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trump | Sit down. You get one question. | speech |
trump | Last year, 70,000 Americans were killed, at least -- I think the number is ridiculously low -- by drugs, including meth and heroin and cocaine, fentanyl. And one of the things that I did with President Xi in China, when I met him in Argentina at a summit -- before I even started talking about the trade -- it was a trade meeting. It went very well, but before I talked about trade, I talked about something more important. | speech |
trump | Go ahead. Let's go. Let's hear it, NBC. Come on. | speech |
trump | The UK and the U. S., as you probably have been seeing and hearing, we're agreeing to go forward and preserve our trade agreement. You know all of the situation with respect to Brexit, and the complexity and the problems. But we have a very good trading relationship with the UK, and that's just been strengthened further. | speech |
trump | What difference does it make? But they should have pushed it faster. They should have pushed it harder. And they didn't. They didn't. | speech |
trump | They gave it to Obama. He didn't even know what he got it for. He was there for about 15 seconds and he got the Nobel Prize. He said, "Oh, what did I get it for?" With me, I probably will never get it. | speech |
trump | You know what happened on the West Side Highway. That young wise guy drove over and killed eight people and horribly injured -- nobody talks about that -- horribly -- like, loss of legs and arms -- going 60 miles an hour, he made a right turn into a park on the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in New York. He had many people brought in because he was in the United States. It's called chain migration. | speech |
trump | So when I got $700 billion, and then $716 billion -- and this year, it's going to be pretty big too, because there's few things more important than our military. You know, I'm a big deficit believer and all of that, but before we really start focusing on certain things, we have to build up our military. It was very badly depleted. And we're buying all new jetfighters, all new missiles, all new defensive equipment. We have -- we'll soon have a military like we've never had before. | speech |
trump | It should have -- wait. It should have never happened. Okay. | speech |
trump | You saw last month, the trade deficit went way down. Everybody said, "What happened?" Well, what's happening is growth. But before I can focus too much on that, a very big expense is military. And we have no choice but to straighten out our military. | speech |
trump | And frankly, hopefully something positive can happen. We will see. But hopefully something positive can happen. But that just was announced, and I wanted to let you know. We have imposed the heaviest sanctions ever imposed. | speech |
trump | Our administration prosecuted more people for federal firearm charges than has been done in more than a decade. And again, we're just gearing up. We've convicted 1,200 gang members and nearly 500 human traffickers. You know what human trafficking -- who would think that we have this in this age? And with our foreign partners, we've helped charge or arrest more than 4,000 members of the savage gang that we talked about -- MS-13. | speech |
trump | We've confirmed a record number--so important--of circuit court judges, and we are going to be putting in a lot more. And they will interpret the law as written. And we've confirmed an incredible new Supreme Court justice, a great man, Neil Gorsuch. Right? | speech |
trump | We're cracking down on sanctuary cities. Can you believe this? Where they protect -- that's another one. Because we want our cities to be sanctuaries for law-abiding Americans, not for criminals. | speech |
trump | You saw Apple just brought $350 billion in; Exxon brought $50 billion in. So we're going to be fighting. | speech |
trump | I was in Vietnam, and the Prime Minister and the President of Vietnam were there. And we have a massive deficit with them, like we do with everybody else because these Presidents have just let it go to hell. We have the worst trade deals you've ever seen. So we're changing it. | speech |
trump | We also need to create a culture in our country that cherishes life and human dignity. That's part of what we're talking about. A culture that condemns violence and never glorifies violence. We need to foster real human connections and turn classmates and colleagues into friends and neighbors that want to fight for us. | speech |
trump | And, by the way, the Senate Democrats and the House Democrats have totally abandoned DACA. They've total -- they don't even talk to me about it. They have totally abandoned. You know, we get the reputation -- like DACA, it's not Republican. We'll let me tell you, it is Republican, because we want to do something about DACA, get it solved after all these years. | speech |
trump | And we have to do -- for the mentally ill, we have to do very, very -- we don't want to people that are mentally ill to be having any form of weaponry. We have to be very strong on that. | speech |
trump | I don't want people who drive a car at 100 miles an hour down the West Side Highway and kill 8 innocent victims, and destroy the lives of 14 more. Nobody talks about that. Nobody ever talks about the people that have been so horribly injured, who lose legs and arms, in Manhattan, where I used to spend my time. | speech |
trump | But never--we have to worry--right now, we have a big race coming up in '18. You have to get out. You have to just get that enthusiasm. Keep it going. | speech |
trump | You know, basically, it said, you have a lot of oil and gas that we found--you know, technology has been amazing--and we found things that we never knew. But we have massive--just about the top in the world--we have massive energy reserves. We have coal. We have so much. And basically, they were saying, don't use it, you can't use it. | speech |
trump | So somebody think of it: Runs to stay in shape, leaves the house, is jogging along, working hard, ends up going home two months later with no leg or with no arm, or with two legs missing. Nobody ever talks about that. They talk about the people, rightfully, that were killed. But they don't talk about the people whose lives have been just changed -- just changed. They don't talk about that. | speech |
trump | Everywhere you go, all over the country, in cities small and large, Americans of all faiths reach out to our Creator for strength, for inspiration, and for healing. Great time for healing. In times of grief and hardship, we turn to prayer for solace and for comfort. | speech |
trump | So people are sitting there, and they're saying, "Oh, we just had that great victory. Eh, let's not vote. Let's go to a movie. We're the Republican Party, we're going to do great." And then they end up losing. | speech |
trump | And we've, at the same time, eliminated a record number of job-killing regulations, and people are going back to work. Right? People are going back to work. So--and you know, the fake news always--if I say something that's like, a little off, next day headline, "He misrepresents..."--I have to be careful. | speech |
trump | "On her way to work one morning, down the path along the lake, a tenderhearted woman saw a poor, half-hearted, frozen snake. His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew. 'Poor thing,' she cried, 'I'll take you in, and I'll take care of you.' | speech |
trump | 'I saved you,' cried the woman. 'And you've bitten me. Heaven's why? You know your bite is poisonous, and now I'm going to die.' | speech |
trump | Our nation's motto is, "In God We Trust." And this week, our nation lost an incredible leader who devoted his life to helping us understand what those words really mean. Leader. He was a leader. He was a great man. | speech |
trump | By the way, you don't mind if I go off script a little bit because, you know, it's sort of boring. It's a little boring. Got this beautiful speech, everything is wonderful but a little boring. We have to, you know -- | speech |
trump | You know what Matt didn't say -- when I was here in 2011, I made a speech, and I was received with such warmth. And they give -- they used to give -- I don't know if Matt does that because he might not want to be controversial, but they used to give "the best speech of CPAC." Do they do that still, Matt? Because you better pick me or I'm not coming back again. | speech |
trump | But I want people that are going to come in and work. And I want people that love us and look at security. And they want you to be safe, and they want to be safe. I want great people coming into this country. I don't want people coming in the way they do now, because I want people that contribute. | speech |
trump | And something I thought of this morning. You know what else? And I thought of it since I found and watched Peterson, the deputy who didn't go into the school because he didn't want to go into the school. Okay? He was tested under fire, and that wasn't a good result. | speech |
trump | CPAC has always been about big ideas and it's also been about putting those ideas into action. And CPAC really has put a lot of ideas into action. We'll talk about some of them this morning. | speech |
trump | We officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. You know, every President campaigned on, "We're going to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel." Everybody -- for many Presidents -- you've been reading it. And then they never pulled it off. And I now know why. | speech |
trump | She clutched him to her bosom, 'You're so beautiful,' she cried. But if I hadn't brought you in by now, surely you would have died.' | speech |
trump | 'Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in, for Heaven's sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,' sighed the vicious snake. | speech |
trump | Small business confidence is at a record high. And thanks to our massive tax cuts, millions of Americans are getting to keep a great percentage of their money instead of paying it to a government that throws it out the window. | speech |
trump | Above all else, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are at the center of American life. We know that. Because in America, we don't worship government, we worship God. | speech |
trump | But in the history of Presidents, no President--and I'm saying no President. Now, maybe they'll find I was off by two but we're here one year. No President--well, I read it in lots of good papers, actually. But they'll change the story when I say it. No President has ever cut so many regulations in their entire term, okay--as we've cut in less than a year. | speech |
trump | A father drops his daughter off at school, kisses her goodbye, waves to her -- she's walking up the path -- and never sees her alive again. Gets a call. Can't believe it. Thinks it's a nightmare. Wants to wake up from the nightmare. | speech |
trump | We listened to their heart-wrenching stories, asked them for ideas, and pledged to them -- and I can speak for all of the senators and congressmen and congresswomen, all of the people in this room that are involved in this decision -- that we will act. We will do something. We will act. | speech |
trump | We wish there was something -- anything -- we could do to bring Meadow and all of the others back. There are not enough tears in the world to express our sadness and anguish for her family, and for every family that has lost a precious loved one. No family should ever save -- and ever have to go in and suffer the way these families have suffered. They've suffered beyond anything that I've ever witnessed. | speech |
trump | And I love you. I respect you. I appreciate everything you've done for the country. | speech |
trump | In recent days, our entire nation has been filled with terrible pain and sorrow over the evil massacre in a great community -- Parkland, Florida. This senseless act of mass murder has shocked our nation and broken our hearts. | speech |
trump | She stroked his pretty skin again, and kissed and held him tight. But instead of saying thank you, that snake gave her a vicious bite. | speech |
trump | 'Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in for Heaven's sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,' sighed the vicious snake. | speech |
trump | So we're going to do that. And I really believe that Congress is going to get it through this time. And they have a different leader. They have somebody that wants to get it through; not somebody that's just all talk, no action, like so many of these folks. This is somebody that wants to get it through. | speech |
trump | But I also want to protect -- we need a hardened site. It has to be hardened. It can't be soft. Because they'll sneak in through a window, they'll sneak in some way. And, again, you're standing there totally unprotected. | speech |
trump | The Democrats voted in favor of sanctuary cities. In other words, they voted to protect criminal aliens instead of voting to protect the American citizens. | speech |
trump | And, by the way, we're having tremendous plans coming out now--healthcare plans--at a fraction of the cost that are much better than Obamacare. And except for one Senator, who came into a room at 3 o'clock in the morning and went like that--we would have had healthcare, too. | speech |
trump | But we have a very crooked media. We had a crooked candidate, too, by the way. But we have a very, very crooked media. | speech |
trump | As we have seen, when we are united, we can make astonishing strides for our country. Now, Republicans and Democrats must join forces again to confront an urgent national crisis. | speech |
trump | After 24 months of rapid progress, our economy is the envy of the world, our military is the most powerful on earth, and America is winning each and every day. Members of Congress: the State of our Union is strong. Our country is vibrant and our economy is thriving like never before. | speech |
trump | As we speak, large, organized caravans are on the march to the United States. We have just heard that Mexican cities, in order to remove the illegal immigrants from their communities, are getting trucks and buses to bring them up to our country in areas where there is little border protection. I have ordered another 3,750 troops to our southern border to prepare for the tremendous onslaught. | speech |
trump | Why did they do it? They did it for America--they did it for us. | speech |
trump | As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped, and there has not been a missile launch in 15 months. If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea with potentially millions of people killed. Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong Un is a good one. And Chairman Kim and I will meet again on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam. | speech |
trump | We have unleashed a revolution in American energy--the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world. And now, for the first time in 65 years, we are a net exporter of energy. | speech |
trump | We will not avert our eyes from a regime that chants death to America and threatens genocide against the Jewish people. We must never ignore the vile poison of anti-Semitism, or those who spread its venomous creed. With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs. | speech |
trump | To Debra, Heather, Madison, please stand: few can understand your pain. But I will never forget, and I will fight for the memory of Gerald and Sharon, that it should never happen again. | speech |
trump | No force in history has done more to advance the human condition than American freedom. In recent years we have made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach. My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years. Together, we will defeat AIDS in America. | speech |
trump | Simply put, walls work and walls save lives. So let's work together, compromise, and reach a deal that will truly make America safe. | speech |
trump | Tolerance for illegal immigration is not compassionate--it is cruel. One in three women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north. Smugglers use migrant children as human pawns to exploit our laws and gain access to our country. | speech |
trump | I have also accelerated our negotiations to reach a political settlement in Afghanistan. Our troops have fought with unmatched valor--and thanks to their bravery, we are now able to pursue a political solution to this long and bloody conflict. | speech |
trump | I ask the men and women of this Congress: Look at the opportunities before us! Our most thrilling achievements are still ahead. Our most exciting journeys still await. Our biggest victories are still to come. We have not yet begun to dream. | speech |
trump | Just months ago, 11 Jewish-Americans were viciously murdered in an anti-semitic attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. SWAT Officer Timothy Matson raced into the gunfire and was shot seven times chasing down the killer. Timothy has just had his 12th surgery--but he made the trip to be here with us tonight. Officer Matson: we are forever grateful for your courage in the face of evil. | speech |
trump | Our brave troops have now been fighting in the Middle East for almost 19 years. In Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly 7,000 American heroes have given their lives. More than 52,000 Americans have been badly wounded. We have spent more than $7 trillion in the Middle East. | speech |
trump | We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential. As we begin a new Congress, I stand here ready to work with you to achieve historic breakthroughs for all Americans. | speech |
trump | Here tonight is Debra Bissell. Just three weeks ago, Debra's parents, Gerald and Sharon, were burglarized and shot to death in their Reno, Nevada, home by an illegal alien. They were in their eighties and are survived by four children, 11 grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren. Also here tonight are Gerald and Sharon's granddaughter, Heather, and great-granddaughter, Madison. | speech |
trump | It includes humanitarian assistance, more law enforcement, drug detection at our ports, closing loopholes that enable child smuggling, and plans for a new physical barrier, or wall, to secure the vast areas between our ports of entry. In the past, most of the people in this room voted for a wall--but the proper wall never got built. I'll get it built. | speech |
trump | My administration has cut more regulations in a short time than any other administration during its entire tenure. Companies are coming back to our country in large numbers thanks to historic reductions in taxes and regulations. | speech |
trump | There is a new opportunity in American politics, if only we have the courage to seize it. Victory is not winning for our party. Victory is winning for our country. | speech |
trump | Alice's story underscores the disparities and unfairness that can exist in criminal sentencing--and the need to remedy this injustice. She served almost 22 years and had expected to be in prison for the rest of her life. | speech |
trump | We must choose whether we will squander our inheritance--or whether we will proudly declare that we are Americans. We do the incredible. We defy the impossible. We conquer the unknown. | speech |
trump | To ensure this corrupt dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons, I withdrew the United States from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. And last fall, we put in place the toughest sanctions ever imposed on a country. | speech |
trump | As a candidate for President, I pledged a new approach. Great nations do not fight endless wars. | speech |
trump | No issue better illustrates the divide between America's working class and America's political class than illegal immigration. Wealthy politicians and donors push for open borders while living their lives behind walls and gates and guards. | speech |
trump | What will we do with this moment? How will we be remembered? | speech |
trump | Over the last 2 years, we have begun to fully rebuild the United States Military--with $700 billion last year and $716 billion this year. We are also getting other nations to pay their fair share. For years, the United States was being treated very unfairly by NATO--but now we have secured a $100 billion increase in defense spending from NATO allies. | speech |
trump | In just over 2 years since the election, we have launched an unprecedented economic boom--a boom that has rarely been seen before. We have created 5.3 million new jobs and importantly added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs--something which almost everyone said was impossible to do, but the fact is, we are just getting started. | speech |
trump | The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime--one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our Nation's most dangerous cities. Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of our safest cities. | speech |
trump | Thank you. God Bless You, God Bless America, and good night! | speech |
trump | Many childhood cancers have not seen new therapies in decades. My budget will ask the Congress for $500 million over the next 10 years to fund this critical life-saving research. | speech |
trump | But we must do more. It is unacceptable that Americans pay vastly more than people in other countries for the exact same drugs, often made in the exact same place. This is wrong, unfair, and together we can stop it. | speech |
trump | If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesn't work that way! | speech |
trump | This is our future--our fate--and our choice to make. I am asking you to choose greatness. | speech |
trump | We are also joined tonight by Matthew Charles from Tennessee. In 1996, at age 30, Matthew was sentenced to 35 years for selling drugs and related offenses. Over the next two decades, he completed more than 30 Bible studies, became a law clerk, and mentored fellow inmates. Now, Matthew is the very first person to be released from prison under the First Step Act. Matthew, on behalf of all Americans: welcome home. | speech |
trump | No one has benefitted more from our thriving economy than women, who have filled 58 percent of the new jobs created in the last year. All Americans can be proud that we have more women in the workforce than ever before--and exactly one century after the Congress passed the Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in the Congress than ever before. | speech |
trump | This is the time to re-ignite the American imagination. This is the time to search for the tallest summit and set our sights on the brightest star. This is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us together as citizens, as neighbors, as patriots. | speech |
trump | The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican agenda or a Democrat agenda. It is the agenda of the American people. | speech |
trump | This is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier--not just a simple concrete wall. It will be deployed in the areas identified by border agents as having the greatest need, and as these agents will tell you, where walls go up, illegal crossings go way down. | speech |
trump | Therefore, we recently imposed tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods--and now our Treasury is receiving billions of dollars a month from a country that never gave us a dime. But I don't blame China for taking advantage of us--I blame our leaders and representatives for allowing this travesty to happen. I have great respect for President Xi, and we are now working on a new trade deal with China. But it must include real, structural change to end unfair trade practices, reduce our chronic trade deficit, and protect American jobs. | speech |
trump | America is a nation of laws. Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice. | speech |
trump | Every American deserves to have their voice heard in a respectful and peaceful way. That is your First Amendment right. But I cannot emphasize that there must be no violence, no lawbreaking, and no vandalism of any kind. Everyone must follow our laws and obey the instructions of law enforcement. | speech |
trump | I have directed federal agencies to use all necessary resources to maintain order. In Washington, DC, we are bringing in thousands of national guard members to secure the city and ensure that a transition can occur safely and without incident. | speech |
trump | Now I am asking everyone who has ever believed in our agenda, to be thinking of ways to ease tensions, calm tempers, and help to promote peace in our country. There has been reporting that additional demonstrations are being planned in the coming days, both here in Washington and across the country. I have been briefed by the US secret service on the potential threats. | speech |
trump | Today, I am calling on all Americans to overcome the passions of the moment and join together as one American people. Let us choose to move forward united for the good of our families, our communities, and our country. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America. | speech |
trump | Likewise, testing -- there were no tests for a new virus, but now we have tested over 40 million people. But by so doing, we show cases, 99 percent of which are totally harmless. Results that no other country will show, because no other country has testing that we have -- not in terms of the numbers or in terms of the quality. | speech |
trump | Wow. Are you having a good time? Members of Congress, members of my cabinet, and my fellow Americans: The First Lady and I are delighted to welcome you to the second annual Salute to America. | speech |
trump | Our workers, our factories have revolutionized industries and lifted millions into prosperity. Our artists, architects, and engineers have inspired the globe with transcendent works of beauty. American heroes defeated the Nazis, dethroned the fascists, toppled the communists, saved American values, upheld American principles, and chased down the terrorists to the very ends of the Earth. We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and people who, in many instances, have absolutely no clue what they are doing. | speech |