Remarks at a Campaign Rally in Waterford Township, Michigan

TRUMP: Ohh, that's beautiful. Thank you. Thank you, Lee [unknown]. And hello, Michigan. Hello. Thank you very much, everybody. And I'm thrilled to be back in the American heartland, this is the heartland, with the proud hard-working patriots who made this country run and made the country great. Might not be so great right now, but we're gonna have it great very quickly again [cheers and applause]. Not so great right now. Thanks to citizens like you, this November, the great state of Michigan is going to tell 'Crooked' Joe Biden, you're fired, get the hell out of here [cheers and applause]. Get out of here. Worst president we've ever had. He's the worse president, the most incompetent president.

But first, just 10 days from now, we're going to win a monumental victory in the Michigan Republican primary. Ten days. Ten days. And we've won 'em all by massive records. Every single state, we've won. You know that. Iowa, New Hampshire, right down the line with Nevada, we won by, we won by records. They've never had votes like that. So, something's happening, right? Something's happening. The primary is Tuesday, February 27th. But early voting is available statewide starting today, so you can do that, or you can wait a little bit. We're not worried about the primary. What we wanna do, we gotta win that– look, get a lot of votes in the primary, we wanna send a signal. But we wanna win November 5th [cheers and applause]. November 5th, we're going to get this guy out. Gonna change our country. We're going to bring our country back, bring our country back from Hell. So don't wait, get out and vote.

When we win back the White House, we will have no higher priority than ending the weaponization of this horrible legal system that has developed around us. It's a horrible, horrible thing that's taking place. You talk about democracy, this is a real threat to democracy, and restoring fair, equal, and impartial justice in America, we have to have that, 'cuz we don't have that now. The decision yesterday in New York, you may have read about it– crooked Judge, crooked judge [b] he's a crooked judge– by a radical left-wing judge, was a lawless and unconstitutional atrocity that sets fire to our laws like no one has ever seen in this country before. That happens in Banana Republics, it doesn't happen in this country. The case is a complete and total sham. It's a sham case. There were no victims, no defaults, no damages, no complaints, no nothing. There was nothing. The actual bankers who were involved in the loan transactions that were talked about testified at the trial, they said, they, that– Donald Trump was a highly sought after whale, they called me a whale. I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if they meant a whale from the standpoint of being a little heavy or a whale, because I got a lot of money, but I think they meant the second. But he's a whale of a client, we love him. But he's a whale of a client, one of the strongest personal balance sheets that they've ever seen and he was actually very overqualified for the loan, I didn't even need this loan.

Those banks earned more than $100 million in profits doing business with me and my companies. They were very happy and they testified that way. The expert witness, one of the most respected anywhere in the country, anywhere in the United States, said that my financial statements were the best that he's ever seen, that's not bad. The best that he's ever seen. This was a case of satisfied banks and insurance companies, which made a lot of money dealing with me and a lot of very happy money and good money.

Great financial statements. The best– really great financial statements that didn't even include the most valuable asset, the Trump brand ironclad disclaimer. Do you know what a disclaimer is? We have an ironclad disclaimer, that's like buyer beware. It means do your own due diligence. Don't believe what you're reading. It's all good, but don't even believe it, go out and do your own due diligence. You have to go– you have to do that. We had an unbelievable disclaimer and the amazing properties, some of the best, all over the world and highly under leverage, we're very under leveraged as a company, I had very little debt, a lot of cash because we built a great company and you know unlike these other politics options, I knew it would happen. I didn't think would be this much, but I knew I would lose a billion or $2 billion, if I was honest, running for president and being president, and that's what I lost. Maybe a couple of billion dollars, and it was the best, it was the best thing I ever did because we've made our country. We made it great [cheers and applause].They've blown it, but we're gonna make it greater than ever before. We're gonna make it greater than ever before, but these other guys, they go in, they have no money, all of a sudden, they're rich.

Look at Nancy Pelosi. She's worth, like, $150 million [cheers and applause]. The judge, one of the least respected in New York State, said that Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida– now you don't really know too much about it, but it's very valuable real estate, let me put it that way– was worth $18 million in order to try to make his case. By doing that, he brought the values way down, he tried to make his case, when in actuality it's worth anywhere from 50 to 100 times that amount. And the appraisers say that, that's not me saying it. The biggest broker in Florida said it.

Wait till you hear about the unconstitutional gag order. That's gonna be great. The– a justice, this justice, this judge–he gagged– he doesn't want me to talk. You're not allowed to talk, because when you hear me talk, you'll say ohh, wow, this is a corrupt system. The case was brought under a consumer fraud statute that has never, ever been used before for this purpose. In fact, a very unfriendly media company, they hate me, said that they studied litigation going back many, many years, and no case, they had not one case, was ever brought like this. In the history of New York State, this is the only one. I wonder if they were doing that for political purposes or for election interference.

This is merely an election interference ploy by a crazed lunatic attorney general. Did you ever see this attorney general? She's a lunatic, working closely with a very bad judge. No jury was allowed. I wasn't allowed a jury. You're not allowed a jury because under the statute, they have the right to do whatever they want to do. It's so unconstitutional. And they refused to send this disgusting charade to the commercial division within the court system where you have– hopefully you'd find a competent judge, and they would have looked at it and it would have never even been brought. The Democrat club-controlled Judge [Arthur] Engoron has already been reversed four times on this case alone. It's a record. Never happened before. Every time we went up, he got reversed and hopefully the whole thing is going to be thrown out and reversed. And if justice is anything in New York State, we'll win because New York State's in a lot of problems. The judges and prosecutors that were dealing with me are essentially all the same, different wrappings, tone, manner, but always the same coordinated and overly nasty result. They are nasty. These are Democrats that definitely hate me. They hate you too. I have to tell you.

Whether New York City or State, Fulton County– what do you think of Fani [Willis]? Fani. What do you think, Fani? Huh, huh? F-A-N-I. That's pronounced 'fanny' but you're not allowed to say– it's 'fawny'. Oh boy, oh boy. That's Fulton County, that's Atlanta. Or Washington DC that people couldn't care less about justice. These people, they're not looking for justice. They only care about how to stop Crooked Joe Biden's political opponent, that's me, and how to inflict as much pain as possible. But here we are. They've been doing this for seven years and we won, excuse me, we won twice, and now we're gonna win a third time [cheers and applause]. We'll win a third time. And the second time we did better than we did the 1st.

There's no courtroom decorum or respect, you gotta see these judges, they're screaming, they're like lunatics. There's no respect, there's no decorum, especially for someone that they know hasn't done anything wrong. We haven't done anything wrong. We've done nothing wrong. This last case is– we haven't done anything wrong. How 'bout the one 2 weeks ago? A woman– I'm saying, who the hell is she? Who is the woman? It's so unfair what's happening in our country. Our court system is a mess. What's happening in our country, they have to straighten it out. All you see is bitterness and revenge and hatred. Judge Engoron just fined me $355,000,000 for doing everything right. Three hundred and fifty-five.

And these repulsive abuses of power are not just an attack on me, they're really an attack on you and all Americans. It's a disgusting, it's a disgusting thing. I deal with the bank. The bank is happy. There's no victims, there's no anything. Three hundred and fifty-five million. I paid off a mortgage for a tiny fraction of that amount. I borrowed money, and they wanted me to borrow the money, I didn't even need the money, they want– because that's what they do. They loan money. They like to loan it to good people. So, they loan me money and they, they charge me a fine in New York State, nobody's going back to New York State. A lot of people are leaving. A lot of businesses. But they fined me 355 million dollars [cheers and applause]. It's the law– nothing like this has ever happened. This judge is a lunatic. And if you've ever watched him, and the attorney general may be worse, may be worse, you ever watch her? I will get Donald Trump. Her campaign. I will get Donald Trump. I promise I will get him. She knows nothing about me. Nothing about me. She says, I will get him. As a result of this decision, businesses are going to flee New York State, they already are, taking with them tens of thousands of jobs 'cuz they can't subject themselves to this. And if this persecution of political opponents continues, no one will want to do business in the United States of America any longer. We will truly become a third-world country.

We are going to be– we are already in many ways. If you look at our border, we are worse than a third-world country 'cuz there's never, ever in history been a border like that. Joe Biden and the fascists that control him are a threat to democracy. They're a threat to democracy. Now he's not smart enough to know that, but he's got people that control– the guy can't even walk off a platform. No, he can't find the stairs. He can't put two sentences together. And I'm not gonna imitate him, cause every time I imitate him, they say Donald Trump couldn't find his way off. No, every time. 'Cuz they're fake news. That's a lotta fake news back there [points to back of room]. Lotta fake news. No every time I imitate him, last week I imitated him, and you know the way he goes like this [flinches head], he finishes his speech, it takes about 2 and a half minutes 'cuz that's when his energy runs out, right? You know, energy. You know, he's got a lot of energy. What happened to that cocaine in the White House? Whatever ha– he's got a lot of energy, this guy. You know, I never spoke about him until they indicted me, and once they indicted me, I can now just speak the way I want to speak. He's a corrupt person. He's a horrible president. The worst we've ever had.

The happiest man in our country today is a man named Jimmy Carter. Because he is considered a brilliant president by comparison. That's true. He's brilliant. Congress ought to impeach Crooked Joe Biden for attacking his political opponent by weaponizing the DOJ, FBI, and even local DAs and attorney generals against his opponent, me. They ought to do that. As Byron York, did you ever hear Byron York? Great writer from the Washington Examiner said, quote, the Justice Department forbids prosecutorial interference with elections. Very simple. The guidelines are very clear now. He's just writing the rules. He's a great talent and he's writing the rules and he's quoting the rules 'cuz nobody knows him. No, not even lawyers seem to know him. Federal prosecutors and agents, they never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements for the purpose of affecting any election or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or a political party. Now, so, they're saying you can't be doing what they're doing to me now because we're in the midst of an election. We just had 3 beauties and actually 4, including the islands, we won 'em all in landslides, you're not allowed to do what they're doing.

You've got South Carolina coming up, Michigan, coming up and then Super Tuesday coming up in two weeks. And they want me so badly these guys because you know what? We're beating Biden by– we're clobbering this guy. Who the hell wouldn't? We're beating him [cheers and applause]. Prosecutor 'Deranged' Jack Smith is in a very big hurry– I mean, this guy is working so hard. He's a crooked guy. 'Deranged' Jack Smith. He's a prosecutor. They brought him out to try and do damage. But– and he's done a lot of damage to a lot of people. And he's been overturned by the United States Supreme Court unanimously. But he always fails because he goes too far. He's a, he's an animal. But he's not allowed to say why, but the reason has been obvious all along. He wants Trump to be tried and convicted so that we get hurt for the November 5th date and he's not going to hurt us because this is– my poll numbers today are much higher than they were three months ago. Because of this [cheers and applause]. It's our poll. Our. It's actually our poll because we're all in this thing together. We're all in this mess together. We're going to straighten this country out. We cannot let this injustice stand, and that's why I will fight Crooked Joe Biden's weaponized persecution at every step, and we will win. We're gonna win, this is going to be the biggest win ever [cheers and applause]. This is going to be bigger than 2016. Be bigger than 2016. With your support, we're going to rocket the Republican nomination. We are going to get this. We're going to have so many voters out there that whether they cheat or not, it's not gonna matter [cheers and applause]. You know, at a certain– because they only cheat.

How the hell do you get elected if you have open borders and high interest rates and you can't buy a car? And if you do buy a car, they want you to buy an electric car, which doesn't go very far. And the United Auto Workers, this guy, Shawn Fain, what he– what, the contract that he entered in, you know, all those cars are going to be made in China within three years. I hope they know that. The auto workers are all– I think the auto workers– I met a couple of them back– raise your hand if you're– there' one guy right there [points to crowd member]. Do you agree with me? He sold you out. Where is– I had a guy, he had the strongest build I've ever seen. I said I'd love a body like that. Where is that guy? Where is that– right there's one [points to crowd member]. These guys are so– you're lifting, you know, a lot of stuff. You gotta– by nature– and then they go and work out after work. I mean, explain that one. But no, I met a lot of the auto workers backstage and they're great people, but they're being sold out. We're going to bring auto workers back to the– we're going to have all sorts. You want, you want electric. You want a hybrid. We're bringing everything back. You can have your choice. The problem is, electric doesn't go very far, you know. You're, you're driving along and you're petrified, oh my, I'm, I'm going to– they say next charging booth, 93 miles. Go West 93 miles. The whole thing is crazy. And you know, if we built all the charging booths that are necessary, our country would go bankrupt. You know that, Pete [Hoekstra], the country, it would cost like $3 trillion more money. It's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

But we're dealing with a lot– he's a very low IQ individual, our President. I would be willing to bet that Joe Biden, of all the presidents, we've had a lot of 'em, he is the lowest IQ individual of any president ever. Ever [cheers and applause]. And he's telling us to get rid of our, to get rid of our cars, get– they wanna make trucks all electric. The problem is, they don't go far either. And you'd have to have half of the capacity of the truck would be devoted to a battery. I don't know if you know this. They want to make our army tanks. You know, the beautiful army tanks. They want to make them into all electric. So that as was– as we enter a country, to obliterate it, at least we give them nice clean air, beautiful air. Beautiful air to breathe as we obliterate them. 'Crooked' Joe has ordered a hit job on Michigan manufacturing with his insane electric vehicle mandate. Do the auto workers here, of which we have a lot, do you agree with that? There's the guy [points to crowd member]. Come on up here. Come here. Come on. Come on up. This never works out, you know that, right? That's OK. Now I like this guy, I met him backstage, he's great. He's good. Come on up. Secret Service is thrilled. You know, when we do this– secret– and you look at the guy, he could rip you apart. Come on up. I like this guy. Come on, come here. [crowd member goes on stage] [cheers and applause].

CROWD MEMBER ON STAGE: I love you brother.

TRUMP: Say something, say something. Take, wait, take that thing off [pulls on crowd member's jacket]. Take that. Look at this guy.

CROWD MEMBER ON STAGE: Thank you, President Trump. We got your back. The auto workers are going to support this guy like we did in 16, 20, we're going to do it again in 24. Everybody's going to get out and vote. We're going to vote, 85 million of us are going to vote for this guy, they can't cheat enough to beat him [cheers and applause] [to Trump] I love you brother. Keep fighting the fight.

TRUMP: Well, that worked out well. Look, I met him backstage, I liked him. I said look at these muscles, this guy's got muscles all over the place. I said, what do you do? He said I'm an auto worker. I said that's too bad, because you're not gonna have a job in two years. And he agrees with me. But I want to thank him. And you did a great job. I think he was more effective than I could ever be actually. Thank you very much. We don't wanna see it happen. We wanna bring manufacturing back. You know, you've lost already 54% over the years, 54% of auto manufacturing, and you're gonna lose the rest of it very fast. A lot of it coming out of Michigan. A lot of it coming out. So we're gonna get it back and we're gonna have, we're gonna have big investments from other companies and we're, we're looking– look, we're gonna put tariffs on cars. I did it with China. I stopped that inflow with China. We took in $444 billion from China. No president has ever taken in 10 cents. And you know what? I protected the auto workers by doing that because cars were actually taxed when they come in. And if we don't do that– that's what they do to us. That's what they do to us.

So we're gonna bring manufacturing back and look, I get along great, the President of Mexico, great person, great, great person. But what Mexico's done to this this country in terms of auto– do you realize, do you realize what Mexico's done in terms of the auto workers?

A friend of mine builds big plants. He's a big supporter. Build big, big auto plants. I said I'd like to go take a look at some of your plants because I find it very interesting. I wanna know exactly what I'm– I like to build and I like to see things like this. He said good, but we really have to go to Mexico. I said, what do you mean? You build them here, right? Yeah, I do, but the big ones are being built in Mexico. I said, isn't that a shame, right? This is just a guy telling me, you know, he's no, no axe to grind. He said the big plants uhh– President, he's a friend of mine, he used to call me Donald, now he calls me President. I said, call me Donald. He said, I'll try. And he said, Donald, the big plants, the big plants, the ones that you really have to see are the ones that we're building in Mexico. They're unbelievable. I said, uhh, how much bigger, how much better? He said far more advanced, double, triple the size of what's happening in the United States. So, President, I said, Donald, President, he couldn't do it, but that's nice that he couldn't– you know what, that's a sign of respect, right? It's a– he couldn't call me by– my all– for 20 years he called me Donald. He can't call me Don– I have that with a lot of friends. They used to call me Donnie. They used to call me Don, DJ, now they all call me President [cheers and applause]. I say call me– loosen, I say loosen up. Loosen up. You've been my friend for 25 years. Loosen up.

But the big plants are all being built in Mexico. And I'll, I'll give you a worse one. China now, is building plants in Mexico and selling the cars to the United States. What the hell does that do for us? They're building plants in Mexico right across the border, and the cars are being sold tax free into the United States. I will stop that the first day. The first day [cheers and applause].

A vote for Biden is a vote to send 10s of thousands of Michigan jobs to China and other places that we don't want them to go. A vote for Trump is a vote to keep those manufacturing jobs in America and add a lot of jobs. We could get within a very short period of time and just through taxation of people that don't love us, we could get everybody to start moving back here because it wouldn't be economically feasible for them to build in Mexico or China or other places, and it will just take the stroke of a pen and I can do that very quickly. Biden's ridiculous electric vehicle mandate and his 'Green New Scam' are the all– I mean, these are what they're pushing– the 'Green New Scam'. Nobody even knows what the hell's going on. The 'Green New Scam' they talk about, you know, they don't want anything built with any form of petroleum product. They want wind. But what happens if the wind doesn't blow? They don't know. You know, it's hard to store wind energy, right? You know that. So, they want wind or they want solar, they want all things. It's not big enough to fire up your plants. It's not good. It's not consistent. So Germany tried it and they went bust, and now they're building coal plants all over the place. And they're building nuclear, they closed up all their nuclear, all their coal, now they're reopening them. It didn't work. They have suffered greatly. Other countries, it hasn't worked. Why do we have to be doing this? It's not gonna work. We need to fire up our plants with petroleum if it's necessary. Whatever the hell it takes. Nice, clean, natural gas.

Did, did you ever hear of a thing called Clean Coal? Clean coal. They do, they do great things with coal too. And we have more of all of these products than anybody anywhere in the world. I call it liquid gold. We have more liquid gold than any country anywhere in the world, including Saudi Arabia, including Russia. And we don't use it. We're now buying oil from Venezuela. We're not buying oil, we're buying tar. We're buying tar. It's very thick. And you know where we clean the tar? In Houston, Texas. It's the only refinery in the whole country that can clean this tar and that's what we do. And that goes into the air and I guess, you know, they'll figure out what happens with it, but it's very sad. China is building a coal plant a week, a big coal plant a week, and then they see– well, they finally fired [John] Kerry, he got fired. To me, that was a great thing. He'd go to China, they're building a plant a week, and he'd tell them all of the problems with coal, and they're saying, oh yes, yes, we agree, we agree. In the meantime, they authorized about 70 new plants for next year. The whole thing we are like this stupid country, the stupid country. But we will be the stupid country no longer. And we had it going [cheers and applause].

You know, we built, we built the greatest economy in the history of our country, and we will get it back and we will do it again and we're gonna close that border and we're gonna drill, baby, drill, and we're gonna do all sort of things [cheers and applause]. We had the strongest border, we had the strongest border in the recorded history of our country by far. We had it down to a level that they'd never seen before. We built 571 miles of wall. We had it down– we were gonna build another 200. It was all done. Then the election was rigged, and we couldn't put it up. We had three weeks. It was all there. And all they had to do was put up the slats, put 'em up. It was all done. 200 miles. Actually built 300 miles more than I said we were gonna do. All they had to do is put it up and they, you know what, they took over and they didn't put it up. They sold the stuff for 5 cents on the dollar. Think of it. For 5 cents. And it's expensive. It's what the Border Patrol wanted. You know, I wanted concrete slabs. And they wanted to have steel, rebar, and concrete. All three. And they were right. You had to have a fence to see through. I said, what the hell do you have to see through? What are we looking at? They wanted to– I did everything the bor– even the panel on top, you know, it's called an anti-climb paddle. You know that? Because it makes it very hard for people– do you ever watch these people? With 70 lbs of drugs on their back, they go up. They're unbelievable. They're like athletes. But when you have the panel, the anti-climb panel, it's very hard for them to get across. So I put– I gave them everything they wanted. 571 miles we built, and that's why that happened and that's why we had such good numbers. And then I had another 200 miles that was ready to be installed, would have been done in three weeks and these guys said, we don't wanna do it. And I said, I said, they want open borders. Nobody believed it. Why would they want open borders? They either hate the country or they're stupid and they're not stupid because anybody that could cheat on elections the way they do is not stupid. So, they either hate the country or they're stupid. So, we are going to close up the border like we had. We had the best border ever [cheers and applause].

You know, I went to Mexico, and you know this, and I got along really great, but I went to, to them, I told them, look, fellas, you gotta give us 28,000 soldiers. They looked at me like, what a stupid request. What? Why the hell would– they going like, why would we give him 28,000? You know, they're laughing. They think we're like, we're all a bunch of dummies, right. I said, no, no, you have to cause they've taken advantage of, including taking 32%, by the way, 32% of what you had here is right now being done in Mexico. That's over the last 20 years, 32%, and they'll take the rest of it too. And remember the story about the plan, but think of this, so I said, no, you have to give us 28,000 soldiers because we're building the wall and we need protection and you're allowing people to walk through on the caravans, thousands and thousands of people coming from all over the world.

Yesterday they had many from the Congo. Welcome to the Congo people because– and where do you come in the Congo? Where do you live? We were in prison. What for? Murder. Ohh, great. So they're being put– and who can blame? They're coming from Africa. They're coming from Asia. They're coming from different parts of the Middle East. They're coming from Yemen. We're bombing Yemen. You know, here this idiot is again bombing, bombing. When I came in, they were bombing. I got it stopped. You don't have to bomb. Every bomb is a million dollars, you know that. One million, every time you see a little flash it's a million. But more importantly, you're killing a lot of people. You don't have to kill the people. We don't wanna kill people. We want a solution to things [cheers and applause].

You would have never had Ukraine and Russia. You would have never had Israel. Israel would have never been attacked. Ukraine would have never been attacked. [Vladimir] Putin would have never attacked. In fact, Putin said the other day. No, I prefer Biden as president. I said, I know why. I stopped. I stopped Nord Stream too. It was totally stopped. I stopped Nord Stream too. Biden came and he approved it. But he stopped the keystone, so he let Russia build their pipeline to Germany and other places. But he stopped the Keystone. 48,000 jobs and the head– remember this, for the auto workers, the head of the pipeline union endorsed 'Sleepy' Joe Biden. Endorsed him. Now he should be out of a job. And all those guys, now almost every worker voted for me because they're smart, you know.

But you have the same thing in the auto workers. Most of the auto workers are going to vote for me. I'm going to bring jobs back [cheers and applause]. You're going to lose all your jobs. And we're waiting for the Teamsters, and I will tell you the biggest threat to your unions is millions of people coming across the border, 'cuz you're not gonna have your jobs anymore. Even that good looking strong guy with those beautiful muscles [points to crowd member], he's not gonna have his job because they'll have somebody else take it for one-third the price and you know, etcetera, etcetera. You're not gonna– right? You're not– look, he's– don't laugh. He's laughing. Don't laugh. We got to be serious here. The truth is, though, when you have millions of people coming in, they're gonna take your jobs, they're gonna take the Teamster jobs, you know, we're waiting because the Teamsters haven't endorsed a Republican in many, many years, and they're having a hard time with this. How do they endorse a man who's a low-IQ individual? How do they do it? That's, that's 'Sleepy' Joe. How do they endorse– or 'Crooked' Joe. Which is a better name, 'Crooked' Joe Biden or 'Sleepy' Joe Biden? [cheers and applause]. OK, wait, let's do a free poll. Let's do a free poll. OK, Hoekstra, Hoekstra this is a free poll. See, I don't pay for– you know, these guys go out, they pay a million dollars for a poll. Most of the polls, they don't even go sample. They just give it, they say send me the check. No, this is a free poll. Who likes– I'll go 'Sleepy' first, then I'll go 'Crooked'. Who likes 'Sleepy' Joe Biden? [cheers and applause]. Who likes 'Crooked' Joe Biden? [louder cheers]. Yeah.

Because I retired the name crooked from Hillary [Clinton]. You know that, right? I retired the name 'Crooked' because– this was one of the best days in our life. I announced I was gonna retire 'cuz I thought it was more befitting, she didn't matter anymore. I thought it was more befitting for Joe because he's the most corrupt president we've ever had. He's a Manchurian candidate, actually. You know what a Manchurian candidate is? This guy's getting so much money from so many countries that they can't even figure it out.

When I came into office, American manufacturing was on its knees, gasping its last breaths. Eight long years of [Barack] Obama and 'Crooked' Joe Biden who backed NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever, and China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Great deal, fellas. TPP and every other globalist portrayal of Michigan workers for 50 years, they were back in all these horrible deals. They were really back in China. Just as I promised, I withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in my very first week. That saved your auto industry. You wouldn't have, and you don't have, much left anyway, but that saved you the 42% that you have left. I ended the disaster known as NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever made, and replaced it with a brand new USMCA the best trade deal ever made, they say [cheers and applause].

And in particular, it was salvation for the American auto industry and the American labor. Now they're going to these all-electric cars. So, everything's gonna be gone. Everything's gonna be gone. So sad. So sad. Nobody wants to buy these cars either. That's the other problem. They don't go far. I want to be more sophisticated. And I said give me a good reason why we shouldn't buy electric. Why, why should we buy it? And the guy goes, well, Sir, they don't go far. I said, they don't go far. That sounds so basic. That's like a first-grader. They don't go far. I said that's about as accurate– they don't go far. They also are very expensive, much more expensive. And they require far fewer jobs to make. That means Michigan, you're gonna get so screwed, I can't believe it. I can't believe that that guy was able to convince– you know, I thought he was, like a tough guy cause he said we're gonna go on strike, we're gonna do– he goes on strike, he signed the worst deal. You're gonna, you're getting nice wages for a short period of time, but you're going to be out of jobs in two years. So just remember it.

I also, and you know, they're trying to renegotiate a whole big pile of things, as you know, all of these deals, the USMCA, Mexico and Canada are trying to renegotiate the deal now with Biden. And Biden's looking at them, he has no idea what they're talking about. I have no idea what is the USMCA? What countries are they? What countries are they? Ohh, that's Mexico and Canada. Oh, I have no idea.

By the way, isn't this better than being on this freaking teleprompter, seriously? I can only do this with friends [cheers and applause]. I can only do it with friends. Ohh, it's terrible, but they always criticize me. For instance, sometimes I'll use the name Barack Hussein Obama instead of– and your President, Barack Hussein, remember Rush [Limbaugh]? He used to shout Barack Hussein Obama. And I'll say because he's– a lot of people think he's still the president. A lot of people think he's really running Biden. He's got a lot of his people in there. So, I'll say your President Barack Hussein Obama, and they'll say the next day Donald Trump didn't know who the president of our country is. He thought it was Barack. It's true. It's true. It's true with the stairs, too, they're always– I cannot do it anymore. Everyone says, please do the stairs. But every time I do the stairs, I walk to one. I walked to– then I walk into a wall in the back. They say, see, he couldn't find his way off the stage either. These people are so dishonest [points to media in back of room]. They are terrible. But I, I don't want to be, I don't want to be sarcastic anymore, 'cuz it's too painful.

I also renegotiated Obama's Korea trade deal to fully restore the protective tariff on foreign, foreign pickup trucks. Now, if I didn't do that, you know, you make more money with pickup trucks than any other vehicle. If I didn't do that, right, if I didn't do that, you would be dying here because without the pickup truck, uh, you would have had a problem. And I put the tax on– it was all set to expire and South Korea was so happy. Everybody was so happy. It was good. It didn't expire because I extended it and I got it. And if I didn't do that, you would have had a big problem. You would have had a big problem.

I took on Communist China like no administration in history. Bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars, pouring into our treasury when no other President had gotten 10 cents. You look back, not one other president got 10 cents from China. They all said, ohh, China is a developing nation. Well, we're a developing nation too. Look at our cities. They're falling apart. Look at our country, it's falling apart. We're like a third-world nation. Look at our airports. Look at our airports. I mean, how bad are the airports. And as part of my strong trade policies, I kept Chinese cars the hell out of America through taxation, it's very easy [cheers and applause].

You know, I used to argue with Angela, Angela Merkel. You ever see the hat, 'Trump was right about everything'? I was right basically about– but I used to say Angela, let me a question, it's just you don't treat us well. You don't take our cars. Ohh, we would love to, we would– ohh really. I said, how many Chevrolets do you have in Munich? Uhh, probably none. I said, that's right. How many Chevrolets do you have in Germany? Maybe none, that's right. But we take their BMW's, we take their Volkswagens, we take their Mercedes Benzes, we take everything. We're stupid, we're so stupid to allow this to happen. They won't take anything having to do with us. And I had them all broken down. Everything was good. We were doing good. And then all of a sudden, you know, we had the COVID hit us.

And we did a great job in that. We never got acknowledged for that. But what China did to us with COVID– to the world– $60 trillion of damage and you know, millions and millions of people killed. But we did a great job, came out of it– when I left the stock market price was higher than when just before COVID came in, or as I call it, the China virus 'cuz I want to be accurate [cheers and applause]. I imposed a magnificent 27.5% tariff on all Chinese automobiles, and it remains in place to this day. You know why Biden can't take it off? Because they make so much money with it. They wanna take it off so badly, 'cuz you know, they pay them a lot of money. Johnny gives 'em a lot of money, so he'd like to, he'd like to reciprocate. But I just wanna say to Michigan, you're welcome, because if I didn't do that, you would have a big problem [cheers and applause].

Under the Trump administration you were better off, your family was better off, your neighbors were better off, your communities were better off, and our country was a lot better off [cheers and applause]. America was stronger, richer, safer, and more confident than ever when you had me sitting behind that beautiful, resolute desk. You know what the resolute desk– beautiful. In the Oval Office. You know, we have– as a President when you get elected, they give you a choice of seven desks. You have 7 desks. They're all beautiful. They all represent something different, but resolute, represented Ronald Reagan, represented some people that I respect and like. I also think it's beautiful. But we got to get back behind that resolute desk. We have to get back [cheers and applause]. We have to get back. Stop, stop these fascists from taking over. They're destroying our country, by the way, in case you haven't noticed. In case you haven't noticed, they are destroying our country.

By contrast, Joe Biden spent his entire career hurting your family while his family, his family, raked in millions and millions of dollars, and he was making bad deals for our country. He was– the guy has a lot of houses all over the place. I mean, the guy– they start off with nothing, then they're worth millions and millions of dollars. The most they ever made was 179,000 dollars. And yet they have houses that are worth millions and millions. You know, the beach cottage, and the this one, and the that one. Ocean, the nice waves. The nice garage with the, with the Corvette, right. The Corvette. And the documents under the Corvette. And he's, you know, the Corvette's sitting on classified documents, and it's OK for him, but for me, when you have it sealed at Mar-a-Lago, that's no good. You know. No, no, uhh, it's a terrible double standard. How about that? Did you see that? And he's also got documents in Chinatown. He's got documents at Penn. They're falling out of boxes. Those boxes are heavily used too. Those documents are going in and out. But how about the boxes in Chinatown, Chinatown. And he gets paid by China. The whole thing– we have such a double standard. It's a disgrace.

Just this week, House investigators revealed that 'Crooked' Joe showed up at a business meeting hosted by the Chinese Communist Party-controlled energy companies, and all of this, and they were paying his son a lot of money. Shee– I'm surprised to hear that. 'Crooked' Joe gave a 10-minute presentation and days later, Hunter [Biden]'s company got a 3 million dollar check out of China. 'Crooked' Joe is not working for you, he's working for himself because he gets a piece. Don't they have a little statement about him? You know, he gets a nice chunk out of everything. As President Harry Truman said, show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I will show you a crook [cheers and applause]. True. That's true.

Hey, by the way, it's nice in this– you know, I thought it was going to be like freezing in here, Pete. It's very nice. It's beautiful. Is everybody having a good time talking about this horror show? [cheers and applause]. Is there any place better than being at a Trump rally? [cheers and applause]. I'll tell you the people outside they can't get in, they're not so thrilled out there. Thank you very much. Look at that. I mean, this place is packed. This set a new record. You're not supposed to have this many people. This place is packed. Thank you.

CROWD: [chanting] WE LOVE TRUMP. WE LOVE TRUMP. WE LOVE TRUMP. WE LOVE TRUMP.

TRUMP: I love you too. I love you too. Or I wouldn't be doing this. I had a nice life, you know. I had a nice life. I had nice places. I had a great company. I had everything. And now look, I go through this crap because you know what? We made America great again. We're going to make it greater than ever before. We're gonna take it back [cheers and applause].

It's the question I get asked most often. They say, Sir, how do you do it? I've been asked by the toughest guys, the toughest Wall Street guys, you think they're tough, but they're really not. They're not as tough as the auto workers, I'll tell you right now. But they think they are. They think they're tough. But a lot of them come to me and they'll say, how do you do it? You go through all these subpoenas. You got indicted. Now in my whole life, I didn't know what the word, I didn't know what indictment meant. You got indicted more than Alphonse Capone. Scarface. They say, how do you take it? How do you do it? I say it doesn't bother me. It's like I'm just doing something for some incredible people. It's called the American people [cheers and applause]. It's called I'm doing something for America. It doesn't bother me.

And you know, when you see the love in this room and when you see the polls, I mean, maybe I'd feel differently if I was losing by a lot or a little, but you know, we're leading Biden by so much. We're, we're beating him by so much. We have a competitor, a bird-brain who is getting decimated by him. But we're leading him by so much. And that means there's– look, that means what we're doing is just sort of– I just feel very good about it. I mean, you know, maybe I'm wired a little bit differently, I don't know. I don't know. But I feel good about it.

Biden always puts America last. He didn't even have the decency to go to East Palestine, Ohio, until yesterday. He would have been better off not going. The mayor is a great guy. I went there very early. The mayor's a great guy. The people are great people, they're unbelievable people. The guy goes like a year later. And you know, you talk about pandering, that's I think the ultimate pandering. He would have been a lot better– whoever advised him, the same person that advises him to go to beaches, you like, go to the beach, you look great in a bathing suit. If he would have gone to the beach and left the border alone. We had Tom [Thomas] Homan. We had the best people. Brandon Judd. We had that border, the best it's ever been. If you would have left it alone, we wouldn't have, I think the number's gonna be 18 million people by the time this nightmare ends, I think it's 18 million people. Think of it. But I went to East Palestine, and I was there and met the people and they loved me and I loved them. But I put workers first and I put America first, nobody else does that [cheers and applause]. Not too many.

If 'Crooked' Joe gets four more years, our country is done. It's done, it's done. But we gotta get out and vote. We gotta vote like that– and that includes in the primary. I mean, you don't have much of a primary here. I think we have a 60-point lead, 70-point lead. But you know what? It's important to send the Democrats a message. We gotta send them a message for November. We gotta get out and vote. You go next week; you vote because we have to put out the message. We have to get out. We have to let 'em know that a freight train is coming in November [cheers and applause].

Biden's plan calls for raising taxes by over 6 trillion dollars. Congratulations, everybody. I gave you the largest tax cut in the history of our country. And by the way, we took in much more revenue because of that. But he wants to raise your taxes by quadruple. A tax hike that would be the biggest tax hike in the history of our country. That's what he wants to do. I will make the Trump tax cuts permanent. He wants to end them. They're the biggest– I gave you the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country. I gave you the biggest regulation cuts in the– that's why you had the biggest job numbers we've ever had.

I'll also pass the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act. You know what that is? When a country charges us a tax we say ohh, what is it? 100% good. We're charging them the same tax, okay? [cheers and applause]. Reciprocal. It's reciprocal. So if China is charging us a hundred dollar tariff, we charge them a hundred dollar tariff. It's quite simple actually. It's basically saying you screw us, and we screw you [cheers and applause]. And you know what's gonna end, you know it's gonna end up? They'll drop it, everybody drops it, You know, let's forget the bookkeeping, right. But no, we were treated very unfairly by virtually every country. We did so much. I renegotiated the deals with South Korea. I renegotiated the deals with Japan. I made 'em so much better with Abe, who was an incredible guy, he was assassinated. But, Shinzo Abe was an incredible guy. One of my really good friends, he was great. But I came to him, I remember, 'cuz Japan took such advantage of us, that I came to him, I said, Shinzo, it's not working, it's so unfair. I mean, it's so one-sided. He goes, I know. I was waiting for you to come see me. I said didn't anybody else? He said nobody ever came to see us. I can't believe we got away with it for so many years. They expect it. And we renegotiated the deal. It didn't take that long. We got 'em– we got a great deal out of it.

And as tariffs on foreign countries go up, taxes on American workers and families will come down. They'll come down very dramatically. It will almost solve our budget deficit– so the Reciprocal Trade Act, let's say it's 10%. Let's say it's 15%. This will go a long way. All these countries, they want to do business in the United States. It's an honor to do business in– we have to bring that back. For them to come in and take advantage of our country, it's an honor, you should have to pay for that. For them to come in and take our jobs and take our money and take everything out of our country, the guts out of our country, for them to manufacture cars and send them in so that we don't manufacture cars. So, the Reciprocal Trade Act, it's very simple, they gotta pay. So, if they pay 10% or 15, I don't believe it's going to affect the business that much, but it's so much money that would be coming into our country that it will largely knock out deficits to a large extent. The deficit will be wiped out overnight [cheers and applause]. And I think they'll be doing, I think they'll be doing almost the same business. The only difference is that they won't make quite as much money, 'cuz right now they're making so much money.

In the case of China, they've rebuilt military to rival our military. With the kind of money, five-hundred billion dollars a year that they take out. So we don't want that to happen. The only ones who hate it are the globalists because basically, they hate America. Globalists, I think – really believe, I really believe it, and that's plenty of Republicans, although it seems to be a dying breed within the Republican 'cuz Republican is mostly MAGA [cheers and applause]. MAGA. Make America Great Again. Globalists. Globalists. Now the globalists, I think they're, they're on respirators. They're, they're a dying breed I think. I hope. They are not, they are not good for our country.

It's no wonder Joe Biden and his thugs are so desperate to stop us. They know that we are the only ones who can stop them. They know that. You know, we did it in 2016, remember that beautiful night in 2016 where they had Florida locked, there was going to be– and then all of a sudden, at about 9:01, Donald Trump has won the state of Florida [cheers and applause]. Ooh, that was bad. And they go up their call thing, then they go Donald Trump– then we win Alabama, we win this– Donald Trump has won the state of Georgia by a lot. We did– I think we did much better the 2nd time with Georgia by the way. But Donald Trump has won the state of George. Donald Trump has won the state of South Carolina by a lot. Donald Trump has won the state of North–. We ran that coast up and for– and they kept saying ohh. They said, you know, with North Carolina, they said don't worry about it. That's our fire stop. That's us. He, he can't win that one. And then they go, this was a whole big thing for an hour they were saying, that stop is North Carolina, to get– Donald Trump has won– the say– they're like having a heart attack. Ohh, those people.

Remember the crazy woman in the Convention Center with the hair and the glasses and the bonnet. And she's screaming that poor woman, aye-yai -yai. And she's screaming, you know what she's screaming for? She wants continued failure in our country.

All of their attacks and all of these corrupt persecutions that they're doing are only happening because I am running for President and leading big in the polls and won a presidential race that we weren't supposed to win. You know, they all said– it's funny, I came here, and I came to four or five other states in the last couple of days and we were having rallies 45, 50 thousand people, and then I'd leave. And I kept hearing how we were gonna lose. And I can't– how come we're gonna lose? With Hillary, she'd come, she'd have like 300 people show up. With Joe, he'd come, he couldn't fill the circle, you know. Remember the 8 circles, good contractor, those circles are beautiful. I want to find out who is the contractor. They were beautiful circles. But they had eight circles and they had to put the fake news in those circles because they couldn't fill them up. And then I'd have 48, 50 thousand people at these rallies and I say how the hell– why are we gonna lose? And we ended up winning Michigan. Remember that? [cheers and applause]. That was a beautiful, that was a beautiful [inaudible]. And Wisconsin, we won Wisconsin, we won Pennsylvania, we won it all.

In the latest Morning Consult Poll, ohh, and we're doing much better now than we ever did. Actually, as you know, we did much better in 2020 than we did in 2016. We got millions and millions of more votes, Pete. Millions and millions of more votes. We got votes like nobody thought possible. But the election was rigged, it's just one of those things. But we're not going to let 'em rig at this time, that I can tell you. The latest Morning Consult poll, we're at 80% in the Republican Party and in the new– 80%– and in the new Fox poll, which tends to be not so such a good poll. We're beating Biden substantially here in Michigan like by a lot. And we're winning a historic 25% of the African American vote in this state [cheers and applause]. Nice, nice. By the way, the biggest change we're doing phenomenally with the African American voters. Remember criminal justice reform, helping their colleges and universities out like nobody ever did before, that was a big thing. All of the things we did– opportunity zones with Tim Scott, Tim Scott had this incredible idea for opportunity– it's one of the best economic development programs ever in the history of our country. Nobody talks about it. But we did a lot and the African American population understands it. The black population understands it. And with Hispanic, the same thing we're doing numbers that are 30, 40, 50% higher than they ever heard of before. We're winning places along the border that no Republican's ever won before. We're like a new party in a lot of ways. And we're getting the workers, we're getting the manufacturers, we're getting the guys that make the product, we're getting guys like my friend with the big muscles over there [points to crowd member]. We have a lot of auto workers, you know, we have a lot of auto workers in this room who are disgusted with the fact, because they're smart. Look at that guy, he's another guy [points to crowd member]. Look at him. You can build my car any day. You can [laughs] [cheers and applause]. You can build my car any day. And these are great people. These are great workers. These are talented, very talented people. This isn't just workers, these are very talented, brilliant people.

The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020, and we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election in 2024 [cheers and applause]. Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxist communists, and fascists indict me, I considered it a great badge of honor. I am being indicted for you. Never forget. I'm being indicted for you. [cheers and applause]. Thanks very much, I appreciate it. Never forget, our enemies want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom. I will not do that [cheers and applause]. They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you. And in the end, they're not after me, they're after you. And I just happened to be standing in their way. That's what's happening. They're after you [cheers and applause].

We are pleased to be joined tonight by some incredible people that represent your state so well, including members of Congress. Lisa McClain, where's Lisa? [cheers and applause]. What a great woman. She's tough. Don't mess around with– she's a tough one, and she's great. Thank you, Lisa. You really are. You're doing a fantastic– you're a warrior. And Jack Bergman. Jack, thank you very much. [cheers and applause]. What a job. Two real good ones. Your new Michigan Republican Party chairman, former Congressman, Pete Hoekstra [cheers and applause]. I actually recommended– I said, do you think you could ever get this guy Hoekstra? He's unbelievable. And you were willing to do it, and I appreciate it. Everybody appreciates. We're gonna win this state. If we win Michigan, we win the election [cheers and applause]. You know? Thank you, Pete. Great. Got the best man. I said that. I said can you get Hoeksra? He was incredible. Everything he did in Congress, he was incredible. And then he was an unbelievable ambassador. He– everybody thought he was just about the best. And then I just said you got to get that guy, and he agreed to do it. We appreciate it. Thank you very much [cheers and applause]. State House Minority Leader Matt Hall. Matt. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, Matt. Great job. Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman, Stephen, thank you. You're here someplace. Thank you, Steven. Thank you very much. And President of the Police Officers Association of Michigan, James Tignanelli [cheers and applause]. And a board member, Dwight Zahringer. Thank you, Dwight. Thank you very much. What a great job they do.

Law enforcement, we're gonna take care of law enforcement [cheers and applause]. You know, we have the endorsement of almost every single law enforcement group in the country, and anybody that hasn't endorsed– people look at them, they say what the hell's wrong with you? But we've got the endorsement of just about every law enforcement, the sheriffs, everybody all over the country.

From the very first day that we take back the White House from 'Crooked' Joe Biden, I believe we're going to have the four greatest years in the history of our country [cheers and applause]. We are so ready to go. In our first term, we appointed over 300 federal judges and three Supreme Court justices [cheers and applause]. Great people. We fully rebuilt the US military and created Space Force, first time in 78 years [cheers and applause]. Last one was Air Force. This was Space Force and it's a big deal. And for our great veterans, we passed VA Accountability and VA choice [cheers and applause]. Nobody could do it. They worked in them for 54 and for 56 years.

We had the most secure border in U.S. history. We ended catch and release, and built 561 miles, think of it, we built this massive thing and then they go, and they just let everybody pour into our country. People weren't even trying to get in anymore. They knew they couldn't get in. And then they come in and they just come in in numbers that nobody's ever seen before. Nobody's ever seen a border like that. I just don't know who could, who could think it's a good thing? And remember, they're coming in from prisons. They're coming in from mental institutions, insane asylums. These are, these are people that we're not wanting in our country.

The invasion of our country will affect our black population, Hispanic population, union population, and basically people with good, high paying jobs, more than any others. Union wages will be cut in half or more. And this is– these are the people that Biden's allowing to come in. Whether they have the talent or they don't have the talent, they're not gonna have the talent of the people right now. But they're gonna work for one-third the price, and uhh, you're gonna have a lot of unhappy union workers, that I can tell you. That includes the United Auto workers and the Teamsters, black and Hispanic workers, or basically anybody who has a high paying good job, will be losing their jobs by the millions. These people are gonna work for nothing. They're gonna work for very small amounts of money. You're gonna lose your jobs. It's so sad. No, it's so sad to see. It's common sense. You got 18 million people by the end of his term coming in. And they're gonna be working. They're gonna be taking the jobs of people that have lived here for a whole life, pay a lot of tax, they work hard, big talent. Biden's already giving work permits to two and a half million illegal aliens. I don't know if you know that, they don't cover it.

We have a new category of crime in our country. It's called migrant crime, and it's taking over America. You know, in New York, what's happening with crime is it's through the roof. And it's called migrant– I call it a new category. I just came up with that name, but I think it's appropriate. It's a new category of crime where they go, and they beat up police officers. You've seen that. They go and they stab people, hurt people, shoot people. It's a whole new form. And they have gangs now that are making our gangs look like small potatoes, OK? Because Joe Biden allowed this to happen, we will call it from now on 'Biden migrant crime', OK? It's by 'Bigrant'– this is– we'll call it– I got it: Bigrant, let's call it by Bigrant. Biden crime. Bi– oh, that's good [cheers and applause].That's smart. Migrant crime. No, but you do you have a category of crime that we've never had. We've never had anything like this before. They're taking over the, the inner cities of our country by the thousands and thousands. They're coming into cities. They can't handle it. Even here in Oakland County, you're being overrun, and I will tell you one man said what are we gonna do about it? We're gonna have the largest deportation effort in the history of our country [cheers and applause]. We have no choice. We have no choice. We have no choice. It's a terrible thing. And we're gonna start with the really bad ones first. And you know the local police, they know who the bad ones are. They know, they knew, and we're going to take care of our local police. Your sheriff has recently stated that organized criminal squads of illegal alien gang members are hiding in the trees and breaking into rural and suburban Michigan, into your homes after dark, plundering them for jewelry, purses, electronics, cash, watches, and anything else they can get their hands on. That's what's happening in Michigan. It happened to that guy [points to crowd member]. Look, he's raising his hand. It happened to him. If you don't want to have illegal alien criminals crawling through your windows and going through your drawers, as the expression goes, then vote against 'Crooked' Joe Biden. Throw him the hell out of office [cheers and applause].

Before I even arrive– we got to. Look, look, if we have this regime, it's like a regime, and believe me, they are bad for democracy. What they're doing with elections, what they're doing with– what they're doing in Washington, DC with people putting 'em in jail for years and years and years. And they let Antifa get away with murder. It's just a horrible thing. It's a very bad thing and it's a very dangerous thing. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we win the Presidency– we win. We are going to win, not me, we [cheers and applause]. I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled. That war would have never happened if I were president.

It was just reported that Biden believes that he did a fantastic job in this catastrophic withdrawal, do you believe that? The withdrawal, the withdrawal from Afghanistan was the most embarrassing moment I believe in the history of our country. If that success, and he thinks it was fine, it was– we lost 13 soldiers. We shouldn't have lost anybody. You know, I'm the one that set it up in the sense, but we had to get that 21, 20 years, but we had nobody shot at. We had nobody killed under my administration. They were killing our soldiers very much with, with the Obama-Biden mess. They were killing our soldiers. And I called up and I said get him on the phone. Abdul [Ghani Baradar]. He was the leader of the Taliban. I said, Abdul, you're killing our soldiers. Don't kill our soldiers anymore, Abdul. It was not a nice conversation. Then I said, uh, I said if it happens again, we're gonna hit you so hard you're not even gonna believe it [cheers and applause]. And he goes, he goes– yeah. He goes, uh, your Excellency, he called me your Excellency. Actually had a very nice way of speaking. He's still leading the Taliban, but now he's got $85 billion worth of our equipment, which he's selling a lot of. You know, they're the second or third largest seller of military equipment in the world, now they took 85 billion. We left 85 billion dollars. Thirteen soldiers dead. Many of these soldiers, no arms, no legs, obliterated. Many. 38 of them. At least 38 of them. Nobody ever mentions them. We have people that we left behind, too. We have American citizens that we left behind, but that gave Putin the power to go in because he saw the incompetence of our withdrawal from Afghanistan. We were going to get out, but we should have kept Bagram. It's one of the biggest air bases in the world. We built it many years ago, many, many years ago. Cost billions and billions of dollars. One hour away from where China makes their nuclear weapons. And you know who's occupying it right now? China is occupying it right now.

Under the Trump administration, we will restore peace through strength. That's what we had [cheers and applause]. That's what we had. Don't forget I didn't have any wars. I defeated ISIS 100%. It was supposed to take, it was supposed to take 4 years. It took 4 weeks, 4 weeks, right? General 'raising cane'. Right? Raising cane. But we defeated them very quickly.

We will bring back law and order to our country. I will direct a completely overhaul DOJ to investigate every radical out of control prosecutor in America for their illegal, racist and reverse enforcement of the law [cheers and applause]. How is, how is Fani doing in the– how is, how is she doing in Fulton County, Atlanta? How's that? How's that trial? No, I paid him cash. I paid him cash. I didn't take, I didn't take anything. I paid him cash. Ohh, where'd you get the cash? They're not allowed to answer that question, they're not allowed to– I paid him cash, she said. I gave him cash, ohh, I didn't take anything. No, no. Every time we went on a trip– took nine trips in one year. That's a lot of trips. I haven't taken a trip; I don't think I've taken a trip for about 30 years actually. I don't take too many trips. But it's like, I think she said nine trips. Every time I took a trip with my lover, I paid, I paid him in cash. Where the hell did you get the cash? You know. What a lot of, what a lot of bullshit [cheers and applause]. And they hurt a lot of people. She wanted to indict U.S. senators. You know, they stopped at like, 40 people, but a lot of good people have been really devastated by the incompetence of that whole thing. And Georgia has been so badly hurt as a state, you know, it's been an embarrassment for Georgia. But when you watch that trial, it's so sad. I paid him in cash. I gave him cash every single trip. I took a lot of trips though, beautiful trips. Norwegian Cruise Lines, beautiful trips. It's so nice. Love is such a beautiful– isn't love a beautiful– love is such a beautiful thing.

I'm also going to indemnify all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the United States to protect them from being destroyed by the radical left people in office that want them to be hurt, that don't want them to look for crime and stop crime. They can stop crime so fast, but they're told not to. They're told to stand away as people walk out with television sets out of department stores that end up going out of business. And we're going to protect those officers and those precincts and, in some cases, the states [cheers and applause]. Because you can stop that whole phenomenon where they walk into a– 300 guys run into a department store and they loot it and it's like literally there's not a thing on the shelves. They take millions and millions of dollars out, and inevitably they close the stores, they're closing stores all over the country. You can stop that in one day, in one hour, if you got really nasty and really tough. Once they see things happening that they never thought were going to happen to them, and I mean tough, it'll all stop overnight. There won't be any more– and your police would love to be the ones that do it, but they're not allowed. They don't want to lose their homes and their families. They don't want to lose their pensions.

We're going to rebuild our cities into beacons of hope, safety and beauty better than they've ever been before. We'll have to work with Democrats because every single one of our rotten cities are being run by the Democrats. So, we'll work with the Democrats if we have to. I think that's OK. We'll be bipartisan for a change. We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation, Washington DC, and clean it up, renovate it and rebuild our capital city so that it's no longer a nightmare of murder and crime. Two people killed over the last couple of days. People are being killed every week. People are being killed. They go from Michigan. They want to see– oh, let's go see the Jefferson memorial. They want to change the name, you know, because of different things. They want to change the name. They want to change the name of Washington, off everything they want– when you get down to George Washington can no longer be on high schools, where they're taking the name George Washington, then we better put on the brakes in this country, 'cuz we're gonna have a lot of big problems. But rather, it will become the most beautiful capital anywhere in the world. I drive through– you know I have to go to court in Washington because it's all Biden people that do this. This is all election interference. And in Washington, you know, you have very liberal courts and you have very liberal everything. So, they get you in areas where in theory you can't win. But it's easier when you've done absolutely nothing wrong, but that doesn't matter, because all you have to do is look at Engoron. In theory you can't win. But I happen to go to court the other day and I'm driving through Washington, I say, man, this is going down so fast. Tents all over the place. The worst is the roads. They're in such bad condition. The medians are in such bad– you know the railings such bad–they, they warp. They're the worst garbage. I don't know who the hell they've been selling them for 30 years. They're such garbage. But they're falling down into the road. The roads are bad, there are potholes all over the place. And I'm saying to myself, can you imagine foreign dignitaries, foreign leaders coming into this country, and they go into Washington, DC and they see roads where there's– you're driving over garbage that's been there for three months, been there for a long time, been there for a long time. We have some really bad people in our country that are doing a terrible job. We're gonna change Washington, DC. We're gonna make it the safest place anywhere that you can be. Anywhere.

A man who worked for me, who was fantastic, a young man that worked for me was shot the other night in his head. A carjacking, a carjacking. They shot him. They said we want your car, and they shot him in front of his wife. And he died. He died a week ago. What a sad thing. We're not gonna have that in Washington, DC. We're gonna run it properly, not run by these people that are just horrible, they're just horrible. It's so dangerous. You can't go to Washington, DC to go in a park anymore because you're gonna be mugged or shot. We're gonna change it. We're gonna bring it back. We're gonna beautify it. We're gonna take very strong measures on crime because we can't let that happen. The great capital, Washington, DC, is under siege.

I will always defend Medicare and Social Security [cheers and applause], unlike 'Bird brain', and unlike frankly a lot of other people. Remember that, though, because they're not gonna defend it. You know, Nikki Haley, have you ever heard of her? You don't hear her name too much anymore. But, she wants to extend the minimum age of Social Security by 10 years, so supposing you're just about ready to get your Social Security and they say, darling, I have a little bad news, Nikki Haley just extended it by 10 years. I don't think you're going to be too happy. You know, we have such great wealth in this country, we don't have to play around with Social Security and Medicare.

On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school, remember this, any school pushing critical race theory [cheers and applause]. It's so bad. It's so bad. Transgender insanity or any other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto the heads of our children. I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate [cheers and applause]. And maybe the easiest thing of all, it's embarrassing to have to say it because I don't think 10 years ago anybody ever heard of it, I will keep men out of women's sports [inaudible]. The weightlifting. The weightlifting. A record was set the other day in weightlifting that will never be broken by a woman, I can tell you.

I will fully uphold our totally under siege Second Amendment, as I did for four years [cheers and applause]. We will protect innocent life and we will restore free speech and I will secure our elections where the goal will be one-day voting with paper ballots and voter ID [cheers and applause]. One day voting. And you can do that for 9% of the cost.

CROWD: [chanting] TRUMP. TRUMP. TRUMP. TRUMP. TRUMP. TRUMP. TRUMP.

TRUMP: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. You know you could do the paper ballots and they, you know, paper, it sounds a little crazy, but paper, it called watermark, they have such secure paper now. It's, it's actually a very complex instrument. But the paper today is incredible. And you can do paper ballots, same day voting, think of it, you can do– and voter ID, it costs you 9% of what this other stuff that they do is. They have all the stuff, and they say we should be able to know the final count in two weeks from now. You ever see where they need two weeks to count with the paper ballots?

You know, France did it because they couldn't do mail-in ballots, 'cuz they turned out to be totally corrupt. Mail-in voting is totally corrupt [cheers and applause]. Get that through your head. It has to be. The votes– I mean it has to be. And in France they did mail-in voting, and they gave it up because it was so corrupt. They went to paper ballots, same day voting, voter ID. They had 36 million votes. By 10:00 in the evening, everything was done. They had a winner, [Emmanuel] Macron. They had a loser. Went home and they started working the next day. And there was no complaints and there was no problems and there was no anything going through the air. There was nothing. They had same day vote and voter ID. They want paper, paper, highly sophisticated paper. Nine percent. You'll save a fortune. Nine percent. And you'll have your answer by 10:00 in the evening. But until then, Republicans must win.

If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of the United States and added them up, they would not have done near the destruction to our country as Joe Biden, 'Crooked' Joe, and the Biden administration have done. If you want to save America, then you must vote. You must go and vote. Remember, the primary is Tuesday, February 27th. We need you to get out and vote to set the stage for November 5th [cheers and applause]. Go vote. November 27th.

So, remember, this, a date that's very important. It's November 5. November 5th. That's a very important date. Everything in our lives should be aimed to that date, because that's the date we're gonna make our country great again [cheers and applause]. 'Cuz right now we're a laughingstock all over the world. So, in two weeks, get out and vote. You watch, watch South Carolina how we're doing there. We're doing great. We're up about 30 or 35 points on, on a governor who was not really very popular.

And in conclusion, from Marquette to Midland, from Grand Rapids to Detroit, we gotta watch Detroit, we gotta watch Detroit boy, oh boy, oh boy. They had such horrible abuse. You know, they had more ballots, you know this. they had more ballots than they had voters. Do you know that? Gee, and they didn't want to, you know, go into that. And from Warren to Waterford Township, Waterford Township, beautiful. We stand on the shoulders of red-blooded Michigan Patriots who laid the railroads, worked the factories, tilled the fields, forged the steel, fought the battles, and won the victories that built the Motor City and made America into the greatest and most powerful nation anywhere in the world [cheers and applause]. But now, but now we are a nation in decline. Very sad. We are a nation in decline. We're a failing nation. We're a nation that has lost its confidence, willpower and strength. We're a nation that has lost its way. But we are not going to allow this horror to continue. We're not going to allow it. And remember, Michigan, if we win Michigan, we win the whole ball game, we win everything [cheers and applause]. Nothing they'll be able to do. Don't let 'em cheat. Don't let 'em cheat.

Three years ago, we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again. It was hard-working patriots like you, you are patriots, I mean, here it is, you're freezing your ass off, right? [cheers and applause]. And we're here. But it's warm because there's love in this room, right? [cheers and applause]. There's love. Hard-working patriots like you, who built this country, and it's hard-working patriots like you who are going to save our country. We will fight for America like no one has ever fought before [cheers and applause]. We have no choice. 2024 is our final battle. With you at my side we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and fascists [cheers and applause]. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country, they truly do. They hate our country. We will route the fake news media. We will evict 'Crooked' Joe Biden from the White House on November 5th, 2024, please remember that day [cheers and applause]. That's our day.

The great silent majority is rising like never before, and under our leadership, the forgotten man and woman will be forgotten no longer. We are one movement, you know we're the greatest movement in the history of our country. Make America Great Again. When Biden says, ohh, we have to stop MAGA, MAGA. I'd like to say, do you know what MAGA stands for? He would have no idea. MAGA? I don't know, that's not a fair question. And then the anchors would protect them. You shouldn't ask them a question like that. No, no. I'd say, do you know what MAGA stands for? No, please tell me. Make America Great Again. That's what it says [cheers and applause]. We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under God, and together we will make America powerful again [cheers and applause]. We will make America wealthy again [cheers and applause]. We will make America strong again [cheers and applause]. We will make America proud again [cheers and applause]. We will make America safe again [cheers and applause]. And we will make America great again [cheers and applause]. Thank you very much Michigan [cheers and applause]. Thank you. Get out and vote. God bless you all. God bless you. Thank you, everybody.