The President: Thank you, everybody.
So great to be with you. everybody.
Thank you.
(Applause.)
Great to be back at CPAC.
(Applause.)
The place I have really --
Audience Member: We love you!
The President: I love this place.
Love you people.
(Applause.)
So thank you.
Thank you very much.
First of all, I want to thank Matt Schlapp, and
his very, very incredible wife and boss, Mercedes,
who have been fantastic friends and supporters,
and so great.
When I watch them on television defending me,
nobody has a chance.
So, I want to thank Matt and Mercedes.
And when Matt called and asked, I said, absolutely,
I'll be there with you.
I mean, the real reason I said it -- I didn't want
him to go against me because that one
you can't beat.
So I said, absolutely.
And it really is an honor to be here.
I wouldn't miss a chance to talk to my friends.
These are my friends.
(Applause.)
And we'll see you again next year and
the year after that, and I'll be doing this with
CPAC whenever I can, and I'll make sure that
we're here a lot.
You know, if you remember, my first major speech --
sit down, everybody.
Come on.
(Applause.)
You know, the dishonest media,
they'll say he didn't get a standing ovation.
You know why?
No, you know why?
Because everybody stood and nobody sat, so they
will say he never got a standing ovation, right?
(Applause.)
They are the worst.
Audience: USA! USA! USA!
(Applause.)
The President: So -- sit down.
(Laughter.)
Donald Trump did not get a
standing ovation.
They leave out the part, they never sat down.
They leave that out.
So I just want to thank -- but you know, my first
major speech was at CPAC.
And probably five or six years ago -- first major
political speech.
And you were there.
And it was -- I loved it.
I love the people.
I love the commotion.
And then they did these polls where I went through
the roof, and I wasn't even running, right?
But it gave me an idea, and I got a little bit
concerned when I saw what was happening in the
country, and I said, let's go do it.
So it was very exciting.
I walked the stage on CPAC.
I'll never forget it, really.
I had very little notes, and even less preparation.
So when you have practically no notes and
no preparation, and then you leave and everybody
was thrilled, I said, I think I
like this business.
I would have come last year, but I was worried
that I would be, at that time, too controversial.
We wanted border security.
We wanted very, very strong military.
We wanted all of the things that we're going to
get, and people consider that controversial.
But you didn't consider it controversial.
(Applause.)
So I've been with CPAC for a long time.
All of these years, we've been together.
And now you finally have a president. Finally.
Took you a long time.
(Applause.)
And it's patriots like you
that made it happen, believe me -- believe me.
You did it because you love your country, because
you want a better future for your children, and
because you want to make America great again.
(Applause.)
The media didn't think we would win.
Audience Member: The knew.
(Laughter.)
The President: The pundits -- you're right.
They had an idea.
The pundits didn't think we would win.
The consultants that suck up all that money.
Oh, they suck it up, they're so good.
(Laughter.)
They're not good at politics,
but they're really good at sucking up people's money.
Especially my opponent's, because I kept them
down to a minimum.
The President: But the consultants didn't think
we would win.
But they all underestimated the power
of the people -- you.
And the people proved them totally wrong.
Never -- and this is so true, and this is what's
been happening -- never underestimate the people.
Never. I don't think it will ever happen again.
And I want you all to know that we are fighting
the fake news.
It's fake -- phony, fake.
(Applause.)
A few days ago, I called the
fake news "the enemy of the people" -- and they are.
They are the enemy of the people.
Because they have no sources, they just make
them up when there are none.
I saw one story recently where they said nine
people have confirmed.
There are no nine people.
I don't believe there was one or two people.
Nine people.
And I said, give me a break.
Because I know the people.
I know who they talked to.
There were no nine people.
But they say, nine people, and somebody reads it and
they think, oh, nine people.
They have nine sources.
They make up sources.
They are very dishonest people.
In fact, in covering my comments, the dishonest
media did not explain that I called the fake news the
enemy of the people -- the fake news.
They dropped off the word "fake."
And all of the sudden, the story became, the media
is the enemy.
They take the word "fake" out, and now I'm saying,
oh, no, this is no good.
But that's the way they are.
So I'm not against the media.
I'm not against the press.
I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them.
And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't --
(laughter)
-- I don't get too many of them.
But I am only against the fake news media or press
-- fake, fake.
They have to leave that word.
I'm against the people that make up stories and
make up sources.
They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they
use somebody's name.
Let their name be put out there.
Let their name be put out.
(Applause.)
A source says that Donald Trump is a
horrible, horrible human being.
Let them say it to my face.
(Applause.)
Let there be no more sources.
And remember this -- and in not all in all cases.
I mean, I had a story written yesterday about me
in Reuters by a very honorable man.
It was a very fair story.
There are some great reporters around.
They're talented, they're honest as the day is long.
They're great.
But there are some terrible, dishonest
people, and they do a tremendous disservice to
our country and to our people.
A tremendous disservice.
They are very dishonest people, and they
shouldn't use sources.
They should put the name of the person.
You will see stories dry up like you've
never seen before.
So you have no idea how bad it is, because if you
are not part of the story -- and I put myself in
your position sometimes, because many of you,
you're not part of the story, and if you're not
part of the story, then you sort of know.
If you are part of the story, you know what
they're saying is true or not.
So when they make it up, and they make up something
else, and you saw that before the election --
polls, polls.
The polls.
They come out with these polls, and everybody
was so surprised.
Actually, a couple of polls got it right.
I must say, Los Angeles Times did a great job.
Shocking, because -- you know.
They did a great job.
(Applause.)
And we had a couple of others that were right.
But generally speaking, I mean, I can tell
you the network.
Somebody said a poll came out.
And I say, what network is it?
And they'll say, a certain -- let's not even
mention names right?
Should we?
Well, you have a lot of them.
Look, the Clinton new network is one.
(Applause.)
Totally. Take a look. Honestly.
Take a look at their polls over the last two years.
Now, you would think they
would fire the pollster, right?
After years and years of getting battered.
But I don't -- I mean, who knows, maybe they're just
bad at polling.
Or maybe they're not legit.
But it's one or the other.
Look at how inaccurate -- look at CBS,
look at ABC also.
Look at NBC.
Take a look at some of these polls.
They're so bad, so inaccurate.
And what that does is it creates a false narrative.
It creates like this narrative that's just like
we're not going to win, and people say, "Oh, I
love Trump, but you know I'm not
feeling great today.
He can't win.
So I won't go and vote.
I won't go and vote." I creates a whole false deal
and we have to fight it folks.
We have to fight it.
They're very smart, they're very cunning, and
they're very dishonest.
So just to conclude -- I mean, it's a very
sensitive topic, and they get upset when we expose
their false stories.
They say that we can't criticize their dishonest
coverage because of the First Amendment.
You know, they always bring up the First Amendment.
(Laughter.)
And I love the First Amendment.
Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody.
(Applause.)
I mean, who uses it more than I do?
But the First Amendment gives all of us -- it
gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives all
Americans -- the right to speak our minds freely.
It gives you the right and me the right to criticize
fake news, and criticize it strongly.
(Applause.)
And many of these groups are part of
the large media corporations that have
their own agenda, and it's not your agenda, and it's
not the country's agenda.
It's their own agenda.
They have a professional obligation as members of
the press to report honestly.
But as you saw throughout the entire campaign, and
even now, the fake news doesn't tell the truth.
Doesn't tell the truth.
So just in finishing, I say it doesn't represent
the people.
It never will represent the people.
And we're going to do something about it,
because we have to go out and we have to speak our
minds, and we have to be honest.
Our victory was a win like
nobody has ever seen before.
(Applause.)
And I'm here fighting for you, and I
will continue to fight for you.
The victory and the win were something that really
was dedicated to a country and people that believe in
freedom, security, and the rule of law.
(Applause.)
Our victory was a victory and a win
for conservative values.
(Applause.)
And our victory was a win for
everyone who believes it's time to stand up for
America, to stand up for the American worker, and
to stand up for the American flag.
(Applause.)
Yeah, there we should stand up.
Come on.
(Applause.)
There we should stand up. Okay.
(Applause.)
And, by the way, we love our flag.
By the way, you folks are in here, the place is
packed -- there are lines that go back six blocks.
And I tell you that because you won't read
about it, okay?
(Laughter.)
But there are lines that go back six blocks.
There is such love in this country for
everything we stand for.
You saw that on Election Day.
(Applause.)
And you're going to see it more and more.
(Applause.)
So we're all part of this very historic
movement, a movement the likes of which, actually,
the world has never seen before.
There's never been anything like this.
There's been some movements, but there's
never been anything like this.
There's been some movements that petered
out, like Bernie -- petered out.
(Laughter.) But it was a little rigged against him
-- superdelegate, superdelegate.
She had so many delegates before the thing even
started.
I actually said to my people, how does that happen?
(Laughter.)
Not that I'm a fan of Bernie, but a lot
of Bernie people voted for Trump.
You know why?
Because he's right on one issue: Trade.
He was right about trade.
Our country is being absolutely devastated with
bad trade deals.
So he was right about that, but we've got a lot
of Bernie support.
So actually, I like Bernie, okay?
I like Bernie.
(Applause.)
But I'm here today to tell you what
this movement means for the future of the
Republican Party and for the future of America.
First, we need to define what this great, great
unprecedented movement is, and what it
actually represents.
The core conviction of our movement is that we are a
nation that put and will put its own citizens first.
(Applause.)
For too long we've traded away our jobs
to other countries -- so terrible.
We've defended other nations' borders while
leaving ours wide open; anybody can come in.
Audience Member: A wall!
The President: Oh, we're going to build the wall,
don't worry about it.
We're building the wall.
In fact, it's going to start soon, way ahead of
schedule, way ahead of schedule.
(Applause.)
Way, way, way ahead of schedule.
It's going to start very soon.
General Kelly, by the way, has done a fantastic job.
Fantastic job he's done.
(Applause.)
And remember, we are getting the bad
ones out.
These are bad dudes.
We're getting the bad ones out, okay?
We're getting the bad -- if you watch these people
it's like, oh, gee, that's so sad.
We're getting bad people out of this country,
people that shouldn't be -- whether it's drugs or
murder or other things.
We're getting bad ones out.
Those are the ones that go first, and I said it from
day one.
Basically all I've done is keep my promise.
(Applause.)
We've spent trillions of dollars
overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to
fall into total disrepair and decay.
In the Middle East, we've spent as of four weeks ago
$6 trillion.
Think of it.
And, by the way, the Middle East is in what --
I mean, it's not even close -- it's in much
worse shape than it was 15 years ago.
If our Presidents would have gone to the beach for
15 years, we would be in much better shape than we
are right now, that I can tell you.
(Applause.)
Yeah, a hell of a lot better.
We could have rebuilt our country three times with
that money.
This is the situation that I inherited.
I inherited a mess, believe me.
We also inherited a failed health care law that
threatens our medical system with absolute and
total catastrophe.
Now, I've been watching -- and nobody says it -- but
Obamacare doesn't work, folks.
I mean, I could say -- I could talk -- it
doesn't work.
And now people are starting to develop a
little warm heart, but the people that you're
watching, they're not you.
They're largely -- many of them are the
side that lost.
You know, they lost the election.
It's like, how many elections do we
have to have?
They lost the election.
(Laughter.)
But I always say,
Obamacare doesn't work.
And these same people two years, and a year ago,
were complaining about Obamacare.
And the bottom line: We're changing it.
We're going to make it much better.
We're going to make it less expensive.
We're going to make it much better.
Obamacare covers very few people.
And remember, deduct from the number all of the
people that had great health care that they
loved, that was taken away from them; was taken
away from them.
(Applause.)
Millions of people were very happy
with their health care.
They had their doctor, they had their plan.
Remember the lie -- 28 times.
"You can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan" --
over and over and over again you heard it.
So we're going to repeal and replace Obamacare.
(Applause.)
And I tell Paul Ryan and all of the
folks that we're working with very hard -- Dr. Tom
Price, very talented guy -- but I tell them from a
purely political standpoint, the
single-best thing we can do is nothing.
Let it implode completely -- it's already imploding.
You see the carriers are all leaving.
I mean, it's a disaster.
But two years don't do anything.
The Democrats will come to us and beg for help.
They'll beg, and it's their problem.
But it's not the right thing to do for the
American people.
It's not the right thing to do.
(Applause.)
We inherited a national debt that has
doubled in eight years.
Think of it -- $20 trillion.
It's doubled.
And we inherited a foreign policy marked by one
disaster after another.
We don't win anymore.
When was the last time we won?
Did we win a war?
Do we win anything?
We're going to win.
We're going to win big, folks.
We're going to start winning again, believe me.
We're going to win.
(Applause.)
Audience: USA! USA! USA!
The President: But we're taking a firm, bold and
decisive measure -- we have to --
to turn things around.
The era of empty talk is over.
It's over.
(Applause.)
Now is the time for action.
So let me tell you about the actions that we're
taking right now to deliver on our promise to
the American people, and on my promise to make
America great again.
We've taken swift and strong action to secure
the southern border of the United States and to begin
the construction of great, great border wall.
(Applause.)
And with the help of our great border
police, with the help of ICE, with the help of
General Kelly and all of the people that are so
passionate about this -- our Border Patrol, I'll
tell you what they do.
They came and endorsed me, ICE came and endorsed me.
They never endorsed a presidential
candidate before.
They might not even be allowed to.
(Laughter.)
But they were disgusted with what they saw.
And we'll stop it.
We'll stop the drugs from pouring into our nation
and poisoning our youth.
(Applause.)
Pouring in, pouring in.
We get the drugs, they get the money.
We get the problems, they get the cash.
No good, no good.
Going to stop.
By stopping the flow of illegal immigration, we
will save countless tax dollars, and that's so
important because the tax -- the dollars that we're
losing are beyond anything that you can imagine.
And the tax dollars that can be used to rebuild
struggling American communities -- including
our inner cities.
(Applause.)
We are also going to save countless
American lives.
As we speak today, immigration officers are
finding the gang members, the drug dealers and the
criminal aliens, and throwing them the hell out
of our country.
(Applause.)
And we will not let them back in.
They're not coming back in, folks.
(Applause.)
If they do, they're going to have
bigger problems than they ever dreamt of.
I'm also working with the Department of Justice to
begin reducing violent crime.
I mean, can you believe what's happening in
Chicago, as an example?
Two days ago, seven people were shot -- Audience
Member: It's Iraq!
The President: -- and, I believe, killed.
Seven people.
Chicago, a great American city.
Seven people shot and killed.
We will support the incredible men and women
of law enforcement.
(Applause.)
Thank you.
And thank them.
I've also followed through on my campaign promise and
withdrawn America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership --
(applause)
-- so that we can protect our economic freedom.
And we are going to make trade deals, but we're
going to do one-on-one, one-on-one.
And if they misbehave, we terminate the deal.
And then they'll come back, and we'll make a
better deal.
(Applause.)
None of these big quagmire deals that
are a disaster.
Just take a look -- by the way, take a look at NAFTA,
one of the worst deals ever made by any country
having to do with economic development.
It's economic undevelopment as far as
our country is concerned.
We're preparing to repeal and replace the disaster
known as Obamacare.
(Applause.)
We're going to save Americans from this
crisis, and give them the access to the quality
healthcare they need and deserve.
We have authorized the construction, one day, of
the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines.
(Applause.)
And issued a new rule.
This took place while I was getting ready to sign.
I said, who makes the pipes for the pipeline?
Well, sir, it comes from all over the world, isn't
that wonderful?
I said, nope, it comes from the United States or
we're not building one.
(Applause.)
American steel.
If they want a pipeline in the United States, they're
going to use pipe that's made in the United States,
do we agree?
(Applause.)
But can you imagine -- I told this
story the other day -- can you imagine the gentleman
-- never met him, don't even know the
name of his company.
I actually sort of know it, but I want to get it
exactly correct.
Big, big, powerful company.
They spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the
pipeline -- same thing with the Dakota,
different place.
They got their approvals, everything, in the case of
Dakota, then all of a sudden they couldn't
connect it because they had people protesting that
never showed up before.
But with the Keystone -- so they spend hundreds of
millions of dollars with bloodsucker consultants,
you know, sucking the blood out of the company
-- "don't worry, I use them all my life; okay,
don't worry, we're going to get it approved, I'm
connected, I'm a lobbyist, don't worry." Bottom line,
Obama didn't sign it.
Could be 42,000 jobs -- somewhere around there.
A lot of jobs.
Didn't sign it.
But can you imagine -- he gave up.
A year ago it was dead.
Now he's doing nothing, calling his wife, "Hello,
darling, I'm a little bored, you know
that pipeline?"
That has killed us, that has killed our company.
Knock, knock. "Mr. so-and-so, the Keystone pipeline,
sir, out of nowhere, has just
been approved."
(Applause.)
Now, can you imagine the expression?
And you know the sad part?
The same bloodsucking consultants that hit him
for all the money and failed?
They're now going to go back to him and say,
didn't we do a great job?
We want more money, right, because that's the way the
system works.
A little bit off, but that's the way the
system works.
We're preparing bold action to lift the
restrictions on American energy, including shale,
oil, natural gas, and beautiful clean coal, and
we're going to put our miners back to work.
(Applause.)
Miners are going back to work.
(Applause.)
Miners are going back to work, folks.
Sorry to tell you that, but they're going
back to work.
We have begun a historic program to reduce the
regulations that are
crushing our economy -- crushing.
And not only our economy, crushing our jobs, because
companies can't hire.
We're going to put the regulation industry out of
work and out of business.
(Applause.)
And, by the way, I want regulation.
I want to protect our environment.
I want regulations for safety.
I want all of the regulations that we need,
and I want them to be so strong and so tough.
But we don't need 75 percent of the repetitive,
horrible regulations that hurt companies, hurt jobs,
make us noncompetitive overseas with other
companies from other countries.
That, we don't need.
But we're going to have regulations.
It's going to be really strong and really good,
and we're going to protect our environment, and we're
going to protect the safety of our people and
our workers.
(Applause.)
Another major promise is tax reform.
We are going to massively lower taxes on the middle
class, reduce taxes on American business, and
make our tax code more simple and much more fair
for everyone, including the people
and the business.
(Applause.)
In anticipation of these and
other changes, jobs are already starting to pour
back into our country -- you see that.
In fact, I think I did more than any other
pre-President -- they say President-elect.
President-elect is meeting with Ford, he's meeting
with Chrysler, he's meeting with
General Motors.
I just wanted to save a little time.
(Laughter.)
Because Ford and Fiat-Chrysler, General
Motors, Sprint, Intel and so many others are now,
because of the election result, making major
investments in the United States, expanding
production and hiring more workers.
And they're going back to Michigan, and they're
going back to Ohio, and they're going back to
Pennsylvania, and they're going back to North
Carolina, and to Florida.
(Applause.)
It's time for all Americans to get off
of welfare and get back to work.
You're going to love it!
You're going to love it.
You are going to love it.
(Applause.)
We're also putting in a massive
budget request for our beloved military.
(Applause.)
And we will be substantially upgrading
all of our military -- all of our military.
Offensive, defensive, everything.
Bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
And hopefully, we'll never have to use it.
But nobody is going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.
(Applause.)
It will be one of the greatest military
buildups in American history.
No one will dare to question -- as they have
been, because we're very depleted, very,
very depleted.
Sequester. Sequester.
Nobody will dare question our military might again.
We believe in peace through strength, and
that's what we will have.
(Applause.)
As part of my pledge to restore safety
for the American people, I have also directed the
defense community to develop a plan to totally
obliterate ISIS.
(Applause.)
Working with our allies, we will
eradicate this evil from the face of the Earth.
(Applause.)
At the same time, we fully understand
that national security begins with
border security.
Foreign terrorists will not be able to strike
America if they cannot get into our country.
(Applause.)
And by the way, take a look at what's
happening in Europe, folks.
Take a look at what's happening in Europe.
I took a lot of heat on Sweden.
(Laughter.)
And then a day later, I said, has anybody
reported what's going on?
And it turned out that they didn't -- not too
many of them did.
(Laughter.)
Take a look at what happened in Sweden.
I love Sweden.
Great country.
Great people.
I love Sweden.
But they understand I'm right.
The people over there understand I'm right.
Take a look at what's happening in Sweden.
Take a look at what's happening in Germany.
Take a look at what's happened in France.
Take a look at Nice and Paris.
I have a friend -- he's a very, very
substantial guy.
He loves the City of Lights.
He loves Paris.
For years, every year, during the summer, he
would go to Paris -- it was automatic -- with his
wife and his family.
I hadn't seen him in a while.
And I said, Jim, let me ask you a question: How's
Paris doing? "Paris?
I don't go there anymore.
Paris is no longer Paris." That was four years --
four, five years -- hasn't gone there.
He wouldn't miss it for anything.
Now he doesn't even think in terms of going there.
Take a look at what's happening to our world,
folks, and we have to be smart.
We have to be smart.
We can't let it happen to us.
(Applause.)
So let me state this as clearly as I
can: We are going to keep radical Islamic terrorists
the hell out of our country.
(Applause.)
We will not be deterred from this course,
and in a matter of days, we will be taking brand
new action to protect out
people and keep America safe.
You will see the action.
(Applause.)
I will never, ever apologize for
protecting the safety and security of the
American people.
I won't do it.
(Applause.)
If it means I get bad press, if it means
people speak badly of me, it's okay.
It doesn't bother me.
The security of our people is number one --
is number one.
(Applause.)
Our administration is running
with great efficiency, even though I still don't
have my Cabinet approved.
Nobody mentions that.
Do you know I still have people out there waiting
to be approved?
And everyone knows they're going to be approved.
It's just a delay, delay, delay.
It's really sad.
And these are great people.
These are some great people.
We still don't have our Cabinet.
I assume we're setting records for that.
That's the only thing good about it is we're
setting records.
I love setting records.
(Applause.)
But I hate having a Cabinet
meeting and I see all these empty seats.
I said, Democrats, please, approve our Cabinet and
get smart on health care too, if you don't mind.
(Applause.)
But we're taking meetings every day
with top leaders in business, in science,
and industry.
Yesterday, I had 29 of the biggest business leaders
in the world in my office -- Caterpillar tractor,
Campbell's Soup.
We had everybody.
I like Campbell's Soup.
(Laughter and applause.)
We had everybody, and we
came to a lot of very good conclusions, and a lot of
those folks that are in that room are going to be
building big, big massive new plants, and
lots of jobs.
And you know what?
They're going to be building them in this
country, not in some other country.
(Applause.)
We're meeting with unions, meeting with
law enforcement, and we're meeting with leaders from
all around the world, where the White House
doors used to be totally closed -- they were
closed, folks.
You don't realize that.
They were closed.
They're now wide open.
And they're open for people doing business for
our country and putting people to work.
(Applause.)
And when they come into the White House,
we're translating these meetings into action.
One by one, we're checking off the promises we made
to the people of the United States.
One by one -- a lot of promises.
And we will not stop until the job is done.
We will reduce your taxes.
We will cut your regulations.
We will support our police.
We will defend our flag.
(Applause.)
We will rebuild our military.
We will take care of our great, great veterans.
We're taking care of our veterans.
(Applause.)
We will fix our broken and
embarrassing trade deals that are no good --
none of them.
You wonder, where did the people come from that
negotiated these deals?
Where did they come from?
Audience Member: Government.
The President: Well, they came also from campaign
contributions, I must be honest with you.
They're not as stupid as you think.
(Laughter.)
We will cut wasteful spending.
We will promote our values.
We will rebuild our inner cities.
We will bring back our jobs and our dreams. So true.
(Applause.)
So true.
And, by the way, we will protect
our Second Amendment.
(Applause.)
You know, Wayne and Chris are here
from the NRA, and they didn't have that
on the list.
It's lucky I thought about it.
(Laughter.)
But we will indeed.
And they're great people.
And by the way, they love our country.
They love our country.
The NRA has been a great supporter.
They love our country.
The forgotten men and women of America will be
forgotten no longer.
That is the heart of this new movement and the
future of the Republican Party.
People came to vote, and these people -- the media
-- they said, where are they coming from?
What's going on here?
These are hardworking, great, great Americans.
These are unbelievable people who have not been
treated fairly.
Hillary called them "deplorable".
They're not deplorable.
Audience: Booo -- lock her up!
Lock her up!
The President: Who would have thought that a word
was going to play so badly.
That's the problem in politics.
One wrong word and it's over.
She also said irredeemable, but we
won't mention that.
The GOP will be, from now on, the party also of the
American worker.
(Applause.)
You know, we haven't been, as a group,
given credit for this, but if you look at how much
bigger our party has gotten during this cycle.
During the early days when we had 17 people running
-- the primaries -- millions and millions of
people were joining.
Now, I won't say it was because of me, but it was, okay.
(Applause.)
And we have an amazing, strong,
powerful party that truly does want to see America
be great again, and it will see it.
And it's going to see it a lot sooner than you think,
believe me.
A lot sooner than you think.
(Applause.)
We will not answer to donors or
lobbyists or special interests, but we will
serve the citizens of the United States of America,
believe me.
Global cooperation -- dealing with other
countries, getting along with other countries --
is good.
It's very important.
But there is no such thing as a global anthem, a
global currency, or a global flag.
This is the United States of America that
I'm representing.
I'm not representing the globe.
I'm representing your country.
(Applause.)
Audience: USA! USA! USA!
The President: There is one allegiance that unites
us all, and that is to America.
America -- it's the allegiance to America.
No matter our background, or income, or geography,
we are all citizens of this blessed land.
And no matter our color, or the blood, the color of
the blood we bleed, it's the same red blood of
great, great patriots.
Remember. Great patriots.
(Applause.)
We all salute, with pride, the
same American Flag.
And we are equal -- totally equal -- in the
eyes of Almighty God. We're equal.
(Applause.)
Thank you.
And I want to thank, by the way, the evangelical
community, the Christian community.
(Applause.)
Communities of faith -- rabbis and
priests and pastors, ministers -- because the
support for me was a record, as you know, not
only in terms of numbers of people, but percentages
of those numbers that voted for Trump.
So I want to thank you folks.
It was amazing -- an amazing outpouring, and I
will not disappoint you.
As long as we have faith in each other, and trust
in God, then there is no goal, at all,
beyond our reach.
There is no dream too large, no task too great.
We are Americans, and the future belongs to us.
The future belongs to all of you.
(Applause.)
And America is coming about, and it's
coming back, and it's roaring and you
can hear it.
It's going to be bigger and better.
It is going to be.
Remember. And it's roaring.
It's going to be bigger, and better, and stronger
than ever before.
(Applause.)
I want to thank you.
And Matt and Mercedes, I want to thank the two of
you, and all of the supporters that I have.
I see them.
They're all over the place.
You are really great people.
I want to thank you.
And I want to say to you, God bless you, and God
bless the United States of America.
Thank you, folks.
Thank you.