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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. ♪

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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