:19:58 - 00:20:29 (32 sec)

That's -- that's [Inaudible] -- that's [Inaudible]. It's so simple. So just in summing up, and I just wrote a few of these little points down because it's very important and I watch these teleprompters, and by the way, I think any president candidate that runs should not be allowed to use a teleprompter.

Donald Trump

00:20:29 - 00:20:48 (19 sec)

Because we got one that uses teleprompters and people say, "He's so quick on his feet." He's reading it. I mean, give me a break. Everything's read. You don't really test the mettle of a man or a woman unless they can get up on stage and talk, and that's what we ended up getting, the king of teleprompters.

Donald Trump

00:20:48 - 00:21:12 (24 sec)

But -- so when I look at these things here, I say, "You know what, it's so much easier." You know, it would be so nice just [Inaudible]. No problems. Get off stage. Everybody falls asleep and that's the end of that. But we -- we have to do something about these teleprompters. But in -- in looking at the insi -- the situation, I built an incredible company, and you'll see that.

Donald Trump

00:21:12 - 00:21:42 (29 sec)

An incredible company, a wonderful company. I employ thousands of people and I love doing what I'm doing. And in the certain way, I wish I weren't doing this, but our country is in such trouble and it would be so easy to fix. We have such great potential. So if I run for President and if I win, I would totally succeed in creating jobs, defeating ISIS, and stopping the Islamic terrorists.

Donald Trump

00:21:42 - 00:22:22 (40 sec)

And you have to do that. Reducing the budget deficit, so important, have to do it. Securing our southern border, and I mean seriously securing. Stopping nuclear weapons in Iran and elsewhere. Saving Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid without cutting it down to the bone because it's not fair to people that have been paying for their whole lives and other people.

Donald Trump

00:22:22 - 00:22:45 (23 sec)

And it's not fair to future people coming up. And we can do it. Repealing Obamacare and replacing it with something far better for the people and far less expensive, both for the people and for the country. And believe me, there are plans that are so much better for everybody and everybody can be covered.

Donald Trump

00:22:45 - 00:23:14 (30 sec)

I'm not saying leave 50% of the people out. Everybody can be cove -- this plan is just a basic disaster, nobody knows. As bad as the website was, that's how bad the plan itself is. Fixing our country's infrastructure, our bridges, our schools, our highways, our airports, and that I can tell you, nobody is close to Trump.

Donald Trump

00:23:14 - 00:23:33 (19 sec)

I just got best hotel in North America. I'm building, which is sort of interesting. Think of this one. I'm building one of the great hotels of the world on Pennsylvania Avenue right opposite the White House, between the White House and Congress, right on Pen -- the Old Post Office site, and I got it from Obama.

Donald Trump

00:23:33 - 00:24:04 (31 sec)

You believe that? And everybody wanted it, so I can't believe it myself, but it's going to be fantastic. And so many other things. I know what needs to be done to make America great again. We can make this country great again. The potential is enormous. And I am seriously thinking of running for President because I can do the job.

Donald Trump

00:24:04 - 00:24:23 (18 sec)

Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much. Beautiful. Thank you.