support c-span along with these other television providers. getting a front row seat to democracy. 2024 republican presidential candidate and fmer president donald trump spoke to voters at a conventnal caucus in iowa. supporters talking about his years in the white house. ♪ proud to be an american ♪ ♪ where at least i know i am free ♪ ♪ and i won't forget the men who died that gate that right to me ♪ and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today ♪ ♪ because there ain't no doubt i

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usa! usa! >> i want to thank you. this was supposed to be a small gathering. they said they've never seen anything like this year. a lot of people do not show up, but boy they showed up today. we broke every record. [cheering and applause] we are doing a big speech later. this is an intimate gathering. this is a gathering of people that have been so supportive. we will get out there we will get out that vote, that caucus vote which is very important. last time i was leaving i was beating everybody. they did not do the caucus think too well. i learned a lot. we went to new hampshire.

i don't like second spirit then we won the race against the democrats. that's the big one. we won the race. we wanted against beautiful hilary. i call her beautiful now. we save the word crooked for somebody else. we ended up winning, but i learned so much during the process. my first race ever politics i will never forget. i like to think of myself as a politician now. i came in second out of 18. we had 18. they said trump suffers a major defeat. that was the beginning of fake news. trump suffered. i came in second. normally people would be thrilled to come in at that position. they did not have a good group. now we have a group like we've never had before and it will be amazing.

i remember my daughter, she was in des moines a big area. she was in des moines by herself she was waiting for these people to come in here you have to have a big staff and they come in and you talk about how wonderful trump is in all of this. she says daddy they don't have anybody here. the company that did the job were not so hot. they don't have anybody, daddy, but i will take us. we went pretty well and then we went on to win the state against hilary and we won the state the second time and we wanted big in fact, the second time we got millions and millions of more votes than we did in the first election. all of us were told that if you only got 63 million that the election would be over. but we got like 12 million. a lot.

we don't even know because nobody knows because nobody understands what the hell happened with that election. we are not letting it happen again. that i can tell you. [cheering and applause] millions. it was very interesting. i had a meeting in the new york times. what happened. we did much better. what do you mean we do better? millions more votes. millions and millions more votes it sounded right when you think about it, i guess. we will do something historic. we will bring our country back from the dead. our country is dying. it is dying. look at what is happening at the border. look at all of the things going on. our country is in such serious shape. i just want to thank you all for joining us today. special day, special place. we will be back five or six times. think about it. we are talking about for months. can you believe that? for years was a long time.

now we started four months. you are first, i cap you first, by the way. [cheering and applause] people like to take credit. there is only one person that can take credit. i kept you first. the democrats did not do that. we will worry about that later. we want to get through the caucus and we want to win it by numbers bigger than what we want to buy last time if that is possible. thank you all. less than four months from now we will win the iowa caucuses in a historic landslide. i think it will be a landslide. you see what is going on with the pole. we have been like a rocket ship. the polls have been incredible. both against the republicans and -- against the republicans we are up. who the hell ever thought that would happen so quickly. they crashed and burned.

they crashed and burned. thank you. i love you, too. even though generally it is not my thing when a guy screams out i love you. we may take a few questions from people if you want. i always say that. if i don't really want to take questions i.c.e. to say at the variant and now we will take questions. when you said at the beginning people are thinking the whole damn speech. we will take a few questions. there are mics around here. we can handle it. do you think joe biden does that [laughter] we will take some questions. i did meet the press this weekend. i call it meet the fake resident press. one question after another after another. we went through the whole hour.

she was nice although kept interrupting me because she was not letting some of the answers i was giving. but you love the answers i was giving. the beautiful thing, i sat down for an hour and then i did a megan kelly one, boy, she became nastier all of a sudden. she was pretty nasty. did you think? they both asked many many questions. i could have gone on for hours. there is a period of time when you say that's it. they had an hour and a half. it would be i think 32 questions on 32 different subjects. biden cannot do that. maybe one question where he goes -- okay. i'll take a question from, weight -- i want abc and then

she gives the question. and then he reads the answer. [laughter] here's the answer. no. we have to get this country straightened out. that is not going to do it. i want to thank my friend congressman wesley hunt. he really is. he has a star appeared where is he? and his incredible wife that happens to come from the area. lastly, thank you both very much thank all three of you appeared that beautiful new son. thank you very much for coming up. this is a great honor. a very respected guy. and jackson county republican chairwoman darla. where is it darla? hi darla. very beautiful. you look great. thank you appeared i heard you are doing a fantastic job everybody tells me.

jackson county attorney. hi, john. central casting for an attorney. that is a good thing. my senior advisor representative bobby kaufman. where is bobby? hi bobby. he is over by the wall. he knows that i take care of the customer. right, bobby. say hello to your father. steve bradley is here. [cheering and applause] steve, thank you very much, steve. thank you very much, steve. and a very special thank you -- where is she, by the way? you know, there is a man that is a secretary general and he loves from. you know, we were supporting nato. we were giving so much money

disproportionately. you know, they are over there and we are over here. much more important for them. i got them hundreds of billions of dollars and pay up money. they were not paid. nato countries that were not paid. we were protecting all of these european countries. for years and years they were not paying them. they were paying not a good amount of money. you are so fantastic. she said i pray for you every day. i write a letter to you every single day. have you gotten them. i'm saying, yeah, sure. [laughter] she said i pray and i do this. i say you are incredible. she just gave me her endorsement that she is highly respected here. i want to thank you very much. [cheering and applause] very good. secretary general and he has been great. you know, president trump came in here and he left and he got

hundreds of, i mean, we just got hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. i call it delinquents. like in the real estate business they were delinquent. almost every country. a total of 28. some were totally delinquent. they did not pay for a long time he left and he got the money worrying and by the billions and we ended up getting hundreds of billions of dollars from these countries so we did not have to pay. we did not have to pay disproportionately. and the money that they have now is the money that i raise. bush would come in and obama would come in, they would all come in and make a speech and i would be the end of it. i came in the first time, saw that this was wrong. came in the second time about six months later and said you've got to pay appeared nobody ever said that. it was good. i appreciate very much. thank you, darling. we appreciate it very much. this is the greatest political movement. i think it is.

you know, when brian -- biden criticizes us, it means make america great again. what is to criticize. how do you criticize it? they go those people. anybody that says that does not love our country. it is called make america great again. this is the greatest movement of all time. you know. [cheering and applause] you know, over the years when i was not in politics, i was on the other side, i was not in per se. i would watch very carefully because i found it fascinating. over the years you would watch these people sometimes they would win at the election come in third second fourth. they would be famous if they came in second third or fourth in a primary. and they would go along a lifetime. literally a lifetime and become

successful people and be very respected politically. we came in first. last time in virtually every state we came in first within the republican party. then we did phenomenally in the election. in 2016 we won almost all of them also against professionals. senators and governors. they were not stupid people. they claim and in this is the movie no one had ever seen before. you almost one estate you become -- he did well. he did very well. he is a terrific guy. he did really well. i think that he came in second it he had a wonderful political career. we came in first in almost every state. and we won. and then we won the election against beautiful hilary. beautiful hilary. a beautiful woman.

[cheering and applause] .... .... [applause] butbut this psychologically and many other ways and you understand the different ways it shows up that they are. it shows how bad their policies are. if you look at the border and if you look at all of the things that are happening and it shows how bad they are and we will be able to do things and get things fixed in this country that probably you couldn't have done politically or otherwise if you did at the traditional way. it will be something really spectacular. i think it's going to be amazing and i will tell you we have run

twice and i've never seen the spirit that we have this time and the love that is because you are longing for the good old days where we had the greatest economy ever. [cheers and applause] and how bout gasoline at $1.87, how about that? remember i told you i'm a great deals. i don't even talk about china because of covid but we made one of the greatest deals ever. $50 billion you had to stay with me farmers mostly in this case. they were the most loyal people and the farmers were the most loyal people and they said sir, i'm going to get you all sorts of subsidies from china are they said we don't want subsidies which is one a level playing field. they were the only ones that told me that in the four years in the white house. if i said i'm going to get you

subsidies everybody would say oh give me the subsidy. i'll never forget i had 36 farmers and i representative farmers from all over the country lot from iowa. we are in this beautiful conference room if so beautiful that it representative some of the great things but not many great things happening for our country lately. i said that to them, i will work it so you guys will get it in one of the gentlemen raised his hand and said we don't want a handout. we want a level playing field and nobody can beat us. i said what an unbelievable thing to say. family time anybody said that an we all agreed with it. they just wanted fairness. they were not treated fairly. it was what was happening to them including with nafta. [applause] [applause] and it was really and the u.s.

mca and you know how good that is. they want to renegotiate the deal. we took it from the worst deal to the best deal and nafta was the worst deal ever made and usmc is one of the best trade deals ever made in this country and one of the other deals i made was with china. they are not adhering to it anymore. i used to call every day, are are they buying? there was $50 million you know i misunderstood it. they said 15 billion i said to sonny perdue the secretary of agriculture, i said how much of we've been hurt, the farmers been heard in this country by china's trade practices and he said sir $27 billion over 20 years. and i got you to $28 billion actually from china, they came from china. [applause] many of the people in this room opened up big chess when i got

it and he can't even think about getting that. i got to $28 billion hundreds of billions with the contract. $20 billion from the farmers because of the unfair trade practices with china. the fake news doesn't want to write about that but it was a big deal. i always say there's no way i will lose iowa or any of the farm states because who else would get $20 billion from china? people said don't even think about it and i am honored to have done it. but we did fantastically well and we made this um's -- usmca deal. you know these other countries have a lot of power. they have people representing them with a lot of power. we have the worst trade deal and we had lot of bad. deals because we had you open in japan and south and a lot of different places. they terminated nafta which people said would be impossible and we got the u.s. mca so when

they want to make renegotiate what they are trying to now. we have a short time left when you think about it. we are talking about a very short time. november of next year wow a little bit more than a year. a lot of bad things could happen in a year. a lot of things can happen in a year and a lot of decisions could be made. just as i watched at the united nations and they still haven't gotten over the $6 billion. we freed up $6 billion. they got five in week at five. they got five, week at five and that was the good news. the bad news is they also got $6 billion, right? and you see who would do a deal like that. yesterday biden was speaking to and i want you can on the speech

but he said one thing. you know we have gas weapons and they are horrible weapons unbelievably lethal in powerful and. he said basically they ended all of it. they got rid of them all and then he indicated sadly other countries haven't followed suit. of course we haven't followed suit. they haven't followed suit because you don't get rid of them first. you get rid of them last. we had this horrible lethal power that we need. other people didn't get it and i said how is this? it's gone from us. other people have it. step-by-step and day by day we are having these people in there and the only thing they are good at is cheating in elections in my opinion. you have the watch those elections very carefully. less so in your case because you run the good ship that some of

the states it's just horrible comments to this horrible when you look at what's happening. thank you very much. , thank you very much. thank you very much. i appreciate it. [applause] if you want to save america, if i have a script here so far i haven't looked at it. when will i ever look at the script? they have these brilliant speechwriters -- speechwriters but it's better that way. it's not nice when you have a president who does not do read the script? the [cheers and applause] and so we want to save america from jonah radical left and get out and be patriots and make sure they are registered republicans and get out there and register. register republican to get all of your friends out. 7:00 p.m. on monday january 15 is where it begins, january 15 on a monday. it's a good beautiful day and

you've got to get them out 7:00 in the evening when it starts. it's a beautiful scene actually. should i come out? e i will come out. i will get them out. i will tell my geniuses over there to come out. but we are asking for a commitment, everybody do whatever you can get three people at a minimum and come out and bring them out with you. with the regular elections is a little stranger that get three people at a minimum and get out and let's start it off with a bang. they are losing in iowa by 35 or 40 points. ron sanctimonious was against ethanol, totally against it and against it in quantity and it totally. it would be devastating frankly to farmers. it would be devastating for farmers that they wanted to end it and i was a champion of that and i was the one i kept it going.

a lot of competition to not do it. yeah. [applause] i did the whole thing on ethanol and that became the king of ethanol but he wanted to end it. one i will -- one thing i will say about a politician like him when somebody wants to end medicare or somebody wants to end social security and go up to 70 minimum age of 70 which is a big jump when they want to do that early, they may change their attitude for an election. i love social security but he voted three times against it. he wanted to cut it. it's a cycle of paul ryno. you know who paul rhino is, paul ryan but he's a disciple of that group. they may change an election if they get away with it but when they change it we go back to what they originally had. it's very consistent. you can reread those books of years ago. they have been ripped off on

trade and i've changed so much about. in this administration gets it right back. it's a most amazing thing i've ever seen but when you want to look at how somebody, they go back to the original thought and they wanted to do big damage to social security. they wanted to raise the age to 70 and they wanted to do great damage to medicare. their other things we can do that are far better. you get to a certain age and you deserve it. we delivered record increase in real family income. in the history there's never been anything like it. it went up $6000 a year. with no inflation. we didn't have inflation. we knew how to take care of inflation you know. [applause] inflation was caused because they stopped drilling and they stopped the energy and that caused inflation. energy is so big. you can make donuts and you can make cake and if you are and

lawyer or an accountant or you are trucking no matter what you do energy is so big. energy is now out of control. we did a big thing with the strategic reserves and got them full head right now they are the lowest they have ever been. it's empty. millions and millions of barrels in order to have an election, past election where they could keep the numbers down but they were still very high. least they work at five or $6. today gasoline hit $5 again and it's probably going to go up and it looks like it's going to go up. there's no reason. i gave that answer on "cnn." what would you do? they went and it was the "cnn" audience. figure that one out. they want don't want to pay either. we headed down to the numbers but we had to raise it up a little bit because the oil companies, they never so much and they did a great job.

they did a great job for themselves to be honest but we headed down below $2 for a little while we headed down to $1.50. that's only had to go up a little bit but now it's sitting at $5 again and we are going to let that happen. that is what caused inflation and inflation is called the country buster. if you go back to ordered years looking at germany and look at countries and what they went through with inflation. literally they were destroyed and had to start all over again. we have had the biggest inflation and 52 years so that's allotted. there has been a lot of suffering. is up six times, six times. who would think? they say oh it came down a little bit. about a quarter's which is not good for you. we are ordering it but so many food products are going through the roof. i just want to tell you it's an

honor to have been able to control inflation. wasn't that hard. so much of it has to do with the energy sector and we are going to -- we were energy independent. nobody thought that was possible. we were energy independent. for the first time ever we didn't need anybody's energy. we didn't have to guard the gulf or do anything. we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other nation by far. think of it. think of how incredible that is. [applause] so under our leadership we build 500 miles of all. they like to say oh it was 58. this is how they are in d.c. miles as far as the eye can see. and i had to do it because we have mitch mcconnell working with the democrats all the time, which is a show.

so i took it out at the military and i said this is an invasion of our their country not take it out or the military. it was a tiny fraction for the military and the military agrees with them. [applause] what they did is in order to demean it because they send misinformation almost the same thing by the way. anybody want to give me a definition? what happens is if there was a 2 x 4 where there used to be a little barricade they would say we didn't know that was a renovation. they would take down the one football of wood that was routed and gone, just literally gone and take it away and would put up 30 to 40-foot walls. all steel. those walls, it's not what i want wanted. i wanted to have concrete planks

that the border patrol are fantastic and these are fantastic people. they don't get enough credit. they'd say sir you have to be able to see what's on the other side. from a parking garage you can do 60 feet or 50 feet of plank. just try to keep the graffiti out this much is possible. when graffiti begins which you hate to say it but that's what i wanted to do. we had mountain climbers coming in and climbing different things. they had a much harder time doing this that they wanted steel on the outside and concrete grade and re-bars inside the concrete. you had three different substances and it's very hard to cut, dairy, terry hart. have you ever noticed the plate on top?

i said leave it off i don't like it visually but it's harder to climb the wall. some of these people i've got to say they are athletes. they climb the wall like there's nothing to do. they have two-pound -- 200 pounds of drugs on their backs. it's. people are pretty impressive but it's an anti-climb bar they call it. it's a very important element keeps people from climbing over the wall. we did almost 500 miles of it and we are all getting prepared and we had it all bought and we had another 200 miles that we needed but we did what we said we are going to do and we could have done more. we had it all bought and the election was ended and rigged by the way. and what they did and this is the first time i realized it, because i thought they were playing games. i realize they wanted to have an open border so people can come

and from other prisons, prisons all over the world in mental institutions and asylum cell over the world. we had people coming in from all over the world not just for five countries that we think of as our neighbors. we had people coming now from all over the world. we have the safest border in the history of our country now we have the worst. i believe in the history of the world and i believe there's any third world country that has a border like we have in the real number, when you really added up i think we will have 50 million people by the end of this year that would have come into this country under this regime of fascism and communists and everything else. i think it's a, thing but when we get and we will be able to stop it we have the greatest people. we have such great people. if biden went to the beach you

know he goes to the beach all the time. he's got his consultant and we think it looks good in a bathing suit. and he doesn't look good in a bathing suit. somebody is giving him very very bad advise. when you look at it, all he had to do is if he went to the beach and didn't do anything you would have the strongest quarter you've ever had but he decided to get rid of, stay in mexico. we have a policy, remain in mexico. we had to do that with mexico. [applause] and i went to the government and i said when you allow people to come over and caravans and i made up that word i think. you have a couple of minutes right. sit down, whoever has the seat is lucky enough. otherwise i'm sorry.

it's a bigger crowd than we anticipated by about triple but we had all of these people coming up and i said to the government you know the enemy they say he didn't get mexico to pay for the wall. i got mexico to pay for 20,000 soldiers free of charge building the wall. that was more money than they would have for a long time and they are politically correct soldiers. these were soldiers. [applause] anyway that was sort of interesting. the state department a woman the work of the state department, good woman who's worked for the state department for 20 or 25 years am i told her we had to get mexico to give us -- she said they won't do it. so i said so remain in mexico? we want catch and release ended.

you no catch and release is called to catch them and we find out they are criminals and release them into our country country and a comeback in five years for their trial. nobody ever comes back. no smart ones come back. a couple of them came back. nobody ever comes back. but we had to go in mexico and i said to the top representative the president and i like him alive and he's a socialist. and i said we want 28,000 soldiers along their border. you are sending a letter of people over and we want your soldiers to protect us that we are going to pay anything and he laughed at me. he said we are going to do that sir. i said you were going to do it. 100%. 100% you are going to do it. we will not do that sir. what's next? next is remain in mexico. you have to remain in tijuana.

hundreds of thousands of people were backed up. they were remaining in mexico novus said mexico got stronger because they didn't want this. he said no, we can't do that. on monday morning at 7:00 we will charge 20 a 25% tariff on any car. we took 32% of our car industrial over the years that 32% of our car industry so any car in product that is made in mexico when it comes across the border we are charging them 25% tariff. i have the registration right here and i'm going to sign it. i have the right to do that. he said you won't do that and i said 100% i will. i'm going to sign it right now. sir may ask why? sir it would be a great honor to supply you with 20,000 soldiers

so i got 28,000. [applause] 28,000. it's pretty good. i'll tell you one other quick story? we are all having a good time. i'm late as they say for the big venue. this is a beautiful venue of people that we had another case where france was going to charge american companies a tremendous tax for the privilege of doing business in france. they said, you are going to do that. i said you called them up and we negotiated with them and they came back a week later. they had already pretty much done it and passed legislation. these are significant taxes. i'm supposed to be guarding american companies and american jobs. so i said go back.

you have another day and go back and they came back and they failed. they were not able to do it. i said i will do it. and i called him and he was a very nice guy and i said mr. macron his name is emanuel. i said emanuel listen you are going to be charging our companies significant money to do business in france francis is correct? he said that's correct. so here's the story. if you go into this and if this takes effect we are going to have something that's at equal effect. every bottle of wine and champagne that sense this country will put a tariff on for 100%. [cheers and applause] and he said, he said to me, he said to me you cannot do that.

i said what you are doing is. you can call me back within five minutes that i've are designed it. monday morning at 7:00 in the morning every bottle of wine in every bottle of champagne is taxed at 100% and we will make a of a lot more money than you'll make with your tax but he calls me back and he says we have decided to drop the tax. i could tell you these stories all day long. [applause] i can tell you all day long. we fully rebuilt a military and you would have never had ukraine. russia would never, even the democrats admit that. i used to talk to putin about it and i would say we can't do it. it was the apple of his eye will tell you. i said bad things are going to happen if you do that and he didn't do it.

he only started doing this after i was gone and all of a sudden you see troops building up. i would have never done it but they stood very proudly with our proudly with their friends and allies the state of israel kept my promise were recognized israel. the eternal capital and open the american embassy in jerusalem and not only did we have it designated as the capitol, i took over building. u-haul heard that story. we $2 billion building a building. they have had a plan without a location which never works well for architecture and architects. i said do we have the site and they came back and said we do. we have many sites in jerusalem. i said any of them with a building on it? it was a closed close building. structurally very strong and very sound. they got back to me and they said we can do it for $40,000. the first time i've ever done

this in my life. i said honestly that sounds to cheat. i said let's make it a little more. so was 2 billion we got down it down to 40,000 ended up building it. we built it for by the thousand. a friend of mine is in an office building in new york a very rich guy very successful guy and every time i walked into his office he talks about jerusalem. he goes look at the stones. if i hear it again and now all of a sudden i'm in jerusalem. it's a very expensive stone called the jerusalem stone and its a beautiful beige stonelike sand. is it expensive quick sir you are in jerusalem we can get it for nothing so we did the whole building in jerusalem but we got built. not only did we get it designated but we got it built and i recognized israeli sovereignty of the golan heights. it's a key thing. they have been trying to get it done for years.

and best of all i got the iran nuclear deal terminated. unfortunately this administration did not take advantage of it. and that things are happening. they are building a nuclear weapon and this would have never happened. we would have had the within two weeks with iran and everybody would have been happy. so when you vote in january i will fight like no one else. it's so important that you are first because i believe in the state very much and i believe in the people. i have so many friends here. we will totally obliterate the deep state. we have a deep state. they got rid of comey and got rid of a lot of people but it was deeper than anyone thought and then we had covid. the china virus came in and we did a great job with that. the stock market, we turned over the stock market was higher than it was prior to covid or china virus coming in.

we haven't been getting the kind of love on that. we got a lots of love on the economy and the lot of things that they gave us one of the big things in it was incredible. when i came in, when that came in at the level that nobody thought was happening thousands of people were dying in china. that's all they knew and they knew something bad was going on. nobody knew exactly what it was. they did a great job of the ventilators and all the therapeutics and regeneron and all the things we did, the robes and everything. we did things that nobody thought we could do. the states were all empty. the cupboards were but we did that and we did so many bad things. we rebuilt our military and we did so much, so fast that nobody saw it. some people say it was the most successful for years and one of the most successful presidencies by far, ever, ever.

jericho and one other thing for you all, it will tell you i will ban the critical race theory and bar left gender ideology from our state stay. [applause] and you've been hearing me say this. i will keep men not of women's sports if that's okay. how is that? who would even think, who would even think? go back 10 or 15 years and people would say why would you say that? two weeks ago they had a weightlifting contest and the weights were set i think 18 years women were trying to break in. they put a quarter per in ounce on each end. they put a quarter of an ounce and this guy comes along and breaks the record i think by 46% or something like that. he walks up and he was a

weightlifter and not a successful one. he came in and he shattered the record. it's ridiculous, the whole thing is and the swimmers. the new times that are being established and i tell the story the woman looks right and she looks at this person who's like a giant. and she saying with a wingspan bigger than wilt chamberlain. i always say and we say it jokingly a course that she suffered grave injuries, wind burned because he went by herself fast that she still suffering massive wind burned. the whole thing is. it's ridiculous that i would be the greatest coach. if i were a coach or basketball coach lets say and i'm not a fan of lebron james. i'd say lebron would you like to be a woman and if you are the guys and i say would you like to

be a woman anybody? we would go undefeated for many years. can you imagine that? the great silent majority is rising like never before and under her leadership the forgotten man and woman will be forgotten no longer. i used to say that in 2016 and i didn't have the say. and you know another thing i didn't to say? we had a very bad border in 2016 when i was running in the border was a big part of the election and 2020 i couldn't talk about it because it was a problem. i used to say we solve the border but people have short memories. we solve the border people didn't even remember. i couldn't even talk about it but in 2016 it was the biggest thing. i used to talk about it all the time. and we solve the border problem so and 2020 who would think that now is possibly their number one problem we have. if you look at our cities being

overrun and everything. but we will get us all very quickly and will get these people out. because this is not sustainable. no country could do it and the country countries that rich and it's just not sustainable. if we have your your love near but we will make america first number one. china's first, other countries and they want ukraine first? every time someone comes for ukraine they walk out with $25 million. we want to help ukraine. europe right now is up to 25 billion we are up to hundred billion. one thing we all know is that affects europe of lot more than it affects us so why are they not going with equalization. europe is about the same size as us if you add it all up you have all the countries up it's got the same economy as we have. there's a lot of money in europe. we have stupid people running our country.

very stupid people are running our country but we will make it better than it was before and i know everybody now in washington. when i got there the rhinos were in the middle of elvis and we know so many people that i know the good ones in nine of the young ones in the smart ones. i know more people. i know the tough ones, the great ones and i know the rhinos. i got to know the rhinos. i got to know a lot of rhinos. republican in name only and that's true. we have plenty of them fewer than there were. show up on monday january 15 to beat joe biden is imperative because this country i don't know if we can take another year if you want to know the truth. we still have a year. we have no choice so go to ia.

donald j. trump.com and sign up to help us organize what i will call the victory for the ages but it will be a victory for the ages. i used to talk about 2016 and 2016 is the biggest election. didn't they 2020 because we have a thing going. we had a problem with covid but we had a great thing going and strong borders. drugs were down to an all-time low. people coming in down to an all-time low and only getting better. if they would have left it alone it would have been a beautiful thing. we are going to make this country stronger and better and more beautiful than ever. we are going to make it better than ever. i appreciate everybody in this room and my friends right from the beginning.

most of you recognize so many. i recognize so many. we to go out and we still have two do something. we have a lot of great people watching it will be hard for them. they cheat. that's the only thing they are good at. who wants in open border and who wants high taxes and high interest rates and who wants not to be of the play home and who wants education which is a disaster. we will close the department of education. [applause] so i really appreciate your being here. you are a special group of people and we wanted to thank you. we are going to make it work and we have phenomenal leadership. i just hope, i hope we have a victory because if we don't have the victory i think this

country, i think it's finished but i really think it's finished. that's how bad it is. that's how bad it is. these leaders a better nation's china's powerful and they are all very powerful with their weaponry. if you don't have the right leader and you don't have smart leaders your country is doomed. the speech he made yesterday where he takes a vast sum of power in terms of a weapon. he has terminated all of it and he said to say the other countries haven't followed. of course i haven't followed. they are smart. why would they follow? they want to do something and they want to get you to do it. board they do it for us. when you look at afghanistan and that horrible withdrawal the most embarrassing day in the live in the history of our country, the most stupid thing i've ever seen where the soldiers are taken out first and everybody is stuck there and we

lost soldiers in to this day many americans probably are living in hell right now. you know i rebuilt the entire military -- military and we left behind $80 million worth of equipment. you know afghanistan is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world right now? they are selling the stuff that we left to them. 70,000 tracks, 700,000 guns and rifles. how we ever had so many in the first place i don't know but we are going to make our country greater than ever before. thank you very much. we will take a couple of quick questions and i'll take you few hands. [applause] questions? >> hello. >> hello welcome president trump. you kind of already answered my question a little bit. my question was when you become president again what is the first thing you'll do to fix our

current school system and our current military that's only focusing on teaching woke gender ideology over learning the basics of life and history? >> a good question. i had to partially answer but not all. i ended woke totally in the first week they reestablished it. they pay instructors hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. literally they want our military to be woke and it's just not going to happen. you read in hawaii where they had the horrible fire where they had people going there and before they bring them on board that the study woke for a week. can you believe this? it was such a tragedy and you don't read about it too much. they want to give them classes in essentially woke miss. so you have seen it. we will and that very quickly. i think the schools importantly

will bring our education department back. if you look at education we pay more per pupil than any country in the world by three times and get we are at the bottom of the list. we have -- a place like iowa is an example you could run your own and we give you a percentage of the money because you would need nearly the money that they in washington. number one you love your students and you know your students and the parents will be involved. that's the other thing, some of the school boards have become tyrannical. they've been horrible but we will bring that back and that will answer your question. i think we can have one of the best school systems in the world. right now we have one of the worst trades basically they rate 40 countries and we are always close to the bone of the list and sometimes the bottom of the list and spending more money than anybody else. we will take care of all of your needs very quickly and i think it will happen very quickly.

and we won we will start drilling for oil. we are going to drill, baby drill. write? [applause] do we have one over here? >> welcome to iowa mr. trump. here is my question i felt that the 2020 election was fraudulent so what measures are being taken by the rnc to make sure that doesn't happen again? >> you aren't the only one. if you look at the polls a big percentage of the country, they used covid to cheat but they would have cheated anyway. many law firms have been hired in the lot of workers beyond rnc. i wasn't thrilled with them obviously. you go out and you campaign. i left here early in the morning and go home and you thank you are doing good. i made seven rallies on the last day or two, seven. i don't know anybody that's going to do seven rallies. they were full-scale rallies and

i left and i said we are going to win and at 10:00 that evening i looked at the numbers and it was over. we were doing so well. pennsylvania and all the states were doing so well in office and they made adjustments. it was a h. they were able to do things with covid. we can't do this and we can't do that a mail-in voting. we had lot of great people involved are more than anything else i said i'd want to help in getting the vote. i want to help on election day and now it's called election period because some of these things last for two months. i said that's all i want. i want people to work and we did great. then the vote comes in and it was looking great in all of a sudden this horrible thing happened and by the way people know it we had judges that did want to get involved. everybody was afraid for they were afraid of the subject. it's a disgrace. what happened to our country is a total disgrace, a disgrace. [applause]

and look at the results. look at the result. practically every problem we talked about today would have happened. ukraine wouldn't have happened in inflation would have happened. so many things we talk about today we wouldn't even be thinking about. look at the supply chain. whoever heard of a supply chain when people can't deliver. you couldn't get baby food and you can get anything. the only thing you could get were all the drugs he wanted. he could get drugs and you could get cocaine and i wonder who's cocaine that was by the way wax [applause] and what about that deal? packages of cocaine. when they went to the fingerprint thing it was wiped clean not one fingerprint not one fingerprint. go to anyplace in this room and fingerprints are all over the place. so we are working very hard and that's my number one thing.

much more so than campaigning actually. so they don't cheat. because they will try and they will be successful to an extent but we are going to let them steal this election because this country is going to fail. i don't think the people of this country will allow it to happen. thank you very much for the question. i appreciate it. [applause] i want to thank you for all that you have done in a question i want to ask you is, i'm telling you no man would indure what you have endured. [cheers and applause] do you realize that is behind you? and strengthening you? do you realize that? >> i appreciate what you are saying and i understand what you are saying. the great gratitude i given him looking at the polls we are 50

and 60 points up among all these people and we are beating biden all these polls. we endured a fake russia, russia, russia for years. all they can think how bad those people were. a guy like adam schiff d shift is a really bad guy. he has the smallest neck i've ever seen. he won't be playing for your local team iowa, iowa state. they won't be recruiting him for flag football. adam schiff and the democrats make up the russia, russia, russia's scam. they know it's a scam. i have sons and daughters and you love my sons and daughters, right? i watched him on television one day. he knows it's a hoax, russia, russia, russia. there was no collusion in know anything. he knows it's a hoax and he goes up to the microphone and the meeting which was supposed to be

quiet and none is supposed to know what goes on in there he goes up to the microphone and he said the president's son donald trump jr. will go to prison for what he has done. he knows it's a hoax. think of it. i watch this guy talk and i'm watching him say my son is going to prison. my son is going to prison. i know the whole thing was made of. it was a made-up thing. it was an excuse for why hillary loss. they said let's blame russia. it was supposed to be a one-day deal with that the fake news wouldn't let it be one day in the fake news carried it and on and on and on and we have the same thing right now that's going on still. i got indicted. it's all. we know that. [applause]

they say he questioned the election. everybody in this room question the election. the democrats questioned 2016. they were all standing up and performing all sorts of things. those are the same guys that now say -- it's so corrupt. washington is corrupt. think about you're watching a high-ranking congressman say that your son is going to prison and he knows that it was a hoax. how bad do you have two beto do that in no collusion after 2.5 years and two weeks go by and i focused on china and other things. it's almost the easy subject. i focus on the easy things like china, russia. and then we start with ukraine, ukraine, ukraine. that phonecall turned out to be absolutely, everything i said was right.

if there's any corruption please report it to the attorney general or the united states attorney and it turned out to be exactly ripe for the lot of people are saying they had to undo the theory of that because those indictments were fake just like everything else. so we had to get back to making our country great again. many people asked me that question. i do it because i feel loved and i feel real appreciation and they do it because it's more important than anything else i can do. i could be living a very nice life with the most beautiful places all over the world and here i am with you in iowa and i'd rather be here, i'd rather be here so thank you very much. [cheers and applause] thank you. >> hello mr. president. my question for you is what we do to make future generations more successful than we are

right now? >> it's a great question in a way but our country where almost $36 trillion in debt. we are probably if this group keeps running think of what has happened. we used to be allies with saudi arabia with the lot of energy. we were allies with all of these different countries. everyone has left us. brazil is up with china now saudi arabia is with china. many in them middle eastern countries are with china. the whole of south america is with china. this happened over the last 2.5 years. it's unbelievable. we have no relation, with all the money we trying to bribe a friendship. we try to bribe our friendships. we don't have anybody in europe honestly thinks they can take advantage of us.

trade and nato they take advantage of us. the problem is biden got so far ahead of this thing now they are saying why should we to put up the money for stupid americans who are putting it all up? that's what happened. 200 billion of their 25 billion. we have an ocean in between us. it's much different. the first thing to answer question we had to save our country. it's a sad answer but it's very true. how about we do one more. we always had to end on a good one, okay? we have the end of the goodwin. >> hi president from. first of all i want to say of love and respect you so much and i want to thank you for being america's biggest fighter. so there is that it also an apology related question. i want to know if you have any words of advice or encouragement for a lot of those young conservatives who are afraid to speak out. as you may know i'm a student at

iowa the hawkeye state by the way. i just want to know especially with the caucus coming up we need to get lot of young people out there so i'd like to know if you have any thoughts on how we can be better patriots. >> it's so great that you asked that with such enthusiasm. [applause] remember this. there are for -- far more of you than you think. you don't see them. i know people in beverly hills. i see them on television. we will stop trump and they go and vote for me. it's true. you think it's woken it's not. you look at the percentage of the vote so you can count on which basically you can't. just keep your thoughts because you happen to be doing the right thing. there many more viewed than you understand that there many more of you than there are of them in the lot of them are you because it's common sense. they say are you conservative?

i am conservative but i'm a person of common sense. we need a wall, we want good education we want to be able to build and buy houses. nobody can buy houses anymore because the interest rates are so high. i was jawboning the guy you better get them down. you can't fire the head of the federal reserve but he that is going to be fired. take a look at interest rates right now. just stay the way you are and you shouldn't change it all and just go out there. people respect you and they respect you more than you would ever think in there so many of you. you are grain -- you are going to grade school. thank you very much and remember to get out and caucus and have a good time. thank you everybody. thank you. [applause] ♪♪ ♪♪

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