40 posts from Tuesday, October 29, 2024

My personal opinion, of course, I can't speak for the unions, but there is a silent majority. Political stuff we really don't care about. Being represented is what matters most to us. Personally, I just don't believe Union Boston speak for all union membership. I support Donald Trump because he supports keeping manufacturing jobs in-house. It was proven in your first term. Thank you for that. Thank you. You also take care of the American worker instead of going overseas or out of country to do so. Very much appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you very much, Ed. Very nice. I appreciate it. Lee is alluding to the fact that the Teamsters took a vote and 61%, this is nationwide, 61, 62% of them support Trump. Yes, they do. And they have a very good head. They have a man named Sean O'Brien, who's a great guy. He's the head of it. And-- but he released those numbers, which is, you know, something I appreciate it very much. And the firefighters, the same thing. They support me, the rank and file, which we-- so we have a lot of the union-- a lot of the unions beyond that. I think the auto workers in Detroit, we're going to bring back a lot of plants into Michigan. We're going to bring them back very fast. And you probably read, Mike, where I killed-- they were building a giant plant in Mexico sponsored and owned by China. And I let them know-- and that would have destroyed Michigan. That would have-- this plant would have made as many cars as all of Michigan. This was going to be the largest plant in the world. And I let them know, you build that plant, and we're going to put the biggest tariffs on those cars you've ever seen. And, you know, that was about two weeks ago. They've just announced they're not going to build the plant. That's a great thing, isn't that good? Now, if they want to build it in the US, that's OK, Ed. If they want to build it, Mike, in the US, that's OK. But they're not going to build it in none of the country. You can send the cars in here and destroy all of-- this is what's happening. This is what's been happening for 50, 60 years. So they just announced-- China just announced they're not going to build the plant. I'm very happy about that. Thank you very much, China. Absolutely. Thank you, sir. Great job. Thank you.

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If you don't mind, I'll make a quick digression. Mr. President, have you ever seen the movie True Grit? - Yes. - John Wayne. - Yes. - So it was my honor to live under you and help get you elected four, eight years ago, and then I watched those four years. And I have seen what's happened in intervening four years to everything that was done with you, leading up to the calamity of Butler, PA. And I hope you don't mind me saying this, but you have true grit, okay? (audience applauding) Thank you, Jim. (audience applauding) Thank you, Jim. It is our honor to do all we can. I live in Montgomery County and Abbington Township, and the GOP in Montgomery County and Abbington Township is working every day from now through November 5th to get you elected, and we're doing it. (audience applauding) So thank you very much. I know I digress, but I honestly mean it, and my wife will add some more, but you asked about how we can help seniors. Mr. President, for four years you showed us what a strong economy looks like. A strong economy helps seniors. A strong economy helps people on fixed income. A strong economy helps people who are below the average amount of money or may be struggling, and we have them in our own neighborhood. What a strong economy we need is low energy prices, and I know you're all for low energy. We need an all of the above solution. We need nuclear, we need natural gas, we need coal, we need electrical coming from wind, and we need it from water and everywhere else that we can get it, but it's all of the above. That will lower our prices for food prices, gasoline prices, the prices that seniors and fixed income people pay in the wintertime, and basically it's gonna lower inflation, which is the tax of crypto's fall. We've had that before, we'll have that with you. From what I understand of the Harris Plan, it consists of two things. One is divide people, and the second one is raise taxes. That doesn't solve anything, and any economist will tell you, you tax things, you get less of it. You lower the taxes on things, you get more of it. And the other thing I'd like to say, and folks I hope you understand this, Tim Walz is the governor of Minnesota. Minnesota is one of only 10 states that tax Social Security income at the state level. So she chose him, so for all of us in Pennsylvania, we don't have that right now. What can we expect? That is anti-fixed income, that is anti-senior, and I'm afraid that that's what we may look forward to. And the last thing I'll ask you, 'cause I don't know the answer to this, what does 10 million plus illegal aliens coming into our country look forward to as far as the Social Security Trust Fund is concerned, as far as Medicare is concerned? How can we look at our own kids and go forward and say, we have any idea about it, 'cause nobody does? This is a catastrophe. So those are my thoughts. - Well, there's good thoughts. (audience applauding) And the only mistake that this great husband of yours made was it's not 10 million, it's probably 21 million, you know, which is, and that doesn't include the gotaways, you know, the gotaway, that's the people that just pour in and you know, they're just, they're all pouring in. And we're not gonna stand for it, number one. And number two, number two, you can't, and you know, the reason they come is because we say, we'll give you, I mean, they actually tell 'em, we're gonna give you healthcare, we're gonna give you this, we're gonna give you social security, we're gonna give you education. We have a community in Springfield, Ohio, with 32,000 illegal migrants, we're put into a 50,000 person community, and you can't get into the hospitals, you can't get into the schools, you can't do anything, it's a disaster, and it's all gotta, it's not sustainable, I mean, it's not yet a nice community, Springfield. And now it's, you heard about this, Mike, 32,000 illegal migrants, now they sort of made it legal by playing QT with the law, but they're illegal migrants, and it's just not sustainable. This is happening all over the country, in terms of pricing. What you're really alluding to is drill, baby, drill, because when we bring the energy costs down, everything's coming down, and we have more energy under our feet than any other country, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, and we were, as you know, energy independent four years ago, and now it's a mess, we're buying it from, we're buying tar, big bats of tar from Venezuela, and we're refining it, it's a mess, and we have the best energy, we have the best oil, we have the most oil, and we don't wanna use it, we wanna go and give money, you know, Venezuela is the enemy, and we now are making them a very rich enemy, it's not even believable what they're doing. They don't know what the hell they're doing, but we're gonna drill, baby, drill, we're gonna use ourself, we don't need anybody else's, and we're gonna open up Anwar in Alaska, which is as big as Saudi Arabia, they say, the biggest in the world, I got it open, Ronald Reagan couldn't do it, nobody could do it, for 60 years they couldn't do it, I got it done, and Biden comes in and he decides to not let it happen, I'll get that thing open so fast, we'll supply it to everybody, and we'll start paying down our debt, and all of those good things, but your costs are gonna come down, you bring energy, energy's really more than anything else who was there spending, but it was also energy, that's really what brought up the costs, because energy, you need it for everything, if you make donuts, you need it for the stove, you need it for the trucks, for delivery, you need, and we're going to have so much energy, and one of the pledges that I make is that we are going to have energy costs, which are very high right now, and that includes gasoline, we're gonna get rid of the mandate, by the way, the electric mandate for your cars, that's gonna come off, and that's great, you know, if somebody wants an electric car, I mean, Elon Musk gave me the biggest endorsement you've ever seen, and his cars are great, but not everybody needs to have an electric car, or wants to have an electric car, you're gonna be able to get hybrids, you get regular gasoline powered cars, but we're gonna bring your energy costs down by 50% within one year, by the way, it's gonna be, we can do it, nobody else can, because we have so much, it's right under us, even in New York State, they don't realize, New York State is sitting on a tremendous amount, and if they used it, Lee would, I totally, Lee would have opened that up in two seconds, they don't wanna drill for the environment, and the people in Pennsylvania, they're sitting there, they have a Cadillac, and the people across the line, the line is right here, and they don't have a car, and it's just absolutely, we have so much energy this country, we're going to bring down the prices, that'll bring down everything else, and you'll be in great shape.

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And we did a lot of things medically. One thing I'd like to talk about is right to try. So you know what that is. I hope nobody in the room needs it. But we have the best labs, doctors, technicians, but our laboratories are the best for new medicines and everything. They're really amazing. But you can't get it approved. I mean, and rightfully, you can't get it by the FDA. They can't stand me, by the way. I used to push them. I got it down from 12 years to five years, but they need certain times. I mean, they do need. I want everything to be rushed. But you can't necessarily do that. But we have a situation where we have things that are really good. We're pretty sure they work. They may not, but we're pretty sure they work. And I said, why isn't it, if a person's terminally ill, why can't they use this stuff that may or may not work? Sure. It's been going on 48 years. They couldn't get it worked out. The country didn't want it because our country would be sued. The insurance companies definitely didn't want it. The labs didn't want it because they didn't want a terminally ill person to be using something that's going to be like show badly, where they have to put it down. They have to do their lists. And they don't want to be-- they call it a list. They didn't want to be on the list. Somebody's terminally ill and dies and using their medicine. And I understand that. So I got everybody in a room, every one of the doctors, the labs, the insurance companies, and even the country representatives, the Justice Department. They all came in because they couldn't get it done. I said, here's what we do. Somebody can use it. And you know, these people were going all over the world. They were going to Asia. They were going to Europe. And they had money. And they would get scammed many times. But they'd go all over the world. We couldn't do it here. And most of them had no money. And they'd go home and they'd die. I'd say, look, if somebody's terminally ill, I want to give them a shot at life. It's a great feeling, at least. At least they can say, well, you know, I've got something. And maybe it'll work. And maybe it won't. But the expression, what the hell do we have to lose? Somebody's terminally ill. Why? They were saying, we'll be sued. I said, you're not going to be sued. So we worked out. And it didn't take that long. After 48 years, within a period of about a month-- and then I got it approved by Congress, believe it or not, we could get things done. But think of this. We got it approved. And everybody agreed. Anybody that signed that document, you wouldn't sue anybody. If something happened to your family, the family would sign. The person would sign. No liability for anybody. And you have the right to try. We have saved thousands and thousands of people. And it's very impressive. [APPLAUSE] Some of the biggest-- some of the biggest proponents of it now are the people that fought it the hardest to get it, like the laboratories, the medical companies, because it actually showed that it worked. People are terminally ill. And in many cases, they came back. They had absolutely no problems. They had no disease. They had no anything. It's called right to try. We did that. Nobody thought we could get it approved. We got it approved. They signed a waiver of liability, which in business you sort of do. But I got everybody into a room. I said, we got to do this. And we've used-- I have a person who works for me was saved because of that. A very great person that works for me was saved because of right to try. There was no medicine. There was nothing was going to work. But there was a space age something, a medicine, that they were going to use and that they did use. And it saved, anyway, it saved millions of lives, all these different things that they're developing. And in some cases, it doesn't work. But in many cases, it does. I would say in many more cases, it does. So, Mike, we saved thousands and thousands of lives. And again, I hope nobody in this room needs it. But it's awfully good. It's awfully good. At least it gives you a hell of a shot. And it turned out to be really amazing.

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And this is an election that's really a choice between whether or not we'll have four more years of total failure. This has been the worst four years I've ever seen. Gross incompetence, but total failure, disaster under Kamala Harris. Nobody knows she, you know, you, I say all the time, if you say Harris, nobody knows who the heck we're talking about, right? Harris. And this is what we have or whether we'll begin the four greatest years in the history of of our country and we're starting. (audience cheers)

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So we're going to fight like hell for the next seven days and then hopefully and then hopefully and most importantly we're going to be fighting even harder for the next four years because we're going to turn this around and we're going to make this country greater than it has ever been. Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you.

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-The full consequences of Kamala's four-year reign are almost too terrible to discuss or contemplate. We're coming to the end of a great campaign. I think we've had a great campaign. We've really not been provided the kind of protection that I needed as president, but I said we have to do it anyway when Secret Service would ask for additional people, oftentimes we would be turned down. They were constantly asking for additional people, and I found Secret Service to be very brave. When I was hit and went down, they were right on top of me within seconds. I tell you what, those bullets were flying right over my head. I heard them, and these guys were right -- I don't know how they didn't get hit, actually, but they were right there. You take a look at the video. One thing you would say, the video is there for people to see, but they were never given the kind of help that they requested because our rallies were massively large, and they needed more people, and they were always fighting for more people, and it was never given to them. Now they're being given, I hope, what they need, but that was a constant fight. They'd come to me, and they'd say, "You guys don't want to give us the people," and yet Biden was covered, and they'd have like two people show up, but Kamala is grossly incompetent, a total train wreck who has destroyed everything in her path. She's destroyed everything. She left 21 million aliens poor across our country, and then she maybe in a short while has to go home and to get herself a job someplace, who knows? But think about it, and she can look at the carnage, and she can look at all the people that have been killed, and you haven't seen anything yet because they've just started. They're just getting comfortable in our country. These are very tough people. These criminals make our criminals look like nice people, and she let the more than 13,000 convicted illegal aliens -- nobody would have let these people into our country. And remember, they came out of the worst prisons in the world, the meanest, nastiest prisons in the world. And when she says that she wouldn't do anything different, does that mean that she would have led 325,000 migrant children? Probably die, most of them, many of them. But at a minimum, they're slaves or they're sex slaves, and they're all over the country. Does that mean that she wouldn't have changed that? Does that mean that she wouldn't have changed so many of the other things that led to so much death and destruction and even financial destruction of our country itself? We could end up in a depression because of what she's left with us. They are the worst combination president, vice president in the history of our country. And I often say Jimmy Carter is a happy man because his administration, by comparison, It was totally brilliant, it was brilliant.

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Very simply Kamala Harris is not fit to be your president. We can't have it happen. We can't have it happen. We're going to make this country strong again. We're going to make it great again. We're going to be respected again. Her message has been a message of hate and division, and my message is about saving our economy, securing our border, bringing together the greatest and broadest coalition in American history. There's never been a coalition like this. Everybody's included.

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(audience applauding) - Hi, good afternoon, good morning. My name is Kristi Shamblin, and my daughter-in-law was Sergeant Nicole Leanne Gee, and she was killed in the botched Afghanistan exit at Abbey Gate. She was the cornerstone of a very large family. And instead of planning family gatherings, and holiday meals and Christmases, and baby showers, our family and thousands of other families, planned outings at funeral grave sites, and that is where we as a family celebrate my daughter-in-law at Arlington National Cemetery because she is in the ground. Her story isn't unique to our family, she's just ours. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of wounded veterans who came home from that war, who need our help and who are ignored by our current administration. President Trump demonstrates peace through strength. I know what he told the Taliban when he was negotiating with them because I've made it my business to know. And what he said to them when he was negotiating with the Taliban, he said, "I will kill you if you harm one hair "on one head of an American." (audience cheers) President Trump shows up, he reaches out, and he can fix our country, and we can all heal together. (audience cheers) (applause)

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So, we're pleased also to be joined by Christy Chamblin, person I know and I've gotten to know over the last year or so, the mother-in-law of fallen Marine Corps Sergeant Nicole Gee. Nicole made the ultimate sacrifice during the disastrous withdrawal. Not that we were withdrawing, I was going to withdraw, but we were withdrawing with dignity and strength and power, and we were going to keep Bagram the big air base because of the fact that it was so close to where China makes their nuclear weapons. One hour away, we should have kept it, and we didn't do that, but the way they withdrew, they took the soldiers out first, "No, you take the soldiers out last." I went 18 months without one soldier, I spoke to Abdul, the leader of the Taliban. We went 18 months without one soldier even being shot at, no soldier being killed. For 18 months, then we left, and you had this group of incompetent people take over. Guys like Millie should have been fired. They should have been fired. Anybody that was involved with that disaster should have been fired. She was one of 13 U.S. service members who lost their lives. Kamala said she was the last person in the room, that Kamala was the last person in the room. She was involved in everything. She takes credit for that. She was involved in everything. That means she was involved in disaster after disaster, because nothing good has happened with this administration, except that our country has gone to almost a third world status with Biden. When Biden made a decision, she said she was there, oh, she was there, but the Afghanistan decision was a disaster in so many different ways, and now you take a look at it. They're right back to what they were doing before, except much worse. Much worse to women. They're worse to women right now than they were even before it started, but Kamala never reached out to the family members of the warriors, and she said she was going to, but she never did. I can't hold anybody, and, Christy, I'd like you to come up and say a few words, please. Hi, good afternoon, good morning. My name is Christy Shamblin, and my daughter-in-law was Sergeant Nicole Lee Ann Gee, and she was killed in the botched Afghanistan exit at Abbey Gate. She was the cornerstone of a very large family, and instead of planning family gatherings and holiday meals and Christmases and baby showers, our family and thousands of other families plan outings at funeral grave sites, and that is where we as a family celebrate my daughter-in-law at Arlington National Cemetery, because she is in the ground. Her story isn't unique to our family, she's just ours. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of wounded veterans who came home from that war, who need our help and who are ignored by our current administration. And Trump demonstrates peace through strength. I know what he told the Taliban when he was negotiating with them, because I've made it my business to know. And what he said to them when he was negotiating with the Taliban, he said, "I will kill you if you harm one hair on one head of an American." President Trump shows up, he reaches out, and he can fix our country, and we can all heal together. Thank you very much. So many cases, so many cases like this. Nobody should have died. First of all, when they left, the soldiers should have been there, they shouldn't have been home watching, except for a small group, and many of them got killed in large numbers. Many of them inches, the arms, the legs, missing, gone, the face just obliterated. Nobody talks about them. I talk about them all the time, but I want to thank you, Christie, and we'll carry Nicole's memory in our hearts forever.

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Here today is Michael Coppi, a small business owner who runs a dry cleaner and is struggling to get by because of what Kamala has done to his business. They've destroyed small businesses in this country. Michael, please. Thank you. We have the opportunity and the high honor of joining you here today and sharing my small business story with you folks and the American people. So it's a chain of eco-friendly dry cleaners throughout the Tri-County here in West Palm and seems not too long ago, just a few years, the customer and us, the small business owner, we were able to keep up with inflation. There were resources available to us for expansion or if you had a bad month, you know, if there was something you needed to make up for. It seemed like the support was there and now, just a few short years later, it seems like all of those resources have dried up, the support's no longer there. We had an expansion plan about six years ago that we had to pause because we have to wait for our customers now to catch up with the inflation, the supply chain issues still because we as a small business, we can't double our price points. Although the cost of doing business now is two, three or four times what it was just a few years ago. So we've had to get creative. Our industry, probably 30% in the dry cleaning industry, never survived COVID. And just recently, this summer, I was contacted, my wife and I, by another local dry cleaner here in West Palm. They were asking advice. So husband and wife have been there for about 35 years, their lease was up and the landlord was doubling their rent, which would have meant that that's what they've been paying themselves for probably a better part of 20 years. So they had to make a decision. Do they hand the keys back or do we get creative, work together, pool resources? And so what we did was we figured out the right price point for them, but we did their cleaning for them, at least until we figured it out. And so they were not able to pay their operations, they couldn't keep that going, but they were able to save their business by strategically partnering. And by the end of summer, I think I was contacted by about 12 other local dry cleaners saying, can you guys help us also because we're going through the same thing? Thank you. And it seems now, so the delta between the reality of what inflation is right now, and what we have in front of us, the reality of that and the small business owners capabilities that delta is too great. So unless we affect change immediately, I fear that in the next few years, if we don't see that change, we might see another 30% of our industry and others no longer exist. So I just want to say thank you again, Mr. President, for allowing me to share my go green dry cleaner story, and thank you.

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It is my honor to introduce the first lady, Melania Trump. She's the best you can be if you get a lot better. I want you to please take me home. She's the best I can be if you get a lot better. She's the best you can be if you get a lot better. I want you to please take me home. She's the best you can be if you get a lot better. Good evening, New York City. Hello, Madison Square Garden. Our hometown where architectural symbols of strength, courage, and unity create a canvas for the world's undisputed capital of industry. Where titans of finance, fashion, and entertainment convene among an iconic range of superior design, structures, and artistic accomplishments. And American ingenuity blossoms among determined citizens who race across city streets and between offices striving for success. It is you who are the heartbeat of this great metropolis. It is you who are the pulse of this America. Yet, New York City is unforgiving. In fact, our lives are complicated even during the best of times. And sadly today, a declining quality of life coupled with economic instability makes it difficult for business to thrive. Love you too. Crime is on the rise while public safety diminishes creating an environment where families with young children choose to relocate. And this story repeats itself from coast to coast across our nation. This is America. For generations, this town has produced America's most fearless leaders whose mark changed the course of the world. New York City and America needs their magic back. A country of tomorrow that will shape our future and reset expectations for the generations and vision a wonderful America where the seeds of security, prosperity, and health are sown once again for benefit of our families. Let us start together with a shared vision that builds on American greatness. Let's seize this moment and create a country for tomorrow, the future that we deserve. And now, please welcome our next commander-in-chief, my husband, President Donald J. Trump. If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd work for all my life. If I had to start again, it's just my children and my wife. I'd thank my lucky star to be living here today. But the flag still stands for freedom, and I can't take that away.

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