Let's go to Mar a Lago and listen in.
I think the president is about to begin speaking,
thank you very much. They call it Super Tuesday for
a reason.
This is a big one.
And they tell me, the pundits and otherwise,
that there's never been one like this,
has never been anything so conclusive.
This was an amazing, an amazing night,
an amazing day. It's been an incredible period of time
and
our country's history, it's been sad in so many ways,
but I think it's going to be inspiring because we're
going to do something that,
frankly, nobody's been able to do for a long time.
We've
we've watched our country take a great beating over the
last three years
and nobody thought a thing like this would be possible.
We wouldn't have Russia attacking Ukraine.
We wouldn't have Israel being attacked.
Iran, as you know, was broke when I was running
things,
they were broke. They didn't have money for Hamas.
They didn't have money for Hezbollah.
We had no inflation. Inflation is destroying the middle class.
It's destroying everything. Inflation. If you look back over the
history,
hundreds of years back, it's called inflation,
is called a country Buster,
and that's what it's doing to our country.
What's happened with inflation has been unbelievable.
A lot of people say,
a lot of experts have said the stock market's the
only thing that's doing well.
And that's doing well because
our poll numbers are so much higher than
Joe Biden's.
He's the worst president in the history of our country.
There's never been anything like what's happening to our country.
Today it was announced that
325,000 people were flown in
from parts. Unknown migrants were flown in airplane not going
through borders,
not going through that great Texas barrier that I was
with the governor of Texas,
Greg Abbott, the other day.
And we were looking at the job they're doing.
But in the meantime, they're pouring into California and they're
pouring into Arizona
because those governors aren't doing anything.
They're doing nothing. But today it was just announced before
I came out.
It was unbelievable. I said that must be a mistake.
They flew
325,000 migrants, flew them in over the borders
in into our country.
So that really tells you where they're coming from.
They want open borders, and open borders are going to
destroy our country.
We need borders and we need free and fair elections,
and we don't have a country.
This is an incredible group of people,
so many celebrities, that I'm not going to introduce any
because I'm just going to get myself in trouble if
I do that,
because I'll leave out most of you.
But we have this is a room chock full of
incredible,
talented people. Like some of the guys standing right in
front of me,
right? Big, big futures. Big,
fat, beautiful futures. Oh, I'd love to be your age.
I'd pay you a lot of money to be your
age,
but we have, we have some tremendously talented people in
this room,
including tremendously talented political people that have
helped me right from the beginning.
We had the safest border in the history of our
country.
We built
571 miles of wall. We had Mexico supply us with
28,000 soldiers because we we wanted them.
That's why. And they said that we won't do that.
I said yes, you will,
you will. And in the end,
they did. It was an easy negotiation,
but we had the safest border,
the best numbers we've ever had,
and now we have the worst numbers,
probably probably in the history of the world.
It's sad to see what's happening to our cities.
Our cities are being overrun with migrant crime and that's
Biden migrant crime.
But it's a new category of crime and it's violent,
where they'll stand in the middle of a street and
have fistfights with police officers.
And if they did that in their countries from where
they came,
they'd be killed instantly, instantly.
They wouldn't do that. So the world is laughing at
us.
The world is taking advantage of us.
Three years ago, we were at a level,
we were energy independent. We're going to be very shortly
energy dominant.
And today we're getting oil from Venezuela.
Can you believe it?
And we're
doing numbers on that oil.
You know what we're doing?
We're refining the oil. We have our refinery for that
oil.
It's truly, I call it tar.
It's not oil. It's terrible.
We have real stuff, but we're refining it in Houston.
So for all of the environmentalists,
you ought to look at that because
all of that tar is going right up into the
atmosphere.
You just start to take a look.
It's the only plant that can do it.
We have the only plants that can take
tar and make it into oil,
and that's what it is.
It's a shame, but we were energy independent.
We were going to be energy dominant.
We were going to be supplying oil to Europe all
over the world.
And then a tragic thing happened during the election.
It was a tragedy because you wouldn't have think of
it.
All of the problems that you have today,
I don't think you would have had any of them.
You'd only have success. And that's what's ultimately going to
unify this country and unify
this party. We have a great Republican Party with tremendous
talent
and we want to have unity and we're going to
have unity
and it's going to happen very quickly.
And I have been saying lately,
success will bring unity to our country.
And it happened before we had
the best economy our country's ever had.
And people were calling me that.
I would have said will never happen.
It'll never happen. They wanted to get together.
African American, Asian American, Hispanic American,
women, men, people with diplomas from the best schools in
the world
and people that didn't graduate from high school.
Every single group was doing better than ever before,
and it was a beautiful thing.
Our country was coming together.
Our country was coming together,
and now we have a very divided country.
We have a country that
a political person uses weaponization against his political opponent.
Never happened here. It happens in other countries,
but they're third world countries.
And in some ways we're a third world country.
We're a third world country at our borders,
and we're a third world country at our elections.
And we have to stop that.
We need a fair and Free Press.
The press has not been fair,
nor has it been free.
But maybe someday they will be.
They're being beaten up pretty badly.
People aren't trusting them. They're not believing them.
And really it's a very important factor.
The press used to be
the policeman. It used to police our country.
Now nobody has confidence in them.
And we have to get that confidence back.
It's so important for the success
of our country, so important.
So this has been a day that
we we've been waiting for.
I want to thank my family for being here.
It's a great family. I have a great family.
They've had it very easy since I decided to run
for politics.
They say thanks a lot,
Dad, we appreciate it, but they're strong and they're very
capable people and they they love the country.
They really do love the country and we appreciate it.
And I want to thank everybody,
my staff,
Susie, Chris, Credible job,
credible job you're doing.
I read an article yesterday where it said this is
one of the finest run campaigns that anybody has ever
seen.
That's pretty good, right?
That's pretty good, really a statement.
And we have no choice,
because November 5th is right around the corner.
November 5th is going to go down as the single
most important day in the history of our country.
We're going to take it,
and we're going to make it
like it should be respected.
Right now, we're not respected.
Right now, our country is known as a joke.
It's a joke. Other leaders who I speak to,
other leaders can't believe what happened to us
because three years ago we were the most respected country
anywhere in the world by far.
We were doing things that nobody could believe.
China was paying us billions and billions of dollars
in 25 years. They paid us nothing,
0, not ten cents. I was getting billions of dollars.
And they were happy about it.
As happy as you can be,
of course. Maybe there's reasons for things having happened,
but they were not. They were not so happy with
certain things,
I guess, based on things that took place.
But they were. We were getting along with everybody.
We were getting along and we were respected by everybody.
We had no wars. Remember when
I had the debate with Hillary Clinton?
She said, look, look at him.
Look at that personality. He's going to cause wars,
Wars. I said no. My personality is going to keep
us out of wars.
And that's what happened.
For 20 years they were fighting ISIS.
I defeated ISIS in four weeks.
I got rid of ISIS 100 percent,
100% of the ISIS caliphate.
And we had no wars and we stopped wars.
We weren't getting along with a lot of countries.
All of a sudden, North Korea,
which is a serious nuclear power,
but North Korea came along,
Kim Jong Un. We got along very well.
We got along very well with China.
Until COVID, that was a little bit too much as
far as I was concerned.
That was too much. Couldn't take that one.
But we made a trade deal with China that I
don't even talk about,
$50 billion a year in product.
They bought from our farmers,
our manufacturers. They used to buy 10.
I got 50 and it was great.
But COVID, I don't even talk about that because COVID
was
such a horrible thing. It started in the Wuhan labs,
just as I said, the Wuhan Labs,
and it came out, I believe,
through incompetence. I believe it was incompetence.
Some people think it wasn't,
but I believe it was.
But regardless, it caused $60 trillion worth of damage and
death all over the world,
all over the world. And we did a fantastic job
on that.
We never got credit for that
unbelievable job on that. We came up with things that
nobody thought was possible.
Don't forget, when it came in,
nobody had an idea what it was.
They didn't even use the word pandemic.
Nobody had an idea. But we did a fantastic job
and we got a lot of credit for the economy,
a lot of credit for our foreign policy.
I think credit like nobody,
very few people have gotten in The press was very
honest about it.
They gave us very high marks on foreign
policy, the Abraham Accord, so many different things we did,
but we
never got the kind of do that we should have
for
the COVID or as I call it affectionately,
the Chinese virus, the China virus,
which is a much more accurate term.
And Despite that, the stock market,
when we turned it over,
the stock market was higher
than it was prior to COVID coming in.
It was an amazing thing that we did an amazing
job.
And we have so many people that worked on that,
so many of the doctors,
so many of the scientists that worked with us on
that,
and to us really, really something.
But there's never been an administration that had more success
in so many different elements.
We got the largest tax cuts in history.
We have the largest regulation cuts in history.
We rebuilt our military
and what happened, we rebuilt our entire military and
beautiful. We had jets, jet fighters that were 53 years
old
and we had all brand new jet fighters.
And then after
this other group of people that didn't know what they
were doing,
they took over and we had that horrible
surrender. In Afghanistan, I call it a surrender.
We took the soldiers out first.
You know, I dealt with
the leaders of the Taliban
in Afghanistan. They were the ones that were causing the
trouble.
The press was very angry because they said why are
you calling them?
I said because that's where the problem is.
I say you oftentimes, I say they asked Jesse James,
Jesse, why do you rob banks?
He said, because that's where the money is.
And I said that's where the problem is with the
Taliban.
And I spoke to Abdul.
He's still the leader, believe it or not.
He's really the leader of Afghanistan,
but he's the leader of the Taliban,
a rough group. I say don't ever shoot our soldiers
again.
Don't ever do it. Very interesting what happened is that,
you know, we were having during the
Obama administration previously
they were shooting a lot of
our soldiers. And I let him know.
I said don't ever, ever let that happen.
I said very in a rather nasty fashion.
We don't have to go into it tonight.
For 18 months we lost nobody in Afghanistan.
And then we had that horrible,
horrible withdrawal where we lost 13 soldiers,
38 horribly wounded,
left Americans behind. You know,
we have Americans right now still behind.
Call them hostages if you like.
It was a terrible moment.
We left $85 billion worth of brand new,
beautiful equipment behind jets and tanks and everything.
You couldn't think of goggles,
night goggles. They didn't used to fight.
They're good fighters. They didn't used to fight at night,
but now they do because they have goggles.
They have better goggles than we have.
So I just want to
tell you that led to a lot of bad things
and now
the worst things are happening.
The things that are happening now
are unthinkable and they're unthinkable at the border.
We have millions of people
invading our country. This is an an invasion.
This is the worst invasion probably.
We've never had anything like it.
No country has ever had anything like it.
The number today could be
15,000,000 people,
and they're coming from rough places and dangerous places,
and we had that shut down.
We had everything going so beautifully when Joe Biden goes
to the beach
because somebody on his staff thinks he looks very good
in a bathing suit
until he can't get his feet out of the sand
or lift the chair,
which weighs about 9 oz.
Joe Biden, if he would have just left everything alone,
he could have gone to the beach.
He would have had a tremendous success at the border
and elsewhere.
So we're going to take back our country.
We're going to make sure
we are.
We are going to do it right.
We're going to have the greatest economy ever in the
history of our country.
We're going to top what we did.
We're going to become an energy center of the world.
We are ready to become energy dominant.
And they stop that. They stop that.
But we're going to become energy dominant.
We're going to pay off debt.
We're going to do things that nobody thought was possible.
You know, we hadn't done our second phase of the
tax cuts,
where we did the tax cuts.
The Democrats fought us very hard.
And now they say, well,
I guess that was pretty good because we took in
much more revenues after we cut
taxes. And then we did all of those regulation cuts
and people were working and everybody was happy and we
were all proud of our country.
But we're going to win this election because we have
no choice.
If we lose the election,
we're not going to have a country left
and we're going to do something.
Thank you very much and
we love you too.
And we love our country.
And we can't let this magnificent,
Some people call it an experiment.
I don't call it an experiment.
I just say this is a magnificent
place, a magnificent country. And it's so sad to see
how far it's come and gone.
When you look at, when you look at the depths
of
of where it's gone, we can't let that happen.
We're going to straighten it out.
We're going to close our borders.
We're going to drill, baby,
drill. We're going to get the inflation down
and we are going to make
our country greater than ever before.
And we're going to do it quickly.
We're going to do it quickly.
It's going to go fast.
We have to get the criminals out.
We have many, many criminals that have entered our country.
We have people coming in from such
such bad places and we're going to have to get
them out.
We have murderers that are being deposited into our country.
We have drug dealers at the biggest and highest levels
that coming into our country.
We have people coming into our country that just shouldn't
be here.
But many, and I say many large percentages.
They come in through the caravans.
They come in many different ways.
Now we find out again,
they come in through airplanes.
We'll send them in. This is crazy.
But they come into our country.
We're going to stop and we're going to close our
borders.
We're going to have to deport a lot of people,
a lot of bad people,
because our countries can't live like this.
Our cities, our cities are choking to death.
Our states are dying. And frankly,
our country is dying. And we're going to make America
great again,
greater than ever before. Thank you very much.
Been a big night. Thank you very much.
Thank you.