July 18, 2024 - America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Sorry to keep you waiting, complicated business. | ||
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
| Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever came easy. | ||
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Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | |
| The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say. | ||
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We must always remember that we share one home and one glorious destiny. | |
| We all bleed the same red blood of patriots. | ||
| We all salute the same great American flag. | ||
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Our best days are yet to come. | |
| I am officially running for president of the United States. | ||
| We need a leader. | ||
| I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. | ||
| It can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid. | ||
| The American dream is dead, dead, dead, dead. | ||
| But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before. | ||
| The American dream. | ||
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And we will make America great again. | |
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| But as soon as people start playing games, I stop. | ||
| I stop playing games. | ||
| and at any moment I can click that yay button. | ||
| I'm going to cover the first edition. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| Not my words, not my rules. | ||
| I can control things, all right? | ||
| They said, trust me, but you're not a sin to believe your day was in the world. | ||
| I'm so sorry. | ||
| I'm so sorry. | ||
| My mama said, trust me, but you're not a sin to believe your day was in the world. | ||
| Blackout Scott, who is a person who is everything, is warming up everybody who cares to a world. | ||
| Warming on everybody who dared to avoid it. | ||
| And your mama ain't cheap, ready to shit. | ||
| Warming on everybody who dared to avoid it. | ||
| And they were in ways, wait before the style kick. | ||
| Yo, I'm shitty, and I was just a jerk. | ||
| I'm not all that, said it, think you could do weight and fit. | ||
| Yo, it's too late, yo, what's the shit, bitch? | ||
| Big sticks, boot tight, it's a damn set. | ||
| Yo, I'm talking to my first shows back on. | ||
| Warming on everybody who dared to avoid it. | ||
| Warming on everybody who dared to avoid it. | ||
| Well, hey, thanks, love you too, but sorry, I believe in a religion that makes sense, so... Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump were all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large. | ||
| It's not too big, is it? | ||
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Okay. | |
| It's wrong, isn't it? | ||
| It feels so right. | ||
| And yourself. | ||
| It's wrong, isn't it? | ||
| I could feel so right. | ||
| And it's a deal. | ||
| I put together some real impressive deals. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Go gig or go home. | ||
| Donald Trump. | ||
| I know you're really beautiful. | ||
| A woman who looks like that has to have the rules for what she said. | ||
| It's the Donald. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| Hey, Donald. | ||
| You look great. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| This is my fault. | ||
| Listen, are you begging here? | ||
| Huh? | ||
| Are you? | ||
| You do. | ||
| You keep to smack the phone. | ||
| No. | ||
| Look at this right here on the street. | ||
| It's Donald Trump. | ||
| Are you wrong? | ||
| Are you wrong? | ||
| The Donald is here. | ||
| Everything's set for tonight, Mr. Trump. | ||
| I wonder what Trump's game is this time. | ||
| Trump's got a new day! | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| My new game is Trump. | ||
| The game. | ||
| Trump. | ||
| The game. | ||
| This sounds like political presidential. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| You said, though, that if you did run for president, you believe you'd win. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| I would say that I would have a hell of a chance of winning. | ||
| I'd never go on to lose. | ||
| I've never gone on to lose in my life. | ||
| I don't know how your audience feels, but I think people are tired of seeing the United States ripped off. | ||
| That's the guy on the spot, right? | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| That's me. | ||
| Kevin, thank you. | ||
| I love you, Doug. | ||
| Okay, kids, make it first. | ||
| I've got a plane to get it. | ||
| Can you create a magazine? | ||
| Mr. Trump, I think you do it. | ||
| Scamggy. | ||
| So far. | ||
| I love you, Doug. | ||
| I love you, Doug. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| You can't go back to the past. | ||
| That's what people always say, isn't it? | ||
| They say, can we really go back? | ||
| And the answer is, whether you're conservative or liberal, right what you're left with, the answer is no. | ||
| We're never going back. | ||
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It's gone. | |
| It's gone. | ||
| All of that is gone. | ||
| But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead, because Jesus Christ was our past before any of us were born or conceived. | ||
| Jesus Christ is our present now, and Jesus Christ is our future after we die on Earth. | ||
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We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet Earth. | |
| We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet Earth. | ||
| We love everybody. | ||
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And we want people that can burn, really, more than anybody. | |
| But this country can no longer be held hostage by a small minority that doesn't believe in the real God. | ||
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The mission of our movement is to make this country a Christian country. | |
| The mission is to create a Christian, The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do. | ||
| The only way that we're going to make this happen is with the fullness of a real Christian. | ||
| It's the only way. | ||
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We have got to be willing to die for Jesus Christ. | |
| We have to want it more than they do, because there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny. | ||
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Then nothing can stop us, and nothing will. | |
| They've been put on notice. | ||
| If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before. | ||
| Don't sit yet. | ||
| yet. | ||
| Get it like this. | ||
| Get it like this. | ||
| The people who are attacking our civilization have no idea of the sleeping giant they have awoken. | ||
| They cannot even begin to imagine the brave and righteous spirit they've unleashed in men and women. | ||
| But they're going to find out the hard way. | ||
| They will find out like never before. | ||
| This nation belongs to you. | ||
| to you, belongs to America. | ||
| It was patriots like you that built this country, and it's patriots like you that are going to save our country. | ||
| To all of those who think that they can coerce and subjugate the citizens of this land, hear these words. | ||
| For me tonight, the people of America will not surrender our borders. | ||
| We will not surrender our culture. | ||
| We will not surrender our faith. | ||
| We will not surrender our values. | ||
| We will not surrender our history. | ||
| We will not surrender our liberty. | ||
| And above all, we will not surrender our children. | ||
| We are done with their distorted visions for America. | ||
| It's time to start talking about greatness for our country again. | ||
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We want our country to be great again. | |
| We want our country to be respected. | ||
| The time for action has come. | ||
| As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect, the respect that we deserve. then we can be assured that other nations will not | ||
| Years from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice. | ||
| Whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given. | ||
| Together, we have the same mission. | ||
| Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair. | ||
| You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted. | ||
| But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight. | ||
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Never, ever, ever give up. | |
| Don't give in, don't back down, and never stop doing what you know is right. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. | ||
| And the more righteous your fight, the more opposition that you will face. | ||
| In your hearts are inscribed the values of service, sacrifice, and devotion. | ||
| Now you must go forth into the world and turn your hopes and dreams into action. | ||
| America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers. | ||
| When the Pilgrims landed At Plymouth, they prayed. | ||
| When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our Creator four times. | ||
| Because in America, we don't worship government, we worship God. | ||
| It is why our currency proudly declares, in God we trust. | ||
| And it's why we proudly proclaim, That we are one nation under God. | ||
| The story of America is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams, and humble beginnings. | ||
| The next generation of American leaders never, ever give up. | ||
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There'll be times in your life you'll want to quit. | |
| Never quit. | ||
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Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you. | |
| Carry yourself with dignity and pride. | ||
| Demand the best from yourself. | ||
| The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. | ||
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Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | |
| Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. | ||
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. | ||
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You must keep pushing forward. | |
| And always have the courage to be yourself. | ||
| America is better when people put their faith into action. | ||
| Pray to God and follow his teachings. | ||
| Today, each of you begins a new chapter as well. | ||
| When your story goes from here, it will be defined by your vision, your perseverance, and your grit. | ||
| You will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics and the doubters have to say. | ||
| You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls. | ||
| As long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions, and faith in God, Then you will not fail. | ||
| As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, then our best days are yet to come. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| May God bless the United States of America. | ||
| And I just want to let you know that God blesses you. | ||
| And I want to just say, you are special in every way. | ||
| God bless you, and God bless America. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| We are going to make our country great again. | ||
| We are going to make our country great again. | ||
| We are going to make our country great again. | ||
| We are going to make our country great again. | ||
| I'm sorry, I've been making hair on with the wrap. | ||
| So high up, you're my chin up. | ||
| I don't care if I ever fall down. | ||
| I don't care if I ever fall down. | ||
| I don't care if I ever fall down. | ||
| 69 Now it's time for new believable people. | ||
| And we must do it. | ||
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If we don't control insiders, this will be over and over. | |
| To lead by an A. Big, fat, love, find common ground. | ||
| To halt the spread of lies. | ||
| And we must do it. | ||
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Big, fat, love, find common ground. | |
| To hold the spread of lies. | ||
| And any... | ||
| America first! | ||
| America first! | ||
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Non-fatal. | |
| We want to build a much better, believable people. | ||
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And we must do it non-fatal. | |
| Communication very much higher. | ||
| America First! | ||
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to lead by an idiot. | |
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| Time to stop. | ||
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| More of. | ||
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| Time to stop. | ||
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Insiders fighting for insiders. | |
| America first. | ||
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Love the flow. | |
| 69 now it's time for new believable people and we must do it if we don't control insiders this will be over and over to lead it by and any big fat love find common ground to halt the spread of lies and we must do it big fat love find common ground to halt the spread of lies and any | ||
| America first. | ||
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Non-fatal. | |
| We want to build a much better, believable people. | ||
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And we must do it non-fatal. | |
| Communication very much higher. | ||
| America first. | ||
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To lead it by an egg. | |
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| Time to stop. | ||
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| More of. | ||
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| Time to stop. | ||
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Insiders fighting for insiders. | |
| America first. | ||
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Love the flow. | |
| President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States. - Yes. | ||
| At real Donald Trump. | ||
| Well, at real Donald Trump. | ||
| At least I will go down as a president. | ||
| Now America is once again at a... | ||
| Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people. | ||
| Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people. | ||
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We will make America great again. | |
| I love this country. | ||
| It's payback time. | ||
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It's payback time. | |
| We're gonna take our country back from these people. | ||
| He will never be president. | ||
| I will move to Spain or somewhere. | ||
| We're going to win at so many levels. | ||
| We're going to win, win, win. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| The End Mr. President-elect. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| The End | ||
| The End | ||
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. | ||
| Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever came easy. | ||
|
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Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | |
| The future belongs to the people who follow their heart, no matter what the critics say. | ||
|
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We must always remember that we share one home, And one glorious destiny. | |
| We all bleed the same red blood of patriots. | ||
| We all salute the same great American flag. | ||
| Our best days are yet to come. | ||
|
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I am officially running for president of the United States. | |
| We need a leader. | ||
| I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. | ||
| It can be wonderful if you have smart people. | ||
| But we have people that are stupid. | ||
| The American dream is dead. | ||
| But if I get elected president, I will bring it back. | ||
| Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. | ||
| The American dream. | ||
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And we will make America great again. | |
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And nobody builds walls better than me. | ||
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Believe me. | |
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| America great again. | ||
| Great again. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| But as soon as people start playing games, I stopped. | ||
| I stop playing games. | ||
| And at any moment, I can kick that yay button. | ||
| I'm going to go first. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Not my words, not my rules. | ||
| I can think you're saying, all right? | ||
| They said, trust no man, but you promise I didn't believe your day was in the ground. | ||
| I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. | ||
| My mama said, trust no hope, you so come on. | ||
| But they said, trust no man, but you promise I didn't believe your day was in the ground. | ||
| Last time, God, we're here to everything. | ||
| Warming on everybody who dared to approach. | ||
| And your mama ain't shake, ready to shake. | ||
| And they were in ways, way before the snow kick. | ||
| And I was just a check. | ||
| And I walked back, did it think you could do it as a thing? | ||
| And who did it? | ||
| Yo, what's it? | ||
| This shit, bitch. | ||
| It's six, two, three. | ||
| Yes, I can't say. | ||
| And you're the worst. | ||
| I'm the only black jewels way before the dark jungle. | ||
| First, you're looking. | ||
| That'll be okay. | ||
| Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. | ||
| . | ||
| It's going to be only America first. | ||
| America first. | ||
| The American people will come first once again. | ||
| With respect, the respect that we deserve. | ||
| From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. | ||
| America first. | ||
| Good evening, everybody. | ||
| You're watching America First. | ||
| My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we are back covering day four, final day of the Republican convention. | ||
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And we got Pompeo on, so we're just going to get to it here. | |
| I'll be back in a sec. | ||
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Pressure campaign. | |
| We gave money to the Ayatollah so he could cut more checks to the genocidal maniacs who conducted attacks, barbaric attacks in Israel. | ||
| And we're back. | ||
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And we're back. | |
| He must have went on a He must have went on Ozempic. | ||
| He used to be huge. | ||
| They're all on Ozempic. | ||
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It's crazy. | |
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders, this guy. | ||
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I had this incredible privilege to serve as your top diplomat. | |
| I saw how the world always looks to our nation as the unrivaled example of what a free society should look like. | ||
| But unfortunately, President Biden struts the global stage. | ||
| Maybe I should say he shuffles the global stage. | ||
| He talks a big game about American values. | ||
| But what's he done at home? | ||
| What's he shown the world? | ||
| What have he and his leftist base actually shown other nations? | ||
| He's censored free speech here at home. | ||
| People are saying gastric bypass, you think? | ||
| He was really fat before. | ||
| He looks good though. | ||
| - He must reclaim it. | ||
| - Yeah, I know. | ||
| - He put it in our schools as well. | ||
| - People are saying gastric bypass, you think? - He's weaponized the justice system against our political opponents. | ||
| - He was really fat before. - And even to this day, as we sit here today, he and Vice President Harris are providing appeasement to the pro-Hamas radicals on our streets here inside the United States. | ||
| And even worse, today this administration treats illegals better than our own citizens. | ||
| That is indecent. | ||
| That's indecent? | ||
| That's not nice. | ||
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The truth that we all know and is so dangerous to our nation. | |
| The truth that Joe Biden can't handle that 3am phone call. | ||
| Indeed he won't take a phone call after about 4pm. | ||
| Nap time at the White House. | ||
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My call to you tonight is really straightforward. | |
| It's really simple. | ||
| We can't trust the Biden administration, and that means we have work to do to uphold American values. | ||
| It is up to those of us in the room tonight and those of you watching tonight. | ||
| Donald Trump will, every day, I saw it firsthand, he will put America first. | ||
| So let's do what's right and what's important. | ||
| Let's elect a president who isn't ashamed of our nation and will never apologize for our country. | ||
| And when we do, And when we do, we will put a strong America First leader back in the White House. | ||
| We'll re-elect Donald J. Trump, and we will make America special, exceptional, and of course, great again. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| God bless our veterans and the United States of America. | ||
| Thank you all. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| He should not be here. | ||
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He was another one who was critical of Trump after January 6th. | |
| My name is Pastor Lorenzo Sewell. | ||
| I have the honor and the privilege of being a senior pastor at 180 Church, and we were blessed last month to have President Donald Trump come to Detroit, Michigan! | ||
| Let's go! | ||
| Can you imagine it? | ||
| Can you imagine President Donald Trump coming to a city and calling a pastor like me? | ||
| A pastor who was born and raised on the east side of Detroit. | ||
| I was mentored by murderers. | ||
| I was a student of the street. | ||
| But I had a radical experience with Jesus Christ that changed my life forever. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| Come on, if you believe that Jesus still changed lives, come on, put your hands together and give our great God great glory! | ||
| Jesus named W. | ||
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President Trump came to a church that is in a democratic stronghold. | |
| He came to a church to listen to average, everyday Americans like you and like me. | ||
| He came to a church not to speak to us, but to listen to us. | ||
| He came into a church and a lot of people, they were upset. | ||
| A lot of people, they would ask me questions. | ||
| Why would you allow Donald Trump to come into your church? | ||
| How many know that the Bible says we are all sinners and we all need the grace of God? | ||
| How many know that the Bible says, he who has not sinned, let him cast the first stone? | ||
| President Donald Trump, he came during his birthday weekend. | ||
| Let me ask you a question. | ||
| Grand old party, what would you do for your birthday if you were worth 6.7 billion dollars? | ||
| What would you do for your birthday? | ||
| Would you come to Detroit? | ||
| Would you come into the hood hood? | ||
| He came to the hood because he cares about average, everyday Americans. | ||
| Grand Ole Party, I need to ask you a question. | ||
| Love this guy. | ||
| What would you ask for your birthday? | ||
| If you could go to Mar-a-Lago or if you could go to New York, what would you ask for your birthday? | ||
| He asked for prayer. | ||
| I believe that prayer is preventative and prayer is proactive. | ||
| I believe that praying in the name of Jesus changes everything. | ||
| And when we prayed for President Trump, only God knew that 30 days later, only God knew that 30 days later, There would be a miracle by a millimeter. | ||
| Only God knew that if we prayed for him during his birthday, there would be a miracle by a millimeter. | ||
| Mm. | ||
| If President Trump had moved one millimeter, He wouldn't have been here on Monday to talk to us about how America was going to be made wealthy again. | ||
| If President Donald Trump would have moved just a millimeter, he wouldn't have been here on Tuesday to talk about how he was going to make America secure again. | ||
| If President Donald Trump would have moved just a millimeter, He wouldn't have been here on Wednesday to tell us how he was going to make America strong again. | ||
| And if President Trump would have moved just a... This part's a little tedious, but the rest is good. | ||
| - The press is good. - We will not be hearing tonight how he was gonna make America great again. | ||
| Before I take my seat, I just gotta talk to you about something called providence and something called sovereignty. | ||
| God's sovereignty is his ability to be able to do what he wants, when he wants, because he's God. | ||
| in God's providence. | ||
| It's when he does what he wants, when he wants for all of you. | ||
| Did you know that President Trump was shot On 611? | ||
| And do you know that Ephesians chapter number 6, verse number 11 says, "Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power." So all my Democrat friends, I want to ask you one question. | ||
| Do you know anybody that was the 45th president He was convicted of 34 accounts. | ||
| He raised $53 million in 24 hours and could be the 47th president of the United States of America and he was shot one time. | ||
| Do you know anybody like that? | ||
| To all my friends back in Detroit who are Democrats, I'm gonna ask you just one simple question. | ||
| You can't deny the power of God on this man's life. | ||
| You can't deny that God protected him. | ||
| You cannot deny that it was a millimeter miracle that was able to save this man's life. | ||
| Could it be that Jesus Christ preserved him for such a time as this? | ||
| Could it be? | ||
| Alright, losing steam a little bit, but I do love the speech. | ||
| Could it be that when we prayed for him when he came to the round table in Detroit, that Jesus asked and he received, that we sought him and then he found protection? | ||
| Could it be that the King of Glory, the Lord God strong and mighty, the God who is mighty in battle, protected Donald Trump? | ||
| Nice. | ||
| because he wants to use him for such a time. | ||
| Is this, if you believe that, come on, put your hands to a gather and give our great God great glory. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| Why can't the whole convention be like that? | ||
| Because the thing is, you know, I'm not Protestant, obviously, And Catholics don't really talk that way. - Yeah. | ||
| And it's a little bit corny. | ||
| But I'm fine with the self-aware, wholesome corniness. | ||
| As long as it's decent. | ||
| As long as it's directionally correct. | ||
| Like, I'm a sucker for Christianity. | ||
| I'm a sucker for family. | ||
| For those kinds of personal anecdotes, like some of the people were telling yesterday, what I can't stand is all the partisan, like, political nonsense. | ||
| Stuff about, like, unleash energy! | ||
| Like, I'm not willing to be a sucker for that. | ||
| I'm not willing to be self-conscious, self-consciously accepting of that kind of cringe. | ||
| So, you go to the RNC, you know you're gonna get You know, you basically know what you're gonna get from the outset. | ||
| But I just can't tolerate, like, for example, the other night about all the Israel stuff. | ||
| You know, the 45-minute Israel Fest. | ||
| Closest ally, Jewish values are American values, and so on. | ||
| Like, I can't... I can't embrace that. | ||
| But the stuff that we actually stand for, yeah, I'm willing to go all out for the, even if it's a little corny, the stuff that's super patriotic, super religious, super traditional, I'm willing to say, yeah, well, this is our convention, you know? | ||
| But yesterday we found out, it's actually funny on that point, so yesterday they brought up this Jewish kid named Shabbos Kestenbaum. | ||
| Well, we'll talk about it in a sec. | ||
| In fact, we have another speech here. | ||
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Oh, okay. | |
| No, Trump's coming out early, I guess. | ||
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There he is. | |
| King Trump. King Trump. | ||
| King Trump. King Trump. | ||
| I don't recognize them. | ||
| We're going to go. | ||
| Or them. | ||
| Who's that big guy? | ||
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I don't recognize any of these people other than Ted Cruz. | |
| And the guy from Nevada. | ||
| Jason Aldean? | ||
| I don't know who that is. | ||
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Is that a country guy? | |
| Yeah, see, I don't... | ||
| That's the stuff I really don't like. | ||
| People say, a lot of people don't like that I criticize a lot of white culture, but that's just inappropriate. | ||
| You're wearing a t-shirt with the tattoos, baseball cap. | ||
| You're standing next to the president. | ||
| That's just inappropriate. | ||
| I know that's your thing, but it's just, show a little decorum. | ||
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It's an honor to be here this evening. | |
| I'm the PGA head golf professional at Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida. | ||
| We all know that President Trump loves his family because we see that. | ||
| And we all know that President Trump is willing to die for our country because we just witnessed that. | ||
| But what I'm here to tell you tonight is that Donald Trump is a great boss and one hell of a golfer. | ||
| At our club championship in March, I watched President Trump hit a perfect 210-yard 4-iron to within 10 feet of the hole. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| He needed to sink that putt to win. | ||
| Do you think he sank it? | ||
| You better believe you sunk that putt. | ||
| Donald Trump, 21 club championships. | ||
| Joe Biden, zero. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| For non-golfers out there, that's a pretty good record. | ||
| He brought up the head of his golf club to talk about how good of a golfer he is. | ||
| I was working multiple jobs, and one of those jobs was caddying at Trump International, and that's where I met Mr. Trump. | ||
| My caddy job eventually would turn into a full-time job. | ||
| One day, I was out caddying for Mr. Trump when he mentioned to me that he needed to find a teaching pro. | ||
| He knew I could play, so he said, tomorrow, dress like a golf pro and come out and play golf with me. | ||
| So in true Mr. Trump fashion, on the first tee the next day, he tees up his ball, whacks it right down the middle of the fairway. | ||
| And I turned to him and I said, hey, I'm pretty nervous. | ||
| And he said, John, you just relax and play your game. | ||
| And it was great advice, because after nine holes, he turned to me and he said, I've seen enough. | ||
| You've got the job. | ||
| That's an awesome story. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Later, I went on to become the head golf professional, and I'll never forget that moment with Mr. Trump. | ||
| He truly changed my life. | ||
| That's who Donald Trump is. | ||
| For 25 years, I've seen his generosity and his remarkable character. | ||
| Firsthand, his entire family reflects these values as well. | ||
| With all the hate the President gets, I think to myself, how can someone go through all this? | ||
| He could have chosen a quiet life. | ||
| He could have played more golf. | ||
| But he cares so deeply about America and our people. | ||
| He just keeps working. | ||
| And he does it for us. | ||
| Now it's our turn to support him. | ||
| So let's help him. | ||
| Let's hear it. | ||
| America great. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump, for believing in me and in our country. | ||
| As much as I'll miss him in the clubhouse, we need to vote him back in the White House. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Alright, well, that's the last line. | ||
| See, I love when it's just Americana. | ||
| Why can't the whole convention be that? | ||
| I just love when it's America. | ||
| That's America. | ||
| When you get a white guy like that, loves playing golf, he's a caddy at the Trump golf course, gets the job, loves him as a guy, that's America. | ||
| Black pastor talking about Jesus Christ, that's America. | ||
| Ben Carson, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. | ||
| Those ranchers yesterday, the World War II veteran. | ||
| The problem is all this other crap. | ||
| The problem is all this stuff that really doesn't belong here. | ||
| The stuff that's just alien. | ||
| And a lot of these people, there's just a refusal to assimilate. | ||
| It's people that don't speak English. | ||
| It's people that don't have our values. | ||
| If the RNC was even what it was 20 years ago, it would be better. | ||
| Like, that's the irony. | ||
| Is that 20 years ago, the GOP was worse ideologically. | ||
| It was more basic. | ||
| But the texture of it was far more American. | ||
| And the people that showed up, country club Republicans, they were Americans. | ||
| And they, like I said, they were probably more cringe. | ||
| And yeah, there was this, there was still pandering and there was a Jewish ideological element. | ||
| So we're certainly a more nationalist party now, but we've lost the identity. | ||
| It's sort of like when J.D. | ||
| Vance get up there. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance is not like a real American. | ||
| He's whiter than me. | ||
| He's been in America, I think, probably more generations than me. | ||
| But this guy has acceded to the transnational elite, this, like, cosmopolitan elite. | ||
| He doesn't live in Ohio. | ||
| He lives in a suburb of D.C. | ||
| He married a rich daughter of Indian immigrants from California. | ||
| She's loaded. | ||
| He went to Yale Law School. | ||
| He never looked back. | ||
| He got a deal with Netflix, CNN. | ||
| The guy reads the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| His kids, they don't have American sounding names. | ||
| At least one of them doesn't. | ||
| And this is not me attacking the family. | ||
| It's just saying he's not like us. | ||
| His way of life is not like our way of life. | ||
| When I talk to contractors, when I talk to people in my town, when I talk to my barber, when I talk to my family, when I talk to my family's friends, when I talk to old-school Americans, we all have a cultural milieu in common. | ||
| These people like Vance, they're not like us. | ||
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People like us don't do stuff like that. | |
| So... | ||
| You know, and of course there is a lot of diversity within America, but keep it American. | ||
| Like those ranchers the other day, they're very different than me, you know, when they come out in the bolo tie and the cowboy hat. | ||
| It's a very different culture than what we have in Chicago. | ||
| But it's a different shade of America. | ||
| It's a different part of America. | ||
| So I guess that's the part that I deeply long for at this convention and within politics. | ||
| I just want to see America's identity represented, not Kestenbaum and Israeli citizens. | ||
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I am deeply honored to stand before you tonight and introduce my father. | |
| This moment holds special significance as I'm about to become a father myself. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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The nation my son is born into in December will be shaped by the choice we make this November. | |
| I saw my father's remarkable journey from relying on a small loan to becoming one of the country's most successful developers. | ||
| He showed me that success comes from hard work, not handouts. | ||
| When I joined his business, I started at the bottom, literally handling plumbing jobs and repairing sewage lines late at night in New York City. | ||
| That's how he started, too. | ||
| I vividly recall him spending New Year's Eve fixing a broken sewage tank with a bear of a man named Shecky. | ||
| You see, they couldn't afford to call in a crew. | ||
| They were the crew. | ||
| Years later, Shecky was still by my dad's side. | ||
| This is a Jewish donor. | ||
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And he became my first boss. | |
| He once told me he would run through a wall for my dad. | ||
| His dad is. | ||
| Because my dad never asked him to do anything that he wouldn't do himself. | ||
| And that's exactly how my family feels about our dear friend, President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| We have seen him stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the American people, time and again, even when it wasn't easy, even when he could be doing something else. | ||
| Even after getting hit by live sniper fire, he stood with us, my fellow Americans, and that is why we stand with him. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| He makes it fun, too. | ||
| President Trump and the First Lady were the guests of honor at my wedding at the beautiful Mar-a-Lago Club. | ||
| The president tore up the dance floor until 3 in the morning with his signature moves. | ||
| You guys know those moves. | ||
| The essence of what my dad taught me, Hard work, unwavering loyalty, and perseverance. | ||
| That is the essence of Donald Trump. | ||
| Look at his eyes. | ||
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Look at this guy. | |
| As long as we stand united with President Trump, it will remain the essence of the nation that my son and all of our children grow up in. | ||
| God bless America. | ||
| God bless Donald Trump. | ||
| And God bless the greatest nation on Earth, the United States of America. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present my father, Stephen Whitcoff. | ||
| Good evening, everybody. everybody. | ||
| That song that you just heard was American Trilogy by Elvis. | ||
| Is this my impression of Jewish people? | ||
| A lot of people don't know this about my dear friend President Trump, but he's a big music guy. | ||
| And he's got a playlist. | ||
| He's literally doing my impression. | ||
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He's a DJ wherever he goes. | |
| See, I stand before you tonight, not just as a speaker, not just as someone who came up as a builder with the president in the world of real estate, but as someone who has had the profound privilege of calling but as someone who has had the profound privilege of calling President Donald J. Trump a true and dear friend for many, many years in good times and bad times. - | ||
| And of all the songs, of all the songs he has shared with me over the years, that is the song that best captures him. | ||
| especially those words, "His truth is marching on." I thought of that song after my dear friend was shot a few days ago. | ||
| I gave him a call. | ||
| I expected to leave him a voicemail. | ||
| So it surprised me when he answered the phone. | ||
| His first words surprised me as well. | ||
| He'd just come within an inch of his own life ending. | ||
| But he picked up the phone and said, Hi Steve. | ||
| I'm really glad you called. | ||
| How are you? | ||
| How are your kids? | ||
| It surprised me, but it shouldn't have. | ||
| I know this man very well. | ||
| President Trump is as kind and compassionate a man as I've ever met in my lifetime. | ||
| I've seen the truth of President Trump and it marches on with me tonight. | ||
| I know that many here and watching at home have felt that kind of a connection with the President. | ||
| It's real. | ||
| I have never seen him refuse a question from somebody, decline a photo, or ignore someone's story or concerns. | ||
| Everyone he meets gets a family member's embrace from him. | ||
| I have felt that warmth so many times over the years. | ||
| Just last week, I told the President about a moment I had with his three sons and how impressed I was with them. | ||
| He looked at me with a wistful smile, blowing a kiss, and it was a special moment between us as fathers. | ||
| When my dad fell gravely ill, President Trump didn't just send a note. | ||
| He didn't just offer words of comfort. | ||
| He showed up as he always does. | ||
| He was there treating my parents with kindness and respect. | ||
| Including my mom who's 91 and here tonight dressed in red and is going to be voting for the president. | ||
| Many Americans have only witnessed his leadership on TV, but I have seen his humanity in the quiet moments, away from the spotlight, in hospital rooms he didn't have to be in, where his presence brought real solace in a dark hour for my family and many other families. | ||
| That's who he is. | ||
| When times are really tough, when he's got everything to lose and nothing to gain, Donald Trump shows up and he's there for you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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When I lost my boy, Andrew, to an opioid overdose, the pain was unbearable. | |
| But as usual, Donald Trump showed up. | ||
| After he became President Trump, even amid all the responsibilities of his office, he reached out and invited me to speak about Andrew at a conference on opioids hosted by the First Lady, providing a platform to honor my son's he reached out and invited me to speak about Andrew at | ||
| And when the day of the conference came, he went out of his way that day to come and put his hand on my shoulder and say, Steve, as he led me up to the lectern, tell the world about your boy. - Okay. | ||
| My boy was the best of us. | ||
| Where we lived in New York City, a Trump building, 502 Park Avenue, There were 12 homeless people who stayed outside by the church next to the property. | ||
| My son got to know them all. | ||
| He fed them every evening. | ||
| He became their friend. | ||
| When he passed away, all 12 came to his funeral. | ||
| He and President Trump shared something in common. | ||
| My boys stood up for people, no matter which side of the train tracks they came from, exactly as the President does for everybody. exactly as the President does for everybody. | ||
| Standing here today, I still feel my boys' hand on my shoulder. | ||
| After Andrew passed away, I found myself clinging to my son's memory, even his things. | ||
| His college ID is in my pocket right now. | ||
| I wear his ring since he died. | ||
| And I came today with his watch on. | ||
| I kept his guitar. | ||
| I kept his guitar, too, and thought I would keep that guitar forever. | ||
| but I gave it to my dear friend, Andrew's friend, and fellow music lover, Donald Trump. | ||
| I wanted President Trump to have something with which to remember my son. | ||
| President Trump didn't say something nice to me and put it in a closet somewhere. | ||
| He put it right out front at his Trump International West Palm Beach property where he and I both see it whenever we walk in and play and where everyone who walks into that beautiful building sees it as well as an acknowledgement to my boy. | ||
| a sacred tribute to a true friend who is gone and a cause that remains, opioid abuse. opioid abuse. | ||
| Standing here today, with my boy's hand on my shoulder, I know I'll never hear his music again. | ||
| His mom and I can only hear the chords of memory now, and we will always hear them. | ||
| But I know my dear friend, President Trump, hears them too. | ||
| You don't see this man's reverence, his steady loyalty, his true empathy in the TV coverage. | ||
| But this is the truth about President Trump. | ||
| The man I have come to know and admire and love. | ||
| A man whose truth is marching on. | ||
| It is a dark hour for America, but there's nobody I trust more in this moment than this man. | ||
| A man who in the darkest hours shows up, listens, cares, and always acts. | ||
| the kind of man we need now to be the 47th President of the United States. | ||
| Thank you. - Thank you. | ||
| May God bless you all. | ||
| May God bless President Trump and his extraordinary wife and his wonderful family. | ||
| And may God bless America. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| That was a tough watch. | ||
| Good story. | ||
| I believe that we're going to have four of the greatest years in the history of our country. | ||
| I will, once and for all, secure our elections. | ||
| We're going to go to paper ballots. | ||
| We're going to have same-day voting, voter ID. | ||
| We're going to do it properly. | ||
| We're going to have good, secure, beautiful elections. | ||
| We never want what happened in 2020 to happen again. | ||
| Alright, we've heard this a hundred times. | ||
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Yeah, that was a good story, but a little bit boring. | |
| I don't like when they don't acknowledge God, though. | ||
| I don't know how you talk about the death of your son and you don't talk about God. | ||
| But that's really the issue, is that the guy's clearly Jewish, so he's probably an atheist. | ||
| And if he's not an atheist, he's not a Christian, so... That just doesn't... Don't get me wrong, it's sympathetic, because we're all human beings, and we all have family, and people die, but... If there's no acknowledgement of what makes all of it matter, to me there's just something that's hollow about it. | ||
| But anyway, I wanna, somebody says in the chat, finish your thoughts about the Jewish guy. | ||
| Yeah, so, yesterday, they had this guy named Shabbos Kestenbaum speak, and he was this Jewish kid, and he gets up there, and first of all, very like ghostly appearance, but he gets up there and he's like, oh my gosh. | ||
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All right. | |
| Well, we'll get it next time. | ||
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Next time for sure. | |
| Next time, we will have it. | ||
| Good evening, America. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| My name is Alina Haba. | ||
| Where's he going? | ||
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And I have had the great privilege of representing President Donald J. Trump. | |
| Where's he going? | ||
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What? | |
| Now I know you're all used to hearing me shouting outside a courthouse, but tonight I want to take you behind the law and behind the headlines and share with you a side of President Trump that reveals his character, his kindness, and his commitment to saving this great country. | ||
| As a devout Catholic. - Let's go. - A proud first generation Arab American woman. | ||
| - Woo! | ||
| And a feisty Jersey girl who is fed up with far-left corruption in Washington. | ||
| President Trump championed my journey, empowering me to be who I became today. | ||
| His unwavering support not only shaped my career, But has inspired other young women with big dreams. | ||
| President Trump loves this country. | ||
| He does. | ||
| And he lifts up those around him. | ||
| To my children, Luke, Chloe, and Parker. | ||
| I'm so glad it's the last day of this. | ||
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He's the man with one heck of a golf swing that lets them ride in a golf cart with some of the world's most famous golfers so they feel included in mom's job. | |
| And by the way, he can kick some of those guys' butts. | ||
| Ken. | ||
| To my husband. | ||
| Oh, there it is! | ||
| There it is! | ||
| What a traitor. | ||
| She's Iraqi and she married a Jewish guy? | ||
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the Jewish faith. | |
| There it is. | ||
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To my Iraqi parents, he is a mentor to their daughter. | |
| What a traitor. | ||
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But to me, he is my friend. | |
| She's Iraqi and she married a Jewish guy? | ||
| Jewish Zionist? | ||
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Not too long ago, a supporter shouted, God bless you and President Trump in the middle of Manhattan after one of our trials. | |
| Little did that man know that I was on the phone with the president himself. | ||
| And he immediately asked me to pause, give the man my phone. | ||
| Uh, wow. | ||
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And spent time speaking to him and thanking him for his support. | |
| Love that. | ||
| That's a great story. | ||
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Despite the lawfare and the politics, President Trump loves the American people, and he loves this President Trump loves the American people, and he loves this country. | |
| I love this dictator energy where you have people one after the other on stage crying. | ||
| He's the best guy ever. | ||
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He's so good at golf and he hugs veterans. | |
| He has the guitar of my dead son in his club. | ||
| I don't think it was ever like this before, was it? | ||
| So I kind of love it. | ||
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And businesses are a testament to his commitment to excellence and his drive to turn dreams into reality. - Hi. | |
| But his greatest construction project was yet to come. | ||
| The left has tried to demolish President Trump. | ||
| But there is no bulldozer big enough or strong enough to remove the legacy that he has built or the future he is creating. | ||
| The whole day is like, God save Trump. | ||
| He's a God-appointed leader. | ||
| No one can stop him. | ||
| He's the best guy ever. | ||
| He's so tough and he loves everyone. | ||
| He loves this. | ||
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People are like weeping. | |
| But Donald Trump called the veterans, and he really cared. | ||
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He will build America stronger than ever for we, the people. | |
| That's so cool. | ||
| I do love that aspect of it. | ||
| I just wish he was more right-wing. | ||
| Then it would be perfect. | ||
| If he was like a reactionary, it'd be perfect. | ||
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As we stand on the brink of a new chapter in America's story, I am reminded of the country my family fled four decades ago. | |
| A place marked by religious persecution, oppression, and a lack of freedom. | ||
| They came here because America is a beacon of liberty and opportunity. | ||
| It is now our duty to protect the values that define us And keep this the greatest nation on earth. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Every attack on President Trump only strengthens our movement. | ||
| The left's madness is only a sign of desperation. | ||
| Sham indictments and baseless allegations will not deter us. | ||
| Because the only crime President Trump has committed is loving America. | ||
| And America, we are winning. | ||
| We are winning. | ||
| Outside of his family and our country, President Trump also has another love. | ||
| Music. | ||
| A few years ago, he wanted me to hear a new song he had selected for an upcoming rally. | ||
| I could hear it blaring in the background at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| He landed on a song called, "Hold on, I'm coming." America, we no longer have to hold on. | ||
| We just have to show up. | ||
| We just gotta show up. | ||
| We don't gotta hold on. | ||
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We just gotta show up. | |
| All over. | ||
| That's very juvenile. | ||
| That's very juvenile. | ||
| Nobody has time for that. | ||
| We don't have time for childish humor like that. | ||
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Gutter humor. | |
| Seriously. | ||
| Grow up. | ||
| And if you're eager to unleash the best America has to offer, then let's send Donald Trump and J.D. Vance to the White House in November. | ||
| The future of America and the world is bright, and it begins with the unwavering spirit of each and every one of us. | ||
| because of the resilience and the leadership of my friend, President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| So let us not forget that President Trump did not just take a bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania. | ||
| He has and will continue to take them for each and every one of us. | ||
| I hope not. | ||
| God bless President Trump. | ||
| God bless you all. | ||
| And God bless the United States of America. | ||
| I get what she's going for, but he didn't just get shot once. | ||
| He's going to get shot a lot. | ||
| Like, why would you say it like that? | ||
| He's going to continue to take bullets. | ||
| Like, I hope he doesn't actually. | ||
| I hope that is not the case. | ||
| No more bullets, please. | ||
| But I get what she was going for. | ||
| Or she meant metaphorically. | ||
| All right, Tucker and Hulk Hogan coming up. | ||
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Tucker. | |
| So like I was saying about Shabbos Kestenbaum, that Jewish kid that spoke yesterday, he said he was going to sue Harvard because they didn't censor anti-Semitic speech, so-called. | ||
| I go on his Twitter the other day and the guy's a Democrat. | ||
| The guy tweeted on July 9th, I'm a Democrat and I spoke out against Russian interference in the 2016 election. | ||
| So it's like, this is who's speaking at the RNC. | ||
| These people aren't even right wing. | ||
| And that's kind of my problem is that, and I know people say, well, it's a big tent movement. | ||
| Well, we're trying to appeal to people in the middle. | ||
| But what about, I thought the whole premise of the platform this year was that it's about the forgotten men and women. | ||
| That it's about the people that the party represents, the actual constituency of the GOP. | ||
| And this year it's like, A porn star, a Sikh. | ||
| It's- I don't have a problem with Sikhs, but the visibility, it's like, not the time, not the place. | ||
| And then you get a Jewish Democrat, and then you get Israeli citizens. | ||
| So much of the people that are showing up here, it's just not representative of the actual party. | ||
| And it's like, where do people like us even go? | ||
| Where can we go and have a night for Americans? | ||
| So I'm just kind of sick of that. | ||
| It's like everywhere you look, you can't get away from it. | ||
| Star Wars, SNL. | ||
| You leave your house, you see it in every major city, and then even at the Republican convention you get this. | ||
| So, that's why, of course, we're America First. | ||
| Maybe one day we can have an America First convention. | ||
| It's all Americans. | ||
| But, anyway, so I just wanted to finish that thought from earlier about this speaker that was on the stage yesterday. | ||
| Yeah, today is so far so good. | ||
| I mean, a lot of it isn't even really all that political. | ||
| So far, it's all just been about Trump himself. | ||
| So I don't have too much commentary aside from that. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
| It'll be interesting what the president says, but I believe that doesn't start for another two and a half hours? | ||
| One and a half, two and a half hours? | ||
| So it's gonna be a long night tonight. | ||
| Where they officially have Trump accept the nomination. | ||
| The other big story from today is that it looks like Biden is going to withdraw from the race, as I predicted a few weeks ago. | ||
| And the pressure got to be extraordinary this week. | ||
| Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, and even Kamala Harris herself have all pleaded with Biden to step down. | ||
| They've all told him it's time to step aside because of his declining mental condition. | ||
| And they're saying now that it could come as soon as this weekend. | ||
| Seemed like the dam finally broke yesterday when it was reported that the Democratic leadership and close personnel inside the inner circle have now moved firmly against him. | ||
| So it might be the case that this weekend we have a a major development. | ||
| And then in that case, some are saying that there will be an open Democratic convention in August in Chicago, meaning that the delegates will actually vote, that the nominees will actually give speeches at the Democratic convention, and it'll be as if they're conducting a Democratic primary over the and it'll be as if they're conducting a Democratic primary over the course of They'll have, some say it's Kamala, and then three to four other Democratic candidates | ||
| And then all the delegates who are then unbound will then be able to choose. | ||
| And so some of the names that have been floated, they say, of course, the Vice President Kamala Harris, although they're saying that she will not get an endorsement from Biden, although that's not 100 percent, but that's the rumor. | ||
| It will be Kamala Harris, probably Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, Gretchen Whitmer. | ||
| Some have suggested Michelle Obama, although she strenuously denied that she would ever become a nominee. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Maybe even Hillary Clinton. | ||
| You never know. | ||
| I mean, there might be some surprises, but it'll be... The Democratic convention actually will be far more interesting than the Republican convention. | ||
| This GOP convention's just a big glaze fest, and it's all the usual suspects, it's all the greatest hits, it's... | ||
| Veterans, illegals, Trump's a great guy. | ||
| The Democratic Convention, they're actually going to pick who their nominee will be if things play out the way the rumors suggest. | ||
| And that'll be in August. | ||
| And they say that they're even maybe going to delay the nomination. | ||
| Maybe not the convention, but they say they're going to delay the nomination, which I believe they were going to do virtually. | ||
| Now they're going to push that back. | ||
| So it'll be a very interesting year. | ||
| But I said, I said after the debate that probably Biden was going to drop out. | ||
| Everybody said, well, the procedure won't allow him to drop out. | ||
| And I said, it doesn't matter. | ||
| They're going to find a way. | ||
| And people said, well, they can't force him out. | ||
| I'm like, of course they can. | ||
| They're the Democrats. | ||
| Watch them shut it down. | ||
| Of course they can force him out. | ||
| Maybe not on a technical level. | ||
| Maybe not strictly, technically speaking, they can't force him out. | ||
| There's no procedural mechanism. | ||
| But they will exert all the pressure that they have from media, money, from the party establishment. | ||
| I said, if they want him gone, he's gone. | ||
| And that appears to be exactly what has taken place. | ||
| And I don't know if we got into it a lot last week, but we talked about this growing pressure, mounting pressure from George Clooney, who did a major fundraiser for Biden, raised nearly $30 million for Biden with a Hollywood fundraiser. | ||
| And then the next day, put out an open letter in the New York Times saying that Biden is senile. | ||
| Reid Hoffman said that he's going to withhold donations. | ||
| Alright, what's this now? | ||
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Oh no. | |
| Whoops. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| - You stand there in the polling place and make-- - Whoops. - I think when you make that decision, it might be more of what you would ask yourself. | ||
| - Are you better off than you were four years ago? | ||
| Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? | ||
| Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? | ||
| Is America as respected throughout the world It's just like Ronald Reagan! | ||
| President Trump. | ||
| He'll make America great. | ||
| It's just like Reagan, guys. | ||
| It's just like Ronald Reagan. | ||
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If you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last four years is what you would like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have. | |
| President Trump, he'll make America great again. | ||
| We got to ditch the Reagan stuff. | ||
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We got to ditch the Reagan stuff. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome journalist, author, and American citizen... Alright! | ||
| Tucker Carlson. | ||
| So fun! | ||
| Thank you! | ||
| Oh, this is wild! | ||
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Thank you! | |
| I've been... | ||
| Good to see you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I feel like I know about half the people in the room. | ||
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This is wild. | |
| What are you doing? | ||
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Justin Welles. | |
| Thank you, guys. | ||
| Can I just say, Peter Navarro is back. | ||
| Welcome to Peter Navarro. | ||
| Suffering the fate that has happened to so many who are friends with Donald Trump. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
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I have been to many conventions. | |
| I have never been to a more fun convention or a convention with better vibes. | ||
| They literally let Navarro out of prison. | ||
| First of all, thank you. | ||
| This feels a lot different from what I thought it was going to feel like. | ||
| I can't hear you, but I know it's something good. | ||
| So, I watched the video of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania about 15, 50 times. | ||
| I think I was one of about 8 billion people around the world who watched it. | ||
| And the more I watched it, the more it struck me that everything was different. | ||
| After that moment. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| This convention is different. | ||
| The nation is different. | ||
| The world is different. | ||
| Donald Trump is different. | ||
| When he stood up after being shot in the face, bloodied, and put his hand up, I thought at that moment, that was a transformation. | ||
| This was no longer a man. | ||
| Well, I think that. | ||
| I think it was divine intervention. | ||
| But the effect that it had on Donald Trump He was no longer just a political party's nominee, or a former president, or a future president. | ||
| This was the leader of a nation. | ||
| And I think there's a difference. | ||
| I've spent most of my life in Washington, where the president is at the top of the pyramid, everyone wants to be the president. | ||
| But if you think about it, the presidency comes with great power, obviously. | ||
| But if you think about it, that is a title that is bestowed by a process of some sort that can be subverted. | ||
| And in the end, it does not confer by itself, as no title does, legitimacy. | ||
| Just because you call yourself the president doesn't mean that much inherently. | ||
| I can call my dog the CEO of Hewlett-Packard. | ||
| It doesn't mean she is. | ||
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You know, it's true. | |
| And you hate to say it, but it is also true, is a fact, that you could take, I don't know, a mannequin, a dead person, and make him president. | ||
| If you... No, you could! | ||
| You could! | ||
| I'm just saying, theoretically possible. | ||
| With enough... With enough cheating, that could happen. | ||
| Okay, but where were you in 2020? | ||
| Being a leader is very different. | ||
| It's not a title. | ||
| It's organic. | ||
| You can't name someone a leader. | ||
| A leader is the bravest man. | ||
| That's who the leader is. | ||
| That is true in all human organizations. | ||
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The leader. | |
| This is a law of nature. | ||
| And in that moment, Donald Trump, months before the presidential election, became the leader of this nation. | ||
| That was the most obvious to me. | ||
| And I have to say, you know, I think it changed him. | ||
| Reached out to Trump within hours of it, that night. | ||
| And what he said to me that night, having just been shot in the face, he said not a single word about himself. | ||
| He said only how amazed he was and how proud he was of the crowd, which didn't run. | ||
| And I thought two things. | ||
| The first thing I thought was, well, of course they didn't run. | ||
| His courage gave them heart. | ||
| A leader's courage gives courage to his people. | ||
| And the second thing I thought was, this is the selfish guy I've been hearing about for nine years? | ||
| Really? | ||
| Not a word about himself? | ||
| About his people. | ||
| Period. | ||
| And the second thing I noticed, which I don't think anyone has remarked upon in public, but I'm just going to since I don't have a script. | ||
| Like, why not? | ||
| Is that he turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after being shot. | ||
| To inflame the nation, which is an opportunity that almost every other politician I've ever met, and certainly his opponents, would have taken instantly. | ||
| And they would have said, well, what is this? | ||
| How did he get shot? | ||
| Like, how did this happen? | ||
| And those are real questions that we have to get to the bottom of. | ||
| But in the moments, the days, the week after the shooting, he did not say that. | ||
| He did his best to bring the country together. | ||
| And I thought, this is the divisive figure? | ||
| This is the irresponsible person? | ||
| No. | ||
| This is the most responsible, unifying behavior of a leader I think I've ever seen. | ||
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So the question is, where is he leading us? | |
| And I could go on for hours, but let me just sum it up. | ||
| I do think the entire point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of Donald Trump's public life has been to remind us of one fact. | ||
| Which is, a leader's duty is to his people, to his country, and to no other. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| That's the only point. | ||
| And another word for this is democracy. | ||
| Democracy, in case you're a little sick of being beaten in the face with democracy on television, actual democracy is the proposition that the citizens of a country own that country. | ||
| They're not renters, they're not serfs, they're not slaves, they are the owners of the country. | ||
| And for that to be true, their leaders have to represent them, which is another way of saying they have to do what the people want them to do. | ||
| Or a close approximation thereof. | ||
| But if they completely ignore what people want, not just one year, but generationally, say for 50 years, then it may be, I don't know what, it's not a democracy. | ||
| And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, is attacked as an enemy of democracy is to return democracy to the United States. | ||
| Hey, let's pay attention to what people actually want. | ||
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Great. | |
| And the lack of interest in that question in Washington is something that ultimately drove me out of the city after 35 years. | ||
| I'm so glad that Trump isn't divisive and is truly democratic. | ||
| Fellow citizens ODing on drugs to go cast votes to send money to some foreign country. | ||
| Yeah, actually. | ||
| We've lost more Americans from drugs in the past four years than we lost in World War II. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Our bloodiest war. | ||
| More than we lost in World War II. | ||
| Does anybody care? | ||
| It is pathetic. | ||
| It is pathetic. | ||
| And do you hear a single word from Washington about doing anything about it? | ||
| We know where the drugs are coming from. | ||
| We know the supply routes. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| military spent billions bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. | ||
| You don't see our commander-in-chief suggesting that we use our military to protect our country or the lives of its citizens. | ||
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No! | |
| That's for Ukraine. | ||
| And it's too much, actually. | ||
| It's too insulting. | ||
| It's for Ukraine. | ||
| It's too insulting. | ||
| It's a middle finger in the face of every American. | ||
| It's a very clear statement, which is unmistakable. | ||
| And that is, we don't care about you. | ||
| Just Ukraine. | ||
| Nobody else. | ||
| Whatever you say about him. | ||
| And I think he's a wonderful person. | ||
| I know him well. | ||
| By the way, the funniest person I've ever met in my life, actually. | ||
| You can't be funny without perspective. | ||
| Or without empathy, which is true. | ||
| But everything else about Trump aside, he actually cares. | ||
| Because he's interested in the people who live here, because that's his job. | ||
| A father's job, his duty is to his family. | ||
| An officer's duty is to his men. | ||
| A president's duty is to his citizens. | ||
| And he seems to be the only one who thinks that. | ||
| And in his choice for Vice President, J.D. | ||
| Vance, he's made that really clear. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance, I'll say this about him, is a thoroughly decent man. | ||
| And I'll just admit it, a friend of mine, one of the very few politicians in Washington who actually is very close to his own wife, which is wonderful to see. | ||
| And she's wonderful, actually. | ||
| But J.D. | ||
| Vance has views that are closer to Trump's voters than anyone else in Washington in office. | ||
| Therefore, he's the vice president. | ||
| That's called democracy. | ||
| Yeah, that's why he called them all racist, right? | ||
| And that is what's happened over the past month, since the debate, and particularly on Saturday in Butler, I think a lot of people are wondering, what is this? | ||
| This doesn't look like politics. | ||
| Something bigger is going on here. | ||
| I think even people who don't believe in God are beginning to think, well, maybe there's something to this. | ||
| Actually. | ||
| And I'm starting to think it's going to be OK, actually. | ||
| I do think that. | ||
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I'm relieved. | |
| The day after the midterm elections in 2018, Antifa came to my house. | ||
| The Democratic Party's militia, okay? | ||
| I was at work. | ||
| It was obvious when I was at work because it was public. | ||
| My wife was home alone. | ||
| They tried to come in through the front door. | ||
| They terrorized her. | ||
| She hid in our pantry. | ||
| It was on television. | ||
| It was horrible, actually. | ||
| I mean, I'm not whining about it. | ||
| It wasn't getting shot in the face, but it wrecked our day. | ||
| And the next morning, we're lying in bed, and the phone rings for my wife, and it's Donald Trump, who's not like a regular text buddy of Donald Trump's. | ||
| She picks it up. | ||
| Susie, it's Donald Trump! | ||
| And it's coming through. | ||
| I can hear it. | ||
| You know, I'm lying in bed. | ||
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Whoa! | |
| And the first thing he says is, I'm going to stand guard outside your house. | ||
| And she goes, oh, that's so nice. | ||
| And he says, I'll never forget this as long as I live. | ||
| He says, you know, there's a lot of hate out there. | ||
| And she said, you know, there is, Mr. President. | ||
| And then he says, but there's a lot of love. | ||
| There's a lot of love. | ||
| And we are seeing that love. | ||
| I don't think it's human love. | ||
| Emperor Trump. | ||
| It's Donald Trump! | ||
| That's so awesome. | ||
| He fixed up the phone. | ||
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Why? | |
| Why would you not say that? | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| on the wrong side many times. | ||
| You'll never hear me say I'm on God's side or God's with me or even I'm with God. | ||
| I want to be. | ||
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Why? | |
| Why would you not say that? | ||
| But I will say this unequivocally and conclusively. | ||
| God is among us right now. | ||
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And I think that's enough. | |
| Among us? | ||
| Yeah, weird speech. | ||
| Please welcome golf general manager That's just like a weird Fed speech. | ||
| I'm glad that Trump didn't inflame division and it's really democracy and JD Vance is gonna bomb China because they're giving us drugs. | ||
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I'm not sure how I follow Tucker. | |
| But I'm gonna give it a go. | ||
| Good evening, everyone. | ||
| My name is Carrie Ruiz, and like some people on this stage this evening, I am not a politician. | ||
| I am not a public figure. | ||
| I'm a mom of three and a woman of faith who's been fortunate to work side-by-side with Donald Trump and his amazing family. | ||
| I love the real people. | ||
| The political people I cannot stand. | ||
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But I love the real people that have given speeches. | |
| The Trump Organization purchased the iconic Doral Golf Resort after so many companies tried and failed to create a world-class golf experience, all while turning a profit. | ||
| With his keen eye for business and uncanny ability to make things better, Donald Trump got to work. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| He poured hundreds of millions of dollars and his own sweat and tears into the property. | ||
| He had a hand in virtually everything, and no detail was too small. | ||
| He didn't just change the carpet or apply a fresh coat of paint. | ||
| He stripped this legendary resort to its core and rebuilt it the right way. | ||
| He did the hardest things to make it great again. | ||
| He also built up the resort's people. | ||
| Thank you, boss. | ||
| He empowered us. | ||
| He listened to us. | ||
| All of us. | ||
| And he still does. | ||
| No matter your role, he asks questions. | ||
| He wants different opinions. | ||
| He never demands more of us than he is willing to give. | ||
| He is as generous as he is brave. | ||
| And to those who work for him, he provides unwavering support. | ||
| When he promoted me to the resort's Golf General Manager position, it was an out-of-the-box choice in a historically male-dominated industry. | ||
| I am not a golf professional. | ||
| I cannot break 90. | ||
| Yet. | ||
| But none of that mattered to President Trump. | ||
| He looks at things differently. | ||
| He welcomes the unconventional. | ||
| and I am proud to be among the countless women he's promoted to leadership positions. | ||
| I might add, he did it all while no one was looking. | ||
| The simple truth is no one can match President Trump's vision and unrelenting drive to make things better. | ||
| He did it at Doral. | ||
| He did it as president. | ||
| The Doral is a great property. | ||
| He will do it again. | ||
| The glaze fast. | ||
| May God continue to bless President Trump, and may God bless the United States of America. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| She was good. | ||
| No, she was fine. | ||
| This is the final battle. | ||
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With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. | |
| We will expel the warmongers from our government. | ||
| We will drive out... The boss! | ||
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Look at him! | |
| Aura! | ||
| - Aura! - Marxist and fascist. | ||
| - Dude, he's all aura. | ||
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- We'll grow off the sick political class that hates our country. | |
| He's all aura. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| the fake or media and we will liberate america from these villains once and for all he's all aura another intermission | ||
| yeah the um tucker speech was a little bizarre i'll Also, let's not forget that Tucker was not only against Trump in 2016, but he's also against Trump in 2020. | ||
| You can never forget these things, okay? | ||
| Because, you know, one must remember that when Trump is ascendant, there is a powerful incentive to be on his side. | ||
| There is a powerful incentive not to piss off the President of the United States and the leader of your movement, the Republican Party, the conservative movement. | ||
| When their guy is in power, he runs the whole show. | ||
| He is the economy of the conservative movement. | ||
| And so that's why it's important to remember that when the chips were down, or when it was controversial before he was hegemonic in the party, it's important to see where people stood. | ||
| Not when it's easy, not when there's an incentive, but when it was difficult, and when it was not clear that he would be the leader. | ||
| And I remember that in 2020, when Tucker says this stuff about, oh, elections can be subverted, I have to roll my eyes. | ||
| Because when the 2020 election was being contested, he did not talk about it on his show. | ||
| He talked about how the polls were wrong. | ||
| He did not talk about how the election was stolen at the ballot box. | ||
| He did not promote Stop the Steal. | ||
| And then after January 6, we saw the leaked text where he said, I hate Trump. | ||
| Trump is a demon. | ||
| He's a divider. | ||
| He's wrecked the country. | ||
| I can't wait until he's gone and we never have to talk about him again. | ||
| He said that privately and for months, he said that for several months. | ||
| So, it's very easy for everybody now, all this time later, to say, oh, well, everyone just changed their mind. | ||
| You know, when J.D. | ||
| Vance called Trump Hitler and said all his supporters are racist, and they hate Obama because they're jealous and they're racist, and when Tucker Carlson said Trump is a demon, I can't wait until he's gone, we never have to talk about him again. | ||
| It's very easy now, at the big Trump glaze fest, when he's like leading the country, when he's surmounted all the odds, to say, oh, well, now we just love Trump, but we all just changed our minds. | ||
| But I don't accept that as uncritically as other people do. | ||
| And granted, yes, people can change their minds. | ||
| You know, people say, oh, come on, Nick, people can change their minds. | ||
| Granted. | ||
| But it's very easy to change your mind when there's a powerful incentive to do so and when it's personally profitable. | ||
| And that's why we need to discern. | ||
| It's not a given. | ||
| Just because somebody says they changed their mind doesn't mean it's a given. | ||
| And we have to analyze not just whether they changed their mind but when they changed their mind. | ||
| So some of that stuff I have to roll my eyes a little bit and say it's a little bit rich. | ||
| You know, oh, J.D. | ||
| Vance is the VP because this is a democracy. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance called all of us Nazis. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Good evening. | ||
| My name is Annette Albright. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| I grew up in the small town of Mount Airy, North Carolina. | ||
| North Carolina! | ||
| Like my parents and my grandparents, I was a lifelong member of the Democrat Party. | ||
| Don't worry, the story gets better from here. | ||
| After completing a degree in criminal justice, I started a career working with the North Carolina Department of Corrections. | ||
| I left my job in the criminal justice system to work for Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District, to engage our youth before they got stuck in the system. | ||
| It didn't take long for me to realize that public schools are a part of the problem. | ||
| Sadly, too many of our schools are more like prisons than places of learning. | ||
| Really? | ||
| That must change. | ||
| In what way? | ||
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In one public high school, I witnessed a full-blown riot. | |
| I saw many violent altercations between students and physical attacks on staff. | ||
| During my 14 years working with the Department of Public Safety, offenders never laid a hand on me. | ||
| Yet, I was violently assaulted by a group of students in a public high school. | ||
| The uptick in school violence was related to an Obama-Biden policy that directed schools to reduce suspension rates and keep dangerous students in the classroom. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| President Trump Reverse the Obama policy and put the safety of our kids first. | ||
| I was skeptical, but yeah. | ||
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Violence on public school campuses should not be a Democrat issue. | |
| It should not be a Republican issue. | ||
| It is an American people issue. | ||
| Well, it's a little more narrow than that. | ||
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Sadly, I've repeatedly seen that the Democrat Party cares more about appeasing the teachers' union than they do about prioritizing the needs I've repeatedly seen that the Democrat Party cares more about appeasing the teachers' They champion safe spaces instead of safe schools. | |
| This is completely wrong. | ||
| Little by little, I began to see the truth. | ||
| While Democrats spend more money on a broken system, Republicans are empowering parents and fighting for school choice. | ||
| While Democrats think school resource officers are a threat to our students, Republicans know that they Republicans know that they protect our kids. | ||
| The Press: Thank you. | ||
| While Democrats won't admit that our schools are failing, Republicans will fix the system and make our schools safe. | ||
| That's why this year, for the first time in my life, I am registered as a Republican. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And in November, I will proudly cast my vote for Donald J. Trump! I will proudly cast my vote for Donald J. Trump! | ||
| Only together, we can make America's schools great again. | ||
| Thank you, and God bless America. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| Yeah, that was alright. | ||
| That was surprising. | ||
| I thought, because she had the rainbow skirt on, I thought she was gonna be some progressive or something, but... | ||
| Yeah, that was fine. | ||
| Packed house! | ||
| It's gonna be a big night. | ||
| They got Hulk Hogan coming up. | ||
| I can't wait to see what Trump's entrance will be like. | ||
| I hope it's cool. | ||
| I mean, Trump's entrance in 2016, at least for the Monday speech, was so iconic. | ||
| You have to make an entrance after you get shot. | ||
| And it has to be better than the entrance we got on Monday. | ||
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I thought that was a little awkward. | |
| So we'll see. | ||
| Big night ahead of us. | ||
| Cheeseheads are out in Milwaukee. | ||
| We got Franklin Graham coming up, I believe, also. | ||
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So we'll see. | |
| Yeah, Hulk Hogan, Franklin Graham, Trump. | ||
| Yeah, so like I was saying about Tucker, He took a little time to promote J.D. Vance. | ||
| He said that J.D. Vance being selected as vice president shows that this is a democracy because J.D. Vance aligns with the base. | ||
| And that's a very weird thing to say because neither Tucker nor Vance are really aligned with Trump's base. | ||
| Because the base is deeply conservative. | ||
| The base that elected Trump is deeply nationalistic. | ||
| And I think that Tucker and Vance, say whatever you will about them, they really are part of the elite. | ||
| Vance went to Yale Law School. | ||
| Vance was a desk Marine. | ||
| Tucker wanted to join the CIA. | ||
| His father was a intelligence agent. | ||
| And these are two guys who are pretty liberal. | ||
| You know, they're part of that liberal milieu. | ||
| Tucker hosted Crossfire. | ||
| And was a National Review guy. | ||
| And wore a bow tie. | ||
| And he was in favor of the Iraq war. | ||
| And so when Tucker, who says that Trump is a demon and says that Trump is what you get when the country is corrupt, like it's he was something that was inflicted upon us. | ||
| And when Vance says that Trump is like Hitler, I think it shows that, you know, they may come around and see that Trump is the better president. | ||
| But on a deep level, they're really not actually quite like the Republican base. | ||
| They're actually not like The constituency of the GOP. | ||
| And again, for better or for worse, say whatever you want about that. | ||
| But he's saying that it's extremely democratic that J.D. | ||
| Vance became the vice president. | ||
| I don't agree with that. | ||
| In his book, Hillbilly Elegy, which everybody celebrates, these are his Rust Belt roots in Appalachia. | ||
| In Hillbilly Elegy, he basically blames the people of Appalachia for their own problems. | ||
| He says that it's their fault. | ||
| He says they're mired by poverty and addiction, but really their own behavior is to blame. | ||
| And that's a pretty elitist attitude. | ||
| I don't see how that's very much different from how anybody else in the mainstream media or any other Wall Street Journal reader would look at the situation, this kind of aloof, condescending attitude. | ||
| So I think it's all a little bit strange. | ||
| And of course, Tucker Carlson personally advocated for Vance. | ||
| The rumor is that Donald Trump was about to select Burgum. | ||
| Burgum was the favorite to be the vice president, but it was Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson and I believe David Sachs I may have that wrong though, but I know it was Tucker who called him on after the assassination and shortly beforehand and insisted that JD Vance should get the nomination. | ||
| It was a last minute decision and he was going to go with Burgum before that. | ||
| So I think the whole thing is very strange. | ||
| We also have to point out that Tucker Carlson's father was an intelligence agent, and J.D. | ||
| Vance, his mentor, is a deep state contractor. | ||
| Now again, I don't know if Tucker Carlson's a federal agent, and I'm not even making a claim necessarily about Vance. | ||
| Is that Russell Brand? | ||
| Russell Brand in attendance. | ||
| It's just a fact that J.D. | ||
| Vance's mentor, Peter Thiel, founded Palantir, which is a contractor for the NSA, the CIA, all the federal law enforcement. | ||
| They helped identify with facial recognition people at the Capitol, or Clearview AI did, which Thiel's an investor in also. | ||
| And so Vance comes from that world, comes from the tech national security world, and he got the strongest endorsement from the PayPal mafia. | ||
| From Elon Musk, from Teal, from Sachs, from those guys at the Sachs fundraiser, and from Tucker Carlson, whose father was a serious federal agent for his entire career. | ||
| So, we just have to point these things out so that people are aware. | ||
| I think people are getting this idea. | ||
| I saw, for example, on Twitter, people are saying, J.D. | ||
| Vance is a rural white guy. | ||
| Oh, that's great. | ||
| We got a rural white guy. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance is not a rural white guy. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance went to Yale Law School, which has a graduating class of 200. | ||
| It's a very small and very exclusive and very prestigious clique. | ||
| And he's not just a rural white guy. | ||
| He wrote a book about his rural roots and disavowed them. | ||
| He may be from Ohio, but he doesn't live there. | ||
| He may be from Ohio, but he didn't marry somebody from there. | ||
| And in his book, he blamed where he's from for their own problems. | ||
| And then he went to work for American Enterprise Institute, which has never produced anything good, specifically. | ||
| CNN, Netflix, he glazed Obama, said that everyone hates him because they're racist, didn't like Trump. | ||
| Vance voted for Evan McMullin. | ||
| Evan McMullin is a CIA agent who was picked by Bill Kristol to run against Trump in 16, as a spoiler. | ||
| So you start to piece this together and you realize these are not just white guys. | ||
| Like Tucker's also not just a white guy. | ||
| Tucker's an extraordinarily privileged guy. | ||
| And by privileged, I don't mean white privilege. | ||
| I mean he comes from the American elite. | ||
| His father was a federal Employee. | ||
| So these people are actually very much not like us. | ||
| Curtis Yarvin, who grew up on military bases, who influenced J.D. | ||
| Vance, is not a white guy. | ||
| He's Jewish. | ||
| He's not even really from America. | ||
| Rene Girard is not just another Catholic who's influenced Thiel and Vance. | ||
| So, point being is you really have to interrogate who these people are. | ||
| They're not just, oh, these are just folksy white guys like us. | ||
| No, they're a little different. | ||
| They kind of have a different M.O. | ||
| than we do. | ||
| So it's just important to be aware of all the facts. | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| That would be like saying that George Bush Sr. | ||
| is a white guy. | ||
| Like, no, he was the head of the CIA. | ||
| You would never say that George H.W. | ||
| Bush was a white guy. | ||
| Uh, no. | ||
| The guy was former head of the CIA. | ||
| You would never say that George W. Bush is another white- He's a cowboy from Texas. | ||
| It's like, no, he's not even from Texas. | ||
| And his dad was a CIA agent. | ||
| Like, he's different than us. | ||
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| So that's what I have to say about the Tucker speech. | ||
| And I don't think that speech was... I think that speech was very interesting. | ||
| Because what were the major points? | ||
| That Trump did not inflame division? | ||
| I'm sorry, but I don't think it's actually a foregone conclusion that that's a good thing. | ||
| Whether you think that Trump was almost killed by the deep state or that Trump was killed by a radical who was created by the media, we have a serious problem. | ||
| Only one side is getting shot at. | ||
| Only one side is getting thrown in jail. | ||
| Only one side is getting censored and the victim of lawfare. | ||
| And when we are repeatedly victimized and targeted and they try to kill us, isn't... Oh, hey, there's Laura Loomer. | ||
| There's our girl. | ||
| There she is. | ||
| And anyway, when these things happen to us and we take the high road, when they go low, we go high, is that necessarily a good thing? | ||
| I mean, maybe it is, but is it necessarily? | ||
| He says, well, he could have inflamed a vision and come up with conspiracy theories about why he was shot, but he didn't. | ||
| He unified the country. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| I mean, maybe that's an opportunity to take advantage of the situation. | ||
| Isn't that a good thing? | ||
| If it was the other way around, for example, let's say somebody made an attempt on Joe Biden's life. | ||
| Would the left waste one single solitary second to mobilize law enforcement against Trump supporters? | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| Let's say that instead of Trump getting shot, let's say that it happened to Biden and it was one of the MAGA extremists. | ||
| Let's say it was some rogue Trump supporter. | ||
| Would they waste a second? | ||
| Would they wait a second to mobilize the media, law enforcement, politics? | ||
| It would be a full-on censorship regime. | ||
| They would arrest everybody connected. | ||
| They would be calling for Trump to drop out. | ||
| It would be over. | ||
| And Tucker praises Trump for not doing that this time. | ||
| For taking the high road and rewriting his speech to be about unity and inviting Nikki Haley and DeSantis to come to the convention in the name of unity. | ||
| I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing. | ||
| Do we want unity with people that want to kill us? | ||
| It's a totally one-way street. | ||
| The left does not seek unity. | ||
| The political left, the left-wing people in the country, they do not want unity. | ||
| When Trump got shot, they said, oh, it's a shame that the shooter missed. | ||
| When Trump got shot, not just the politicians, but regular people that work at like Home Depot said, oh, it's a shame he didn't get hit. | ||
| That's like a popular sentiment. | ||
| And we're supposed to unify with these people? | ||
| We're supposed to wrap our arms around them and embrace them? | ||
| And we're supposed to decline to use this as an opportunity? | ||
| To expand our power? | ||
| And by the way, this is the same mistake that they made in 2016. | ||
| Let's not forget that Trump just got convicted a month ago in Manhattan. | ||
| And he got convicted because the moment he left office, every Democrat jurisdiction has tried to use law enforcement to take him out of the race and bankrupt him. | ||
| Civil suits, criminal cases, federal cases. | ||
| And of course, what I said after he got convicted is, why did Trump not do this to Hillary Clinton? | ||
| When Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, he said, oh, we're not going to prosecute her. | ||
| Oh, we're not going to fire everybody. | ||
| We're not going to fire James Comey. | ||
| We're not going to fire every Democrat. | ||
| We're not going to hire only loyalists. | ||
| We're going to be magnanimous, and we're going to bring in people from the Republican Party. | ||
| And we're not going to prosecute our opponents. | ||
| And how did that pay off? | ||
| How did that work out? | ||
| We got sabotage and subversion for four years. | ||
| We got two impeachments. | ||
| We got a rigged midterm, rigged election in 2020. | ||
| We got the coup. | ||
| We got the January 6th lawfare. | ||
| We got all the other lawfare culminating in an assassination attempt. | ||
| By no means should Trump have even been the nominee based on what was happening between January 6th and And really, the beginning of the law fair on October 7th. | ||
| And now here we are, and all these people, they feel, you know, and you know, God bless them, they're earnest people. | ||
| But they just desperately crave to be accepted by the left. | ||
| And as long as that's the case, the left will always be in power. | ||
| When we hold our convention, they try to kill our leader, and our leader comes up and says, oh, come on, they're not so bad, it's all unity, it's all love, it's whatever. | ||
| If it was the other way around, the Democratic nominee would get up and say, we're going to war against Republicans, and they would be doing war chants. | ||
| And they would be marching, they'd practically be raising guns in the air, ready to go and kill all of us. | ||
| And then you have this Home Depot thing, which I haven't talked about. | ||
| I think it's a giant distraction. | ||
| But there's been so much discussion about, I guess, this libs of TikTok Twitter account found a Home Depot employee who posted on Facebook, some old woman, that Trump should have gotten hit. | ||
| The shooter shouldn't have missed. | ||
| And they got this woman fired. | ||
| And everybody said, oh, that's such a terrible thing. | ||
| And it's like the right just never learns the lesson. | ||
| They never learn that we have to punish our enemies, even as much as they talk about it. | ||
| And then a guy like Tucker gets up on the stage and says, oh, it's a good thing. | ||
| I'm glad that he unified the country. | ||
| He didn't unite the country. | ||
| They all still hate him. | ||
| So, all right. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| Why are they not getting on with the program? | ||
| So those are just some thoughts about it. | ||
| Like I said, and none of it is even a foregone conclusion. | ||
| I mean, we can talk about whether or not should Trump have had a unifying message. | ||
| Should he not have? | ||
| I mean, maybe. | ||
| But for Tucker to go up there and that is like his overriding point about the assassination is... And also, he seems to not want to attribute it to God. | ||
| He says, well, yeah, it's not an act of God. | ||
| It's like, well, You know, it's just sort of miraculous. | ||
| Oh yeah, well I'm not gonna say God is with us or I'm with God, he says. | ||
| I wouldn't say I'm with God. | ||
| Why would you not say that? | ||
| You wouldn't say that you're with God? | ||
| Why not? | ||
| He says, but God is among us. | ||
| Yeah, obviously God is omnipresent. | ||
| He's omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. | ||
| God is always among us. | ||
| God is never not among us. | ||
| The kingdom of God is within. | ||
| He's in and around everything. | ||
| We are participating in His existence. | ||
| Of course God is among us. | ||
| So I don't know what that was supposed to mean. | ||
| That was also a weird message. | ||
| And this is where I say, again, you have like normal people getting up there on the stage, and like I said earlier, it so vindicates this. | ||
| You have these people getting up earlier, and yeah, they're a little corny, and yeah, they're like super Protestant, I'm Catholic, but their love of Jesus is sincere. | ||
| Like, yeah, they're not Catholic, okay. | ||
| But they profess the name Jesus Christ. | ||
| And maybe it's corny, but they do it without irony, without self-consciousness. | ||
| It's earnest. | ||
| It's an earnest and a sincere and a deep love for God and Jesus. | ||
| So, you know, I don't think we need to be indifferent about those differences, but there is something valuable about that. | ||
| You have a black pastor, you have Ben Carson get up there, and you could tell they have the joy and the love of God in their heart. | ||
| It's the way they talk, it's the way they look, you could see it in their face, you could read it in their eyes. | ||
| And it's just, hey, give it all to God. | ||
| God save Trump. | ||
| God bless this nation. | ||
| God saves his people. | ||
| He does not. | ||
| He does not forsake his people. | ||
| And then you get Tucker who gets up there. | ||
| And again, this is the difference. | ||
| This is where you get kind of like a cynical liberal elite who likes gay marriage and, you know, all the rest. | ||
| He thinks that aliens are angels. | ||
| And he gets up there and says, Yeah, well, okay, maybe it was God, but probably not. | ||
| And yeah, I wouldn't say I'm with God or God's with... I would never say that! | ||
| But God is among us. | ||
| It's like, yeah, that... I don't know. | ||
| I don't... There's something off about that. | ||
| There's something off. | ||
| And I'm not trying to be sly. | ||
| I'm not insinuating anything. | ||
| There's something off about that. | ||
| See, look at this. | ||
| This is a beautiful woman. | ||
| Look at her. | ||
| She's dancing. | ||
| She's having a good time. | ||
| She's dancing like nobody's watching. | ||
| She's drinking a beer! | ||
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| These are good pe- These are good people. | ||
| These are decent people. | ||
| But then you get these cynics that come up like J.D. | ||
| Vance, and he puts- he puts on this folksy, rust belt, you know, man- meme-a said, she liked the F word. | ||
| And it's a- it's an act. | ||
| He's an actor. | ||
| It's a routine. | ||
| He's pretending to be like us to win over the... | ||
| Unsuspecting, earnest sympathy of the masses. | ||
| And so there's something about that that I just deeply resent and I, like I said, I think there's something off about it. | ||
| So. | ||
| And don't get me wrong, you know, a lot of people, they're always like, oh, so you hate Tucker. | ||
| I don't, I don't hate Tucker. | ||
| I think Tucker's interesting. | ||
| I think Tucker says a lot of good things. | ||
| But I don't think Tucker's 100% aligned with us. | ||
| On race, on God, on a few other key things. | ||
| I think that Tucker... Tucker, let's not forget, is part of the Republican milieu. | ||
| He comes from Fox News. | ||
| He comes from CNN. | ||
| He comes from National Review. | ||
| Okay, he wore the bowtie. | ||
| He came from that crowd. | ||
| So when Trump came down the escalator in 16 and rocked everybody's world, Tucker was a part of that world. | ||
| That's very different than the deplorables. | ||
| That's why it was so insulting. | ||
| Like the other day, Jack Posobiec put on Twitter, he's like, oh, a deplorable is now the vice president. | ||
| You know, you could say, maybe you could say J.D. | ||
| Vance changed his mind. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| That's possible. | ||
| But you can't say that J.D. | ||
| Vance was a deplorable. | ||
| The deplorables were the forgotten men and women. | ||
| The deplorables were the people that suffered the abuses in 2016 when you would actually get punched in the face for wearing a MAGA hat when it was actually controversial. | ||
| I know I was there. | ||
| In 2016, I wore a MAGA hat in Boston at college and everyone hated me. | ||
| And I was called racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, the basket of deplorables comment. | ||
| I was called all those things. | ||
| It wasn't popular. | ||
| It was controversial. | ||
| The GOP reluctantly rallied behind Trump and they tried to toss him out at the last minute in October. | ||
| That was the basket of deplorables and none of them were elites. | ||
| Nobody endorsed him from the elites. | ||
| The GOP was against him. | ||
| They were all against him. | ||
| The deplorables were the salt of the earth, the so-called everyday. | ||
| I hate when people say everyday people, like we're all here every day. | ||
| I don't know what that means. | ||
| What's someone that isn't every day and every other day person? | ||
| I don't know what that is. | ||
| But if there is an everyman, let's say it that way, Those were the only people behind Trump. | ||
| It was Trump and the people. | ||
| It wasn't Trump and the GOP and the Silicon Valley donors and Fox News. | ||
| All those people hated him. | ||
| It was Trump and the people. | ||
| Our leader and the people, it was him and the Fremen army, him and the militia, the deplorables. | ||
| And so when Jack Posobiec says, oh, J.D. | ||
| Vance is a deplorable, no, he wasn't. | ||
| When the deplorables were with Trump, J.D. | ||
| Vance was calling Trump a racist, Hitler, noxious, toxic guy, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And again, you can say he changed his mind, fine, but he was never a deplorable. | ||
| And that's the kind of thing that's going on. | ||
| Let's not forget that Tucker, Vance, all these people that have come in since, they've had a lot of negative things to say about Trump in the intervening years. | ||
| They've had a lot of disagreements and, you know, they've been part of the system their whole lives. | ||
| Now that Trump is going to be anointed king once again, now they've all come around and had an epiphany. | ||
| And I just find that very interesting. | ||
| So, people need to be a little bit more skeptical. | ||
| You may come to a different conclusion than me on this, which is fine, but people need to be a little bit more skeptical. | ||
| When Vance comes around and says, oh hey guys, I changed my mind. | ||
| By the way, can I have your endorsement? | ||
| People need to be skeptical. | ||
| You can't just take it uncritically. | ||
| Like the other day, I said J.D. | ||
| Vance isn't a deplorable, and I get all these Trump supporters in my replies, and they're like, well, that's a good thing because he saw the light. | ||
| And it's like, okay, maybe, but what if he didn't? | ||
| And shouldn't we be a little bit more skeptical? | ||
| Shouldn't we be a little more critical? | ||
| And I think with J.D. | ||
| Vance, it's not there. | ||
| Because like I said, Trump was very unpopular at one time. | ||
| It was very difficult to be a Trump supporter. | ||
| We went through the crucible. | ||
| Now that the advantages are being allocated, now people are seeing the light. | ||
| You always need to take a second look when that kind of situation occurs. | ||
| And I think with J.D. Vance, it's not there. | ||
| So. | ||
| And what's more, he said very specific things. | ||
| He didn't say, oh, I don't like Trump's style, or whatever. | ||
| He said, no, Trump is making me afraid for my Muslim and immigrant friends. | ||
| He said, Trump is an American Hitler, or he's an asshole. | ||
| Those are very strong remarks that reflect deeply held beliefs. | ||
| And I don't think we've seen any evidence that his deeply held beliefs have changed. | ||
| He's also profited from it too, and that always factors in. | ||
| So anyway, those are my feelings on this in general. | ||
| I don't know what the holdup is here. | ||
| We've been in a holding pattern for like 20 minutes. | ||
| I don't have like a huge monologue prepared, so I'm just kind of riffing. | ||
| I'm kind of riffing, saying things where I could like wind it down in 10 seconds if there's another introduction. | ||
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| Are they waiting for Hulk Hogan? | ||
| Hulk Hogan is late. | ||
| It's also weird that Trump left. | ||
| Trump left the auditorium and as far as I know hasn't returned. | ||
| I wonder if there's like a problem going on? | ||
| Is there something happening I'm not aware of? | ||
| It's a little bit strange. | ||
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Oh. | |
| Oh, okay, he's coming back. | ||
| All right, he's back. | ||
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All right, so the program should be restarting, I assume. - Oh shit. | |
| Now that he has returned. | ||
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All right. | |
| All right. | ||
| Yeah, weird delay going on. | ||
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Oh, no! | |
| No! | ||
| Dude, no! | ||
| No! | ||
| Jared Kushner and Ivanka? | ||
| Why are they here? | ||
| Oh, it's over, man. | ||
| It's so over. | ||
| It's over. | ||
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That's crazy. | |
| Yeah, that's it. | ||
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We're cooked. | |
| It's over. | ||
| We're done. | ||
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There they are. - Ivanka and Jared. | |
| Jared Kushner. | ||
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All right, here we go. | |
| The Hulk. | ||
| This is awesome. . | ||
| Finally a real fucking American. | ||
| This is a real American. | ||
| I love the WWE. | ||
| Nothing more American than that. | ||
| Talk about deplorable. | ||
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There's nothing more deplorable culture than WWF, WWE. | |
| Fuck yeah. | ||
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Fight for the rights of every man. | |
| I am a real American. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| Fight for what's right. | ||
| This is awesome. | ||
| All right, let's go! | ||
| The Hulk. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
| That's a real American. | ||
| Well, let me tell you something, brothers. | ||
| No. | ||
| You know something? | ||
| When I came here tonight, there was so much energy in this room, I felt maybe I was in Madison Square Garden getting ready to win another world title. | ||
| Or maybe I thought... | ||
| The vibe was so intense, the energy was so crazy, it felt like maybe I was gonna press that no-good stinky giant over my head and slam him through the mat, brother. | ||
| But what I found out was I was in a room full of real Americans, brother. | ||
| Fuck yeah, real Americans. | ||
| And at the end of the day, with our leader up there, my hero, that gladiator, we're gonna bring America back together. | ||
| One real American at a time, brother. | ||
| "Real American." - Love it. - You know something? | ||
| I've seen some great tag teams in my time. | ||
| Hulk Hogan, and ooh yeah, the Macho Man Randy Savage. | ||
| But you know something? | ||
| I see the greatest tag team of my life standing upon us, getting ready to straighten this country out for all the real Americans. | ||
| You know, even though you guys are real Americans, you better get ready. | ||
| Because when Donald J. Trump becomes the President of the United States, all the real Americans are going to be nicknamed Trumpites. | ||
| Because all the Trumpites are going to be running wild for four years. | ||
| So with the power of Donald J. Trump and all the Trumpites running wild, America is going to get back on track. | ||
| And like Donald J. Trump said, America is going to be great again. | ||
| You know, when I look out and I see all the real Americans, I think about how How Donald Trump, his family was compromised. | ||
| When I look out there and I see Donald Trump, I think about how his business was compromised. | ||
| But what happened last week when they took a shot at my hero? | ||
| Alright! | ||
| Let's go! | ||
| Let's fucking go. | ||
| President of the United States. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Enough was enough. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Let Trump-A-Mania run wild, brother. | ||
| Let Trump-A-Mania rule again. | ||
| Let Trump-A-Mania make America great again. | ||
| Let's fucking go. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| You know something, Trumpites? | ||
| I didn't come here as Hulk Hogan, but I just had to give you a little taste. | ||
| You know, my name is Terry Bollea, and as an entertainer, I love you too. | ||
| And as an entertainer, I try to stay out of politics. | ||
| But after everything that's happened to our country over the past four years and everything that happened last weekend, I can no longer stay silent. | ||
| I'm here tonight because I want the world to know that Donald Trump is a real American hero. | ||
| And I'm proud to support my hero as the next president of this United States. | ||
| You know, guys, I've known Donald Trump for over 35 years. | ||
| You know, hold on a second. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I just had a flashback. | ||
| I just had a flashback, man. | ||
| This is really tripping. | ||
| You know, the last time I was up on stage, Donald Trump was sitting at ringside at the Trump Plaza. | ||
| I was bleeding like a pig, and I won the world title right in front of Donald J. Trump. | ||
| That's so awesome. | ||
| And you know something? | ||
| He's gonna win in November and we're all gonna be champions again when he wins. | ||
| That's a real American. | ||
| And like I said, I've known that man for over 35 years and he's always been the biggest patriot and he still is. | ||
| He's always told you exactly what he thought, and he still does, brother. | ||
| And no matter the odds, he always finds a way to win. | ||
| And when he's back in our White House, America is going to start winning again. | ||
| You know guys, over my career, I've been in the ring with some of the biggest, some of the baddest dudes on the planet. | ||
| And I've squared off against warriors. | ||
| Ooh yeah, savages! | ||
| And I've even, like I said, body slammed giants in the middle of the ring. | ||
| And I know tough guys. | ||
| But let me tell you something, brother. | ||
| Donald Trump is the toughest of them all. | ||
| They've thrown everything at Donald Trump. | ||
| all the investigations, the impeachments, the court cases, and he's still standing and kicking their butts. | ||
| You know, we never had it better than the Trump years. | ||
| Back then we had a thriving economy. | ||
| We had strong borders. | ||
| We had safe streets. | ||
| We had peace and respect around the world. | ||
| But then we lost it all in the blink of an eye. | ||
| Crime is out of control. | ||
| The border is out of control. | ||
| The price of food and gas and housing is out of control. | ||
| And the only person who can clean this up is Donald Trump. | ||
| You know, guys, I really, really love this country. | ||
| And I've lived the American dream. | ||
| And I want my kids, your kids, and all those little teeny hulkamaniacs out there to live the American dream too. | ||
| This November, guys, we can save the American dream for everyone. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And Donald Trump is the president who will get the job done. | ||
| So all you criminals, all you lowlifes, all you scumbags, all you drug dealers, and all you crooked politicians need to answer one question, brother. | ||
| What you gonna do when Donald Trump and all the Trumpamaniacs run wild on you, brother? | ||
| God bless you, and thank you. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| That was my favorite speech of the convention so far. | ||
| Easily. | ||
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and President of Samaritan's Purse, the Reverend Franklin Graham. | |
| Good evening. | ||
| I've got the hardest job tonight. | ||
| I have to follow Hulk Hogan. | ||
| But I stand here tonight as a private citizen who loves this country. | ||
| I've been asked to say a few words and then to pray. | ||
| And we're going to do that. | ||
| Last Saturday, in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Trump had a near-death experience. | ||
| No question. | ||
| But God spared his life. | ||
| And when we go through those experiences, it changes us. | ||
| It can cause us to examine our lives and to reevaluate our priorities, as you should. | ||
| When President Trump I cannot explain why God would save one life and allow another one to be taken. | ||
| I don't have the answer for that. | ||
| fight for them in this nation. | ||
| I cannot explain why God would save one life and allow another one to be taken. | ||
| I don't have the answer for that. | ||
| But one thing I do know is that God loves us and He wants us to be with Him in heaven one day. | ||
| And that's through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. | ||
| You see, the Bible says that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shouldn't perish but should have everlasting life. | ||
| For as long For as long as I've known President Trump, I've found him to be a man of his word. | ||
| Things that he said he'll do, he did. | ||
| When he told me and our country in 2016 that he was going to appoint conservative justices, guess what? | ||
| He did. | ||
| Yeah, well they all suck. | ||
| In 2016 he said he would defend religious liberty. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| He did. | ||
| In 2019, I was with him at the United Nations when the first president of history of this country stood there to advocate for religious liberty worldwide. | ||
| When American citizen and Pastor Andrew Brunson was being held in a Turkish jail on false accusations, President Trump demanded that he be released. | ||
| And he applied economic pressure and sanctions until they did that. | ||
| I'm grateful and thankful for what he did as the 45th President of the United States. | ||
| And I know that as the 47th president, he will keep his word to the American people to make America great once again. | ||
| It's an honor for me to be asked to pray for Donald Trump this evening. | ||
| And so what I'd like to do, I'd like us to pray, but I'd like us all to stand as we call upon the name of the God of heaven. | ||
| Our Heavenly Father, we come before you this evening with grateful hearts. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Thank you for saving the life of President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| In his own words, it was you and you alone who saved him. | ||
| We pray for the others that were injured on Saturday, for the family who lost their loved one. | ||
| Put your loving arms around them. | ||
| Comfort them, and may they sense your presence. | ||
| We stand before you tonight. | ||
| We say thank you for the provisions you have given to the United States of America. | ||
| You have blessed this country more than any country in the world. | ||
| Sadly, as a nation, we have forgotten who is responsible for all the freedoms, the liberties, and the bounty that we enjoy. | ||
| It has all come for you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This evening, our nation is in trouble. | ||
| We're divided politically, racially, economically, with millions of people seeking refuge and hope in our dry and thirsty land. | ||
| You're the only one who can fix the complexity of the problems that we face today. | ||
| We pray for President Trump, that you would give him wisdom, strength, and a clear vision for the future of this nation and the task that is at hand. | ||
| Continue to protect him from his enemies. | ||
| I pray that you would surround him with men and women who will give him sound counsel and guidance. | ||
| We pray for Melania, for Barron, and for all the President Trump's children and grandchildren. | ||
| We pray for Senator J.D. | ||
| Vance, his wife, Usa, along with their young family. | ||
| We're thankful for his strong stand for defending life As your word instructs, we also pray for the leaders of our nation, whether they're Republican, Democrat, or Independent. | ||
| We know that all authority comes from you. | ||
| You are a great God, and we ask that if it be thy will that you will make America great once again. | ||
| And we ask that you'll unite our hearts, bring us together, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | ||
| And we pray this in the mighty name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| You know what's weird is Melania's not here. | ||
| I just noticed that. | ||
| Melania hasn't been here the entire time, which is pretty weird. | ||
| She's clearly got some kind of beef because she's not been around since 2021. | ||
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| I feel bad for him. | ||
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Good evening, America! | |
| Eight years ago, my father sat our family down. | ||
| He spoke of a nation in decline, of dreams slipping away, of a future endangered by failed leadership and broken promises. | ||
| It was in that moment I knew my father had made a decision that would forever change our lives. | ||
| We realized he had chosen to step into the arena. | ||
| To fight for the soul of America. | ||
| He decided to leave behind the comforts of an unbelievable business empire. | ||
| To leave behind everything he had ever built. | ||
| To answer the call to serve our nation. | ||
| Unlike his predecessor, it was not a decision born out of necessity. | ||
| Unlike the current president, it was not a decision that would enrich his family. | ||
| Rather, it was a decision made out of love for this country and a deep concern for America's future. | ||
| My father was clear it would not be easy, that there would be a huge price to pay, and that the attacks would be vicious. | ||
| Looking back, that was an understatement. | ||
| The made-up Russia hoax, the sham impeachments, the efforts to destroy an unbelievable company, a company that I run today, the efforts to cancel us, to silence him, to gag his free speech, and to drag him through every radical left courthouse in America, to take his life, | ||
| Yet through it all, he's shown unwavering courage and determination, not just in public, but in every private conversation with me and our family. | ||
| He stood tall, fueled not by personal ambition, but by a profound love for this country, And a love for all of you, the American people. | ||
| That man is my father. | ||
| That man is the 45th president and soon to be 47th president of the United States. | ||
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That man is Donald J. Trump. | |
| The President: | ||
| Each time I've stood on the stage, America has been a dire crossroads. | ||
| In 2016, many people began to doubt the promise of America. | ||
| Our economy was struggling. | ||
| Jobs were scarce. | ||
| Our standing on the world stage was weak at best. | ||
| Veterans were forgotten. | ||
| Our military was in shambles. | ||
| Our educational system was broken. | ||
| Ranked 30th in the world. | ||
| He could no longer tolerate an inept administration that handed $150 billion to Iran, a country that chants death to America, or witness the continued attacks on our Constitution and our religious liberty, or see the disrespect shown to our unbelievable law enforcement officers who are being disarmed, defunded, and persecuted each and every day. | ||
| He could no longer stand to see words like Christmas stripped from public use or the Pledge of Allegiance removed from our schools. | ||
| But my father saw potential where others saw despair. | ||
| Donald Trump built the New York City skyline. | ||
| He did so during a time when businesses were turning away from the city he loved. | ||
| Crime was rampant. | ||
| The streets were dirty. | ||
| But he had the mightiest touch, and he turned those streets and neighborhoods into gold. | ||
| He faced every challenge with tremendous vision and grit. | ||
| As he did during the 2016 election, he rolled up his sleeves. | ||
| He remained unapologetic. | ||
| He did not care to be politically correct. | ||
| He restored hope. | ||
| He restored a voice to millions of Americans who had been ignored. | ||
| He restored the American Dream. | ||
| Under my father's leadership, the economy climbed to record heights. | ||
| Jobs were created at an unthinkable pace. | ||
| Unemployment reached historic lows across all demographics. | ||
| Wage growth soared. | ||
| He cut taxes for hard-working families and businesses. | ||
| He slashed regulations. | ||
| we saw the greatest 401 increase in American history. | ||
| People bought their first homes in an environment that saw 2-3% interest rates. | ||
| They started their families. | ||
| My father made the United States energy independent with the lowest gas prices in decades. | ||
| My father made the United States safe. | ||
| Our borders were closed. | ||
| There was peace in the Middle East. | ||
| Soleimani al-Baghdadi, the terrorists, were dead. | ||
| My father made the United States respected again, with the courage to walk into countries like North Korea, with the courage to impose tariffs on China, and with the courage to tear up trade deals that cost Americans their jobs. | ||
| He brought manufacturing back to America, Small businesses flourished. | ||
| He did what he promised. | ||
| He put America first. | ||
| We were winning. | ||
| Donald Trump made America great again. | ||
| But he also created a movement, a A movement that threatened the special interests and the political elites. | ||
| A movement that cast a bright light on the institutions weaponized against the American people. | ||
| You see it in our schools. | ||
| God bless the moms who fought back. | ||
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You see it in your workplace. | |
| You see it on every news station, in every newspaper. | ||
| You see it in the military. | ||
| The most iconic military installations on planet Earth are stripped of their identity and renamed. | ||
| Fort Bragg, Benning, Fort Hood. | ||
| You see it in Hollywood. | ||
| You see it in our two-tier judicial system. | ||
| They don't even hide it anymore. | ||
| My father has been censored, the former president ripped off Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook while terrorist organizations remain intact. | ||
| My father has been persecuted, targeted by far-left Democrats, funded by special interest groups, and hand-picked judges. | ||
| My father has been pulled off the ballots of states, radical justices attempting to defy the will of millions of Americans who adore who he is, And what he stands for. | ||
| My father even became the target of an assassin who almost killed America's single greatest hope for our future. | ||
| The swamp is terrified of this incredible movement. | ||
| They're terrified of it. | ||
| They're terrified of you and the tens of millions of people watching us on TV right now. | ||
| They've tried everything to keep him from you. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| To destroy his legacy, to destroy his family. | ||
| They have failed and they will not win. | ||
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I love my Florida delegation right here. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| This is a snooze fest. | ||
| My father stands before you with the most votes of any Republican candidate in the history of our nation. | ||
| He has defied the predictions of every political pundit. | ||
| He fills stadiums across our country. | ||
| He energizes Americans to the issues facing this nation, and does so with unvarnished honesty. | ||
| He is not a threat to democracy. | ||
| He is a threat to those who despise our republic, many of whom are bought and sold, thrived and coerced, people who have never signed the front of a check and who have been dependent on the government their entire adult lives. | ||
| Today, as it was in 2016, America is at that crossroads again. | ||
| Energy prices are soaring. | ||
| Interest rates are crippling. | ||
| Everything is unaffordable. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| dollar has been diminished. | ||
| Inflation has made it impossible for Americans to live, to save for their future. | ||
| Our infrastructure is crumbling. | ||
| Our border is out of control. | ||
| Millions are dead and displaced in Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| A war that has no end, and a war that we are funding. | ||
| The Middle East has become a hornet's nest. | ||
| Our greatest ally, Israel, totally under siege. | ||
| Fentanyl is killing our youth and destroying families while the current administration stands idly by, hoping their inaction will import illegal votes. | ||
| Crime terrorizes our cities and our suburbs as far-left policies handcuff police. | ||
| Male athletes, guys my height, 6'5" are swimming in women's sports. | ||
| Destroying the dreams of young girls who have trained every minute of their lives. | ||
| We no longer trust our elections. | ||
| We no longer trust our judicial system. | ||
| -Okay. -And we no longer believe that our government is working in our best interest. | ||
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Where's the aura? | |
| I want aura. | ||
| I want Riz. | ||
| In spite of where we are today, I'd like to speak to every American. | ||
| This just sucks. | ||
| Oh, stop with this. | ||
| Dude, what the fuck about us? | ||
| Enough about homeless people. | ||
| The illegal immigrants are housed in the most expensive hotels in New York. | ||
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Dude, what the fuck about us? | |
| I'm sorry. | ||
| We know it's wrong, and we will fix it. | ||
| Enough about homeless people. | ||
| Let's talk about Americans. | ||
| I really do resent when they're like, well, we're the homeless veterans. | ||
| The homeless are in our parks. | ||
| And they suck. | ||
| Not the veterans, of course. | ||
| It's like, what about people that have homes? | ||
| We're getting fucked over, too. | ||
| To the parents who lost a son or daughter to fentanyl, including the incredible woman that spoke the other night, while an administration does absolutely nothing, I'm sorry. | ||
| Your government can do so much better. | ||
| And it will. | ||
| To the children who are being brainwashed instead of learning the fundamentals of school, I'm sorry. | ||
| There are teachers who care, and my father will empower them. | ||
| To the law enforcement officers, our brave board patrols, secret service agents who work every single day to protect our communities, knowing damn well that the system will throw you under the bus. | ||
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They failed. | |
| I'm sorry. | ||
| We will stand behind you. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Why would you give credit to the Secret Service when they failed? | ||
| Hey, there's our guy. | ||
| To commuters often petrified to take a bus, take a train, or walk the streets in cities across our nation, I'm sorry. | ||
| that man right there will fix this. | ||
| To the construction workers, to the middle-class families, to the families with children with disabilities, families who can no longer afford medical benefits or to take a vacation, I'm sorry, families who can no longer afford medical benefits or to take a vacation, I'm sorry, we | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And to my father, This like, I'm sorry thing is really bad rhetoric. | ||
| silenced, slandered, and attacked by a corrupt administration, I'm sorry. | ||
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This, like, I'm sorry thing is really bad rhetoric. | |
| They're not just after you. | ||
| They're after all of us, and you just happen to be standing in their way. | ||
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Stop saying I'm sorry. | |
| To all Americans watching tonight, the greatest retribution will be our success. | ||
| Success not just for ourselves, but for our grandchildren and our children. | ||
| Under President Donald J. Trump, the swamp will be drained. | ||
| America will be respected. | ||
| Our cities will be safe. | ||
| Our streets will be clean. | ||
| and our border will once again be secure. | ||
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We will have peace. | |
| We will have prosperity. | ||
| Your hard-earned tax dollars will enrich a better America, not be squandered in corrupt foreign nations. | ||
| Education will be handed back to the states. | ||
| We will no longer be 30th in the world. | ||
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We will be first. | |
| Our children will understand family, our children will have values, and our children will love God. | ||
| Our country will prioritize free speech, respect freedom of religion, and honor our Constitution. | ||
| As his son, I've never been more proud of a person in my life. | ||
| A man who has defied all odds more than once. | ||
| A man who believed in the promise of America when others turned away. | ||
| A man who saw a nation in need of a champion and answered that call with unwavering determination and courage. | ||
| A man who survived a bullet that was intended to eliminate him permanently from our future and from our family. | ||
| Never have I been more proud to be a Trump. | ||
| Never have I been more proud to stand by my father's side. | ||
| I remain incredibly honored to be part of this journey. | ||
| A journey with all of you. | ||
| A journey to save the greatest country on earth. | ||
| A journey with the most incredible people I have ever met. | ||
| Dad. | ||
| Five days ago, Laura, Luke, Carolina, and I Held our breath as we saw blood pour across your face. | ||
| By the grace of God, divine intervention, and your guardian angels above, you survived. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| You are the greatest fighter I have ever seen. | ||
| You are strong, you are full of life, and you are unapologetic. | ||
| Your optimism is contagious. | ||
| Your backbone is unbreakable. | ||
| Your conviction to fight for what is right and against all that is wrong is truly next level. | ||
| The whole world saw your strength as you stood up. | ||
| You wiped the blood off your face. | ||
| And you put your fist in the air in a moment that will be remembered as one of the most courageous acts in the history of American politics. | ||
| You shouted fight fight fight! | ||
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He's not even...oh no he's not okay. I thought he wasn't there. I was like man, me and him both. | |
| I'm honored to speak to our great nation tonight. | ||
| You are a true leader. | ||
| You epitomize strength. | ||
| Our country loves you. | ||
| Our country appreciates you. | ||
| Our country misses you. | ||
| And on November 5th, our country will re-elect you as the 47th President of the United States of America. | ||
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Good night, Milwaukee! | |
| God bless you all. | ||
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That was way too long. | |
| Another intermission. | ||
| . . | ||
| This is gonna be a long night. | ||
| So they have Kid Rock and Dana White coming up, I think? | ||
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I think that's the rest of the lineup, unless there's somebody else. | |
| But since Trump is leaving, I don't know. | ||
| It seems like we're going to get another delay. | ||
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Bye. | |
| Very bad sign that Jared Kushner and Ivanka are there. | ||
| I thought they weren't supposed to be a part of this anymore. | ||
| Let's hope they're just showing up to support him as family. | ||
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That's the squad. | |
| JD, Usha. | ||
| Jared, Ivanka, Don Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle. | ||
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That's rough. | |
| It's rough up there. | ||
| Let's just get this over with. | ||
| It's been a long week. | ||
| A lot of... A lot of Trump glazing. | ||
| Talk about education and energy. | ||
| None of it's really doing it for me. | ||
| There's no charisma here. | ||
| There's no energy. | ||
| The best speakers aren't even GOP people. | ||
| The best speakers have been Hulk Hogan and then some of the regular Americans like that black lady. | ||
| Peter Navarro was pretty good. | ||
| There's no energy within this party. | ||
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At least that's how I feel about it. | |
| I think there's symbolic energy behind Trump because of the assassination attempt and everything that's going on, but... And here's the other thing, how much of this convention is about the economy? | ||
| This is just like conventional political wisdom. | ||
| This is just politics. | ||
| It's about the economy, stupid! | ||
| That's like the whole convention. | ||
| Gas prices, grocery prices, inflation, gas prices, energy, inflation, school choice. | ||
| So, none of it is really speaking to me in the way that Trump was. | ||
| And if you were there, you remember. | ||
| 2016 RNC was nuts. | ||
| I didn't watch any of it other than the Trump speech. | ||
| Oh, there we go. | ||
| Hulk Hogan and Usha and J.D. | ||
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Vance. | |
| I love that he kept saying, real American. | ||
| We need to bring that back. | ||
| But are you a real American? | ||
| Everybody calls themselves American. | ||
| But where are the real Americans? | ||
| That's the question. | ||
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So. | |
| I'm ready to get it over with. | ||
| I'm ready to get it over with. | ||
| There are new rumors that Joe Biden's going to drop out. | ||
| They say that after the RNC is over, Joe Biden will retire and withdraw from the race. | ||
| And that Kamala will be the nominee, not an open convention. | ||
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That's the latest rumor. - Ladies and gentlemen, the next first lady of the United States, Mrs. Melania Trump. | |
| Okay. | ||
| I really like Melania. - Yeah. | ||
| Her statement after the assassination was nuts. | ||
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Very good. | |
| I mean nuts in a good way. | ||
| way is very positive. | ||
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The Queen of America. | |
| The Queen of America. | ||
| She's stunning. | ||
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Our Queen! | |
| Look at her! | ||
| queen. | ||
| Look at her. | ||
| So elegant. | ||
| Oh, she's not speaking. | ||
| I I thought she was speaking. | ||
| This is just her entrance. | ||
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Now that's a woman. | |
| Yeah, look at that, Usha. | ||
| No, that's mean. | ||
| Usha's lovely too, but... Melania's next level. | ||
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And she's Catholic. | |
| This is a story... | ||
| is uniquely American as the ideals and freedoms we all cherish. | ||
| A story of a life dedicated to dreaming big. | ||
| A story about giving back to the people in his beloved city. | ||
| But most of all, this is a story about putting his country first. | ||
| And it's a story best told in pictures. | ||
| Young and confident, Donald Trump wasn't afraid to think big and build even bigger. | ||
| And he left his mark on the New York skyline that greeted visitors from around the world. | ||
| But he wasn't just an American entrepreneur. | ||
| He became a folk hero. | ||
| Celebrities and sports stars wanted to be seen with him. | ||
| Politicians sought his approval. | ||
| And New Yorkers just loved him. | ||
| And he loved them back. | ||
| And he gave back. | ||
| Just one example. | ||
| Saving the woman's skating rink. | ||
| The Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park is open again. | ||
| The city spent nearly six years and twelve million dollars trying to fix it. | ||
| And then to the rescue, developer Donald Trump. | ||
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As Tracy Egan tells us now, he accomplished in three and a half months what the city couldn't do in six years. | |
| Donald, you perform a great public service. | ||
| There was no denying that Donald Trump was the toast of the town. | ||
| But he was also something even more important, a patriotic American. | ||
| And like many others, he was becoming increasingly troubled by the direction of our country. | ||
| Because I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country, how we're really making other people live like kings and we're not. | ||
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You've said, though, that if you did run for president, you believe you'd win. | |
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| I think I'd win. | ||
| I tell you what, I wouldn't go in to lose. | ||
| I've never gone in to lose in my life. | ||
| And if I did decide to do it, I think I'd be inclined... I would say that I would have a hell of a chance of winning. | ||
| Because I think people... I don't know how your audience feels, but I think people are tired of seeing the United States ripped off. | ||
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But who would ever run for president and leave such a glamorous life? | |
| Appearances in movies, best-selling books, a widely popular TV show. | ||
| But for Donald J. Trump, the calling to save his country was even stronger. | ||
| The mission, more important. | ||
| The number of Americans being left behind, too large. | ||
| And so, in Donald Trump fashion, he announced he was running for president, in it to win. | ||
| And he did. | ||
| From his first day in office, the Washington politicians learned something about President Trump. | ||
| He's not afraid to fight for what he believes in. | ||
| They call that having the courage of your convictions. | ||
| First up, the Trump tax cuts. | ||
| Largest in America's history, and it led to higher take-home pay for working families. | ||
| Unfortunately, today, taxes are up and incomes down. | ||
| The politicians just never learn. | ||
| Next for President Trump, secure our border. | ||
| Check. | ||
| Miles and miles of wall built. | ||
| ISIS and other terrorists deterred. | ||
| Who is this made for when the reference is Barney Fife? | ||
| Does anybody under the age of 40 understand that reference? | ||
| Leading to a quarter of a million Americans dead from fentanyl coming in. | ||
| Who is this made for when the reference is Barney Fife? | ||
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Brutal migrant crime spreading across America. | |
| Does anybody under the age of 40 understand that reference? | ||
| I mean, I do, but. | ||
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And ISIS now here. | |
| President Trump promised he'd keep America out of endless wars. . | ||
| Welcome words to the families of our young men and women who serve. | ||
| And another promise kept. | ||
| He started by strengthening our military. | ||
| Then traveled the world, meeting with our allies. | ||
| And even with our main adversaries. | ||
| Just so they understood that America's strength and resolve was back. | ||
| Because that's what a strong Commander-in-Chief does. | ||
| And it led to a stable world at peace and our troops safe. | ||
| Today, a different story. | ||
| Our enemies smelled weakness. | ||
| Then set the world on fire. | ||
| Putin saw it, then invaded Ukraine. | ||
| Hamas saw it, then started a war in the Middle East. | ||
| least. | ||
| There's one more thing we've learned about President Trump. | ||
| He believes so strongly in America, so optimistic for our possibilities, and so committed to fighting to once again make our country great that there is nothing that is going to stop him. | ||
| I love the gold. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Kid Rock. | ||
| I thought Trump was going to come out. | ||
| Or is he going to sing? | ||
| Welcome America! | ||
| If you're ready for President Trump to take the stage, I need everybody to stand up! | ||
| I need everybody to put a fist up in the air! | ||
| Everybody, get a fist up in the air! | ||
| Now follow me! | ||
| Say fight! | ||
| Fight! | ||
| The devil without a cause I'm back with the beaver hats and Ben Davis slacks. | ||
| 30 pack of straws, straight rock and roll. | ||
| No Rogaine in the propane flow. | ||
| The chosen one, I'm the living proof. | ||
| With the gift of gab from the city of truth. | ||
| You know I jab, stab, and I critics back. | ||
| And I did not start up when I said that. | ||
| I'm going platinum, selling rhymes. | ||
| I went platinum seven times. | ||
| Still the air, they want to see us fry. | ||
| I guess because only God knows why. | ||
| They call me cowboy, I'm a singer in black. | ||
| Throw a fist in the air, let me see where you're at. | ||
| Say fight! | ||
| Fight! | ||
| Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. | ||
| Like AC, DC, yeah. | ||
| and C.C. | ||
| Top. | ||
| Both sheepish beasties in the king's upright. | ||
| Skinner, Sheeter, Lincoln, and Stone. | ||
| David Attico and No Show Jones. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| Pass that bottle around. | ||
| Got the rock from Detroit. | ||
| The soul from Motown. | ||
| The underground straight Detroit. | ||
| With tracks to Mac and slap back to back Navigate or pay, I don't play with ass Well watch me rock with the Barachi Flash Walk back to Clash, boy bands are trash I like Johnny Cat and Grandmaster Flash Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash Oh! | ||
| They call me cowboy, I'm a singer in black Throw a fist in the air, let me see where you're at Say fight, fight, fight, fight, fight | ||
| Fight! | ||
| Fight Oh my gosh. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| One more time! | ||
| I'm a cowboy, badass and black, we say Trump! | ||
| Trump! | ||
| From side to side, from front to back, come on, Trump! | ||
| Trump! | ||
| Trump! | ||
| I put Detroit City back on the map, we say Trump! | ||
| Trump! | ||
| Trump! | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for the most patriotic American badass on earth, President Donald J. Trump! | ||
| But first, another American badass, my brother, Dana White! | ||
| - The state, God bless America! - Vibe killed. | ||
| Total ick. | ||
| That was a rough watch. | ||
| Maybe I'm a hater. | ||
| guitar solo | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what we're doing. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| - Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I am Dana White. | ||
| I am the CEO and President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. | ||
| So two weeks ago, I got a call from President Trump asking me if I'd be willing to speak tonight. | ||
| As usual, there was no pressure, no demands. | ||
| He asked me as a friend, and of course I said yes. | ||
| After I accepted his offer, he sent me a text message, and I just want to read to you a little piece of what President Trump wrote to me. | ||
| Dana, I'm so honored that you will be doing the introduction at the National Republican Convention. | ||
| Think of it as the biggest fight you ever had, a fight for our country and even the world. | ||
| I only wish you didn't have to interrupt your family trip, but I hope they understand, they love you, and they know how important this is. | ||
| Now think about this. | ||
| This man's running for President of the United States, he's fighting for the future of this country, and he's concerned about interrupting my family trip. | ||
| That's the President Trump that I know. | ||
| A man who truly cares about people. | ||
| The mainstream media likes to push the narrative that he doesn't care about anyone but himself. | ||
| I absolutely know that's not the truth because I've been friends with this guy for 25 years. | ||
| And for the people who know me, they'll know this is true. | ||
| I just want to make something very clear. | ||
| Nobody in the Trump campaign has ever told me what to say. | ||
| Nobody tells me what to say, and I'm nobody's puppet. | ||
| And I'm not telling you what to think. | ||
| I'm telling you what I know. | ||
| And I know President Trump. | ||
| I know President Trump is a fighter. | ||
| I've been saying this since 2015. | ||
| Now look at what's happened over the last 10 years. | ||
| We have all seen it with our own eyes. | ||
| I'm in the tough guy business. | ||
| And this man is the toughest, most resilient human being that I have ever met in my life. | ||
| The higher the stakes, the harder he fights, and this guy never ever gives up. | ||
| So what's at stake here? | ||
| The answer is in President Trump's text, and I quote, a fight for our country. | ||
| I know why he's running for president again. | ||
| Why else would he put himself through everything he's dealt with just to get back here? | ||
| We all know he doesn't need this. | ||
| This guy's got a great life, he has a beautiful family, and he has achieved everything that you could possibly achieve in life. | ||
| I know President Trump is literally putting his life on the line for something bigger than himself. | ||
| And he's willing to risk it all because he loves this country. | ||
| And I know he wants what's best for the American people. | ||
| All American people. | ||
| I know he's running for president to save our American dream. | ||
| I'm living the American dream, and I know the American dream is very real. | ||
| Whether you were born in this country or came here from someplace else, this is the last real land of opportunity. | ||
| President Reagan once said, Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. | ||
| And if you're buried in government red tape, how will you ever start your own business? | ||
| If you're struggling to pay your bills, how can you ever afford to start a family? | ||
| And if you don't feel safe in your own town, why would you ever buy a house? | ||
| I know that President Trump is fighting to save the American dream, and that's what's at stake in this election. | ||
| We are choosing who we want to lead us in this fight. | ||
| I know President Trump is a proven leader, a fearless leader, and this country was in a much better place when he was in the Oval Office. | ||
| In my mind, the choice is clear. | ||
| But this election, we all get to choose. | ||
| I know I'm going to choose strength and security. | ||
| I know I'm going to choose opportunity and prosperity. | ||
| I know I'm going to choose real American leadership and a real American badass. | ||
| And I'm not telling you what choice to make, and I'm not telling you what to think. | ||
| I'm telling you what I know. | ||
| I know America needs a strong leader, and the world needs a strong America. | ||
| I know Donald J. Trump is the best choice for President of the United States. | ||
| My fellow Americans, it is my honor to introduce the 45th and soon-to-be 47th President of the United States, Let's go. | ||
| All right, here he here he is. | ||
| This guy again. | ||
| And I had to start again, just my children and my wife. | ||
| Thank my lucky stars to be living here today. | ||
| Because our flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take it away. | ||
| And I'm proud to be in America. | ||
| American where at least I know I'm free. | ||
| And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me. | ||
| And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. | ||
| Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land. | ||
| Sing it. | ||
| God bless the USA. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| From the late ten minutes of the. | ||
| To the. | ||
| Little strobe effect. | ||
| All right, yeah! | ||
| Yeah, let's go! | ||
| Oh, that's awesome. | ||
| So awesome. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| So awesome. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| I don't like the song, but... | ||
| I love to be an American Where at least I know I'm free And I won't forget the men who died Who gave that right to me And I gladly stand up next to you And if in her still today There ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| But if in her still today I love this land God bless the U.S.A. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| I was a little confused at first. | ||
| I'm like, what's... | ||
| But that's a nice tribute. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| USA! USA! USA! | ||
| There he is, the man. | ||
| USA! USA! USA! | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very, very much. | ||
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| And thank you, Dana. | ||
| Thank you, Kid Rock, sometimes referred to as Bob. | ||
| And thank you, Lee, right from the beginning. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| What a talent. | ||
| What a beautiful, beautiful song. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Friends, delegates, and fellow citizens, I stand before you this evening with a message of confidence, strength, and hope. | ||
| Four months from now, we will have an incredible victory. | ||
| And we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country. | ||
| Together, we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity, and freedom for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. | ||
| The discord and division in our society must be healed. | ||
| We must heal it quickly. | ||
| As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. | ||
| We rise together or we fall apart. | ||
| I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America. | ||
| So tonight, with faith and devotion, I proudly accept your nomination for President of the United States. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And we will do it right. | ||
| We're going to do it right. | ||
| Let me begin this evening by expressing my gratitude to the American people for your outpouring of love and support following the assassination attempt at my rally on Saturday. | ||
| As you already know, the assassin's bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. | ||
| So many people have asked me, what happened? | ||
| Tell us what happened, please. | ||
| And therefore, I will tell you exactly what happened, and you'll never hear it from me a second time because it's actually too painful to tell. | ||
| It was a warm, beautiful day in the early evening in Butler Township in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. | ||
| Music was loudly playing. | ||
| And the campaign was doing really well. | ||
| I went to the stage, and the crowd was cheering wildly. | ||
| Everybody was happy. | ||
| I began speaking very strongly, powerfully, and happily. | ||
| Because I was discussing the great job my administration did on immigration at the southern border. | ||
| We were very proud of it. | ||
| Behind me and to the right was a large screen that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership. | ||
| The numbers were absolutely amazing. | ||
| In order to see the chart, I started to, like this, turn to my right and was ready to begin A little bit further turn, which I'm very lucky I didn't do, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard on my right ear. | ||
| I said to myself, wow, what was that? | ||
| It can only be a bullet. | ||
| and moved my right hand to my ear, brought it down. | ||
| My hand was covered with blood, just absolutely blood all over the place. | ||
| I immediately knew it was very serious, that we were under attack. | ||
| And in one movement, proceeded to drop to the ground. | ||
| Bullets were continuing to fly. | ||
| As very brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage, and they really did. | ||
| They rushed to the state. | ||
| These are great people at great risk, I will tell you. | ||
| And pounced on top of me so that I would be protected. | ||
| There was blood pouring everywhere and yet, in a certain way, I felt very safe because I had God on my side. | ||
| I felt that. | ||
| The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, If I had not moved my head at that very last instant, the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be here tonight. | ||
| We would not be together. | ||
| The most incredible aspect of what took place on that terrible evening in the fading sun was actually seen later. | ||
| In almost all cases, as you probably know, And when even a single bullet is fired, just a single bullet, and we had many bullets that were being fired, crowds run for the exits or stampede, but not in this case. | ||
| It was very unusual. | ||
| This massive crowd of tens of thousands of people stood by and didn't move an inch. | ||
| In fact, many of them bravely but automatically stood up looking for where the sniper would be. | ||
| They knew immediately it was a sniper. | ||
| And then began pointing at him. | ||
| You can see that if you look at the group behind me. | ||
| That was just a small group compared to what was in front. | ||
| Nobody ran, and by not stampeding, many lives were saved. | ||
| But that isn't the reason. | ||
| that they didn't move. | ||
| The reason is that they knew I was in very serious trouble. | ||
| They saw it. | ||
| They saw me go down. | ||
| They saw the blood and thought — actually, most did — that I was dead. | ||
| They knew it was a shot to the head. | ||
| They saw the blood. | ||
| And there's an interesting statistic. | ||
| The ears are the bloodiest part. | ||
| If something happens with the ears, they bleed more than any other part of the body. | ||
| For whatever reason, the doctors told me that. | ||
| And I said, why is there so much blood? | ||
| He said, it's the years. | ||
| They bleed more. | ||
| So we learned something. | ||
| But they just — they just — this beautiful crowd, they didn't want to leave me. | ||
| They knew I was in trouble. | ||
| They didn't want to leave me. | ||
| And you can see that love written all over their faces. | ||
| Incredible people. | ||
| They're incredible people. | ||
| Bullets were flying over us, yet I felt serene. | ||
| But now the Secret Service agents were putting themselves in peril. | ||
| They were in very dangerous territory. | ||
| Bullets were flying right over them, missing them by a very small amount of inches. | ||
| And then it all stopped. | ||
| Our Secret Service sniper From a much greater distance, and with only one bullet used, took the assassin's life. | ||
| took him out. | ||
| I'm not supposed to be here tonight. | ||
| You're not supposed to be here. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| We But I'm not. | ||
| And I'll tell you, I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God. | ||
| In watching the reports over the last few days, many people say it was a providential moment. many people say it was a providential moment. | ||
| Probably was. | ||
| When I rose, surrounded by Secret Service, the crowd was confused because they thought I was dead. | ||
| And there was great, great sorrow. | ||
| I could see that on their faces as I looked out. | ||
| They didn't know I was looking out. | ||
| They thought it was over. | ||
| But I could see it. | ||
| Wanted to do something to let them know I was okay. | ||
| I raised my right arm, looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were breathlessly waiting, and started shouting, fight, fight, fight. | ||
| Once my clenched fist went up, And it was high into the air. | ||
| You've all seen that. | ||
| The crowd realized I was okay and roared with pride for our country like no crowd I have ever heard before. | ||
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Never heard anything like it. | |
| For the rest of my life, I will be grateful for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots that stood bravely on that fateful evening in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Tragically, the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans, Cory. | ||
| Compare it to our unbelievable person, everybody tells me. | ||
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Unbelievable. | |
| And seriously wounded. | ||
| Two other great warriors. | ||
| Spoke to them today. | ||
| David Dutch and James Copenhaver. | ||
| Two great people. | ||
| I also spoke to all three families of these tremendous people. | ||
| Our love and prayers are with them and always will be. | ||
| We're never going to forget them. | ||
| They came for a great rally. | ||
| They were serious Trumpsters, I want to tell you. | ||
| They were serious Trumpsters and still are. | ||
| But Cory, unfortunately, we have to use the past tense. | ||
| He was incredible. | ||
| He was a highly respected former fire chief, respected by everybody, was accompanied by his Wife Helen, incredible woman, I spoke to her today, devastated. | ||
| And two precious daughters. | ||
| He lost his life selflessly, acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets. | ||
| He went right over the top of them and was hit. | ||
| What a fine man he was. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I want to thank the fire department and the family for sending his helmet, his outfit, and it was just something. | ||
| And they're going to do something very special when they get it. | ||
| But we did something which cannot match what happened, not even close. | ||
| But I am very proud to say that over the past few days, we've raised $6.3 million for the families of David, James, and Corey, including and Corey, including from a friend of mine just called up He sent me a check right here. | ||
| I just got it. | ||
| One million dollars. | ||
| From Dan Newland. | ||
| Thank you, Dan. | ||
| And again, when speaking to the family, I told them, I said, well, I'm going to be sending you a lot of money, but it can't compensate. | ||
| They all said the same thing. | ||
| You're right, sir. | ||
| We appreciate so much what you're doing, but nothing can take the place in the case of Corey and the other two. | ||
| By the way, they were very, very seriously injured, but now they're doing very well. | ||
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They're going to be okay. | |
| They're going to be doing for you. | ||
| They're warriors. | ||
| So now, I ask that we observe a moment of silence in honor of our friend Corey. | ||
| There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for others. | ||
| This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours, and this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness. | ||
| This is what we need. | ||
| Despite such a heinous attack, we unite this evening more determined than ever. | ||
| I am more determined than ever, and so are you. | ||
| So is everybody in your city. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Our resolve is unbroken and our purpose is unchanged to deliver a government that serves the American people better than ever before. | ||
| Nothing will stop me in this mission because our vision is righteous and our cause is pure. | ||
| No matter what obstacle comes our way, we will not break. | ||
| We will not bend. | ||
| We will not back down. | ||
| And I will never stop fighting for you, your family, and our magnificent country. | ||
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Never. | |
| Never. | ||
| And everything I have to give with all of the energy and fight in my heart and soul, I pledge to our nation tonight. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I pledge that to our nation. | ||
| I'm going to turn our nation around, and we're going to do it very quickly. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This election should be about the issues facing our country and how to make America successful, safe, free, and safe, free, and great again. | ||
| In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens. | ||
| We are one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | ||
| And we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is what's been happening in our country lately at a level that nobody has ever seen before. | ||
| In that spirit, the Democrat Party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy. | ||
| Especially since that is not true. | ||
| In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country. | ||
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And very big news, as you probably just read. | |
| On Monday, a major ruling was handed down from a highly respected federal judge in Florida, Eileen Cannon, finding that the prosecutor and the fake documents case against me were totally unconstitutional, and the entire case was thrown out of court. | ||
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With all of that publicity thrown out of court. | |
| If Democrats want to unify our country, they should drop these partisan witch hunts, which I have been going through for approximately eight years. | ||
| And they should do that without delay and allow an election to proceed that is worthy of our people. | ||
| We're going to win it anyway, but worthy of our people. | ||
| On this journey, I am deeply honored to be joined by my amazing wife, Melania. | ||
| And Melania, thank you very much. | ||
| You also did something really beautiful, a letter to America calling for national unity. | ||
| And it really took the Republican Party by surprise, I will tell you. | ||
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It was beautiful. | |
| In fact, some very serious people said that we should take that letter and put it as part of the Republican platform. | ||
| That would be an honor, wouldn't it? | ||
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Right? | |
| Mr. Congressman? | ||
| But it captivated so many, so I also want to thank my entire family for being here. | ||
| Don, Kimberly, Ivanka and Jared, Eric and Lara, Tiffany and Michael, Baron. | ||
| We loved our Baron. | ||
| And of course, my 10 wonderful grandchildren, and you saw a few of them up there on my lap before. | ||
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And how good was Dana? | |
| Was Dana good? | ||
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I mean, was he good? | |
| You know, he was on probably the only vacation he's had in about — maybe ever, because he works — but about 10 years with his wife, very far away. | ||
| I won't tell you where, but very, very far away. | ||
| Beautiful place. | ||
| And my people called, and he said, yeah, I won't be able to do it. | ||
| This is many, many years. | ||
| I promised my wife I can't do it. | ||
| And they came in, and they said, Dana won't be able to do it, because he was my first, second, and third choice. | ||
| I said, well, you know, that's too bad, but I understand. | ||
| He's away, and it's good. | ||
| It's good for him. | ||
| And that was it. | ||
| About 30 minutes later, she came back in. | ||
| Sir, Dana just called. | ||
| He's going to do it. | ||
| And his wife, she said, you can't turn him down. | ||
| You just can't do it. | ||
| You have to go. | ||
| So that's a good wife. | ||
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So he got on a plane. | |
| He got here a little while ago. | ||
| Now he's going to get on the plane in a little while, and he's going to go back home to his wife. | ||
| But they're great, and I just want to thank her and him and their whole family, because that's not easy. | ||
| And Kid Rock, same thing. | ||
| Called, he said. | ||
| He said, I want to be a part of it. | ||
| I want to be a part, because, you know, Kid does his great song, big, big monster song. | ||
| I had no idea. | ||
| You know, he became a friend of mine over the last 10 years. | ||
| And he's amazing. | ||
| Everyone loves him. | ||
| I didn't even know how big he was. | ||
| You know, he has rallies. | ||
| 35,000, 40,000 people he gets every time he goes out. | ||
| I think he's making so much money, he doesn't know what the hell to do with it, if you want to know. | ||
| And then we have my other friend, and I've known him so long, and we took that song, and it was a big success, but we made that. | ||
| I saw a chart of great songs to America. | ||
| That was number one on the chart recently. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| So, that's Lee Greenwood. | ||
| Very special, beautiful person. | ||
| He's a beautiful man. | ||
| But they all wanted to be here, they called. | ||
| And how about the Hulkster? | ||
| How good was he? | ||
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Where is he? | |
| Boy, oh boy. | ||
| You know, they may call it -- they may call that entertainment. | ||
| I know about entertainment, but when he used to lift a 350-pound man over his shoulders and then bench press him two rows into the audience, I say, maybe entertainment, but he is one strong son of a gun, I will tell you. | ||
| I watched it many times. | ||
| There aren't a lot of entertainers that can do that, right? | ||
| You were fantastic. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Followed by Eric. | |
| What was that all about? | ||
| Boy, that was good. | ||
| I didn't want to really come up here. | ||
| But he was so great, and he's such a good young man. | ||
| He went through a lot of trouble. | ||
| And Don, last night, was incredible. | ||
| He went through so much trouble. | ||
| They got subpoenaed more than any people, probably, in the history of the United States. | ||
| Every week, they get another subpoena from the Democrats. | ||
| Crazy Nancy Pelosi, the whole thing, just boom, boom, boom. | ||
| They've got to stop that because they're destroying our country. | ||
| We have to work on making America great again, not on beating people. | ||
| And we won. | ||
| We beat them in all. | ||
| We beat them on the impeachments. | ||
| We beat them on indictments. | ||
| We beat them. | ||
| But the time that you have to spend -- the time that you have to spend -- if they would devote that genius to helping our country, we'd have a much stronger and better country. | ||
| And Jason, the biggest star in country music, Jason, thank you for being here. | ||
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Jason, thank you very much. | |
| Jason Aldean. | ||
| He's good. | ||
| I like his wife even better, by the way. | ||
| She's here. | ||
| Thank you, Jason. | ||
| But I'm thrilled to have a new friend and partner fighting by my side. | ||
| The next Vice President of the United States, the current Senator from Ohio, J.D. | ||
| Vance and his incredible wife, Usha. | ||
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It's going to be a great... | |
| Vice President, he's going to be great. | ||
| He'll be with this country and with his movement. | ||
| Greatest movement in the history of our country. | ||
| Make America Great Again. | ||
| When they criticized it, they said, we're going to try and stop MAGA. | ||
| I said, MAGA is Make America Great Again. | ||
| What are you going to stop? | ||
| There's nothing to stop. | ||
| Then they say, oh, that's right. | ||
| It's very tough to fight it. | ||
| And all of the people that did try and fight it have failed. | ||
| But he's going to be with us for a long time, and it was an honor to select him. | ||
| Great, great student at Yale. | ||
| His wife was a great student at Yale. | ||
| They met at Yale. | ||
| These are two smart people. | ||
| So, J.D., you're going to be doing this for a long time. | ||
| enjoy the ride. | ||
| And a very special thank you to the extraordinary people of Milwaukee and the great state of -- Oh, there they are. | ||
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There they are. | |
| There they are. | ||
| You are so easy to spot. | ||
| And Green Bay is going to have a good team this year, right? | ||
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They're going to have a good team. | |
| They're going to have a good team. | ||
| Most of the audience doesn't like it, but it's true. | ||
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You're going to have a very good team this year. | |
| And by the way, Wisconsin, we are spending over $250 million here creating jobs and other economic development all over the place. | ||
| So I hope you will remember this in November and give us your vote. | ||
| I am trying to buy your vote. | ||
| I'll be honest about that. | ||
| And I promise we will make Wisconsin great again. | ||
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We're going to make it. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Governor. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm here tonight to lay out a vision for the whole nation. | ||
| To every citizen, whether you're a young or old man or woman, Democrat, Republican or Independent, Black or White, Asian or Hispanic, I extend to you a hand of loyalty and of friendship. | ||
| Together, we will lead America to new heights of greatness like the world has never seen before. | ||
| We were right there in the first term. | ||
| We got hit with COVID. | ||
| We did a great job. | ||
| Nobody knew what it was, but nobody's ever seen an economy pre-COVID. | ||
| And then we handed over a stock market that was substantially higher than just prior to COVID coming in. | ||
| Did a great job. | ||
| Never got credit for that. | ||
| We got credit for The war and defeating ISIS and so many things, the great economy, the biggest tax cuts ever, the biggest regulation cuts ever, the creation of Space Force, the rebuilding of our military. | ||
| We did so much. | ||
| We did so much. | ||
| Right to try. | ||
| Right to try is a big deal. | ||
| We got right to try. | ||
| They were trying to get that for 52 years. | ||
| Somebody is terminally ill. | ||
| And hopefully there's nobody in this audience, but it does happen a lot. | ||
| They're terminally ill and they can't use our new space-age drugs and other things. | ||
| We are way ahead. | ||
| We have the greatest doctors in the world, the greatest. | ||
| Laboratories in the world, and you can't do it. | ||
| They've been trying to get that approved for 52 years. | ||
| It wasn't that easy. | ||
| The insurance companies didn't want to do it. | ||
| They didn't want the risk. | ||
| The labs didn't want to do it because if it didn't work, people are pretty far down the line toward death. | ||
| They didn't want to do it. | ||
| The doctors didn't want to have it on their records, so I got everybody into an office. | ||
| Fifty-two years they tried. | ||
| Sounds simple, but it's not. | ||
| And I got them to agree that somebody that needs it will, instead of going to Asia or Europe or someplace, or if you have no money going home and dying, just die. | ||
| We got them to sign an agreement, agree to it, where they're not going to sue anybody. | ||
| They're going to get all of this stuff. | ||
| They're going to get it really fast. | ||
| And what's happened is we're saving thousands and thousands of lives. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| Right to try. | ||
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It's a great feeling. | |
| Under our leadership, the United States will be respected again. | ||
| No nation will question our power. | ||
| No enemy will doubt our might. | ||
| Our borders will be totally secure. | ||
| Our economy will soar. | ||
| We will return law and order to our streets, patriotism to our schools, and importantly, we will restore peace, stability, and harmony all throughout the world. | ||
| But to achieve this future, we must first rescue our nation from failed and even incompetent leadership. | ||
| We have totally incompetent leadership. | ||
| This will be the most important election in the history of our country. | ||
| Under the current administration, we are indeed a nation in decline. | ||
| We have an inflation crisis that is making life unaffordable, ravaging the incomes of working and low-income families, and crushing, just simply crushing our people like never before. | ||
| They've never seen anything like it. | ||
| We also have an illegal immigration crisis, and it's taking place right now as we sit here in this beautiful arena. | ||
| It's a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease, and destruction to communities all across our land. | ||
| Nobody has ever seen anything like it. | ||
| Then there's an international crisis, the likes of which The world has seldom been part of. | ||
| Nobody can believe what's happening. | ||
| War is now raging in Europe and the Middle East. | ||
| A growing specter of conflict hangs over Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, and all of Asia. | ||
| And our planet is teetering on the edge of World War III. | ||
| And this will be a war like no other war because of weaponry. | ||
| The weapons are no longer army tanks going back and forth, shooting at each other. | ||
| These weapons are obliteration. | ||
| It's time for a change. | ||
| This administration can't come close to solving the problems. | ||
| We're dealing with very tough, very fierce people. | ||
| They're fierce people. | ||
| And we don't have fierce people. | ||
| We have people that are a lot less than fierce, except when it comes to cheating on elections and a couple of other things. | ||
| Then they're fierce. | ||
| Then they're fierce. | ||
| So tonight, I make this pledge to the Great people of America, I will end the devastating inflation crisis immediately, bring down interest rates, and lower the cost of energy. | ||
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We will drill, baby, drill. | |
| Can you believe what they're doing? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| But by doing that, we will lead a large-scale decline in prices. | ||
| Prices will start to come down. | ||
| Energy raised it. | ||
| They took our energy policies and destroyed them. | ||
| Then they immediately went back to them. | ||
| But by that time, So much was lost. | ||
| But we will do it at levels that nobody has ever seen before. | ||
| And we'll end lots of different things. | ||
| We'll start paying off debt and start lowering taxes even further. | ||
| We gave you the largest tax cut. | ||
| We'll do it more. | ||
| You know, people don't realize I brought taxes way down, way, way down, and yet we took in more revenues the following year than we did when the tax rate was much higher. | ||
| Most people said, how did you do that? | ||
| Because it was incentive. | ||
| Everybody was coming to the country. | ||
| They were bringing back billions and billions of dollars into our country. | ||
| The companies made it impossible to bring it back. | ||
| The tax rate was too high. | ||
| And the legal complications were far too great. | ||
| I changed both of them, and hundreds of billions of dollars by Apple and so many other companies were brought back into our nation. | ||
| And we had an economy the likes of which nobody, no nation had ever seen. | ||
| China, we were beating them at levels that were incredible. | ||
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And they know it. | |
| They know it. | ||
| We'll do it again, but we'll do it even better. | ||
| I will end the illegal immigration crisis by closing our border and finishing the wall, most of which I've already built. | ||
| On the wall, we were dealing with a very difficult Congress. | ||
| And I said, oh, that's OK. | ||
| We won't go to Congress. | ||
| I call it an invasion. | ||
| We gave our military almost $800 billion. | ||
| I said, I'm going to take a little of that money, because this is an invasion. | ||
| And we built most of the wall. | ||
| It was already built. | ||
| And we built it through using the funds, because what's better than that? | ||
| We have to stop the invasion into our country that's killing hundreds of thousands of people a year. | ||
| We're not going to let that happen. | ||
| I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created, including the horrible war with Russia and Ukraine, which would have never happened if I was president, and the war caused by the attack on Israel Which would have never happened if I was president. | ||
| Iran was broke. | ||
| Iran had no money. | ||
| Now Iran has $250 billion. | ||
| They made it all over the last two and a half years. | ||
| They were broke. | ||
| I watched the other day on a show called Deface the Nation. | ||
| Has anyone seen it? | ||
| And they had a congressman who was a Democrat say, well, whether you like him or not, Iran was broke dealing with Trump. | ||
| I told China and other countries, if you buy from Iran, we will not let you do any business in this country, and we will put tariffs on every product you do send in of 100% or more. | ||
| And they said to me, well, I think that's about it. | ||
| They weren't going to buy any oil. | ||
| And they were ready to make a deal. | ||
| Iran was going to make a deal with us. | ||
| And then we had that horrible, horrible result that we'll never let happen again. | ||
| The election result, we're never going to let that happen again. | ||
| They used COVID to cheat. | ||
| We're never going to let it happen again. | ||
| And they took off all the sanctions, and they did everything possible for Iran. | ||
| And now Iran is very close to having a nuclear weapon, which would have never happened. | ||
| This is a shame what this administration, the damage that this administration has done. | ||
| And I say it often. | ||
| If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of the United States, think of it, the 10 worst, added them up, they will not have done the damage that Biden has done. | ||
| I'm only going to use the term once. | ||
| Biden. | ||
| I'm not going to use the name anymore. | ||
| Just one time. | ||
| The damage that he's done to this country is unthinkable. | ||
| It's unthinkable. | ||
| Together we will restore vision, strength, competence, and We're going to have a thing called common sense making most of our decisions, actually. | ||
| It's all common sense. | ||
| Just a few short years ago, under my presidency, we had the most secure border and best economy in the history of our country, in the history of the world. | ||
| We had the greatest economy in the history of the world. | ||
| We had never done anything like it. | ||
| We were beating every country, including China, by leaps and bounds. | ||
| Nobody had seen anything like it. | ||
| We had no inflation. | ||
| Soaring incomes were going. | ||
| Nobody can believe it. | ||
| You can't believe what happened four years ago is happening now in reverse. | ||
| And the world was at peace. | ||
| Inflation has been a killer for our country. | ||
| No matter what you make it, it doesn't matter because inflation is eating you alive. | ||
| People that were putting away money. | ||
| They were making great wages, the highest they've ever made, but they were putting away a lot of money. | ||
| Now they are just being destroyed. | ||
| They're not putting away anything. | ||
| They're barely living. | ||
| They're going into savings accounts. | ||
| They're taking out their money to live because of inflation. | ||
| Inflation, remember, it's called a country buster. | ||
| You can go back to Germany from A hundred years ago, you can go back to any country that suffered great inflation. | ||
| We've suffered the worst inflation we've ever had. | ||
| But go back and see what's happened to those countries. | ||
| We've had the worst inflation we've ever had under this person. | ||
| But in less than four years, our opponents have turned incredible success into unparalleled tragedy and failure. | ||
| It's been a tremendous failure. | ||
| Today, our cities are flooded with illegal aliens. | ||
| Americans are being squeezed out of the labor force, and their jobs are taken. | ||
| By the way, you know who's taking the jobs? | ||
| The jobs that are created? | ||
| 107% of those jobs are taken by illegal aliens. | ||
| And you know who's being hurt the most by millions of people pouring into our country? | ||
| The black population and the Hispanic population, because they're taking the jobs from our black population, our Hispanic population, and they're also taking them from unions. | ||
| The unions are suffering because of it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I like you, too. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Inflation has wiped out the life savings of our citizens and forced the middle class into a state of depression and despair. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| It's despair and depression. | ||
| We cannot and will not let this continue. | ||
| Less than four years ago, we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again. | ||
| And we're going to be a great nation again. | ||
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| With proper leadership, every disaster we are now enduring will be fixed, and it will be fixed very, very quickly. | ||
| So tonight, whether you've supported me in the past or not, I hope you will support me in the future because I will bring back the American Dream. | ||
| That's what we're going to do. | ||
| You don't even hear about the American Dream anymore. | ||
| With great humility, I am asking you to be excited about the future of our country. | ||
| Be excited. | ||
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Be excited. | |
| And by the way, the news reports -- oh, look at all of those big networks. | ||
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Look at them. | |
| They're all here. | ||
| But every one of them has said this could be the most organized, best run, and most enthusiastic convention of either party that they have ever seen. | ||
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every single one. | |
| And it's true. | ||
| It's true. | ||
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And there's love in the room. | |
| There's great love in the room. | ||
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So I better finish strong. | |
| Otherwise, we'll blow it. | ||
| And we can't let that happen. | ||
| No, this was great. | ||
| All of the great people that spoke, and everybody hit a home run. | ||
| I mean, there's not one that I can think of where I said, oh, gee, that wasn't great. | ||
| Every single person. | ||
| I refuse to be the only one. | ||
| Don't do that to me. | ||
| They're already getting ready. | ||
| See, I gave him an idea. | ||
| No, we had a — this was a great convention. | ||
| This was — I think we're actually going to go home and miss it. | ||
| You know, usually with a — first of all, look at these crowds. | ||
| You'd never have this at a convention. | ||
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Look at these guys. | |
| It's about love. | ||
| This week, the entire Republican Party has formally adopted an agenda for America's renewal. | ||
| And you saw that agenda. | ||
| And it's very short compared to the long, boring, meaningless agendas of the past, including the Democrats. | ||
| They write these things that are hundreds of pages long, and they never read them after they're done. | ||
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In their case, fortunately, they don't read them because they're pretty bad. | |
| It's a series of bold promises that we will swiftly implement when you give us a Republican House. | ||
| And, Mr. Speaker, thank you very much. | ||
| We have our great Speaker of the House with us tonight, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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| A Republican Senate. | ||
| We have many senators here. | ||
| And send me back to our beautiful White House just a few short months from now. | ||
| We're talking about just months. | ||
| It can't come fast enough. | ||
| We have to get it done. | ||
| First, we must get economic relief to our citizens. | ||
| Starting on day one, we will drive down prices and make America affordable again. | ||
| We have to make it affordable. | ||
| It's not affordable. | ||
| People can't live like this. | ||
| Under this administration, Our current administration, groceries are up 57 percent. | ||
| Gasoline is up 60 and 70 percent. | ||
| Mortgage rates have quadrupled. | ||
| And the fact is, it doesn't matter what they are because you can't get the money anywhere. | ||
| You can't buy houses. | ||
| Young people can't get any financing to buy a house. | ||
| The total household costs have increased an average of $28,000 per family under this administration. | ||
| Republicans have a plan to bring down prices and bring them down very, very rapidly by slashing energy costs. | ||
| We will, in turn, reduce the cost of transportation, manufacturing, and all household goods. | ||
| So much starts with energy. | ||
| And remember, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country by far. | ||
| We are a nation that has the opportunity to make an absolute fortune with its energy. | ||
| We have it, and China does it. | ||
| Under the Trump administration, just three and a half years ago, we were energy independent. | ||
| But soon, we will actually be better than that. | ||
| We will be energy dominant and supply not only ourselves, but we will supply the rest of the world. | ||
| With numbers that nobody has ever seen, and we will reduce our debt, $36 trillion. | ||
| We will start reducing that, and we will also reduce your taxes still further. | ||
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| And by the way, they want to raise your taxes. | ||
| Four times. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| In all my life, I grew up watching politicians. | ||
| I always loved politics, I guess. | ||
| I was on the other side. | ||
| And they were always talking about, we will give you a tax cut. | ||
| We will give you a tax cut. | ||
| My whole life, I was watching, I will give you a tax cut. | ||
| Right, Mr. Congressman? | ||
| That's all they talked about. | ||
| This is the only administration that said, we're going to raise your taxes by four times what you're paying now. | ||
| And people are supposed to vote for them? | ||
| I've never heard it. | ||
| You're paying too much. | ||
| We're going to reduce your taxes still further. | ||
| We gave you the biggest one, as I said. | ||
| We're going to give you more, and it's going to lead to tremendous growth. | ||
| We want growth in our country. | ||
| That's what's going to pay off our debt. | ||
| And next, we will end the ridiculous and actually incredible waste of taxpayer dollars that is fueling the inflation crisis. | ||
| They spent trillions of dollars on things having to do with the Green New Scam. | ||
| It's a scam. | ||
| And that's caused tremendous inflationary pressures in addition to the cost of energy. | ||
| And all of the trillions of dollars that are sitting there not yet spent, we will redirect that money for important projects like roads, bridges, dams, and we will not allow it to be spent on meaningless green new scam ideas. | ||
| And I will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one. . | ||
| Thereby saving the U.S. | ||
| auto industry from complete obliteration, which is happening right now, and saving U.S. | ||
| customers thousands and thousands of dollars per car. | ||
| And right now, as we speak, large factories, just started, are being built across the border in Mexico. | ||
| So, with all the other things happening on our border, And they're being built by China to make cars and to sell them into our country. | ||
| No tax, no anything. | ||
| The United Autoworkers ought to be ashamed for allowing this to happen. | ||
| And the leader of the United Autoworkers should be fired immediately. | ||
| and every single autoworker, union and non-union, should be voting for Donald Trump because we're going to bring back car manufacturing and we're going to bring it back fast. | ||
| They're building some of the largest auto plants anywhere in the world. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| In the world. | ||
| And we're going to bring it back. | ||
| We're going to make them. | ||
| We don't mind that happening, but those plants are going to be built in the United States and our people are going to man those plants. | ||
| And if they don't agree with us, we'll put a tariff of approximately 100 to 200 percent on each car and they will be unsellable in the United States. | ||
| We have long been taken advantage of by other countries. | ||
| And think of it. | ||
| Oftentimes, these other countries are considered so-called allies. | ||
| They've taken advantage of us for years. | ||
| We lose jobs, we lose revenue, and they gain everything and wipe out our businesses, wipe out our people. | ||
| I stopped it. | ||
| For four years, I stopped it. | ||
| And we're really ready to make changes like nobody had seen before. | ||
| And remember, A USMCA. | ||
| I got rid of NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever made, and replaced it with USMCA, which is, they say, the best trade deal ever made. | ||
| Actually, probably the best trade deal was the deal I made with China, where they buy $50 billion worth of our product. | ||
| They were buying nothing. | ||
| They buy $50 billion worth. | ||
| They had to. | ||
| But I don't even talk about it because of COVID. | ||
| but I don't even mention it, frankly, because of what happened with the China virus. | ||
| We will not let countries come in, take our jobs, and plunder our nations. | ||
| They come and do that. | ||
| They plunder our nation. | ||
| The way they will sell their product in America is to build it in America. | ||
| Very simple. | ||
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build it in America and only in America. USA! USA! USA! USA! | |
| USA! | ||
| And this very simple formula in Congress has to go along with us, and they will. | ||
| This very simple formula will create massive numbers of jobs. | ||
| We will take over the auto industry again, and many, many hundreds of thousands of jobs. | ||
| We lost so many jobs over the years. | ||
| If you go back 20, 25 years, they've stolen going to China and Mexico about 68 percent of our auto industry manufacturing jobs. | ||
| We're going to get them all back. | ||
| We're going to get them all back, every one of them. | ||
| At the center of our plan for economic relief are massive tax cuts for workers that include something else that's turned out to be very popular, actually. | ||
| Here it's very popular, in this building and all those hotels that I saw that are so nice. | ||
| I'm staying in a nice one. | ||
| It's called no tax on tips. | ||
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| No tax on this. | ||
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| Hello. | ||
| I got that I had dinner recently in Nevada, where we're leading by about 14 points. | ||
| Hello. | ||
| I'll see you there very soon, everybody. | ||
| We're having dinner at a beautiful restaurant. | ||
| What's wrong with the audio? | ||
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We're having an issue? | |
| And it's a great building, and the waitress comes over. | ||
| How's everything going? | ||
| Really nice person. | ||
| How's everything? | ||
| Oh, sir, it's so tough. | ||
| The government's after me all the time on tips, tips, tips. | ||
| I said, well, they give you cash. | ||
| Would they be able to find him? | ||
| She said, actually, I didn't know this. | ||
| She said, very little cash is given. | ||
| It's all put right on the check. | ||
| And they come in and they take so much of our money. | ||
| It's just ridiculous. | ||
| And they don't believe anything we say. | ||
| And they've just hired, as you know, 88,000 agents to go after him even more. | ||
| And I said, this shows the level of my — you know, most people go out, they hire consultants, they're paying millions of dollars. | ||
| But I said to her, let me just ask you a question. | ||
| Would you be happy if you had no tax on tips? | ||
| She said, what a great idea. | ||
| I got my information from a very smart waitress. | ||
| That's better than spending millions of dollars. | ||
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And everybody — everybody loves it. | |
| Waitresses, and caddies, and drivers, and everybody. | ||
| It's a large, large group of people that are being really hurt badly. | ||
| They make money, let them keep their money. | ||
| I'm going to protect Social Security and Medicare. | ||
| Democrats are going to destroy Social Security and Medicare because all of these people, by the millions they're coming in, they're going to be on Social Security and Medicare and other things, and you're not able to afford it. | ||
| They are destroying your Social Security and your Medicare. | ||
| Under my plan, incomes will skyrocket, inflation will vanish completely, jobs will come roaring back, and the middle class will prosper like never, ever before, and we're going to do it very rapidly. and we're going to do it very rapidly. | ||
| But no hope or dream we have for America can succeed unless we stop the election. | ||
| Illegal immigrant invasion, the worst that's ever been seen anywhere in the world. | ||
| There's never been an invasion like this anywhere. | ||
| Third world countries would fight with sticks and stones not to let this happen. | ||
| The invasion at our southern border, we will stop it and we will stop it quickly. | ||
| You heard Tom Holman yesterday. | ||
| Tom Holman, put him in charge and just sit back and watch. | ||
| Brandon Judd. | ||
| The Border Patrol is incredible. | ||
| These guys, you know, really their job is a lot easier if they don't have to do anything, but they want to. | ||
| They're patriots. | ||
| Brandon Judd, Border Patrol, ICE. | ||
| ICE goes out. | ||
| You have to see what ICE does with MS-13. | ||
| These are probably the worst gang, and ICE goes in there. | ||
| And I know a lot of people in these rows here, and they're very tough people, but they don't want to do this job. | ||
| They'll go into a pack of MS-13 killers. | ||
| They're the worst — probably the worst gangs in the world. | ||
| And we have thousands of them. | ||
| I moved thousands and thousands out in my four years. | ||
| We moved them out, and it was a pleasure. | ||
| But ICE would go right into a pack of these killers. | ||
| And you see fists flying. | ||
| You see everything flying. | ||
| And then they take them. | ||
| They put them in a paddy wagon. | ||
| They take them back and they get them out of our country. | ||
| And the other countries weren't accepting them back, and I called up and I said, tell them that we're not giving them economic aid anymore. | ||
| And the next day I got calls from all of these countries that were terminated. | ||
| Billions of dollars we spend on economic aid to countries that does us, frankly, no good. | ||
| And the next day, I was called by everybody. | ||
| I couldn't take all the calls. | ||
| Sir, sir, what's the problem? | ||
| I said, you won't take your killers back that you sent in caravans into America. | ||
| You won't take them back. | ||
| Well, sir, if you'd like us to, we would give very serious consideration to doing that. | ||
| And within 24 hours, they were being taken back. | ||
| For years and years, when I first came in, They said President Obama tried to get them to go back, and they wouldn't accept him. | ||
| They put planes on the runway so you couldn't leave the plane. | ||
| They closed the roads so you couldn't take the buses. | ||
| It'd all have to turn back. | ||
| As soon as they said, no more economic aid of any kind to any country that does that, they called back and they said, sir, it would be our great honor to take MS-13. | ||
| We love them very much. | ||
| We love them very much, sir. | ||
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| At the heart of the Republican platform is our pledge to end this border nightmare and fully restore the sacred and sovereign borders of the United States of America. | ||
| And we're going to do that on day one. | ||
| That means two things on day one, right? | ||
| Drill baby drill and close our borders. | ||
| And by the way, and I think everybody as a Republican, as a patriot in this room, and most Democrats, we want people to come into our country, but we want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally. | ||
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| Less than four years ago, I handed this administration the strongest border in American history. | ||
| But you can see on the chart that saved my life. | ||
| That was the chart that saved my life. | ||
| I said, look at it. | ||
| I'm so proud of it. | ||
| I think it's one of the greatest. | ||
| It was done by the Border Patrol. | ||
| One of the greatest charts I've ever seen. | ||
| It showed everything just like that. | ||
| You know the chart. | ||
| Oh, there it is. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
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| Last time I put up that chart, I never really got to look at it. | ||
| But without that chart, I would not be here today. | ||
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Never got to look at it. | |
| I said, you got to see this chart. | ||
| I was so proud of it. | ||
| And by the time I got to there, I never got to see it that day. | ||
| But I'm seeing it now, and I was very proud. | ||
| If you look at the arrow on the bottom, that's the lowest level. | ||
| The one on the bottom, heavy red arrow. | ||
| That's the lowest level of illegal immigrants ever to come into our country in recorded history. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| And that was my last week in office. | ||
| And then you see what happened after I left. | ||
| Look at the rest. | ||
| And if you go out a little bit further, it's getting to be a little bit old, but I love it anyway, right? | ||
| But you can go much higher with those numbers. | ||
| Look what happened right after that. | ||
| The invasion began. | ||
| We had the opposite. | ||
| We stopped the invasion. | ||
| But the invasion that we stopped was peanuts by comparison to what happened after I left. | ||
| Look at what happened after I left. | ||
| They took over our country. | ||
| We ended all catch-and-release. | ||
| We shut down asylum fraud. | ||
| We stopped human trafficking and forged historic agreements to keep illegal aliens on foreign soil. | ||
| We want them to stay on their soil. | ||
| Under the Trump administration, if you came in illegally, you were apprehended immediately, and you were deported. | ||
| You went right back. | ||
| The current administration terminated every single one of those great Trump policies that I put in place. | ||
| To seal the border. | ||
| I wanted to seal the border. | ||
| Again, come in but come in legally. | ||
| You know how unfair it is? | ||
| So many people, hundreds of thousands of people, have been working for years to come into our country. | ||
| And now they see these people pour into our country at levels that are unprecedented. | ||
| So unfair. | ||
| And we're not going to do it. | ||
| We're not going to stand for it. | ||
| They suspended Wall construction ended. | ||
| Remain in Mexico. | ||
| We had a policy. | ||
| Remain in Mexico. | ||
| You think that was easy to get from the Mexican government? | ||
| But I said, you must give it to us. | ||
| If you don't give it to us, there will be repercussions. | ||
| And they gave it to us. | ||
| But not easy. | ||
| Canceled our safe third agreements. | ||
| Demolished Title 42, implemented nationwide catch-and-release. | ||
| That's catch-and-release where we catch them and release them into our country. | ||
| I had, we catch them and release them into Mexico. | ||
| It was a slight difference. | ||
| And took 93, this is the previous administration, 93 executive actions to throw open our border to the world. | ||
| The entire world is pouring into our country because of this. | ||
| Very foolish administration. | ||
| The greatest invasion in history is taking place right here in our country. | ||
| They are coming in from every corner of the earth, not just from South America, but from Africa, Asia, the Middle East. | ||
| They're coming from everywhere. | ||
| They're coming at levels that we've never seen before. | ||
| It is an invasion indeed, and this administration does absolutely nothing to stop them. | ||
| They're coming from prisons. | ||
| They're coming from jails. | ||
| They're coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. | ||
| You know, the press is always on me because I say this. | ||
| Has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs? | ||
| The late, great Hannibal Lecter. | ||
| He'd love to have you for dinner. | ||
| That's insane asylums. | ||
| They're emptying out their insane asylums. | ||
| And terrorists are coming in at numbers that we've never seen before. | ||
| Bad things are going to happen. | ||
| Meanwhile, our crime rate is going up while crime statistics all over the world are going down because they're taking their criminals and they're putting them into our country. | ||
| A certain country, and I happen to like the president of that country very much, but he's been getting great publicity because he's a wonderful Shepherd of the country. | ||
| He says how well the country is doing because their crime rate is down. | ||
| And he said he's training all of these rough people. | ||
| They're rough, rough, rough. | ||
| He's training them. | ||
| And I've been reading about this for two years. | ||
| I think, oh, that's wonderful. | ||
| Let's take a look at it. | ||
| But then I realized he's not training them. | ||
| He's sending all of his criminals, his drug dealers, his people that are in jails, he's sending them all to the United States. | ||
| And he's different in that he doesn't say that. | ||
| He's trying to convince everybody what a wonderful job he does in running the country. | ||
| Well, he doesn't do a wonderful job. | ||
| And by the way, if I ran one of the countries, many countries, many, many countries from all over, I would be worse than any of them. | ||
| I would have had the place totally emptied out already. | ||
| But we've become a dumping ground for the rest of the world, which is laughing at us. | ||
| They think we're stupid. | ||
| And they can't believe that they're getting away with what they're getting away with, but they're not going to be getting away with it for long. | ||
| That's what I can tell you. | ||
| In Venezuela, Caracas, high crime, high crime. | ||
| Caracas, Venezuela. | ||
| Really a dangerous place, but not anymore. | ||
| Because in Venezuela, crime is down 72%. | ||
| In fact, if they would ever win this election, I hate to even say that, we will have our next Republican convention in Venezuela because it will be safe. | ||
| Our cities will be so unsafe, we won't be able. | ||
| We will not be able to have it there in El Salvador. | ||
| Murders are down by 70%. | ||
| Why are they down? | ||
| Now, he would have you convinced that because he's trained murderers to be wonderful people. | ||
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| They're down because they're sending their murderers to the United States of America. | ||
| This is going to be very bad. | ||
| And bad things are going to happen, and you're seeing it happen all the time. | ||
| That's why, to keep our families safe, the Republican platform promises to launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country. | ||
| Even larger than that of President Dwight D. Eisenhower from many years ago. | ||
| You know, he was a moderate, but he believed very strongly in borders. | ||
| He had the largest deportation operation we've ever had. | ||
| Just recently, I spoke to the grieving mother of Jocelyn Nunn-Gary, a wonderful woman, a precious 12-year-old girl from Houston who Last month, was tied up, assaulted, and strangled to death after walking to the convenience store just a block away from her house. | ||
| Her body was dumped near the side of the road in a shallow creek found by Some onlookers who couldn't believe what they had witnessed. | ||
| Charged with Jocelyn's heinous murder are two illegal aliens from Venezuela who came across our border, were in custody, and were then released into the country by this horrible, horrible administration that we have right now. | ||
| I also met recently with the heartbroken mother and sister of Rachel Moran. | ||
| Rachel was a 37-year-old mom of five beautiful children who was brutally raped and murdered while out on a run. | ||
| She wanted to keep herself in good shape. | ||
| It was very important to her. | ||
| She was murdered. | ||
| The monster responsible first killed another woman in El Salvador before he was led into America by the White House. | ||
| This White House let them in. | ||
| He then attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in Los Angeles before murdering Rachel in Maryland. | ||
| Traveled all throughout the country, doing tremendous damage. | ||
| Rachel's mother will never be the same. | ||
| I spent time with her. | ||
| She will never be the same. | ||
| I've also met with the wonderful family of Lakin Riley, the brilliant 22-year-old nursing student. | ||
| She was so proud of being first in her class, who was out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia when she was assaulted, beaten, and horrifically killed. | ||
| Yet another American life was stolen by a criminal alien set free by this administration. | ||
| And these were incredible people we're talking about. | ||
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These were incredible people who died. | |
| Tonight, America, this is my vow. | ||
| I will not let these killers and criminals into our country. | ||
| I will keep our sons and daughters safe, As we bring security to our streets, we will help bring stability to the world. | ||
| I was the first president in modern times to start no new wars. | ||
| You know, we were the toughest, we were the most respected. | ||
| And you saw this. | ||
| Hungry, strong country, run by a very powerful, tough leader. | ||
| He's a tough guy. | ||
| Press doesn't like him because he's tough. | ||
| And he came out recently. | ||
| They were asking him at an interview. | ||
| The whole world is exploding. | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary. | ||
| Very tough man. | ||
| He said, I don't want people coming into my country and blowing up our shopping centers and killing people. | ||
| But they said to him, tell us what's going wrong, what's happening, what is it? | ||
| He said, there's only one way you're going to solve it. | ||
| You got to bring President Trump back to the United States because he kept everybody at bay. | ||
| He used a word I wouldn't use because I can't use that word. | ||
| Because you'd say it was braggadocious, the press would say. | ||
| He was a braggart. | ||
| I'm not a braggart. | ||
| But Viktor Orban said it. | ||
| He said Russia was afraid of him. | ||
| China was afraid of him. | ||
| Everybody was afraid of him. | ||
| Nothing was going to happen. | ||
| The whole world was at peace. | ||
| And now the world is blowing up around us. | ||
| All of these things that you read about were not going to happen. | ||
| Under President Bush, Russia invaded Georgia. | ||
| Under President Obama, Russia took Crimea. | ||
| Under the current administration, Russia is after all of Ukraine. | ||
| Under President Trump, Russia took nothing. | ||
| We defeated 100% of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Something that was said to take five years, sir. | ||
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It'll take five years, sir. | |
| We did it in a matter of a couple of months. | ||
| We have a great military. | ||
| Our military is not woke. | ||
| It's just some of the fools on top that are woke. | ||
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I got along very well. | |
| North Korea, Kim Jong-un, I got along very well with him. | ||
| The press hated when I said that. | ||
| How could you get along with him? | ||
| Well, you know, it's nice to get along with somebody who has a lot of nuclear weapons, or otherwise, isn't it? | ||
| See, in the old days, you'd say, that's a wonderful thing. | ||
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Now they say, how could you possibly do that? | |
| But no, I got along with him, and we stopped the missile launches from North Korea. | ||
| Now North Korea is acting up again, but when we get back, I get along with him. | ||
| He'd like to see me back, too. | ||
| I think he misses me, if you want to know the truth. | ||
| Our opponents inherited a world at peace and turned it into a planet of war. | ||
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We're in a planet of war. | |
| Look at that attack on Israel. | ||
| Look at what's happening. | ||
| With Ukraine, the cities are just bombed out. | ||
| How can people live like that where buildings, massive buildings, are falling to the ground? | ||
| It began to unravel with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the worst humiliation in the history of our country. | ||
| We have never had a humiliation like that. | ||
| Thirteen heroic U.S. | ||
| service members were tragically and needlessly killed. | ||
| Forty-five others were horrifically wounded. | ||
| Nobody ever talks about them. | ||
| No arms, no legs, face explosions, horrifically, horrifically wounded. | ||
| And by the way, we have a man in this room who's running for the U.S. | ||
| Senate from a great state, Nevada, named Sam Brown, who paid the ultimate price. | ||
| Thank you, Sam. | ||
| Thank you, Sam. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| He paid the biggest price probably ever paid by anybody that is running for office, and I think he's going to do great. | ||
| He's running against a person that is not good, not respected, a total lightweight. | ||
| But Sam, I think, paid — really, we were talking about it with some of the senators that are working so hard for Sam. | ||
| But he paid the biggest price of any senator ever to run for the Senate. | ||
| I don't think anybody has ever heard what he did. | ||
| He was a real hero, a really great person. | ||
| And he's running, and I hope that everybody gets out and votes for Sam Brown. | ||
| And we also left behind $85 billion worth of military equipment, along with many American citizens were left behind. | ||
| Many, many American citizens, emboldened by that disaster, Russia invaded Ukraine. | ||
| They saw this group of people that were incompetent. | ||
| We took the soldiers out first. | ||
| No, no, we're going to take the soldiers out second. | ||
| If they would have followed my plan, we had a great plan. | ||
| But the plan only kicked in if they did everything perfectly. | ||
| And they weren't doing things perfectly, so we said it doesn't matter. | ||
| Kick in. | ||
| You know, 18 months in Afghanistan, we didn't have one — they were killing them left and right, snipers. | ||
| And I spoke to the head of the Taliban. | ||
| You've heard this story. | ||
| Abdul — still there, still the head of the Taliban. | ||
| The press got on me. | ||
| Why would you speak to him? | ||
| I said, because that's where the killing is. | ||
| I don't have to speak to somebody that has nothing to do with it. | ||
| And I told him, don't ever do that. | ||
| Don't ever do that again. | ||
| Don't ever, ever do that again. | ||
| You're going to stop. | ||
| Because during the Obama administration, many great people and soldiers, a lot of soldiers, were being killed from long distance. | ||
| I said, "If you keep doing that, you're going to be hit harder than anybody's ever been hit by a country before." And he said, "I understand, Your Excellency. | ||
| He called me Your Excellency. | ||
| I wonder if he calls the other guy Your Excellency. | ||
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I doubt it. | |
| The other guy gave him everything. | ||
| I mean, what kind of a deal was that? | ||
| He walked out, gave him everything. | ||
| Do you know that, right now, Afghanistan is one of the largest sellers of weapons in the world? | ||
| They're selling the brand-new, beautiful weapons that we gave them. | ||
| But think of it. | ||
| He actually said to me, but why, but why do you? | ||
| Show me a picture of my home. | ||
| I said, you'll have to ask your people or one of your wives. | ||
| But he could figure it out, and for 18 months, We had not one attack on an American soldier by the Taliban. | ||
| 18. | ||
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And then we had that horrible day where soldiers were killed. | |
| I was not there because of a ridiculous election. | ||
| But we had that horrible attack. | ||
| And they also gave up Bagram, one of the biggest bases anywhere in the world — air bases anywhere in the world, the longest runways, the most powerful, hardened, thickened runways. | ||
| We gave it up. | ||
| And I liked it, not because of Afghanistan. | ||
| I liked it because of China. | ||
| It's one hour away from where China makes their nuclear weapons. | ||
| And you know who has it now? | ||
| China has it now. | ||
| We were keeping that. | ||
| And now China is likewise circling Taiwan, and Russian warships and nuclear submarines are operating 60 miles off the coast in Cuba. | ||
| Do you know that? | ||
| The press refuses to write about it. | ||
| If that were me running this country and we had nuclear submarines in Cuba, I will tell you that the headlines every day would be, what's wrong with our president? | ||
| You don't even hear this. | ||
| You're not hearing about this. | ||
| Russia has nuclear submarines and warships 60 miles away, Mr. Congressman. | ||
| From Miami, by the way, happens to be here. | ||
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| In Cuba. | ||
| That would not be stood for if it were somebody else. | ||
| They don't want to mention it, but now maybe they will. | ||
| And the entire world, I tell you this, we want our hostages back. | ||
| And they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price. | ||
| With our victory in November, the years of war, weakness, and chaos will be over. | ||
| I don't have wars. | ||
| I had no wars other than ISIS, which I defeated, but that was a war that was started. | ||
| We had no wars. | ||
| I could stop wars with a telephone call. | ||
| I could stop wars with just a telephone call. | ||
| If properly stated, it would never start. | ||
| We will replenish our military and build an Iron Dome missile defense system to ensure that no enemy can strike our homeland. | ||
| And this great Iron Dome will be built entirely in the USA. | ||
| We're going to build it in the USA. | ||
| And Wisconsin — Wisconsin, just like I gave you that massive ship contract — and you're doing a very nice job, Governor, right? | ||
| Thank you, Governor. | ||
| And they're doing a great job. | ||
| In fact, I had a little design change, and we gave them a tremendous for essentially what we used to call destroyers. | ||
| These are now the most beautiful. | ||
| They look like yachts. | ||
| I said, we have to take the bow, and we have to make it a little nicer and a little point at the top instead of a flat nose. | ||
| And the people at the shipyard said, this guy sort of knows what he's doing. | ||
| We have the most beautiful ships, right, Governor? | ||
| And everybody's sitting over there. | ||
| And it was a big contract that everybody wanted. | ||
| I gave it to Wisconsin. | ||
| But we're going to have a lot of that built right here in the state of Wisconsin and all other states. | ||
| Israel has an Iron Dome. | ||
| They have a missile defense system. | ||
| 342 missiles were shot into Israel, and only one got through a little bit. | ||
| It was badly wounded. | ||
| It fell to the ground. | ||
| But most of them are. | ||
| And Ronald Reagan wanted this many years ago, but we really didn't have the technology many years ago. | ||
| Remember, they called it Starship, Spaceship. | ||
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Star Wars. | |
| Anything to mock him. | ||
| But he was a very good president. | ||
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Very, very good. | |
| But now we have unbelievable technology. | ||
| And why should other countries have this and we don't? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| We're going to build an Iron Dome over our country, and we're going to be sure that nothing can come and harm our people. | ||
| And again, from an economic development standpoint, we're going to make it all right here. | ||
| No more sending it out to other countries in order to help. | ||
| It's America first. | ||
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America first. | |
| We will unleash the power of American innovation, and as we do, we will soon be on the verge of finding the cures to cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and many other diseases. | ||
| We're going to get to the bottom of it. | ||
| You remember this gentleman that I don't want to mention other than one time I had to, because when you say you're the 10 worst, I had to do it. | ||
| I didn't want anybody to be confused. | ||
| But this man said, we're going to find a cure to cancer. | ||
| Nothing happened. | ||
| We're going to get to the cure for cancer and Alzheimer's and so many other things. | ||
| We're so close to doing something great. | ||
| But we need a leader that will let it be done. | ||
| We will not have men playing in women's sports. | ||
| That will end immediately. | ||
| And we will restore and renovate our nation's once great cities, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again. | ||
| And that includes our nation's capital, which is a horrible killing field. | ||
| So many things. | ||
| They leave from Wisconsin. | ||
| They go to look at the Washington Monument. | ||
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They end up getting stabbed, killed, or shot. | |
| We will be very soon very proud of our capital, again, Washington, D.C. | ||
| America is on the cusp of a new golden age, but we will Have the courage to seize it. | ||
| We're going to take it. | ||
| We're going to make it a current — I mean, we're going to bring this into a golden age like never seen before. | ||
| Remember this. | ||
| China wants to do it. | ||
| Japan wants to do it. | ||
| All of these countries want to do it. | ||
| We have to produce massive amounts of energy if we're going to produce the new — if you look at some of the things that have been done and some of the things that we're going to do. | ||
| AI needs tremendous — literally twice the electricity that's available now in our country. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| But instead, we're spending places where they recharge electric cars. | ||
| They built eight chargers at a certain location toward the Midwest. | ||
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Eight chargers for $9 billion. | |
| Think of them as a tank for filling up your gas. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| They spent $9 billion on eight charges, three of which didn't work. | ||
| And if you were going to do this all over our country, this crazy electric mandate, if you're going to do this all... And by the way, I'm all for electric. | ||
| They have their application. | ||
| But if somebody wants to buy a gas-powered car, gasoline-powered car, or a hybrid, they're going to be able to do it. | ||
| And we're going to make that change on day one. | ||
| So to conclude, just a few short days ago, my journey with you nearly ended. | ||
| We know that. | ||
| And yet, here we are tonight, all gathered together, talking about the future, promise, and a total renewal of a thing we love very much. | ||
| It's called America. | ||
| We live in a world of miracles. | ||
| None of us knows God's plan or where life's adventure will take us. | ||
| I want to thank Franklin Graham for being here tonight. | ||
| and he's an outstanding man. | ||
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He wrote me a note recently. | |
| I have a lot of respect for him. | ||
| Sir, I love your storytelling. | ||
| I think it's great in front of these big rallies. | ||
| But, sir, please do me one favor. | ||
| It won't make any difference. | ||
| Please don't use any foul language. | ||
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I was a little embarrassed, I said. | |
| He said, it won't make any difference. | ||
| Actually, it does. | ||
| The story's not quite as good, but I've been very good. | ||
| The story is not quite as good, to be honest. | ||
| I've got to have a little talk with Franklin, but he was great. | ||
| He was a great gentleman. | ||
| His father was so incredible. | ||
| Billy Graham. | ||
| My father used to love taking me to see Billy Graham. | ||
| My father would take me to see Billy Graham at Yankee Stadium. | ||
| He had the biggest rallies you've ever seen. | ||
| He was a good rally guy, too. | ||
| But he'd get up, and he was a fantastic guy. | ||
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My father loved Billy Graham. | |
| But I love Franklin, Graham. | ||
| I think Franklin's been fantastic, and I'm trying. | ||
| I'm working so hard to adhere to his note to me. | ||
| I'm working hard on it, Franklin. | ||
| But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on Earth is a gift from God. | ||
| We have to make the most of every day for the people and for the country that we love. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| The attacker in Pennsylvania wanted to stop our movement, but the truth is, the movement has never been about me. | ||
| It has always been about you. | ||
| It's your movement. | ||
| It's the biggest movement in the history of our country by far. | ||
| It can't be stopped. | ||
| It can't be stopped. | ||
| It has always been about the hardworking, patriotic citizens of America. | ||
| For too long, our nation has settled for too little. | ||
| We settled for too little. | ||
| We've given everything to other nations, to other people. | ||
| You have been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. | ||
| I am here tonight with the opposite message. | ||
| Your expectations are not big enough. | ||
| Not big enough. | ||
| It is time to start expecting and demanding the best leadership in the world. | ||
| Leadership that is bold, dynamic, relentless, and fearless. | ||
| We can do that. | ||
| We are Americans. | ||
| Ambition is our heritage. | ||
| Greatness is our birthright. | ||
| But as long as our energies are spent fighting each other, our destiny will remain out of reach. | ||
| And that's not acceptable. | ||
| We must instead take that energy and use it to realize our country's true potential and write our own thrilling chapter of the American story. | ||
| We can do it together. | ||
| We will unite. | ||
| We are going to come together. | ||
| and success will bring us together. | ||
| It is a story of love, sacrifice, and so many other things. | ||
| And remember the word, devotion. | ||
| It's unmatched devotion. | ||
| Our American ancestors crossed the Delaware, survived the icy winter at Valley Forge, and defeated a mighty empire to establish our cherished republic. | ||
| They fought so hard, they lost so many. | ||
| They pushed thousands and thousands of miles across a dangerous frontier, taming the wilderness to build a life and a magnificent home for their family. | ||
| They packed their families into covered wagons, trekked across Hazardous trails, scaled, towering mountains, and brave rivers and rapids to stake their claim on the wide-open, new, and very beautiful frontier. | ||
| When our way of life was threatened, American patriots marched onto the battlefield, raced into enemy strongholds, and stared down death and stared down those enemies to keep alive the flame of freedom. | ||
| At Yorktown, Gettysburg, and Midway, they joined the roll call of immortal heroes. | ||
| So many whole — just so many heroes. | ||
| So many great, great people. | ||
| And we have to cherish those people. | ||
| We can't forget those people. | ||
| but we have to cherish those people. | ||
| And building monuments to those great people is a good thing, not a bad thing. - They saved our country. | ||
| No challenge was too much. | ||
| No hardship was too great. | ||
| No enemy was too fierce. | ||
| Together, these patriots soldiered on and endured, and they prevailed because they had faith in each other, faith in their country, and above all, they had faith in their God. | ||
| Just like our ancestors, we must now come together, rise above past differences, Any disagreements have to be put aside and go forward, united as one people, one nation, pledging allegiance to one great, beautiful, I think it's so beautiful, American flag. | ||
| Tonight I ask for your partnership, for your support, and I am humbly asking for your vote. | ||
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I want your vote. | |
| It's going to make our country great again. | ||
| Every day I will strive to honor the trust you have placed in me, and I will never, ever let you down. | ||
| I promise that. | ||
| I will never let you down. | ||
| To all of the forgotten men and women who have been neglected, abandoned, and left behind, you will be forgotten no longer. | ||
| We will press forward and together we will win, win, win. | ||
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Win. | |
| Win! | ||
| We will keep striving toward our shared and glorious destiny, and we will not fail. | ||
| We will not fail. | ||
| Together, we will save this country, we will restore the republic, and we will usher in the rich and wonderful tomorrows that our people so truly deserve. | ||
| America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, freer, greater, and more united than ever before. | ||
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| And quite simply put, we will very quickly make America great again. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Thank you very much, Wisconsin. | ||
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God bless you. | |
| God bless you, Wisconsin. | ||
| And God bless the United States of America, our great country. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
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Thank you, everybody. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| That was awful. | ||
| Absolutely terrible. | ||
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Hold on. | |
| I'm coming. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| To love. | ||
| Feel sad. | ||
| Be no need. | ||
| When child's bad. | ||
| When the day comes. | ||
| And you're down. | ||
| In a river of trouble. | ||
| About to drown. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| I'm on my way. | ||
| To love. | ||
| When you get cold. | ||
| All right. - That's a cool one. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Balloons, packed convention, family on stage. | ||
| Yeah, that was really sad. | ||
| That was really weak and low energy and sad and did not meet the moment at all. | ||
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Not even remotely. | |
| Out coming. | ||
| Oh no. | ||
| Out coming. | ||
| We drive to me for satisfaction. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Call my name for quick action. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Really bad. | ||
| Really bad. | ||
| Out coming. | ||
| Oh no. | ||
| Out coming. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Out coming. | ||
| Oh no. | ||
| Out coming. | ||
| Oh no. | ||
| Out coming. | ||
| Oh no. | ||
| Out coming. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. . | ||
| That's a lot of balloons. | ||
| The MAGA movement died either on the election night in 2016 or on the inauguration in 2017. | ||
| Because everything since then has just been an unrelenting catastrophe. | ||
| It's not funny. | ||
| It's not high energy. | ||
| There's no tweets. | ||
| It's not right-wing. | ||
| It's not nationalist. | ||
| It's not new. | ||
| It's not different. | ||
| And that speech was just a, that was a regular stump speech. - that was a regular stump speech. - I wish. | ||
| He almost got killed on Saturday. | ||
| It's the Republican convention. | ||
| and he gave a stump speech. | ||
| Totally unimpressive. | ||
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to live. | |
| So this is just not the same guy, you know? | ||
| And maybe I need to accept that, and maybe everybody needs to accept that. | ||
| But this is literally, or figuratively, not the same person from 2016. | ||
| This is just a different guy. | ||
| Different movement. | ||
| So this is just a Republican candidate now. | ||
| This is not a revolution. | ||
| We're not making America great again with this. | ||
| Does anybody really believe any of that? | ||
| Does anybody honestly believe there will be a mass deportation? | ||
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No. | |
| Does anybody believe we're gonna cure cancer? | ||
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No. | |
| What we're gonna get is a tax cut. | ||
| We're gonna get a tax cut. | ||
| Inflation will be reduced. | ||
| Most likely the war in Ukraine will end. | ||
| I think that's it. | ||
| But there will be no draining of the swamp. | ||
| The swamp is back. | ||
| The swamp is coming in. | ||
| This is the swamp. | ||
| Industry and manufacturing are not coming back. | ||
| The border will not be closed. | ||
| Overall immigration will not be reduced. | ||
| Nothing will happen. | ||
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You may not like it. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| That's the truth. | ||
| So it's just overwhelmingly disappointing. | ||
| And that's why I said after the conviction, and I said after he announced he was running for re-election, that I'm not voting. | ||
| And I think that probably it's better that Trump is president than Biden, but I can't bring myself to care that much at all. | ||
| It's inarguable. | ||
| Trump will be a better president than Biden. | ||
| He will be more competent. | ||
| He will be more effective. | ||
| The economy will be better. | ||
|
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The country will improve. | |
| But that's all that can be said. | ||
| This is going to be a Republican administration. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| I'm not a Republican. | ||
| I'm not a Republican. | ||
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And I don't care that much. | |
| And I'm not going to turn out Illinois is a blue state anyway, and I don't even really care. | ||
| I'm not energetic. | ||
| I'm not enthusiastic. | ||
| And that's why I say this is a different person. | ||
| In 2016, this was a movement. | ||
| It was about change. | ||
| It was about radical reform. | ||
| That's not there anymore. | ||
| This was supposed to be the personal dictator of the executive branch that was going to personally fulfill the promises. | ||
| It didn't happen. | ||
| That's not who he is. | ||
| And he certainly isn't... If he was that then, he's not that now. | ||
| Although it's arguable that it was never going to be that way. | ||
| So... The Emperor has no clothes. | ||
| Everything that we heard this week about strength and change and energy... It's not there. | ||
| This is a weak, boring, boilerplate speech. | ||
| That black lady gave a better speech. | ||
| It was more energetic. | ||
| Ted Cruz gave a better speech. | ||
| And Ted Cruz didn't even endorse Trump in 2016. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| All that for that. | ||
| All the hype, all the fanfare, the glazing for that. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| We knew it was this. | ||
| Because this is how it's been at the rallies. | ||
| This is how it's been. | ||
| The rambling, low energy, moderated position, and all this stuff about unity. | ||
| This is another Republican. | ||
| What's the promise? | ||
| Cut the taxes, control the border, Drill for oil. | ||
| It's a Republican Party platform. | ||
| The only difference is more porn stars. | ||
| More porn stars, less Christianity. | ||
| It's a Republican platform, except the only difference between the RNC in 2012 and the RNC today is that there never would have been a porn star at the RNC in 2012. | ||
| That's the only difference. | ||
| Am I wrong? | ||
| In 2012, they talked about self-deportations on the border. | ||
| In 2012, they talked about a tax cut. | ||
| In 2012, they talked about unity. | ||
| In 2012, they had this vague patriotism, vague monotheistic religion, support for Israel, Standing up to our enemies and our adversaries. | ||
| Talking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014. | ||
| Same convention. | ||
| Only difference is, in this convention, Amber Rose was there. | ||
| That's the only difference. | ||
| So, pack it up. | ||
| Pack it up. | ||
| This is not what it used to be. | ||
| And it's disappointing. | ||
| And that's why J.D. | ||
| Vance is behind it. | ||
| That's why all the billionaires are behind it. | ||
| You don't believe me? | ||
| The liberal elite doesn't see this as a threat. | ||
| They don't see it as radical. | ||
| They don't even see it as right-wing. | ||
| They look at this as good governance. | ||
| And that's why they're supporting it. | ||
| Because that's all it represents now. | ||
| All these tech billionaires, all these former leftists, the mainstream media, JD Vance, they are no longer never Trumpers. | ||
| They no longer hate Trump. | ||
| They no longer fear Trump. | ||
| And that is because they saw what he did the first time. | ||
| And they know that there is zero threat that he is going to bring revolutionary change a second time. | ||
| Because if there was even the slightest chance of that, he would remain a pariah. | ||
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That's the truth. | |
| That's the honest-to-God truth. | ||
| Just look at the economic forecast. | ||
| The market is priced in that Trump will bring down the cost of oil, bring down market volatility, Bring down inflation. | ||
| They anticipate that defense contractors, chips, artificial intelligence, software, will increase in value. | ||
| This is what they anticipate. | ||
| And that's why they're behind it. | ||
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So... That's the brutal truth. | |
| It sucks, but it's true. | ||
| So I think the RNC just sealed the deal for me. - Yeah. | ||
| Unless something radical changes, I'm just not, I'm not going to vote. | ||
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Sorry. | |
| And you want to know something? | ||
| The RNC, nobody watches this other than Republicans, for the most part. | ||
| This doesn't get the viewership that a general election debate gets. | ||
| You know, typically the convention will give a candidate a temporary boost, but this will not be seen by 30 million people or anything. | ||
| The convention is for the base. | ||
| The convention is for the party. | ||
| And me, being a very conservative voter, me being an immigration restrictionist, being in favor of economic liberalization on some level, Me opposing foreign wars and foreign aid? | ||
| It didn't win my vote! | ||
| Nothing that was said this week won my vote. | ||
| Nothing that was said this week. | ||
| I'm not energized. | ||
| I'm not enthusiastic. | ||
| I don't like to leave the house to begin with. - Yes. | ||
| I'm not leaving my house to vote. | ||
| Vote for what? | ||
| For J.D. | ||
| Vance and Usha? | ||
| America's not an idea, it's a nation! | ||
| And anyone can come here, they just have to come legally. | ||
| Illegal immigration must be stopped because it's affecting black people the most. | ||
| What a joke. | ||
| The forgotten men and women, by the way. | ||
| Forgotten men and women, but you know who's really hurting? | ||
| Because of illegal immigration? | ||
| Black and Hispanic people. | ||
| Seriously? | ||
| What an insult. | ||
| Yeah, not the people whose country is being stolen out from under our feet. | ||
| No, it's black and Hispanic people. | ||
| Totally lame. | ||
| And this stuff about the hostages and punching Iran. | ||
| Nikki Haley was here. | ||
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Bye. | |
| I'm here and you're there. | ||
| What's the point? | ||
| So this is my honest reaction. | ||
| You can feel how you want about it. | ||
| I'm not going to discourage people from voting. | ||
| I think you should vote for Trump. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| I'm not going to. | ||
| Didn't do it for me. | ||
| I would never vote for Biden. | ||
| I don't want Biden or whoever will replace him to be the president. | ||
| We'll have to see who it is. | ||
| Maybe they'll win my vote. | ||
| I don't think so, but... I'm not trying to demoralize people. | ||
| I'm just giving you my honest assessment. | ||
| You can go out and vote. | ||
| Knock yourself out. | ||
| You support Trump. | ||
| Good for you. | ||
| I like Trump. | ||
| I think he's a good guy. | ||
| But it's clear the problem goes all the way to the top. | ||
| I don't think it's fair any longer to place the blame solely on the advisors and on the donors. | ||
| This is Trump. | ||
| This is what it's really about. | ||
| If you don't come to your senses after you get shot, it's kind of like, okay, so we're tapped. | ||
| It's tapped. | ||
| He almost died for this. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| He said tonight on the stage, I shouldn't be here. | ||
| He almost died for this. | ||
| This convention that you just watched, he personally wrote the campaign platform. | ||
| He struck the references to traditional marriage between a man and a woman. | ||
| This convention with Amber Rose, with the Democrat Jew suing Harvard for anti-Semitism, with the Israeli citizens, with J.D. | ||
| Vance and Usha. | ||
| He almost died for this. | ||
| Would you die for this? | ||
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Look at this fool. | |
| Look at this fool. | ||
| Case in fucking point. | ||
| Would you die for this? | ||
| I said in 2020 that I would die for Trump. | ||
| Not anymore. | ||
| I would not die. | ||
| I would... I would not die for this. | ||
| You wanna die for what? | ||
| A moderate reduction in illegal immigration? | ||
| You wanna die for what? | ||
| Cheaper gas prices? | ||
| Cheaper groceries? | ||
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Nice life. | |
| You wanna die so that we can create a rump state in Ukraine? | ||
| What difference does it make? | ||
| I mean, honestly, what difference does it make? | ||
| I'm not dying for this. | ||
| I'm not voting for this. | ||
| I'm not lending my credibility to this. | ||
| As a real conservative, as a real right-wing American, You could not force me to care about this. | ||
| You could not bribe me to care. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I don't even want to look at it anymore. | ||
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So, very sad. . | |
| We knew it was going to be like this, though. | ||
| Because that's how it's been. | ||
| And we'll watch. | ||
| I actually want to play the 2016 convention Once this ends I want to play some clips from the 2016 convention just to show you what I mean by Because I... Honestly, I think people forgot. | ||
| I think... I think either people are not old enough, because a lot of my audience is younger. | ||
| A lot of people weren't there for 2016, because they weren't into politics, or they weren't into Trump. | ||
| So I think a lot of people didn't watch it the first time. | ||
| And I think a lot of people just forgot. | ||
| So once this wraps, I want to play some clips from 2016, and I'll show you what I mean. | ||
| And you will see the differences night and day. | ||
| It couldn't be clearer. | ||
| It couldn't be more stark. | ||
| It's not my imagination. | ||
| My expectations are not unrealistic. | ||
| And it's not subtle. | ||
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That dress is too short. | |
| That dress is too short. | ||
| Friends, delegates, and fellow Americans, I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| You see what I mean? | ||
| We started this journey on June 16th, last year. | ||
| We, at the end. | ||
| And I say we, because we are a team, would have received almost 14 million votes, the most in the history of the Republican Party. | ||
| And that the Republican Party would get 60% more votes than it received eight years ago. | ||
| Who would have believed this? | ||
| Who would have believed this? | ||
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I want to fast forward to some of the best parts. | |
| I think this is it. | ||
| Our rigged system will begin with safety at home, which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. | ||
| There can be no prosperity without law and order. | ||
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Literally gives me chills when you watch it in 2016. | |
| On the economy, I will outline reforms to add millions of new I will outline reforms to add millions of new jobs and trillions in new wealth that can be used to rebuild America. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Tonight, we'll be opposed by some of our nation's most powerful special interests. | ||
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Listen to this. | |
| That's because these interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit. | ||
| Believe me, it's for their benefit. | ||
| Big business, elite media, and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they Thank you. | ||
| They are throwing money at her because they have total control over every single thing she does. | ||
| She is their puppet, and they pull the strings. | ||
| That is why Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change. | ||
| Never ever. | ||
| My message is that things have to change, and they have to change right now. | ||
| Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been ignored, neglected, and abandoned. | ||
| I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. | ||
| These are the forgotten men and women of our country, and they are forgotten, but they're not going to be forgotten long. | ||
| These are people who work hard, but no longer have a voice. | ||
| I am your voice. | ||
| I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. | ||
| I have no patience for injustice. | ||
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We'll finish this part. | |
| We'll go to the end, and then we'll do more analysis. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| What's going on over at the other convention, hmm? | ||
| Is it still going on? | ||
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Okay, I don't need to watch that. | |
| How great is... | ||
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How... | |
| Look at this. | ||
| See, there's no protest now. | ||
| How great are our police and how great is Cleveland? | ||
| It was like WWE. | ||
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There was so much conflict and energy. | |
| Look! | ||
| People actually protested because people actually cared. | ||
| No one cares now. | ||
| No sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. | ||
| When innocent people suffer because our political system lacks the will or the courage or the basic decency to enforce our laws, or still worse, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash I am not able to look the other way, and I won't look the other way. | ||
| And when a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, I don't know. | ||
| Puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form, and faces no consequence. | ||
| I know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. | ||
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And then I want to go to the end. | |
| The ending is so good. | ||
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So much cheering, too. | |
| Do you know, this speech, it's only like a 40-minute speech, but it's 30 minutes of applause. | ||
| That's what everybody reported the day after the convention. | ||
| It was so long because people were constantly applauding. | ||
| People were on their feet the whole time, hanging on every word. | ||
| I mean, listen to the difference in the crowd. | ||
| sign of how out of touch she really is. | ||
| We are going to ask every department head in government to provide a list of wasteful spending. | ||
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Justices of the United States Supreme Court. | |
| The replacement of our beloved Justice Scalia. | ||
| Then there's my mother Mary. | ||
| She was strong. | ||
| Great mother. | ||
| People. | ||
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Character. | |
| My brother. | ||
| You are most special. | ||
| A truly great life and business. | ||
| But now, my sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for our country To go to work for you. | ||
| It's time to deliver a victory for the American people. | ||
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We don't win anymore, but we are going to start winning again. | |
| But to do that, We must break free from the petty politics of the past. | ||
| America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. | ||
| All of the people telling you you can't have the country you want are the same people that wouldn't stand. | ||
| I mean, they said Trump doesn't have a chance of being here tonight. | ||
| Not a chance. | ||
| The same people. | ||
| Oh, we love defeating those people, don't we? | ||
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Don't we love defeating those people? | |
| Love it, love it, love it. | ||
| No longer can we rely on those same people in the media and politics who will say anything to keep our rigged system in place. | ||
| Instead, we must choose to believe in America. | ||
| History is watching us now. | ||
| We don't have much time, but history is watching. | ||
| It's waiting to see if we will rise to the occasion and if we will show the whole world that America is still free and independent and strong. | ||
| I am asking for your support tonight. | ||
| So that I can be your champion in the White House. | ||
| And I will be your champion. | ||
| My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. | ||
| It reads, I'm with her. | ||
| I choose to recite a different pledge. | ||
| My pledge reads, I'm with you, the American people. | ||
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I am your voice. | |
| So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you tonight. | ||
| I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you. | ||
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Ah, yeah, takes me back. | |
| See, that's the difference. | ||
| That's the difference ten years. | ||
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Not Biden, not Obama, not Clinton. | |
| Let's go back. | ||
| Let's just do a little quick. | ||
| And right now as we speak, it was peanuts by comparison to what happened after I left. | ||
| Look at what happened after I left. | ||
| They took over our country. | ||
| We ended all catch-and-release. | ||
| We shut down asylum fraud. | ||
| We stopped human trafficking and forged historic agreements to keep... Let's go to the end of the speech. | ||
| ...aliens on fire. | ||
| We must instead take that energy and use it to realize our country's true potential and write our own thrilling chapter of the American story. | ||
| We can do it together. | ||
| We will unite. | ||
| We are going to come together. | ||
| and success will bring us together. | ||
| It is a story of love, sacrifice, and so many other things. | ||
| And remember the word, devotion. | ||
| It's unmatched devotion. | ||
| Our American ancestors crossed the Delaware, survived the icy winter at Valley Forge, and defeated a mighty empire to establish our cherished... Yeah, see, it's just so different. | ||
| So I just, you know, it's important to do the comparison so people can see And I recognize he's an older man. | ||
| He's eight years older. | ||
| He's been through a lot. | ||
| So it's not even just the delivery. | ||
| It's the level of effort. | ||
| This speech is now, it's just rambling. | ||
| The writing's bad. | ||
| The rhetoric's different. | ||
| Back in 2016, the focus was on the special interests, the media. | ||
| It was about the way the country is. | ||
| Now it's about the Democrats and it's about inflation and it's about Price of groceries. | ||
| When have you ever heard any talk about corruption, lobbyists, special interests, like we did in 2016? | ||
| It's just a different, it's just a different campaign. | ||
| And I know that. | ||
| I recognize that. | ||
| But people need to recognize that and realize that we need a new movement. | ||
| It's just true. | ||
| We need a new movement. | ||
| This one is out of, it's out of gas. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Ironically, there is no energy to unleash here. | ||
| This is not an energy dominant movement anymore. | ||
| It used to be, but it's not anymore. | ||
| In 2016, it was high energy. | ||
| It was, of course you are with Trump and you were excited to be there now. | ||
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Okay. | |
| People say it's been a long time. | ||
| They're right. | ||
| It's time for something new. | ||
| So, people need to look past Trump. | ||
| They need to look beyond what's going on now because it's out of momentum. | ||
| It's tapped. | ||
| The convention proved that tonight. | ||
| Even him getting shot in the face. | ||
| I had feelings about Trump on the weekend, this past weekend. | ||
| I haven't felt that way about Trump in a long time. | ||
| I mean, it truly was evocative to imagine him not here. | ||
| And it took three days for all of those feelings to evaporate. | ||
| Three days for all of that, you know, whatever that... If that brought feelings back to the surface, if that reminded me of how things used to be, whatever that inspired, it evaporated by Monday. | ||
| And it is gone now. | ||
| It's all gone. | ||
| And you realize that there's nothing that's bringing this back. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Because Trump is tapped. | ||
| There's no successor. | ||
| And so there's no second act. | ||
| I think it's just kind of done. | ||
| I think it's just kind of over. | ||
| The fight is over. | ||
| There's no fight anymore. | ||
| No, no one cares. | ||
| There's no protests. | ||
| There's no, the media doesn't care. | ||
| He's calling for unity. | ||
| He's calling for peace. | ||
| It's not, we don't feel like we're bursting through the walls and ready to take over. | ||
| Now it just feels like, well, he's better than Biden. | ||
| Well, you know, it's going to be, the economy is going to be better than it has been for the past four years. | ||
| So yeah, I'm, I'm pretty disappointed. | ||
| Yesterday I gave a pretty strong speech about the whole thing. | ||
| I don't even feel—I'm just kind of indifferent. | ||
| It doesn't inspire in me anger or self-righteousness. | ||
| There's not like a righteous indignation. | ||
| It doesn't inspire me any kind of love or enthusiasm. | ||
| It is—I'm completely apathetic about it. | ||
| This convention has not moved me. | ||
| It hasn't inspired me. | ||
| I don't like it. | ||
| It's not speaking to me. | ||
| I don't agree with a lot of it. | ||
| I just don't care. | ||
| It was boring. | ||
| And I'm apathetic about the whole thing. | ||
| I don't feel like I was the audience. | ||
| And I don't say that as a Nazi groiper. | ||
| I say that as a young white man in America. | ||
| I say that as a young, extremely conservative, very religious white man in America. | ||
| Didn't speak to me. | ||
| So, you know, I saw people in the live chat they're saying, oh, I can't wait for Nick's monologue after this. | ||
| I don't even really have anything to say. | ||
| It's just. | ||
| This has been more of the same. | ||
| What else can we expect? | ||
| My expectations, I thought maybe I'd be pleasantly surprised, but my expectations were very, very low. | ||
| And it's about what I expected. | ||
| It's what we see at every rally now. | ||
| It's what we see at every public appearance, every interview, every softball interview. | ||
| Who's writing these speeches? | ||
| Who's giving him this advice? | ||
| He stopped himself in the middle of the speech. | ||
| He said Biden. | ||
| He started to go in on Biden and then said, well, I'm only going to say that one time. | ||
| Someone's telling him. | ||
| Someone's coaching him. | ||
| Hey, boss, tonight, we're not going to attack the left. | ||
| Tonight's about unity. | ||
| The people want unity. | ||
| The independents and the Democrats want unity. | ||
| So tonight, let's not even say Biden. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Then the media will say, oh, he's not divisive. | ||
| Then the media will say, oh, he didn't even mention Biden once. | ||
| What a guy. | ||
| You could tell because he caught himself. | ||
| He said, well, I'm only going to say that once. | ||
| Why would he say that other than that? | ||
| The game plan going in was don't mention Biden, just like in the debate. | ||
| He wasn't on top of Biden even then. | ||
| So it's sort of like all the faggots that never supported Trump in 2016 have won. | ||
| They got rid of the mean tweets. | ||
| They got rid of the aggression. | ||
| Anybody that might have been confused and thought Trump would be an American Hitler, For better or for worse, whether that means he's going to close the borders, or that means he's going to be a charismatic leader, or it means he's going to install a personal dictatorship in the government, whatever that meant for you, they won. | ||
| It's no longer the case. | ||
| It's not dangerous. | ||
| It's not scary. | ||
| It's not threatening anybody. | ||
| It's not even right-wing. | ||
| They have domesticated and conquered the Trump campaign. | ||
| They won. | ||
| No more mean tweets. | ||
| You won. | ||
| You got Trumpism without Trump. | ||
| Now it's about being against China. | ||
| Now it's about bombing Iran. | ||
| Now it's about cutting taxes. | ||
| Now it's about oil. | ||
| You won. | ||
| Trumpism without Trump. | ||
| You know, all those people back in 16 that said, you know, I wish you would just appoint Supreme Court justices and not tweet so much. | ||
| You won. | ||
| No tweets. | ||
| And all these people that said, I just want a president that won't rock the boat. | ||
| We just want a good economy. | ||
| You won. | ||
| This guy's not rocking the boat at all. | ||
| We're asleep. | ||
| We're sleeping. | ||
| It's boring. | ||
| People used to say, I just wish he was more presidential. | ||
| Yeah, he's just like Biden now. | ||
| He's just like Biden. | ||
| He's like Biden from four years ago. | ||
| He's old. | ||
| He's tired. | ||
| He's very presidential. | ||
| He's not reading Lindsey Graham's phone number on the stage. | ||
| He's not calling. | ||
| He's not saying Ted Cruz's dad killed JFK. | ||
| He's not saying he's gonna spill the beans about Ted Cruz's wife. | ||
|
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Remember that? | |
| What did Ted Cruz say to Trump in 2016? | ||
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He said something like, Stay the hell away from Heidi. | |
| What did he say? | ||
| What was it? | ||
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It was so cringe. | |
| Yeah, he's not doing that anymore. | ||
| Leave Heidi the hell alone! | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| Donald, you're a stifling coward, and leave Heidi the hell alone! | ||
| You know, I have to say, seeing him go deeper and deeper to the gutter... It's not easy to tick me off. | ||
| I don't get angry often. | ||
| I'm ticked off. | ||
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But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that'll do it every time. | |
| Donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone. | ||
| Real men- This is- it was so different! | ||
| If only you knew how different things could be. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| I'm gonna smile because it happened. | ||
| I'm not gonna cry because it's over, I'm gonna smile because it happened. | ||
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You go after my wife and my kids, and I'll do it every time! | |
| Donald, you're a sibling coward! | ||
| Leave Heidi the hell alone! | ||
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Oh, man. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Now Tucker likes him. | ||
| Now Vance likes him. | ||
| Now Silicon Valley likes him. | ||
| The donors, the special interests like him. | ||
| The media likes him. | ||
| Project 2025 has been discarded because the media attacked him too much. | ||
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It's over. | |
| MAGAs. | ||
| MAGAs. | ||
| And you know who's gonna inherit it? | ||
| JD Vance. | ||
| That's your MAGA. | ||
| Make America Something Else. | ||
| Not Make America Great Again. | ||
| Now it's Make America Something Else. | ||
| Make America, we're going to bury Indian immigrants in the Appalachian Cemetery. | ||
| Make America some other thing. | ||
| Make America India. | ||
| That's going to be our country. | ||
| Because he will be, he has been set up, he was not a deplorable, he was not a supporter in 16. | ||
| All the things we liked about Trump, he hated. | ||
| His concerns have been ameliorated. | ||
| Now he's the inheritor, heir apparent, vice president. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| It's time to look to the future. | ||
| We've outgrown. | ||
| The country's outgrown this. | ||
| We've outgrown this. | ||
| It's no longer about the economy and whatever. | ||
| It's a different battle. | ||
| Different generation. | ||
| So, it's very hard to say that, but that's kind of how it is. | ||
| I mean, I love the guy. | ||
| I don't want him to die. | ||
| I don't want him to get shot. | ||
| I think he's a hero. | ||
| I think he's a good man, but clearly, This is not the same person that started the movement. | ||
| The movement that I joined when I was a young man, you know, when I was 18. | ||
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It's weaker. | |
| It's not conservative. | ||
| And, uh, you know, I feel like it's just, it left me. | ||
| So, yeah, I mean, look at this. | ||
| We got Kid Rock. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| So, that's my feelings on the whole thing. | ||
| This RNC was just really miserable to get through. | ||
| It was really tough to get through. | ||
| Very boring. | ||
| Very tedious. | ||
| I know it's always sort of like that, but that's kind of the point, isn't it? | ||
| It's just like it always was. | ||
| Boring, lame, no noticeable impact. | ||
| Eight years, no institutional impact. | ||
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Not really. | |
| So... | ||
| I appreciate everybody tuning in. | ||
| It was our biggest stream yet on Rumble, so I appreciate that. | ||
| We had over 30,000 viewers. | ||
| It's officially my biggest stream yet on Rumble, so thanks everybody for tuning in, and thanks everybody for joining me over the course of the week. | ||
| I'm gonna read Super Chats, but I know typically people start to file out before we do that. | ||
| I can understand why. | ||
| The Super Chats suck. | ||
| Some of you sick people like it, but... | ||
| Um, it's been a great week. | ||
| We had five streams this week with over 25,000 or over 20,000 live viewers. | ||
| So it's been an incredible run this week on Rumble. | ||
| Huge stream on Saturday. | ||
| Huge streams throughout the convention. | ||
| And I think that's a positive sign. | ||
| I have been very negative about the convention. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| Shut up. | ||
| A lot of people are saying, oh, you're negative. | ||
| You're miserable. | ||
| It sucks. | ||
| The shit sucks. | ||
| If it was better, I'd be positive. | ||
| If it was really, really good, I'd be really positive. | ||
| But it was bad. | ||
| So my response is negative. | ||
| And that reminds me of like in 2016, people said that about Trump. | ||
| They said, oh, Trump, you're so negative. | ||
| And he would say, well, our country sucks, you know? | ||
| Well, he wouldn't say it like that, but he would say our country's in decline. | ||
| That's how I feel right now. | ||
| People say, people recognize it sucks. | ||
| They're still hanging on. | ||
| They don't like to hear that. | ||
| So they blame me. | ||
| They say, oh, well, you're negative. | ||
| Well, you're just difficult to please. | ||
| I'm really not. | ||
| I'm trying to be charitable, I'm trying to look for the bright spot, but the undeniable, brutal truth is that the system has conquered the MAGA revolution. | ||
| That's the verdict after tonight, and I will not vote. | ||
| So... | ||
| What are we going to do in 2024? | ||
| Well, we'll have to see what happens at the Democrat convention and then it's an evolving conversation because it's such a dynamic election year and how we approach the forthcoming administration, which will most likely be another Trump administration. | ||
| Again, we're going to have to see how that takes shape with the transition and with some of our allies, but radical intervention is required. | ||
| We need to go in and we need to come together and we need to figure out what the future will be. | ||
| 2024 is over. | ||
| I'm already looking ahead to 2028 and that's what we need to have a mind towards is what comes next. | ||
| How can we make sure That the spirit of 2016 defines the future of the MAGA movement or whatever comes next, whatever succeeds it after 2028 and into the next decade, into the 2030s. | ||
| That's where our mind needs to be because this is tapped. | ||
| The juice is no longer worth the squeeze here. | ||
| Um, but anyway, it's been a good week. | ||
| Like I said, I think it's a good sign of things to come. | ||
| I've been very negative. | ||
| I've been very critical from my point of view, and yet I've had a massive stream on Rumble, which is a very large Trump-supporting conservative audience, so... | ||
| I hope that shows on some level that there's agreement with what I'm saying. | ||
| If the viewership is great, well, that kind of speaks to maybe some dissatisfaction. | ||
| I've been a lifelong Trump supporter literally my entire adult life. | ||
| I'm not a Republican, but I'm an America firster and they lost me. | ||
| They lost me. | ||
| That's how I see it. | ||
| So some people say, well, good riddance. | ||
| I say, well, you know, you can have Vance and Usha. | ||
| They're all yours. | ||
| So that's my response to the whole thing, but thanks for watching. | ||
| I appreciate everybody tuning in. | ||
| Make sure to follow me here on Rumble. | ||
| I'll be back tomorrow. | ||
| I'll be doing a show tomorrow at 8 o'clock Central. | ||
| I normally do a show every weeknight, Monday through Friday at 8 o'clock Central, so tune in tomorrow. | ||
| I'll be giving a full review after I have a little bit of time to digest everything and sleep on it. | ||
| I'll be back tomorrow at 8 o'clock to talk about this whole convention and the developments pertaining to the Democratic Convention, which is coming soon. | ||
| And excuse me, and whether Joe Biden will drop out of the race. | ||
| So I'll be doing coverage of that all night tomorrow. | ||
| Make sure to tune in and smash the follow button, leave a like. | ||
| With that, we're going to take a look at our super chats. | ||
| We'll see what you guys have to say about all this. | ||
| Let me know if you disagree. | ||
| Tell me what you think about all this, because I know some people think I'm being too hard on Trump, but I don't think so. | ||
|
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So let's take a look. | |
| Let me get set up here. | ||
|
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And we'll read our Super Chats. | |
| Tough night. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Oh, all right. | ||
| And it's still not working! | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| We might not have to even do Super Chats tonight because it's still glitched out from yesterday. | ||
| I'm going to see if I can get it to work. | ||
| If I can't, we'll just read them tomorrow, I guess. | ||
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Here, let me try again. | |
| Okay. | ||
| There we go. - Chad Champion sent $25. | ||
| Okay, enough done W the folksy white trash stuff. | ||
| It'll take the Mexicans and blacks. | ||
| No, man. | ||
| I just want Hulk Hogan. | ||
| We need more Hulk Hogan. | ||
| Thank you very much, man. | ||
| Conquest 91 sent $25. | ||
| J.D. Vance keeps talking about never forgetting Appalachia. | ||
| Weird. | ||
| I didn't know that Peter Thiel changed his name to Appalachia. | ||
| Ben Carson should have been the VP. | ||
| God bless you, Nick Dodger. | ||
| Your coverage is the only good coverage of the RNC. | ||
| Congrats on the amazing viewership. | ||
| Pray for President Trump and for our country. | ||
| Thank you very much, man. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Richard Lyman sent $100. | ||
| Hey! | ||
| My daily 100. | ||
| Love you, Nick. | ||
| Thank you very much for the big super chat, I appreciate it man. | ||
| Chad Champion sent $15, also Ben Carson is based because he knifed his best friend, another black guy, so has tough on crime. | ||
| I forgot about that, yeah. | ||
| That was a big talking point during the primary in 2016, I totally forgot he stabbed a guy. | ||
| Florida Groepa sent $10. | ||
| Reports Joe is considering dropping out and asked his advisor if K-Mala is a winning ticket. | ||
| I know I read that. | ||
| Bobby Johnson sent $20 from my previous super chat about the left's VP pick. | ||
| The betting odds has Josh Shapiro as most likely to win. | ||
| Interesting last name. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Of course, because they're trying to get these Zionists to turn out for them with their money, that is. | ||
| The black row I percent $25, half. | ||
| The problem with the right is they long to be validated by the left, even in the short term. | ||
| They're tired of being ostracized as racist, homophobic, misogynistic, etc. | ||
| so they concede on the issues. | ||
| They're tired of being losers so they ape the winners. | ||
| It's the just wait, they've got a secret plan rhetoric. | ||
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Yup. | |
| The black row I percent $25, two halves, the people that still can't admit the right has lost its way. | ||
| The people that either can't or refuse to just take the damn L. In truth, the only way to win is to stand on business, make an honest case, and let the people come to you, or not. | ||
| And you're the true encapsulation of that idea, Nick. | ||
| Keep fighting. | ||
| Thank you very much, man. | ||
| And well said. | ||
| Well said. | ||
| That's what Trump did in 16. | ||
| Now there's just this pleading with the left, pleading with the people in the middle. | ||
| Please vote for us. | ||
| Please like us. | ||
| Look, we're not extreme. | ||
| We're not right-wing. | ||
| We're for everybody. | ||
| It's really pathetic. | ||
| And that's how Republicans have always been. | ||
| They don't even play to their own side, ever. | ||
| They just play to these. | ||
| And you know, the thing is in 2020, Trump lost a lot of white voters. | ||
| Yes, there was a fraud, but Trump did decrease with rural white voters, with working class white voters. | ||
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Yeah he's finished. | |
| not talking to his people anymore. | ||
| John of Arcroy percent $20. | ||
| Nick, with the recent actions destiny has taken about the Trump supporter being shot in his comments and action since then, we can finally be able to discredit him in mainstream political circles. | ||
| Chafe Trumpster released the destiny files today. | ||
| This may be the beginning of the end for that cuck. | ||
| Vosh won the optics war. | ||
| Yeah, he's finished. | ||
| I mean, he's what, 35? | ||
| And he's still making errors like that. | ||
| It's over for him. | ||
| I mean, because he used to be extremely rambunctious, and then he was able to rehabilitate himself. | ||
| It was a very concerted and deliberate effort. | ||
| And now he's burning it all to the ground with this pro-violent rhetoric. | ||
| And I don't know why he's doing it. | ||
| I don't know if it's for attention. | ||
| If it is, it's very short-sighted. | ||
| But it's not smart, and he's really injuring himself. | ||
| And it all started with Jimbo. | ||
| Honestly, well, it really started with me going out and streaming with him. | ||
| I think that was really the beginning of the end for him. | ||
| But Jimbo did a number on him, exposing how stupid he is. | ||
| The divorce left a mark. | ||
| And now he's just totally nuts, self-immolating in real time. | ||
|
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So, it's good. | |
| Good development. | ||
| Good to see. | ||
| Toad GrowApper sent $50. | ||
| Thank you for all you do, Nick. | ||
| Less than three. | ||
| Thanks a lot, man. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| LeftEyeLopes12 sent $30. | ||
| I hate that these Jewish donors who have nothing in common with us can go on stage and talk about what's good for Americans. | ||
| Send. | ||
| Them. | ||
| Back. | ||
| Well, it's these Israelis. | ||
| These Israelis, they're dual citizens. | ||
| There haven't been a ton of Jewish people. | ||
| It's all Israelis that are going up there. | ||
| Cookie Baking Granny sent $50. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Hey, thanks a lot. | |
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Glad you like the coverage. | ||
| Cookie Baking Granny sent $20. | ||
| I hate it happened. | ||
| But how does taking a bullet you don't know is coming heroic? | ||
| Where would the crowd run to? | ||
| They sheltered in place. | ||
| Stunned, I'm sure. | ||
| So tired of the mindfuck. | ||
| Well, it's that he got up and raised his fist. | ||
| I think people saw it. | ||
| And to his credit, that was an extremely courageous thing to do. | ||
| That was instinctual. | ||
| I've never been shot at. | ||
| You probably haven't either. | ||
| If you get shot in the head and you're like, I'm being assassinated right now. | ||
| It does take an extraordinary spirit to get up and defiance and raise your fist like that rather than to just literally make a break for it and push him off the stage. | ||
| So I'm not going to knock him for that. | ||
| I do think that was a heroic moment. | ||
| That's literally heroism in the face of getting shot. | ||
| You know, you get up and raise your fist. | ||
| That's like the definition of heroic. | ||
| This was pretty sweet. | ||
| But the problem is he had this like Sleepy Joe moment where he's, he's like wandering around. | ||
| But that was an iconic intro. | ||
| The problem is he lacks the aura, the visuals grade, but aura's sort of gone. | ||
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Anyway, so I don't know. | |
| I don't think I agree with that, but I just wish it would have woken him up a little bit. | ||
| It's pretty disturbing stuff. | ||
| If you read his essay, The Straussian Moment, you might be able to decode it. | ||
| And he talks about it a lot in more explicit terms, but... | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| Has everything to do with Palantir. | ||
| Cookie Bacon Granny sent $20. | ||
| I lived through busing in 70s. | ||
| Sent across city to be the token white child in black neighborhood like sacrificial lamb. | ||
| Is school choice similar? | ||
| Won't blacks choose to send their kids to white community schools? | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| I think they will. | ||
| School choice means they're, you know, all the black kids that are in the black neighborhoods, in the black schools and beating up the teachers, they're all going to be sent out to every other. | ||
| Oh, we like the good schools. | ||
| We like the good. | ||
| We want to go to the good schools where the white people are. | ||
| And guess what's going to happen to the good schools? | ||
| So, yeah, I think that would actually be in effect. | ||
| Richard Lyman sent $100. | ||
| No message. | ||
| Hey, thank you for the big super chat. | ||
| This guy's been really supporting us lately. | ||
| I gotta reply to his email. | ||
| I've just been busy with this endless coverage of the RNC, but thank you. | ||
| I think it's gonna be Kamala. | ||
| But thank you. - Isak sent $100. | ||
| Hi, first time super chatter. | ||
| Thanks for all that you do. | ||
| Best analysis while everyone else talks about stupid nonsense. | ||
| Who do you think will lead the Democrat ticket now that Biden is dropping out? - I think it's gonna be Kamala. | ||
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I think they're all gonna rally around Kamala. - James sent $15. | |
| Hey, just want to say love the show. | ||
| But the performance from Kid Rock was epic. | ||
| Rock and roll is the white man's music. | ||
| We need more rock and roll, less rap and gangsta culture. | ||
| For decades, white Americans ran on rock music, not rap. | ||
| You need to understand that, dude. | ||
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This has got to be a troll. | |
| It's got to be. | ||
| This guy's doing his best impression of a baby boomer. | ||
| I like rock music, but that's not rock music. | ||
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That's just crap. | |
| That performance was just weird and crappy. | ||
| I love rock music, of course. | ||
| I listen to mostly alternative and indie music. | ||
| People think I'm really into rap. | ||
| I do like some rap music, but I'm mostly actually into alternative and indie music. | ||
| But I like everything, and I know all the classics. | ||
| I listen to everything. | ||
| I know Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground, Radiohead. | ||
| You name it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Rush. | |
| Elton John. | ||
| Billy Joel. | ||
| Eagles. | ||
| Captain Beefheart. | ||
| I know music. | ||
| I know rock music. | ||
| I like rock music. | ||
| Prog rock, Elvis Costello. | ||
| I know all about rock music, and I like rock music, and I like, I actually think the new white music is alternative. | ||
| Indian alternative is really the voice of my generation. | ||
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But that just sucked. | |
| I mean, that was just cringe. | ||
| So I'm not like anti-rock. | ||
| Everybody's always saying that. | ||
| They're always like, you're the rap guy. | ||
| I like rap music. | ||
| It's no secret I love Kanye. | ||
| But that, you know, that music, the Kid Rock stuff and this country music, it's just, it's like a class thing. | ||
| This is like, and even a lot of Southern people will tell you that country music sucks. | ||
| Even a lot of Southerners will tell you that country music has been ruined by the CMA, by Disney. | ||
| A friend of mine who actually helped build the studio, I don't want to dodge whatever, but he's a big country music fan. | ||
| I didn't know this. | ||
| He said the CMA, Country Music Association, is owned by Disney. | ||
| And he was telling me how they've really ruined music and they've made it very liberal. | ||
| So, I mean, even they will tell you that. | ||
| It's not anti-white to say that modern country music sucks. | ||
| It objectively does. | ||
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It's corporate pop trash. | |
| So, it's just like everything else in the right. | ||
| They take what the left does and they make it worse. | ||
| Regular, normal people make rap music, and it's degenerate. | ||
| And then right-wing people make really shitty rap music, like that, uh, Forgadio Blow, Trump, Trump, Baby. | ||
| Really? | ||
| An Ice Ice Baby Trump parody with Amber Rose? | ||
| They just take everything that normal people do and make it worse. | ||
| And country music is like that, too. | ||
| Pop music is actually not bad. | ||
| The lyrics are bad. | ||
| A lot of it's bad. | ||
| But some of it's catchy. | ||
| Some of it is catchy. | ||
| It's popular for a reason. | ||
| And then country music takes that and just makes it worse. | ||
| They just put in this caricature of what they think white people are out there in the country. | ||
| And it's just worse pop music. | ||
| Country music is worse pop music. | ||
| MAGA rap is worse rap music. | ||
| The movies we make are just worse movies. | ||
| Conservatives say, I'm going to make a movie, and they make God's Not Dead. | ||
| They take a Sean Hannity Fox News segment about a woke liberal teacher fighting with a conservative student, and they turn it into a major movie. | ||
| That's conservative culture. | ||
| And it sucks. | ||
| You know, when Trump sells a shoe, he just takes some shoe from Alibaba and puts a Trump logo on it. | ||
| It's not actually cool. | ||
| No one is going to buy that that isn't on True Social. | ||
| No one's going to wear that. | ||
| So in terms of clothes, fashion, music, movies, every aspect of conservative culture, is just an inferior version. | ||
| They take liberal culture, and then they just make an inferior imitation of it that's political. | ||
| And that's why conservatives have no culture. | ||
| Our culture should be the culture of real people. | ||
| And by that, I mean a conservative movie isn't God's Not Dead. | ||
| A conservative movie is Master and Commander. | ||
| And Master and Commander is not about Trump. | ||
| It's about white guys on a ship. | ||
| And there's valor, and there's heroism, and there's music. | ||
| It's actually just a story about people. | ||
| And Star Wars is conservative culture. | ||
| Because it has themes about good and evil, and there's a princess that is rescued, and there's a rogue, but, you know, he's able to seduce the woman and make her fall in love, and he becomes a team player. | ||
| That's the kind of—these are the kinds of timeless things that we need to embrace. | ||
| That's why the classical architecture has such an appeal. | ||
| Classical architecture and classical music, that's ours. | ||
| Classical music is all ours. | ||
| Classical architecture is all ours. | ||
| But instead, we want to lean into Kid Rock. | ||
| Instead, we want to lean into Magga Rap. | ||
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So... Anyway. | |
| Yeah, that's a big part of the problem. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| You mean my stream's not on the front page? | ||
| Kind of a weird way to say it. | ||
| - Not on the page. | ||
| Love Rumble. | ||
| Love Nick less than three. - What do you mean? | ||
| You mean my stream's not on the front page? | ||
| Kind of a weird way to say it. | ||
| - percent $15. | ||
| Nick, you are the only one on the right willing to call out the Trump movement for what it has become. | ||
| Four days of pandering to every group except the white Christians-- - There she is. - Who overwhelmingly put him in the White House in 2016. | ||
| What happened to building a wall? | ||
| Thank you for all you do. | ||
| Christ is king. | ||
| Yeah, and I'm surprised at the old heads. | ||
| I'm surprised. | ||
| I don't want to name them, but I'm surprised at a lot of the old heads that were there in 2016 that don't see it. | ||
| They're just right, they're right there back on board. | ||
| I'm like one of the only old heads who is being honest about what has happened or even maybe has noticed it. | ||
| Yeah, you would think. | ||
| You would think after being shot in the face that he would actually stick to the script. | ||
| It would actually be a really well-written speech and he would stick to it and it would be poetic and, you know, look, he doesn't need to be screaming like when he was a younger man. | ||
| But where's the gravitas? | ||
| Where's the gravitas? | ||
| Where's the solemnity? | ||
| Where's the Where's the charisma? | ||
| It just isn't there. | ||
| It could have been slower and quieter and steadier. | ||
| I actually thought when he was speaking about what happened that day, I was on the edge of my seat. | ||
| That was captivating. | ||
| Then it turned into a stump speech. | ||
| Started strong. | ||
| When he said, I'm never gonna talk about it again because it's so painful. | ||
| That was good. | ||
| And it was slower and steadier and quieter, but that's okay. | ||
| He's an old man. | ||
| He's the elder statesman. | ||
| We get that. | ||
| But then it very quickly devolved into another rambling stump speech. | ||
| Rambling. | ||
| Unserious. | ||
| No. | ||
| Where's the gravitas? | ||
| It's not there. | ||
| And that kind of encapsulates the whole problem. | ||
| There's just nothing serious about this anymore. | ||
| He's become flanderized. | ||
| He's become an impression. | ||
| He's become a bad Trump impression. | ||
| And if you watched enough of the stump speeches, I don't anymore, but if you did, you could probably do one better than Trump himself does them because he says the same stuff in the same caricature, intonation. | ||
| It's not dynamic. | ||
| It's not fresh. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's just meh. | ||
| It's just blah. | ||
| I mean at this point even like DeSantis is a better speaker, which is a sad state. | ||
| Normally a respecter sent $10, at least watching the you have 6 months then you are going back crowd, relentlessly coping on the timeline and trying to spin this to be an awesome speech was entertaining. | ||
| I'm so vindicated on that, right? | ||
| All these people said, oh you betrayed Trump, oh you're disloyal, you just discredited yourself, you're going back, you have 6 months, then he picks Vance. | ||
| Then we get the Sikh. | ||
| Then we get Amber Rose. | ||
| Then we get the Jew Democrat. | ||
| Now this. | ||
| You want to know the reason I'm right? | ||
| Because I'm just honest. | ||
| I don't need to appeal to anybody. | ||
| I don't need to kiss anybody's ass. | ||
| I call like I see it. | ||
| There's no filter here. | ||
| So, for years I've been critical of Trump. | ||
| For years I've been saying this. | ||
| People didn't want to believe it, but it took them getting absolutely humiliated for some of them to finally have to cope and say, okay, okay, but it's not all bad, you know? | ||
| And the reason that I'm right and they're wrong is because, one, they're not being honest. | ||
| Two, they have no original opinions. | ||
| They're just kind of going with the flow. | ||
| They're trying to fit in. | ||
| I called it out from the beginning. | ||
| After the conviction, I said, I can't take it anymore. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| And I'm just going to say it. | ||
| And it was an unpopular thing to say at the time, because everybody was drinking the Kool-Aid and saying, oh, you know, this is so great. | ||
| And I was like, yeah, whatever. | ||
| So what? | ||
| It doesn't even matter. | ||
| And everybody said, wow, what a tactical mistake that is. | ||
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Now look. | |
| So, yeah. | ||
| All these people. | ||
| You're going back! | ||
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You have six months! | |
| Yeah, right. | ||
| Vinsurrection sent $25. | ||
| He's orange like a cheeto! | ||
| ObesePenguin sent $10. | ||
| Did you see Elomay gave a talk at NatCon? | ||
| That whole side of Twitter glows like crazy. | ||
| It makes zero sense that people with arguably worse optics and more extreme positions are tolerated so much more than growipers. | ||
| Sick of right-wing Twitter acting like all of this is normal. | ||
| Yeah, nobody cares. | ||
| It's very sad. | ||
| Nobody cares. | ||
| It's so conspicuous. | ||
| Why does the ADL not care about any of these people? | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance follows people that are calling for TND. | ||
| Do you know what that stands for? | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance follows these accounts that are calling for TND. | ||
| People talked about my comments about Usha. | ||
| Look at the way the BAP people talk about Indians. | ||
| Why is the ADL not interested in that? | ||
| Why is Right Wing Watch not interested in that? | ||
| Why is the media not interested in that? | ||
| Why is that okay? | ||
| It's because they glow, these people. | ||
| And every one of them gets doxxed, and they're all these academics. | ||
| None of them are American. | ||
| They're all Jewish. | ||
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They're all in favor of colorblind meritocracy. | |
| Spence sent $100, I watched the speech itself, not your stream, but I'm sure you also thought it was incoherent and unoriginal. | ||
| Very disappointing. | ||
| Other than a nice intro. | ||
| In 2016 we all remember I am your voice and I alone can fix it. | ||
| Who will remember drill baby drill 8 years from now? | ||
| Nobody. | ||
| Nobody. | ||
| Everybody can remember build the wall, Mexico's gonna pay for it, the wall's just got 10 feet taller, you'd be in jail. | ||
| Endlessly quotable. | ||
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And now it's dro baby dro. | |
| So yeah, thanks for the big super chat. | ||
| Yeah, my thoughts exactly. | ||
| Chad Champion sent $20. | ||
| Maybe Maga was the friends we made along the way. | ||
| Smile. | ||
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Literally, that's all we have left. | |
| Supreme Groper sent $25. | ||
| No message. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Capital Pilot sent $25, well that was depressing but not surprising. | ||
| So I guess we're getting 4 years of moderate policy with a dash of diversity and inclusion. | ||
| Business as usual. | ||
| What a shame. | ||
| I might actually wear a mask now that I know the street shitters are here to stay. | ||
| Yup, time to put on the COVID mask. | ||
| About to be a typist outbreak. | ||
| $100. | ||
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Yup. | |
| Thank you for showing Trump's RNC speech in 2016. | ||
| Many don't remember what it was like. | ||
| The only thing that even comes close nowadays is you and your movement. | ||
| The energy at a PAC is the only thing that comes close to Trump 2016. | ||
| Thank you so much, man, for the big super chat and for your support. | ||
| And you know, because you've been there. | ||
| I was thinking that myself and I was when we played that clip and you heard the screaming from the crowd. | ||
| You could barely get a word. | ||
| Trump could barely get a word out because the crowd was on their feet and so energetic. | ||
| And that's what I was thinking of. | ||
| The only. | ||
| thing that comes close to that, that I've experienced recently was AFPAC 4, AFPAC 3, AFPAC 2, AFPAC 1. | ||
| Those were the only events where I felt that same energy. | ||
| And if you were there, you know, if you were there, if you weren't there, well, you know, fuck off. | ||
| But if you were there, you know, I'm not making that up. | ||
| When we were there on the rooftop bar and they started playing the music too loud so that we couldn't do our speeches. | ||
| And I got up there and I'm like, they're turning the music up, but we could be louder. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That was the loudest thing I've ever heard. | ||
| Like, when people started screaming after that, it was deafening. | ||
| And it wasn't even that many people, we had to downscale it significantly. | ||
| It was supposed to be like five times as many people. | ||
| We had to size it down because we couldn't find a replacement venue big enough. | ||
| But it was packed. | ||
| People were shoulder to shoulder, spilling out onto the stage. | ||
| And it lit up. | ||
| And when they tried to push us out, people were fighting. | ||
| And I don't like fighting. | ||
| I don't like violence. | ||
| I'm glad that everybody showed restraint. | ||
| But people were trying to shut us down because they cared. | ||
| Because there's still pressure. | ||
| It's still alive. | ||
| It's not inert. | ||
| And so when they shut it down, there were fights. | ||
| People were pissed. | ||
| People were getting up. | ||
| And they were fighting for me. | ||
| They were fighting for the movement. | ||
| They were fighting for what we're about. | ||
| You know, there was that bodybuilder, Ian Smith. | ||
| It was scaring me. | ||
| He got up to the security guard and got in his face, pointing. | ||
| The security guard was shitting his pants because this guy is jacked with the beard. | ||
| And he was saying, You know, he was swearing and saying, you're a traitor and you better do the right thing. | ||
| And this big black security guard was shitting his pants, wouldn't even look him in the eye. | ||
| Because that's how much people care. | ||
| And people are fighting with, and it wasn't like a brawl broke out or anything, but there was shoving and there was, it was intense. | ||
| And only this movement inspires that kind of intensity. | ||
| When you go to CPAC and Turning Point, nobody cares. | ||
| You could do Turning Point in the middle of Detroit. | ||
| There's no protests. | ||
| Nobody even cares. | ||
| Nobody even cares enough to protest. | ||
| No one cares enough to shut it down. | ||
| No one's getting in fights. | ||
| First of all, they're all 100 years old, so no one's getting in fights there. | ||
| Second of all, the young people that are there have no balls and they don't care enough to get in fights. | ||
| They're all there to get high and get drunk and get laid. | ||
| That's what they're there for. | ||
| When you go to AFPAC, it's a mish. | ||
| It's a mission. | ||
| When you go to AFPAC, you're afraid. | ||
| Is it going to happen? | ||
| We might get doxxed. | ||
| There's going to be strife. | ||
| But people say it's worth it. | ||
| I'm going to make it my mission to go to AFPAC because we got to show up and fight. | ||
| And when they stand in our way, people are there and they're charged up because they care about the issues. | ||
| They care about the movement. | ||
| They're not there for some ancillary reason. | ||
| It's energy. | ||
| It's intensity. | ||
| It's the opposite of apathy. | ||
| Nobody is apathetic about AFPAC. | ||
| It leaves a mark. | ||
| It's like a meteor hit the city of Detroit when we showed up. | ||
| Yeah, Turning Point was there. | ||
| Yeah, they did their thing. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| Nobody cared. | ||
| Big deal. | ||
| But AFPAC was like, not literally, but we were setting fires all over the city, figuratively, in people's hearts, right? | ||
| People hate us. | ||
| People love us. | ||
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People are there fighting for us. | |
| So you're absolutely right. | ||
| Thank you for the huge super chat and thanks for your support. | ||
| You're a good guy. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| It's a young movement. | ||
| You're a young guy. | ||
| It's young people. | ||
| It's about young people. | ||
| That's who we're after. | ||
| We're after the next generation. | ||
| This situation is cooked. | ||
| But here's the white pill. | ||
| Everybody that follows me, the average age is 18. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| The average age of my followers is probably 18 to 20. | ||
| So yeah, it sucks right now. | ||
| But in 10 years, everybody that follows me will be in power. | ||
| Everybody that follows me will be the professionals that are running the movement. | ||
| So there's more battles to fight. | ||
| That's the good news. | ||
| But I appreciate the big super chat. | ||
| It's little consolation after something as heartbreaking as that, but it's true. | ||
| Hitting the Kwan sent $15. | ||
| Only voting for Trump is a fuck you to the retotypes and freaks who shit on us for years. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I have no hope or excitement about Trump himself. | ||
| Sad. | ||
| Who even cares? | ||
| They're all on our side now. | ||
| You know, Cat Turd? | ||
| What's more Reddit than Cat Turd? | ||
| They're on our side. | ||
| Dude, Elon Musk voted for Trump. | ||
| What's more Reddit than Elon Musk? | ||
| And I love Elon. | ||
| You know I love Elon. | ||
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Don't ban me! | |
| But I mean, what's more Reddit than Dogecoin, okay? | ||
| Like, I love him. | ||
| He's a lovable millennial, or what is he, Gen X, but... | ||
| You know, you say you're voting to stick it to Reddit. | ||
| Reddit is behind Trump now, okay? | ||
| Reddit is pro-Trump. | ||
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Yeah, I wish. | |
| Yeah, I wish. | ||
| That would be awesome. | ||
| Baby Shark sent $100. | ||
| Thank God Trump is fine. | ||
| God bless Trump. | ||
| We love him and he is great ally to my leaders. | ||
| They share same view of peace and prevent world of any wars. | ||
| Nobody want war in our region even though Iran is like Zionists. | ||
| I'm sure Trump will not do a war against her beloved Iran and will restrict freedom of decadence and solve immigration issues of her country. | ||
| I wish Trump all the luck. | ||
| Thank you for the big super chat. | ||
| I don't know about all that, but I appreciate the support. | ||
| BaseDollar sent $100. | ||
| Thank you, Nick. | ||
| W's. | ||
| Thank you for the big super chat. | ||
| Yeah, W's in the chat. | ||
| BooglyWoogly sent $20. | ||
| You're not being too hard at all. | ||
| Anyone still shilling Trump without any attempt at course correction is no different, TickTards. | ||
| Thanks for telling the truth despite the pressure. | ||
| Thank you, man. | ||
| Yeah, I'm glad you appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| - Nate Groeper sent $20. | ||
| I thank God we have a critical thinker with integrity like you, O7. - Thank you. - David Burton sent $20. | ||
| If Trump gets the power some think he will take, then he can ignore the cultural pressure towards progressivism. | ||
| He may radicalize. | ||
| - Oh, you're so-- - Don't blackmail just yet. | ||
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Also, don't give in, Nick. - You're so naive. | |
| I envy you. | ||
| I used to be like you. | ||
| Z sent $50, love the show. | ||
| Stick to the message. | ||
| Try to be less negative we are winning folks over just let god work. | ||
| Trump was almost killed, not even supposed to be at the RNC. | ||
| That outcome would have been so much worse. | ||
| Imagery you showed of 16 and 24 is striking how different 16 was awesome. | ||
| Awesome monologue at the end of the show yesterday. | ||
| Thank you, but we have to be negative. | ||
| Somebody has to be courageous enough, even though it's unpleasant, to say the truth. | ||
| I wish I could be positive, but there's nothing positive to comment on. | ||
| Trump lived on Saturday. | ||
| He was unharmed, thank God. | ||
| But now he needs to run the country, and we have to be honest. | ||
| It's unpleasant. | ||
| I don't like it. | ||
| Nobody likes it, but it's the truth. | ||
| It's brutal. | ||
| It's hard to hear. | ||
| I know. | ||
| That's why people say you can't handle the truth. | ||
| It's difficult to hear. | ||
| It's hard to hear that. | ||
| It hurts your feelings. | ||
| We wish it weren't so, and yet we have to have sobriety. | ||
| It's what I've always said. | ||
| It's about sobriety. | ||
| We can't get drunk on This whole charade. | ||
| We have to be sober minded about these things because it was that drunkenness that made us blind to the vulnerabilities in 2016. | ||
| We were all high in 2016 on the energy and on the excitement. | ||
| We didn't realize what was happening under our noses. | ||
| I wish there was more of a reality check. | ||
| And there was. | ||
| You know, we didn't listen. | ||
| And they have a saying, fool me once, shame on you. | ||
| I don't think there's anything wrong with being fooled the first time. | ||
| We have to give some people a chance. | ||
| We gave him a chance. | ||
| We see the results. | ||
| Now it's time for the brutal truth. | ||
| He's been in this for eight years. | ||
| If not now, then when? | ||
| When is the time for honesty? | ||
| So that's how I feel. | ||
| I know it's negative. | ||
| I wish it wasn't negative. | ||
| I wish it was positive. | ||
| But it's a very bad situation. | ||
| And notice nobody is disagreeing with me. | ||
| It's either delusional cope or it's just tone policing. | ||
| Nobody is defending what's being said here because it's indefensible. | ||
| Nobody's defending what has happened because it's indefensible. | ||
| It's lame excuses and it's tone policing. | ||
| And that means you're wrong. | ||
| And we need to be right. | ||
| So I'm less interested in everybody feeling good. | ||
| I'm less interested in, you know, selling Trump. | ||
| I'm not a salesman. | ||
| I'm not paid by Trump. | ||
| I'm not a salesman for Trump. | ||
| I'm not trying to sell anybody on a political party. | ||
| Okay, everybody's like, come on, if you say that, then people will vote for Trump. | ||
| Well, good news for me, I'm not a Republican. | ||
| I'm not part of the party. | ||
| The party disavowed me. | ||
| And I'm, you know, I really don't get any love from Trump. | ||
| He disavowed me, or rather, he did not disavow me, and I appreciated that. | ||
| But, you know, it's not like I'm welcome in those spaces. | ||
| They wouldn't let sneak go in Mar-a-Lago because of his association with me. | ||
| So I'm not really interested in selling Trumpism. | ||
| So, you know, why would I be coping? | ||
| Why would I be trying to explain away or rationalize some of the mistakes? | ||
| And if I thought there was some bigger agenda being served, I would tell you that. | ||
| I wouldn't be sneaky about it. | ||
| But this is just honest. | ||
| And nobody is able to defend what's going on. | ||
| All they're saying is, well, he's old. | ||
| Well, what can you expect? | ||
| Well, we need to win moderates. | ||
| Well, these are excuses. | ||
| These are lame excuses. | ||
| Well, maybe, maybe he's just hiding. | ||
| They're like, maybe it sucks, but maybe he's hiding his real beliefs. | ||
| That's delusional. | ||
| OK, so it's either delusional cope or people say you're too negative. | ||
| Well, I'm not wrong. | ||
| You might not like it. | ||
| It might be unpleasant to hear, but it's not untrue. | ||
| You know, what you're really complaining about is you don't like how it is. | ||
| But don't take it up with me. | ||
| Take it up with your party. | ||
| Take it up with this with this movement. | ||
| I'm not running for president here. | ||
| Richard Lyman sent $100. | ||
| Reminds me of Hank Hill. | ||
| Christian rock doesn't make rock better. | ||
| It just makes Christianity worse. | ||
| Right-wing music is as bad as left-wing memes. | ||
| The right can't write or something. | ||
| Thank you for the big super chat. | ||
| I agree with that, um, cartoon. | ||
| Salient point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's, there's right-wing music. | ||
| It just doesn't call itself right-wing music. | ||
| It's just music. | ||
| You know, it's just not talking about trannies and, uh, Gratuitous sax and things. | ||
| There's a lot of right-wing music out there. | ||
| Truth Will Prevail sent $10. | ||
| The Bible never calls Jesus a Jew. | ||
| The Republican Party needs to abandon the Israel cult and submit to the King of Kings. | ||
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| Victor sent $15. | ||
| When's the last time you heard a build-the-wall chant? | ||
| They had one the other day. | ||
| Boss Lurker sent $20. | ||
| Trump should have said, damn niggas be shootin'. | ||
| Best show in the world, thanks. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Rainy days sent $5, so the window is fake? | ||
| Frown it's night in Chicago. | ||
| Dallas sent $500, also crazy viewership tonight. | ||
| It was pre-recorded during the day. | ||
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That's why. | |
| Dallas sent $500. | ||
| Also crazy viewership tonight. | ||
| Is this the most viewers you've ever had? | ||
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Wow. | |
| Thank you for the huge super chat. | ||
| God bless you, Dallas. | ||
| Putting the show on your back tonight. | ||
| And this whole week, I really appreciate it, man. | ||
| Everybody, let's get an 07 for Dallas. | ||
| Biggest supporter of our RNC coverage. | ||
| Yeah, this is, well, it's not the most viewers I've ever had. | ||
| I had more viewers on DLive during the election night. | ||
| But yeah, I think this might be, this is certainly an all-time high on Rumble. | ||
| Cozy, YouTube, and it might have even been the second biggest stream I ever had on DLive. | ||
| On election night, I had like 70,000 in 2020. | ||
| So yeah, this may be one of my biggest streams of all time. | ||
| So yeah, thank you very much for the huge super chat and I appreciate everybody tuning in. | ||
| Certainly is one of the biggest ever. | ||
| So, it's a good sign. | ||
| All is not lost because I'm here. | ||
| This movement is here. | ||
| Johnny Bravo 7 cent $20. | ||
| It's insane to see Destiny openly doubling down on his incitement of political violence. | ||
| This is the guy who's the face of the left-wing streaming world. | ||
| Thank God that side is losing its credibility. | ||
| Love you, man. | ||
| Yeah, it's pretty wild that liberals went all in on Destiny. | ||
| Even conservatives did. | ||
| They went all in on Destiny being a representative of the left, and then he turned out to be... Well, he always was. | ||
| He always called for homicide against conservatives. | ||
| He's just being honest about it now. | ||
| So, it's been a spectacular crash out. | ||
| It must be studied. | ||
| But it's delicious, and I'm loving it. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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| That's how bad it's always been. | ||
| That's the personnel problem. | ||
| for several times on the Trump campaign. | ||
| Recent college grad plus impressive resume and ended up getting rejected because he had a trespassing misdemeanor on January 6th. | ||
| That's how bad it is, we're cooked. - That's how bad it's always been. | ||
| That's the personnel problem. | ||
| There used to be this joke in Washington during the first administration, during the first term. | ||
| People used to say that if you worked on the Trump campaign, it made you less likely to get hired in the Trump White House. | ||
| They'd say that your interview would be over if you mentioned that you worked for the Trump campaign. | ||
| So this isn't new. | ||
| This has been the problem for a long time. | ||
| And everybody within the administration who's a patriot knows that. | ||
| And you telling me that confirms it's no different now. | ||
| It's the same as before. | ||
| None of the problems were fixed. | ||
| - Perfect. - $25. | ||
| The last F-Pack was one of the most thrilling thing I've done you and your team making moves on the fly and pulling off a Batman villain style speech across from Tpusulolo all with the backdrop of the once great city. | ||
| Symbolism and or off the charts. | ||
| Peace man. | ||
| Great show. - Thank you man. | ||
| It was awesome! | ||
| And hey, thank you, man! | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Yeah, it was... Is this THE Ryan Rivera from Censored? | ||
| If it is, you're a good guy. | ||
| Maybe it's another... It's a very common last name, but... Yeah, that was an incredible weekend. | ||
| Having an organic crowd show up like that, materialize out of the blue at an event like that. | ||
| Pretty substantial crowd, and get up on there. | ||
| With the megaphone yelling about Israel and Henry Ford and Christianity and then doing that rooftop thing. | ||
| It was awesome. | ||
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The whole the whole week was unbelievable. | |
| They're just not doing that anywhere else anymore. | ||
| It's kind of sad. | ||
| Protest at GROI percent $50. | ||
| God did work on Saturday to quote my favorite Mormon missionary. | ||
| We can't expect God to do all the work. | ||
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| Tibetan Grove sent $30. | ||
| Nick thanks for making the RNC tolerable to watch. | ||
| Your commentary was golden. | ||
| You are the future. | ||
| Thank you, man. | ||
| Yeah, I'm glad I could make it watchable for some of you, because I would not be watching it if I wasn't streaming it, and I know a lot of you wouldn't either. | ||
| BaseDollar sent $500. | ||
| They should be thanking you. | ||
| Will you run in 2036? | ||
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Whoa! | |
| Thanks for the huge super chat, BaseDollar. | ||
| Let's get an 07 for BaseDollar in the chat. | ||
| I don't know if I'm gonna run for office. | ||
| I mean, I think about it, but I also think I'm cooked. | ||
| Think about everything I've said. | ||
| Think about everything I've said in the course of this show. | ||
| Now maybe within 10 years, that will all be mainstream, but then again, maybe not. | ||
| So, I think about running for office, but I think I'd just be really unpopular. | ||
| But I'd like to think, sometimes I think I could do it. | ||
| I'm likable, I'm funny, I would get a lot of media attention and I'd use it to get everybody on my side. | ||
| But then sometimes I think I'm too cooked. | ||
| My reputation has been destroyed too much. | ||
| But never say never. | ||
| I would never say never about that. | ||
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So, we'll see. | |
| I'd have to be doing a lot of... It would take a long time to get on the on-ramp for something like that and rework some of my positions. | ||
| But hey, never say never. | ||
| Sergei Lewis said $20, it appears politics in America is simply managed decline. | ||
| The left and right want a quibble about how fast the country should crash into a wall and what language to use before impact. | ||
| The people who get behind this distorted version of MAGA are being brought back on the reservation. | ||
| That's 100% right. | ||
| Well said. | ||
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I know! | |
| Same! | ||
| Right. | ||
| Same! | ||
| Well said. | ||
| Kool-Aid smile sent $10. | ||
| Very disappointing. | ||
| I remember showing up to my English class in HS the day after Trump won and the expression on my teacher's face looked as if he just watched his beloved dog be disintegrated into a thousand pieces by a semi-truck. | ||
| It was gold. | ||
| I know. | ||
| Same. | ||
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Same. | |
| I was at Boston University. | ||
| I came into class the following day to my, uh, it was a Wednesday. | ||
| So it was the discussion section of this literature class. | ||
| And I had this Jewish woman professors in a small group. | ||
| And I came in with my MAGA hat and I was like, we fucking won. | ||
| You know, not actually, but I was like, let's go! | ||
| And she literally pulled me outside instantaneously. | ||
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She's like, I let you wear that hat in my class. | |
| I let you wear that. | ||
| You need to be respectful today. | ||
| She was literally crying. | ||
| I was like, jeez, alright. | ||
| Relax, he's your president now. | ||
| And I went out to Harvard. | ||
| I went out to the Harvard quad with a buddy of mine who was Assyrian. | ||
| And some guy ripped my MAGA hat off my head and went running, and my Assyrian friend went running after him and grabbed him by the collar and held him up against the wall. | ||
| I was like, give me the fucking hat back! | ||
| That's the kind of stuff that was going on. | ||
| Me and my buddy, we're like, oh, we're going to go and go and troll the liberals. | ||
| We jumped on the T. We went on the red line, big mistake, to Harvard over to Cambridge. | ||
| We got off and Everybody was trying to kill us. | ||
| On the train, there were these homeless people, and they're like, oh, you're with Trump? | ||
| Oh, we're going to kill you the next stop. | ||
| They're like, we're going to kill you when you get off the train. | ||
| And we're like, OK, we're out of here. | ||
| So we left the train. | ||
| Then we ran into a bunch of black people, and they're like, make America great again? | ||
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Yo, fuck Trump! | |
| And there was almost a riot in the subway. | ||
| We had to get out of the subway. | ||
| Then we got on the quad and some black guy ran and grabbed my hat and ran away. | ||
| Like I said, me and this big brown Assyrian guy went running after him, got the hat back. | ||
| And we were talking to some African immigrant. | ||
| He was like, oh, that's not cool. | ||
| So that's how it was back then. | ||
| I remember during the election night viewing party, we went to all the viewing parties, of which there were several, with the Trump flag, with the hats, and there was this, like, Sudanese woman in a hijab, and she was crying. | ||
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And we're like, fuck yeah, dude. | |
| Four years, bitch. | ||
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Four years. | |
| Trump is your president. | ||
| I wonder, remember that video of Sam Hyde? | ||
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You have no place in America. | |
| It's for everyone! | ||
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Where's that video? | |
| Anybody remember it? | ||
| it man i wish i had that clip where's that video i I wonder if I could find it. | ||
| I probably not. | ||
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You can't find anything now. | |
| And he went up to this lesbian. | ||
| He's like, four years, bitch. | ||
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It was so good. | |
| Here it is. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| I got it. | ||
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This was a good, this is classic. | |
| This was a classic. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| You're saying it's not over? | ||
| You gonna rally in four years and take over? | ||
| I don't know, this is after the inauguration. | ||
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Despair, it's over. | |
| You're saying it's not over. | ||
| Are we going to rally in four years and take over? | ||
| We're going to rally every day. | ||
| Oh, damn. | ||
| I spent an hour to make it a sign. | ||
| You guys, how long does that sign take? | ||
| 10 minutes? | ||
| I mean, come on! | ||
| It's a terrible sign. | ||
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I've spent hours making this sign. | |
| You know, she didn't, like, she only, she didn't, when she married Bill Clinton, she didn't change her name, and that ended political pressure, because she was stuck in white. | ||
| So what? | ||
| Who cares about her name? | ||
| My argument is to ask her back. | ||
| It's fine as long as it's you. | ||
| How is that any different from Germany saying that Jews needed to leave the country or... I don't know, it sounds similar. | ||
| Why did you come today? | ||
| to come today. | ||
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I can't. | |
| Man. | ||
| Such a different time. | ||
| You guys... | ||
| You youngsters. | ||
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You just don't know. | |
| Truth will prevail sent $15. | ||
| Chances are that Trump won't radicalize, but he can be used to point to the right. | ||
| It leaves a spot open for someone like you. | ||
| He's 78. | ||
| He is not our future. | ||
| You are. | ||
| Hopefully so. | ||
| Harry Sisson sent $10. | ||
| You need to run for state rep in that one town they make documentaries about being the most racist town in America. | ||
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Good idea! | |
| I believe that she will! | ||
| I believe that she will! | ||
| I believe that she will win! | ||
| Billy! | ||
| Clinton! | ||
| Billy! | ||
| Clinton! | ||
| *thunk* I believe that she will win! | ||
| *OSS* I believe that she will win! | ||
| I believe that she will win! | ||
| *f**** I believe that she will win! | ||
| Man, ah man. | ||
| The good old days, huh? | ||
| Based Mountaineer sent $10, Jim Justice is a boomer, and approaching 400 pounds, but in defense of my old coach, he's also a multi-billionaire, 6 foot 8 inches tall, a Christian, and a real human being. | ||
| I do get how he comes off, though. | ||
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LOL. | |
| Love ya man, thanks for these long streams. | ||
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Hey, thank you, man. | |
| Yeah, he seems alright. | ||
| It's just the fatness is a little too much, but yeah, he seems like not a bad guy. | ||
| Based Mountaineer sent $10, and for what it's worth, I have it on solid advice that Baby Dog is a longtime secret grouper. | ||
| Ah, very good. | ||
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Baby died. | |
| We lost. | ||
| I'm leaving the country, I swear to God. | ||
| I was going to go to Mexico, but then I decided Canada would be better for me to leave to. | ||
| And it's not because I don't like Mexicans. | ||
| I'm not racist, but I just like Canada more. | ||
| It's got a better vibe. | ||
| Better like... Don't take this off camera. | ||
| Better like cool hipster restaurants. | ||
| But in Mexico they do like gang killings and like beheading people and like cutting... Have you ever gone on Live League and seen the guys that cut the shirt off and they pull it? | ||
| No! | ||
| I had narcos. | ||
| Country is for everyone! | ||
| Dude! | ||
| This is not... You are the one! | ||
| You are so bad! | ||
| I was not surprised. | ||
| Good, I'm glad. | ||
| You have no ethics whatsoever! | ||
| Degenerate. | ||
| Pete! | ||
| Your seats are full of paint. | ||
| There's no place to get there. | ||
| Take your white spleenie and go back to the park. | ||
| Oh man. | ||
| Virginian sent $10. | ||
| Thank you so much for making the RNC tolerable Nick 07. | ||
| On 2016 stories, I remember the day after Trump won this freshman in my French class literally got scolded by the black female teacher in front of the whole class. | ||
| It pissed me off, he then cussed her out. | ||
| I hope that guy is doing okay now. | ||
| Yeah hopefully so. | ||
| Hey, thank you! | ||
| Thanks for the super chat. | ||
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Yeah, remember he did it to fuel his addiction and race mixing isn't wrong and neither is being gay, so I think Sketch would be perfect. | |
| Yeah, remember he did it to fuel his addiction and race mixing isn't wrong and neither is being gay. | ||
| So I think Sketch would be perfect. | ||
| He's the face of a Trump voter, right? | ||
| Forced into doing OnlyFans by addiction. | ||
| But it's not bad to race mix. | ||
| Who says it's wrong to be a gay man with a black boyfriend and you're sketched and you do OnlyFans, huh? | ||
| I mean, literally, how is that any different? | ||
| So far, the GOP At the RNC, they had a porn star on OnlyFans. | ||
| Check. | ||
| A race mixer's the vice president. | ||
| Check. | ||
| And the chair of the RNC said that it doesn't matter if you're gay or straight. | ||
| Check. | ||
| Check, check, check. | ||
| So why would Sketch not be allowed at the RNC if we have no problem with any of that? | ||
| Remember, they all defended Amber Rose. | ||
| They all defended Usha against the racist attacks. | ||
| And they all defended the exclusion of traditional marriage from the platform, so... All right. | ||
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Okay, that's our last Super Chat. | |
| That's our last Super Chat. | ||
| But I can... | ||
| All right. | ||
| Okay, that's our last super chat. | ||
| That's our last super chat. | ||
| That's going to do it for me tonight. | ||
| That's going to do it for our coverage of the RNC tournament. | ||
| Tough week this week, okay? | ||
| Long, boring week. | ||
| But thanks everybody for tuning in. | ||
| I appreciate all the support this week. | ||
| It's not over, okay? | ||
| I'm a young man. | ||
| We still have a lot of game left, okay? | ||
| But that's it for tonight. | ||
| Remember to smash the follow button and like the video here on Rumble. | ||
| We had record viewership all week, so God bless you guys. | ||
| America First is still alive, even though Trump is no longer with America First. | ||
| Normally, I'm on the air Monday through Friday at 8 o'clock Central, 9 o'clock Eastern. | ||
| As always, thanks to our Super Chatters. | ||
| In particular, Dallas, Base Dollar, Richard Lyman, Isaac, Spence, Tralt, and Baby Shark. | ||
| Huge thank you to Dallas, Richard Lyman, and Base Dollar. | ||
| The support's been amazing. | ||
| Spence, too. | ||
| All week. | ||
| But thanks to all of our Super Chatters. | ||
| Everybody that watches, we love you. | ||
| I'll see you tomorrow at the normal time. | ||
| Until then, have a great rest of your evening. | ||
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Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. | |
| It's going to be only America first. | ||
| America first. | ||
| The American people will come first once again. | ||
| America first! |
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