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>> ladies and gentlemen, please ladies■c president of the united states, president donald j. trump. >> [video clip] ♪ and i'm proud to be an american where i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died to give that right to me and i'll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today but the ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa ♪ ♪ ■j♪ from the likes of minnesotao

the hills of tennessee across the plains from sea to shining sea from detroit down to houston and new york to la where there's pride in every american heart and it's time to stand and say that i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today there ain't no doubt i love this land cut bless the usa- ss

the usa and i'm american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i'll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today but there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless usa ♪ ♪ [crowd chanting "usa"] mr. trump: well, thank you very much. they call it super tuesday for a reason. this is the big one.

[applause] and they tell me, the pungent and otherwise -- pundits and has never been anything so conclusive. this has been an amazing night, an amazing day. it has been an incredible per iod ime in our country's history. it is sad and so many ways but i think it will be inspiring because we will do some things e has been able to do for a long time. [applause] have watched our country take a great beating over the last three years. and nobody thought a thing like this would be possibl we wouldn't have russia attacking ukraine. we wouldn't have israel being attacked. iran as you know waske when i was running things. they did not have money for hamas, for hezbollah. we had no inflation.

inflation is destroying the middle class, it's destroying everything. inflation if you look back over hundreds of years back, it is called a country buster. that is what it is doing to our country. what has happened with inflation has been unbelievable. a lot of experts have said the stock market is the only thing doing well, and that is because our poll numbers are so much higher tn joe biden's. [applause] he's the worst president in the history of our country. there has never been anything like what is happening to our untoday it was announced that 325,000 people were flown in fr parts unknown, migrants were flown in, airplane, not going through borders, not through the great texas barrier

where i was with the governor of texas the other day and we were looking at the job they were doing. in the meantime they are pouring into california and arizona, because those governors are doing nothing. but today he was just announced before i came out, it was unbelievable. i said that must be a mistake. they flew 325,000 migrants over thehat really tells you where they are coming from. they want open borders. open borders are going to destroy ourouwe need borders and fair elections or we don't have a country. this is an incredible group of people. lebrities. i will not introduce any because i will just get myself in trouble because i will leave out most of you. this is a room chock-full of incredible talented people, like some of the guys standing in front of me. big, fat beautiful futures.

i would love to be your age. i would pay a lot of money to be your age. we have some tremendously talented people in this room, including talented political people that helped me 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 wanted them. we said we won't do that. in the end, they d. it was an easy negotiation. we had the safest border mother best numbers we ever had. probably in the history of the world. it's sad to see what is happening to our cities. our cities are being overrun with migrantit is a new categor. v■biolentwherthey will stand in the middle of the street and have fistfights with

police officers, and if they did that where they came, they would be killed instantly. the world is taking advantage of us. three years ago we were at a level where we were energy independent. we will be shortly energy dominant. today we are getting oil from venezuelcan you believe it? we are doing numbers on that. we are refining the oil. e our refinery for that oil. i call it tar. we have real stuff. but we are refining it in houston. for all the environmen, you want to look at that, because all that tar is going up into the atmos it is the only plant that can do it. we have the only plants that can take tar and turn it into oil. it is a shame. we were energy independent.

we will be energy dominant. we will be supplying oil to europe all over the world. the election, it was a tragedy. all of the problems that you have today, i don't think any . you would only have success. that is what ultimately will unify this country and this party. we have a great republican with tremendous talent. we want to have unity, and we are going to have unity. i have been saying lately, success will bring unity to our country. it happened before we had thests ever had. people were calling me that i would have said would never happen. they wanted to getafrican-amerin american, hispanic american, women, men, people with diplomas from the and people that did not

graduate from high school, every single group was doing better than before. it was a beautiful thing. our country was coming together. [applause] and now we have a very divided country. we have a country that a political person uses nt. it happens in other countries, but they are third world countries. we are a third world country at our borders, at our elections, and we have to stop that. we need a fair and free press. ■not been fair, nor has it been free. maybe someday they will be. they have been beaten up pretty badly. it is an important fact.

we have to get that confidence back. it isportant for the success of our country. [applause] this has been a day that we have been waiting for. i want to thank my family for being here. i have a great family. [applause] they say thanks a lot, dad, we appreciate it. but they are strong and very capable people. they love the country, really do. we appreciate it. i want to thank everybody, my staff, susie, chris, incredible job you are doing. [applause] i read an article yesterday

where it said this is one of the finest run campaigns that anyone has ever seen. that is pretty good, right? and we have no choice because november 5 is right 5 is going n as the single most important day in the history of our country. [applause] [crowd chanting "usa"] mr. trump: we are going to take it and we are going to make it like it should be, respected. right now our country is known as a joke. it's a joke. other leaders who i speak to can't believe what happened to us. three years ago we were the most

respected country anywhere by far. we were doing things nobody cochina was paying us billions f dollars. in 25 years they have paid us nothing. i was getting billions of dollars. they were happy about it, as happy as you can be. maybe theris reasons for things having happened. they were not so happy with certain things i guess based on things that took place. we were getting along with everybody. we were respected by everybody. we had no wars, remember? ■i had the debate with hillary clinton, she said look at that personality, he's going to cause wars. i said my personality will keep us out ofar and that is what happened. [applause] for 20 years they were fighting

isis. i defeated isis in four weeks. i got rid of isis 100%. 100% of the isis caliphate. and we had nogó wwe stopped war. we were not getting along with a lot of countries. all of a sudden, north k■orea, which is a serious nuclear power, came along. kim jong-un, we got along very well. we got along very well with china until covid, and that was a bit too much as far as i was concerned. we made a trade deal with china that i don't even talk. $50 billion a year and product that i bought -- in product that they bought from our farmers. covid, i don't even talk about that because covid was such a horrible thing. it started in the wuhan labs,:s just as i said. and it came out i believe

through incompetence. some people think it wasn't but i think it was. regardless it caused $60 trillion worth of damage and death all over the world. and we did a fantastic job on that. we never got credit for that. unbelievable job on that. we■o came up with things that nobody thought was possible. no one had any idea what it was. they did not even use the word pandemic. ■wbut we did a fantastic job. we got a lot of credit for the economy, for our foreign policy. i think credit like very few people have gotten. the press was honest about it. they gave us high marks on foreign policy, the abraham accords, so many things we did. we never got the kind of due 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. [applause] and despite that, the stock market, when we turned it the stock market was higher prior to covid. we did in amazing job. we had so many people that worked on that, so many of the doctors and scientists. it was really something. but there has never been an administration that had more success in so many different elements. we got the largest tax cuts in cuts in history. we rebuilt our military. and what happened, we rebuilt our entire military. we had jet fighters that were 53 years old. and we had all brand-new jet fighters.

after this other group of people that did not know what they were doing, they took over and we had that horrible surrender in afghanistan. i call it a surrender. we took the shoulders out first. i dealt with leaders of the taliban in afghanistan. they were the ones causing the trouble. the press were angry because they said why are you calling i said that is where the problem is. they asked jesse james, why do you rob banks? said that is where the money is. that is where the problem is with the taliban. i spoke to abdul. he is really the leader of afghanistan and the taliban, a rough group. i say don't ever shoot our soldiers again. what happened, during the obama administration previously, they we our soldiers and i let them know,

don't ever let that happen. i said it infor 18 months, we ln afghanistan, and then we had that horrible withdrawal where we lost 13 soldiers, 38 horribly wounded. left americans behind.! you have americans right now still behind, call them hostages if you like. we left 85 billion dollars wort, jets and tanks and goggles, night goggles. they are good fighters. they did not used to fight at night, but now they do because they have goggles. they have better goggles than we have. i want to tell you that led to a lot of bad things. now the worst things are happening. the things happening now are and they are unthinkable at the border. we have millions of people

invading our country. is is the worst invasion probably -- we have never had anything like it. no country hadit. the number today could be 15 million people. and they are coming from rough shut down. when joe biden goes to the beach because someone on his staff thinks he looks very good in a bathing suit -- [laughter] until he can't get his feet out of the sand or lift the chair which weighs about nine ounces, joe biden, if he left everything alone he could have had gone to the beach. we are going to take back our country. [applause] we are going to do it right.

we are going to have the greatest economy ever in the history of our country. we will top what we did. we are going to become an energy center of the world. were ready to become energy dominant. they stopped that, but we are going to become energy dominant. we will pay off debt. we will do things no one thought was possible. we had not done our second phase of the tax cuts. the democrats fought us very now they say i guess that was pretty good because we took in much more revenues after we cut taxes,l those regulation cuts and everyone was happy and we were proud of our country. we will win this election beuse we have no choice. if we lose, we will not have a country left. [applause] and we are going to do something -- thank you very much. 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. i just say this is a magnificent place, a magnificent country. it is so sad to see how far it has come and gone. when you look at the deaths, we cannot let that happen. we will close our borders. we will drill, baby, drill. we will get the inflation down. and we are going to make our country greater than ever before and we will do it quickly. it is going to go fast. we have to get the criminals out. we have many criminals that entered our country. we have people coming in from such bad places and we will have to get them out. we have murderers being deposited into our country, drug

dealers at the highest levels coming in to our country. we have people coming in that should not be here. ('■many, large percentages -- ty come in through the caravans. now we find they come in through airplanes. this is crazwe are going to sto. we will close our borders. we will have to deport a lot of bad people. our countries cannot live like this. our cities are choking to death. our states are dying and frankly our country is dying. we will make america great again, greater than ever before. thank you very much. been a big night. [cheers and applause] ♪

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