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| Wow. |
s-2
| Whoa. |
s-3
| That is some group of people. |
s-4
| Thousands. |
s-5
| So nice, thank you very much. |
s-6
| That's really nice. |
s-7
| Thank you. |
s-8
| It's great to be at Trump Tower. |
s-9
| It's great to be in a wonderful city, New York. |
s-10
| And it's an honor to have everybody here. |
s-11
| This is beyond anybody's expectations. |
s-12
| There's been no crowd like this. |
s-13
| And, I can tell you, some of the candidates, they went in. |
s-14
| They didn't know the air-conditioner didn't work. |
s-15
| They sweated like dogs. |
s-16
| They didn't know the room was too big, because they didn't have anybody there. |
s-17
| How are they going to beat ISIS? |
s-18
| I don't think it's gonna happen. |
s-19
| Our country is in serious trouble. |
s-20
| We don't have victories anymore. |
s-21
| We used to have victories, but we don't have them. |
s-22
| When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal? |
s-23
| They kill us. |
s-24
| I beat China all the time. |
s-25
| All the time. |
s-26
| We want Trump. |
s-27
| We want Trump. |
s-28
| When did we beat Japan at anything? |
s-29
| They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? |
s-30
| When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? |
s-31
| It doesn't exist, folks. |
s-32
| They beat us all the time. |
s-33
| When do we beat Mexico at the border? |
s-34
| They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. |
s-35
| And now they are beating us economically. |
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| They are not our friend, believe me. |
s-37
| But they're killing us economically. |
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| The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. |
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| Thank you. |
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| It's true, and these are the best and the finest. |
s-41
| When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. |
s-42
| They're not sending you. |
s-43
| They're not sending you. |
s-44
| They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. |
s-45
| They're bringing drugs. |
s-46
| They're bringing crime. |
s-47
| They're rapists. |
s-48
| And some, I assume, are good people. |
s-49
| But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. |
s-50
| And it only makes common sense. |
s-51
| It only makes common sense. |
s-52
| They're sending us not the right people. |
s-53
| It's coming from more than Mexico. |
s-54
| It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably — probably — from the Middle East. |
s-55
| But we don't know. |
s-56
| Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. |
s-57
| And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast. |
s-58
| Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. |
s-59
| They've become rich. |
s-60
| I'm in competition with them. |
s-61
| They just built a hotel in Syria. |
s-62
| Can you believe this? |
s-63
| They built a hotel. |
s-64
| When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. |
s-65
| They don't have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should've taken. |
s-66
| So now ISIS has the oil, and what they don't have, Iran has. |
s-67
| And in 19 — and I will tell you this, and I said it very strongly, years ago, I said — and I love the military, and I want to have the strongest military that we've ever had, and we need it more now than ever. |
s-68
| But I said, 'Don't hit Iraq,' because you're going to totally destabilize the Middle East. |
s-69
| Iran is going to take over the Middle East, Iran and somebody else will get the oil, and it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq. |
s-70
| Think of it. |
s-71
| Iran is taking over Iraq, and they're taking it over big league. |
s-72
| We spent $2 trillion in Iraq, $2 trillion. |
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| We lost thousands of lives, thousands in Iraq. |
s-74
| We have wounded soldiers, who I love, I love — they're great — all over the place, thousands and thousands of wounded soldiers. |
s-75
| And we have nothing. |
s-76
| We can't even go there. |
s-77
| We have nothing. |
s-78
| And every time we give Iraq equipment, the first time a bullet goes off in the air, they leave it. |
s-79
| Last week, I read 2,300 Humvees — these are big vehicles — were left behind for the enemy. |
s-80
| 2,000? |
s-81
| You would say maybe two, maybe four? |
s-82
| 2,300 sophisticated vehicles, they ran, and the enemy took them. |
s-83
| We need Trump now. |
s-84
| You're right. |
s-85
| We need Trump now. |
s-86
| Last quarter, it was just announced our gross domestic product — a sign of strength, right? |
s-87
| But not for us. |
s-88
| It was below zero. |
s-89
| Whoever heard of this? |
s-90
| It's never below zero. |
s-91
| Our labor participation rate was the worst since 1978. |
s-92
| But think of it, GDP below zero, horrible labor participation rate. |
s-93
| And our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. |
s-94
| Don't believe the 5.6. |
s-95
| Don't believe it. |
s-96
| That's right. |
s-97
| A lot of people up there can't get jobs. |
s-98
| They can't get jobs, because there are no jobs, because China has our jobs and Mexico has our jobs. |
s-99
| They all have jobs. |
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| But the real number, the real number is anywhere from 18 to 19 and maybe even 21 percent, and nobody talks about it, because it's a statistic that's full of nonsense. |