♪ ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next president of the united states, donald j trump. [applause] ♪ donald trump: beautiful. thank you very much. a little cold, but we will take it. beautiful. thank you everybody. had so much fun. i love iowa. the polls said we are even.

you are the only one where i am even. we are winning every national poll, every state call. we don't want even. even is no good. we are going to surprise a lot of people on february 1. a lot of people are going to be surprised. i have little doubt about it. i want to thank you for being here. i know it is cold and you have a record crowd. we have big crowds. usually people are sitting. got rid of all the seats so that we could get more people in. our country is in trouble, very thank you. serious trouble. no matter what aspect of our country you look at, whether it is the military which is not prepared, a general when he left said in terms of preparedness we are the worst we have been. i think he said since inception. let's take it back to world war ii or world war i.

we can't do that. we need strengthen our military. i'm going to build our military bigger and better and stronger than ever before. bigger and better and stronger. hopefully nobody is going to mess with us and by doing that , in many ways that is the cheapest thing you can do. instead of ending in these protracted wars. i see these generals so often. they are always been interviewed on television. do you think general macarthur is a big interviewer? do you think general patton went on television? they get interviewed. they say what we are going to do, how we are going to do it. i saw one of the generals recently, nice guy, nice guy, and he is saying how tough isis is. they are very tough. how are we going to do it? i don't know. they are very tough. can you imagine the enemy is watching this. they are saying is this what we

are fighting? it is not going to happen anymore, folks. we are going to have the toughest, smartest people. we will have security in our country. by the way, i never mention the military without mentioning the fact that our vets are going to be treated great. they are going to be treated great. they're not treated right. we have illegal immigrants treated better in many cases. donald trump: it is not going to happen anymore. the veterans administration is a mess. it is corrupt, it is run poorly. our veterans are going to be treated well. put it down and guarantee it. it is going to happen. one other thing i have to say, there has been talk that i was going to go in the back of the pack. not going to happen.

not going to happen. this has been a great tradition. people talk about putting iowa -- then you won't see me as much. that will be terrible. and i will not see you. it is not the same thing. iowa will remain where it is. you can bank on it. you can bank on it. the polls came out last night. fox came out with a big hole. poll. we did great. we have been doing good from the beginning. my wife said if you run you are going to win. nice have a wife who feels like that. do me a favor, darling. don't do it. she said if you run your going to win. from the beginning we announced june 16. almost from that week we are like a rocket ship. these characters, these pressed some the most dishonest people , in the world. look at them. wave to them. some of the most dishonest -- some of the most seriously dishonest people in the world. i've never seen anything like it. no matter what you do, it

doesn't matter. i have to say, 25% are good. actually, the number is getting up. time magazine wrote a cover story on me. you have to go out and buy time magazine. i don't say this very often. they wrote a cover story. i got a couple of covers. they said i should have one person of the year. they gave it to chancellor merkel, who has serious problems. that was not a good move made in germany. i want to tell you. all the pundits were saying, trump is going to win. trump is going to win. i said, no won't. , i'm not establishment. they don't have the guts to give it to me. i was right. that's ok. they wrote a story before that. that was ok. this story is so well written, i writer.poke to the

he just took the campaign, no matter where i go, dallas, 21,000 in dallas. pack. ed. we go to alabama, 35,000 people. we go to oklahoma, 20,000 people standing in a field. a convention center that held 10,000 people. after a day, we said this isn't working. we took a field. it was very windy so i put a hat on. no matter where we go. then in iowa we always have the , biggest crowds. they were saying at our last venue, i just left another place. you know where i left. where did i leave? correct. one of our top competitors was there. they had 1/5 the crowd we had. no matter who you get, it is a movement. what we are doing is a movement. it is called make america great. we are going to make a greater than ever before. we have a chance with what we have going, with how great the people of this country are, to

make it may be greater than ever before and i mean it. ,and i mean it. and i mean it 100%. [applause] donald trump: it is exciting. it is exciting to see what is happening. the crowds and the love. i tell the story, my friend, one of the most successful people. he said you are speaking tonight in front of a different area, 20,000 people. lowell,lola, massachusetts. we had 14 or 15. you are from there? she followed us here. that's amazing. but we did something that has never been done before. it is too big. it was packed. they sent away 5000 to 6000 people. my friend said to me how do you do that? you have all those people.

i insist on not using a teleprompter. honestly it would be so easy. , like our president. he reads. can you run a little faster? it is wonderful to be in iowa today. goodbye everybody. that's the end, and everyone says, that was fun. i would love to do it. i would love to read a speech were you take a speech and you read it and then you leave. right? i told this person when you do that, number one after a little while -- word-of-mouth on broadway. everyone knows broadway? the biggest thing on broadway, as great as review would be in the near times of potential, history and word-of-mouth. the word-of-mouth for us has been amazing. it's me, but it is you. the word-of-mouth on these rallies has been incredible and they have just grown and grown. the only thing that stops them

, including today is the size of , the arena or the place or the room, wherever we are. it has been incredible when you look at what is going on. we haven't had a non-packed house almost at all. it is just incredible. it is a movement. i think actually when it comes time, i think we are going to actually over perform. i have a feeling that far more people are going to vote than they even think and we are going to set a record in iowa. [applause] donald trump: i have to tell you, chuck and sam and stephanie and the whole group have done an incredible job, but i will tell you that on february 2. that's what it's all about. i was called by a great writer on the other side of the table from most of us, he said i would like to ask you one question. how does it feel? i said i don't know what you are talking about. he said, how does it feel.

what you have done. he said, it is the summer of trump. the entire summer nothing like , this has ever happened in american politics. you have changed the dialogue, everything about running a campaign. you've spent no money. you look at a guy like jeb bush. spent and he's at the $68 million bottom of the barrel. and he likes common core. educating children by bureaucrats in washington. that's not going to happen, ok? by the way, by the way, and remember with the border? they come over as an act of love. remember that one? i said he's gone. he spent $69 million. i spent nothing. i almost feel guilty. he said to me,d, how does it feel? i said it doesn't feel anything. i have not won.

he said even if you don't run, what you have done has never been done in politics. i said if i don't win i will consider this a big, fat waste of time because we are not going , to be able to make our border strong. politicians can't do it. all they care about is running for office and winning. [applause] donald trump: and i said to him, and i mean that by the way, some of these guys, they are big people. they do a great job with their state. they run and get 1%. they leave and get nothing. they stay too long. they don't do that. we have done an amazing job. we have done an amazing job. i really mean it. if we don't win i will not , consider it success. we have to go all the way. number one, we have to win iowa. it is so much easier if i said i want to do well in iowa.

in new hampshire we are leading , by a lot. a lot of people have already conceded that when. announcer: i don't concede anything. south carolina we are leading by 24 points. in nevada we are leading by a lot. and by hispanics by a lot. i said that to everybody. we're going to get the hispanic vote. because i'm going to take our jobs back from china, from everywhere. people know that. [applause] donald trump: so we are leading by a lot in nevada and by a lot , in the sec. georgia. we have places that are unbelievable. then we go to florida, and i am at 32. a sitting senator, marco rubio is at 14. jeb bush was their governor and he is at the bottom of the tubes. what is going on with this guy? he is getting killed. i love florida. it's a second home for me.

i have a great relationship with the people in florida also. i said it is going to be tell because you have a senator, even though he does not show up to vote very much, and i would not be happy about that --, but you have a senator, sitting senator and you have a governor who was there for eight years and i'm wast from the beginning i clobbering everyone in florida. so that is great. looking at massachusetts, i had 52%. that is because tom brady loves me. he said great things about me. tom brady is a great winter. i don't know if you people like him. i think he helped me a little bit in massachusetts. we are doing well everywhere. i just feel that this would get the ball rolling. if we win iowa, such a big event for me.