security, national defense. that is unsustainable. >> before covid hit us, a gift from china, that was our gift. what happened to us with covid commonly known as the china virus. they don't like that.

happen tomorrow is nuclear global warming. not global warming. >> we almost have to go to a break. i want to go back to this one issue because the media has been focused on this and attacking you under no circumstances. you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody? >> except on day one. >> meaning? >> i want to close the border and i want to drill, drill, drill. >> that is not retribution. >> i'm going to be--i love this guy. you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said no other than day one. we are closing the border and drilling, drilling, drilling. other than that i am not a dictator. steam x that sounds like you're going back to the policies when you are president. take a break. we are in beautiful davenport, iowa. donald trump with us for the hour as "hannity" continues. thank you for being with us.

trump seal the deal and get the country back on track? joining us now for the full hour, the 45th president of the united states, davenport welcomes former president donald trump. >> thank you! [ yelling ] >> usa! usa! >> thank you. great to see you. have a seat. >> thank you. >> before we get into issues and we have a lot to get into, let's talk about these polls. >> i love you too. >> by the way, i have lost all control of this debate as well. here we go. let me ask you. when you look at this and look at the polls and see the enthusiasm. you have done rallies and crowds. how are you feeling about it? >> i feel great. it has to be. if it's not, we are going to be in big trouble. we will have no country anymore. we have no choice. we have enthusiasm. we did phenomenally in 2016. we did much better in 2020. i will tell you the enthusiasm, some bad things happen. but the enthusiasm that they have now is bigger than either of those two races. we are less than a year out. but close to a...

people. i think it's 150 million people are more than that. who doesn't want to see strong borders and a strong military and low taxes and lower interest rates and go out and by a house? >> i see what the media is doing. i will put a montage together. they want to call you a dictator. you used the words, i am your retribution. before that you said if you had been wrong and you used other words as well. but i want to be very, very clear on this. to be clear, do you in any way have any plans whatsoever if reelected president to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people? >> you mean like they are using right now? in the history of our country what's happened to us, again, has never happened before. over nonsense, over nothing, made up charges. i often say al capone was one of the greatest of all time if you like crimimi he was a mob boss the likes of which, scarface they call him, he got indicted wants. i got indicted four times. i wonder what my father and

they ended it in the first week. they said we will get it back. we have more than anybody. we have more wealth than anybody but we don't use it. guys like desantis and guys like many of the democrats and guys like desantis and to a lesser extent nikki haley. they want to play around with social security. you don't have to touch social security. we have money laying in the ground far greater than anything we can do by hurting senior citizens with their social security. ron desantis wanted to bring up on social security. now he says i wouldn't. one thing i learned about politicians. i've known them and dealt with them on the other side for a long time. the first thought is always the thought they go to. he will raise the minimum age on social security 70. that's a big increase. he also wanted to raise it to 75.

number two, how do you take it? how do you get up in the morning and take it? that part is easy for me to say. i love what i do because we are going to make our country greater than ever before. it is so important. it is so important. we are going to do things. we will close the border, day one. the border gets close. day one and a half we drill. drill, baby, drill. drill, drill, drill. and probably on day two we will

virus. they don't like that. it was the china virus. we were doing energy, taking our liquid gold out of the ground at a rate that has never been seen before. it was going up. we were going to be using that liquid gold to sell to your. but instead of the pipeline from russia which i exposed and stopped. i stopped that line. they say i was nice to rusher. there was nobody who was nice. i was not nice to rusher. i stop to the pipeline. we would have been selling oil and gas to europe and asia all over the world. we would have been paying off debt. the debt would be way down. what people don't know is we have more liquid gold than any other country in the world by far. we started off in fourth place. we were number four with saudi arabia, russia and two countries fighting for number three and a set number for. by the time i left we were number one by 25%. we would have been number one by 100. we would have done twice what they were going to do combined.

tremendous, no president got rid of more regulations. and we gave you the big tax cuts. everybody had incentive and everybody was happy. everybody was working. i remember groups came to see me that wouldn't normally like me. we've never seen anything like it. we were starting to get a long and then we got hit with the china virus. some people think purposely. i don't. i think it was incompetence. we were doing so much better than any other country ever and

fight back and obliterate the deep state. let's take a look. >> if you put me back in the white house there rain is over. it will be over. and they know it. america will be a free nation wants again. we are not a free nation now. we don't have free pressure. we don't have free anything. in 2016 i declared i am your boys. today i add i am your warrior. i am your justice. and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. and i am your retribution. i will not let this happen.