And if we keep going at the rate, it'll be about 85% in about two months. Your community is much safer, you see the difference, it is a much safer place to be. But more important than these numbers is the fact that we have ended catch and release. These great men and women catch somebody, maybe a murderer, maybe a rapist, maybe a trafficker, they catch somebody, take his name, take his number and they release them into our country. And they say, Come back in four years, you have a trial. We take them out. We bring them out. And nobody said that was possible because I could not have gotten it through the Democrats because they do not like that. So, we have people coming into this country, some great people, some really bad people too. When we bring them back to their country, could be Mexico also, they do not come back. Under the Obama Biden, I call it OBiden, Under the OBiden administration, our agents were ordered to ignore the law and release illegal aliens by the hundreds of thousands. And by the way, Mark Morgan, where is the great Mark Morgan? Mark Morgan has been so incredible, one of our executives, he said, We never built the cages. Those cages were built in 2014 by Obama. We never the cages, they were built by Obama and the fake news is constantly saying that I built cages for children. I did not build them. They were built in 2014. There was a headline in Time magazine about the cage and somebody called in that built it. They said, He did not build it, we built that for the Obama administration. But they do not stop, they keep calling it, they say I built cages. You will hear it in one of the debates. They will say, You build cages ENTITY. I said, No, I did not build cages. That was built by Obama. Under the Trump administration, if you cross our border illegally, you are quickly apprehended and swiftly returned back home. We are proudly defending the job safety and security of the American people, which is what I promised to do. Nobody told me it was going to be this hard. Nobody told me I was going to have the Democrats go totally crazy. This was like a life and death war. You know why they do not talk about it anymore? Because they know it is bad politics, because they know having a wall, they cannot win that one.


They do not want to talk about it. That includes the millions of incredible Hispanic Americans who follow our laws, uplift our community--and protect our nation, in uniform. Half of all border patrol agents are Hispanic Americans; I was just with them. And today I salute each and every one of those true American heroes and that is what they are. And you know nobody understands the border better than Hispanics. They do not want bad people coming into our country, taking their jobs, taking their homes, causing crime. Hispanic Americans are the people that are most in favor of what we are doing on the border because they understand it. They understand it better than anybody. With the help of these patriots, we have stopped the rampant asylum fraud, shut down the human smugglers and we are finding the drug dealers, traffickers, predators, and we are throwing them the hell in jail or sending them back home. MS-13 for the first time that you have ever seen this, MS-13 is totally on the run. Many of its leaders are right now behind bars and we are deporting its members in record numbers we have never reported. But if Biden wins, it will be a giant jail break for MS-13 and vicious criminal gangs. When we win, I will have a deal with Iran within a month, watch, because they are dying to make a deal. But that last hope that Biden will win, they will own our country, China, they will own our country. We made such a great deal. You know, last week they had the largest order of corn in the history of our country, the largest single order. Then they did it again. You know why they are doing that? We made a great trade deal, but I do not care. But it shows you how smart they are, Doug. Another with normal, normal brain power, they'd say, Well, I am not going to buy any more corn. And we will just decouple, thank you very much. But they go the opposite. They buy so much, good record numbers, soybeans record numbers. Last week, biggest ever, 42% of our farmers crop is now China, over the last little while. When I have every farmer in the country calling and saying, Please do not do anything. They are very, very smart, but we can never forget what China did to this country and did to the world.

Donald J. Trump Remarks at a Make America Great Again Rally in Yuma, Arizona


The historic achievements that I have discussed today are only a slim fraction of the extraordinary accomplishment that we have all done together in the last four years. Here is just a short list of our landmarks. We instituted a national security travel ban on the world's most dangerous regions, including jihadist regions, keeping terrorists and extremists out of our country. We won the travel ban. The fake news said we did not because we lost in the lower court, we lost in the second court, and we won in the Supreme court. Can you believe it? They said we lost Debbie, because we lost the first two, but we won in the Supreme court, so they said, They lost. But we have it. We have a great travel ban now for countries that are not countries where we do not want the people coming in. Over the last three years, ICE officers have made over 380,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or convicted of over 145,000 assaults, 40,000 sex crimes and 5,800 murders. Over the last three years, border patrol and ICE have seized over two million pounds of fentanyl, heroin, meth, and other deadly narcotics. And you see it all the time. We stripped federal grant funding from deadly sanctuary cities. They want to have a sanctuary city, not going to be like the old days. We canceled the lawless policies of the previous administration and empowered border agents and ICE officers to do their jobs and proudly enforce the laws of the United States of America. We removed 20,000 gang members, including 4,500, MS-13. I entered into three landmark agreements with Honduras and El Salvador and Guatemala to end the abuse of the asylum system. We cut down that payment that I was talking about substantially and they are still very happy and they are working with us very well and that includes Mexico. Right now, Mexico has 27,000 of their soldiers on our Southern border, helping us to guard our Southern border. And we are giving you the tools to do the job that you signed up for. That is what we have done. I entered into a historic partnership with Mexico, known as the migrant protection protocols, to safely return asylum seekers to Mexico, while awaiting hearings in the United States. You know about that. We had to have them in the United States and we captured them, we had to keep him here. I said, No, no, we do not want them here. We want them outside.


We got sued all over the place and we won. So now they do not come into the United States, they can wait outside. For the first time ever, the United States is now exercising our full legal authority to expedited removal. We do not have to go through years and years of litigation. We ended the Obama Biden policy of giving work permits to newly arriving, illegal aliens. We established the national vetting center, the most advanced visa screening system, anywhere in the world. We know so much about the people coming in. We know the good and we know the bad. We have suspended refugee resettlements from the world's most dangerous regions, because nothing is more important than keeping America safe. To me, that is number one. We have made historic progress to crack down on visa overstays. You know all about that. They overstay for years. Well, five years later, you catch them. Nope, we ended it. We issued strict sanctions on countries that failed to take back their own criminals. We have many countries beyond the four that I mentioned, the three plus one, many countries. They all take them back now. Before, they were not taking them back at all. The last administration simply released these criminals. We do not want them. We issued regulations to stop the horrible practice of birth tourism. Anchor babies, you know that, right? Have a baby in our country and you stay for the rest of your life. You are a citizen for 90 years. And then you bring in your family. You bring in your family, right? I implemented a historic public charge regulation to finally and fully enforce the federal requirement that newcomers to our country must be financially self-sufficient, they cannot accept welfare for at least five years. To protect our country and our agents during the pandemic, my administration took immediate action to ensure the safe and rapid return of all illegal aliens. We brought them back. We have very few in our country now. We brought them back, can you believe it? To protect US workers, I suspended the entry of low wage workers that threatened all of your jobs, American jobs, and we are finalizing the new H-1B regulations to permanently end the displacement of US workers. In January after the China virus, after the outbreak, after the outbreak, the China virus outbreak, it came from Wuhan, right? I swiftly implemented a travel ban on China and I was criticized. Biden opposed the ban.


He said, I oppose the ban. He had no idea what the hell he was doing. Why do you oppose it, Joe? They told me to say that. If we had listened to Sleepy Joe Biden, hundreds of thousands of additional American lives would have been lost. We did a good thing. That was in January, I imposed it, very early. We imposed it because China was heavily infected. Then I imposed it on Europe also, heavily infected with Italy and France and Spain. Compare our achievements with the insane and lethal policies that Biden and Bernie Sanders want. By the way, you talk about guns. She wants no 2nd Amendment. She wants to raise your taxes to a level you will be paying your government back for a long time. They asked me that. What do you think? They thought I was happy for him. No, I was happy for me. The Biden-Harris plan is a step-by-step recipe for abolishing America's borders. In the Biden-Bernie manifesto, Joe Biden, promises to restore and expand catch and release across the entire US border. You believe that? We just got rid of it. Free all illegal aliens from federal detention and close detention facilities, this would make removing illegal aliens totally impossible, and you would have murderers, killers, rapists in your midst. Immediately suspend all removals, triggering a tidal wave of, really a flood, if you think, a flood all across our border. End prosecution of illegal border crosses ensuring that illegal aliens will repeatedly reenter the country over and over again and terminate all protections we have enacted against asylum fraud. They want to do things that nobody thought was even possible to contemplate. But I will tell you this-it is 120. You know what I said before? Think of yourself at a great spa, great sauna, where it is 120 degrees and we have to pay a lot of money to be there. You have to pay a lot of money. Getting off the border, getting off illegal protection, all of that, we are going to lower your taxes further. We gave you the biggest tax decrease in the history of-the biggest tax decrease in the history of our country. We decreased your taxes more than anybody has ever done and we are doing more because that is going to spell growth and that is what happened. So, we are doing that.


We have cut regulations more than any president in the history of our country, whether it is four years, eight years, or in one case, more. I told you already, our military is the best it is ever been. It is got $2.5 trillion worth of new, beautiful jets and equipment and rockets and everything. And hopefully, we never have to use it. Our nuclear arsenal, and hopefully, hopefully we never have to even look at it, our nuclear arsenal is at a level that it is never ever been before, and we have to have it there, but we never want to use it. So, we have done things not only on the border, the border is one element, and to me it is very important. Something that they always say about a president, the most important thing a president can do is the appointment of federal judges and supreme court justices. So, by the end of our, of not my, our first term, we will have appointed 300 federal judges and appeals court judges--and two supreme court justices. And, when it comes to 2nd Amendment, when it comes to life, when it comes to a lot of things that you people live for, if you do not have the supreme court and if you do not have the courts in your side, you can forget it. The next president, I think, will pick two, three, or even four justices of the supreme court. They can be on the court for 40 to 50 years. You pick them young. They could be on there for 40 to 50 years. This is going to be the most important, and I never thought I'd say it because of what happened four years ago, this is going to be the most important election of your life. We need every single vote that we can get because it is probably going to be close. They have these suppression, the fakers back there, they have these suppression polls where they interview many more Democrats than they do Republicans. Doug and I were talking about it, and they take out registered voters. They say, Most likely to vote voters. That is what, most likely registered, they are dead, they are old, they are not going to go, they are not going to do anything. November 3rd is the biggest date, one of the biggest dates in your life, in many cases, frankly, it is the most important date of your life.


Well, it is good to be back in Philadelphia. It is good to be among so many good friends, including Benjamin Franklin, one of my favorite Founders. I have to admit, I had to restrain myself because this is such an amazing facility, and just wandering around, I started reading about all kinds of American history and that the Dead Sea Scrolls were here. Staff was saying, ENTITY, you have some other stuff that you have to do. There are a couple of acknowledgments that I want to make. First of all, you have got one of the best mayors in the country, Mayor Michael Nutter is here. You have got a couple of the finest Members of Congress in Bob Brady and Chaka Fattah. And you have got somebody here who is been one of my dearest friends and one of my favorite people who has always had my back, and he and I share a lot in common. We are both--we both pretend to play basketball, even though we are way too old. We both married up and we both have extraordinary daughters. He happens also to be one of the best Members of the Senate that we have. Bob Casey is in the house. So I am here not just because I need your help, although I do. I am here because the country needs your help. When you think back to 2008, a lot of you were involved in that campaign. You did not get involved because you thought ENTITY was the odds-on favorite to become President of the United States. Let us face it. the idea that if you are willing to work hard, if you are willing to take responsibility, that in this country you can make it; that you can find a job that pays a living wage and you can save and buy a home. You can send your kids to college so they do even better than you did. You can retire with some dignity and some respect. The idea that no matter where you come from, no matter what you look like, no matter what your faith, no matter who you love, that in America you can make it if you try. It is that idea that builds the broadest middle class in the history of the world--and that was and has been the strength of America, the backbone of America--is that everybody had a shot. And we felt back in 2008 that those ideals were being lost, that we had taken a wrong turn.

Remarks at an Obama Victory Fund 2012 Fundraiser in Philadelphia


We had taken a surplus left behind by President Clinton and turned it into deficits as far as the eye could see, not because we invested in our economic future, but because we gave tax cuts to folks who did not need them and were not even asking for them. We put two wars on a credit card. Our economy increasingly was built on financial speculation and a housing bubble. Manufacturing was leaving our shores. And although a few people were doing really, really well, that broad-based middle class that built this country, that was the essence of this country, found themselves--you found yourselves--in a situation where wages, incomes were flatlining and job growth was the most sluggish it had been in 50, 60 years and the cost of everything from health care to college education kept on going up and up and up. And it all culminated in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Three million jobs lost in the 6 months before I took office, while we were campaigning, 800,000 jobs lost the month that I was sworn into office. And so we had to make a series of tough decisions and decisive decisions and quick decisions, and we had to do it without much help from the other side. But the thing that gave me confidence throughout was what I had learned about the American people as I traveled all across the country--and it is a great privilege just running for President and obviously a greater privilege being President because you meet Americans from every walk of life and they show you their grit and they show you their determination. And it turns out Americans are tougher than any tough times. And so when some people said we should let Detroit go bankrupt, we decided, no, we are going to make a bet on the American worker and American industry. And because of the actions that we took, GM is back on top, and we are seeing the auto industry rehiring and producing better cars than ever. We helped to stabilize the financial system so small businesses could get help again and get credit and financing flowing again. Businesses got back to basics, and we created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, 800,000 this year alone. So we have made progress. And the reason we made progress was in part because of our policies, but in part because Americans everywhere figured out how they were going to respond.


If you really pay attention--and one of our jobs during this election is to get folks to pay attention to what the other side is actually offering--then it boils down to deeper tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, $5 trillion in tax cuts on top of the Bush tax cuts, an average of a 25-percent tax cut for millionaires all across the country, and the elimination of regulations that would make sure that Wall Street does not engage in the kind of behavior that resulted in this crisis, that would roll back the kinds of progress we have made making sure insurance companies cannot drop you when you get sick, that would roll back environmental and worker protection and consumer protections that we have been working on not just during my administration, but for the last 30, 40 years. That is the essence of what they are offering. And I guess he thinks either it would result in a different outcome than it did when we just tried this 10 years ago, or he and the Republican Congress are counting on the notion that we forgot how it turned out. We are moving forward, and that is why I am running for a second term as President of the United States of America. I am running to make sure that we keep bringing manufacturing and industry back to Philadelphia, back to Pittsburgh, back to Pennsylvania, back to Ohio. I want to stop giving tax breaks for companies that are shipping jobs overseas. I want those tax breaks to go to companies that are investing right here in the United States of America. I am running to make sure that we continue on a path of providing the best education possible for every single one of our children and make sure that we have got the highest rates of college graduates of any country on Earth, because that is going to be the future. We took a student loan program where tens of billions of dollars were being funneled to banks as middlemen in the student loan program, we said, why do not we just give that money directly to students. And as a consequence, we have got millions of students who are benefiting from higher Pell grants; more kids are eligible. We are able to make sure that we can cap the amount of money that folks have to pay back each month on their student loans, because we recognized that a higher education cannot be a luxury. You cannot just count on the fact that your parents are paying for your college education. A lot of kids need help. And that is good for the country. We are not going backwards on that, we are going to keep moving forward.


I am running because I want to continue to see America be the best innovator in the world. When you think about Benjamin Franklin--I just had a chance to talk to these outstanding students from a science and leadership academy who graduated. And I told them, what is America about? We have been about technology and discovery and invention, dating back to this guy. So the notion that we would now shortchange our investments in science and basic research, the possible cures for cancer or Alzheimer's or the clean energy that can make sure that we are doing something about climate change and saving money for families--that is not the answer, rolling back those investments. That is why I am running for President of the United States again. I am running because I want us to continue to build this country. We are a nation of builders. The mayor and I were talking as we were driving from the airport about all the projects, all the infrastructure, all the folks being put back to work making Philadelphia a more attractive place for people to do business. And all across the country, I want us to rebuild our roads and our bridges, our airports. I want us to build broadband lines and high-speed rail and wireless networks so that we have the platform for businesses to succeed all across this country. That is why I am running for President. I want to put people back to work rebuilding America. I am running because I believe in America's energy future. So we have focused on traditional sources of energy, but we have also doubled fuel efficiency standards on cars. We have also doubled the production of clean energy. I want us to control our own energy future, and we can put people back to work in the process. And that is why I am running for President of the United States of America, because I believe we can achieve that. And I am running for President because I want to do something about our debt and our deficits in a balanced and responsible way. And that is as sharp a contrast as we have got between my approach and what Republicans are peddling right now. They think somehow they have got a winner on this issue. Let us talk about the facts here. Remember, when the last Democratic President was in office, we had a surplus. By the time I got into office, we had a $1 trillion deficit because of tax cuts that were not paid for, two wars that were not paid for, a prescription drug plan that was not paid for.


We had baked into the cake structural deficits that were made even worse by the financial crisis. And so for these folks suddenly to get religion----and say, man, deficits and Government spending--when they ran up the tab and are trying to pass off the bill to me----listen, let me tell you something. Even after you factor in all the work that we did to prevent us from slipping into a depression, the pace of growth of Government spending is lower under my administration than it has been in the last 50 years. The two Presidents with the least growth in Government spending in the modern era happen to be two Democrats named ENTITY and Bill Clinton. And now you have got Mr. Romney proposing a $5 trillion tax cut. either it is not paid for, in which case, that is $5 trillion that is piled on top of the debt we already have, passed onto the next generation, or it is going to come from middle class families all across this country. And I am running for President because we are not going to let that happen. We are not going to allow another millionaires' tax cut to result in cuts in basic research and science, and cuts in Head Start programs, and less help to States and cities who are putting folks back to work. We are not going to have poor and disabled and seniors who rely on Medicaid having to bear the brunt for another millionaires' tax cut. We are not going to voucherize Medicare. We have got to do something about the debt and deficits, and the way to do it is by making sure that, yes, we go after waste in Government. But what we do have to make sure of is that we do it in a balanced way. So, even as we are paring back on things that do not work--and I have already signed $2 trillion of cuts into law already and have proposed $2 trillion in additional deficit reduction--even as we are making sensible cuts, even as we are reforming our health care system to make sure that the dollars we pay actually make us healthier, what we are not going to do is to make the most vulnerable people in our society, as well as the middle class, shoulder the burden. We are going to ask those like myself who are best equipped to help to do their fair share because that is part of the American bargain. Everybody gets a fair shot. Everybody does their fair share. Everybody plays by the same set of rules.


That is what we mean when we say we are going forward. We are not going to relitigate Wall Street reform. We are not going to relitigate health care reform. It was the right thing to do; 2.5 million young people who can stay on their parent's plan and now have health insurance who did not otherwise have it. Millions of seniors getting discounts on their prescription drugs, that was the right thing to do. Health care prevention and women being able to control their own health care decisions, that was the right thing to do. In 2008, I said I'd end the war in Iraq. I ended it. In 2008, I said we'd go after Al Qaida. And bin Laden is no longer a threat to this country and Al Qaida is on its heels. We are transitioning in Afghanistan, and by 2014, we have set a timeline, that war will be over. And we are going to use the savings that we get from ending these wars. Half of it will go to deficit reduction; the other half, we will put to work rebuilding America, because this is the nation we need to build. That is what I mean when I say we are moving forward. We are not going to go back to the days when you could not serve in the military just because of who you love. Do not ask, do not tell was bad for America's security, and it was wrong, and we believe in the fairness and dignity and equality of all people. We want to move forward and make sure that elections are not just about $10 million checks being written by folks who have vested interests in maintaining the status quo. We want to move forward to make sure that we are creating an immigration system that reflects our tradition as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. Look, we are at our best when every voice is heard, when everybody has a stake. That is a tradition started by folks like Benjamin Franklin. That is the essence of our creed. If you look at our history, when we have made progress we have done it together. That is how my grandfather's generation was educated on a GI bill. That is how we built the Hoover Dam. That is how we sent a man to the Moon. We believe in individual initiative and the free market. We love folks getting rich----that is part of America's success. But we also understand there are some things we do together as a nation.


That is the true lesson of our history. And that is the choice that we face in this election. Now, let me tell you, this election is going to be close, because folks have gone through a tough time. And no matter how many times you tell them, well, we avoided a whole bunch of really bad stuff, if you do not have a job, if your house is still underwater, if you have not seen your income go up in a decade, you are still frustrated. You are still concerned about your kid's future. And the other side, they do not have any new ideas. I am telling you, I want you all to pay attention over the next 5 months and see if they are offering a single thing that they did not try when they were in charge, because you will not see it. But you know what they do have is they will have $500 million worth of negative ads. And they will tap into and feed into cynicism and a sense of frustration. And they will try to direct blame. The thing is, though, what you guys taught me in 2008 was when Americans, when citizens decide to come together, when they say, it is time for change, when they start talking to their neighbors and their friends and they are really starting to pay attention in terms of who is saying what and asking themselves, how do we move this country forward, when you decide change needs to happen, guess what, it happens. And so I have never been more convinced about the strength and the dignity of the American people. I have never been more convinced about our prospects for the future, and the reason is because of you. As I travel all across this country, the American people constantly give me hope. They constantly give me cause for optimism. I still believe in you. And I told you back in 2008 that I would not be--I was not a perfect man. Michelle would tell you that. And I would not --I'd never be a perfect President, but I did say I'd always tell you what I thought and I'd always tell you where I stood. And I promised you I would wake up every single day thinking about how I can work as hard as I know how, to make your lives a little bit better and to make the lives of future generations a little bit better. I have kept that promise. And so I hope you still believe in me.


Laura and I are so honored that, Klaus, you gave us a chance to come. I do want to thank President Mubarak and Mrs. Mubarak for their wonderful hospitality. I want to thank the Members of Congress who are here. I appreciate the heads of state who've joined us. I thank the foreign ministers who are here, including my own, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. And I want to thank the members of the diplomatic corps. Laura and I are delighted to be in Egypt, and we bring the warm wishes of the American people. We are proud of our long friendship with your citizens. We respect your remarkable history. And we are humbled to walk in the ancient land of pharaohs, where a great civilization took root and wrote some of the first chapters in the epic story of humanity. America is a much younger nation, but we have made our mark by advancing ideals as old as the pyramids. Those ideals of liberty and justice have sparked a revolution across much of the world. This hopeful movement made its way to places where dictators once reigned and peaceful democracies seemed unimaginable, places like Chile and Indonesia and Poland and the Philippines and South Korea. These nations have different histories and different traditions, yet each made the same democratic transition, and they did it on their own terms. In these countries, millions every year are rising from poverty. Women are realizing overdue opportunities. And people of faith are finding the blessing of worshiping God in peace. All these changes took place in the second half of the 20th century. I strongly believe that if leaders, like those of you in this room, act with vision and resolve, the first half of the 21st century can be the time when similar advances reach the Middle East. This region is home to energetic people, a powerful spirit of enterprise, and tremendous resources. It is capable of a very bright future, a future in which the Middle East is a place of innovation and discovery driven by free men and women. In recent years, we have seen hopeful beginnings toward this vision. Turkey, a nation with a majority Muslim population, is a prosperous, modern democracy. Afghanistan, under the leadership of President Karzai, is overcoming the Taliban and building a free society. Iraq, under the leadership of Prime Minister Maliki, is establishing a multiethnic democracy. We have seen the stirrings of reform from Morocco and Algeria to Jordan and the Gulf States. the cell phone and the Internet.

George W. Bush Remarks to the World Economic Forum in Sharm el-Sheikh


America appreciates the challenges facing the Middle East, yet the light of liberty is beginning to shine. From diversifying your economies to investing in your people to extending the reach of freedom, nations across the region have an opportunity to move forward with bold and confident reforms and to lead the Middle East to its rightful place as a center of progress and achievement. This is a time of strength for many of your nations' economies. Since 2004, economic growth in the region has averaged more than 5 percent. And unemployment rates have decreased in many nations. Egypt, for example, has posted strong economic growth, developed some of the world's fastest growing telecommunications companies, and made major investments that will boost tourism and trade. In order for this economic progress to result in permanent prosperity and an Egypt that reaches its full potential, however, economic reform must be accompanied by political reform. And I continue to hope that Egypt can lead the region in political reform. This is also a time to prepare for the economic changes ahead. Rising price of oil has brought great wealth to some in this region, but the supply of oil is limited, and nations like mine are aggressively developing alternatives to oil. Over time, as the world becomes less dependent on oil, nations in the Middle East will have to build more diverse and more dynamic economies. Your greatest asset in this quest is the entrepreneurial spirit of your people. The best way to take advantage of that spirit is to make reforms that unleash individual creativity and innovation. Your economies will be more vibrant when citizens who dream of starting their own companies can do so quickly, without high regulatory and registration costs. Your economies will be more dynamic when property rights are protected and risk-taking is encouraged, not punished, by law. Your economies will be more resilient when you adopt modern agricultural techniques that make farmers more productive and the food supply more secure. And your economies will have greater long-term prosperity when taxes are low and all your citizens know that their innovation and hard work will be rewarded. One of the most powerful drivers of economic growth is free trade. So nations in this region would benefit greatly from breaking down barriers to trade with each other. And America will continue working to open up trade at every level. In recent years, the United States has completed free trade agreements with Jordan, Oman, Morocco, and Bahrain. America will continue to negotiate bilateral free trade agreements in the region.


We strongly supported Saudi Arabia's accession to the World Trade Organization, and we will continue to support nations making the reforms necessary to join the institutions of a global economy. And to break down trade barriers and ignite economic growth around the world, we will work tirelessly for a successful outcome to the Doha round this year. As we seek to open up new markets abroad, America will keep our markets open at home. There are voices in my country that urge America to adopt measures that would isolate us from the global economy. I firmly reject these calls for protectionism. We will continue to welcome foreign investment and trade. And the United States of America will stay open for business. Some analysts believe the Middle East and North Africa will need to create up to 100 million new jobs over the next 10 to 15 years just to keep up with population growth. The key to realizing this goal is an educated workforce. This starts early on, with primary schools that teach basic skills such as reading and math rather than indoctrinating children with ideologies of hatred. An educated workforce also requires good high schools and universities where students are exposed to a variety of ideas, learn to think for themselves, and develop the capacity to innovate. Not long ago, the region marked a hopeful milestone in higher education. In our meeting yesterday, President Karzai told me he recently handed out diplomas to university graduates, including 300 degrees in medicine and 100 degrees in engineering and a lot of degrees to lawyers. And many of the recipients were women. The people of the Middle East can count on the United States to be a strong partner in improving your educational systems. We are sponsoring training programs for teachers and administrators in nations like Jordan and Morocco and Lebanon. We sponsored English language programs where students can go for intensive language instruction. We have translated more than 80 children's books into Arabic. We have developed new online curricula for students from kindergarten through high school. It is also in America's interest to continue welcoming aspiring young adults from this region for higher education to the United States. My administration has worked hard to improve the visa process. And I am pleased to report that we are issuing a growing number of student visas to young people from the Middle East.


And we will continue to work to expand educational exchanges, because we benefit from the contribution of foreign students who study in America, because we are proud to train the world's leaders of tomorrow, and because we know there is no better antidote to the propaganda of our enemies than firsthand experience with life in the United States of America. This is a matter of morality and of basic math. No nation that cuts off half its population from opportunities will be as productive or prosperous as it could be. Women are a formidable force, as I have seen in my own family and my own administration. As the nations of the Middle East open up their laws and their societies to women, they are learning the same thing. I applaud Egypt. Egypt is a model for the development of professional women. In Afghanistan, girls who were once denied even a basic education are now going to school, and a whole generation of Afghans will grow up with the intellectual tools to lead their nation toward prosperity. In Iraq and in Kuwait, women are joining political parties and running campaigns and serving in public office. In some Gulf States, women entrepreneurs are making a living and a name for themselves in the business world. Recently, I learned of a woman in Bahrain who owns her own shipping company. She started with a small office and two employees. When she first tried to register her business in her own name, she was turned down. She attended a business training class and was the only woman to participate. And when she applied for a customs license, officials expressed surprise because no woman had ever asked for one before. And yet with hard work and determination, she turned her small company into a $2 million enterprise. And this year, Huda Janahi was named one of the 50 most powerful businesswomen in the Arab world. Huda is an inspiring example for the whole region. You have a great deal to contribute; you should have a strong voice in leading your countries; and my Nation looks to the day when you have the rights and privileges you deserve. Free societies stimulate competition in the marketplace. Free societies give people access to information they need to make informed and responsible decisions. And free societies give citizens the rule of law, which exposes corruption and builds confidence in the future. Freedom is also the basis for a democratic system of government, which is the only fair and just ordering of society and the only way to guarantee the God-given rights of all people. Democracies do not take the same shape.


They develop at different speeds and in different ways, and they reflect the unique cultures and traditions of their people. I understand that. But as more people in the Middle East gain firsthand experience from freedom, many of the arguments against democracy are being discredited. For example, some say that democracy is a Western value that America seeks to impose on unwilling citizens. This is a condescending form of moral relativism. The truth is that freedom is a universal right, the Almighty's gift to every man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth. And as we have seen time and time again, when people are allowed to make a choice between freedom and the alternative, they choose freedom. In Afghanistan, 8 million people defied the terrorist threats to vote for a democratic President. In Iraq, 12 million people waved ink-stained fingers to celebrate the first democratic election in decades. There are people who claim that democracy is incompatible with Islam. But the truth is that democracies, by definition, make a place for people of religious belief. America is one of the most is one of the world's leading democracies, and we are also one of the most religious nations in the world. More than three-quarters of our citizens believe in a higher power. Millions worship every week and pray every day, and they do so without fear of reprisal from the state. In our democracy, we would never punish a person for owning a Koran. We would never issue a death sentence to someone for converting to Islam. Democracy does not threaten Islam or any religion. Democracy is the only system of government that guarantees their protection. Some say any state that holds an election is a democracy. But true democracy requires vigorous political parties allowed to engage in free and lively debate. True democracy requires the establishment of civic institutions that ensure an election's legitimacy and hold leaders accountable. And true democracy requires competitive elections in which opposition candidates are allowed to campaign without fear or intimidation. Too often in the Middle East, politics has consisted of one leader in power and the opposition in jail. America is deeply concerned about the plight of political prisoners in this region as well as democratic activists who are intimidated or repressed, newspapers and civil society organizations that are shut down, and dissidents whose voices are stifled. The time has come for nations across the Middle East to abandon these practices and treat their people with dignity and the respect they deserve.


I call on all nations to release their prisoners of conscience, open up their political debate, and trust their people to chart their future. The vision I have outlined today is shared by many in this region, but unfortunately, there are some spoilers who stand in the way. Terrorist organizations and their state sponsors know they cannot survive in a free society, so they create chaos and take innocent lives in an effort to stop democracy from taking root. They are on the wrong side in a great ideological struggle, and every nation committed to freedom and progress in the Middle East must stand together to defeat them. We must stand with the Palestinian people, who have suffered for decades and earned the right to be a homeland of their own to have a homeland of their own. I strongly support a two-state solution, a democratic Palestine based on law and justice that will live with peace and security alongside a democrat Israel. I believe that the Palestinian people will build a thriving democracy in which entrepreneurs pursue their dreams, and families own their homes in lively communities, and young people grow up with hope in the future. Last year at Annapolis, we made a hopeful beginning toward a peace negotiation that will outline what this nation of Palestine will look like, a contiguous state where Palestinians live in prosperity and dignity. A peace agreement is in the Palestinians' interests, it is in Israel's interests, it is in Arab States' interests, and it is in the world's interests. And I firmly believe that with leadership and courage, we can reach that peace agreement this year. It requires action on all sides. Palestinians must fight terror and continue to build the institutions of a free and peaceful society. Israel must make tough sacrifices for peace and ease the restrictions on the Palestinians. Arab States, especially oil-rich nations, must seize this opportunity to invest aggressively in the Palestinian people and to move past their old resentments against Israel. And all nations in the region must stand together in confronting Hamas, which is attempting to undermine efforts at peace with acts of terror and violence. We must stand with the people of Lebanon in their struggle to build a sovereign and independent democracy. This means opposing Hizballah terrorists, funded by Iran, who recently revealed their true intentions by taking up arms against the Lebanese people. It is now clearer than ever that Hizballah militias are the enemy of a free Lebanon. And all nations, especially neighbors in the region, have an interest to help the Lebanese people prevail.


We must stand with the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and other nations in the region fighting against Al Qaida and other extremists. Bin Laden and his followers have made clear that anyone who does not share their extremist ideology is fit for murder. That means every government in the Middle East is a target of Al Qaida. And together, we will confront and we will defeat this threat to civilization. We must stand with the good and decent people of Iran and Syria, who deserve so much better than the life they have today. Every peaceful nation in the region has an interest in stopping these nations from supporting terrorism. And every peaceful nation in the region has an interest in opposing Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions. To allow the world's leading sponsor of terror to gain the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations. For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. demographics. Sixty percent of the population is under 30 years old. Many of these young people surf the Web, own cell phones, have satellite televisions. They have access to unprecedented amounts of information. They see what freedom has brought to millions of others and contrast that to what they have at home. Today I have a message for these young people. Some tell you some will tell you change is impossible, but history has a way of surprising us, and change can happen more quickly than we expect. in Arabic, hurriyya; in English, freedom. Across the world, the call for freedom lives in our hearts, endures in our prayers, and joins humanity as one. I know these are trying times, but the future is in your hands, and freedom and peace are within your grasp. Just imagine what this region could look like in 60 years. a democratic state that is governed by law, respects human rights, and rejects terror. Israel will be celebrating its 120th anniversary as one of the world's great democracies, a secure and flourishing homeland for the Jewish people. From Cairo, Riyadh, Baghdad to Beirut, people will live in free and independent societies, where a desire for peace is reinforced by ties of diplomacy and tourism and trade. Iran and Syria will be peaceful nations, where today's oppression is a distant memory and people are free to speak their minds and develop their talents.


We love being with you. We love being with you. And I am thrilled to be here in Albuquerque with thousands of hard-working, freedom-loving American patriots. We are all united by the same love of our great country. And by the way, our country is doing great. You see it. The same devotion to family and the same profound faith that America is blessed by, the eternal grace of Almighty God. Tomorrow they will say, Massive protest. No, one person just going home to mommy a little bit sooner. But we are bound by these convictions. We will campaign for every vote, and we will win the great state of New Mexico in 2020. And by the way, you have thousands and thousands of people outside who cannot get in. So we love you, we love you, we appreciate it. We try to get the biggest arena we can get, and they are never big enough, frankly. But right now it is like a great tree or a great plant, you plant it and it has to take hold. We have to win 2020. We have to win 2020. And every day, and you know as well as I do, we are battling against the corrupt establishment of the past, and we are achieving historic victories for the American people. Crucially for your state, we have ended the last administration's war on American energy. And since my election, natural gas productions, big story today, in New Mexico has increased by 40%, 4-0. And that means great wages, and it means jobs. And that is why you are breaking every single record in your state's book. Crude oil production in New Mexico has more than doubled, and going up a lot higher very quickly. And your state's energy revenues are up by nearly two-thirds. And that is in a short period of time. The United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. And this means more jobs, higher wages, and American energy independence, which is what we have. A few years ago, if we had a problem like you saw two days ago in the Middle East, we would've been in a panic. But a few years ago, they would have been in a panic. Today we got a lot of oil, we got a lot of gas. We got a lot of oil and gas. We do not have to send too many boats over there.

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Did you notice the other day, they were saying, We do not see too many American ships anymore. And we are now a net exporter of energy. Revenues from energy production provide up to 25% of your state's budget and going much higher in the very near future. And they have generated nearly a billion-dollar budget surplus in New Mexico. Now, under the Green New Deal, that all goes away. You can forget it. You are not allowed to travel more than 162 miles. They will call us the hermit nation. We will never leave our house. I do not want to bring it up because I do not want to do it too early. But think of it for you, and for Texas, and for so many other places, they want to get rid of your energy. I mean, explain that one. Yet, every major Democrat running for president, they want to abolish all production of oil and natural gas. In other words, the Democrats want to completely annihilate New Mexico's economy. The Democrats want us to be subservient to foreign producers. They want us to be at the mercy of rogue regimes. But Democrats will never get the chance because New Mexico will never give them that chance. Under this administration, America is working again. And America is respected again, like it has not been for a long time. And I can tell you because I meet so many of the leaders, and their presidents, and their kings, and their queens, and their prime ministers, and their everything, dictators every once in a while. Every once in a while, you get an a rogue dictator. And I will tell you, they always start off, today I had the Crown Prince of Bahrain, and they come in and they say, Sir, I'd like to congratulate you on what you have done with the economy of the United States. It is a model for the entire world. They all say it. And earlier today Do we have any baseball fans? You know what I am going to say. But earlier today in the White House, I had the honor of awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, that is the highest civilian award, to someone who truly embodies the American dream, baseball legend, the greatest, by the way, the greatest relief pitcher of all time, you look at those records, Mariano Rivera. The Yankees won a lot of World Series because of Mariano. We gave him the medal.


It was a beautiful day at the White House, so it was good. My administration is fighting to empower all Americans to reach their dreams and achieve their potential. We have created six million new jobs since election day. The fake news would never have allowed us to say that during the campaign, even as a projection. Unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in over 50 years. More than seven million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps. Nearly 600,000 Americans came into the labor force last month alone. Wages in your state, New Mexico, are growing at a rate of much more than 3% a year, which is unheard of 20 years ago. And I used to say during the campaign, you go back, it is hard to believe, I am here almost three years Can you believe how time is flying? Can you believe it? I do not know about it me, but you look all much better than you did three years ago. And even with the Me Too movement, we cannot say this, but I will say it anyway, you are better looking, including the men, including the men. Since my election, the number of new business applications for New Mexico has increased by almost 30%, more than any state in the United States. So essentially, that is saying you are in a certain category, which is a very important category, you are doing better than any state in the United States. How do I lose New Mexico? How do we lose that one? And yet, for whatever reason, it is been quite a while since a Republican won this state. But we are going to win this state. And I think we are going to win this state easy. You had to see the people all the way in from the airport. That was a long drive by the way, 35 minutes. But all the way in, we had people, and they were waving. And I did not see any negative hand gesture, right? And we are here for a number of reasons, but we are here because we really think we are going to turn this state and make it a Republican state. Yesterday marked the beginning of the Hispanic Heritage Month. But we have much to celebrate. Unbelievable when you think, the unemployment for Hispanic-Americans is right now at the lowest level ever recorded in the history of our country. Hispanic-American poverty reached a brand new all-time low in history.


And after years of stagnation that you know very well, wages for Hispanic-Americans are rising really fast, up nearly 8% since my election. And median income, think of that, median income for Hispanic-Americans surpassed $50,000 for the first time ever. And I just want to tell you it is an honor. But when I am on the debate stage debating one of these far left radical Democrats, whoever it may be, and they start telling you what they are going to do for you, and you say, But we have the best numbers, every category, that we have ever had. Hispanic-Americans excuse me, New Mexico as a whole, we have the best numbers. African-Americans, the best numbers that we have ever had in the history of our country. Asian-Americans, the best numbers that we have ever had in history. Women, the best numbers that we have had in 71 years. We are working night and day to deliver a future of limitless opportunity for our nation's Hispanic-American citizens, including millions and millions of extraordinary Mexican-Americans who enrich our society, strengthen our country, serve in our military, and contribute immensely to our shared American family. And I want to just tell you that Mexico is doing a great job for us on the border, and I want to thank the president of Mexico. You know, it is very interesting, I hear everybody screaming, well, you know we are building the wall, and it is going up, and it is going up fast. And if you think that is easy with the Democrats who control the House, we have to take it back, but if you think it is easy But we are building a lot of wall. We will have almost 500 miles of wall built by the end the next year, and it is making a big difference. But you know we won a big case two months ago in the Supreme Court that allowed us to do what we are doing. This has been I will tell you what. So we are building the wall, the ENTITY Corps of Engineers, we are doing a beautiful job. You are going to have to really want to get over that wall, to do it. But it was very interesting because, not too long ago, I saw where the Hispanic-American, the Hispanics, were up with me in a poll, 17%.


I will not even tell you what the final number was because they will not believe it, but you are going to see what the final number Because the Hispanic-Americans, they understand, they do not want criminals coming across the border. They do not want people taking their jobs. They want to have that security, and they want the wall. They want the wall. And we have a man in the audience who is, I think, the best dressed man in this entire place, including me, right here. And he is been to a couple of rallies too, have not you? We have some people, a group of people the other day, you know, we had a victory in North Carolina that was unbelievable. One of them, it was going to be very, very close. Here is another one of my friends. I like that beautiful red tie you are wearing. But we had a victory, two victories, North Carolina, where one was 17 points down three weeks ago, we got involved, we started sending out lots of different social media messages, we did a couple of little robo calls, but the big thing, we did a speech the night before. The turnout was beyond belief. And instead of being down by 17 points, he easily won the election 4,000 or 5,000 votes. And Greg Murphy was up a couple of points, and he ended up winning, I do not know, I'd ask the media, but they will not give me how many What did he get? He won by a lot. He won by a lot. I'd asked them, but we are not going to get a straight answer. I will tell you, Tuesday night, the fake news was not happy. CNN had their A- list talent. They do not have A-list talent, but they had the best they could have. This was going to be the end of ENTITY, because this man was going to lose. And in all fairness, I helped a lot too. And toward the end of the night, they started dismantling that studio. Probably it would have been there for four weeks. But we had two great victories, congressional victories, on Tuesday night. The one gentleman won by a number that nobody thought even possible, so much. And the other won a race that he was way, way, way back.


In fact, I should not tell you this, but my geniuses, my people, some of those people standing right there, right there, some of them right there, they said, Sir, do not get involved in that race, sir. You cannot come back from 17 points, sir. I said, But you know, I really like the guy. Let us give it a shot. I said, Let me tell you, I know them very well. Whether I help him or do not help him, it is going to be the same. So let us help him. They said, Do not do it, sir. We are also very proud that unemployment among Native Americans has reached the lowest rate in nearly two decades. And we are building an amazing future for citizens of every background, race, religion, color, and creed. And that is what we have. That is what we have. But the radical left Democrats want to demolish everything that we have gained. They want to raise your taxes. They want to bury you in regulation. They want to take away your health insurance, 180 million Americans. They want to erase American history, crush religious liberty, indoctrinate our students with left-wing ideology. And left-wing Democrats want to confiscate your guns and eliminate your God-given right to self-defense. You know that. As your president, I will never allow them to take away your liberty, your dignity, and your social security. And I will never, ever allow them to take away your sacred right to keep and bear arms. The left tries to threaten, bully, intimidate Americans into submission. They use Democrat prosecutors and phony congressional committees whenever they can. They will do whatever they can to demean you, to libel you. They try to blacklist, coerce, cancel, or destroy anyone who gets in their way. Look at what they are doing today to Justice Kavanaugh. Look at what they are doing. Did you see the New York Times? Did you see what they are doing? Did you see what Democrats, they are calling for his resignation. They are calling for his impeachment. And the woman involved said she did not know anything. But they still, so the New York Times had to put out a major apology, and they had to change their story. The woman said, I do not remember that. And I just put out a statement.


And he is a great man, by the way, a great talent. and I just put out a statement on social media that said, I do not think they will do it, but they should, for the good of the nation, I call for the resignation of everybody at the New York Times involved in the Kavanaugh smear story. And while you are at it, the Russian witch-hunt hoax, which is just as phony a story. They have taken, the old gray lady, do you know the New York Times, for years, the old gray lady, so prestigious, they have taken the old great lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue, and ruined her reputation. She can never recover, and will never return to greatness under current management. And I do want it to live, but they have to be, they have to change their ways. Think of it, they wrote a story about somebody that said she does not remember this. Can you even believe it? And yet, all of these radical left crazies are in judiciary committee and all of these committees that are set up to hurt the country. With all that we have going, with Saudi Arabia, with Iran, with China trade deal, with Russia, with North Korea, with all that we have going, look at the cards that we have been dealt, lucky we won the election in 2016, believe me. With all that we have going, they say, Let us impeach Justice Kavanaugh, one of the smartest, most brilliant students, top at Yale, incredible life, incredible family. Let us impeach him. Let us impeach President ENTITY. This crazy Mueller Report comes out, 18 ENTITY haters, liberal Democrats, some worked for Hillary Clinton, they found nothing. After two years, they found nothing. They spent $40 million. There is not a person in the room that I could not find something on with that. They spent, think of it, they found nothing. To stop the far left's campaign of destruction, you must vote Republican. And you are going to get the chance very soon. We are joined tonight by many terrific Republican leaders, and somebody that is done an incredible job, she ran Michigan for me. And as you know, for the presidential races, Michigan had not been won in decades, and she kept saying, Could you come back, sir? I said, Who the heck is the woman in Michigan that keeps asking?


She said, Sir, if you keep coming back, you are going to win Michigan. And I won Michigan. ENTITY has won the great state of Michigan. And they were going crazy on television. Going crazy on television. They were going, that was not a good night for certain people. Remember the couple of people that were crying? I guess they do not like a strong military. They do not like cutting regulations. They do not like low taxes. They do not like Right to Try, you know Right to Try. For the Vets, we got choice. We got choice for the Vets. We have rebuilt our military. I told this story for the first time today. A general came into my office in my first few weeks, you remember? President Obama left us with a few beauties, right? And I said to this general, You better be prepared, because this is looking like it could really be conflict. And he looked at me and he goes, Sir, we have very little ammunition. I said, Say it again. And I want to tell you the words, very little, he did not use because it was less than that. And I said, I never want to see a president in a position like that, where we may have conflict, and a general looks at him and said, 'We have very little/ no ammunition.' I never want a president of the United States to be in that position. And since then, three years, $700 billion we have spent, then $716 billion. And our military is by far the greatest in the world. So anyway, no president should ever be put in that position. And by the way, no president should ever have to go through what I have gone through either. What happened is a disgrace to our country. No president should ever have to go through it. And I will tell you what, 99% of them would never have been able to take it. They would not have been able to take it. But we won the great state of Michigan, and now we are doing really well, because we have moved a lot of car companies. I tell Japan, sorry, big deficits with all these countries, we are changing it, but you have got to get car companies. We are building car companies now in Michigan. They are not going to be leaving for lots of other countries, including China, including Mexico.


They are going to stay home, and they are going to pay you a lot of money, and everybody's going to be happy. And Ronna McDaniel was the Republican Party chair of Michigan. So when we won the election, I said, Let us get the woman from Michigan to run the RNC. And she has done an incredible job. A great gentleman who loves the Republican Party, co-chairman, Tommy Hicks. My friend and a really talented guy, he just gets the hell knocked out of him all the time. What a job he is doing, Brad. And another great friend of mine, somebody that was on CNN, and they did not like him because he was too positive on ENTITY. Can you believe it? He happens to be Hispanic, but I have never quite figured it out, because he looks more like a wasp than I do. So I have not figured that one out. But I will tell you what. There is nobody that loves his country more or Hispanic more than Steve Cortez, Steve. Nobody loves the Hispanics more. Who do you like more, the country or the Hispanics? He says the country. I may have to go for the Hispanics to be honest. We got a lot of Hispanics. We love our Hispanics. You know, just before the last election, the Cubans from Miami where we got a tremendous percentage of the vote, close to 90%. they gave me the Bay of Pigs award. And the Venezuelans and the Cubans are all for ENTITY, I will tell you that. They are all for ENTITY. They like what we are doing. With the help of, and Steve, I want to thank you very much by the way, and you were incredible on CNN, and now you will get a real job. Steve, that audience was not big enough for you. With the help of everyone here tonight, we are taking power out of Washington and giving it back to the great people of our country, and to the people of New Mexico. We have cut a record number of job-killing regulations, saving the average American household $3,000. We passed the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history. What that means is a typical family of four in New Mexico making $75,000 has seen their tax bill reduced by more than $2,000.


And it is one of the reasons that as the world is not doing great, you look at Europe, and you look at Asia, and China's not doing too well. I must be honest with you, worst year in 57 years, I'd say that is not good. But I hope they still like me. And we have taken in tens of billions of dollars worth of tariffs, and we have given those tariffs, and by the way, China's eating the tariffs, they are devaluing their currency, the prices are very similar. They are eating the tariffs. And out of the tens of billions we gave our great farmers, because they were targeted by China, because China knows, very smart, that the farmers love ENTITY, and ENTITY loves the farmers. I said to our Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, I said, Sonny, how much did the farmers get hit by China targeting them and pulling back and doing all sorts of things? He said, $16 billion. We will take $16 billion out of a much, much, much larger number. We are going to give it to the farmers, so that they are even. And I tell you, the farmers do love ENTITY, they do love ENTITY. And to keep New Mexico's farms, ranches, and small businesses in the family, we eliminated the unfair estate tax or death tax, so that you can now give your farm or your ranch to your children. Now, if you do not like your children, do not do it. But when it is your time to kick the bucket, you worked hard. You have great kids, you love your kids, they are taking care of you. You really love them. If you do not love them, do not even listen to the last line, because it will not matter. If they are not good, leave it to charity. I know a guy who cannot stand his children, they are horrible, horrible human beings. He wants to leave his wealth. I said, Why would you leave them? They do not even like you. But on the assumption that you love your children, you will be able to use small farms and your ranches and things. You will be able to leave them to your children. Your children will not have to go out and borrow a fortune to pay tax. They will not be losing it to the banks five years later. We got rid of it. For many decades, our leaders put global interests and special interests ahead of your interests.


You know that, in New Mexico, you know exactly what I am talking about. People came in, they took your jobs, they had no border, they had no border control. I mean, honestly, I mentioned the president of Mexico. We have today 27,000 Mexican soldiers on the border protecting our country. And I will take it. And the Democrats could change these laws. They could change them so quickly. We could change them all in less than an hour. We could, whether it is asylum, whether it is any of the laws, we have so many of them that are so bad. How they got that, it took years and years to end up. But we have the Mexican soldiers out there. You see them, and they are stopping people. So I just want to thank all of the representatives of Mexico. Well, we have got to get rid of the loopholes. You know, the word is loopholes, and the Democrats could do it fast. But in the meantime, we are doing really well. And as the wall goes up, it becomes less and less of a problem, because as the wall gets up, people are not getting through. It is really doing the trick. The failed liberal establishment in Washington squandered your tax dollars, shipped away your jobs, sacrificed your sovereignty, and bogged us down in one foreign war, or debacle, call it whatever you want after another. And that is changing also, you see what is happening, and when these rich countries think we are going to pay for their military every year, billions and billions and billions, and they are rich, and they take our business and we are supposed to, on top of everything else, I could tell you stories, but I am going to save them for the campaign. Because to be honest, this is a little earlier than the campaign. Wait until this campaign starts, you know, like I was telling Brad and I was telling a few of the folks, one thing I do not want to do, Michael back there, Michael, hello. What a job he is done. But I am telling them I do not want to do this too early. I do not want to do it. You know the Pocahontas thing, I did that, it was before its time. That means I have more Indian blood than she does, and I have none, unfortunately. I'd like to say I have a lot.


but I was early with her, and frankly, oh it is coming back, do not worry about her. But those days are over under this administration. We are finally putting America first. We are reversing decades of calamitous trade policies that ravished our industries and devastated communities all across our land. You see the factories, empty buildings, empty hulks. Some have been demolished, some have been reconverted into senior citizen housing and housing. But all those jobs are gone, and we are bringing them back. And this is the country where they have the security, and where they do have the action. In my first week in office, I proudly withdrew from the last administration's job-destroying and this was a catastrophe. You know, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, this would have destroyed the automobile business in our country. Now New Mexico, you know that you were totally devastated by another disaster known as NAFTA. Your state lost 33% of its manufacturing jobs after NAFTA was signed. This was one of the great catastrophes. And now we are replacing NAFTA with the brand new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, USMCA. And it is drawing strong Bipartisan support from all across your state, and all across the country. the Dona Ana County Board of Commissioners, all Democrats just unanimously endorsed the USMCA, and urged Congress to pass it immediately. Hopefully they will put it up for a vote. Nancy Pelosi, they put it up for vote. The Republicans love it, and the Democrats love it, and frankly, labor loves it. Unions love it. Farmers love, love, love it, and everybody wants it. Your farmers, your ranchers, everybody wants it. And Mexico's already passed it, and Canada's ready to pass it, soon as we do. See, they do not maybe trust us, that is why. They say, Why are not you passing it now? They say, Oh, we will pass it. They are going to pass it as soon as we do. Past leaders invited China to freely loot and pillage the United States economy. China's been taking out from 300 billion to $500 billion a year. We have rebuilt China, but now it is a different ball game. Somebody had to do something with China. President Obama should have done it. Presidents Bush should have done it. President Clinton should have done it. They all should have done it.


Frankly, they all should have done a lot of things that we are doing right now. So if you look at it, nobody did it, so I am doing it, and that is what is going to happen. So now we are taking in billions and billions of dollars from China. When in the past, we never got 25 cents. We never got money. We never got anything. You know what we got? You could do with one less pencil. Following decades of outsourcing and offshoring, our jobs and factories are coming back home where they belong. If foreign companies do not want to pay our tariffs, there is one very simple solution. And by the way, I am just seeing this great group of people, this spirit, is there any place in the world that is more fun or more exciting than a ENTITY rally? When you think about it, it is not about fun. It is about achievement. Because what we have achieved in the last almost three years is unparalleled. There is never been an administration that in the first two and a half years has done what we have been able to do or achieve. In a few short weeks, we will be up to 180, sounds impossible, federal judges including court of appeals judges. Because President Obama did us a great favor when I came in, I said, I assume I have no judges to appoint. No sir, you have 138 judges. Did not put them up, could not get them approved. I do not know what happened, but we started off with 138, now we are up to 180. I just signed my 150th federal judge, and court of appeals judge, and we already have two great Supreme Court justices, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. You know, you come in, and I have always heard the most important thing a president does, I disagree with this by the way, but that is okay. I disagree with a lot of things. Because I think the most important thing is our military, and protecting our country, right? But have you listened to the so-called Washington elite, now why are they elite? We do better than they do, we are smarter than them. We make more money, we have better houses, we have better everything, and then they say the elite. I have always take offense when somebody said, ENTITY is tired of listening to the elite. I said, No, no, I am more elite than them.


I mean, if we go by the old standards, better houses, better schools, made much more money, lived better, had everything going, and then I decide to run for president. And I will be honest, while we have to put up with these people, and others are, it is incredible. I could not be happier, despite what they put us all through. After years of building up other countries, we are finally building up our country. It is time to finally take care of our own. And we are all so aggressively combating the opioid epidemic, which is horrible. And as a result of our nonstop efforts, and billions and billions of dollars invested, last year we saw the first nationwide decline in drug overdose deaths, and it was a very big decline in nearly three decades. And at the center of America's drug crisis, this is where the Hispanics know it better than anybody. People said, Oh, the Hispanics will not like a wall. I said, I think they are going to love it. They will not like border security. I think they going to love it. Because you understand it better than other people, but at the whole center of this crisis is the drugs that are pouring in, and you understand that when other people do not understand it. The border crisis, every day dangerous criminal cartels smuggle vast quantities of lethal narcotics across your Southern border, including heroin, meth, cocaine, and fentanyl, and we are stopping them now. You see the kind of numbers, we are getting millions and millions and millions of dollars worth. We have had some shipments where it could kill half of the country, some of the fentanyl and some of the bad, really bad stuff. If it were distributed, it could actually, has the power to kill half of the country. This is like a warlike situation. That is why you are liking ENTITY, because you are not going to let that happen. If you want to stop the drug smugglers and the human traffickers, how about the human traffic and they traffic really for the most part in women, that is what they traffic in, it is women. They are not trafficking in men. They capture women, and they bring them across the open borders, and they do not go through ports of entry, where you have guards standing there with guns and rifles and everything else.


They go out into the desert areas, and they hang a left, or they hang a right and they come in, but now when you have a wall, they cannot do that. They cannot do that. And so many of these Democrats that are against the wall, it is common sense? Look, you know what I saw the other day? Where the Democrats are having their convention, their national convention, they just gave out a tremendous contract. You know what it is for? They are building a big wall around the building, they are building a big wall. We should tell them, open borders. And a few years ago, almost every one of these, they are on tape. That is the problem with politics. Three years ago, they could say, look, I saw Senator Schumer, I saw Nancy I saw all of them. They said, No, we need a wall. We must have a wall. President Obama, We must have a wall. We must stop people from coming into our country illegally. We have to stop it. We need a wall. Now, a few years later, they do not want a wall. Because anything I want, they want to do the opposite. But if you want to stop the drug smugglers, human traffickers and vicious MS-3 gang members, which we are taking out every year by the thousands, and getting them the hell out of our country, because of ICE. And if you want to stop all these people from threatening our communities and poisoning our youth, you know it is poisoning our youth. That is what it is, it is nothing other than that, it is very simple. They are poisoning our youth. You have only one choice. You must elect Republicans. And to be honest with you, you have got to elect ENTITY. We need four more years. They started with Russia, Russia, Russia. Do you believe that one? I am the least racist person in this room. Then they went to recession, there is going to be a recession. Because we have a better chance of defeating him if there is a recession. And unfortunately, the stock market's only a few points from its all time high, which we have broken on, I think it is well over a hundred times. We broke the all time record. And now they have a new one. And I am enriching myself.


Let me tell you, by doing this and taking this particular job, which I love, it will cost me billions and billions of dollars, but if somebody from the Middle East that I never saw before, comes in and stays in one of my hotels for an evening, and pays $439, emoluments. Nobody ever heard the word emolument before. Emolument, nobody ever heard that word, emolument. He is enriching himself. If somebody buys a tank of gas in Scotland, from an airport that I do not own, and they happen to go to a hotel, he is enriching himself, like 20 people, I am going to lose billions of dollars, and that is okay. I expected to do that when I did it. Supposing I lost, and we would have had the same basic rhetoric. Supposing, you know, I am doing all the things. I am telling you all the same sort of things. Supposing I did not make it. I would've lost and lost billions, then I would have been really unhappy. But I will tell you what, I expected that when I did this, in terms of opportunity, in terms of certain places, they can never do as well when you have this kind of rhetoric, they can never do. So I will lose billions of dollars, always expected. They say, I enrich myself because somebody is going to stay at my hotel. And these are very, very dishonest people, and they know it. So they have given up on every other hoax, but it does not work that way. You know it too. You get it. The democrat agenda of open borders places vast burdens on your communities, and your schools, and your hospitals, and public safety all at the expense of hardworking New Mexico families, and throughout our country. Sheriffs, and commissioners from nine Mexico counties recently sent a letter to your state's congressional delegation begging them to vote for strong border security they want in New Mexico. They do not want open borders. They do not want criminals pouring into your communities, and doing what they do, and we will not even talk about that. They want strong, these are people that are with you in many cases, Democrats. They write letters, we need strong border security. In San Diego, California is very difficult.


Always complaining, not doing great, but they wanted a wall in San Diego, good mayor in San Diego by the way. They wanted a wall. And I said, You know what, let us build it someplace else. Because California, you know, once we build it, they will complain. They needed it. They are pouring into San Diego, like going all over the place. And people that had houses, they did not like people running over their gardens all day long, coming in from the other side. So we put up a wall, and I thought everybody would be happy. We did not want the wall. Why did you do the wall? And I will tell you, in other words, it is all a game. I'd love to take the sucker down and move it right now to New Mexico. And if I did that, they'd go crazy. And they'd say, Please sir, do not do that. The same people that are saying, We do not want a wall. Why did you put up a wall? I told my people that was going to happen. But they are very happy with their wall. Most of them will not say it. They love it. It stopped it only stopped 99.9% of the people coming in. And the only reason I am not moving it to New Mexico is that it would cost more money to move it than to build you a brand new, beautiful wall, so I will give you a brand new beautiful wall. New beautiful wall, I will give you a brand-new one. I actually priced it out. These contractors, all my life I have been deal They can find a way to make money. Sir, it'll cost more money to move the wall that they built a new one. They have it, but the commission your commissioners wrote, I quote, Our communities do not have the resources nor the budgets to handle the massive influx of immigrants we are experiencing. This is your commissioners writing to us in Washington. Our scarce resources are in danger of being rapidly depleted to the point that we will be unable to effectively care for our own citizens, you, and our existing homeless populations, many of whom are American veterans, right? So, Democrats put illegal aliens before American citizens. Republicans believe that we must take care of our own citizens first. That includes millions of hardworking, lawful immigrants who waited in line, followed the rules, and came into our country legally.


And among those hardest hit by illegal immigration are Hispanic Americans who obey our laws, pay their taxes, contribute to our communities and play by the rules, and they are the ones that want to see something done and we are doing it at a level that nobody else would be capable of doing it. Whether you are a first generation or a 10th generation, every American citizen deserves a government that defends your jobs, your safety, your family, and is always loyal to you. Your politicians have not been loyal to you. They have been loyal to themselves. The Democrats are also trying to turn every city in America into a sanctuary for criminal aliens, and that is one of the very good reasons we won on Tuesday night, North Carolina, because they let people out of their sanctuary city and what those people did, I will not tell you tonight, but it was not good. It is one of the reasons we had big victories, two of them in North Carolina, sanctuary cities. And plenty of people, even in California where they have sanctuary cities, they do not want sanctuary cities. The politicians do, but they do not want them. Right here in New Mexico, Democrats are trying to turn you into a total sanctuary state, creating a safe harbor for dangerous criminal aliens and gang members that sanctuary policies release from jail. So, when MS-13 comes in, and I told you before, we take them out by the thousands and they are tough. I would say naive, but maybe it is much worse than that. They do not want to take these criminals out. And if you do not take them out and they are in New Mexico, I got to tell you something, folks. You got problems. You got problems. You have got big problems. Republicans believe our cities should be sanctuaries for law abiding Americans, not for criminal aliens. And Republicans will always support the heroes of ICE, border patrol and our great law enforcement. Do you notice I always say the Democrat party? You know, before I came, they were all calling it Democratic because it sounds better, right? The Democratic party is much nicer than the Democrat party, but their name is the Democrat party, and I am not looking for them to sound nice. I want to give their name. So, I always say the Democrat party, but that is their name, the Democrat party.


Frankly, they should probably change it because it does And then I'd call them the Democratic party, but the Democrat party has never been farther outside the mainstream. I do not like those suckers. I do not know about you in New Mexico, but I am not into flies or mosquitoes. I do not like snakes too much. We have plenty of them in New York and Washington, a different variety. I do not like snakes either. We got a lot of snakes in Washington DC. We got a lot of steaks in New York. I do not like either kind of snake. I think I like the kind on the ground better than the ones we have in Washington. Every major Democrat running for president supports a massive government takeover of healthcare that would destroyed Medicare as we know it today. My administration will protect Medicare and defend your right to choose the plan and the doctor that is best for you. And we will always protect patients with preexisting conditions. The Republicans will always do that. Our ambitious campaign to reduce the price of prescription drugs has produced the largest decline in drug prices in more than 50 years. You do not hear this because the fake news does not want to write about it. Sometimes I will have a news conference about something that is so good and I will say, you know I will call my wife, first lady, first lady. People love our first lady. I will say, Wait until you see television tonight, and we did something that was so great, whatever it may be. We did a lot of things. We did something so great and it will not be on, but if there is something that is just slightly negative or even if it is good that they could turn negative, that is what they like best. We have breaking news. We have breaking news. You know, when you think of it, I am president and they are not. You know, sometimes I will be in the oval office and I will be with my people. We have great people, and I will say, You know, and it is great comm in the oval office. You do not like to hear about it because you do not hear about it too much. That is not what they But we have great comm considering it is pretty wild stuff going on in the world, right? But I will be saying, You know, they do not treat us right. They do not treat us right.


And then I will just sit back, I will say, But we are in the oval office and they are not. And when you have the Democrat party and the press, the media, the lame stream media, the fake news, and they are partners They are partners, okay? They used the word manufacturer on something, never been used for that thing, and every news gets Every one of them used the word Manufactured. They know what I am talking about now. You have that, and so you have the Democrats, you have the media, their partners. Then you have the deep state. We are getting rid of a lot of them. I will tell you, we are finding them left and right. You take a look at what I will tell you what. I will tell you what. You take a look at what we are doing with all of the things. I am not going to get into detail, but you know what I am talking about. That is the ultimate cleaning of the swamp. And then I hate to say this, but we have some Republicans, they are not good. You call them a rhino. The rhinos are worse, and some of them are worse than the Obama people, right? They are worse than the Obama people. They are worse than the Clinton people, but there are not too many of them left. They are pretty much on respirators. They are gasping for air, but we do have some bad people that you would not believe. I did not hear you. I did not hear that. Virtually, every top Democrat also now supports late-term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mothers right up until the moment of birth, and that is why I have asked Congress to prohibit extreme late-term abortion because Republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from God. I see it. Just like mom, I see it. Democrats are now the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late-term abortion, and socialism. The Republican party is the party of the American worker, the American family, and it is the party of the American dream. We have achieved record funding for the US military. All of that money, trillions and trillions of dollars spent all produced right here in the good old USA. And I have to tell you, New Mexico, I know you are going to like this.


A lot of those trillions because you know when you do the 716 and the 730 and the 700 -billion, all of a sudden you are in trillions and I can save a lot of lines when I just say trillions. A lot of that money's going to be spent in the state of the art military equipment that is being used at Holloman Air Force Base, White Sands Missile Range, Kirkland Air Force Base and many other vital New Mexico military installations that are going up as we speak. That is also jobs, but more importantly than even jobs, incredible. What you have done for the military, New Mexico, is incredible and we have remembered, but we are pouring a lot of money into New Mexico and that means a lot of good things. And we are investing in our nation's nuclear security, including right here in New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory. To protect American security, I withdrew the United States from the horrible one-sided Iran nuclear deal. It was no good and we oppose the toughest ever sanctions on the Iranian regime. I recognized Israel's true capitol and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem. And do not forget what I did for Israel with respect to Golan Heights. For years, you watched as your politicians apologize for America. Now, you have a president who is standing up for America and we are standing up for New Mexico. We need it because we are fighting a lot of forces, including Facebook, I saw, and Google, I saw. Did you see Google? He said I may have lost two-million to 10-million votes, according to this character that worked at Google, right? Everybody was against us. From two-million to 10.5-million votes, and we won. I do not know, we must be doing I will say this. That happened and people came from the valleys. They Came from places that nobody's ever talked about before and it was the forgotten men and women, but the truth is I know these men and women and they are the most incredible men and women in this country. They just never had anybody they really wanted to vote for or at least for a long time, they did not want to get out there. I mean, in all fairness, I do not want to go too early here. Did you watch the debate the other day? We have got almost 350-million people. I will take it.


Somebody said in the great state of Texas, ENTITY is down two points to Buttigieg. You know they have phony polls. I told this story the other night. For six months, I was hearing that I am going to lose the state of Texas and friends of mine from Texas that look just like these guys. And they want to say, I do not know about you, but I know a lot about Texas and ENTITY is not going to be losing the state of Texas. See, they do not say it is in play. They say Texas is in play. All these are in play and play means we could lose them, right? It is a better term though because this way, they cannot get skunked, but they can get skunked with me. So, what happens is on that beautiful election Was that one of the greatest, coolest nights ever? Well, they can never call a victory unless you absolutely have it and unless you are winning by a lot. Texas is in play. You know, he could lose Texas. I keep saying, I go to a stadium, we sell out to thousands of people, lines that are miles long. I mean, and every friend of mine says, You are going to win by a lot. 00, whatever time, The polls in Texas are closed. ENTITY has won this state of Texas. The polls in Utah are closed. ENTITY has won the state of Utah. They do not even take a breath. Now, if it is close like it is in play, you wait two, three, four or five hours to see what it is, but they do not even a breath because they are called suppression poles and they are no different than all of the dishonest reporting that you people see. They are suppression polls, and I will tell you what. We are going to win the state of New Mexico and I will be so surprised if we do not . No, we are going to win New Mexico. You know, when I came here during the last election, came here a little because I was told very hard to win and I came here a little, but I saw great spirit. But I did not really have a track record because I never did this stuff before. So, I said I was going to cut your taxes. I said I was going to cut your regulations. I did more than any president in history and they have been there for many years. I have been there for two and a half.


And I think the regulation cutting Like the Waters of the US, that was another beauty where you could not build a house, you could not farm your land. Now, what we have done on regulations is incredible. I have done I have rebuilt our military, I have taken care of our vets. Look how happy our vets are with choice. Instead of waiting for two months to see a doctor or two weeks or three days, they now go out. If there is a wait, they go out, they get a private doctor. They get taken care of. We pay the bill. And for the first time, they have tried to get that for 45 years, they have not been able to get it, but I am good at getting things. The 2020 election is about one thing. What is it about? It is about you. It is about you. It is about you. I am doing a good job as your messenger, but basically I am a messenger. I know what you want. I understand that it is about your family. It is about your future, and it is about the fate of your country for your children, for everybody. It is about the fate of your country. It is about the future of our great country. No matter what label they use, a vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of the American dream. That is what it is about. Venezuela, 15 years ago, was one of the wealthiest countries in the world and today, very sad. We begin this campaign with the best record, the best results, the best agenda, and the only positive vision for America. Together, we will help millions more citizens know the dignity of work, the pride of a paycheck and the satisfaction of a job really well done. With your help, we will elect a Republican Congress to create a safe, modern, fair, and very lawful system of immigration. You saw the figures last week, but we are doing it the hard way. It would be so much easier with a little stroke of the pen. We will enact trade deals that ensure more products are proudly stamped with those beautiful, beautiful words, that incredible phrase, Made in the USA. We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, finding new cures for childhood cancer and ending the ENTITY epidemic in America within 10 years, and we have already started that program. We have the medicine. Nobody even knew that.