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1845 WH TRUMP LOUISIANA RALLY STIX FS23 73 2045 WH TRUMP LOUISIANA RALLY STIX FS23 83 20:49:12 TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you, Minnesota. This is a great state. We're going to win the state in a very short period of time. Thank you. (APPLAUSE) This feels like the day before the election. (APPLAUSE) So we have 20,000 plus people inside; we just set a new record. (APPLAUSE) And we have 25,000 people that we still love outside. (APPLAUSE) And close to 100,000 people wanted to come tonight. Thank you all. This is great. This is great. Thank you. (APPLAUSE) 20:50:02 I want to thank our great Vice President Mike Pence and Karen Pence for being here tonight. (APPLAUSE) It is great to be back in the Twin Cities with the freedom-loving American patriots who make our country run, you know that. You know it. For the next 13 months--think of that. It seems like yesterday, for the next 13 months we are going to fight with all of our heart and soul and we are going to win the great State of Minnesota in 2020. (APPLAUSE) 20:50:49 American now has the number one economy anywhere in the world, and it is not even close. (APPLAUSE) You know I'm dealing with China right now, they are in Washington, we are going to see if we make a deal. If they want to make it we're going to determine whether or not we want to make it, but they have been very nice, and today I got a call from one of the top representatives he said congratulations, Mr. President on having a truly great, great economy. That's pretty nice. (APPLAUSE) We picked up since the election trillions of dollars in value, and China has lost trillions of dollars in value. I will say this-- (APPLAUSE) --if our opponent had won that election you know what would have happened right now China would become the--it would be the number one economy anywhere in the world and right now I can tell you they are not even close. (APPLAUSE) 20:52:13 Our country is stronger than ever before because we are proudly putting for the first time in a long time we are putting America first. (APPLAUSE) UNKNOWN: USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. TRUMP: And I have to say there are a lot of very beautiful red T-shirts in the audience. (APPLAUSE) 20:53:01 That was a record sale they did very well, and I will tell you what cops love Trump, Trump loves cops. (APPLAUSE) Our bold pursuit of this pro-American agenda has enraged, and you know what has happened, it has in reached the failed ruling class in Washington, not easy to get them out but we are doing it slowly but surely. (APPLAUSE) These corrupt politicians and the radical leftists got rich bleeding America dry, and they knew that my election would finally end their pillaging and looting of our country, and that is what they were doing, and that is what they continue to try and do. That is why from day one the wretched Washington swamp has been trying to nullify the results of a truly great and democratic election, the election of 2016. They are trying, they are not getting very far. (APPLAUSE) 20:54:16 They want to erase your vote like it never existed; they want to were raise your voice, and they want to erase your future. (BOOING) But they will fail because in America the people rule again. (APPLAUSE) Do you remember that just 19 minutes after I raised my hand and took the Oval Office the Washington Post, a terrible newspaper-- (BOOING) --that doesn't know how to write the truth published a story, and in this case they might have gotten it prettying correct, they said the campaign to impeach President Trump has begun. That was the headline. Little did we know they weren't playing games. (BOOING) 20:55:19 Think of that, that was 19 minutes after the oath of office. Months earlier Peter Strzok-- (BOOING) Remember he and his lover Lisa Page, what a group. She's going to win 10 million to 1 she's going to win I'm telling you, Peter. I'm telling you Peter she's going to win Peter. Oh, I love you so much. (APPLAUSE) I love you, Peter. I look you too, Lisa. Lisa, I love you. Lisa, Lisa. Oh God I love you Lisa. 20:56:13 And if she doesn't when Lisa we've got an insurance policy, Lisa. We'll get that son of a bitch out. We've got an insurance policy, and we're living through that insurance policy that's what it is the phony Russia hoax-- (BOOING) Lisa, I love you. Now the do-nothing Democrat con artists and scammers are getting desperate. Thirteen months they've got to move fast because they are not beating us at the polls and they know it despite the phony--despite the phony polls that you see all of the time. They are phony polls. You know polls are no different remember I always used to talk about polls. Polls are no different than crooked writers. They are crooked polls. They are crooked polls. No different. 20:57:14 Boy, that's a lot of media. Look back there. That's a lot of media. (BOOING) They are so dishonest, and frankly they are so bad for our country. (APPLAUSE) They are so bad, and they could be so good for our country, they could be so good, and maybe they will change and maybe they won't. I've been waiting for a long time. You know, after I won the last election I said you know finally it's okay; finally I will get some great press. They got worse. They got worse. I said finally we are going to get--I said to the First Lady darling we are to finally get respect, we are finally going to get media press coverage that's going to be great. Look at what we've done, and I'm telling you they did they got worse. 20:58:18 And they know they cannot win-- (BOOING) You understand. Well if you didn't understand honestly there's no way anyone could win because you'd believe them if you believe them there's no way anyone could (INAUDIBLE). I could do the greatest things in history, and they will make them bad to very bad, and if I do a neutral, something neutral, it worked out okay, not great it's like give him the electric chair that was terrible. Right? No, this is the worst. These people and the Democrats they are partners, it's a partnership. How about on the newscast like the word manufactured, it's manufact--every newscast in a manufactured deal along the border the word has never been used but all of the sudden every newscast is using. It's a talking point given to these fakers by the Democrats. (APPLAUSE) 20:59:28 So they know they can't win the 2020 election, so they are pursuing the insane impeachment witch hunt. I've been going through it now-- (BOOING) I've been going through it now for more time than I've been in office because you know like Strzok with his insurance deal this was before remember this, this was before--that was made months before I took office. That statement was made months before the election took place. They said just in case we are going to have an insurance policy that only means one thing we are going to get him out, so they are telling us can't let that ever happen again to another president. (APPLAUSE) And Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity a lot of people-- (APPLAUSE) 21:00:34 The great Mark Levin, we have a lot of great people. (APPLAUSE) Lou Dobbs, great people. You know what they said? Every one of them plus many others, there is no other man that we have ever met who could have taken that it; that is true. Maybe I'm a little different up here I don't know, but I enjoy it. To me, it's--I'm energized because we are draining the swamp. (APPLAUSE) UNKNOWN: Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. TRUMP: The Democrats' brazen attempt to overthrow our government will produce a backlash at the ballot box the likes of which they have never ever seen before in the history of this country. (APPLAUSE) 21:01:50 These are bad people. My phone call as an example with the president of Ukraine was perfect. Everybody that looked at it, and the only reason I released it was that the Democrats put out a phony narrative, so I had no choice, and I don't want to do that as president. Every time a president from a country calls me or I call them, we have to release the text. How can you do business that way? Who is going to want to speak to your president? So the president of Ukraine reiterated today that a major news conference on other subjects that he was under absolutely no pressure he doesn't know what they're talking about and he used the word there was no blackmail during this call. He used that term. (APPLAUSE) So, in theory, that should be the end of it. Think of it a president of the United States who has made our economy with a lot of help from all of you frankly but from Mike and from some of our great senators and some of our great people that we have with us we made this the strongest economy in our history, we have rebuilt our military, we are taking care of healthcare like nobody has been able to do. What we have done is incredible, and by the way we are protecting your second amendment. If you don't have me your second amendment is gone. (APPLAUSE) 21:03:24 So we have the greatest economy, the greatest military. We have rebuilt our military $2.5 trillion because when I took it over, it was a mess, and what do they want to do? Let's impeach our president, right? I don't think so. (BOOING) I don't think so. I think we're going to have a turnout the likes of which we've never seen in the history of our country. (APPLAUSE) So we were really forced just to put it away--we were forced I said just do it got the approval from the Ukraine. I have to ask. I said hey do you guys mind they said that's a strange request they said don't worry about it. Do you mind and they said please, go ahead nothing was said wrong in that call? So we released the transcript of the call, which was so good that that crooked Adam Schiff--this guy is crooked. (BOOING) 21:04:30 He had to make up a fake conversation that never happened, and he delivered it to the United States Congress and the American people. (BOOING) It was a total fraud, and then Nancy Pelosi said oh, I think the president said that. (BOOING) These people are sick; I'm telling you they are sick. And you know what? Had they waited one day long they would have had the transcript of the actual call word for word it would've been perfect. Instead they released it, they went early. They said all of these horrible things you know why because they never thought in 1 million years that I was going to release a transcript of the call. That's true. (APPLAUSE) 21:05:35 So Nancy Pelosi upon hearing a false story from a whistleblower that had no clue what was going on in that call or somebody gave her very bad advice but also hearing it from shifty Schiff, Nancy Pelosi said a day before seeing the transcript of the call with the Ukrainian president we've got to impeach him, we've got to impeach him. Right? And then she saw the call, and she said to her people what the hell nobody ever told me this was the call. But she keeps going in a way because the press is fake and they play right into their hands. (BOOING) The do-nothing Democrat extremist have gone so far left that they believe it should not be a crime to cross our border illegally, and it should be a crime to have a totally appropriate casual beautiful accurate phone call with a foreign leader. I don't think so. (APPLAUSE) 21:06:49 As our brilliant White House counsel wrote to the Democrats yesterday, he said they are highly partisan and unconstitutional effort threatens grave and lasting damage to our democratic institutions, to our system of free elections and to the American people, and that is what it is to the American people it is so terrible. Democrats are on a crusade to destroy our democracy that is what is happening. We will never let it happen, we will defeat them. (APPLAUSE) I mean look at their debates. These people are crazy; they want to spend $99 trillion to redo buildings all over the United States. I said what about China, what about Russia, what about India what about all of these other countries all that stuff is just (INAUDIBLE)-- (BOOING) 21:08:00 It's all right. Let him give you the answer. Man, did the cops act fast? He's already gone. (APPLAUSE) Man, that's unbelievable. That's the fastest--you know I have--look I love law enforcement I love the cops, I love the police I love it. Minneapolis, Minneapolis, you've got a rotten mayor. You've got to change your mayor. You've got a bad mayor. (BOOING) You've got a bad mayor, but you know what? The police--I've done this a lot, and every once in a while we'll have--very little disturbance, it's really--actually is there any place where we could have more fun than at a Trump rally? (APPLAUSE) 21:09:03 And we have set every record at everyplace virtually that we've gone and one of the big musicians said, and Trump does it without a guitar. Can you believe it without a guitar? But this guy so I've had in the lot where but sometimes it will take the police like 30 seconds, 50 seconds it's like Roger Penske when you watch him who's getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the way very soon. (APPLAUSE) He won 18 Indy 500s--18, Roger Penske. But it's like the way they change those tires. It takes four seconds to change a whole damn thing. I say how the hell do they do it? That is the way these cops just reacted. (APPLAUSE) That was a record. I think it was a record. I've had good service, but I never had anything like that I look up the guy is already gone. We love you with the red shirts. 21:10:02 So now the Democrats are making a pathetic bid to save the sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe Biden. (BOOING) And you know what I would love to run against him, to be honest. Anybody like that if you can't beat him in a debate you've got a big problem folks. If you can't beat him in a debate you can't be president because what are you going to do against President Xi and Kim Jong-un? You can't beat Sleepy Joe, but now we're going to meet with Kim Jong-un. I don't think so. But he's totally owned and totally controlled by the Washington swamp for many years. Two months after President Obama put Joe in charge of Ukraine policy--they put Joe Biden in charge of Ukraine policy. Listen to this, and the press will not write it. They say in totally unsubstantiated charges every time they talk about him, President Trump has said that his son walked away with a fortune now you know that the totally unsubstantiated charge. Really? 21:11:10 It's not unsubstantiated it's fact. Joe's son Hunter got thrown out of the Navy, and then he became a genius on Wall Street in about two days. By the way whatever happened to Hunter? Where the hell is he? (APPLAUSE) Where is Hunter? Hey, fellas, I have an idea for a new T-shirt. I love the cops but let's do another T-shirt. Where's Hunter. Where is he? Here's Hunter being examined by Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd or some of these people. 21:11:59 Hunter it's so great that you're here, sir. Hunter I know they're giving you approximately $168,000 a month; I hear they paid you a big check of $3 million. I just want to speak on behalf of NBC who is absolutely one of the worst. (BOOING) I just want to tell you, Hunter--Hunter, I just want to tell you I couldn't be happier for you and your family and I know you don't know anything about energy and I know it's an energy company but I think they made a great deal, Hunter. And then they fly to China, and I'm dealing with people right now they're tough as hell those Chinese negotiators and Hunter who's not too smart Hunter he goes in, he has a meeting he walks out in his fund with $1.5 billion with a B, $1.5 billion. (BOOING) 21:13:03 These aren't the same Chinese negotiators that I'm dealing with I can tell you. These are not the same ones but we are doing very well. Now think of it where is Hunter? (INAUDIBLE) so where is Hunter? I want to see Hunter asked these--Hunter, you know nothing about energy, you know nothing about Chi--you know nothing about anything frankly. Hunter you are a loser. Why did you get $1.5 billion, Hunter? (APPLAUSE) And your father was never considered smart, he was never considered a good senator, he was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's ass. (APPLAUSE) 21:14:28 True. Thank you. Thank you. It's true. It's true. And they are always saying the same thing. Yeah, he got $1.5 billion. We admit it, they admit it, there's nothing but always that same thing. President Trump made a totally unsubstantiated claim about Hunter Biden and his father. It's not unsubstantiated you crooked son of the guns, it's 100 percent true. (APPLAUSE) 100 percent. (APPLAUSE) Even the smart guys on Wall Street and I know all of them, and they are smart; they have never seen anything like that one before. I've called them. Has that ever happened? Never happens. Guy walks in no experience, no nothing walks out with $1.5 billion. Gee, flies in on Air Force 2 with his father, the vice president. 21:15:38 Don't forget that is when he was vice president. So China gives his son $1.5 billion. How would you like to have Joe Biden take over negotiations right now with China? I don't think so. (BOOING) I don't think so. Meanwhile, Biden allowed China to rip off America for eight years as vice president, and Barack Obama let him just rob us blind, and we are not doing that anymore. Those days are over. (APPLAUSE) The Bidens got rich and that is substantiated while America got robbed; that is what happened. 21:16:24 Sleepy Joe and his friend sold out America, they didn't have tough negotiations. I look at these trade deals, and I say who the hell could have done this. If you didn't--if you had no business instinct, no business ability. If you had nothing, if you're dumb as hell you wouldn't make these deals they are so bad. I say who made these deals? Who made these deals? But we are ripping them all up and redoing them, and they're going to be very good wait until you see what happens. (APPLAUSE) And now that I'm your president, you see it, America is winning again, and we are respected again as a nation. (APPLAUSE) UNKNOWN: USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. 21:17:35 TRUMP: And in a brand-new report just came out as I'm walking on the stage hard to believe actually it turns out that Joe Biden was vice president he worked with the so-called whistleblower. (BOOING) This is nothing but a partisan witch hunt sabotage, and I'm sure they are going to say it's totally unsubstantiated, but one of them wrote the story. Congratulations, by the way. Congratulations that's very nice. That's really good. That is the way you should do it good, good, good. (APPLAUSE) In the twisted worldview of Democrats and the media, it's okay for politicians to ship our jobs to foreign countries, flood our communities with drugs and crime and enrich themselves at America's expense. 21:18:31 Their treachery is allowed because they go along with the rigged Washington game, and it is far more rigged when I ran I thought it was rigged, but this is crazy what's happening. But if you refuse to bow or bend to the Washington swamp, which I could do very easily I'd be much more popular. Folks, I'd be--it would be so much easier. You know a very smart--I gotta tell you, I've got to tell you. Isn't it much better when I go off script? Isn't that better? (APPLAUSE) So much better. It's just--it's just. Hey, folks, the greatest buyer of advertisements in the history of the world Mike Lindell. Mike, hello. (APPLAUSE) 21:19:39 I have never seen so many ads. I think he is the greatest add negotiator in history. (APPLAUSE) And I told him I said would you do me a favor all of the money we spend on these political campaigns if I gave some of that money to Mike I think we would have ads every single minute of every single show. (APPLAUSE) I never saw so many ads. (APPLAUSE) Anyway, but the lawless political establishment will try to frame you, they will persecute you, they do will swear and just swear up and down that they are telling the truth. When Nancy Pelosi was on television the other day-- (BOOING) --I have to say, I have to say I was very proud of George Stephanopoulos. I was very proud. It's not often. 21:20:32 She said no, no, no shifty Schiff told the truth when he said that. Stephanopoulos said no wait a minute no, no, it wasn't the truth. It was a false statement. No, no it was the truth. He said no, and she really believes it. So she's either got one of two problems she's either really stupid, okay, or she's really lost it, or maybe there's a certain dishonesty in there someplace. (APPLAUSE) But they smear you, they spy on you, and they target your friends, your family, your staff for harassment, for abuse, for destruction. I came down to Washington with incredible people, we won a great political campaign. They were bright-eyed and bushytailed; we know that is a nice phrase. They came down, they were happy, they wanted to turn the country around. They wanted to do great things. All of the sudden, they get some, and they get subpoenaed by Robert Mueller. How good was he is a witness? Not too good. (BOOING) 21:21:37 And by people that were, I call them the 13 angry Democrats that turned into 18 angry Democrats. It was disgraceful. So people that were going down, sir, what is this? I look wow, that's a subpoena. What the hell is this? They took people--I really mean this, they took people that were full of life and energy and vigor--we had just won the greatest campaign in the history of American politics, it's true. It's true. And they destroyed their lives, they destroyed their lives. They went home. I could name many people one in particular who came down an incredible young woman she was going to help people, she wanted to help people, she had causes that were so good she wanted to help people, and she ended up going home dark, dark, her life became hell. They ruined people, they destroyed--they destroyed people, good people, people that ended up paying far more money in legal fees than they made, than they made. 21:22:57 They destroyed great people. They are vicious, horrible and the media was behind every single step. (BOOING) They destroyed so many lives. They destroyed so many lives, and they are continuing to do it, and it's a disgrace. When all of their ludicrous hoaxes have been exposed as frauds these sinister fakers then tried to impeach you for daring to call out their own corruption. There is nothing like the dirty political establishment, and I will have to tell you this is you know a friend of mine very smart, brilliant guy was with me about two weeks to go. We just got rid of the Russia hoax, and then a week later the Ukraine hoax starts. I had a week of like I can think about everything perfect; it's so beautiful, and he said president. 21:24:02 I said call me Donald, you've called me Donald for 35 years. I will. Thank you, Donald. I have lost all of my friends because they're all scared to talk like you know honestly I'm the president they can't talk to me anymore. It's like they are afraid, they respect the office. It's true. They say, president. I say do me a favor Richard you've called me Donald for 35 years call me Donald please. I want somebody to call me Donald. It's true. It's true. UNKNOWN: Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. Donald. TRUMP: He said to me I just told him call me--he said president--I can't do it he said. So he says president you have been here now for think of it almost 3 years; can you believe we are here three years? We--we, it's we. (APPLAUSE) 21:25:10 And we have to promise them no more than 16 years, okay? No more. No more. 16 more years. I'm only kidding. (APPLAUSE) Now they will go back see, he wants to run for more. But he said--he said president could I ask you a question, it's so important to me. You deal--he's a great businessman, very successful. He said you deal with all of these nations, these great powerful--who is the worst to deal with? Is it China? Is it North Korea? Is it India, is it Russia? Please tell me, Mr. Pres--who is the toughest nation to deal with? I said you're not going to believe this; it's the USA is the toughest nation to deal with. The USA. (APPLAUSE) It's true. Because we are dealing with some very sick and arranged people. (BOOING) 21:26:11 It's true. There's nothing that the dirty political establishment hates more than a president that they cannot intimidate, own, and control. (APPLAUSE) They are trying to stop me because they know that I don't answer to them, I answer to you, it's true. (APPLAUSE) You know I never say this, I don't think I have ever said in a speech, but they'll find out if I did then they will give me Pinocchio's he said it before, but I don't know if I ever said this, but you know I make as president about $450,000. I give it away. No, wait. (APPLAUSE) I don't care. I don't care. 21:26:59 I never hear anything. Can you imagine if I didn't? I give it away to--you can only give it--you can't keep it, you can't actually make a gift. You can give it to your different agencies so I can give it to health, I can give it to transportation, I can give it to military, but I give it away all of the time every--now--and if I ever did, but it's 450. If somebody stays from let's say a Middle East country in one of my hotels, and we charge them $392.53 for staying, and I never heard of the guy, and I don't want to hear about him they say Trump is getting rich off our nation. I lose billions being president and I don't care, it's nice to be rich I guess, but I lose billions. If somebody rents a room someplace and they pay me two months in rent or hotel fees I never heard of the people, I never know who they are they say emoluments. Nobody ever heard of the word emoluments before. Emoluments. 21:28:08 It's the craziest thing I have ever seen. I tell you it's cost me billions of dollars to be president it really has, and at some point I will probably have to prove that, and I look forward to doing it. It's very easy. It's very easy. (APPLAUSE) And there is nothing that makes me happier than making that decision to run and win and straighten out the mess that these people have created. (APPLAUSE) So in a desperate attempt to attack our movement, Nancy and Chuck, two beauties have given control of the Democrat Party entirely over to the radical left, including Minnesota's own representative Ilhan Omar. (BOOING) 21:29:19 You know I know you people. I know you people. I know the people of Minnesota, and I want to tell you and I also at the same time it is both a question and a statement. How the hell did that ever happen? How did it happen? How did it happen? Congresswoman Omar is an American-hating socialist. She minimized the September 11 attack on our homeland-- (BOOING) Where far more than 3000 people died, saying some people did something. Big deal. Some people did something. (BOOING) 21:30:04 She pleaded for compassion for ISIS recruits right here in Minnesota. Omar laughed that Americans speak of Al Qaeda. Remember that tape? Speak of Al Qaeda but what we say, but when we say something about the United States, you just don't say America with any intensity. Remember that? Representative Omar has a history of launching virulent anti-Semitic (INAUDIBLE) whether you like it or not. She said the U.S. support for Israel is all about the Benjamin's. She said that pro-Israel lawmakers have an allegiance to a foreign country. 21:31:04 Omar wrote that Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel and the United States. (BOOING) How do you have such a person representing you in Minnesota? I am very angry at you people right now. She is a disgrace to our country, and she is one of the big reasons that I am going to win, and the Republican Party is going to win Minnesota in 13 months. (APPLAUSE) UNKNOWN: Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. 21:32:16 TRUMP: Thank you very much. So we are honored to have with us today a special guest, a man that really is a terrific talented writer. He knows a great deal about all of those tangled lies of Omar. Mr. Scott Johnson of Power Line. He wrote some stuff I can't believe it. Where Scott? Where is Scott? (APPLAUSE) Thank you, Scott. Thank you, Scott. What a job. Man, do you have her figured out. The only problem is Scott; it is incredible talent, much more talented than most of these people than you heard about. The problem is they never pick it up. 21:33:01 They don't want to pick it up, but we pick it up, Scott, and the people get it, and we thank you for your great reporting. Thank you. Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) And Scott reported everything about Omar is a fraud, including her name. Scott reports his sources told him that quote Omar's legal husband was Omar's brother and that she had married him for fraudulent purposes. You mean like coming into the United States maybe? (BOOING) And as Scott says, we have seen a plethora of congressional scandals in our history yet we have never seen scandals like Omar's in Congress and nothing gets done about it. I hope, I hope that some of you people are looking. 21:34:06 Because what AOC has gotten away with campaign financing and what I call it AOC plus three, that's what it is and Omar is one of the three, what AOC has gotten away with all of that money that she used for her personal self with campaign finance is worse and nothing happens to them but it happens to you, and it's not fair. (APPLAUSE) The fact is we are in a struggle for the survival of democracy in America. The only message these radical socialists and extremists will understand is a crushing defeat on November 3, 2020. (APPLAUSE) 21:34:57 With your help, we will win back the House. We will keep the Senate, and we will win the White House. (APPLAUSE) And we are thrilled to be joined tonight by some incredible people that have helped me so much, one of your tremendous talented, tough Congressman Tom Emmer. Tom? (APPLAUSE) Also a man you don't want to fight him, and you don't want to play him in hockey because he was tough, he just won not that recently but pretty recently when I was out here campaigning for him and working hard, and it turned out to be an easy race because everyone loves him and respects him, Congressman Pete Stauber. (APPLAUSE) And a man who gets in the trenches and he just doesn't care, he wants to win for the people. He loves you, he loves this state, he loves this country, Jim Hagedorn. (APPLAUSE) 21:36:07 And a great friend of mine with his incredible family he's a friend, he's smart, I guess you would say he's brilliant, his education is incredible, his military career has been incredible then he ran for office and now he is a United States senator from the great state of Arkansas, Senator Tom Cotton. (APPLAUSE) Great guy. And Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka. Paul? Thank you, Paul. Minnesota GOP Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan. She has been incredible. (APPLAUSE) 21:37:09 I said Jennifer, are we going to win in 13 months? She said honestly, sir. I've never seen anything like this, it's going to be easy. Don't ever say that, just assume we are like two points behind, okay? Two points behind. You never ever please always just assume you are a little behind, but we are going to win the state by so much that people are going to be shocked. (APPLAUSE) And plenty of other states, too. (APPLAUSE) You know we had a rally three weeks ago in New Mexico, and New Mexico is a hard state for Republicans, hasn't been won in a long time also, and we had receptivity that was unbelievable. The audience was 40 percent Hispanic where we are doing great. (APPLAUSE) And you know Hispanic they understand borders better than anybody, better than we do. They understand safety, they understand their job, they don't want people taking it away, they don't want crime, they understand it better. That is why we are doing so well. 21:38:17 But we are in New Mexico, and I am telling you that was electric, but honestly all evenings are electric. We haven't had any bad ones. We haven't. (APPLAUSE) They are electric. (APPLAUSE) A woman who headed up the great State of Michigan for me, a state that hadn't been won in a long time by a Republican, whatever reason, but it hadn't been won. I guess we didn't have the right candidates, right? (APPLAUSE) But a woman who would call me constantly. I would say I don't want to talk to her, she's giving me a headache. Sir, if you make one more trip, you are going to win Michigan. I said all right, I make the trip, I go back home. I get a call the next morning. Sir, we need one more. This went over and over and over. 21:39:06 And we ended up winning the state of Michigan. (APPLAUSE) And I said, who the hell was that woman that kept bugging me to go back to Michigan and speak just one more time every week, one more time, sir. And her name is Ronna McDaniel, she is fantastic, and she is the head of the RNC. (APPLAUSE) She is great. And our campaign manager, a man who has really been you know they used to say that crooked Hillary had a very, very sophisticated campaign. After she lost I said I guess it wasn't sophisticated. We had a sophisticated campaign. Nobody knows the world of computers better than this guy, Brad Parscale. (APPLAUSE) 21:40:04 Remember when they used to say it? You know I never got credit, my father used to teach me if you can do it for less and win that's good. He wasn't talking politics. The last thing he is looking down, and he is definitely looking down, not looking up. He was great. He was tough, but he was good, but my father, my father would say if you can do it for less and win, that's a good thing, not a bad thing. If you can build a building for less money than the guy across the street and if it's a nicer building and you can rent for less you're really--that's like a good thing. So in the campaign we spent much less money than crooked Hillary Clinton, much and we won, and we won. (APPLAUSE) We won. 306 to 223 that's a pretty big--remember? Remember they said the Electoral College and by the way when you run if you are running the Electoral College is like the 100-yard dash and the total vote you don't go certain places, you focus, Electoral College we have to explain to them it's different. So we won 306. 21:41:13 Do you remember they used to say one is the 100-yard dash you practice, one is the mile, you practice. It's a different race. Winning the total vote is much easier in my opinion. The Electoral College I had to go to 22 different states. For the total vote, I would go to like for states maximum. Right? Much easier. It's much easier. I am all for it, but the Electoral College is better for our country because it forces you to go places that you wouldn't go. I love Maine, I went to Maine four or five times. I needed one point. Maine gave me one point, and what happened, what happened I went there numerous times. Everyone said, why? Because I was told by these fraudsters back here in the media that Trump--Trump cannot get to 270, he cannot get- 21:42:06 They had me maximum if everything worked, right at 269 so I kept going to Maine and you know what? We won that one point in Maine. (APPLAUSE) But I kept going. They say why. I say well, first of all, it is really a beautiful place, but we won the point, but they said he cannot get to 270, I heard this for months and months I had such a headache almost as bad as listening to Mike's damn commercials about those pillows. Maybe I need one of those pillows to cure my headache. Does it cure headaches? I think so. But--but here is the thing, here is the thing. So they said he cannot get to 270. In other words you can't when you don't get to 270 so you can't win, right? He cannot do it, there is no way of doing it, and they were right, I got to 306. (APPLAUSE) 21:43:06 They were right. But I didn't get to 306, you got to 306. We won incredible states. We won incredible states, we won Wisconsin. We won Michigan, we won Pennsylvania, we won North Carolina, we won South Carolina, we won Florida. (APPLAUSE) What a run. Do you remember the evening that we won? I think look I think it was one of all of us together because we all worked hard. I was the messenger, but we all worked hard, that was our victory not my victory, but that was one of the greatest nights in the history of television. One of the greatest nights. (APPLAUSE) And hopefully it will go down when we are allowed to get all of the stuff seated you know it's like a tree you plant it, you plant it, it has to go, but it needs a little--that is why we need the four more additional years it has to grab on and catch so they can't destroy it, so they can't destroy it. (APPLAUSE) 21:44:18 But I think it will go down and I hope it's going to go down as one of the greatest evenings in the history of this country because it's never happened anything like that before and these guys don't even question it. They just sit back and say I guess he's right about that. I will never forget the night before I was at a tremendous arena. The place was going crazy, it was like this going crazy and two reporters that hate my guts. They looked at themselves, they looked at each other, famous shot, they are looking like this, and they are saying what the hell is going on. They knew, they knew, and I didn't need Beyonce and Jay-Z. (APPLAUSE) 21:45:03 And I didn't need little Bruce Springsteen and all of these people. They got all of these people they would come in because you couldn't get a crowd. They would come in they would sing they got Bruce Springsteen okay? He would do about two songs and leave. What happens is they leave, and then everyone leaves with them, and she is still speaking in front of the same lousy crowd. Craziest thing I have ever seen. And then they complain sometimes I will use a terrible word like hell the other day I used the word hell I got hell from they said he used terrible language. I use the word hell it was so bad. But you have got to hear Jay-Z, the words he was using he was using the f-word all over the place, and then the next day they say I use bad language, the word hell is a terrible word. These people are sick. (APPLAUSE) 21:46:03 That was an amazing evening. I will never forget that evening. It's you know look outside of your family and your children and things--I love you too, darling. (APPLAUSE) It was one of the highest-rated evenings in the history of television, you add up all of those networks. Remember the woman crying? Oh my God. No, they weren't biased at all. Now another very special man who is with us today but he will never be a man to me, he will always be my boy. You know what I mean, right? He is my boy. He is my little 6 foot 6 boy. Eric Trump. (APPLAUSE) And the parents understand that, right? 21:47:02 They may be big and strong and older, and to a parent a child is always their boy or always there little beautiful girl, and I know that is probably politically incorrect. They will say it was terrible what he said about women, terrible. But they are our boy, and they are our girl, and it doesn't matter how old we get and how old they get. Is that a correct statement? (APPLAUSE) And I am also proud to endorse your next Republican senator from Minnesota, a man that I have known, a man that is tough and smart, a man that is running against somebody that has never done a damn thing in the Senate Mr. Jason Lewis. (APPLAUSE) 21:48:09 And Jason did a great job in Congress, Congressman Lewis thank you very much and thank you for putting up with all of this stuff because I will tell you it's going to be nasty. It's going to be nasty. They are going to make up stories about you. They are going to say things that's going to make your wife say why did I marry this guy. Just say don't worry about it, it's just another phony story. Thank you very much, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis. Jason, thank you. (APPLAUSE) And Jason they can't say that the about Tom Cotton. He's too perfect, this guy. They can't say. They can't say it about you, Tom. Anyway good luck, Jason. Do well. (APPLAUSE) 21:48:58 And I don't know why but with all of the great people I just introduced for tonight maybe this is the most important person because I turned on a very good show in the morning Fox and Friends, they treat us great. I just want fair. (APPLAUSE) What a great group. Ainsley and Steve, and by the way Brian has gotten a lot better. Right? (LAUGHTER) Brian was a seven, and he is getting close to 10 territory, and Steve has been so great, and Ainsley is just incredible, and sometimes Pete Hegseth gets on there for the (INAUDIBLE) and how good does Jesse Waters do? How good? (APPLAUSE) Just some really great people and again Tucker has been very good. I have to say he has been good. Smart. He's been great. Tucker and the legendary Sean Hannity. (APPLAUSE) Great. Great. Number one. Number one show. 21:50:06 Sean has got the number one show, and Laura Ingraham who is knocking them out of the park it's true. True. And you go over Maria (INAUDIBLE). (APPLAUSE) And the great Lou Dobbs. How good are they? Lou Dobbs. Lou Dobbs. (APPLAUSE) And many more. Many more. How about Greg? Greg used to hate me. Now he's good. We can't forget--we can't forget Judge Janine. (APPLAUSE) I would be in such trouble if I forgot Judge Janine, and there are many more I just you know look I am just rattling some names of, but they are just terrific people. They are terrific people but a man that I have to really say something very special about so I am watching Fox and friends early in the morning very early in the six like slot because I am out of there pretty good and 21:51:13 I see a handsome young man named Bob Kroll, Cops for Trump. (APPLAUSE) And he's talking about this lousy your they've got now he didn't quite say that, but I said it. He is talking about this lousy mayor that won't let the cops, the police, the law enforcement you know my father always used to say, son he meant it too, never say cops, it's disrespectful say police officer. I said okay, but honestly the truth is with time I love you guys whether you are cops, police officers, law enforcement. I will call you whenever you want. It doesn't matter. You are so great, so respected you don't even know how much our public loves you, you don't know it. You don't know it. (APPLAUSE) You don't know. But I see this guy, and I don't know if he's done a lot of television before, but he was very effective and very good, and he was saying how the police aren't being allowed to take care of this rally and yet with President Obama and Bush and all of these people they were you know fine, fine. Everybody comes they fall asleep at a rally, but they weren't--they weren't allowed to do the job for us, and they went wild. 21:52:40 So what I want to do-- (BOOING) Go home to mommy. (APPLAUSE) Mommy says I saw you on television tonight. I love Trump, don't you ever do that again. Yes, mom. (APPLAUSE) But the job he did before the election I came right here to Minnesota and I pledge to address this really important issue, and it's the issue of law enforcement, and when I saw this man, this great gentleman on television pouring out his guts, pouring out his heart I don't know him. He knows I have been good to law enforcement. He knows I have been good to as my father would say the police. He knows I love the cops. He knows that, and so does everyone else I mean so many shirts, so many red shirts, and there are plenty of people here without the red shirts, and I want to just tell you the respect that we have for law enforcement is unbound. It is unbound. 21:54:05 Come up here. Bob, come up. (APPLAUSE) UNKNOWN: What can I say after that? Tune in Fox 10:15 tonight Shannon(SP) (INAUDIBLE) they asked us on. (APPLAUSE) How can you thank this guy for everything he's done for law enforcement? Wonderful president. (APPLAUSE) 21:55:41 TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. Great people. Thank you. What a group. I think your very weak mayor made a mistake when he took them on. (APPLAUSE) As you know, for many years, leaders in Washington brought large numbers of refugees to your state from Somalia-- (BOOING) --without considering the impact on schools and communities and taxpayers. I promise you that as president I would give local communities a greater say in refugee policy and put in place enhanced vetting and responsible immigration controls. (APPLAUSE) And I have done that. Since coming into office, I have reduced refugee resettlement by 85 percent. (APPLAUSE) And as you know, maybe especially in Minnesota I kept another promise. I issued an executive action making clear that no refugees will be resettled in any city or in the state without the express written consent of that city or that state. So speak to your mayor. (APPLAUSE) 21:57:28 You should be able to decide what is best for your own cities and for your own neighborhoods, and that is what you have the right to do right now and believe me no other president would be doing that. (APPLAUSE) If Democrats were ever to seize power, they would open the floodgates to unvetted, uncontrolled migration at levels you have never seen before. You think you have it bad now you would never have seen anything like what they want to do, but in the Trump administration we will always protect American families first, and that has not been done in Minnesota. (APPLAUSE) We have also implemented the strongest screening and vetting mechanisms ever put into place. We are keeping terrorists, criminals and extremist the hell out of our country. (APPLAUSE) 21:58:35 And I want to thank the country of Mexico, the president of Mexico has been incredible. We have now 27,000 Mexican soldiers. They are great, and they are tough, and they are now protecting our borders, and those numbers have gone down (INAUDIBLE). (APPLAUSE) Thank you, Mr. President. We will not make the mistakes made in European countries that allow a violent ideology to take root in our country on our shores. We are not going to allow it to happen. (APPLAUSE) And as you all know to protect our citizens from those who would do harm to us. 21:59:31 I instituted a very controversial, very hard to get travel ban on some of the world's most dangerous countries. (APPLAUSE) And the other day one of the fake news reporters in the back said they were talking about the travel ban and they said well you know the president has lost in court. They said where? On their travel ban and he is right, I lost, and then I lost at the Appellate Division, and then I won at the United States Supreme Court. (APPLAUSE) Right? And he knew that, but he said I lost and he was right I lost, and then I lost again, but then I want, and we have the travel ban. 22:00:33 But instead of saying he lost and then he lost at appellate, and he won at the United States Supreme Court he said he lost in the travel ban. These are very dishonest people. Do you understand that? Very dishonest. (BOOING) In the Republican Party, we believe that those who seek to join our society must embrace our values, honor our history and love our people. (APPLAUSE) Democrats also support deadly sanctuary cities which release dangerous criminal aliens into the heart of your communities, and we are not letting it happen anymore. (APPLAUSE) Republicans believe American cities should be sanctuaries for Americans, not for criminal aliens. (APPLAUSE) My administration is taking historic action to secure the borders. We have reduced the legal border crossings by over 60 percent since May, and we are building the wall faster than anyone ever anticipated it could be built. (APPLAUSE) 22:02:01 This is a serious wall, you have all seen it. It is going up rapidly, and you think that was easy? I had every Democrat in Congress fighting me, fighting me, fighting me. I had a lot of the rhinos(SP) fighting me. They said see, he's not getting it built? He's not getting-- Let me tell you have every Democrat fighting you. We took it from here, and we took it from there, and we took it from all over the place, and we got that thing that is the biggest patchwork of financing you have ever seen, and that sucker is going up, and it is the finest, it is the strongest. It is largely 30 feet tall which is the maximum height that they wanted. (APPLAUSE) UNKNOWN: Build that wall. Build that wall. TRUMP: I went to the Border Patrol, and I sat down with 15 representatives of the Border Patrol, and I said what do you want, what is your ideal? I actually said I want to give you the Rolls-Royce, and they killed me for that. That I said it's not an American made product that they happened to be right. 22:03:05 No, they are right about that one, they are actually right there, Tom. But I said I want to give you the Rolls-Royce of walls. Tell me, and they told me everything, and then we built some alternative walls. We build all different types. We built about seven of them, and then we had climbers come in. The one that worked the best was the one we are building. It also, unfortunately, the bad news it is also the most expensive, but we got it for the right price. (APPLAUSE) We got it for the right price. It is steel, it is hardened concrete, it is deep, it is high. It is a thing of beauty. (APPLAUSE) And it's going to keep bad people out of our country, that is what it's going to do. 22:03:58 And the Democrats know this. Most of the Democrats four years ago they wanted a wall now all of the sudden they don't want a wall. Do you know why they don't want a wall because I want it? That is the only reason. And I just thought of it you know like a year ago I said man this could have been so much easier. All I had to do was say we don't want a wall, and they would have given me all of the financing I wanted for the wall. What was I thinking? We are not going to build a wall, and they would have forced me to build it. Under this administration, we are also ending the endless wars we have to do it, folks. We have to do it. (APPLAUSE) We have totally defeated the ISIS caliphate, and I did that in rather quick time if you remember because we have the greatest fighting machine now when I came in, it was totally depleted; we have great generals, we have great warfighters and they did it so fast. I flew to Iraq. I met with the general's, right? I met with the generals. 22:05:08 I said I hear it's going to take a year to two years. Sir, we could do it in two weeks. I said what? They don't let us fight, sir, they don't let us fight. We want to fight; they don't let us fight. I said I'd let you fight. (LAUGHTER) I said how come if they say it's going to take anywhere from a year to two years you say you can do it so quickly? He said sir we are going to hit them from the front; we are going to hit them from the back. We are going to get them from the sides, from underground, from over ground we are going to hit the hell out of them and we they did, and we won very quickly. (APPLAUSE) But from now on, we want to fight where it is to the benefit of the United States of America, not to the benefit of other countries, and we will only fight to win. We are only going to fight to win. 22:06:02 We don't fight to win. We don't fight to win. The Turks have been fighting with the Kurds for two centuries, and Turkey, as you know, is a NATO ally, but I have been rough on them. We have defeated 100 percent of that ISIS caliphate and no longer have any troops in the area. We don't have any troops. The troops have been pulled out where Turkey is carrying out now a very tough campaign against the Kurds. Get them out. (BOOING) So Turkey is right now waging a very tough campaign against the Kurds. We get along with the Kurds, and we help the Kurds, and don't forget they are also fighting for their land; you know that. 22:07:02 But they are fighting. So we have three choices. You ready? Here are the three choices we don't have any soldiers there because we left, we won, we left. Take a victory United States. We left. Take a victory. Take a victory. (APPLAUSE) Bring our troops back home. I told this story yesterday. I have to sign letters. 22:08:12 It is the hardest thing I have to do to sign letters dear Mr. and Mrs. Smith from Arkansas, dear Mr. and Mrs. Jones from Alabama. Dear Mr. and Mrs., somebody from some great state. I am sorry to inform you your son has been killed in combat. I'm so sorry, and every letter is individually done because sometimes the parents they are grieving, and they get together with other parents, and they get, and I don't want to see that it is like the same letter. So we do different letters. It is the hardest thing I have to do. Hardest thing. (APPLAUSE) It is the hardest thing I have, and I was telling Tom Cotton it is the hardest thing that I have to do, and I sign those letters, and it just breaks your heart and then, by the way, there is a time to fight. Nobody fights harder than I do, but there's a time, and there's not necessarily a time. But I sin these letters out quite a few, and sometimes I send letters out it's called Blue on Green where we are teaching people how to fight, and then they turn the gun on our soldiers and shoot them in the back and that is the hardest thing for a parent. I have all of them. I know everyone. That is the hardest thing for a parent when they get notification because they learn how their child has died. When the so-called people that we are teaching how to fight turned the gun on them and shoot we have had a lot of that, a lot of it in Afghanistan, more than we have ever had proportionately before it is a horrible, horrible thing but I have to sign these letters, and sometimes I go out to a place, Dover Air Force Base it's a very tough experience. Mike Pence goes, I go, other people go, Tom Cotton goes. We go out there, and we meet the parents and the families, the wives, the children, the sisters, the brothers we meet them, and we talk to them, and their son or daughter is being flown in from some faraway place in a coffin, and these things are just impossible. I don't know how parents can do it even, and I will meet them, and we have a particular colonel that is all he does so good, so professional, and that is what he does. He said I greet the dead, sir. 22:09:51 I greet the dead, and what happens is this big incredible machine flies in, this tremendous cargo plane, and it flies in so powerful, so big and I will be talking to some of the parents, and they will act like they are fine. I say how are you doing? We are fine, sir. We are fine. We are really good. I say that's great and I will tell the colonel I will say colonel I think they are doing great. No, sir, they are not going to do great you will see and I didn't know what he was talking about this is the first time and then we went outside to the runway and this incredible machine is flying in, and it lands, and it comes over and it pulls up and we have military guards, we have incredibly talented musicians that do this, that is what they do and what happens is that door opens up, and the colonel told me he said sir, when that door opens up those same people that you think are okay do things that you will never see. You will hear sounds like you have never heard. That is what he does. 22:10:59 And I saw that door open the with a coffin with a flag over it. The door was open, and these beautiful soldiers, 5 or 6 on each side lifting the coffin and walking down the runway, the plank they call it off of this cargo plane, and I see parents make sounds that were just 20 minutes ago absolutely fine, make sounds scream and cry like you have never seen before. The colonel was telling me that sir you will see things that you have never seen before, a mother who was fine 20 minutes ago you think breaking the military line and jumping off and then jumping onto a coffin of her son or her daughter, jumping on top of the flowers on top of the American flag. I have seen this, and then I have all of these people that want to stay. They want to stay, and I don't want to stay. 22:11:59 We were supposed to be in Syria for 30 days. We have now been there for 10 years. We were supposed to be in Afghanistan for a short period of time. We are now going to be there for close to 19 years. It is time to bring them home. It's time to bring them home. (APPLAUSE) It's true. Time to bring them home. (APPLAUSE) We have done our job. We have defeated everyone that we are supposed to defeat and now we are, we are policing, we are now policing that is what we are doing, we are policing and that as I said no more respect for the police but these are military people, and those are police, but we are now policing we are not fighting, we are policing, and you know what? After all of these years and one other story and I have to tell you I go to Walter Reed on Friday, and I do it quite often. I gave out five purple hearts, and I meet people that are so beautiful, so amazing. 22:13:18 I met five warriors, and one was so badly hurt with the loss of arms and a leg, another one they are just very, very devastated, but these are great, great people and I gave out the Purple Heart, and I see the parents and I have to say Walter Reed I want to just say the doctors there, the job they do you know you hear so many complaints about doctors and about the vets and the vets care, and nobody has done better we've got Choice for the vets, we have done things for the vets that nobody thought would be possible. (APPLAUSE) 22:14:01 But I saw these young men, and I gave them their purple hearts, and their parents were there crying, and one of them was so amazing I said what your problem? Sir, my face was blown apart. My nose was absolutely just blown apart. He said sir, it's incredible and I looked at him I said that's the most beautiful nose I have ever seen, what do you mean? He said a doctor worked on my face for 10 hours in the field. He said there were 1000 fragments. Now I don't know if that is right well, a lot, he meant a lot he said there were 1000 fragments he rebuilt my nose with glue. He glued the bones together, he rebuilt my nose. I said you have the most beautiful nose I have ever seen, and it's true, and his father came over to me; he said sir--father was crying, he said sir honestly my son looks better now. (LAUGHTER) 22:15:00 He said my son did not have a good-looking nose now look at it, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. But these doctors at Walter Reed and these Army and Marine and medical doctors they are unbelievably great people, and they see sights that you and I hopefully will never see. They see things that nobody will ever see, and there is nobody like them, and I have to give a shout out to those people. There is nobody like them. (APPLAUSE) So in the case of Turkey and Syria and the Kurds we could send in 1000 troops for a military conflict with Turkey. UNKNOWN: (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: No, you don't want to do that. We could hit Turkey very hard financially, or we could mediate a deal between Turkey and the Kurds, I like that. You know let's mediate a deal. (APPLAUSE) 22:16:00 But remember they have been fighting each other for hundreds of years and we were artificially put there or in this case by President Obama. So we did our job we knocked out and I will tell you another thing. We have to be treated fairly. We have to be treated fairly. We are not treated fairly by other nations. We captured many, many ISIS fighters. Most of them came from Europe, they came from Germany, they came from France, they came from all of these countries, and we called them--I would call them myself in many cases. I said take your fighters. They said we don't want them you take them. I said no, no, no. We did you a big favor. They are citizens of Germany, they are citizens of France, they are citizens of these various countries in Europe. Take your fighters. We don't want them, sir. We don't want them. And I said how unfair are we treated? We do them a great favor, and they won't take their fighters. So we are doing some things that are pretty amazing and every once in a while you have to change course and do what you have to do. The United States has spent $8 trillion in the Middle East. We have lost thousands of brave soldiers and tens of thousands of terribly wounded people. Great people. Their lives will never be the same. 22:17:20 These wars produced only chaos and bloodshed, and all of the blood and treasure we sacrificed made the Middle East less--it's really less safe, it's less stable and is less secure, and I say it all of the time. The single greatest mistake our country made in its history was going into the quicksand of the Middle East. We spent $8 trillion in lost thousands of lives them by the way the other side we can talk about that, lost millions of lives. What did we do? So we are going to pull them out, and we are pulling people out and we are trying to make good deals, and we are going to bring our soldiers back home, and we may need them for something else, and they will be ready. Previous administrations lust for regime change and also put historic Christian communities in vastly more danger than they were before we started. 22:18:27 They are some of the biggest victims of these power vacuums and reckless foreign adventures the Christians, the Christians and we work hard with the Christians. We have tremendous evangelical support. We work hard (INAUDIBLE). (APPLAUSE) So we are slowly getting out of the Middle East, doing it carefully, and we are rebuilding our military like we have never rebuilt our military before. (APPLAUSE) When I came into office, a very prominent general told me because it looked like we could have a big conflict with someone. Said sir, we have no ammunition. We had old planes, we had planes that were so old they didn't fly. We had people going to the desert the plane graveyards, airplane graveyards picking up parts. I would never want to hear a president of the United States hear those words again. I never want to have a president hear the word, sir, we have no ammunition. Think of it. Think of that. Now thanks to more than $2.5 trillion worth of investment in our military, we have more ammunition, more missiles, more rockets, more tanks, more fighter jets, and more of everything else than we have ever had before. (APPLAUSE) 22:19:59 And we have no choice. You look around the world the way have no choice, unfortunately and the Democrats want to dismantle our military. After years of building up other countries we are finally building up our country. That is what we have to do. (APPLAUSE) We are replacing the disaster known as NAFTA with the brand-new U.S.-Mexico Canada Agreement USMCA, a giant victory for our farmers, ranchers, workers in Minnesota. Congress should pass USMCA immediately; we hope that Nancy Pelosi can start thinking about passing some legislation instead of thinking about nonsense. (APPLAUSE) And to protect our industrial backbone, I placed tariffs on foreign aluminum and foreign steel, and I am also fighting back against years of chronic trade abuse from China, and the supply chain of China, which was unbreakable is now breaking wide open. (APPLAUSE) And they understand that. And I don't blame China for what has taken place over the past last 25 years. I blame the people that led our country that let that happen, where hundreds of billion dollars a year was taken from our country to build China. (APPLAUSE) 22:21:36 It is not China's fault. In the previous administration they have put our nation's natural resources under lock and key, including thousands and thousands of acres at a place called Superior National Forest. Last year our travel to Duluth and announced that we would be ending this injustice, reopening Superior National Forest and restoring mineral exploration for the iron ore mines of Minnesota. Tremendous jobs. (APPLAUSE) And now the iron range is back in business. And the last time I was here, a man came up to me said sir, President Obama took our heart away, took our life away I'll never forget it a man strong guy had tears in his eyes he said you gave us back our life because they took it away from him. We gave it back. (APPLAUSE) Best iron ore there is anywhere. My administration is also fighting the Democrats' socialist healthcare agenda that would obliterate Medicare, Republicans will protect Medicare, and we will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions. (APPLAUSE) 22:23:07 And for those of you that have private healthcare, health insurance 180 million people they are going to end it, obliterate it, and most people are thrilled with it. We are going to leave it. You're going to have your plan the way you want it, and there is no plan like (INAUDIBLE). (APPLAUSE) Virtually every top Democrat also now supports late-term abortion ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up to the moment of birth. (BOOING) And that is why I have asked Congress to prohibit extreme late-term abortion because Republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from God. (APPLAUSE) 22:24:03 Democrats are now the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late-term abortion, socialism, and blatant Washington corruption. The Republican party is the party of the American worker, the American family and it is the party of the American dream. (APPLAUSE) For years you watched as your politicians apologized for America. You remember that? Gee, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Now you have a president who is standing up for America. We are standing up for Minneapolis, and we are standing up for the great State of Minnesota. (APPLAUSE) 22:25:02 We begin this political campaign with the best record, the best results, the best agenda, and the only positive vision for America. We begin this campaign with right now almost 3 years of perhaps the most successful administration in the history of our country. (APPLAUSE) Together we will help millions more citizens from welfare to work, from dependence to independence and from poverty to prosperity. (APPLAUSE) With your help, we will re-elect, and we will elect a Republican Congress to create a safe modern fair and lawful system of integration. (APPLAUSE) 22:26:01 We will enact trade deals that ensure more products are proudly stamped with that beautiful phrase made in the USA. (APPLAUSE) We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine finding new cures for childhood cancer and ending the AIDS epidemic in the America within 10 years. Nobody thought that could be done. It is going to be done. We will defend privacy, free speech, free assembly, religious liberty and the right to keep and bear arms. (APPLAUSE) And above all, we will never stop fighting for the values that bind us together as one America. 22:27:01 We support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. (APPLAUSE) We stand with the incredible heroes of law enforcement. (APPLAUSE) We believe in the dignity of work and the sanctity of life. (APPLAUSE) We believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and always respect our great American flag. (APPLAUSE) And we live by the words of our great national motto, in God we trust. (APPLAUSE) 22:27:58 We stand on the shoulders of the American patriots who built this country into the greatest nation ever to exist in history. (APPLAUSE) Our ancestors crossed the oceans, settled the continent, tamed the wilderness, revolutionized industry, pioneered science, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and put a man on the face of the moon. (APPLAUSE) Proud citizens like the people of Minnesota helped build this country, and together we are taking back our country. (APPLAUSE) We are returning power to you, the American people. With your help, your devotion, your drive we are going to keep on working. We are going to keep on fighting, and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning, winning. (APPLAUSE) 22:29:11 We are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God. (APPLAUSE) America is thriving like never before and ladies and gentlemen of Minnesota I will tell you this with great certainty, the best is yet to come. (APPLAUSE) UNKNOWN: Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. TRUMP: Thank you very much. And just in concluding together we will make America wealthy again. 22:30:13 We will make America strong again. We will make America safe again, and we will make America great again. Thank you, Minnesota. Thank you.