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gov. noem: good evening. hello, everybody. are you ready for president donald j. trump? yes. we are so excited about tonight. listen, i am xo excited to be here. i am governor of the great state of south dakota but i'm going to tell you one thing, pennsylvania rocks. you all are showing up and showing america how we are going to make america great again, aren't you? listen, i love the fact that in my state we have pulled the constitution. it is so fantastic to be here in the city where the constitution was actually written. and i know that you all embrace being the city of brotherly love. but i am going to get real with you right here. kamala harris sucks. right? she sucks. and listen, if there's one thing that i have learned since being governor is that leadership has consequences.

that it matters who is in charge and impacts every single family, every single business in the state. when you have the right person in the white house and the wrong person in the right house. i have served as governor under joe biden and under president donald trump. yes. and when president trump was in the white house i got to get up every single day and be on offense. i got to get out there and solve problems for my people. i got to be aggressive and help them grow their incomes. in south dakota we have the fastest growing incomes in the entire country. we have the lowest unemployment rate in the country. during covid we were the only state in the country that never once shut down a single business, we never mandated anything. in fact, i didn't even define what an essential business was because i don't believe the government has the ability or the authority to tell you that your business isn't essential. we were the only state to never take the elevated unemployment benefits because i said, listen mr. president, our people want to work, and they did. they went to work every single day. listen, we broke the national record for the lowest unemployment rate in the history of the united states of america because people in south dakota understand we were created to serve each other. in our state, we banned china from owning our land.

and we passed the strongest bill in the nation to make sure that only women could play in women's sports. and when president trump gets back in the white house, he is going to make sure that we don't have mediocre men taking away opportunities from our exceptional women. so listen, i've got people in my life that i admire and tonight you're going to get the chance to hear from one of them. president trump is somebody that i appreciate for his fight, his tenacity, his wisdom, and his ability to get things done. he is a dealmaker and he never loses sight of the american people. when i first saw him announce for president in 2016, i watched him on tv, i was sitting at home, come down a golden escalator.

do some of you remember that? i remember thinking, who does that? who comes down a golden escalator? because the politicians that i had known, what they do when they run for office as they put on a pair of jeans and find themselves a barn and made a hay bale and they say golly shucks geez i'm just like you and pretend to be somebody they are not. but not president trump. he was going to be honest with you and genuine with you. and here is a situation and here is the truth. he doesn't think he is any better than you. all those politicians that run and pretend to be something else, they think they are better than you, they think they are smarter than you, and they can sell you a line and a story. that is not president trump.

president trump is himself, he is fighting for you, fighting to protect you and your family, and he loves this country. he loves this country. people ask me -- we love trump. we love trump. we love trump. he's listening to you right now. he's listening to you, and he hears you. listen, everybody. let's get right to it. please welcome the 45th president and the 47th president of the united states, donald john trump. ♪

♪ ♪ gov. noem: welcome, president

trump. mr. trump: thank you very much. this is a nice crowd. gov. noem: yes, they love you. you know why? it's because they recognize, sir, that you are the one who fights for them. you are the one who protects them. mr. trump: you know what else? they fight for themselves. they have been fighting for a long time. we are going to make your fight easier, very important. because what's happened to our country in the last almost four years now, it is hard to believe, but if you look at the borders, if you look at inflation, you look at the afghanistan disaster, the most embarrassing time in the entry of our country, i think the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, afghanistan, not getting out, i was getting out with dignity, strength.

the way they got out was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened. probably led to putin going into ukraine, probably. he looked at it he said, these people aren't very good, are they? he wouldn't have done that with me. we are all in this together. we have to win the election november 5. gov. noem: yes. sir, he has never yet called those goldstar families to express his grief for the people and the soldiers we lost that day. and who controls that airstrip now? mr. trump: china. gov. noem: china, yes. mr. trump: china took over. one of the things -- get out. we were there for 20 years. i said, what are we doing here? so we get the hell out. i had a talk with the taliban and we didn't lose one soldier in 18 months until this catastrophe happened when they took over. but you know, one of the things -- aside from everything else, we left, we spent billions of dollars years ago to build a bigger base, and you knew that one from your own time, a big one, a really good one, powerful, long runways. you know what happened?

i tell you, they gave it up. it was one hour away from where china -- forget about afghanistan, one hour away from where china builds its nuclear weapons. would have been very nice to have -- and china now occupies that airbase. it's terrible. gov. noem: as you can see, we have a lot of american patriots here tonight who want to ask you some questions. if you don't mind, we will move into that portion of the town hall tonight. our first question is going to be from a man named reed. reed, i am not certain where you are. mr. trump: where is reed? there he is. nice looking guy. gov. noem: i believe you are a navy seal, is that correct? >> no. good evening. my name is reed. i'm a single father and iraq war veteran. i dream of owning a home for me and my son, but mortgage rates

under the biden/harris administration have made that impossible. what can you do to help make homeownership affordable again? mr. trump: great question. and a lot of people have this question. first of all it's too expensive to build the homes and they are building them and they cost a fortune and 30% of the cost in some locations is the cost of like, planning and certificates and all a lot of nonsense they do. they make you go through hell and it takes forever to get all the approvals you need. we are going to get rid of a lot of that. most importantly we are going to get interest rates brought way down. we had interest rates at 2% and now they are 10% and we can't get the money. at 2% there was plenty of money for everybody. we are going to create the american dream for older people. we are not going to forget. i happen to be a very young man.

we are not going to forget the older people. by the way, no tax on social security benefits. [applause] i guess you know someone said he has a conflict of interest, but uh we are going to do that for the older people that is a big deal because you have been eating alive with inflation and all i am doing is getting you back to even i think when we do that you know you have fixed income and you went up numbers like 30, 40, 50 depending on what they include they like to say it was a 20% increase but it wasn't, it was 30, 40, 50 depending on what they want to include so we are going to do

that but getting back to we are going to drill, baby, drill, we are going to have so much energy and we are gonna bring prices down because you know the prices are up, don't forget, the damage is done, we have the worst president and vice president in the history of our country by far she is even more dangerous than him but he is actually smaller -- smarter than her, i never thought i would say that but look, we are going to get it down, we are going to drill, we are going to get the energy down and when energy goes down prices are going to come down, all of those prices because you know when they say although they had very bad inflation numbers last month, you saw that, very very bad inflation numbers despite the big you know they did this big drop, probably too big of a drop i will not get into it but we are going to get the prices down because the damage has been done, if we have no inflation now such damage has been done, the highest in my am opinion the biggest inflation in the history of the country they did not includes a lot of the bad

numbers, i will give you an example on housing and different things like crime statistics our fate, they were fake statistics, they did not include some cities that were really bad so the crime looked like it was just bad as opposed to being horrific . jobs, 818,000 fake jobs they added. and they patted the job numbers a couple of months ago so that they would look better on jobs. they were fake, fraudulent jobs and they will announce the real numbers after the election but we had a whistleblower or somebody that let it out so they cheated us on 18, think of that, 818 thousand jobs they cheated, you know usually when you have those numbers it is $9,000, this is almost a million jobs off of it it is not even possible so we are going to bring things that you are going to pay 3% interest on housing and you are going to say i love this guy because interest rate rate will follow as the energy goes down and i

made another commitment i made it over the last month i have been making it, we have more liquid gold under our feet then saudi arabia, russia, than any other country. i am going to bring down your energy costs 50 percent in the first year. 50% and i better do it because i am all over the place. i am going to have problems if i don't get it done but we have all the capacity to do it, nobody else can make that statement, we have so much energy we don't even use that, we get energy from venezuela and they do not have good oil, they

have tar and you have to liquefy and you know what they do the in houston texas that is where we have to plant it is the only player that in the world that can do it so for the environmentalists out there it's not a pretty picture what blows into the air but we are going to use our beautiful liquid gold and when we get everything else down, houses, everything is going to come it is going to be beautiful you can have a house, just give me a little while, let me give it. -- let me get in. one year from january 20 we will have your energy prices cut in half all over the country. [applause] >> and in reference to read and his family, he is not in a unique situation. 65% of americans today cannot buy a home. that has dramatically changed under the biden harris administration and a harris has

a brace to the policies that made homeownership take away that opportunity for reid and his family and 65% of americans today. the american dream is still to own your own home and that is not possible because of what they have embraced a new talk about liquid gold, if any state understands american energy, it is pennsylvania. >> yeah. the commonwealth. make sure come up by the way this is a really great governor, successful number -- successful governor, she read some of the numbers and i thought she would be because why not no one else will do it but i will you did it beautifully so she has done a fantastic job as governor and i will say this, i went to school here, i just want to forewarn her because i have seen it happen and it is career threatening, do not ever call the state the commonwealth because a lot of innocent lambs

have come up and they start talking to the people of pennsylvania, i love you people, i know you so well, i am here all the time, i am here all the time. yeah i went to school here. i went to the wharton school, the great wharton school of finance. and they were great. it's a great place. it's a great place. but i went to college here. so never ever even think, i watched one man crash and burn, he kept calling it the state i kept saying it is the commonwealth but i think his political career ended. >> tonight we have some special guests in the audience. a goldstar family that is with us tonight. mary and charles strange are here. where are they? here they are. they are behind us, over here. they lost their son michael.

>> come on up. [applause] it is a little harder to get up since i got shot. they have made it more difficult. perhaps that is the way it is supposed to be. >> sarah, they lost their son, michael. -- sir, they lost their son, michael. do you want to say anything? >> under obama is right. under obama. >> mr. president, my son was killed august 6, 2011 in the biggest loss of life in the iraq afghan war, the biggest loss of life in the single day, 22 of the men were navy special warfare. we still have not gotten any answers. i was wondering, i am begging you. we would like a congressional hearing. >> so here is what we are gonna do. in the first week, let me have, not the first day because i made

a lot of promises in the first day, we are going to drill baby drill and close out the border and we are gonna do a lot in the first day in the first week we will set up a commission we are going to find out because so many people are in your position, they want to know why did that happen to their son or daughter and we are going to do that within the first week so you get ready to come over to the white house, ok? [applause] >> i want to let america know june 2017, president trump and his wife had me and my wife bring 20 gold stars to the white house, him and his wife stayed the whole time, they had food, drinks, they did a candle ceremony for us, trump's set -- stood up every time, saluted the goldstar parents. that was both a celebration, remembrance and all emotion, right? they were happy, they were sad, they were devastated, but they remembered their beautiful boy, right?

beautiful boy and we are not going to forget, we are gonna find out what happened, we are going to do that within the first week and you have my word. >> thank you. [applause] trump: what a nice couple. >> mary and charles daughter rachel is also here tonight. she is michael's sister.

thank you, rachel, for coming on god bless you and your family. thank you for your service and your sacrifice. >> thank you. that is tough stuff. like what we were discussing in afghanistan with the 13 family members they feel that uh bad things happen, stupid things happen and you hate for that to be, it is your son or your daughter. it should have never happened in afghanistan, i can tell you the outcome of the 13 that died and you know they do not mention how many people were wounded, and i mean seriously wounded with the legs and the arms in the face and we are gonna give them everything they want, i have got to know those families, thanks. >> thank you. our next question tonight is from angelina, who i believe is right here. if you want to come forward? >> good evening. i was raised in a philadelphia democrat household, a union household. as the mother of a blended family, my top issues are the same issues that face all americans. illegal immigration whole -- hurts black americans. inflation hurts black americans. dangerous cities hurt black americans.

[applause] like my fellow americans, my grocery bill has not gone down. everything is still so very expensive. what steps will your administration take to help american families suffering from this inflation?

trump: you know it is such a great question in the sense that people don't really think of grocery, it they don't talk about grocery when you're talking about homes but tell me more about grocery bills, the price of lettuce, the price of tomatoes they tell me, you know our farmers are not being treated properly and we had to deal with china, it was a great deal but i never mentioned it because once covid came in and said it was a bridge too far because i had a great relationship with president she and he is a fierce man and we had to deal and you know he was perfect on that deal, 50 billion dollars he was gonna buy it, we were doing numbers like you wouldn't believe the farmer but the farmers are very badly hurt, the farmers in this country, we are going to get them straightened out and get your prices down but you asked another question about safety and also about black population jobs and hispanic population jobs in particular so when millions of people brought into our country they are having a devastating effect on black families and hispanic families more than any others, i think it is going to spread to a lot of our prices, i think it is gonna spread to unions, i think unions are gonna have a big problem because employers are just not gonna pay the price and it is going to be it is a very bad thing that is happening so they are coming in, many are coming in from jails and prisons and mental institutions, insane asylums, it is like step above insane a silent, right, and you know when i go hannibal lector, you know what i am talking about, they will go fake news that it is a lot of fake his back there too.

they always mention it is a way of demeaning, they say hannibal lector, why would you mention, you know because he was a sick puppy and we have sick puppies coming into our country, i think that is better than wasting a lot of words, just say hannibal lector, we do not want them but they always say why would you say that and do it for a lot of reasons but i do it because we are allowing some very bad people into our country and they are coming as terrorists, you know you saw the other day last month they had the record number of terrorists, i had a month that i love border patrol, did you see they gave me a full endorsement two days ago? but border patrol and you know they want to do their job, they do not want to let these people come in, they look at them, they can tell, they can look at somebody say good, bad, they say what is coming into our country now is having cute -- huge negative fan -- impact on black families and hispanic families and ultimately everybody and we are going to close the border so tight, it is gonna be drones and i say the two things i am gonna do, first we are gonna close

that border and people are gonna come in, you want people to come in, we need people to come in, people are gonna come into our country legally, you know it is so fair you have people waiting on a system in a line and they have been waiting in this line you know how long? 10 years, 12 years, and they study and they take tests and then people come i actually say why don't you just come on across? i tell people, that is terrible, right? i say you are incredible they say what can i do to speed up the process and i say you know what, go to the southern border, i will see you on the other side and it is so unfair but we are gonna have them come in legally, you have to see what they have to do they have to test son who

was the first one here and what date is this and what is 7076 day and these other people that are coming in and they are affecting the school systems and they are affecting the hospital system and i mean if you take a look at what is going on in springfield, ohio, a town of 50,000 people, they have just added 32,000 people, illegal immigrants, and we are not gonna put up with it and we are going to take care, your costs are going to come down and you are knocking to have a problem with because the biggest problem and i am hearing it from black people and to a lesser extent right now but it'll be the same hispanic people, and i will tell you what, our poll numbers have gone through the roof. with black and hispanic have gone through the roof. and i like that. i like that. i like that. so we are going to take care of it. you and me, i will tell you, if everything works out and everybody gets out on january 5 and before, you know what used to be you have a date, today you can vote two months before, probably three months after,

they don't know what the hell they are doing but we are going to straighten it out and we will straighten that out too and we are going to straighten out our election process, that will be important so thank you very much, darling, we are going to get it straight. >> we had in the last year over a 100,000 americans lose their job in this country but 1.2 noncitizens took those jobs. they are filling the jobs americans could have to provide for their families and harris has been in charge of this order and has been the borders are -- border czar. we see criminals and terrorists coming across. trump: it is an invasion like we have never seen before and you know if there was an invasion of people that deserve to come in or that will love the country it would be great, you know she used to go around saying they do not commit crime. have you seen the gangs from venezuela, what they have done in aurora, colorado?

>> is just a few apartment buildings, according to martha ravitch. [laughter] trump: they are like me, in the real estate business but they take over buildings with rifles and they take it over with a level of sophistication and you know they know a lot about gloves and i protector of the second amendment -- a lot about guns and i am a big protector of the second amendment and if you think that is easy, not easy but the nra gave me total endorsement, i assume you got total endorsement and we have no choice we have to have it especially when we have you know it is amazing these radical left lunatics, they want everybody to come into our country, many of the people are criminals and then they also want to take your guns away simultaneously. so you need it for protection. you know somebody knows that you have a gun in your house, they say, let us go after somebody else. people put signs, this gun or we

have, some of them actually even spell the kind of gun we have, we have an ak-47 inside and people say you know what, let us just, i know an ak-47 firm a few weeks ago and i know about the ar-15, but you know what, you have a lot of bad people out there and you can't you know can't just be a one-way street and you know one thing because she wants to take your guns away, if you take them away the dead guys are not giving them

up, that is the only thing. i do not think the good people are giving them up, either, but the bad guys, the bad guys are not giving up their guns, that is the only thing i know for certain, right? >> jd vance did a fantastic job sunday morning calling out the fake news for how they are trying to diminish the devastation that is going on in some communities and kamala harris has facilitated losing 300,000 children as well since she has been in charge of the border and i would say they are not missing children, they are trafficked and kidnapped and murdered children because they come across the border and we have no idea where the children are and we know how devastating it is with what is happening to their lives right now with what she is facilitating. trump: i think they are all bad numbers we have a lot of bad numbers there is so much bad that happened in this administration it is disgraceful and you know as an example that would be no war with russia and ukraine there is no way, i get along very well with putin and fully understand what is happening, it was the apple of his eye, he used to talk about it but i said you are not going in there and he wasn't going in and it is only because of biden he looked at this guy and he

said he cannot even believe it but the same with ukraine i got along very well with zelenskyy, he came to new york to see me and i got along very well with him, i want to negotiate that thing out, it is now a death trap, cities that are all down, those gorgeous golden domes and magnificent domes, all busted up after i don't know their -- they are 1000 years old the heritage what is happening there but many more people killed than they are reporting and they knocked down it was my business they have apartment houses that are really like three city blocks long, not that tall but pretty tall and they are big and they knock them down with a missile and they say two people were slightly injured, know, a lot of people, the number of people dying in the ukraine-russia war is a far greater number than anybody knows and biden has done nothing about it, he hasn't even spoken putin in over a year, knows nothing about it and this is a war that has to end we are going to get the war ended and i am going to try and i think i can get it and did as president elect, in other words, before i even take over the white house, i am gonna stop the people from dying. [applause]

they said to me, well whose side are you on, i was in the fake news cnn type, oh, the camera just went off, their camera just went off. [crowd doing -- booing] i was caitlin collins, a nice person soon but caitlin collins is interviewing me and she says whose side are you on and i say it is not a question of sides, i want people to stop dying, that is all. i want people to stop dying. [applause] and you know it was a very interesting thing because it was a cnn it was like this a smaller room much smaller this is a big room, this is a very big room but it was a much smaller room but they had more people in there from cnn within the first five minutes they were totally on my side because it is common sense and we are now the party of common sense, i say we are conservative, but we are the, -- the party of common sense, we want good education and lower interest rates and we want to be able to buy a house, we want jobs, and you know what we want

is a strong military. i rebuilt our entire military and we want a strong military. and ideally a strong will and jerry that we do not have to use, is not even better? a strong military that we do not have to use is even better. >> i love it. i love it. back to the questions. yanni is waiting to ask you a question and has been waiting a long time. welcome. just give him one second. here they come. right behind you. >> thank you. thank you for being here today. to answer questions from all the voters of pennsylvania and just the work hard and support i appreciate that.

i am a small business owner in lands bill, i have a small bed and breakfast restaurant called coffee corners. and to be honest, i really am praying for you to get in and change the policies ever since the gas prices started spiking, literally everything started spiking from deliveries to services, goods, even maintenance, overall maintenance, everything just went up and it is really hurting small businesses, small business owners and those who work within them so my question is, what is your plan to help bring common sense back and help small businesses that were destroyed after covid? trump: right because small businesses are actually bigger than big businesses when you add them all up and it is very important and it sounds like yours, i would love your food, i can tell by looking at you, i think i would like to go over

there and get something the fact is you know they want to get away from gas and i have friends they are into the cooking world, i am not, i just like to eat, but they are into the cooking and i don't know how you feel, it sounds like you, they feel that gas is much better than electric for cooking, right, and they say they want to put gas out of business, no gas, we do not have electric in the country but we have all the gas you can use, we have oil and gas, that is what we have and even the cars if you look they want us all electric cars, california as having blackouts every week, and then they come up with rules and regulation to go to all electric but they cannot even supply what they have, it is so nuts. we are going to get number one utility you know i said before your cost will be down and we are getting rid of all of the electorate, if you want electric, great, if you want

gas, great, the only thing you cannot have is a hydrogen car, right you heard me say that, right, a new car they say is great but you know what the problem is is every once in a while one of them will blow out and if it does blow up and you happen to be inside it you are in bad luck because you are not recognizable, do you know that? it is the new thing, hydrogen, i said no thank you, i do not want that. they call the wife, that is not my husband, yes it is. so your energy costs will be down by 50%, your interest is gonna come down and people are gonna start to make not only you but people will have more money to go to your restaurant, you are going to have a great

business and you know during covid i was the one that worked out the lowest, i don't know if you got one but so many got one millions of small businesses at linda mcmahon with the head of small business administration which was a big business but she was the head and she was phenomenal. linda mcmahon was phenomenal. so many people tell me about her that she was one of the best secretaries but linda mcmahon was in charge and they brought billions of dollars to people with small businesses and it was the greatest investment we made, it stopped us from going into a 1929 depression which is exactly what we would have had and she did a fantastic job. we are going to get your costs way down. thank you. [applause] >> i always tell people it is hot in the summer and cold in the winter and a long ways to drive anywhere, which i think a lot of americans are experiencing no matter what your energy is dependent and since joe biden has been in the white house and harris has supported every single one of his policies, did you hear on the view, did you hear her say she would not change a thing from what joe biden has done? it has cost the average american family 45 hundred dollars just in energy costs, just in energy costs. trump: a doctor, please. a doctor.

thank you very much. we have incredible people that come here hours before and a little hot and uh so weak, they are with us all the way, we gotta respect them and you take your time, dr., you take your time, thank you very much we always have great doctors in the audience we have never had too much of a problem.

look at the quality of care we have. it is incredible, when you think, right? these people, first responders. [applause] our first responders are amazing, the way they can do things so beautifully and quickly. thank you. we will get it taken care of, as a lot of it is pretty easy to take care of, the hardest thing is going to be the border though in terms of the people that have been led income of the people that have been led into this country, what they are doing, where did they come from, what are they doing, who what is the thought process when they allow a thing like that to happen, let's wait until they take care of this incredible person who i guarantee you is a great patriot, i guarantee it. everyone in this room is a patriot. [applause] >> we love you, trump.

trump: thank you, darling. thank you. some problems. some problems. that looks a little bad. that looks a little bit bad.

don't worry, we will extend for a little time, ok, we are not gone, we just want to make sure, this is a little bit of a tough one, i think, a little tough. [crowd singing god bless america] [applause] trump: you know, while we are waiting, so we had a beautiful

evening and i do not know if they can get this up quickly but if they could work really quickly backstage while we are waiting, ave maria, we had a ave maria the other day in butler, pennsylvania and butler, we had 101,000 people, it was the most celebration, i called corey the firefighter of the chiefs, he was great, and if they could play on ave maria, if you can get it, justin, let's go, if you can, a little quick notice, ave maria. ♪

trump: great. we love that man. we love that man. [applause] [crowd chanting usa] ♪ trump: it is so beautiful, though, right? listen to that, it is nice. he is going to be ok, we have nice music, we are together, not bad, not bad, right? so beautiful.

thank you everybody, very much. >> thank you everybody for your patience. we will be praying for him. thank you, sir. as we talk about how things have gotten harder under this administration on how the policies have been so dangerous for americans there is someone here who wanted an opportunity to ask you what western her name is heather. would you please stand -- wanted to ask you a question, her name is heather. would you please stand? >> good evening. my name is heather and i was a registered democrat for most of my life. [crowd booing] but not anymore. i no longer identify with the democratic partner -- democratic party. [applause] they have put criminals and

foreign enemies ahead of american citizens. the border is the issue of this election because if we cannot secure the border, we will not have a country. we know you will finish the wall. how are you going to handle the deportation of criminals? [applause] trump: so if you have watched any of our last rallies, we have a cruel--criminal aliens act of 1798, that is a long time ago, and it gives the president tremendous power to do what has to be done to secure our country and you were right, you know, so if you look at the polls it says that the number one issue is the economy, number two was inflation, let's even put them together or number three is the

border. i disagree. i do agree with you. the number issue -- number one issue this country has -- [crowd yelling medic] [crowd noise] ♪

[ave maria playing] a™ trump: take your time, dr..

thank you very much. ♪ it is gonna be good. ♪ trump: i wish we could open

those doors to outside. [crowd yelling open the doors] trump: yeah, take your time, dr. trump: for security reasons, they can't but you know what i should just open them because

you know if anybody comes through, you know what is going to happen to them. [applause] >> it looks like first she is on her feet and walking out, let's encourage her, let her know we will be praying for her. and i know it is really warm in here, everybody agrees that it is really warm in here, we've got a lot of people, i am going to ask that if you have a chair, maybe sit so everyone around you can sit and still see the president and ask him questions, maybe that will help us. trump: and we can spend a little more time, personally i enjoy this, we lose weight, probably lose weight, that is ok with me. but some people have been waiting here for two days so you know it is a little bit, it is a little bit tough, it is a little bit tough but they are going to try to get those doors open i do not know who is building this is but if they have air

conditioning, is there any air conditioning? >> -- they probably cannot afford it in this economy. trump: they don't want to have air conditioning, it is too expensive, it costs too much. anyway, but they are both ok, they are both in good shape. would anybody else like to faint? >> let's do it now. trump: you know what we could do, though, if my guys can do it, how about we will do a little bit of music, let's make this a musical fast, oh look, look. that is great. that is great. because it is nice and cool outside, right? it is nice and cool. why don't we, and i mean this, if my guys can hear me, two things. put up the chart, my favorite chart. my all-time favorite chart.

and let's listen to pavarotti sing ave maria, can you hear that? they gave me the ave maria with no voice. there it is. and it is my favorite piece of paper in the world, i sleep with it every night, i kiss it, i kiss it, and you see those numbers by the way for those we talk about you know the border when you were talking about the border look at the numbers. that was the lowest it ever was, right there, that is the last day i was in office, and we are going to get it lower than that but we are going to let people come in, we are going to let people come in come up so very important but this is one of my most favorite, if i had turned to the right i would not be here with you right now so sort of a cruel world but i was very proud of that before the fact, now even if we had lousy numbers i would love that piece of paper a lot so put on pavarotti singing ave maria, nice and loud, turn it up louder, we want a little action here. turn it up louder!

[pavarotti singing ave maria] a™ trump: that's for your boy. that's for your boy. stand up. that's for your boy. ♪

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