If I lose, I will have lost to the worst candidate, the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics. If I lose, what do I do? I'd rather run against somebody who is extraordinarily talented. At least this way, I can go and lead my life. We are going to win at numbers. We are going to win in numbers. That is what the first Their plan also includes disarming law abiding citizens, namely taking away your second amendment. I am very proud of that because any guy, being a developer, you just learn how to do it. But we had an entire, very powerful party. They have two things. They have a very powerful Democrat party that always sticks together. They do not have any of these rebels that we have in the Republican party. I call them stupid people. I call them stupid, stupid people because they play right into the hands. But the Democrats really do not have that. They have two things. Like, Let us impeach him even though he did nothing wrong. Now, what we have is we have much better policies like how about we want a strong border? They do not want to have a border. They want to have open borders, right? We do not want sanctuary cities. We do not want to protect criminals. We want jobs, we want low taxes. We have a lot of good things, but I tell the Republicans all the time, a lot of peoples have a lot of influence over the party so you got to get tougher. You got to get only fairer, but you got to get meaner, but you got to get tougher because they play a tougher game. But we have these rebels. By the way, they usually end up outside of politics in a very short time. We make sure of that. For the entire summer, Biden was silent as radicals, anarchists, arsonists, and vandals rampaged through Democrat-run cities in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Portland, and other places. Biden called them peaceful protesters. This is a peaceful I have no idea, it is Ali Velshi, I have a really good Ali Velcher, shaved head, right? I am thinking about doing that. That way I do not have to worry about that. No, he shaved it all off, he does not have to worry about How does it look, darling? I said, Who could top me?


Well, she said, Well, JFK was good looking, but nothing like you. Now you go home and you see this crazy CNN. But you will see them say, ENTITY said he is better looking than JFK. You will see it. They are sick people, they got a lot of problems. Earlier this month, rioters laid waste to suburban residential neighborhoods just outside of Milwaukee. Biden will appease the rioters and the looters and the anarchists, and I am having them arrested. You know what we are doing. And you know when they knock down statues, you notice that is very much stopped. They go to jail for a period of 10 years. They were getting all set to take down the incredible statue of Andrew Jackson right by the White House, right? And I will tell you what. The police are afraid if they touch somebody or speak to somebody rudely, there'll be destroyed, their pension will be gone, their family will be gone. No, we got to protect our police, we have got to take care. And you are going to have problems and you are going to have mistakes. They will choke, they have a decision to make. They have a quarter of a second sometimes to make. And you will have some bad cops. And we got to do something about those bad cops. But 99.9, I mean, they are the most incredible people and they keep us safe. They keep us safe. They keep us safe. So we have to take care of them. Nobody talks about that. Nobody talks about that. You saw a month ago with the two sitting in a car. The anti-police rhetoric of Joe Biden and the Democrat party is really what causes a lot of this too. But it puts police officers in harm's way. It really puts them in harm's way. Biden referred to police as the enemy, he just referred, the enemy, quote, quote, the enemy. He does not believe that. I really do not believe I should not say that. But I do not believe he believes it. Joe's running mate, oh, how do you like her? Did Mike Pence do a great job? Did our great vice president do a great job? I mean, I could not believe he picked her. And I have said it a lot. She treated him worse than any would have. I could tell them it is not that easy.

Donald Trump Rally Transcript Janesville, WI October 17


We have done more than any administration in the first three and a half years in the history of our country. We have rebuilt our military, we have cut more regulation than any other administration by a factor of a lot. And we all did this. We have more federal judges by the end of the first term than any other administration. In fact, percentage wise, the only one that has more, there is only one president that has more percentage wise, not the number. Because we will have 300, maybe even more than that by the end of the first term. But there is only one president that has a higher percentage than I have. Give him a Make America Great Again hat. We made it great again and now we are going to make it great again because we had to close it up, save two million lives, and now we are opening it up and we are doing record numbers. Joe's running mate and America's most liberal Senator, Kamala Harris, recently urged their supporters to donate to a fund that bailed out the rioters that did so much harm and even physical damage to people, but damage in Minneapolis. And they wanted to bail them out of jail. And she was heading up a group to get them out of jail. He attempted killing a policeman. 13 members of Biden's staff donated to the same fund. By the way, they talk about fundraising, right? I am good at fundraising. I could be the greatest fundraiser in history. I am the president of the United States. But I will tell you what, think of this. If I wanted to pick up a phone and call Wall Street, say the FIG firms, say, Yeah, I got to raise X dollars. They will do it, every one. I could have more money. The problem is if you do that, what happens is when they call you in two months, three months, four months because they need something, you got to take their call and you got to do it. So Biden is raising a lot of money because they are promising all these things to all these people. Now, I have a much better platform because I am the president, right? I could raise money. We are doing great on the small donors. But I could raise more money than anybody in the history of politics. But I do not want to call these people and say, Do me a favor, the head of Goldman Sachs. I do not want to say, Do me a favor.


Nobody could ever raise money like me. I just do not want to do it because it puts us all, meaning us, I did this for us, not for me. I did not do it for me. I lost a fortune. This job has cost me billions and billions of dollars, billions. They do not like to say that. And yet, if a man from Kuwait comes up and stays at one of my hotels for $259. 13, takes a room. Next day, ENTITY takes Arab as a guest in one of hotels. I mean, billions I lost. And that is okay because I am doing something that is the most important thing I have ever done. What the hell difference does it make? But I have lost billions. And I never talk about it. They never talk about it. So I get paid, I guess, $400,000, $450,000. And I give up my salary. I do not get it. You do not read that. You do not read it. It is not good for them to say that. And I do not talk about it. But tonight, I will talk about it. So I get the highest salary because you are the president. And I give it up, I do not take it. I would say it costs me two, three, maybe more billion dollars. I have good kids. They do not do jobs. Can you imagine if they wanted to go to the Middle East and do jobs all over the place? I'd have hotels being built in every city, in every country in the world. And I have great kids and they are ambitious kids. They'd like to do it. I say, You cannot do it. And by the way, there is no legal reason you cannot do it. You can not go to Saudi Arabia and all these different places that we protect and we do all these things and that buy a lot of our planes and a lot of our everything, you cannot allow them. You cannot allow them. But I would be the greatest fundraiser in the history of politics. But if you do not mind, we do not need the money. And we will not do it that way. But they are raising a lot of money. And every time I see them raising a lot of money, I say, because I know exactly what is going on, Deals are being made. Especially when you look at Joe Biden . I mean, look at what is going on with that family.


The Democrat party's war on cops is driving police officers to leave their jobs in record numbers. No one is hurt more by the left wing crusade against law enforcement than African-Americans. And you look at it and you know it. Last year, and by the way, large percentages of our police men and women are African-Americans. Last year, in just four Democrat-run cities, over 1000 African-Americans were murdered as a result of violent crime. This year, murders in Democrat cities have increased by more than 30%. And we'd help them. We'd help them. We want to help them. More than half of the victims are African-Americans. Joe Biden and the left ignore these American victims. We are never going to ignore them. We have done more for the Black community than any president with the exception of Abraham Lincoln. Obama could not do it. I do not even think he tried to do it, frankly. But he could have never done it. Bush could not do it, none of them could do it then. Criminal justice reform, I did it. Prison reform, we did it. We did things nobody We worked on that with a great senator from South Carolina, Tim Scott. You went to one. Oh, which one did you go to? I love them. Well, anyway, they have to be happy with me. But listen, so after three years, every three years, every year a group of 44 people, 44, 45, they'd come up, the head people at all of these colleges, and they'd come up and I'd see him. And the first year I saw them, I thought it was routine and they were up because they needed money for the colleges. Second year, I said, What are you doing back here? And then I see them the third year and I say, Wait a minute, let us get this straight. You mean you come up here every three years to beg for money? He said, We beg for money. And we feel like beggars. He told me exactly those words. Obama never did it. Obama never did it. And I said, So wait, here is what we are going to do. We are going to get you long-term funding. And here is what I did. I got them more money than they were asking for. And I said, The only bad news is I may never see you again. I may never see you again.


But we did that for the Black community. And we did a lot of other things. And I say that nobody's done more for the Black community. With all of that, the biggest thing of all is criminal justice reform. You know about Alice Johnson. And we have so many people like Alice. Do you want to vote for the candidate supported by anti-American rioters? Or do you want to vote for the candidate supported by so many of our great people and the heroes of law enforcement? Biden made a speech, I think it was today. I mean, he makes so few of them. I think he stays in his place in Delaware. And I like Delaware, but does he ever leave Delaware? But he made a speech. And they never say this. They never say it. We come here, take those cameras and show them please. No, I am telling you, today, I think the camera slipped. Because in his case, they should not show the audience. In our case, they should. And I am saying nobody reports that. And he never leaves his little area. And you know, I will tell you what, as president of the United States, I met with Gold Star families the other week, I meet with a lot of people. I have an obligation. I cannot lock myself into a basement in the White House. I cannot lock myself into a beautiful bedroom at the top of the White House where there is no risk, no nothing. I am the president of the United States. And I would often say, I meet people, and these are incredible, like the Gold Star families. They lost sons and daughters and husbands in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places. And I cannot say, I want to cancel the meeting. And I met about 48 families. And when they come up to you, and they are close, and they were tested and all. And when they come up to you and they want to say, My son was so brave, and they want to tell you the story, it is amazing. This is in almost all case. I say, So tell me what happened. And she was shot down, sir, in Iraq. And then they tell me what happened and how brave and how great. And I cannot say, Do me a favor. You just cannot do that. And I say, every time I meet with groups of people, it is not all like that. But I cannot cancel, like cancel culture.


They want to cancel everything, right? I cannot cancel these people. I have to take care of our people. And every time I do it, I say, It is risky. And sure as hell, I caught it. I can now jump into the audience and give you all a big kiss. The women and the men, I will kiss. I will even kiss the men. I will kiss those big powerful men down there. I will not love it, but I will kiss them. But I have an obligation. Somebody said, Why did you do this? Why did you do that? I said, Because these meetings are so important to people and you are the president. And I cannot do that. And really, I got really well taken care of. And we are going to make what I had available to everybody free. And it is been incredible, what we have been able to do. If you support our police, if you stand with the heroes of law enforcement, then you must defeat the Democrats on November 3rd. You have to do it. You have to do it. And by the way, I hate to say it. I got a little briefing. I have been here before, but I got a little briefing on the area. But it is a Democrat area that really likes ENTITY a lot. And a lot of us are really great, really great workers. And the workers like me. You know who does not like me? The heads of the union, they never like me. You know who does like me? The people in the union, they like me. But I will tell you, this is largely a lot of Democrats. And many people in this audience are Democrats, but they are Democrats that are going to vote for ENTITY. And I appreciate it. And I take care of our workers and I take care of jobs. And China will not get away with what they got away with. They are not going to get away with it. We just finished an incredible trade deal. And all of that is good, but you know what? Does that make sense to you? It does not mean what it would have meant had they not put us through. Because they stopped it from going into China, but they did not stop it from going to the rest of the world, including our country, Europe, the rest of the world. So your Democrats, some of them By the way, just seriously, I am just curious, raise your hand if you are a


Seriously, I am going to do a poll that costs nothing, right? I like these polls that cost nothing. They do a poll, it costs $1 million. They interviewed like 12 people, right? We have interviewed 253 people. They over-sample Democrats by 28%. I said, Yeah, but you are interviewing mostly Democrats. You ever see that? I guess there must be a legal reason why they have to put it, but they over- sample by 18% ,20%, 21%. So I was down in all nine places that I had to win. Well, you are down at all nine places. By the end of the evening, I won all nine places. Other than that, they did a great job of polling. They even had me believing it for awhile. But what I did not believe, because we had a lot of spirit four years ago, and by the way, nothing like we have now. And it sounds like very little, but that is a lot. Normally, a crowd like this would be for the night before for a candidate, one time shot. We have this all over. You ought to see what we had in Pennsylvania, in Florida. We were in Florida, we had, I think, 41,000 people. We were in Atlanta. We just got back from Georgia. I mean, it is like this. But the spirit, we have much more spirit now than we ever had four years ago. And we had a record. Look, Hillary was a lot smarter than Sleepy Joe, let us not kid ourselves. They will not let the fact that we caught him in a total corrupt deal, they will not let the news get out. And in all fairness to Fox, I have my own problems with Fox, but at least Fox is letting it out. And I will tell you who is incredible. It is the fifth largest paper in America. And they are all in to finding out about all of this Joe Biden. So we are thrilled to be here with some incredible people and you are going to be joined by a man And I mean this too. And you know, I say, Oh, everybody's wonderful, and then half the time you cannot stand them, but you got to say it, but this guy is wonderful. He is one of the smartest people in the Senate. A lot of people do not know that. See, I know that because I do a lot of very complex things.


And there are not a lot of people that understand, but he understands and nobody understands finance better. But now what he is doing on, he is the chairman of Homeland security, what he is doing on corruption is unbelievable. And I am very proud of your state for a lot of reasons, but one of the reasons is that you have a senator named Ron Johnson. Would you get him up please? I got to get him up. He deserves it. He deserves it. Secret service is worried about it. He is one of the greatest people. He is one of the greatest senators. And I guess, whenever the hell you are running, I will be here for you. I will tell you that. Well, thank you, Mr. President, as I was saying in the pre-program, what I admire about ENTITY is his tenacity. The unfair treatment in the press by the Democrats, by the deep state, it does not deter him. And he talked about the First Step Act. It was going nowhere until ENTITY stepped up to the plate and made sure he got it done and he did. Another piece of legislation that is very dear to my heart, was something again, it was dead, it was going nowhere, it is called Right to Try. And, Mr. President, I will never forget in that State of Union Address, you start talking about this bill that I'd been championed and you have not said the name yet. I am going, I think he is talking about Right to Try. And all of a sudden, he goes, We have to pass Right to Try. And I do not know if you saw me spring up like a jack in the box. He does not get credit for it, but he wakes up every day, like the rest of you, loving this country and doing everything can to make it a greater country. God bless you. God bless ENTITY. I will be fighting for you. No, he is really a great guy and I am glad you came up and I am glad to have you around. And really, we are very proud of you. We have some warriors with us and people that have been with us through the fake impeachment, the hoax. That was one of the great hoaxes. And do not forget, we have done, and Ron understands better than maybe anybody, we have done more in three and a half years, then any administration First three and a half years, than any administration in the history.


He'd mentions Right to Try, that is where a person is terminally ill and they cannot get a medicine that looks real good, but it has not been approved because it has to go through this long process, which we have cut in half by the way But they cannot get, so now they sign a document and it was very complicated, but not for me, it was not complicated. I said, You take the liability away. But we had problems with the insurance companies because they did not want We had problems with everybody, including the country. So people would go all over the world, if they had some money, if they did not have money, they'd go home and they just die. And now if we have something that may work, but it is two years away, three years away, they sign just a quick waiver. And we have had Right to Try. And Ron, I do not know if you know, the success rate. It is been unbelievable, the number of people. We have kept people alive and healthy and well and fully recovered. And I could never understand it, because for years I said, Why would not they give somebody who is terminally ill the drug? I mean, I understand it all. But we got it done, they sign a waiver and we got it done. A side effect that nobody thought too much about. These companies that are trying to prove that their drug works, I will tell you, if it works there, it works everywhere. And they are able to be able to speed it up, where they speed them up because we have had some unbelievable stories. One in particular that I know, a young lady who spoke at the national convention, Republican National Convention, but the success rate has been incredible. So I want to thank you for that. You are right, you are one of the real authors of it. We want to also thank Glenn Grothman. He is been from the beginning by me and I want to thank you, Glenn, for what you have done. What a job he is doing, what a job. I will tell you, he has a big future. And everybody knows Darin LaHood. You are all great in Wisconsin. You are producing good in Wisconsin. What can I tell you? We got to win it. We got to win it. By the way, I wanted to say before Ron Johnson interrupted me So who is a Republican here, just raise your hand?


Seriously, do not worry about your hand, we all love you. No, we appreciate it. We have a lot of them over there too. We have a lot of Democrats, but we really do appreciate it. Because ultimately, we are looking for the same thing. We are looking for unity. We are looking for one country. And the question was asked a week ago and they said, What about bringing the country together, because I want that? Before the China virus hit us, we were there. And we were getting calls because the success was bringing us together as a country. We had the greatest employment numbers. We had the greatest African-American Hispanic-American, Asian-American, women, people with a diploma, people without a diploma, people that graduated first in their class at MIT, everybody. We never had anything like it. And I am telling you, I bet it was true with you guys, we were getting calls from people that you would least suspect and the country was coming together. Then we got hit by the China virus and it was back to the drawing boards. And next year we are going to have the most successful year economically, I think, with what we have done. I also want to introduce the Republican candidate for Senate from the State of Illinois, Mark Curran. I like it. I will tell you what, Illinois could use a new governor. They got to open up that state. They got to open up that state. Kids have to get back to school. You know Barron had it, right? They said Barron, Barron Trump, my boy, my very tall young boy. He is very tall, but Barron Trump had it. No, young people, they have, we hate to admit it, they have a very strong immune system, incredibly strong. We have to get back to school. On November 4th, they will all say, All right. Now, everybody They are only doing this for politics. I really believe that, because they want the numbers to look as bad as possible. Hey, we won the case in Michigan. The courts have now forced her. They said it was unconstitutional what she was doing. The only person in the whole state that was allowed to have fun and go bowling and play tennis and do whatever he want, was the governor's husband, right? Her husband was free to do whatever he wanted. But other than that, it was like a prison she was operating.


This election is a choice between a ENTITY super recovery and a Biden depression. And they are going to raise your taxes substantially, like quadruple. He is the only candidate All my life I have been involved in politics, never from the side. But a few years ago I said, Let us give it a shot, but I have always been around. This is the only time in my life. I always heard it was good to cut taxes. I said, How do you say we are giving a massive tax increase to everybody? And it is everybody, because you are getting thousands of dollars a year from my tax cuts. We gave the greatest, the biggest tax cut in history and he wants to end the ENTITY tax cut. Now he is saying, Well, I will not do that. It is same thing like fracking. He is just changed his mind. But he wants to end it, and do not forget child tax credit. That is a thousand dollars for every child. So he is going to end all that. So he was going to end it, We are going to end He did not realize that the middle income people are getting a tremendous tax cut. And if you add energy to it, because they will drive energy through the roof. They want to end fossil fuel. They are going to end fracking. 100% they are going to end fracking. I mean, this guy goes around, We are going to end fracking, for a year and a half. Then he lucks out, gets the nomination. Because Pocahontas refused to do what she should have done, if she believes really in his philosophy of being a socialist, right? And he gets it. And as soon as he gets it, he says, No, no we are going to frack. But if you add energy to it, right? You add energy, we are talking about six, seven, $8,000 a family. So if you vote for me, you will have the greatest If he gets in, he is going to raise your taxes like crazy. If he gets in And it is not him, again, it is his people that tell him what to do. If he gets in, you will have the greatest depression in the history of this country, your stocks will go to hell. Everybody owns stocks. You have 401ks. Who has a 401k here? That is a lot of people. Are you practically at your all time high, right?


You will have a depression the likes of which we have never seen, with the possible exception of 1929, because I do not think it gets much worse than that. But you cannot do that, you cannot let this happen, because he will destroy everything we have done. Regulations, we cut more regulations than any administration in history. And regulation may be more important, in terms of jobs and everything, then even the biggest tax cut. It is the biggest tax cut in history. And I think the regulation cut, which is more than any president's done, no matter they were eight years or in one case more, it does not matter. He wants to put them all back. That means all these companies that moved to America, that moved to the United States, that came here because of lower taxes, because of all of the things that we have done. It used to take 18 to 21 years to get a highway built, to get a highway approved. We have got it down to two years. And let me tell you, it may not make it. We are trying to get it to one year, by the way and we are close to getting it. But it used to take, I mean, we have highways for 20 years, they have been trying to get approvals. And then after it gets approved, it is totally different and it costs hundreds of times more money. If you vote for me, prosperity will surge. And the next year will be the greatest year economically in the history of our country. Joe Biden would terminate our recovery with a draconian unscientific lockdown. I mean, not that you are already in it. And he will keep Wisconsin locked up, locked down and closed for business. Biden will shut down the country, delay the vaccine and prolong the pandemic. And companies will be afraid to invest in Wisconsin, if you have this happen, and our country. But you have a Democrat governor, I do not know him but he is a nice guy probably. But I will tell you, companies, big companies, very strong companies, companies like as an example, Foxconn, they do not want to invest with these people. They do not have any security. They do not have any They do not want to invest. I get in, companies like that will put more money in then they even promised. But they are very concerned, I mean, they have to have the right climate.


So we are going to do things with Wisconsin, but we are going to do things with this country, like honestly has never even been done before and people will come together because of success. So we are delivering a safe vaccine very soon and a rapid recovery. Biden's plan will crush Wisconsin. My plan will crush the virus and will make Wisconsin greater than ever before. You have a spike, you have a surge. But if you remember it, two months ago, Florida had a big surge. Texas had a very big surge and now it is down. If you look at Arizona had a big, big surge, all great governors and it is down. It is down to all low numbers, really low numbers. And you are going to have the same thing, but you got to open up. Joe Biden is the living embodiment of the corrupt political class, that enriched itself while draining the economic life and soul from our country. I mean 47 years, and he just says, Well, I should have done this or that. I said, Joe, you were here for 47 years. You never I always hated when he says that I should have done something. He is been at a high position for 47 years. I said, Joe, you could have done something for the last 47 years. Joe Biden shipped away your jobs, shut down your factories, and you know it very well, you got to hit hard here, threw open your borders and ravaged our cities while sacrificing American blood and treasure in endless wars that were ridiculous in countries that you'd never even heard of. Got a lot of them, most of them are back. I hate to say it. To be honest with you, he makes crooked Hillary Clinton look like an amateur. And China has already bought and paid for Joe Biden. Let me tell you, if Joe Biden became president, China will own this country, China. China will own They are paying us billions and billions of dollars a year. I charged them billions. They never paid us 25 cents. I gave $28 billion to the farmers, many of them right here, 28. 12 and 16, two years. I said to Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture, great guy, How much have we been targeted for our farmers by China? We are going to target them. We took $28 billion. We had tens of billions left over that went to the treasury, our treasury by the way.


But we had 28 billion that went to the farmers, and a lot of you farmers got it. I also cut the tariffs between Canada, what they were doing to you with 287% tariffs. So I am not just running against Biden. I am running against the left wing media, the big tech companies. But if you think about it, the Democrats and the media are one in the same. When you look at MSDNC and you look at fake news, CNN, then you look at the fake New York Times, the failing New York Times And the good news is, look Well, I do not even call it good news. But when someday I leave, whether it is in four years, eight years, 12 years, 16 years Now the story tomorrow will be with the fake news, He is a fascist he wants to take over No. But when, at some point, I leave, they are all out of business. They are going to go out of business. They know it too. That is why I expect someday they are going to all get together and say, Let us endorse him, because he is done a really good job. And they know that. This political class has nothing but disdain for you and for your values. They flood your communities with criminal aliens, drugs and crime, while living behind gated compounds in communities. They oppose school choice, so important is school choice, while sending their families to the best private schools. They attack the Second Amendment, while employing armed guards for themselves. They want to get rid of your Second Amendment. It is not going to happen with me, I promise. I do not think they will get Ron Johnson on their side. Ron, can I have your pledge please? We got Ron Johnson. Fellas, we have your votes. In 2016, Wisconsin voted to fire this corrupt and decrepit political establishment. And you elected an outsider as president to finally put America first. That is what you did. To defend our workers and our national security, I took the toughest ever action to confront China's rampant theft of American jobs. When China targeted us, we targeted them. And it was very simple and now we are providing all sorts of everything, what we are doing for you. We have $13 billion coming to help our farmers, in addition to all of the money that China paid our farmers, including Wisconsin's incredible dairy farmers. Anybody here do specialty milk.


It is a very small part, but it was like the straw that broke the camel's back. Because I met with these guys and what they were doing, ripping you off on the big stuff, specialty milk. And anybody do specialty milk? It is so small, but when I heard it, it was like 287%. When the Wisconsin timber industry was threatened, I imposed tariffs on dumped foreign goods and subsidized products, saving your timber jobs. And we have a long way to go. We can save a lot more. We got plenty of timber. I always say, Why the hell are we taking in timber from other countries? We have it all over the place. And if they ever manage their forests in California and other places, you would not have these forest fires. And part of that is cutting wedges. You have to cut wedges and all that stuff. And so we have so much timber. And I do not know, I guess we are just nice people, doing it from other lands, right? But we are doing good with our timber, we saved our timber jobs. If Joe Biden gets in, the radical left will shut down Wisconsin timber production forever. They do not want to let you touch a tree. If you happen to touch a tree, they want to put you in jail for the rest of your life. I also issued brand new regulations to ensure American workers are first in line for jobs. We want American workers to be first in line. Biden will allow his donors to bring in a flood of cheap foreign workers and wipe out your middle class. Under my leadership, we achieved the most secure border in US history. That wall, we are doing 10 miles a week and we will be hitting over 400 miles within a period of a couple of weeks. And by the way, Mexico is paying for the wall, you do know. So finally, they said, Well, all right, he is built the wall. Let us not talk about the wall anymore. We are putting a charge at the border and Mexico is paying us for the wall. But Mexico has been great to us, because they have 27,000 soldiers all along our Southern border. And I want to thank the President of Mexico, who happens to be a great guy. And they do have a big ENTITY problem. This is a good time to have a wall because we have that wall and it is not penetrable.


Remember, they used to talk about, We do not need a wall. They wanted drones. You know what the drones would be good at, with cameras on them? So that we could watch all the people pouring into our Right? They wanted drones. Remember crying Chuck Schumer You know Schumer? He cries anytime I have known him all his life, I have never seen him cry. But when he wants to get on camera, he cry so much. Crying Chuck, I call him. Because he feels so sad, he feels so sorry for people. Ah, do not worry about it, he does not . But crying Chuck, you understand what I mean. Ron looks like , because not a good guy. obsolete. And he said, No, no, we need technology, drones. I said, Drones are not going to help you, other than I mean, they are nice. We have all sorts of attachments to the wall. This wall is technologically very advanced, and drones are fine, but you have got to have a wall. And then I said to a group of people, and they thought it was sort of cool, You know, you do a computer today, you do a chip, you do anything today, it is obsolete in about 19 minutes, right? We have just developed a new computer. Three weeks later, somebody does a better one, right? That is why I like real estate. You buy a good piece of land, that is good. I like it better, simpler, right? Everything's obsolete in 15 minutes, except the two things that you know what that is, I have been telling you, right? In a thousand years, you will come back and the only two things that you will have that are very modern will be a wheel and a wall. Look at the wall they built over there. They took trucks and they put them together because they do not want any criminals coming in here, so that is a wall. Look at that, they built a wall. That wall took them about 12 minutes, but the two things are a wheel and a wall, they will Everything else is going to be obsolete in about 12 minutes. In the last three years, we have arrested over a half a million criminal aliens, including those charged with murder, assault, sex offenses. We have over 6,000 murderers that ICE has apprehended in our great border patrol and we owe them a debt of gratitude.


Think of that, 6,000 murderers we took off the streets. In some cases they are so bad we did not even want to give them, we have to take I do not want to pay for them for the next long period of time. Frankly if it was up to me, I am a person that believes in the death penalty, but what are you going to do? So we will end up keeping them for 50 years. We will end up feeding them for 50 years. But look, look, let me just tell you. We have what The job that ICE does and border patrol, and this guy's a tough guy. You do not want the job. You do not want it. You do not want it. There is a couple of guys could probably, maybe you'd be good at it, I do not know. These guys, the ICE guys, you will see these killers from the MS13, they are total killers. But you get these killers They will be standing up in about two seconds. I appreciate it. The fact is, does anybody have a better time than at a rally, right? But we do not call it a rally, we call it a friendly protest because, legally, if I call it a friendly protest, you are allowed to be here. If you call it a rally, you are entitled to two people or something. So we said let us call it a protest. So everybody raise your hand, this is a protest, right? Under the Biden administration, these criminals would be set free. Under the ENTITY administration, these criminals are put in jail or they are sent home. We have to, we cannot do this. And by the way, the MS13 gang members are the worst anywhere in the world. They do not even want, right, they do not even I hope you did not come into contact with one. You know too much about them. I do not know, I am worried about you. Stand up, I am worried about you. What the hell do you know so much about MS13? Is he with you? You know what can I be honest with you? If he is with you, you have no problem. You got no problem. And these people go in and they go with they call them a nest, where they be standing and just run in and start swinging and fighting. And then they always come out on top. There are not a lot of people that would be good at that job.


We have to respect those people that protect us like this. And we have to have borders. A nation without borders is not a nation. We do not have a nation. So on behalf of the United States, I'd like to extend my sincere, really sincere condolences to a friend of mine, President Macron of France, where they had just yesterday, a vicious, vicious, Islamic terrorist attack beheading, and just a teacher near Paris, beheading. And they have apprehended nine people, who knows. But we have been very, very strong on radical Islamic terrorism. And we do have a ban. Remember I put the ban o.n and then we got sued and we lost, lost, and then we wanted the United States Supreme Court. We have also invested and France is having a hard time and Macron's a great guy, and I just want to say whatever we can do. We have also invested 2.5 trillion with a T, trillion dollars in the U.S. military, which was totally depleted when we took office. Including major contracts to build new warships that saved the historic shipyard right here in Marinette Marine in Wisconsin. We gave you billions of dollars. A lot of states wanted that contract, I gave it to you. And I came to Marinette about three months ago. And they do a great job. But a lot of people wanted that. A lot of states wanted it. I am going to lose those states, but that is all right. But we gave it, it is a lot of jobs. It is actually a very big contract that gets bigger, but they do fantastic work. I looked at what they were doing. And you would have lost that ship yard. You would have lost it, but we saved it. We have done plenty. We launched the first new branch of the U.S. Armed Forces in nearly 75 years, the Space Force. I withdrew from the last administration's disastrous, $150 billion for nothing. If and when we win, if we win, the first call I am going to get is from the head of Iran. And he is going to say, Let us make a deal. They are dying to make a deal. I said, Look, you want to really see the election because you are not going to be in a position. You got to see the election.


And then I will tell you the other calls, but I better not, because I am going to just make the deal harder if I do. But plenty of other nations are going to be calling because they are going to want to make deals. I recognize the true capital of Israel and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem. I also recognize By the way, every president for many, many presidents, right, every single president said they were going to do that. And they all said they were going to do it. And they never did it because I will tell you what it was not easy. Once I got to office the pressure put on your president not to do it was incredible. And I told the story, I did not take phone calls. I got calls from kings and presidents and prime ministers. We do not want you to do it. It is going to be horrible if you do it, sir, it'll cause problems. Then finally I said, I will tell you what, who is calling? I was thinking about taking her call, but I. What are they calling about? They want to talk you out of moving the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. I am going to call them back on Thursday. I had the press conference on a Tuesday. So I said, Tell them, I will call them back on Thursday. I look forward to talking to them. I then announced that we were doing it. And we had Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And then I called back the heads of all these countries. What could I do for you, President of the United States? Well, I wanted to talk to you about Israel, but it is already been announced. Oh gee, I wish I got to you a little bit soon. No, it is much, much easier than, like what do we need? So I got back to them. We opened and it was going to cost anywhere from a billion to $2 billion. And I said to my very talented, who was one of the greatest lawyers in New York, David Friedman, a great lawyer. I said, David, see if you can get a piece of land cheap or a piece that we already own. Because they want to spend $2 billion to build this thing. I said, We can do it cheaper. Calls me back two days later, Sir, we have a piece of land with a building on it. I think we can renovate it for $350,000.


It will be nicer than the one they want to build. So we did it for 350. I said, David, I have never said this before, it sounds too cheap. You can imagine the cost overruns everything else. And this was a better location, a bigger piece of land, a better view, better everything, safer, better part. We have the best land, right? That is why I said it. If you want a good building by a post office, it is always there. And he said, We have a great piece of land. The building, we fixed it. And we use Jerusalem stone, which is a complicated thing. But I will not tell you about a very expensive, except if you happen to be in Jerusalem. And it is a beautiful embassy and it is opened and now we have the capital and I will tell you something. Every single president, you go back during their campaign. They used to campaign on it and nobody had the guts to do it, but we did it. We did it. Did I do it? And we opened the embassy three months later. Can you believe that? Instead of 10 years later, we would not have that thing open for 20 years. I also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. 52 years, they worked on it. I got it done in about two hours. And instead of endless war in the Middle East, we are forging peace without blood all over the sand. The fact is I did more in 47 months than Joe Biden did in 47 years, and it is true. What he did was distraught. And now the Democrats are pushing the most far-left agenda ever put forward by a presidential nominee. The Biden plan would destroy your social security and destroy protections for people with pre-existing conditions. You do not know that. They want to spend all their money on this ridiculous Green New Deal for a hundred trillion dollars. A poor student has no idea about the environment. All of a sudden she is coming up with a Green New Deal. And we will not let them take your cattle. Biden vowed to terminate our travel bans on jihadist regions. And they have agreed to this. This is the manifesto, I call it, with Bernie Sanders. You stayed in your country will be overrun and overwhelmed and it will never happen on my watch. Biden wants to ban school choice, the most important thing, school choice. And he wants to end charter schools, which have been so successful.


Because he is controlled by a group. But with that, some of the most important people on this planet are teachers. We love our teachers. We love our teachers. In a second term, I will provide school choice to every parent in America. And when you talk about the black community, the Hispanic community, that is one of the great civil rights developments in our country. One of the most important things we can do. A vote for Republicans is a vote for safe communities, great job, just incredible jobs, and a limitless future for all Americans. It is really about the American Dream. And I will say again, again and again, had we not been hit with this virus, you would have seen things that like you have never seen before, but we are going to have it back there very, very soon. We are setting records. We are going to have it back very soon. So in conclusion, over the next four years, we will make America into the manufacturing superpower of the world. And we will end our reliance on China once and for all. We will hire more police, increased penalties for assaults on law enforcement, and we will ban deadly sanctuary cities. We will uphold religious liberty, free speech, and the right to keep and bear arms. We will strike down terrorists who threaten our children and our citizens. And we will keep America out of these endless and ridiculous foreign wars. We will maintain America's unrivaled military might. We have the greatest military now in the world. When I took over three and a half years ago, you know it and the military, our planes were old. Our missiles, our rockets, our nuclear, was not in the condition that had to be in. You never want to use it. You never want to use it. We hope to God, we never have to use it. Now we have the greatest weapons ever produced by a single country, not even close. I call them the super-duper missiles. They go seven times faster than a normal missile. They took our plans to Russia and other places. But now we have done because we had the technology like nobody else. We make them in Ohio. We kept the plant open. I kept that plant open. I kept the plant open. I said, You cannot close this plant. The plan was to close it. It is the only place in the country. I visited, went to Ohio with Jim Jordan, a great guy.


I saw the people and I saw the technology and the complexity. I said, You will never be able to build You will never be able to reproduce it. Anyway, we kept it open. And now it is working 24 hours, around the clock. New jets, the fighters F-35s, everything new. And when I took over our military and you know it, the military people, it was totally depleted. We now have the greatest We are the envy of Russia and China and North Korea and every country in the world. There is nobody that has anything near our weaponry, and again, we hope to God, we never ever have to use it, but we will have peace through strength. We will end surprise medical billing. Require price transparency, which goes into effect on January 1st. I invoked a thing. You know that, what I did. You know, I invoked a favored nations clause. So we are going to pay whatever the lowest price in the world. I said, That is what we are going to pay. I am not very popular, however, with big pharma. They are spending a of money on ads against me. When you see those ads, please remember your drug prices are coming down for a reason. They have the biggest lobby in the world by far, but is the only way. I mean, every year what they were doing to people, no good. Or maybe we will make a deal with big pharma along the way, but they are spending a fortune of ads and that is okay. I mean, people get it. You are going to go down 60, 70, 80, maybe 90%, in some cases. We will strongly protect Medicare and social security. And we will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions. America will land the first woman on the moon. And the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars. We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to our schools. We will teach our children to love our country, honor our history, and always respect our great American flag. And we will live by the timeless words of our national motto, In God we trust. For years, you had a president who apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America and standing up for the great people of Wisconsin.


I want to, first of all, thank all of you for coming, the Members of Congress of both parties, members of our administration, but the larger community represented here in this room and at all of our sites. This has been a truly remarkable experience, I think, for all of us-stimulating, moving, humbling. I think it is because it is so real, and it has been too long since we have come together over something that is this real, that touches so many of us. This is a moment of great hope for people who are living with mental illness and, therefore, a moment of great promise for our Nation. We know a lot about it; we know a lot more than most of us know we know, as we found out today. And we wanted to have this conference to talk about how far we have come and also to look forward into the future. We all know we would not be here today without the commitment of Tipper Gore. I asked her to be my national adviser for mental illness because she knows more and cares more about this issue than anyone else I personally know. She has dedicated herself to making this a priority of national policy and private life. And I think we are all very, very much in her debt. I would also like to say one more word about Tipper and about the Vice President, about the way they have dealt with this issue as a family and the gifts they have given to America, going back to before the time when we all became a team in the election of 1992, when they began their annual family conferences. All people in public life talk about family values. No couple in public life has ever done remotely as much to try to figure out what it would mean to turn those family values into real, concrete improvements in the lives of ordinary families as Al and Tipper Gore have over a long period of time. I sort of feel like an anticlimax at this convention-not for the reasons the political reporters think--but because the real story here is in the people who have already talked, in their stories of courage and struggle, of endurance and hope. Americans with mental illness should have the same opportunity all Americans have to live to the fullest of their God-given ability. They are, perhaps, just the latest in our enduring challenge as a people to continue the work of our Founders, to widen the circle of opportunity, to deepen the meaning of freedom, to strengthen the bonds of our community.

Remarks at the White House Conference on Mental Health


Clearly, people with mental illnesses have always had to struggle to be treated fairly and to get the treatment they need-and they still do. We have made a lot of progress by appealing to the better angels of our nature, by drawing on our deep belief in equality, but also by hearing these stories. So again, I want to thank Mike and John and Jennifer and Robin and Dr. Burton. I thank Dr. Hyman, Dr. Koplewicz. I thank Lynn Rivers. I think all of us can remember some moment in our lives where, because of something that happened in our families or something someone we knew wrote or said, we began to look at this issue in a different way. I, myself, feel particularly indebted to the courage of my friend the great author William Styron for writing the book he wrote about his own depression. We have to have hope, and then we have to have some sense about where we are going. It was no accident that all of you were clapping loudly when Dr. Hyman showed us pictures of the brain. I remember when Hillary and I first met and began going together 28 years ago, and she was working at the Yale Child Study Center and the hospital, and we began to talk about all of this. Like a lot of young students at the time, I had been very influenced by Thomas Kuhn's book, The Structure of Scientific Revolution. And I began to wonder whether we would ever develop a completely unified theory of mind and body, if we would ever learn that at root there are no artificial dividing lines between our afflictions. The human genome project, as you have heard explained today, offers us the best chance we have ever had to have our science match our aspirations in learning to deal with this and all other issues. So this has been for me not simply emotionally rewarding but intellectually reaffirming. And I hope it has been for all of you. We have been at this for quite a long while. A hundred and fifty years ago we had to learn to treat people with mental illness as basic human beings. Thirty years ago we had to learn that people with mental illness had to be treated as individuals, not just a faceless mob. I will never forget when journalists secretly filmed the nightmare world inside some of our Nation's mental hospitals. Americans were heartbroken and horrified by what they saw, and we began to develop a system of community care for people.


Today, we have to make sure that we actually provide the care all of our people need, so they can live full lives and fully participate in our common life. We have worked hard to break down some of the barriers for people living with mental illness. On Friday, as many of you know, I directed all Federal agencies to ensure that their hiring practices give people with mental disabilities the same employment opportunities as people with physical disabilities. On Saturday Tipper and I did the radio address together and announced that Tipper will unveil our new campaign to fight stigma and dispel myths about mental illness. But all of you who have had this in your lives, or in your families' lives, know that attitudes are fine, but treatment matters most. Unfortunately, too many people with mental illness are not getting that treatment because too many of our health plans and businesses do not provide equal coverage of parity for mental and physical illness or because of the inadequacy of Government funding and policy supports. I have heard heartbreaking stories from people who are trying hard to take care of their families, and one day mental illness strikes. And when they try to get help, they learn the health plans they have been counting on, the plans that would cover treatment for high blood pressure or heart disease, strictly limit mental health care and do not cover it at all. Because of ignorance about the nature of mental illness, the cost of treating it, and as Dr. Burton told us, the cost of not treating it. A recent study showed the majority of Americans do not believe mental illness can accurately be diagnosed or effectively treated. If we do not get much else out of this historic conference than changing the attitudes of the majority, it will have been well done, just on that score. Insurance plans claim providing parity for mental health will send costs and premiums skyrocketing. Businesses believe employees will over-use mental health services, making it impossible for employers to offer health insurance. Now, there may be arguments to be made at the margins on both sides of these issues, but I believe that providing parity is something we can do at reasonable cost, benefit millions of Americans, and over the long run, have a healthier country and lower health care costs. As we have heard again today, mental illness can be accurately diagnosed, successfully treated, just as physical illness. New drugs, better community health services are helping even people with the most severe mental illnesses lead healthier, more productive lives.


Our ability to treat depression and bipolar disorder is greater even than our ability to treat some kinds of heart disease. But left untreated, mental illness can spiral out of control, and so can the cost of mental health care. A recent World Bank study showed that mental illness is a leading cause of disability and economic burden that goes along with it. Here in the United States, untreated mental illness costs tens of billions of dollars every year. The loss in human potential is staggering. So far, 24 States and a large number of businesses have begun to provide parity for their citizens and their employees. Reports show that parity is not notably increasing health care costs. For instance, Ohio provides full parity for all its State employees and has not seen costs rise. As we heard, Bank One's employee mental health treatment program has helped it reduce direct treatment costs for depression by 60 percent. As a nation founded on the ideal of equality, it is high time that our health plans treat all Americans equally. Government can and must lead the way to meet this challenge. In 1996 I called on Congress to make parity for mental health a priority. I was proud to sign into law the Mental Health Parity Act, which prohibited health plans for setting lower annual and lifetime limits for mental health care than for other medical services. Again I want to say, since we have so many Congressmen here, Tipper Gore was very instrumental in that. But I was also deeply moved by the broad and deep bipartisan support by Members of Congress in both Houses who had personal experiences that they shared with other Members which helped to change America. And I am pleased to announce, with Secretary Herman here, that the Labor Department will now launch a nationwide effort to educate Americans about their rights under the existing law, because a lot of people do not even know it passed. But when insurers can get around the law by limiting the number of doctor's visits for mental condition, when families face higher copayments for mental health care than for physical ailments, when people living with mental illness are forced to wait until their sickness incapacitates them to get the treatment they need, we know we have to do more. First, I am using my authority as President to ensure that our Nation's largest private insurer, the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan, provides full parity for mental health.


Today Janice Lachance, the Director of OPM, will inform nearly 300 health plans across America that to participate in our program, they must provide equal coverage for mental and physical illnesses. With this single step, 9 million Americans will have health insurance that provides the same copayments for mental health conditions as for any other health condition, the same access to specialists, the same coverage for medication, the same coverage for outpatient care. Thirty-six years ago President Kennedy said we had to return mental health to the mainstream of American medicine. Thirty-six years ago he said it, and we are still waiting. Today, we have to take more steps to return Americans to the mainstream of American life. I ask Congress now to do its part by holding hearings on mental health parity. The second thing we have to do is to reach out to the people who are most in need. Today I have asked HCFA, the Health Care Finance Administration, to do more to encourage States to better coordinate mental health services, from medication to programs targeted at people with the most serious mental disorders, for the millions of people with mental illness who rely on Medicaid. Third, we must do more to help people with mental illness reenter the work force. I asked Congress to pass the Work Incentives Improvement Act, which will allow people with disabilities to purchase health insurance at a reasonable cost when they go back to work. No American should ever have to choose between keeping health care and supporting their family. Fourth, with an ever-increasing number of people with mental disabilities in managed care plans, it is more important than ever for Congress to pass the Patients' Bill of Rights. Fifth, this year we requested the largest increase in history, some $70 million to help more communities provide more mental health services. And I asked Congress to fully fund this proposal. The absence of services and adequate funding and institutional support for sometimes even the most severe mental health problems is a source of profound worry to those of you who actually know what is going on out there. I know that I was incredibly moved by the cover story in the New York Times Sunday magazine a couple of weeks ago, and I know a lot of you were. And I read that story very carefully. I talked to Hillary about it; I talked to Al and Tipper about it; and I asked myself then-I am still asking myself-what more can we do to deal with some of the unbelievable tragedies that were plainly avoidable, clearly documented in that important article?


This is a good beginning, and I hope that Congress will fund it. And finally, it is profoundly significant what we have heard about children. We have to do more to reach out to troubled young people. One out of ten children suffers from some form of mental illness, from mild depression to serious mental disease. But fewer than 20 percent receive proper treatment. One of the most sobering statistics that I have heard in all of this is that a majority of the young people who commit suicide-now the third leading cause of death in teenagers, especially gay teenagers-are profoundly depressed. Yet the majority of parents whose children took their own lives say they did not recognize their children's depression until it was too late. The tragedy at Columbine High School, as Hillary said, was for all of us a wakeup call. We simply cannot afford to wait until tragedy strikes to reach out to troubled young people. Today I am pleased to announce a new national school safety training program for teachers, schools, and communities to help us identify troubled children and provide them better school mental health services. This new program is the result of a remarkable partnership by the National Education Association, EchoStar, and members of the Learning First Alliance, joined by the Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services. This fall the Vice President and Tipper will kick off the first training session, which will be transmitted via satellite to more than 1,000 communities around our Nation. We are all very grateful to EchoStar, a satellite company based in Littleton, Colorado, and its partner, Future View, for helping make this possible by donating satellite dishes to 1,000 school districts, and 40 hours of free time. I want to ask businesses and broadcasters all around our country to follow EchoStar's lead and donate their time, expertise, and equipment to help ensure that every school district in America can participate in this important training program. the president of the NEA, Bob Chase; and Bill Vanderpoel, the vice president of EchoStar. I'd like to ask them to come up and talk a little bit about what they are going to do. Let us give them a big hand. Now, I'd like to ask Tipper to come up one more time so we can all tell her how grateful we are, and let me say this.


It is been my honor to welcome to Washington and to confer with President Azcona of Honduras. And we have had extremely useful discussions today. We both expressed our appreciation for the positive and solid relationship that our two countries enjoy. We reviewed recent developments in Central America, including the summit meeting this past weekend. President Azcona and I are in full agreement on the necessity of working for greater economic growth in Central America and the importance of democratic institutions to the cause of peace in the region. I reaffirmed the commitment of the United States to cooperate closely with Honduras, both in helping to build its economy and in bolstering its democracy. I expressed to President Azcona my personal thanks and that of the American people for his government's responsible stand on regional issues. Our two governments share a serious concern over the threat to peace, stability, and freedom posed by the Communist regime in Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan Communists, with extensive Soviet and Cuban support, persist in repressing their own population and in backing the subversion of their democratic neighbors. This endangers all of Latin America and ultimately the United States as well. In this regard, I underscored to the President our promise to stand by Honduras in defense of its national sovereignty and territorial integrity, as is in accordance with our reciprocal international rights and obligations. A joint communique will be issued today reiterating this mutual commitment. President Azcona and I agree that our countries and the other democracies in the region must act together to end the conflict that plagues Central America, but it is not just up to us. Honduras has been diligent and persistent in its pursuit of a comprehensive and verifiable solution within the framework of the Contadora negotiations, and, Mr. President, you have our support in these efforts. The United States continues to believe that a realistic and enforceable agreement, based on the full implementation of the Contadora Document of Objectives, is one way to bring peace to Central America. And finally, it was a great personal pleasure to meet President Azcona. I look forward to continuing our work in the same spirit of friendship and respect that was so evident in our meeting today. So, Mr. President, we thank you for coming. It has been a great pleasure to talk with President Reagan. I believe that these exchanges of views, held in a climate of great cordiality and frankness, are always beneficial, because they lead to greater understanding and a better relationship between our governments and peoples.

Remarks Following Discussions With President Jose Simeon Azcona Hoyo of Honduras


With President Reagan, we have reviewed the various aspects of the harmonious bilateral relations between our two countries. I am happy to say that in the economic field he was receptive to the points I made to him. So, I am certain that his great country will give broad support to the measures which my government is taking to reactivate the Honduran economy and reduce our present high unemployment levels, as a complement to Honduran short- and medium-term efforts, all without neglecting our security needs. I have told President Reagan about the efforts we are making in Honduras to develop our country. In this context, I reiterated the fact that our government assigns the highest priority to foreign investment, while at the same time recognizing that at present we also require the participation of government and the cooperation of friendly countries, among which the United States is one of the closest. Because of the fact that we believe in the necessity of offering the foreign investor a climate of tranquillity, encouraging his participation in the effort being made by Hondurans to develop our country, and of offering him guarantees which ensure the protection of his legitimate rights, I have authorized the Foreign Minister to sign during this visit the treaty on the settlement of investment disputes between states and nationals of other states. This treaty will provide the foreign investor in Honduras with access to international legal mechanisms of recognized impartiality and competence, which together with those offered by Honduran law will guarantee to him the full enjoyment of his rights. In the political field, we reaffirmed our identity as a regime governed by rule of law and based on the effective exercise of democracy and on respect for human rights. When we examined the situation in Central America, we noted with concern that conditions jeopardizing peace and security still exist. We agreed that major new efforts must be made to find a negotiated solution to the crisis, based on concrete actions for national reconciliation, on free and honest elections, on disarmament, and in general, on the creation of a climate in which freedom and security for all can guarantee the economic and social development of the peoples of Central America. To that end, it is necessary to conclude fully verifiable, juridical arrangements among the Central American States.


General Irving, distinguished visitors, and the Corps of Cadets at West Point, I am having a wonderful time today. I was telling my Missouri cadet friends that the only ones who are suffering and having trouble are the ones who are my hosts. It is always a nuisance to have the President of the United States around. He has to have certain special treatment, which is for the Presidency and not for the individual. Always bear in mind that the Presidency of this great Republic of ours is the greatest office in the history of the world. It is the most important office in the world, and the man in it must do everything he can to cause all the people, at home and abroad, to respect that office for what it is. World leadership came and was forced upon us, because we did not want to assume that responsibility we refused to assume that responsibility in 1920; and the Second World War was the result. Beginning in 1938 when Hitler went into Poland it began to dawn on the people at the head of the Government of the United States, that we had a place in the world which had to be filled. We are trying our best to fill that place in the world. You young men who will be the future generals, the men who will form the military policy of the United States, have a responsibility which you will have to assume just as soon as you finish your education. Now, this is your great school I was telling my young friends from Missouri here, that this school has produced some of the greatest men in the history of our country. This school has made a contribution that is one of the greatest in the history of the country. I am proud to be your guest today on that account. And I am just as proud and I am interpolating here of the Naval Academy and its cadets. I want to see you become the leaders and the citizens in our military setup that you should. General Bradley this afternoon is going to give you a lecture on what it means to be a graduate of this school, and what your responsibilities are, and what our military policy really is. Now I did not intend to give you a lecture on citizenship and the Presidency of the United States, but I thought maybe you would be interested in knowing that the President himself an individual like everybody else must keep his eye on the ball, in an effort to attain the respect for the office that it deserves.

Remarks at a Luncheon in the Cadet Dining Hall at West Point.


It is a very great pleasure for me to see you out here this morning. It is a pleasure to me. You know how intriguing it is, and helpful it is, for the ENTITY to get away from the White House and get to see the people as they are. ENTITY, you know, is virtually in jail. He goes from his study to his office and from his office to his study, and he has to have guards there all the time. And they do a good job, too--I am not criticizing the guards--but when you get out and see people and find out what people are thinking about, you can do a better job as President of the United States. I understand that this is top of the world in Ohio. On this nonpartisan, bipartisan trip that we are taking here, I understand there are a whole lot of Democrats present, too. It is a pleasure to have been able to see the Governor. I know he is going to be the next Governor of Ohio. It is a very great pleasure indeed for me to have a chance to stop at Fort Wayne. I have always, all my life, been an admirer of Mad Anthony Wayne. You know, Mad Anthony had a dictionary without the word cannot in it. Whenever he was given a job to do, he did it. These northwest territories are very much beholden to him for being a part of the greatest republic in the world. In his day people were thinking just as they are now-. They were anxious for peace and security, and they themselves contributed to making that peace and security. They usually had their own squirrel rifle up over the door, the bag full of powder and shot, and a King James version of the Bible. It took all those things to make this great community what it is now. I can say to you categorically that there will be a permanent peace if the United States of America assumes the role that God Almighty intended the United States of America to assume in 1920. The first is to have the United Nations to work as the United Nations Charter intends it to work, and that is what we have been working for ever since that charter was agreed to. The next most important thing right now is the success of the European recovery program. If the 16 nations that agreed at Paris to the European recovery program are encouraged and we carry out the agreements which we made with them without stint, Europe will recover and we will have peace in Europe.

Rear Platform Remarks in Ohio and Indiana.


It is just as necessary that we have peace in Asia as it is to have it in Europe, and since we are the leaders in world government, we will see that we carry out those agreements to the letter. And, I sincerely hope that the Congress will carry out the agreement that was made by these 16 nations to the letter, and not quibble on it. The next most important thing we are faced with is the necessity that we have the strength to maintain that peace. In November 1945 I requested the Congress to give us a universal training program, so that we could be in a position, after our demobilization, to maintain the peace. In January 1946 and again in 1946, and in January 1947 and again in 1947, and last November and last January, I asked Congress for the same thing, for the same reason. We must be strong enough to maintain the peace if we expect to have peace in the world. If we did not have a police force in Fort Wayne, capable of enforcing the city ordinances, you would not have any peace. And I sincerely hope that this Congress will give us that temporary draft and universal training that is necessary to keep this country in the lead. That means peace in the world. If those three things which I called to your attention are carried through to the logical conclusion, there will be peace, and there will be permanent peace, and there will be prosperity in all the world, for there are enough resources on this old globe to give everybody his fair share, and that is all the United States Government is working for. It is a pleasure to me, I assure you, to have had the privilege of stopping here this afternoon and to have had the privilege of meeting this most intelligent audience, as Mr. Madden said. I appreciate that privilege. I wish I had the time to look at some of the great industries you have in this fast growing community. I am told that this is the youngest town in America over a hundred thousand inhabitants. You have done some great things here in this town. I made some investigations here during the war, and the. plants in this city made a magnificent contribution to that war effort. Everybody was worried and uneasy when the war ceased suddenly on V-J Day--in September--and everybody wondered whether he was going to have a job or not, and everybody wondered whether he was going to have enough to eat, and when he was going to be able to get what he needed to live.


Well, that worry about the job went out the window. The last part of last year we passed the 60-million mark in jobs in this country. But that 61,800,000 people at work in this country had another worry. They were very much worried about the cost of living. Now that cost of living has been skyrocketing ever since July 1946. In July 1946--that is on the 30th of June 1946--the Congress sent me an impossible price control bill, and I vetoed it. Thirty days later they sent me one almost as bad, and I had to take it or none. I had suggested to the Congress leaving the powers with the President for a gradual release of controls, as production caught up with consumption. They did not see fit to do that. And therefore the price of living--the cost of living has been gradually going up. It made a tremendous jump from August 1946 to January 1947, and it has been steadily rising ever since. I asked the Congress last November in the message to the special session to restore Federal controls to the President so he could in his discretion hold down the cost of living to the common, everyday man. This 80th Congress has not seen fit to take any action. They have decided that the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Chamber of Commerce of the United States know all about prices and price controls. Well now, we have price controls and rationing now, just as we have under Government controls, only those price controls are controls so that only the man who has the money is able to get the necessities of life. Your dollar now in the purchase of food is worth only about 60 cents of what your dollar was in 1946, when the Government was controlling prices in favor of the consumer. This is a producer's market under which we are living now. The Both Congress, I am afraid will adjourn without doing anything about it. And then we will be faced with a continued rise and rise in the cost of living. It can only go so far under this boom and bust program. I am hoping that when we get a new Congress--and we are going to get one this fall--maybe we will get one that will work in the interests of the common people and not the interests of the men who have all the money. Bear that in mind carefully when you decide that you want a new Congress.


I WANT to welcome you all to the White House and to tell you that I am very appreciative to have a chance to say a word to you. This is a matter in which I have been greatly interested, and with the support of General Taylor, our Military Representative at the White House, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the AID Agency, CIA, and the other groups in Government, we have been attempting to put a good deal more emphasis in recent months on this problem of counter-insurgency. It has so many ramifications, as you know from your analysis of it, and it requires a mastery of so many different areas of national, international life that it has required, I know, study by all of you at the foreign Service Institute, and will require continued analysis by all of you, I hope, after you graduate, so that we can improve our courses. The foreign Service Institute has done an excellent job in laying this out. We are anxious that all of the military colleges emphasize this phase of our struggle. We are anxious that beginning really at the three military academies, that they attempt to inculcate an interest in this phase of military life. We are anxious that all those who are promoted in the career services of the foreign Service itself, of the CIA, and the AID agency and the military departments, that all of them, particularly the senior officers, have had at least some contact with this subject at various schools so that we become really far more expert than we have ever been in the past. This most ancient form of warfare, going back as it has to its earliest beginnings, has become far more important than it has ever been in the past, and it is going to become more important in the future. As the great weapons become more deadly and as more and more nations possess them, there will be of course, as has been very clearly pointed out by those who make themselves our adversaries, more and more emphasis on this kind of war, insurgency, guerrilla, and the other kind of struggle, the so-called wars of liberation. So that as the thermonuclear weapons get higher and higher in their megatonnage, and as there becomes less and less occasion to use them, then of course there will be more and more emphasis on this kind of struggle.

Remarks to Members of a Special Seminar of the foreign Service Institute.


This is not merely a military effort, but it also requires, as I have said, a broad knowledge of the whole development effort of a country, the whole technique of the National Government to identify themselves with the aspirations of people. The problem, of course, that we face is that in so much of the world the problems that the people face are so staggering, and there is no immediate answer to them. The United States does not have sufficient capital itself to make an immediate imprint. We can join the countries and encourage them and offer them hope and indicate that they are moving, but even in a country with the resources of Mexico, with the population increasing nearly 31/2 percent, with I out of every 20 children getting beyond the sixth grade, and a country with the highest standard of living in Latin America, we can see how serious are the problems that so much of the world faces. And therefore this technique of the guerrilla, where you need only one guerrilla, and it requires 15 or 20 troops to track him down, and where you have so much misery which can be exploited, offers a very effective weapon for the overthrow of legitimate governments. We sometimes take some encouragement in the fact that there are so many obvious evidences of a desire of people to be free and a desire of people to maintain their anti-Communist position. What we realize, and I am sure you realize, is the technique of the Communists which emphasizes organization, which requires comparatively few people, the people to be at the pressure point at the key moment. And when you realize the Castro experience, starting with such a small number of people, and what eventually came about, you cannot be satisfied to merely feel that 75 or 80 or 85 percent of the people are anti-Communist. They work on a much more selective basis, and it will require the best we have. So I was anxious to have you come to the White House because we want to emphasize the necessity for the experience which you are going through, that it be shared by all people in the National Government who have anything to do with our international relations. Every senior officer, as I say, in all the key departments must have a comparable experience to yours, have the knowledge that you have, have their attention focused on it. This is particularly true, as I say, in the key agencies, the military across the spectrum, to the State Department, and the agencies in between. They all must concentrate their energy on what is going to be one of the great factors in the struggle of the sixties.


I want to thank the leaders of both parties for being here today to discuss what is a very serious issue facing the United States. And the fact that I have had a chance to speak to many of you and Congress as a whole is taking this issue with the soberness and seriousness that it deserves is greatly appreciated and, I think, vindicates the decision for us to present this issue to Congress. As I have said last week, as Secretary Kerry made clear in his presentation last week, we have high confidence that Syria used, in an indiscriminate fashion, chemical weapons that killed thousands of people, including over 400 children, and in direct violation of the international norm against using chemical weapons. That poses a serious national security threat to the United States and to the region, and as a consequence, Asad and Syria needs to be held accountable. I have made a decision that America should take action. But I also believe that we will be much more effective, we will be stronger, if we take action together as one Nation. And so this gives us an opportunity not only to present the evidence to all of the leading Members of Congress and their various foreign policy Committees as to why we have high confidence that chemical weapons were used and that Asad used them, but it also gives us an opportunity to discuss why it is so important that he be held to account. This norm against using chemical weapons that 98 percent of the world agrees to is there for a reason, because we recognize that there are certain weapons that, when used, can not only end up resulting in grotesque deaths, but also can end up being transmitted to nonstate actors, can pose a risk to allies and friends of ours like Israel, like Jordan, like Turkey, and unless we hold them into account, also sends a message that international norms around issues like nuclear proliferation do not mean much. And so I am going to be working with Congress. We have sent up a draft authorization. We are going to be asking for hearings and a prompt vote. And I am very appreciative that everybody here has already begun to schedule hearings and intends to take a vote as soon as can-as all of Congress comes back early next week. The military plan that has been developed by our Joint Chiefs-and that I believe is appropriate-is proportional. It does not involve boots on the ground.

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Congressional Leaders on the Situation in Syria


Well, thank you very much and I am thrilled to be back with the hardworking, God-fearing, card-carrying patriots of the NRA. As a candidate in 2016, I promised you that I would save your Second Amendment from absolute oblation, that is where it was going, and as your president, that is exactly what I did. We saved our Second Amendment and we are going to save it for a long time to come. It is under siege, but we are going to save it for a long time to come. Forever, as far as I am concerned, forever, and thank you very much. I was proud to be the most pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment president you have ever had in the White House, I think that is been acknowledged, and with your support in 2024, I will be your loyal friend and fearless champion once again as the 47th president of the United States. We have to remember in 2016, we won, we won the first time, and we did better the second time, got a lot more votes. A lot of bad things happened, though, did not they, huh? A lot of bad things happened. I want to thank Wayne LaPierre and Charles Cotton for their leadership, as well as all of the people that work with them, the NRA members who make up this incredible organization. It is really a tremendous force for freedom, that is what it is, and I am very proud to be here. Also, with them came along Isaac. If anybody's into sports, even a little bit, four-time All-American's good. Jim was a great wrestler, a lot of people do not know that. His daughter-in-law, Brooke, she is about to have a baby. I said, What are you doing here? But he is a spectacular congressman, politician, and person, and so I just want to thank Jim and the whole family, and Polly, thank you very much for being here. Somebody that I believe is going to be and a friend of Jim, and it is going to be your next senator from the great state of Indiana, which I love so much, Jim Banks. We like it that way, do not we? He is someplace here, I saw him. For seven years, all of us here today have been engaged in an epic struggle against the corrupt forces and communist maniacs, and they are all over the place, that are absolutely trying to destroy our country.

Donald Trump Addresses NRA Meeting in Indianapolis Transcript


They want to take away your guns while throwing open the jailhouse doors and releasing bloodthirsty criminals into your communities. They want to abolish your borders and impoverish your families while spending your money on endless and very, very stupid foreign wars. They want to demonize patriots and persecute Christians while pushing the transgender cult on your children, children who turn 25 and they say, Who did this to me? Who did this to me? They want to weaponize and interfere with our elections through the use of the DOJ, the FBI, and local attorney generals and district attorneys. That is happening to me, but we are doing very well, thank you. I will tell you what, if I were not running, which is not going to happen, or if I was doing badly in the polls, and we are not going to let that happen either, we are killing them in the polls, are you seeing the numbers? They would not be doing anything. They'd be after somebody else. But we are going to show you some of the polls in a little while, you are going to be amazed. We really made a lot of progress over the last month. We put it into high gear, like we did for four years when this country had no problems, and then ENTITY came in and we got it back. When you think about it, it was amazing. We actually left it with a stock market that was higher than just pre-ENTITY coming in. It was an amazing job that we did. We built it twice, but there was nothing like it. What we did in those four years were really monumental, rebuilt our military, largest tax cuts in history, largest regulation cuts in history, the creation of Space Force, that was a big deal, that was a big deal, and so many other things. Even right to try, I hope nobody needs it, right to try, where you can use this advanced medical treatments that will not be approved for five or six years by the FDA, but we got them to move a lot faster, I will tell you, on everything, but will not be approved by the FDA for years, and we have saved thousands and thousands of lives with right to try. But we did a lot, we did a lot. 2024 is the year that we will defeat these nation-wrecking globalists, Marxists, RINOs, and tyrants once and for all.


In many ways, the RINOs are worse because you do not know where they are coming from. You say, Oh, that is a RINO, we do not like that one. At least with the Democrats, you know where they are coming from and that is not a good place, is it? If you put me back in the White House, their reign is over and America will be a free nation once again. I promise you this, with me at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, no one will lay a finger on your firearms, just as took place for four years when I was your president, I will uphold those glorious words, Shall not be infringed. Do you know those words? I think you know those words. You know those words? Every pledge I made to you as a candidate in 2016, I fulfilled as your president. I appointed nearly 300 federal judges to fill the bench with pro- Constitution warriors who interpret the law as written. We have great judges, a lot of great justices, almost 300, a record. I faced down vile attacks from the radical left to confirm three great Supreme Court justices, you know who they are, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, all outstanding people. They do not help me much, I have got to tell you that, they vote against me too much, but one of those little things in life, right? But they are outstanding people and great scholars, brilliant, and they have done a very good job. I always say, Except for me, they have done a very good job. Standing before you like, Show your tax returns, that was not supposed to happen, right? Show you tax returns, I thought that was not supposed to happen. By the way, I showed them, and you know what happened? They said, This guy made a lot of money. Standing before you at the NRA Leadership Forum in 2019, I revoked America's signature from the globalist United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, which was a disaster. I never surrendered to the globalist left. I always put our term America First, very simple, America First. I canceled Barack Hussein Obama's corrupt use of Social Security data to deny Americans their gun rights without due process of law. You know that very well in this auditorium, I fought Obama's unconstitutional effort to ban 3D-printed guns.


I stood up for our hunters, fishers, and sportsmen like no other president has ever done before, opening up millions acres of federal land and rolling back Obama's assaults on hunting, fishing, trapping, and on ammunition itself. When the radical left Democrats tried to use ENTITY to shut down gun sales during the China virus pandemic, I proudly designated gun and ammunition retailers as critical infrastructure. Do you remember that? It saved all of them, a lot of them are in the room with us today. My administration also petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn New York City's unconstitutional, so many unconstitutional things are taking place in these Democrat-run cities, but it was an unconstitutional ban on transporting handguns outside of the home, and in a landmark case last June, the court affirmed that the right to self-defense does not end when you step outside the front door of your house. We did all of this and we did so much more working now and going to finish everything that we started. We finished a lot it already in the four years, but we have things to do and we have things to finish and we are going to get that done. We are going to take back that beautiful, gorgeous White House. In year one of my new term, I will stop Joe Biden's war on lawful gun owners. It is a war, what they are doing is crazy, so many things are crazy. Let us say no borders, high taxes, everything they do. I made a speech recently and I used this term, and I did not even know we were using it, but I used it, Every day is like April Fool's Day. We want no borders. No, no, no, you have got to have borders. want no walls. No, no, you got to have walls. Everything is like the opposite. We want high taxes. No, no, we want to keep our taxes low. We want no guns. No, no, we want people to be able to protect themselves and also enjoy it as entertainment and go out and hunt and do the things that you want to do. It is almost like April Fools. Everything that they do is like, We want to have a weak military. We rebuilt the entire US military. We had planes that were 48 years old. We built brand new, beautiful jets. We had planes where the grandfathers were flying the same plane as the grandson, but we rebuilt our entire military.


I hate to say this, we gave $85 billion of it to the Taliban in Afghanistan, in probably the most embarrassing, single moment in the history of our country, which I believe led to Russia going in. They would've never done that with us, but I believe it led to that and led to a lot of bad things. That was the most embarrassing period of time, I think in our nation's history. Not only that, the soldiers killed, 13 killed, many just horribly, horribly wounded, hurt, no arms, no legs, faces were just so badly hurt and we left a lot of people there too. And then we gave up Bagram Airbase, a big airbase, one hour from where China makes its nuclear weapons. You should have never given that up, and I call it a surrender. We were in great shape. If you look back on that history, you are going to see something that was interesting. I dealt with Abdul. Abdul was the leader of the Taliban, and I took a lot of heat from all of those fake news people back there, and they said, Why do you call Abdul? Abdul is the leader of the Taliban. They are the ones that we are fighting and fighting hard.. And I related to Jesse James. They say, Why do you always rob banks, Jesse?. So when I dealt with Abdul, he is the one that was shooting our young soldiers and others with snipers and lots of other things, and I said, Abdul, you cannot do that. You cannot do that., over the phone. You do that, you are going to suffer like nobody's ever suffered. We will hit you harder than anybody's ever been hit.. He said, Your excellency, why, but why do you send me a picture of my home?. I said, Abdul, you are going to have to figure that one out for yourself.. We did not lose one soldier in 18 months. Now think of it, not one soldier was even shot at. They were at bay and we were going to get out with pride and with dignity. We were going to take all of our equipment out. I told the generals, I want every screw. I want every bolt. I want every tank. I want every plane. I want every helicopter. Sir, can we leave the hangers?, you know those big canvas, covered hangers?


Sir, I think it would be a lot easier to leave the equipment behind.. I said, So you mean to tell me, General, that if we have a hundred million dollar airplane sitting there, you want to leave that and you think that is a good thing?. Leave the airplane, leave the helicopters, which they did leave all of this very expensive We could just fill it up with a little jet fuel and fly it to Pakistan or fly it home. I think it would be a good idea to leave it.. That is where these ideas came from. We left $85 billion worth of equipment in Afghanistan and I just read a report the other day that they are about the second-largest seller of arms in the whole world. We sell more than they do, a little bit, but they are the second largest. Can you imagine that they are Because they do not need 700,000 rifles? We left behind, talking about guns, NRA, 700,000 guns and rifles, some of them the finest in the world. Some of them, even are people right up here that are so wealthy, I know them. They wish they could afford guns like we left behind for the Taliban. Many of them armor plated, costing millions of dollars apiece. We left it all behind like a bunch of fools. We are led by stupid people, and let me tell you, we have never been in such danger in our life. I believe it is the most dangerous time in the history of our country, because of the power of weaponry and I am not talking about rifles now. You know what I am talking about. You cannot use the nuclear word. The power of these weapons is so And I would never talk about it. I did not talk about it, and now it is talked about every single day, including by Putin. He says that publicly now. He never said that when I was here, because you do not talk about it. You do not talk about it. Now, they are talking about it all the time and we have somebody that has no idea what it is. We have never been in such danger. Because of our leadership, we have never been in such danger as we are right now. I will take Biden's executive order directing the federal government to target the firearms industry, and I will rip it up and throw it out on day one.