33 posts from Wednesday, September 18, 2024

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-You wouldn't have had Ukraine being attacked by Russia. You wouldn't have had October 7th in Israel, where that horrible situation took place because Iran was essentially broke. They had very little money, and we would have made a great deal with them. All we want is we don't want them to have a nuclear weapon. Very simple. That's all we want. We don't want you to have a nuclear weapon. We would have made a good deal with Iran. They would have been happy. And I think they're going to end up being very unhappy, but it's very dangerous. They're very close to a nuclear weapon. And the other thing, you wouldn't have had inflation. You wouldn't have had inflation because inflation was driven up by their bad energy policy. And you remember, your gasoline started going up to $5 and $6 a gallon. And then what happened is they said, "Oh, we're going to get killed. We have an election. We're going to get killed." And they went back to my policy. So they went back to the same. And they said, "We produce the same amount as Trump." Well, they went right back to my policy, or you would have been buying -- you would have had $25 a gallon gasoline. So they went back. What they don't say is, though, I would have been producing four times as much. And I took us from third into first place by a lot. But we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country in the world, including Saudi Arabia, including Russia. (Applause.) And we would have had -- we would have had -- we would have been so dominant in energy, we would have -- you know, we were -- we were -- we didn't need any energy from anybody. We didn't have to protect any other countries in order to get their oil, which we've done for many years in the Middle East. We were energy independent. Sounds so beautiful to say it. We're energy independent. We were soon going to be energy dominant. And we would have been now having so much money coming out of the energy. We just have the best.

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But we're gonna have what's called the Reciprocal Trade Act. Now, I dealt with a senator, a very good senator, actually, but he knows nothing about trade. I said, "Here's what I wanna do, senator. I wanna take the Reciprocal Trade. If they charge us 100%, we charge them 100%." He said, "You mean they charge us, we charge them? You got me. How simple could it be?" It was sort of cool, 'cause he doesn't care. He's a senator who doesn't care about trade, but you know. So we're gonna call it the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act or I'll leave the name Trump off as long as we do it. So when India, which is a very big abuser, he happens to be coming to meet me next week, and Modi, he's a fantastic, I mean, fantastic man. A lot of these leaders are fantastic. You have to understand one thing. They're dealing, they're 100%. These people, the sharpest people, they're not a little bit backward, they're not, they are at the top, you know the expression, they're at the top of their game, and they use it against us. But India's very tough, Brazil's very tough. There are certain countries, I can tell you, everyone, I can give you from top to bottom. China's the toughest of all, but we were taking care of China with the tariffs. So we're gonna do a reciprocal trade. If anybody charges us 10 cents, if they charge us $2, if they charge us 100%, 250, we charge them the same thing. And you know what's gonna happen? Everything's gonna disappear, and we're gonna end up having free trade again. And if it doesn't disappear, we're gonna take in a lot of money, okay? But you know, the biggest beneficiary, I believe, is gonna be your state. And I won't say that to other states, I promise, about your state, you are going to have plans built at a level that you haven't seen in 50 years, okay? (audience cheering) Great question, thank you, thank you.

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Mr. President, one of the other things I think that you did that helped protect the American worker as much as anything else and also make our country and our community safer was you actually did something about the border. Just this month, there was a woman in my home state of Arkansas who was killed by an illegal immigrant who was drunk driving that was deported during your administration and came back under this administration because they have failed to protect our country. It's one of the great threats that we face that you actually did something about. Tell us what you will do on day one to help protect our country. Day one, we're doing two things, closing the border and drill, baby drill. We're going to get down the prices. Nice people. I like. I like this crowd. I like this crowd. You know what, you're smart people. Sarah, thank you. Over the last couple of years, I've been talking about the border. I got elected in 2016 because of the border, but that border was peanuts compared to what this border is. That border was like a safe border compared. I did it. I did a great job. And it also includes drugs came to, you know, much lower. Look, unless you have the death penalty for drug dealers, you'll never get rid of the drug problem. Put that through your head. Okay. Put that through your head. And I don't know if our country's ready for it. When I was with when I was with presidency and again, I had until COVID, I had a great relationship. Once that happened, I really didn't want a relationship because $60 trillion, millions of dead people all over the world, I was not exactly thrilled with him. But before that, I had a great relationship and I said, do you have a drug problem? No, no, no. We have no drug problem. Oh, how come death penalty immediate? I said, what does that mean immediate immediate? We have what's called a quick trial. Do you know what a quick trial is? Like in one day the trial is over over here. It'll be 25 years. They'll get some nice liberal lawyer and they'll have a tied up for 25 years. The guy dies of old age. So, uh, but they have a death penalty. In Singapore, they have a death penalty in a lot of countries. They have a death penalty. You sell drugs because the average drug dealer kills during his or her life, 500 people, the average one, the big ones, much more. But when you hear that, you know, when people start to hear that and I set up blue ribbon committees, I put, you know, nice people, dilettantes from New York and from Los Angeles, people that don't know nothing about drugs and they're dealing with very smart people. These dealers are smart as hell. They're tough as hell and they make a fortune. They make a fortune. And if you don't have the death penalty for drug dealers, you could, you're just wasting your time. Now we can keep it down and we can do better than we're doing now and a lot better than we're doing now because what's happening now is out of control. But we had the lowest human trafficking, mostly in women, I hate to say mostly in women, but we had the lowest human trafficking in 32 years. You know, my favorite chart, the chart I put down when I looked to the right, that'll be my all time favorite chart in history. That was basically a chart showing what a good job I did on immigration. But even if it showed I did a bad job in immigration, it will be my all time favorite chart because I wouldn't be here right now if I didn't look over, let me see that. That was not good. My all time favorite chart, blue, yellow, red, it was, it was beautiful. Oh, there it is, there it is. These guys are very good back, I didn't expect.

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And I have to say because I've I have to while we're on the subject because people do like to talk about it A few days ago. We had an incident. I have to say secret servers did a hell of a job. They really did they caught One of the gentlemen that one of the agents was walking a couple of holes in front and he saw a Rifle ak-47 that serious stuff, right? You know more about that. My son's no more about this stuff But ak-47, that's it. That's a bad one. The other one was an ar-15 This was an ak-47 and he saw the barrel of the gun coming out from a bush Can you believe it? This guy was all set. He was all set to do his number and There was no talk. He didn't say hello. What are you doing here, please? And he ends up getting shot himself. He took his gun started shooting them and this guy ran Great job. I don't know if he's where is it not here, right this guy? These guys do a great job now they do need more people and they've been complaining about that for a long time But he did a great job, but you want to know another sort of a miracle So the guy is now running for his life and he's got a car a block away or whatever and a woman This is a woman not a man a woman see Women are smarter than men How does that sound Our great first lady is very happy now Let me just let me just tell you think of this who would do this. I actually asked I was with the sheriff this morning I was with a couple of people from Secret Service who would do this? So you now have a man running not with a gun. He dropped the gun We found the gun but he was gone and a woman driving in a car saw a man on the street pretty busy street running and she followed him and He got into the car and she stopped because she thought he was trouble. He looked different He's like trouble. She followed him. It wasn't very far and parked the car behind his car and Started taking pictures of his license plate Now think of it and Sarah think of it. No. No, seriously who would do that? It's the women not from good or bad not from you know strength or heroism No, just you see somebody running. I see people running all the time and you don't fuck She saw something in this guy that was bad She may have heard maybe gunshots because there were four I guess for a gunshot actually the got the shots He never got off a shot. The shots were from Secret Service, but think of it Who would do this if you took a thousand of these incidents would even one person have done it? This woman was I haven't met her but I'd like to meet her. I'm going to meet her I hope but think of this She goes in she takes pictures of the plate And then she sends the pictures into the sheriff's office and the sheriffs are saying wow This is pretty amazing and they were able to get this guy within 10 minutes at a high-speed chase on the highway Otherwise would probably have an AK-47 they had the camera they had the whole he had the whole thing who's a sophisticated guy He even had the serial number taken off the rifle the gun, but think of this so would have all the stuff But I'd be walking around saying I wonder where this guy is he's in this audience We would have a maniac out there This woman was unbelievable because I actually asked the sheriff if it happened a thousand times Would anybody have done that he said maybe but not much not much so she did a she was really amazing amazing job

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Good evening President Trump, thank you for taking our question. My name is Barbara, I'm a mom of three, a grandmother of seven, and three great grands. A registered nurse, retired, retired nurse, so I know the cost that goes into raising children and running a household. People just can't survive now, how are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries? Good, very good, thank you. So we have to start always with energy, always, I don't want to be boring about it, but there's no bigger subject, it covers everything, if you make donuts, if you make cars, whatever you make, energy is a big deal, and we're going to get that. It's my ambition to get your energy bill within 12 months down 50%. If I can do that, you've done a hell of a job, 5.0, not 15, 50. Interest rates are going to follow, and actually they're going to follow for another reason, the economy is now not good, and interest rates, you'll see they'll do the rate card and all the political stuff tomorrow, I think, and you know, will he do a half a point, will he do a quarter of a point, but the reason is because the economy is not good, otherwise you wouldn't be able to do it. But we're going to get interest rates down, and we've got to work with our farmers. Our farmers are being decimated right now, they're being absolutely, absolutely decimated.

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look, she's going to double up your taxes. She wants to terminate the Trump tax cut. Just that is going to lift up your taxes by 44%. Just that one more. And remember, I have it so that like if you're a farmer, a small businessman, you have no inheritance tax. They're going to give that up. They're going to give everything. You know, a lot of people don't realize I've been a lot of people didn't talk about it. But if you have a small business, if you have a farm someplace, a lot of farmers, they have beautiful land, but they don't have the cash and they leave it to their children and they're so proud of their children and the children end up going bankrupt because they have to borrow money to pay off the estate tax. There is no estate tax and that's something that nobody even talks about, but that's helped. That's saved a lot of families from having to sell their farm or losing their farm. But she's got one thing that's incredible, an unrealized capital gain tax that will drive every business out of the United States. So what that is is I don't know how they can possibly administer. The only ones that are going to make money are appraisers and accountants. So they're taking a business might not have not a lot of money, but it might have great land and they're valuing it. And what was it this year compared to next year, you got to put down a value and then you got to go out and you have to pay tax even though you haven't sold anything. It's the craziest thing I've ever heard. And I don't know how any rich person or any person that's in business can even think of supporting her. It's the craziest thing I've ever heard. So, and they're going to raise the capital gains tax, Willie, a lot. Now, as far as regular people are going to have to pay a lot more tax. Your taxes, she said 70 to 80%. Some people will pay 70 to 80%. You have to understand a lot of these people are international business people. A lot of these companies are international. They don't care if they're here or someplace else. They go for the best deal. They go for their shareholders. If they raise the taxes like that, they go to other countries. You know who got a lot of our companies? It's Ireland years ago. They took our pharmaceutical industry because they gave them a better deal. They will leave our country. They will leave all those jobs that we created. And I want people to pay fair taxes and all of that, But she's going to be raising your taxes to 50, 60, 70 percent.

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-So, we have to start always with energy, always. I don't want to be boring about it, but there's no bigger subject. It covers everything. If you make donuts, if you make cars, whatever you make, energy is a big deal, and we're gonna get that. It's my ambition to get your energy bill within 12 months down 50%. If I can do that, we've done a hell of a job. 5-0, not 15, 50. Interest rates are going to follow, and, actually, they're gonna follow for another reason. The economy is now not good, and interest rates -- you'll see they'll do the rate cut and all the political stuff tomorrow, I think. And, you know, will he do a half a point? Will he do a quarter of a point? But the reason is because the economy is not good. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to do it. But we're gonna get interest rates down, and we gotta work with our farmers. Our farmers are being decimated right now. They're being absolutely -- absolutely decimated. And, you know, one of the reasons is we allow a lot of farm product into our country. We're gonna have to be a little bit like other countries. We're not gonna allow so much -- we're gonna let our farmers go to work.

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