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every american heart it's time to say, that i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free. and i won't forget the men who died that gave their lifes to me i stand up next to you and defend her. there ain' no doubt i love this land god bless the usa and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that life to me and i gladly stand up next to

you and defend her til today cause there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa ♪ ♪ fmr. pres. trump: thank you. thank you. >> [crowd chanting] u-s-a! fmr. pres. trump: thank you very much. this is what our country is all about. we will bring it back from hell. a big hello to iowa. you have been tremendous. we've had all victories in iowa,

primary victories, election victories. i want to tell you i am really honored. this is great turnout. they said that you broke the all-time record in this building, so that is pretty good . i am proud to be back with thousands of hard-working americans. it's an incredible people. you built this country. let me begin by wishing everyone a very happy thanksgiving. we are just 58 days away from iowa alaska buffers to the nation caucuses. who kept you -- from iowa's first in the nation caucuses. who kept you first?

in january, we are going to win the iowa caucuses, we are going to crush joe biden and make america great again. i want to thank our great politicians and celebrities and others. one of them is the first person to endorse me in the whole country, your senator. come here, senator. he was the first one in the whole country before i announced. he said this guy in new york should run, and i tend to remember those people. i happen to be loyal unlike some people.

thank you very much. kim, thank you very much. where's kim? thank you. jeff taylor and lynn evans. thank you. thank you very much. state representatives. remember the name bobby kaufman because he has a great future, maybe a better future than his father. mike sexton great job, thank you . joanna stoltenberg who is

terrific. national committee woman cap -- tamra scott. thank you very much. and webster county sheriff, luke -- where is luke? there's no crime with luke. i want to thank everybody, it is an incredible group of people and the people who i introduced gave their endorsements early and gave them a strong. we are supposedly like 50 points up. we won't go like in the nfl and do prevent defense. we will be back maybe six times and we will be back before the election which is taking place

very soon. you are first in the nation and we will keep you that way. today the radical left democrats and their allies in the fake news media back there with cameras -- they are having a meltdown because last night our campaign won a gigantic court victory in colorado. we had a very radical left judge who was saying a lot of things that were not nice, and in the end she saw the light and did what was supposed to have been done, we won and defeated -- they had an outrageous attempt -- the same people who have been suing me for like seven years.

ever hear of crew? a bunch of losers. they have been losing for seven years but they don't stop. it was an outrageous attempt at disenfranchising millions of voters by getting us thrown off the ballot. in the end the judge said we cannot do that. if they did that it would've been very difficult for our country. so now we have beaten the radical left democrats, the ballot rigging scam in colorado, michigan, minnesota and of hampshire and other states. they talk about the 14th amendment -- they came up with this concept, maybe we can keep him off, what are we going to do with him. they are very tired of us, we

won the first one and we won the second one even bigger, and we got screwed, that is what happened. we had a rigged election, our opponents are showing every day that they hate democracy and are trying every illegal move that they can because they know that in a free and fair fight against president trump and crooked joe biden that biden does not have a shot. he will go into his basement again, he will be hiding. even if you just go to some of the more modern things like the 51 agent saying it was russian disinformation, the laptop from haller the fbi twitter files are so much else, we don't even have to go into the ballot stuffing that is on tape -- you look at the 2000 mules and you see

hundreds of thousands of votes being stuffed into ballot boxes, they don't want to hear about that. we can never let history go. anybody that does not study history and take it to heart is a fool. we cannot let that happen again. under crooked joe biden, we have uncontrolled inflation of our southern border. the war that just started in the middle east, and look at what is going on with the attack on israel. this world is a mess. thank you. i think he said a good thing. one of the strongest leaders from hungary. they asked him what would you tell president biden with so many things going on with wars

all over the world and in his country you have inflation in the worst border anywhere in the world. in just three years ago we had the bert -- the best we have ever had a know we have the worst. they asked him and he is a very strong and powerful man in one of the most respected in the world. they said what would you tell president biden to do? he said i would tell him to get out of office and let trump run it because we had no wars and no problems. he totally defeated isis. china was not a problem, they respected him, russia respected him, kim jong-un from north korea respected him and the world is now a mess like we have never seen before.

i don't think we have seen anything like it. how about when you talk about the most embarrassing period of time in the history of our country -- the way that we surrendered -- we have never had a time like that giving away $85 billion worth of equipment, we don't even know how many are still there, taking out the soldiers first, you take the soldiers last, 13 dead and 38 injured and hundreds killed. that was the worst most embarrassing in the history of our country. were not going to let that happen again with our country. every sane person without with a call trump to range syndrome --

derangement syndrome. it is a great honor, i had a disease named after me. those who want to get it back to how great we had it under the trump administration, the strongest economy in the history of our country, the most secure border we have ever had by far, we had peace all over the world, peace through strength. we had iran as a country that wasn't going to go anywhere or do anything. i told the story two weeks ago for the first time -- >> we love you! fmr. pres. trump: thank you. [applause] thank you. doesn't sound like my kind of a lover but that's okay. he's all man, that guy. you gotta see this guy. anyway.

thank you very much. something happened that was very interesting, one of our drones we shot down it they countered with that and i said if you counter you will be in deep trouble and they called us and said, listen, we are going to aim at a military base but we are not going to hit it, and these are very accurate missiles. of the 18 missiles, six of them self-destructed and the rest landed outside the military base and areas where there were no people, but when they called us to tell us, don't be angry, we have to do it, we hit them and they have to do something, we will hit but we will not hurt

anybody, please understand that and i said that is a sign of respect. we had 59 attacks over the last three or four weeks, they are trying badly to hurt people but with me they said we are not going to hurt anybody or do anything that is bad, don't get angry at us. that is the way that it should be. this week crooked joe biden was in san francisco for a summit with china looking like he had absolutely no idea where he was, what was happening, what he was supposed to do, he pocked up with a man who looks like a piece of granite, president she of china, and he is standing there, he is a fierce person. the press doesn't like it when i

say good things about them but he rules one point 4 billion people with an iron hand and they say no he said good things about he happens to be a smart person, if i say a certain leader is smart, the press gets upset that i say smart -- these are very smart people, but they are dealing with very stupid people, our leader is a stupid person. our leader can't get off this stage. did you see these stairs? when he's finished with his speech by the time whatever he is taking wears off, -- thank you. how do i leave? [cheers and applause]

that's what happens. this is the guy we have keeping us out of nuclear war. i have been indicted more times and alphonse capone. the most vicious of all gangsters, if you took you to dinner and you didn't look popular he might think you're laughing at him and he would kill you immediately, he was indicted one time and i was indicted four times. once i was indicted the fourth time i said the gloves are off because out of respect for the office of the presidency -- i never hit him this hard, but now i say it, he is the most incompetent president we have ever had, the worst president we have ever had, he is a total crook, i would never say those things out of respect for the office but now you can say it, i crooked president who gets money

from china, that is why everyone says he is so weak with china, he got a lot of money from china. china knows the real numbers, and it is a lot, and we have a president who is very corrupt and who is controlled by a lot of foreign countries, and this is not a man who should be running our country, not a man who ever should have ascended to power. now i can talk, -- we have 75 million votes -- we got more votes than any sitting president in history by far. if we got millions less -- we had 63 million the first time,

many millions more and they said if you get the same 63 there is no way to lose and we got many millions more than that, so we had a situation -- we can never let that happen again. but now it allows me to speak properly. he is incompetent, the worst president we have ever had and the happiest person anywhere in this country right now is jimmy carter because his administration looked brilliant compared to these clowns. jimmy carter, compared to biden, was a brilliant president. i was never a big fan. he was a brilliant president compared -- there has never been a president like this. this guy is the worst. every voter needs to ask themselves who do you want sitting across the table from president she or -- president xi

or president putin. they said that trump was weak on russia -- i stopped this pipeline and biden approved it. it is called nord stream 2. nobody heard of it before i came along. i said they are building a pipeline to germany that will take care of all of europe and we will take care of europe -- i got it back and i got everybody to pay, because people were not paying, something the press doesn't like reporting on. but i ended the pipeline. the biggest thing that they ever did -- i stopped it and biden came in and within the first week he approved it and it got built and i think it is a shame, because they are all about

misinformation, and they will say trump was weak on russia and the people that know what is going on -- and the sanctions and everything -- by the way, russia would never having invaded ukraine in one million years. and he knew that, prudent new that. since cricket joe took office it's been one disaster -- since crooked joe took office it's been one disaster after another. at least they have not had the courage to take off my tariffs. hundreds of billions of dollars because of tariffs i have put on china and you read china is not doing so well. and you know why? thank you very much. although, although, i did get iowa and farmers. i got the farmers and, actually, some manufacturers came out of it too.

$28 billion, right? 28 billion. i made a great deal with china. i don't talk about it after cova because i think it is horrible -- after covid because i think it's horrible what happened. i said it a long time ago. i believe it was incompetence. a lot of people said it was not. but i don't believe that happened. i believe it was incompetence. he gave it to the girlfriend. the girlfriend died, he died, everybody died. i believe it was gross incompetence, which is terrible. when you look at what happened and all the problems this world

has suffered and i said, "i want money from them, and we took in hundred billions of dollars over the years and gave $20 billion to the farmers. my people said, please, sir, don't talk about that so much. it mx. you sound arrogant. i said i got $28 billion for the farmers of iowa. [applause] i told them a year before i got that money and we made the best trade deal anyone has ever seen, which was with china when they bought $50 billion, and they are supposed to be doing it. the problem is nobody is policing them. these guys don't know they are alive but you are supposed to police them. i said are member the one thing? go out, relax for a little while, but soon, go out, buy more land and bigger tractors, right? i said, by bigger tractors. which kind of tractors do you like? john deere, kase?

they are beautiful. as long as they are made in this country, we like them. biden shut down the investigation into the wuhan lab. he canceled my program so shut -- program to root out chinese espys. we have strong tariffs. at the beginning, when i put the tariffs on, great negotiators, they said we don't really care. i said, let's raise them. we raised them to 20% to 30% to 40% to 50%. then one day they came in, look, you have to stop. you are killing us. i said, oh, did have an impact camino? they are great negotiators. they pretended they did not care and that really just led me to keep doing it. biden let china open up military bases in cuba, 50 miles from our shores. it's so bad.

anything bad they don't talk about. they don't talk about the afghanistan withdrawal either and i was going to withdraw too but with dignity and strength in the soldiers were going to go out last and we were going to keep bagram, just about the biggest airbase in the world. eight feet deep in concrete. we can hold anything and we gave it up and i did not want that for afghanistan. i wanted it because that's one hour away from where china makes their nuclear missiles and we gave it up. why did we give it up? p? this thing because billions of dollars years ago. now you know who occupies that? china occupies it. how stupid are these people? it's so sad but we will get about, maybe, you know? maybe we'll get it back as part of a trade deal. give us back that damn airport. and, you know, we did not have

one soldier killed in 18 months. i spoke to the head of the -- [applause] i spoke to abdul, the head of the taliban, and the press went crazy. you spoke to him! i said, yeah, i have to speak to him. i cannot speak to barron trump. i cannot speak to this beautiful young lady in the first row with the glasses. how are you? she looks like she's a good fan. she's got all that trim stuff on her. they said to me, why are you speaking to him? i said, well, why don't we ask jesse james? great bank robber. they say, why do you always rob banks? he says, because that's where the money is, right? i say the same thing. why would you speak to the taliban? because that's where the killing was. i said, abdul, if you do this, you will be hit harder than anybody has ever been hit by our country.

he said, may i ask you a question, your excellency? he called me your excellency. i wonder if he calls biden your excellency. i don't think so. he said but why oh why did you said me a picture of my house? i said you will have to think about that, abdul. you will have to think about it. [applause] and we did not have one soldier even shone at for 18 months after that, not one soldier -- even shot at for 18 months after that, not one soldier, until the election catastrophe, which led to the stupidest pullout. are there any five or six-year-old children here? the young lady, she's very young, if i asked her would you pull your soldiers out first or last, she would say, sir, last. the only ones who would pull them out first are the biden people. if you think about it, not one

good thing has happened in three years. inflation is killing us, everything. there hasn't been one good thing to happen. he wants to go all electric cars. let's go all electric. they don't go far and they cost too much. it's very simple. they don't go far. you know, i think it's great if you want to go for a ride for about 15 minutes before you have to -- that thing comes off right away, immediately. that mandate -- we will call it a mandate -- comes off right away. but it's very simple. crooked joe is weak on china because crooked joe is owned by china. he's owned by china. does anybody know that? he's a corrupt politician and he's totally compromised. now i can say that because he went after me. i would never have said that because of the office of the president. even if i believed it i would not have said it because it's a rough thing to say but he's a corrupt politician and he's

owned by a lot of these countries. afghanistan also. his son got 33,000 dollars a month and he knew nothing about energy or oil. he got $83,000 a month they say. think of that. $83,000 a month in an i'm -- an upfront payment to be on their board and advise them on energy. what do you know on energy? nothing. what do you know about energy? nothing. the biden crime family took millions of dollars from a company controlled by the chinese communist party. joe biden personally receiving large deposits of cash and now we have a manchurian candidate in the oval office. he's a manchurian candidate. you know the manchurian candidate? go check it out. go watch the movie. it was pretty good. not as bad as the real thing. the real thing is even worse. less than one year from now, we will take back the white house from this crooked person.

[applause] because joe biden has been -- because joe biden will be out on november 25th 2024. and if he doesn't, we don't have a country anymore. this week, we also learned joe is planning yet another biden betrayal. it was reported the biden administration has been plotting to resurrect one of the all-time worst sellouts and deals made by our country. i canceled it if you remember. killing american workers, the disastrous transpacific partnership. render that? the tpp was a globalist hit job on family farmers, american manufacturers and in particular on automakers. you will not make any more cars here. i hope the union heads know that because i think we will get most of the autoworkers because when they go to all electric cars, which is preposterous, you

cannot make them here because we don't have the minerals, the materials for. we have a thing called gasoline. that is what we have and we should be using what we have, not what china has, so they won't be making cars. [applause] we are not going to be making cars. those autoworkers can get whatever deal they make is no good because he will not have any car making in two years if they win. if they win the election, you won't be making any cars here. people don't know we lost over 50% of our car manufacturing business over the last 30 years with stupid politicians. it went to mexico, it went to canada and china and other places in japan. it went to a lot of places. the one place it did not go as here. 52%. hillary clinton, ron desink the money us, they all -- ron de distinct amount -- people

were happy. you know who was happy? people who knew what was happening. it would have killed our manufacturing businesses. now crooked joe is back with tpp two. it's worst than the first one, threatening to pulverize farmers and manufacturers with another monstrosity designed to triple charge outsourcing to asia. asia is doing well. under the next administration and our next administration biden's plan for tpp two will be dead on day one. it will be dead before i get to the top of the stairs. [applause] we have semi-different things. i will give you an example. you know how beautiful the inauguration is? you are walking up these beautiful stairs. everything so beautiful. as i'm walking out, i will be signing about four or five different documents. i won't wait to get to the

office. i may even have -- i may even have a tiny little desk put on the 20th stair. because i like to sign with a desk. your signature looks better than holding it up. but i may have a little tiny desk put up there so i can sign on the border. i can sign. we will complete everything. you know, we built over 500 miles of wall, but we are going to secure our border. if we didn't have that wall, forget it. and, by the way, mexico paid for a lot of it. 25,000 soldiers they paid. a little problem. they paid much more because they paid for 28,000 soldiers on the border that did a whole beautiful job, you know, with the bullets going both ways. poncho villa. did you ever see it?

they are less politically correct and we are, i can tell you that, and they did a great job. we will do another thing. we will be signing something before i get to the top step. i'm seriously thinking about doing this. we will knock out tpp. they will only take an instant. i will sign something else. drill, baby, drill. [applause] i love these guys. you know what these people are? these are front row joe's. they have been here, like, some of them, for 100 rallies. this is not a rally. this is just a little get together. you have to see these rallies. they are bigger than ever. trump caucus captains. do you mind? thank you very much. you figure out who gets it, you know? i have another one here.

we will give it to a real caucus captain, right? but we are going to sign that. our military is fantastic, what we did. don't forget, we defeated isis. we knocked them out. people don't realize. it was supposed to take four years and we did it in four weeks. we will sign some of these things before i get to the top. that would be a cool expression. in other words, i don't want to wait to get to the top of the steps and go home and change. no, no. we will sign before we get to the top of the steps on the border. no more coming in and less you come in legally. very simple. very simple. [applause] thank you. thank you. >> [chanting "usa"]

>> thank you, thank you. beautiful chant. "usa." and somehow they associate it with me, which is sad. you know what maga means, joe? if you asked him what does it mean, he would go, i don't know. it's radical. no. it means make america great again. we must stop this radical movement. we must stop this radical movement to make america great again. we will stop it. as president, i traveled all over the world fighting and winning on behalf of iowa farmers. i worked hard with that. because you were really behind the eight ball when i got here. when i came here originally seven years ago, you are

absolutely getting decimated. i made new farm deals. i got the usmca done. that's mexico and canada because they were killing you. mexico and canada was killing you and we got rid of nafta, which was the worst trade deal ever made and we replaced it with the usmca. now you are doing great. the best trade deal ever made. [applause] in fact, it was such a good deal that the farmers that are from canada and mexico and, frankly, the mexican and canadian government, and canada wants to renegotiate the deal, mexico wants to renegotiate the deal. isn't it nice that you make a deal they want to renegotiate? nafta was bad. you know they had typos, bad typos, you know, like numbers where you were paying more. they could have easily corrected it. nobody bothered. so you went many decades with a nafta deal with typos where you were paying more because no one

wanted to correct it. that is how weak, lazy, stupid we are. the nafta trade deal was the worst in the history of our country and the usmca is probably the best although i would say the deal with china and japan is good. i took on communist china like no administration in history, bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars bring into our treasury when no other president got even $.10. not one president. i took in hundreds of billions of dollars. [applause] and no one gets abused on trade worse than american agriculture. for some reason. yet no other president lips a finger. ron desanctimonious was bad for farmers. i can only say it. he was very bad on farmers and was totally against ethanol. now a miracle happened. he's in favor.

i have known it for a long time. whatever they came -- they came out with first is where they will end up. he was bad on ethanol and farmers. he was against different things in the farm bill and i got those bills passed quickly and effectively. you got your money. you got that $28 billion and that was the greatest thing, i tell you. [applause] my guys say please, sir, don't take it for granted that you will win iowa. it does not sound good. when i say to them of course it does, i got them $28 billion. who the hell else? who the hell else would you vote for? there may be some people that don't like my attitude but my attitude is what gets us there. a lot of them -- you don't

mind when i go off, but i have a lot of people that say we want trump policy without trump because we don't like his personality. and a brilliant commentator, they said, here is the problem. trump policy does not work without trump because he will never be able to get it. [applause] right? under my leadership, we will have a rebirth of loyalty to the american farmer starting at noon on inauguration day, 2025, and not only the farmer, manufacturers, everything else. to defend our farmers, i will pass the trump reciprocal trade act. you know what that is? if china or any other country makes us pay a 100 or 200% or 300% tariff or tax, we will make them pay an identical 100% or

200% or 300% tax right now. [applause] and that will solve the problem and we will take in a lot of money or those taxes will disappear. right now, they charge us 100%, 200%. i put a tremendous tax on their cars and it really hurt them and as you know if china is not doing well. there economy is bad and that is because of the tariffs i put on them and i was nice on those tariffs. i would only charge them 50% to 100%. they were lucky. i would have gotten a lot less nuts if they wanted to play cute because what they are doing now, they are treating us like children. they are not treating us with respect. they always treated us with respect and i like to president xi until covid. covid was a step too far but i thought he was a great guy. he's heading china. i am for the usa, he is for china, i understand that and that's the way goes. i always got along well with him. i got along well with putin. that's a good thing.

he would have never gone and but i got along well with putin. that's a good thing. he's got many, many nuclear weapons and you know the next war will be a nuclear war and that's called obliteration and we have a man who put -- who could not put two sentences together leading us. we have never been in such danger, in my opinion, as we are now, because we are not a respected country anymore and we have a man that does not have a clue. does not have a clue. >> four more years. >> you better hope so. >> [chanting "four more years"] >> thank you. i will revoke china's most favored nation trade status. think of this. they are a growing country.

we are a growing country too. we are trying to fix our cities that are all indicate. run by democrats, by the way, everyone of them. they are all in decay. backstage, i said i bet you have a lot of crime here. no, sir, we have none. there's no crime. you don't have people getting bopped over the back of the head. you don't have people getting pushed into railroad trains or in our case subways. you don't have any of that stuff. but these guys are real important people. these are great people and we have to give them tremendous honor and respect. law enforcement. law enforcement. because they will stop all the problems with crime. [applause] and once again, as i have for four years and even beyond that, stood up for i/o ethanol like no

president in history -- for iowa ethanol like no president in history. i would have your senators say help me with it and i would take care of it for them. i don't know what they have done for me but these are minor details, right? there's no quid pro quo right? member that -- remember that? adam "shifty" schiff with a net like a pencil. i said, how does he hold up that fat ugly face with a neck -- a pencil neck? what a dishonest guy. i said, sir, what's worse, business people or politicians? i said business people are much tougher. that was after a week. now i say it's not even a contest. politicians are the worst. they are disloyal -- many are crooked.

politicians are worse than businesspeople. businesspeople are babies. they are babies, innocent lambs compared to politicians. you don't have nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, adam "shifty" schiff. just as i promised as president when i issued a historic rule that e15 would be available all year round and i got it done. nobody else did. i also let them use the existing pumps. they wanted to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on existing pumps. i said what's the difference? the old ones are better but these are made in an environmentally frilly way. really, sir, if you could do that it would be great. i saved hundreds of millions of dollars for people and that passes on to you, the people here. some of you are the people that have the pumps but we saved hundreds of millions of dollars, allowing them to use the

equipment that was there, that was good. every iowa needs to know that ron desanctimonious is a raging opponent of a lot of your farm situation, including ethanol, which i said, and spent the entire time in congress angrily railing against the renewable fuel standard. if he announces -- i don't know if he's going to -- he's going down the tubes. he is down the tubes. there's another one. you talk about loyalty? comes to me, he's failing. he's like a wounded bird falling to the ground, right? he's running against the department -- adam putman, the head of the department of agriculture in florida, the second position after the governor, and putnam was running. he had close to a 40 point lead on ron desanctimonious and desanctimonious comes to see me and he says, sir, sir, oh, please, sir. you are popular in florida.

if you gave me your endorsement, i think i could win. i said, wrong, honestly, you are so far down, i think of abraham lincoln and george washington came back from the dead, they couldn't help you. i didn't know him so i said what the hell? let's give him a chance. some kind of endorsement, write it out for me for me, ron -- me, ron. it was so bad i don't know how this guy got into the schools. he's not doing good. it was bad and i changed it and i made it good and i made an endorsement and he became like a human rocketship and he wiped out adam putnam. they were already measuring the carpets in tallahassee, where the governor's mansion is. they were measuring carpets. they were also to win. the next day it was over. the primary took place and i got him past somebody who turned out to be a crackhead, but at the

time -- you know who i'm talking about -- he was going to be the next president of united states at some point and he was running and ron didn't think he could win and i said we will do a couple rallies. i gave him a couple and those are effective. i got a lot of guys elected here, including grassley, who was having a problem. including joni ernst, who had a big problem. could you do, sir, a rally for me in iowa? absolutely. you think it's easy to come from wherever the hell i am and do a rally? i got them elected. memo that. but ron desantis, i got him elected. you talk about branding. i think it was nbc the other day, straight for a change, about 3% for a time. they said it's an honor to have with us governor ron desantis of florida. he said, is to -- it is

ron desantis. when you get somebody's name changed, that's a good brand. he looks at me with tears in his eyes. could i do it? and i did it. i did rallies for him and got him elected. i did not know him well. he did a little defensive me with impeachment hopes number one and two and i won. but jim jordan and others did a better defense. but he was one of the 150 or so congressmen defending me. i figured i did not know adam putman so i did it. he became a rocket and won easily. he won a guy who would have a great future. he did not have a great future. he would have been governor, by the way. i did a favor to the people of florida. four years later, they say to ron desanctic, will you run against president trump? he said, i have no comment. you know what that means, front row joes?

that means he's going to run, right? that means he's going to run. and i said that son of a bitch is going to run. so then, my people, who are very good, very good, but sometimes not wise, i hit him hard right from the beginning. they said, sir, please don't hit him so hard. why? he's a republican. who the hell cares? do you care? who cares if he's a republican? i don't care. he's a disloyal guy. i got him elected. and, by the and by the way you look at the numbers. the other day. i went to the interview and he said president trump got you elected. "no, no, he didn't get reelected. he tried to deny it. all you have to do is look at the numbers. he was so far behind. it was over. now he's trying to say, well,

without his come i think i would've won. this guy, when he said that, now he's finished in 28. he has got no chance in 28. he has got no chance. when he said that line. we'll put out the numbers. we'll show you he was dead as a doornail. but unlike ron desanctus i will be your ethanol champion for four more years. the white house is waging a demented crusade to totally annihilate ethanol. he wants to annihilate it. biden's insane electric vehicle mandate will totally decimate gaspard cars and if that happens ethanol is dead. under a trump administration, gasoline powered engines will not only be allowed but will be very much pushed, because it is incredible, including hybrids. hybrids are very good. you can actually go a little bit further than the candy store.

so, we're going to allow gasoline powered engines, but we are not going to allow -- child sexual mutilation. but we are not going to allow that. [cheering] we are not going to allow that. can you imagine going back 10 or 15 years and saying, as a politician, can you believe i'm a politician, i do not -- i guess i am a politician -- we are not going to allow child sexual mutilation. could you imagine hearing those words. yeah, we have to protect children from mutilation. where they do not even get parental consent. that is another one. we will make sure that we have

parental, parental consent. who the hell, of course you have to have parental consent but now you have to say it and you have to pass laws to give parents parental consent. and, even if you look at athletics, where i have to make this statement, we will not allow men to play -- in women's sports. [cheering] did you see the other day a young lady was, a good field hockey player, i do not know too much about field hockey. i know if they hit the ball it goes very fast, faster and less we have a superhuman here, but that is not going to happen, he waxed the ball and hit the girl in the face and wiped out her whole mouth and teeth and she was badly hurt, because it was like, -- she never saw anything

like it. and guy was a big strong person who had transitioned. he transitioned. but he did not transition as much -- his muscle. he took that ball, he wafted, hit her in the face. she said i'd never seen anything like it. he came at me. there was nothing i could do. the weightlifters. records are being broken by 100 pounds. the record stood for 18 years, they could not get a quarter of announce. on each side of the barbell, they could not do it. these guys walk up and they break the record bike143 pounds or whatever it is,-- by 143 pounds, or whatever it is. it stands for 18 years. a quarter of an ounce on each side of the barbell. some guy comes out, this is easy. have you lifted before? "no, i happen." -- i haven't."

the swimmers records are being broken at levels. it is very demeaning to women, actually. [whistles] but i love women athletes. i love women athletes but they should not be allowed, i think, it is dangerous in many cases and in some cases it is just unfair. the sad part is that a lot of women know this and they do not want to talk about it because -- we're in this communist regime where you're not allowed to speak the truth on elections on things like that. and if they do, they try to have you thrown in the -- these people are sick. and they will not get away with it. they are not getting away with that. cricket joe puts china first, puts asia first, puts ukraine first. he puts illegal aliens first, environmental maniacs first, environmental maniacs that want to destroy our country. think of it. he puts america last. he puts iowa last, your farmers, your manufactures, got a lot of

manufacturing, puts workers less, puts our farmers last he put puts everything that is good in our country last i put iowa first and i put america first every single time. [cheering] it is no wonder that crooked joe biden are desperate to stop it by any means possible. they are weaponizing law enforcement for high level elections or fears because we are beating them so badly in th e polls. the polls are incredible. the iowa state poll came out. trump is 59%. ron desanctus is 18% and falling. nikki bird brain.

sir, i will never vote against you. you are the greatest president in my lifetime. not that long. i would have preferred if she had said in generations. what is she 54 something? i will take the 54, right? "you are the greatest president." "i will never -- no, i will not. he has been a great president. two months later, ladies and gentlemen i would like to announce my candidacy. bird brain. i know her well she is not up to the job. in new hampshire, ron desanctus is down in fifth place. did you know that? this is a fall like nobody has ever seen before. [cheers] now, that does not mean he is going to -- he come in sixth or seventh. we're destroying crooked joe biden in the general by 5, 6, 7 and in one case 11 points, and

one case 14 point. in the battleground states, those are in the battleground states. we're leading the republicans by a lot in new hampshire. leading them by a lot in south carolina where we go after that, and then we are leading them by a lot in nevada. by 65 points or something. so, but this is so important because you are first in the nation. look, i kept you first in the nation. would you please give me a good show -- please. please. [cheers and whistles] i mean, that is the least you can do. that's the least you can do. i mean, i got to $28 billion, the cash is more important for the $28 billion is more import. i kept you in first place. make sure that i -- we win by a

lot. if we win by a lot, i think all of these characters cancel out, that will be the end of that. we got to be the democrats, we have to stop this nonsense. they had a debate two weeks ago. i had an unbelievable rally. which is great. it was incredible, the place was packed, but it was thousands and thousands. it was a stadium. i'm making a speech and i looked up, you could another person in the room. and i start, and then i noticed the people from way in the back, so they start meandering down to the field and the fake news said, there we empty seats. there were no empty seats. they wanted to come down to be closer. i could see them coming down. when i started it was packed within five or 10 minutes the people want to come down to the field and be closer. i understand that. probably not supposed to do it but who the hell's going to stop them? the fake news said, "we noticed

empty seats." thes people are the worste, ok, they are the worst. they are the enemy of the people. they really are. [cheering] the radical left democrats rigged the presidential election of 2020 and we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election of 2024. we are not going to allow it. not going to allow it. right? every time the radical left democrats, marxists, commonest and fascist indict me a consider it a great badge of honor. if i did not run, i would not be indicted. they are indicting me for complaining about election results. you ever see them? they are still complaining about

2016. nobody got indicted. they're complaining that i was complaining, and it happens to be true. we had the facts, we had the figures and i hope the judges are going to allow that to be shown in court because those elections were rigged, and they were badly rigged. never forget her enemies want to take away my freedom, because i will never let them take away your freedom. i'll never let it happen. [cheering] never. [whistles] they want to silence me, because i will never let them silence you. it is very simple. in the end, they are not after me. there after you, and i just happen to be standing in the way. that's true. that's true. people ask me, would you have done it again? you have such a great life. you had all these wonderful places you could go all over the world. you saw how strong my country is with this fake deal that is going on now.

"we didn't know he had that kind of cash." it turned out to be a great company and then they had to change the whole concept because it started off with the concept where it is the opposite, now they say, this is not good. it's a great company. it is one thing that has come out. we have a crooked judge, a rigge d court case and have an a.g. who campaign on i will get double trump aide and the niece -- she said, i never said that it i will get donald trump. she did not look -- he is campaigning, she was -- sisn'r see anything. nobody knew it was a private company. i will get donald trump here she is a radical lunatic. we are winning this case so much we have a judge that refuses to give up. then we have a judge who is a democrat corrupt politician. think of this. you put a piece of your life, new york city where we did so

well, in the hands of a radical left lunatic judge from the clubs. he's a democrat club politician. he's now been overturned four times. he has been overturned more than any judge in new york state and i got this guy is a judge, but somehow it is going to work out. you know? somehow, can't tell you how, but somehow it is going to work out. what it is, though, i believe the reason we are doing so well in the polls is because the people see it. they see it as a persecution of a political candidate. they see it as a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. that is what it is, the greatest witch hunt that started with russia russia russia, remember that? he was with four hookers. you think that was good to go up and tell my wife, it is not true, darling. i love you very much. that when she didn't believe because she said he's a german

folk. he is not into that. he is not into golden showers, as they say, they call the. i do not like that idea. no, i thought that would be a big problem. i was going to have a rough night. that one, she was very good on purchase said, no-- she said, you're ok on that one. this is far more than a campaign. this is a great political movement, the greatest in the history of our country. this is the greatest movement in the history of our country. i appointed over 300 federal judges and three great supreme court justice is. i kept my promise is, i reckon allies israel's eternal capital and opened -- i recognized israel's eternal capital and opened the american embassy in jerusalem. hard to do. got a dump it i also recognized israeli's sovereignty over the golan heights. and now you look at what is

going on. they don't sound is important, right. because you look at what is happening over there. it would've never happened, should never have happened and i would get it stopped very quickly with success because you cannot let what happened with the-- where that riad was so horrible. they do not even talk about it, 42 babies had their heads chopped off. this is sad and other things, many, many other things. thousands of people. nobody has seen anything like it. i withdrew from the disastrous iran nuclear deal. and we would've had to do with them right after the election because iran is broke. i told china, do you buy oil from iran, we are not doing business i told that to india, i told that every country, and they were broke. they were not paying to hamas, they were not paying to hezbollah, they were not paying to anybody, they were broke and they would've had a deal and they would've been happy with it. i would have been happy, everybody would've been happy with it, but when these idiots

took over, they immediately took off all of those sanctions, and iran, forget about the $6 billion on trade, you saw the trade, five hostages for $6 billion, remember? they got six. six or five. but they got. $6 billion i said, giving the bad news. the bad news, they got six, he got six. five and five. $6 billion. you mean, are they paying anything? meaning, it is the same thing as far as i'm concerned for yesterday they approved $10 billion more. and iran now, that's peanuts compared to what they have been allowed to make with the oil, they have probably $125 billion, they are very rich country. when i was there, they were broken everybody talks about it. in fact, i saw one of the people that are up there, real terrible reporter said the other day the

one thing i will say, iran was broke one trump was running this country they cannot do anything, they did not have the money, they cannot feed terrorism. now they have so much money they do not know what to do with it. with the historic abraham accords, even made peace in the middle east, and that would've gone on and we would've had every country including iran and that deal ultimately but they did nothing with it. they did nothing. for four straight years i kept america and israel and ukraine safe and i kept the whole world safe -- and we will again as the 47th president of the united states. right? [cheers] before even arrive at the oval office, shortly after, we win the presidency together. i will have the horrible war between russia and ukraine settled. we're going to get it set up it i know proving very well. got along with him. i know zelinski very well. i am the only candidate who can

make this promise to you. i will prevent world war iii from happening. i will prevent that. [cheering] because we have never been closer to world war iii than we are now, never been closer. and my first day back in the white house i will terminate every open borders policy of the biden administration. i will stop the invasion on our southern border and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in american history. back to their countries. [cheering] i will immediately expand the trump travel ban. on entry from terror -- countries and i will implement strong ideological screening on all immigrants. i had a travel ban on numerous countries which are horrible in terms of what is taking place within those countries and countries that hate us. i don't want them in our

country. they hate our country. i do not want them in our country. if you hate america if you want to abolish israel, if you super thighs with jihadists and we do n't exactly what you want, if you do all of these bad things and you have lots of bad thoughts in your mind, then you're are not getting into the united states of america. you're not coming in. and we will take over our horribly run washington, d.c. capitol. we have the capital that is the crime center of our country and cleanup and rebuild our capital city so that it no longer is a nightmare murder and crime. last night three people were killed. but, rather, it will become the most beautiful capital anywhere in the world. we were going to take over the capital and we will make a beautiful. we're going to make it safe, we are going to make a great trade we are going to do it and we are going to get it done we will

stop joe biden's inflation disaster and rebuild our greatest economy. we will rebuild, the greatest economy in history. we will build it back to an economy that is even better than what we had. we'll be able to do that. we were energy independent just a short time ago. and we were soon going to be dominant. thinking about that pipeline we would've been supplying all of the gas and oil to your. think about saudi arabia. you mentioned debt. they do not know what that is, they have so much money. they ordered many boeing 777's big bid for planes. and i said, do you use financing? they did not know what i meant. no, we have cash. we had more oil than they do. more oil and gas than russia. we were in third place. and by the time i left we are long ago in first place, way way up.

and we were going to supply europe and asia, and we were going to make so much money, pay down our debt. $34 trillion. now it is just terrible. we would pay down our national debt and cut backs still further. i gave you the largest tax cuts in history. we're going to do that with our energy. which is real energy, not intermittent wind. darling, i would like to watch the president on television tonight. i don't think we will be able to. the wind is not blowing. so crazy. posting spent of energy there is. -- most expensive energy there is. i would deliver tax cuts and interest rate cuts like you have never seen before because we -- and unlike ron desanctus i will protect social security and medicare for our great seniors. he wanted to hurt medicare and social security, remember that. remember that in 56 days. on day one i will sign a new

executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender incentive and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political -- onto our children. [cheering] that is an easy one, right? that's an easy one. so, i want to just tell you that you are a very special group of people. this is a special place to me because of the great success we have had, and that we continue to have and based on the polls, it looks like we are in good shape at the worst thing you can do is say, he is leading so much. get out and vote. there have been some bad surprises. everybody says that, bad things. there have been some bad -- everyone says, oh trump, is

going to win by so much we do not have to vote today. let's go over and sit and watch the caucus on television. let's watch it on television and they say, what is happening? very few people have voted. now we have to get out and vote. we have to center great signal, and then maybe these people just say, ok, it's over now. we have to end it because we have to focus on crooked joe biden and the democrats. that is what we have to focus on. we have to do what we did for four years. people, even bad people back there, set i was a great president for most standpoints of what you talk about, the economy, all of the things. we would've had no inflation because oil because the inflation had when they shut off the spigots energy cost went up so high and you are one of the highest states in the country, i hate to tell you that but you are one of the high states of the country because they wouldn't allow a pipeline to be cut through a very poor section of new york state. i almost had that done and then we had to rig the-- had the

rigged election. i just want to tell you that we have to swamp them and swamp them big. we are going to have something that is great. they want me to tell you to go out and sign up. we have a beautiful book. look at this book, how beautiful that is, see? pictures. but it basically is, you sign up and you become a caucus captain. we want you to be a caucus camping. does anybody want to be a caucus captain? here is what we have. you can sell this tonight on ebay for $25,000, but if you do i will be very angry at you. so i am going to give you one. here. >> you have been so nice. ok. let's go. [indiscernible]

[cheering] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> [chanting] usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! mr. trump: i have these books. [cheers]

[indiscernible conversations] [applause] mr. trump: so, thank you very much. i made a lot of enemies right now. picked up four friends. no, but everybody gets a ht when they sign u, those hats are beautiful. everybody gets a caucus captain hat. but we want to make sure that we have a big victory. you are going to be all of the world, they will be watching this, you are first, and they will be watching it, so anybody that wants to sign up you get that hat, you get the book, you get everything to we are going to have a tremendous victory. iowa has been an incredible

state for me. i have been incredible to you, too, i have to say, i have been very good to you, too. and we want to restore our country to greatness and we are going to do it. we're going to make america greater than it's ever been and we can do that. we can do that. we have to -- one year's a long time for them to remain in office. you look at it. if you took the worst 10 presidents in the history of our country, they have not done the damage that joe biden and this crazed administration has done with weaponization and everything else. so, get out there for the caucus, get out there, make it. we have to swamp them right from day one. if we do that, we are going to win so big, and we will make america great again 100% greater than ever before. thank you, all very much. thank you. thank you. thank you.

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