Well thank you very much CPAC. Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me? A lot
of things going on to so many wonderful friends, Conservatives and
fellow citizens in this room all across our country. I stand before you
today to declare that the incredible journey we begun together we went
through a journey like nobody else. There’s never been a journey like
it, there’s never been a journey so successful. We began it together
four years ago and it is far from being over. And you know what this is?
The hardest working people, hard working American patriots, it’s just
getting started and in the end we will win. We will win. We’ve been
doing a lot of winning. As we gather this week, we’re in the middle of a
historic struggle for America’s future, America’s culture and America’s
institutions, borders, and most cherished principles. Our security, our
prosperity, and our very identity as Americans is at stake, like
perhaps at no other time.
So no matter how much the Washington establishment and the powerful,
special interests may want to silence us, let there be no doubt we will
be victorious and America will be stronger and greater than ever before.
I want to thank my great friends, Matt and Mercedes Schlap, Matt, thank
you. Mercedes, thank you very much. And the American Conservative Union
for hosting this extraordinary event. They’re talking about it all over
the world man, I know you don’t like it [inaudible 00:05:19] okay. All
over the world. I also want to pay my love and respect to the great Rush
Limbaugh who is watching closely and smiling down on us. He’s watching
and he’s loving it and he loves Catherine. Catherine, thank you for
being here. So great. Thank you Catherine. He loved you Catherine, I
will tell you that. Fantastic. Thank you Catherine very much. To each
and every one of you here at CPAC I am more grateful to you than you
will ever know.
We are gathered this afternoon to talk about the future of our movement,
the future of our party and the future of our beloved country. For the
next four years, the brave Republicans in this room will be at the heart
of the effort to oppose the radical Democrats, the fake news media and
their toxic cancel culture, something new to our ears, cancel culture.
And I want you to know that I’m going to continue to fight right by your
side. We will do what we’ve done right from the beginning, which is to
win. We’re not starting new parties. They kept saying, “He’s going to
start a brand new party.” We have the Republican party it’s going to
unite and be stronger than ever before.
I am not starting a new party. That was fake news, fake news. No.
Wouldn’t that be brilliant? Let’s start a new party and let’s divide our
vote so that you can never win. No, we’re not interested in that. Mr.
McLaughlin just gave me numbers that nobody’s ever heard of before, more
popular than anybody. That’s all of us, it’s all of us. Those are great
numbers and I want to thank you very much. Those are incredible
numbers. I came here and he was giving me 95%, 97%, 92%. And I said,
“They’re great.” And I want to thank everybody in this room and
everybody all throughout the country, throughout the world if you want
to really know the truth.
Thank you President Trump!
Thank you, darling. Thank you. We will be united and strong like never
before, we will save and strengthen America. We will fight the onslaught
of radicalism, socialism, and indeed it all leads to communism once and
for all. That’s what it leads to. You’ll be hearing more and more about
that as we go along, but that’s what it leads to. You know that. We all
knew that the Biden administration was going to be bad, but none of us
even imagined just how bad they would be and how far left they would go.
He never talked about this. We would have those wonderful debates, he
would never talk about this. We didn’t know what the hell he was talking
about actually. His campaign was all lies. Talked about energy, I said,
“This guy actually he’s okay with energy.” He wasn’t okay with energy,
he wants to put you all out of the business. He’s not okay with energy.
He wants windmills, the windmills. The windmills that don’t work when
you need them.
Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of any President in
modern history, that’s true. Already the Biden administration has proved
that they are anti-jobs, anti-family anti-borders, anti-energy,
anti-women, and anti-science. In just one short month we have gone from
America first to America last. Think about it, right? America last.
There is no better example than the new and horrible crisis on our
Southern border. We did such a good job. It was all worked, nobody’s
ever seen anything like we did and now he wants it all to go to hell.
When I left office just six weeks ago, we had created the most secure
border in U.S. history. We had built almost 500 miles of great border
wall that helped us with these numbers because once it’s up, they used
to say, “The wall doesn’t work.” Well you know what I’ve always said?
Walls and wheels, those are two things that will never change.
The wall has been amazing. It’s been incredible and little sections of
it to complete, they don’t want to complete it. They don’t want to
complete little sections in certain little areas, they don’t want to
complete. But it’s had an impact that nobody would have even believed.
It’s amazing considering that the Democrats’ number one priority was to
make sure that the wall would never, ever get built, would never, ever
happen, would never get financed. We got it, financed. We ended catch
and release, ended asylum fraud and brought illegal crossings to
historic lows. When illegal aliens trespass across our borders, they
were prominently caught, detained and sent back home and these were some
rough customers, I want to tell you. Some rough customers entering our
country. It took them the new administration only a few weeks to turn
this unprecedented accomplishment into a self inflicted humanitarian and
national security disaster.
By recklessly eliminating our border security measures, controls, all of
the things that we put into place, Joe Biden has triggered a massive
flood of illegal immigration into our country the likes of which we have
never seen before. They’re coming up by the tens of thousands. They’re
all coming to take advantage of the things that he said that’s luring
everybody to come to America. And we’re one country, we can’t afford the
problems of the world as much as we’d love to. We’d love to help but we
can’t do that. So they’re all coming because of promises and foolish
words. Perhaps worst of all, Joe Biden’s decision to cancel border
security has single handedly launched a youth migrant crisis that is
enriching child smugglers, vicious criminal cartels, and some of the
most evil people on the planet. You see it every day, just turn on the
news, you’ll see it every day.
Under my administration, we stopped the child smugglers, we dismantled
the criminal cartels. We greatly limited drug and human trafficking to a
level that nobody actually thought was possible and the wall helped us a
lot and we protected vulnerable people from the ravages of dangerous
predators and that’s what they are. Dangerous, dangerous predators. But
the Biden administration is put the vile coyotes back in business and
has done so in a very, very big way under the new administration, catch
and release has been restored. Can you imagine? We worked so hard.
Catch, you know where that is? You catch them, you take their name, they
may be killers, they may be rapists, they may be drug smugglers, you
take their name and you release them into our country. We did the
opposite. We not only didn’t release them, we had them brought back to
their country.
Illegal immigrants are now being apprehended and released along the
entire Southern border, just the opposite of what it was two months ago.
They weren’t coming because they couldn’t get in. Once they think they
can get in, they’re coming and they are coming at levels that you
haven’t even seen yet. By the hundreds of thousands, by the millions
they’ll be coming. The Biden administration is now actively expediting
the admission of illegal migrants, enabling them to lodge, frivolous
asylum claims and admitting them by the thousands and thousands and
thousands a day, crowded together in unsanitary conditions despite the
ongoing economic and public health crisis, COVID-19, or as I call it the
China virus.
There’s no masks, there’s no double masks, that was a new one that came
out two weeks ago. First Fauci said, you don’t need masks, no masks, no
good, now he wants double masks. No social distancing, no nothing, no
nothing. That together and I say it actually and I say for them, and I
say it for our country, what the Biden administration is doing to push
young migrants into the hands of human traffickers and coyotes is
dangerous, immoral and indefensible, hard to believe it’s happening.
Biden has failed in his number one duty as chief executive, enforcing
America’s laws. This alone should be reason enough for Democrats to
suffer withering losses in the midterms and to lose the white house
decisively four years from now.
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Actually, as you know, they just lost the white house, but it’s one of
those. But who knows? Who knows, I may even decide to beat them for a
third time, okay? Joe Biden defunded the border wall and stopped all
future construction even on small open sections that just needed to be
finished up, routine little work it’s already been bought. Wait until
the contractors get to them and they say, “No, it costs this much more
money not to finish the small sections then if we finished it,” that’s
going to be nice. Wait until you see those bills start pouring in. He
revoked the executive order cracking down on deadly sanctuary cities. He
has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all
deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more. Let’s not deport
people. And restricting our law enforcement professionals and they are
great professionals, you have many of them represented here today, from
conducting almost any immigration enforcement of any kind.
The Biden policy of releasing criminals into the U.S. interior is making
America into a sanctuary nation where criminals, illegal immigrants,
including gang members and sex offenders are set free into American
communities. They have no idea and remember with the caravans, these
countries, not only the three of them, but many, many countries all over
the world, they’re not giving us the best and their finest because
they’re intelligent. They’re not giving us their best and their finest,
remember I said that? I said that a long time ago when I made the first
remarks, when I came down the escalator with our great future first
lady, who says hello. Who loves you as much as I love you. I said that a
long time ago, and we turned out to be 100% correct. Biden’s radical
immigration policies aren’t just illegal, they’re immoral, they’re
heartless and they are a betrayal of our nation’s core values. It’s a
terrible thing that’s happening
The Republican party must hold Joe Biden and the Democrats accountable.
They ripped up the diplomatic agreements we negotiated with Honduras,
Guatemala and El Salvador to shut down illegal immigration. They got a
fortune, they got paid $500 million a year. When I came into office,
those countries were refusing to take back illegal alien gang members,
including MS13, the most vicious probably of them all. No matter where
you go in the world, MS13, they do things that even the worst don’t
think about. So I asked, “How much do we pay these countries? How much
do we pay them?” Sir, we pay them approximately $500 million a year.
That’s a lot of money. I mean, it’s peanuts compared to the way other
countries rip us off but that’s a lot of money. I said, “Okay, we aren’t
going to pay them anymore because they wouldn’t take back the
criminals.” And this was true with the Obama administration, it was true
for many, many years.
So we’d catch a murderer we’d want to bring them back to Guatemala or
Honduras or El Salvador, they wouldn’t take them back. No, we don’t want
them. We’d fly them in, they wouldn’t let the plane land, we’d bus them
and they wouldn’t let the buses get anywhere near the border. And I
said, “We’re not going to pay them anymore.” So after I said that, and I
stopped payment, like a term that we use in the world of business,
let’s stop payment. So we stopped payment, they were delinquent. We
stopped payment and they very quickly came to the table and we made a
deal very quickly. We still kept the money. We still didn’t pay it but
we made a deal. And when illegal aliens came across our border they were
rapidly deported and lovingly accepted by those countries from where
they came and it worked, so they accept the people and we ultimately got
along very well with those countries, those three countries, and many
countries throughout the world, because they respected us again.
Donald Trump: (20:42)
They didn’t respect us. They couldn’t believe what they were getting
away with. But now Joe Biden has wrecked this great deal, wrecked it.
And they’re already doing what they were doing before, and they’re
taking the money and that’s just a small portion of what’s going on. To
top it all off, the Biden people are pushing a bill that would grant
mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens while massively expanding
chain migration. That’s where you come in and everybody comes in, your
grandmother, your father, your mother, your brother, your cousins, they
come in so easily. So crazy, so crazy. It even requires that the U.S.
government provide a illegal border crossings with taxable funded
lawyers, lawyers. Anybody need a good lawyer? You can’t have one. They
get the lawyers, they lawyers. They’re probably very good to.
The Democrat immigration bill is a globalist corp. You take a look at
the corporatists, big tech attack on hard working citizens of every
race, religion, color, and creed and Republicans must ensure that it
never is allowed to become federal law, which is what they want to do.
We must stand tall in the party. We have to do this. We have to stand
tall as the [inaudible 00:22:10] for law abiding Americans and others
when they’re in our country. Border security is just one of the many
issues on which the new administration has already betrayed the American
people. He didn’t talk about this stuff. I debated him. He wasn’t
talking about this. What he signed with those executive orders. They
weren’t things that were discussed. We didn’t know all about him and the
press because they’re fake news. They’re the biggest fakers there are.
But the press refused to ask the questions and when I asked the
questions on television, on the debate, Chris Wallace, in this case, and
others refused to let him answer. They refused to let him answer the
questions. Maybe we could have found something, or if the media did its
job, which they don’t. Their callous indifference to working families is
equally clear when it comes to the critical matter of getting
Americans’ children back to school. And they must get back and get back
right now, right now. Crazy. Terrible. Terrible. The Biden
administration is actually bragging about the classroom education they
are providing to migrant children on the border while at the same time,
millions of American children are having their futures destroyed by Joe
Biden’s anti-science school closures. Think of it. We’re educating
students on the [inaudible 00:23:55] but our own people, children of our
citizens, citizens themselves are not getting the education …
… themselves are not getting the education that they deserve. There’s no
reason whatsoever why the vast majority of young Americans should not
be back in school immediately.
Donald Trump: (24:13)
The only reason that most parents do not have that choice is because Joe
Biden sold out America’s children to the teacher’s unions.
Donald Trump: (24:28)
His position is morally inexcusable. You know that. Joe Biden has
shamefully betrayed America’s youth and he is cruelly keeping our
children locked in their homes, no reason for it whatsoever, they want
to get out. They’re cheating the next generation of Americans out of the
future that they deserve. And they do deserve this future. They’re
going to grow up and they’re going to have a scar. It’s a scandal of the
highest order and one of the most graven acts by any president in our
lifetimes. It’s the teacher’s union, it’s the votes and it shouldn’t
happen. And I have, nobody has more respect for teachers than I do. And
I’ll bet you a lot of the people within that union, they agree with
everything I’m saying. Even the New York Times is calling out the
Democrats.
The mental and physical health of these young people is reaching a
breaking point. Tragically suicide attempts have skyrocketed and student
depression is now commonplace and at levels that we’ve never seen
before. The Democrats now say we have to pass their $1.9 trillion
boondoggle to open schools, but a very small part of it has to do with
that. You know where it’s going. It’s going to bail out badly run
Democrat cities. So much of it. But billions of dollars for schools
remain unspent from the COVID relief bills that were passed last year.
So on behalf of the moms, dads and children of America, I call on Joe
Biden to get the schools open and get them open now. It’d be a great
thing to do.
When I left office, and we’re very proud of this because this was
something that they said could not be done. The FDA said it, everybody
said it, any article that you read said it. Couldn’t be done. It would
be years and years. I handed the new administration what everyone is now
calling a modern day medical miracle. Some say it’s the greatest thing
to happen in hundreds of years, hundreds of years. Two vaccines produced
in record [inaudible 00:26:51] others on the way, including the Johnson
and Johnson vaccine that was approved just yesterday.
And therapeutic relief, also, if you’re sick. If you’re sick, we have
things now that are incredible. What has taken place over the last year
under our administration would have taken any other president at least
five years. And we got it done in nine months. Everyone says five years,
five years. Can you imagine if you had to go through what all of the
countries of the world who are now getting the vaccine or soon will be
getting it from various companies. But can you imagine if all of those
countries had to go through what they’ve been going through over the
last year? You’d lose hundreds of millions of people.
I pushed the FDA like they have never been pushed before. They told me
that loud and clear. They have never been pushed like I pushed them. I
didn’t like them at all. But once we got it done, I said I now love you
very much. What the Trump administration has done with vaccines has in
many respects, perhaps saved large portions of the world. Not only our
country, but large portions of the world.
Not only did we push the FDA far beyond what the bureaucrats wanted to
do, we also put up billions and billions of dollars, 10 billion, to
produce the vaccines before we knew they were going to work. It was
called a calculated bet or a calculated risk. We took a risk because if
we didn’t do that, you still wouldn’t have the vaccines. You wouldn’t
have them for a long time. So think of that. We took this bet, we made a
bet because we feel we’re on a certain track. But you’d be starting to
make them right now. It’d be a long time before you ever saw. It takes
60 to a hundred days to manufacture and inspect new doses. And that
means that 100% of the increased availability that we have now was
initiated by our administration. 100%.
In fact, the director of national institutes of health, Francis Collins,
he’s Fauci’s boss, actually. I think he’s a Democrat too, by the way.
Recently said that our operation warp speed was absolutely breathtaking.
And that the Trump administration deserves full credit. Which we do.
And as conservatives and Republicans, never forget that we did it. Never
let them take the credit because they don’t deserve the credit. They
just followed now, they’re following our plan, but this has been
something that they really call it an absolute miracle.
Joe Biden is only implementing the plan that we put in place. And if we
had an honest media, which we don’t. They would say it loud and clear.
By the time I left that magnificent house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
almost 20 million Americans had already been vaccinated. 1.5 million
doses were administered on my final day alone. 1.5 million in a day. Yet
Biden said just a few days ago that when he got here, meaning the white
house, there was no vaccine. He said there’s no vaccine. Oh good. Say
it again, Joe.
Now I don’t think he said that, frankly, in a malicious way. I really
don’t. I actually believe he said that because he didn’t really know
what the hell was happening. But never let them forget, this was us. We
did this. And the distribution is moving along according to our plan.
And it’s moving along really well. We had the military, what they’ve
done, our generals and all of the people what [inaudible 00:31:30]
incredible. But remember, we took care of a lot of people. Including, I
guess on December 21st, we took care of Joe Biden, because he got his
shot. He got his vaccine. He forgot. It shows you how unpainful that
vaccine shot is. So everybody go get your shot. He forgot. So it wasn’t
very traumatic, obviously. But he got his shot. And it’s good that he
got his shot.
Last year, I predicted to you that the extremist corruption and
incompetence of the Biden administration would be literally
unprecedented in American history. Unfortunately, he has proven me 100%
right. Already, as president, Biden has urged [inaudible 00:32:19]
legislation shredding your second amendment. Your second amendment is in
far bigger trouble than you know. And for four years, I fought like
hell to save your second amendment. And we saved it 100&. We saved
it.
We signed an order to conduct politically correct, far-left
indoctrination trainings in every department of the federal government,
including the U S military, after I had terminated these horrible things
that were being preached to our military. And he wants it to go
forward. It’s insane. Within his first few hours Biden eliminated our
national security travel bans on nations plagued by terrorism. His first
priority was to open up borders to unvetted travelers from Libya,
Yemen, Syria, Somalia [inaudible 00:33:14] other countries where strict
vetting cannot occur. Countries that have tremendous problems. Countries
with tremendous terrorism problems. We did a travel ban. It was a real
achievement. We told those countries, sorry, straighten out your act. We
don’t want people coming in where they had an ideology or a problem. We
just couldn’t have it. And it was incredible. How it worked was
incredible. And he terminated it.
We had to get it approved. It went all the way up to the Supreme Court
of the United States. We got it approved and he terminates it. In
addition, he’s already increased refugee admissions by nearly 10 times.
But in effect, it will soon be hundreds of times as millions of people
flow up through our soon to be open borders. And by the way, the border
patrol and ICE are some of the great heroes of our country. These are
incredible people. I got to know them very well.
You family still cannot go out to eat at local restaurants, but Joe
Biden is bringing in thousands upon thousands of refugees from all over
the world, people that nobody knows anything about. We don’t have crime
records. We don’t have health records. What are they bringing in with
them? When I left office, we had virtually ended the endless wars. These
endless wars, they go on forever. They go on forever.
I would go to Dover and I would see caskets, coffins coming in. I’d see
the parents and wives and husbands. I would see the kids. Endless wars.
19 years in Afghanistan, we have it down to almost [inaudible 00:35:00]
left and I hear they might want to go back in. Iraq. Remember I used to
say don’t go in, but if you’re going to go in, keep the oil [inaudible
00:35:09] but we didn’t keep the oil. We had made historic peace deals
in the Middle East like nobody thought were even possible. There’s not a
drop of blood shed.
And by the way, not one American soldier has been killed in Afghanistan
in over a year. Think of that. Not one. Those troops have largely come
home. At the same time, the new administration unilaterally withdrew our
crippling sanctions on Iran, foolishly giving away all of America’s
leverage before negotiations have even begun. Leave the sanctions,
negotiate. Does anybody understand what I’m saying here? Are there any
good business people? You don’t have to be a good. Are there any bad
business people? They took off of the sanctions. They took off the
sanctions. They said, well, we’re going to not have any sanctions. Let’s
negotiate a deal. I don’t know, Matt Schlapp, I don’t think you would
have done that. Do you think so, Matt? I don’t think so. Mercedes
wouldn’t have.
No, you do that, you make a deal, and then you do what they wanted. I
will tell you something. And I said it. Had we had a fair election, the
results would have been much different, and we would have had a deal. We
would have had a deal with Iran within [inaudible 00:36:51]. They
wanted those sanctions off of… Took them off for nothing. For nothing.
Now you watch how tough they negotiate. In another horrendous surrender,
he agreed to get back into the World Health Organization. For
approximately $500 million a year, which is what we were paying.
When I withdrew from the WHO, and you know the whole story with that,
they called it badly. They really are puppets for China. They called and
they wanted us to stay in. I said how much are we paying? Approximately
$500 million. How much is China paying? A much larger in terms of
population country. Sir, they’re paying $39 million. I said why are we
paying 500 million and they’re paying 39. I can tell you why. Because
the people that made the deal are stupid. That’s why.
And I had no idea how popular was… I didn’t even know if I would be able
to politically because people were so happy when I did get out. But I
said, so if we went in, we could get it for 39 million, which is what
China, not 500 million, which is what we were stupidly paying. And they
said, we can make a deal. We want you to go in. We can make a deal.
Okay. And I decided not to do it. But we could have had it for 39. We
could have had it for the same as China. And they decide, now to go back
into the World Health Organization and pay 500 million. What the hell
is wrong with that?
No, no. This is just emblematic. It’s a tremendous amount of money. But
compared to trillions, it’s not. But it’s a tremendous amount of money.
Why would China pay 39 million and we’re paying almost 500 million? Why?
So we could have made the same deal that China had. 39 million. And
they just say, we’re going back in. We’re going back into the World
Health Organization. They go back in, they pay 500. It is so sad.
Just like the Iran and the World Health Organization, Joe Biden put the
United States back into the very unfair and very costly Paris climate
accord without negotiating a better deal. They wanted us so badly back
in. I’ll tell you they wanted us. I was getting called from all of the
countries. You must come back into the Paris accord. I said, tell me
why. Give me one good reason.
First of all, China doesn’t kick in for 10 years. Russia goes by an old
standard, which was not a clean standard. And other countries, but we
get hit right from the beginning. Would have cost us hundreds of
thousands and millions of jobs. It was a disaster. But they go back in. I
could have made an unbelievable deal and got back in, but I didn’t want
to do that. Surrendering millions of jobs and trillions of dollars to
all of these other countries. Almost all of them that were in the deal.
So they have favorable treatment. We don’t have favorable treatment. And
we just said, we’re going back in. To go back in, they wanted us so
badly, you could’ve negotiated. If you wanted to go back in [inaudible
00:39:58] the cleanest air, the cleanest water and everything else that
we’ve ever had. So I don’t know why we have to.
And what good does it do when we’re clean, but China’s not, and Russia’s
not, and India’s not. So they’re pouring fumes. You know, the world is
actually a small [inaudible 00:40:18], right? They’re pouring fumes and
we’re trying to protect everything and building products for three times
more than [inaudible 00:40:26] say no. They could have made a great
deal. If they were going to go back in, that’s fine. But they could have
made a great deal instead of just saying we’re back in. These
[inaudible 00:40:35].
And in one of his first official acts, which was incredible, because
again, he talked about energy. He never said he was going to do this. He
canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline. Destroying [inaudible 00:40:47] or
the 9,000 or the 11,000 jobs that you hear. But 42,000 great paying
jobs. On just about day one, right? He never talked about that during a
debate because he wouldn’t have gotten away with it. Well, he would have
because they cheated so much it probably wouldn’t have mattered.
No, but that was not a topic of conversation. Remember? Fracking. You
could track. Oh, we love fracking. During the primary, no fracking. As
soon as he got through that, he said, no, of course everybody can frack.
No fracking. You wait till you see what happens with your gasoline.
Wait till you see what happens and we cannot let this stuff continue to
go on. One of my proudest accomplishments as president was to make
America energy independent. The United States became the number one
energy superpower. Number one. Became number one, bigger than Saudi
Arabia, bigger than Russia by a lot. We left them all in the dust. They
were all on [inaudible 00:42:02]. But if the Democrats have their way,
we are heading from energy dominance to energy disaster. That’s what’s
happening. You have to see what’s going on. Everything’s being closed
up. It’s a disaster. The blackouts we saw in California last summer and
all the time. The windmill calamity that we’re witnessing in Texas.
Great state of Texas. We love Texas. But it’s so sad when you look at
it. That’ll just be the start.
How bad is wind power? So I talk about it all the time at CPAC, right?
We went to CPAC. Remember last year, I said, we’re going to watch the
president. Alice, the wind isn’t blowing. I don’t believe we’ll have any
electricity. Remember we would kid, but I wasn’t actually kidding. It’s
such an expensive form of energy. It’s so bad for the environment. It
kills the birds. It destroys the landscapes. And remember, these are
structural columns with fans on them. They wear out. And when they wear
out all over the country, you see them, nobody takes them down. They’re
rotting. They’re rusting. How this is environmentally good for our
country. And it costs many, many times more than natural gas, which is
clean. It costs many more… And can fuel our great [inaudible 00:43:20].
We can’t do that.
Donald Trump: (43:21)
And solar, I love solar but it doesn’t have the capacity to do what we
have to do to make America great again. Sorry it just doesn’t have it.
Under the radical Democrat policies, the price of gasoline has already
surged 30% since the election. And we’ll go to $5, $6, $7 and even
higher. So enjoy that when you go to the pump. They’ll say, that’ll be
about $200 to fill up your van. You’ll go to the… Remember they used to
go to the little small vans. They got away from the big ones that
everybody wanted. They went to the small ones. Well, you know what?
Probably a good investment. As long as these guys have their say,
because you know, it’s a shame what’s happening. Energy prices are going
to go through the roof. And that includes your electric bills. That
includes any bill having to do with energy. Our biggest cost.
We will now be relying on Russia and the Middle East for oil. And they
talked about Russia, Russia, Russia. What’s better than what this guy
has done for Russia? I had oil where they were actually paying you to
take it. Okay. You know, I was… Remember they were going to give you 37 a
barrel, but you got to take it away. You had free oil almost for a
period of time and one way I was proud of it, but we also had to save
the energy industry and it worked out well. And I dealt with Russia
[inaudible 00:44:39] and they cut back on production. And we got it back
up. But now it’s going the opposite because now they’re taking this
incredible energy independence away from the people of our country. And
you’re going to see costs go like you have never seen them go before.
It’s a very sad and very stupid thing that they’re doing. The Biden
policies are a massive win for other oil producing countries. And a loss
for the United States and our great citizens.
Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy
women’s sports. A lot of new records are being broken in women’s
sports. Hate to say that ladies, but got a lot of new records, they’re
being shattered. [inaudible 00:45:28] the weightlifting. Every ounce was
like a big deal for many years. All of a sudden somebody comes along
and beats it by a hundred [inaudible 00:45:36]. Young girls and women
are in sex that they are now being forced to compete against those who
are biological males. It’s not good for women. It’s not good for women’s
sports, which worked so long and so hard to get to where they are. The
records that stood for years, even decades, are now being smashed with
[inaudible 00:46:00]. Smashed. If this does not change, women’s sports,
as we know it, will die. They’ll end. It’ll end.
What coach, if I’m a coach, I want to be a great coach. What coach, as
an example, wants to recruit a young woman to compete if her record can
easily be broken by somebody who was born a man. Not too many of those
coaches around, right? They are around, they won’t be around long
because they’re going to have a big problem when their record is… We’re 0
and 16, but we’re getting better. No, I think it’s crazy. I think it’s
just crazy what’s happening. We must protect the integrity of women’s
sports. So important. Have to.
And I don’t even know, is that controversial? Somebody said well, that’s
going to be very controversial. I said, that’s okay. You haven’t heard
anything yet. As you can see, the early weeks of the Biden
administration of nothing less than they’ve been a catastrophe for
American workers and for American families. [inaudible 00:47:23] of our
mission. And for us, it’s our movement. As I said, a movement, like has
never been seen. I think we can probably say, never been seen anywhere
in the world. And nobody’s ever seen a movement like this. I’d grow out
and I’d watch somebody who came in second in New Hampshire or first in
Iowa and that was the end and they became famous for the rest of their
lives. We won the election twice. I mean you know think about it. The
task for our movement and our party is to stand up to this destructive
agenda with confidence and with resolve.
… this destructive agenda with confidence and with resolve. The future
of the Republican Party is as a party that defends the social, economic,
and cultural interests and values of working American families of every
race, color, and creed. That’s why the party is growing so rapidly and
is becoming a different party. And it’s becoming a party of love. You
have to see outside the streets. I mean, there’s such love. The flags …
Amazing.
Audience: (48:53)
USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA.
That’s right. Now it’s a party that’s incredible. The people, the
spirit, and there are, as you probably heard a little while ago, I mean,
there’s more spirit now than there’s ever been, including even before
the election. More sprit now than we’ve ever seen, because people are
seeing how bad it can be. And again, I want to thank Rush and Kathryn
because what he did to get the word out has been incredible. Some people
are irreplaceable as Sean Hannity would say, and he said, “Rush is
replaceable,” but his spirit lives on and that’s something that we need
and we love.
Republicans believe that the deeds of every citizen must come first. In
fact, America must come first. We don’t put it first. They don’t put it
first. Over the past four years my administration delivered for
Americans of all backgrounds like never before, like never before. We
built the strongest economy in the history of the world, raised wages,
and achieved the lowest African American, Hispanic American, Asian
American unemployment rates ever, ever, ever recorded. It was so great
for everybody of all backgrounds that even after the China virus, we are
leading the world, nobody’s even close. We’re leading it in the
comeback. Our economic comeback has been incredible. That’s because the
financial and economic foundation we built was so strong that unlike
other countries, who are having a hard time, we didn’t break. We came
roaring back and now our stock market and your 401ks are again at record
levels, higher than ever before actually.
Many people have asked what is Trumpism, a new term being used more and
more. I’m hearing that term more and more. I didn’t come up with it, but
what it means is great deals, great trade deals, great ones, not deals
where we give away everything, our jobs, money. Like the USMCA
replacement of the horrible NAFTA. NAFTA was one of the worst deals ever
made, probably the worst trade deal ever made. And we ended it. You
know, a lot of people forget, we ended it. Now we have the USMCA,
Mexico, Canada. It’s incredible what it’s done for our farmers who are
doing fantastically. Did you see grain prices and grain sales are at an
all time high? Wheat, all time high. So many elements of farms and
farmers, and they love me. And remember, it’s going to be very close in
Iowa. Well, it wasn’t close. We won a landslide, Iowa, because our
farmers know, and they put up with it and we did a lot of work with the
tariffs and all these things that we had to do to get it, and now the
farmers are doing great. But they’re setting records.
It means low taxes and eliminated job killing regulations, Trumpism. It
means strong borders, but people coming into our country based on a
system of merit. So they come in and they can help us as opposed to
coming here and not being good for us, including criminals, of which
there are many, it means no riots in the streets. It means law
enforcement. It means very strong protection for the second amendment
and the right to keep and bear arms. It means support for the forgotten
men and women who have been taken advantage of for so many years. And
they were doing great, they were doing great before that horrible thing
from China came in and hit us. And now they’re starting to do really
well again. If you think about it, we built the economy twice. We built a
then and then like every other country in the world, it went down and
then we built it again. Now it’s higher in many ways, certainly in the
stock pocket, it’s higher in many ways than it was before. That’s
because of the foundation and no country comes even close to competing
with our comeback.
And it means a strong military and taking care of our vets, but a strong
military, which we have totally rebuilt, we have rebuilt it. And our
military has never been stronger than it is today. It was tired, it was
depleted, it was obsolete. And now we have the best brand new equipment
ever made and it was all produced right here in the USA. Isn’t that
nice? And we take care of our vets. We had a call recently just before
leaving office, the vets had a 91% approval rating for the way we took
care of them. It’s the highest number in the history of the polls. The
vet polls. On top of all of that, we have even created the Space Force,
the first new branch of the United States in nearly 75 years. The
mission of the Democrat Party is to promote socialism. They want to
promote socialism, ultimately leading unfortunately to communism. And
that will happen. If you look at Venezuela, you look at some of these
countries, that’s why some of our biggest supporters are from South
America, Latin America, because they’ve seen what goes on with all of
this cancel culture and you can’t speak it, and let’s cut them off, and
let’s not give them words.
The mission of our movement and of the Republican Party must be to
create a future of good jobs, strong family, safe communities, a vibrant
culture, and a great nation for all Americans. And that’s what we’re
creating. Their party is based upon unvarnished disdain for America, its
past, and its people. You see that happening. It’s horrible the way
they treat the legacy of our country, the culture of our country. Our
party is based on love for America and the belief that this is an
exceptional nation blessed by God.
We take great pride in our country. We teach the truth about history. We
celebrate our rich heritage and national traditions. We honor George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and all national heroes.
And of course, we respect our great American flag. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you.
Thank you.
We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you.
Thank you very much. So nice. I started that hearing, we really where …
we’re getting word of that, hearing that during some of the rallies,
especially the latter rallies where we set records. We had 56
unbelievable packed rallies. And nobody’s ever had anything that we had.
And we started hearing, “We love you.” And I asked somebody because we
really like Ronald Reagan, right? He was a great president. We had
others. But I said, “Did anybody ever say that to Ronald Reagan or to
any of our great … .” And to the best of all of these political
professionals’ knowledge and pollsters. Nobody’s ever heard that yet
before, man. So it’s an honor. Believe me, it’s an honor. Great honor.
That’s a great honor. When you think about, we love you. When you’re
saying that about … I hate to say it, am I a politician? I don’t know.
Maybe I’m a politician. I hate to admit it, but it’s an honor that you
would say.
We believe in patriotic education and strongly oppose the radical
indoctrination of Americans youth. It’s horrible. We are committed to
defending innocent life and to upholding the Judeo-Christian values of
our founders and our founding. We have raised free thought, we stand up
to political correctors, and we reject left wing lunacy. And in
particular we reject cancel culture. We know that the rule of law is the
ultimate safeguard. And we affirm that the constitution means exactly
what it says, as written, as written. They want to change it. They want
to change it. They want to get rid of it, frankly. We believe in law and
order and we believe that the men and women of law enforcement are
heroes who truly deserve our absolute support. We don’t defund the
police. We are not defunding the police.
We believe in standing up to China, shutting down outsourcing, bringing
back our factories and supply chains, and ensuring that America not
China dominates the future of the world. So it’s going to happen. And by
the way, we took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China during
my administration, hundreds of … and they never gave us 25 cents. It was
a one-way street. We took in hundreds of billions and during
negotiations, they would say, “Look, the one thing, we don’t want any
more of these tariffs. These tariffs … .” Those tariffs, we took in so
much money. And what happened is they became competitive. So what
happened with the people, they wouldn’t go to China. They built a lot of
it back in our country. They would make it here instead. And in
addition to that, we were taking in billions and billions and billions
of dollars from China.
But in all fairness to China, we made a trade deal with them, this was
prior to COVID. And once COVID happened, I no longer cared so much about
the great deal, because what happened with that was just disgraceful.
But that’s one of the things, that’s one of the reasons that right now
our farmers are doing so good. I used to tell China, “Look, look, go and
get lot of wheat. Get a lot of different things. All of the things we
just talked about, you better go out and do it because this country has
not been treated fairly by you for many, many years. Many, many years.”
We used to lose $504 billion trade deficit with China. 500, not million,
$504 million is a lot, right? You know that through the World Health
Organization. Now take 504 million, make it $504 billion. We had
deficits with China. It was absolutely insane that this could keep going
on. It’s amazing that you still have a country left. The people that
did this to our country, they should be ashamed of themselves. They
should be ashamed of themselves.
Companies that leave America to create jobs in China and other countries
that have ripped us off for years, should not be rewarded. They should
be tarriffed, fined, and punished. They should not be rewarded. And
that’s what the Biden administration is doing. But of course, as you
know, they have a very close, personal relationship with China. So I
don’t expect much to happen. It’s a shame because it really is a threat.
It’s a tremendous economic threat. And thank God we’ve rebuilt our
military, but it’s a tremendous economic threat. Never forget it.
These are the convictions that define our movement today and must define
the Republican Party in the years ahead. Very simple, it’s really quite
simple, isn’t it?
Another one of the most urgent issues facing the Republican Party is
that of ensuring fair, honest, and secure elections. Such a disgrace.
Such a disgrace. Such a disgrace. We must pass comprehensive election
reforms and we must do it now. The democrats use the China virus as an
excuse to change all of the election rules without the approval of their
state legislatures, making it therefore illegal. It had a massive
impact on the election. Again, you have to go to the legislatures to get
these approvals. This alone would have easily changed the outcome of
the election at levels that you wouldn’t have even believed. Even with
COVID, even with all of the things, the numbers are staggering. We can
never let this or other abuses of the 2020 election be repeated or
happen again. Can never let that happen again.
You see what’s going on. We’ve been set back so greatly with other
countries and with the world. We need election integrity and election
reform immediately. Republicans should be the party of honest elections
that can give everyone confidence in the future of our country. Without
honest elections, who has confidence? Who has confidence? This issue is
being studied and examined, but the reality is you cannot have a
situation where ballots are indiscriminately pouring in from all over
the country, tens of millions of ballots, where are they coming from?
They’re coming all over the place. We’re illegal aliens and dead people
are voting, and many other horrible things are happening that are too
voluminous to even mention. But people know. I mean it’s being studied
and the level of dishonesty is not to be believed.
We have a very sick and corrupt electoral process that must be fixed
immediately. This election was rigged and the supreme court and other
courts didn’t want to do anything about it.
You won. You won. You won. You won. You won. You won. You won. You won.
You won. You won. You won. You won. You won. You won. You won. You won.
You won. You won. You won. You won.
We did.
You won. You won. You won. You won. You won.
If you just take that one element where they didn’t go through a
legislature, it’s illegal, you can’t do it. It’s in the constitution.
They didn’t have the courage, the supreme court, they didn’t have the
courage to act, but instead used process and lack of standing. I was
told the President of the United States has no standing. It’s my
election, it’s your election. We have no standing. We had almost 25 … if
you think of it … we had almost 20 states go into the supreme court so
that we didn’t have a standing problem. They rejected it. They rejected
it. They should be ashamed of themselves for what they’ve done to our
country. They didn’t have the guts or the courage to make the right
decision. They didn’t want to talk about it. We had the case led by the
great State of Texas. 18 States went in. “You don’t have standing.”
Let’s not talk about it. They didn’t have the guts to do what should be
done.
And that’s on top of all of these other forms of cheating, but this is
the most basic of all. They would have local courts and local
politicians change the rules in some cases a day or two before the
election. This should never be allowed to happen to another presidential
candidate or presidential race, should never be allowed to happen.
Today I want to outline the steps that we must take to have an election
system in this country that is honest, fair, and accurate. We need one
election day, not 45, 30. One day, like it’s been. And the republicans
don’t get this, and the other things I’m going to say, that you should,
like the supreme court, be ashamed of yourselves. One day. One day. And
the only people that should be allowed to vote by mail are people that
can be proven to be either very sick or out of the country or military
where they can’t do it. One day. They have millions and millions of
ballots sitting around all over the place for long periods of time. Gee,
I wonder what happens with those ballots? I wonder what happens. It’s
common sense. It’s a disgrace. It’s an absolute disgrace.
There should be a legitimate reason for someone to vote absentee, has to
have a reason. We should eliminate the insanity of the mass and very
corrupt mail-in voting. We must have voter ID. voter ID. To get into the
Democratic National Convention, when they had the convention, you
needed voter ID. You needed an ID card. You couldn’t get it unless you
had an ID. So many people told me, “You can’t get in that place. You
need ID. Nobody had ID.” You need voter ID. They know that. This is a
con job. They’re conning everybody. They know that. They know the wall
was good. They knew the wall would work, but didn’t want to have it
because we wanted. I made one big mistake in the world. I should have
said, “We will not have a wall.” And then they would have said, “Let’s
build a wall.” I made a big mistake. I made a big mistake. I’m sorry. It
took us a year and a half extra because of that mistake. “We will not
have a wall.” “We need a wall immediately,” said Chuck Schumer.
We need universal signature matching. They want to pass a bill where you
don’t have to match signatures, where signatures don’t mean anything.
Now they know it’s … just like with the wall, just like with voter ID,
when you need to go into anything that’s Democrat run, you need it. But
for voting, which is our most sacred institution, they don’t want to let
you have it.
Donald Trump: (01:09:13)
There should be a 100% requirement to verify the citizenship of every
person who votes and there must be a chain of custody protections for
every ballot. Every ballot. And you saw what happened in Detroit and
Philadelphia and many other places, swing states mostly. All over, but
swing states mostly. You saw what happened. You saw what was going on.
You saw that more people … you take a look at the votes, when you have
more votes than you have people, that’s a problem, right? Is that a
problem? We have a little problem adjusting in Detroit. We seem to have
more votes than we have people, a lot more votes, and election changing
number. We’re not talking about a number where you can’t … no, these
aren’t election changing numbers. In Pennsylvania, they had hundreds of
thousands of more votes than they had people voting. What’s that all
about? What’s that all about? Cheating they say. Yeah, I’d say so.
Donald Trump: (01:10:25)
In the history of our country, and it has taken place for years in
Pennsylvania and Detroit and various other places. But there’s
tremendous, never like this, because they used COVID as a way of
cheating. That’s what happened. And everybody knows it. Hundreds of
thousands and millions of ballots. They used it as a way of getting what
they’ve wanted for many years. And the republicans have to do something
about it. They better do something about it. Our election process is
worse than that in many cases of a third world country. You know that,
you saw what was going on. Even if you consider nothing else, it is
undeniable that election rules were illegally changed at the last minute
in almost every swing state with the procedures rewritten by local
politicians … you’re not allowed to do that … and local judges. They
want more time, they want this, they want that. All done by local
politicians or local judges, as opposed to state legislatures as
required by the Constitution of the United States. And these are just
numbers that are massive. These aren’t little numbers, these are numbers
that in each state is a transformative number. It changes the outcome
of the election. And it’s not close. Regardless of your political views,
this should concern you as a constitutional matter. And the supreme
court, again, didn’t have the guts or the courage to do anything about
it. And neither did other judges. And democrats even admitted in Time-
And Democrats even admitted in Time Magazine, which is, I would say on
the liberal side. They just couldn’t hold it in. They had to brag about
it, because what they did, they had to brag about it. They couldn’t do
it. You’ve got to read this story. It’s a disaster. It’s a disaster for
our country that we can allow something so corrupt to happen. Read that
article. I really encourage you. You read that article. Yet all of the
election integrity measures in the world will mean nothing if we don’t
have free speech and that’s where we’re at now.
If Republicans can be censored for speaking the truth and calling out
corruption, we will not have democracy and we will have only left wing
tyranny. And we can do this. We can do this. We’re smarter than they
are. We’re tougher than they are. For some reason we just don’t… we
don’t get it done. We let them attack our businesses and we don’t attack
their businesses. I believe your numbers are bigger than their numbers,
but you’re nicer than they are. You’re not as vicious as they are.
In the past, we would debate. I would have it. I debate. You’ve seen me
for many years. They throw something. I debate. They debate. Who knows
who wins? People go. They vote. They see what happens. But they would
have an idea. They would disagree. The public would hear it. The debate
and discourse would take place. And then somebody would make a decision.
You would win. You would lose. The public would make up its mind. But
now there isn’t a debate because they refuse to allow our side to even
speak or be heard. They don’t want debate because we have easy victories
in a debate, very easy victories. It’s called common sense. It’s called
other things, but it’s called common sense. So they don’t want to
debate.
The time has come to break up big tech monopolies and restore fair
competition. Republicans, conservatives must open up more platforms and
repeal Section 230 Liability Protection. And if the federal government
refuses to act, then every state in the union where we have the votes…
which is a lot of them… Big tech giants, like Twitter, Google and
Facebook should be punished with major sanctions whenever they silence
conservative voices. And Governor Ron Desantis of Florida, and in Texas
and other states are doing this. If they do what they’re doing, Florida…
And that legislation will pass and Texas and others will have
tremendous power to do what’s right and what’s fair.
We have no time to waste. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress are
racing to pass a flagrantly unconstitutional attack on the First
Amendment and the integrity of our elections known as HR One. Do you
know what HR one is? It’s a disaster. Their bill would drastically
restrict political speech, empower the federal government to shut down
dissent and turn the federal election commission into a partisan
political weapon. In addition, it virtually eliminates voter ID
requirements nationwide. Effectively ends all registration deadlines.
Can you believe this? Requires states to give ballots to felons.
Automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote and puts
unaccountable unelected bureaucrats in charge of drawing congressional
districts. That’s going to be a lot of fun. This monster must be
stopped. It cannot be allowed to pass.
Now more than ever is the time for tough, strong, and energetic
Republican leaders who have spines of steel. We need strong leadership.
We cannot have leaders who show more passion for condemning their fellow
Americans than they have ever shown for standing up to Democrats, the
media and the radicals who want to turn America into a socialist
country. Instead of attacking me and more importantly, the voters of our
movement, top establishment Republicans in Washington should be
spending your energy and opposing Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and the
Democrats. I’ve said to some of them, I said, “You know, during the
Obama years, and now during Biden, if you spent the same energy on
attacking them, you’d actually be successful as you do on attacking me
in many cases.”
The Democrats don’t have grand-standers like Mitt Romney, little Ben
Sasse, Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat
Toomey; and in the House, Tom Rice, South Carolina, Adam Kinzinger, Dan
Newhouse, Anthony Gonzalez. That’s another beauty. Fred Upton, Jamie
Herrera Butler, Peter Meyer, John Katko, David Valadeo. And of course
the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, Liz
Cheney. How about that? The good news is in her state, she’s been
censured. And in her state, her poll numbers have dropped faster than
any human being I’ve ever seen. So hopefully, they’ll get rid of her
with the next election. Get rid of them all.
Democrats are vicious. Remember this. It’s true. Democrats are vicious.
He said evil. Well, there is evil there, but they’re vicious. They’re
smart. And they do one thing. You’ve got to hand it to them. They always
stick together. You don’t have Mitt Romney’s in the group. They always
stick together. Fortunately for the Republican party, the Democrats have
horrible policies like open borders, sanctuary cities, defunding the
police and the ridiculous, totally ridiculous Green New Deal. So they
stick together. They’re smart. They’re vicious. They’ve got everything
going, but their policies are no good. So hence we have,
congratulations, the Republican Party. After this, they may not stick
with those policies. We have to be careful. No, their policies are
horrible. Think of it. Defund the police. How did that work out?
But the Republicans do not stick together. The RINOs that we’re
surrounded with will destroy the Republican Party and the American
worker and will destroy our country itself. The RINOs, Republican in
name only. But the Republican Party is united. The only division is
between a handful of Washington, DC, establishment, political hacks, and
everybody else all over the country. I think we have tremendous unity.
When you look at the crowds outside that want your seat so badly. They
will take your seat in two seconds. They want your seat.
Congratulations. Congratulations on getting in, by the way. I’m very
proud.
And that’s why I’m announcing that I will be actively working to elect
strong, tough and smart Republican leaders. Speaking of that, I heard
Jim Jordan did a great job. I heard that from Mark Meadows. I heard it.
Oh, there he is. Look at that. Hi Jim. I heard you were great. In fact, I
hated to follow you. I want to follow other people. I could name them
too. I like to follow other people. I heard you were great. Thank you,
Jim, very much. Jim Jordan, great, great athlete. People don’t know he
was a great wrestler, tremendous numbers of victories. The NC… He was a
champion. He was college champion for a long period of time. He’s a
winner and a leader and he doesn’t play games. He likes to win. He likes
to win. And we have a lot of people in our party that like to win, Jim.
Right? But I heard you were great. Thank you very much.
We want Republican leaders who are loyal to the voters and who will work
proudly for the vision that I’ve laid out today. And what is it? So
simple. So simple. Military, law and order, great trade deals, great
education. So simple. I don’t know. Does anybody get it? What are they
doing? Does anybody get it? It has just been stated that President
Trump’s endorsement is the most powerful asset in politics. You believe
that? Who would’ve thought that was going to happen? Who would’ve
thought that was going to happen, Jim? In last year’s congressional
primaries, 120… Listen to this. It’s crazy. 120 of 122 candidates I
endorsed won… 120. That’s almost as good as Jim’s wrestling record. And
the two that lost were beaten by people claiming to be more Trump than
their opponent. So I like those two people very much also.
In the Senate, I was undefeated in endorsements with a record of 21 and
0. My endorsement of Mitch McConnell, at his request… It’s all right.
It’s all right. He made a request. He asked for my endorsement. Brought
him from one point down to 20 points up and he won his race in the great
state and actually the great Commonwealth of Kentucky. And he won it.
And he won it very easily. And I said, “I wonder if I’m doing the right
thing here?” But you know what? I did… I did what I did. But he went
from one point down to 20 points up very quickly, immediately actually.
And he won his race. And if you compare that to his other elections, I’m
sure you’ll see something interesting. But you know what? We got a
Republican elected. And now we have to use Republicans to take care of
the election frauds and all of the other things that are happening that
shouldn’t be allowed to happen in our country. It’s very simple.
Because of my efforts campaigning, we had huge gains in the House. And I
helped keep many senators in their seats and they will admit it. So
that it’s now 50/50, instead of Republicans being down anywhere from
eight to 10 seats. And they’ll admit it. We’d be down eight to 10 seats
if I didn’t campaign. We held rallies for some of the senators that went
down and nobody talks about that. Nobody wants to talk. The press
doesn’t talk about it. With me at the top of the ticket, not a single
Republican member of Congress lost their race. For the first time in
decades, we won 26 of 26 toss up races, toss ups. Think of that, 26 of
26. And those are toss ups. Those are races that could go any way. We
were expected to lose 25 seats. And instead we won 15 seats and almost…
Oh, why couldn’t we have done a couple of more? Almost cost Crazy Nancy
her job. We’ll do that the next time around.
I received almost… Listen to this number. Because the fake news doesn’t
ever talk about these numbers. I just heard this one for the first time.
I received almost 1.5 million more votes than all of the Republican
House candidates combined. So how the hell is it possible that we lost?
It’s not possible. I got more votes. I got more. And which it isn’t just
me. When I say, “I,” I am talking about we. We, we got more votes than
any incumbent, any incumbent president in the history of our country,
almost 75 million votes. And that doesn’t include the votes and ballots
they threw out. If you include them, you’ll see numbers that are much
different. We did even better in the second election than we did in the
first. I won the first. We won the second. We did much better. Sort of
strange, right? “How did you do?” “Well we did much better the second
time.” “Oh, you did, really?”
What a disgrace, what a disgrace to our country. I got over 11 million,
very close to 12 million more votes than we got in 2016. And I was told
by John McLaughlin that if… a great poster… That if you get to si- we
had 63 in 2016, 63 million. “Sir, if you get to 66 million you have it
made.” We got to almost 75 million and what the hell happened? What
happened? What happened when they closed all of the counting booths?
What happened at three o’clock in the morning? What happened at 3:02 in
the morning? What happened? No President has ever lost an election after
carrying Florida, Ohio, and Iowa. And I won them all and I won them by a
lot, by a lot. I won 94% of the primary vote. No incumbent President
who received more than 75% of the primary vote has ever lost an
election. I had a record number. And no President has ever, ever… We’re
talking about a much lower number than we got… Has ever lost an
election.
Thanks to my coattails… Thank you. We have to have a sense of humor.
Thanks to my coattails, democrats failed to flip a single state
legislature… Think of it… Or a legislative chamber because Republicans
came out to vote for me. Now they say it differently. The press, the
fake news spins it differently. They say, “Despite how well they did,
Trump didn’t win.” That’s such a lie. And many legislators, many
legislators told me, they said, they’re going to lose their race. Wasn’t
going to happen.
And then what happened is one in particular told me from a great swing
state said, “You know, I thought I was going to lose my position, lose
my race. And I went out with my wife the night before the election. And I
saw all these Trump signs and the American flags and the spirit on the
streets. I said, ‘You know, darling, I think we’re going to win.'”He
said, “But you were far, far, far more popular than me.” They do lots of
polls. “You were way, way ahead of me, sir. And the next day I was
right.” He said he won the election by a lot, “And you lost the
election. And sir, it’s not possible that you lost because you’ve got a
lower number than I did. And you were so far ahead of me. You are the
person that brought everybody out to vote.” And I happen to agree with
that 1,000%. Never forget that conversation. He couldn’t believe it. And
I’ve it from more than one.
And in November, 18 of 19 Bellwether County’s… You heard about the
Bellwether County’s… 18 of 19 Bellwether County’s that have correctly
predicted every Presidential election for decades, many decades, voted
for Trump, not for Biden. And it was a shocker to those people that go
for the stats. It was a shocker. They voted for Trump. 18 of 19 voted
for Trump. There’s never been anything like that. And yet, did Biden
win? No.
If you want to help us take back the future of our country, go to
donaldjtrump.com. I don’t do this. I’ve never done this. But it’s time
that we have to put forces together because these people with their big
tech and the fake news media right back there. Okay. And when you talk
about election, they turn off. When you talk about… They probably have
them going, because they also care about ratings. But when they talk
about election, they turn off the cameras. You know why? It’s a very
sore subject. Okay? They don’t like that subject. There’s only one way
to contribute to our efforts, to elect America first Republican
conservatives. And in turn, to make America great again. And that’s
through Save America PAC and donaldjtrump.com. So go out there and do
whatever you can because we’re going to help a lot of great people.
We know the right people to help. We need your help to win and to fight
big tech and the radical left and the DC establishment. We need to save
your Second Amendment, which is under siege. We need to help protect
funding for our military and for our great vets. And that’s what we’re
doing. As we discussed earlier, we’re in a struggle for the survival of
America as we know it. This is a struggle. This is a terrible, terrible,
painful struggle. The path ahead will not be easy, but we will win. We
are going to win. Ultimately we always win. And when we do, history will
show that this was the moment when we could have given up, when we
could have despaired, but instead we chose to keep on pushing forward.
The greater the challenge and tougher the task, the more determined we
must be to pull through to triumph. We have to have triumph. We have to
have victory.
With the talent and dedication of everyone here today… And you have
tremendous, not only dedication, tremendous talent in this room. I know
many of you. That is exactly what we will do. We will go on to victory.
We will summon the spirit of generations of American patriots before us,
like those heroes who crossed the Delaware, conquered the Rockies,
stormed the beaches, won the battles and tamed the unknown frontiers. We
will persist and we will prevail. We’re tougher than they are. We’re
stronger than they are. Together, in the coming years, we will carry
forward the torch of American liberty. We will lead the conservative
movement and the Republican Party back to a totally conclusive victory.
And we’ve had tremendous victories. Don’t ever forget it. With your
help, we will take back the House. We will win the Senate. And then a
Republican President will make a triumphant return to the White House.
And I wonder who that will be? I wonder who that will be. Who, who will
that be? I wonder.
Standing before you today, I am supremely confident that for our
movement, for our party and for our country, our brightest days are just
ahead. And that together we will make America prouder, freer, stronger
and greater than it ever has been before. Thank you, CPAC. God bless you
and God bless America. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you.
Hoàng Lan Chi viết: 'Mãnh hổ Hoa Thịnh Đốn" vẫn khỏe, phong độ, hùng
hồn như ngày nào. Dưới đây là diễn văn của ông. Những nét chính:
- Không lập đảng mới. Lọc máu Cộng Hòa
- Có thể "run" lại vào 2024
- Lên án mọi sắc lịnh hành pháp của Biden đã làm quốc gia tổn thất ra sao
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WHO
sẽ lãnh đạo CH vào 2024: Trump kết thúc bài phát biểu bằng cách hỏi
"ai" sẽ lãnh đạo GOP vào năm 2024. Trump dự đoán một tổng thống Đảng
Cộng hòa sẽ giành lại Tòa Bạch Ốc và kết thúc với một gợi ý có thể sẽ
"run" vào năm 2024.
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Lọc
máu CH: " các đảng viên Dân chủ đã gắn bó với nhau, và đảng viên Cộng
hòa cần 'những cái gai bằng thép.' Chúng ta không thể có những nhà lãnh
đạo đam mê lên án đồng bào Mỹ của họ hơn những người họ từng đứng lên
chống lại đảng Dân chủ, giới truyền thông và những người cấp tiến muốn
biến nước Mỹ thành một nước xã hội chủ nghĩa."
Những
cái tên này phải loại bỏ: trong Thượng viện: Sens. Mitt Romney, Ben
Sasse, Richard Burr, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey. Ở Hạ
Viện (Tom Rice, Adam Kinzinger, Anthony Gonzalez, Fred Upton, Peter
Mayer, John Katko và Liz Cheney).
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Các
biện pháp trừng phạt chống lại 'Big Tech': "Đã đến lúc phá bỏ các công
ty độc quyền Big Tech và khôi phục sự cạnh tranh công bằng. Đảng Cộng
hòa và những người bảo thủ phải mở ra nền tảng của chúng tôi và bãi bỏ
các biện pháp bảo vệ trách nhiệm pháp lý theo mục 230 . Những gã khổng
lồ công nghệ lớn như Google và Facebook phải bị trừng phạt bằng các biện
pháp trừng phạt bất cứ khi nào họ bịt miệng những tiếng nói bảo thủ ”.
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Trump
kêu gọi 'cải cách bầu cử toàn diện'. Trump khẳng định lại cuộc bầu cử
năm 2020, nói rằng đảng Cộng hòa cần phải làm việc cho các cuộc bầu cử
công bằng và an toàn. “Chúng ta phải thông qua các cải cách bầu cử toàn
diện và chúng ta phải làm điều đó ngay bây giờ - Đảng Dân chủ đã sử dụng
Virus Trung Quốc như một cái cớ để thay đổi tất cả các quy tắc bầu cử
mà không có sự chấp thuận của cơ quan lập pháp bang của họ - do đó khiến
nó trở thành bất hợp pháp”. Đó
là bầu cử "gian lận" và cáo buộc các tòa án không làm bất cứ điều gì về
nó. Trump đã tuyên bố rằng trên thực tế, ông đã thắng. Đám đông hô vang
"Bạn đã thắng, bạn đã thắng."
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"Sứ
mệnh của phong trào của chúng tôi và đảng Cộng hòa phải là tạo ra một
tương lai công ăn việc làm tốt, gia đình vững mạnh, cộng đồng an toàn,
nền văn hóa sôi động và một quốc gia tuyệt vời cho tất cả người Mỹ và đó
là những gì chúng tôi đang tạo ra."
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Thể thao nữ: Biden đã cho phép các cá nhân chuyển giới thi đấu trong
các môn thể thao nữ - rất nhiều kỷ lục mới đang bị phá vỡ" bởi những
người đàn ông chuyển giới.
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Trump
chỉ trích Biden về chính sách đối ngoại, gia nhập WHO, bỏ lịnh trừng
phạt chống lại Iran. Chúng ta đã góp 500 triệu đô la mỗi năm cho WHO còn
TC chỉ có 39 triệu
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Lệnh
cấm du lịch thời Trump: “Đó là một thành tựu tuyệt vời, nhưng Biden đã
tăng số lượng người tị nạn lên gần 10 lần. Trên thực tế, con số này sẽ
gấp hàng trăm lần khi hàng triệu người tràn qua biên giới sắp mở của
chúng ta”. Gia đình bạn vẫn không thể đi ăn ở các nhà hàng địa phương,
nhưng Joe Biden thì đang mang hàng nghìn người tị nạn từ khắp nơi trên
thế giới tới
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Việc triển khai vắc xin là của chúng tôi. đảng Dân chủ đang "tuân theo kế hoạch của chúng tôi" về vắc-xin COVID.
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Bọn
trẻ “phải trở lại [trường học] và quay lại ngay bây giờ. những người di
cư ở biên giới đang được giáo dục, nhưng công dân của Mỹ thì không.
Biden "bán trẻ em nước Mỹ cho các công đoàn giáo viên. Joe Biden đã phản
bội tuổi trẻ của nước Mỹ một cách đáng xấu hổ và anh ta đang giam giữ
con cái chúng tôi trong nhà một cách tàn nhẫn, không có lý do gì cả.
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-"Biden
đã thu hồi một lệnh hành pháp đàn áp các thành phố tôn nghiêm đã ra
lệnh đóng cửa ICE một cách hiệu quả, ngăn chặn hầu như tất cả các lệnh
trục xuất." Biden đang “biến nước Mỹ thành một quốc gia tôn nghiêm. đảng
Cộng hòa phải chịu trách nhiệm đối với Biden về việc phá vỡ các thỏa
thuận hợp tác về tị nạn với các nước Tam giác phương Bắc. Đảng Cộng hòa
phải chịu trách nhiệm đối với Biden về việc phá vỡ các thỏa thuận hợp
tác về tị nạn với các nước Tam giác phương Bắc.
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-
Trump gợi ý về cuộc chạy đua năm 2024, nói rằng ông muốn đánh bại Dems
'lần thứ ba', khẳng định lại rằng mình đã thắng cuộc bầu cử năm 2020
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- Trump
tấn công Biden về cuộc khủng hoảng biên giới. “Bằng cách loại bỏ một
cách liều lĩnh các border, các biện pháp an ninh, các kiểm soát, tất cả
những thứ chúng tôi đã áp dụng, và Joe Biden đã gây ra một làn sóng nhập
cư bất hợp pháp lớn vào đất nước của chúng ta.
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-
“Joe Biden đã có tháng đầu tiên thảm hại nhất so với bất kỳ tổng thống
nào trong lịch sử hiện đại, chống lại việc làm, chống lại gia đình,
chống lại biên giới, chống lại năng lượng, chống lại phụ nữ và phản khoa
học. Trong một tháng ngắn ngủi, chúng ta đã đi từ America First đến
America Last"
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- "Chúng tôi không lập đảng mới. Chúng tôi có Đảng Cộng hòa, và đảng sẽ đoàn kết và mạnh mẽ hơn bao giờ hết.
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-Nước Mỹ đang ở giữa một 'cuộc đấu tranh lịch sử' “Khi
chúng ta tụ họp tuần này, chúng ta đang ở giữa một cuộc đấu tranh lịch
sử vì tương lai của Hoa Kỳ, văn hóa của Hoa Kỳ, các thể chế, biên giới
của Hoa Kỳ và các nguyên tắc đáng trân trọng nhất. “An ninh của chúng
ta, sự thịnh vượng của chúng ta và bản sắc của chúng ta với tư cách là
người Mỹ đang bị đe dọa.
Hoàng Lan Chi
2/2021
