The Tucker Carlson Show - Tucker Carlson Live Tour Grand Finale with President Donald Trump LIVE in Glendale, AZ

00:00:00.000 Music

00:00:21.000 This is so cool!

00:00:24.000 Thank you!

00:00:28.000 I was just standing backstage with my wife, who never comes to events like this.

00:00:36.000 She's not very political, but she has very strong political feelings.

00:00:39.000 So strong that she doesn't like to hear about politics, because it winds her up.

00:00:42.000 And she says, two seconds ago she goes, and she's a very sweet person, former religion teacher,

00:00:47.000 and she goes, I want to introduce you.

00:00:49.000 And she has that kind of crazed look in her eye, and I said, I don't know if that's a good idea.

00:00:54.000 Why do you want to introduce me? 0.90

00:00:56.000 And she said, because I want to lead the crowd in a chant, we are not garbage.

00:01:04.000 And I thought, that's it right there.

00:01:08.000 The abuse that the best people in the country have taken for the past eight years is too much. 1.00

00:01:18.000 You're garbage? Really? 1.00

00:01:20.000 Listen to who's saying that.

00:01:22.000 Anyway, I'm really grateful to be here.

00:01:26.000 I never thought that I would be speaking at a rally for Donald Trump.

00:01:30.000 This is the fourth time I've done it.

00:01:32.000 And it has felt not only like an honor and a privilege every time, but it has felt really natural.

00:01:40.000 I'm sort of surprised.

00:01:42.000 I was in journalism for 33 years.

00:01:44.000 Hanging around, I know, someone just said, whoo!

00:01:46.000 It's nothing to brag about, trust me.

00:01:48.000 I honestly feel like saying I was young and I needed the money.

00:01:52.000 You know, it's almost like when the naughty pictures of you emerge and you're like, ah, you know, that was the old me. 0.98

00:01:58.000 But I, you know, I spent my whole life standing at the back, watching, and I always thought, ugh, politicians, they're disgusting. 0.97

00:02:06.000 By the way, I still think that. 0.97

00:02:08.000 I would never get on stage and endorse one.

00:02:11.000 You'd have to be totally bereft of a soul to do something like that.

00:02:16.000 And here I am with a full-throated, utterly sincere endorsement of Donald Trump.

00:02:22.000 How did that happen?

00:02:24.000 And I was thinking about that this morning in the shower where I do my best thinking.

00:02:34.000 I like thinking in the shower because there's no lying to yourself in the shower.

00:02:38.000 Because when you walk out of the shower and you see this kind of furry, lumpy primate in the mirror, there's no imagining you're God.

00:02:46.000 No, it's very grounding to see yourself naked at least once a day.

00:02:50.000 I always think I got to hang a black sheet over that mirror, but I keep it, I keep it just to keep me on the ground and with perspective.

00:02:58.000 Anyway, I was thinking about this morning and I was thinking, I've known Donald Trump, gosh, a long time just from working in television.

00:03:04.000 And what people forget about Donald Trump, who is often described as a real estate developer, a casino owner, both of which are true, but that for, you know, a huge chunk of his life, 10 years anyway, he had the number one show on television.

00:03:18.000 He had mastered the business that I was in.

00:03:20.000 And, you know, on the one hand, television is kind of a repulsive business.

00:03:25.000 It's like a P. Diddy party every night.

00:03:28.000 Ew, ew, ew, yeah.

00:03:30.000 Tell me about it.

00:03:31.000 I spent 30 years doing it.

00:03:32.000 But on the other hand, the people who are really, really successful, and Trump was number one in television, all have one thing in common, which is they understand people.

00:03:40.000 And the good ones like people.

00:03:42.000 And so, and their likes back.

00:03:44.000 And by the way, you probably know this, but in the TV business, which has spent the last eight years telling you Trump is a terrifying dictator, he was loved.

00:03:52.000 I mean, everyone loved him.

00:03:53.000 And I liked him.

00:03:54.000 I mean, I liked him from the first time I talked to him 20 years ago.

00:03:57.000 He was hilarious.

00:03:58.000 And interesting and smart.

00:04:00.000 And again, incredibly funny.

00:04:02.000 And it was almost 10 years ago.

00:04:05.000 It was the winter of 2015.

00:04:07.000 I was in the car.

00:04:08.000 I actually interviewed Trump that morning.

00:04:10.000 I was working on a TV network that shall not be named.

00:04:13.000 And Trump was the guest.

00:04:16.000 And he was, of course, this famous star on another network, NBC.

00:04:21.000 And he did great, like he always did.

00:04:23.000 We had a great time.

00:04:24.000 And about three hours later, I was in the car going somewhere, and he called me.

00:04:27.000 And he said, I just want you to know that I'm thinking of running for president.

00:04:32.000 And I just did not take it seriously at all.

00:04:35.000 And I said, oh, yeah, I'm running for president, okay.

00:04:38.000 You know, because everyone in TV thinks I should be president.

00:04:41.000 You know, Joe Scarborough wakes up every morning, I should be president.

00:04:44.000 You know, but he's not really going to run because you don't want to give up the salary.

00:04:48.000 And it's hard to run for president.

00:04:49.000 It's just a way to sell a book or whatever.

00:04:51.000 So I kind of laughed.

00:04:52.000 And he said, no, I'm going to surprise you.

00:04:56.000 And it was such a weird conversation that I actually wrote it down in my calendar.

00:05:01.000 I looked it up today.

00:05:03.000 I wrote it down.

00:05:04.000 Donald Trump calls, says he's going to run for president.

00:05:06.000 Because there was something in his voice that didn't sound like the Trump I thought I knew.

00:05:11.000 There was a resolve there that I thought was amazing.

00:05:14.000 And, of course, the rest is history.

00:05:15.000 Almost 10 years later, he has completely transformed the country and the world and the political party under whose banner he ran, the Republican Party.

00:05:24.000 And for me, it was this incredible journey of watching this guy, covering him, knowing him, to where I am now, which is speaking on a stage without any shame at all, not getting paid for it.

00:05:39.000 Doing it because I really, really mean it and endorsing him for president.

00:05:43.000 And so I just want to explain how I got here because I think it says a lot about who Trump is.

00:05:48.000 So the first thing I noticed about Trump was that everybody in the Republican Party I had suspicions about hated him immediately.

00:05:58.000 There was something about Donald Trump that whenever he spoke, that the people I had always thought were kind of false, the Jonah Goldbergs of the world, the Mitch McConnells of the world.

00:06:09.000 They, no, I mean, boo, boo, boo. 0.96

00:06:11.000 But, I mean, these were leading figures in the Republican Party.

00:06:14.000 My neighbors in Washington, D.C. who are Republicans.

00:06:17.000 You know, here Trump comes out of nowhere.

00:06:20.000 He seems to be gaining traction.

00:06:22.000 People who'd never voted Republican, who never voted at all, seem to like Trump.

00:06:26.000 This seemed like great news if you're trying to expand your political party.

00:06:29.000 And yet the Republicans in Washington were so offended by Trump that they couldn't even talk about him.

00:06:36.000 I remember being at a Christmas party in 2015 with my aforementioned sweet wife at our neighbor's house.

00:06:41.000 You know, all kinds of people sitting around.

00:06:43.000 And someone mentioned Trump.

00:06:44.000 And my wife, who's not political at all, says, I like Trump.

00:06:49.000 I remember one of my neighbors goes, oh, yeah, I like Trump.

00:06:52.000 That's hilarious.

00:06:53.000 And my wife goes, no, no, I do like Trump.

00:06:56.000 Why? Is that bad?

00:06:57.000 And people, it was like the devil getting splashed with holy water.

00:07:01.000 They just moved back slowly staring at her like, is this person dangerous?

00:07:05.000 That was such a shocking thing to say in Northwest DC in 2015.

00:07:12.000 And I began to ask myself, why is Donald Trump so threatening?

00:07:16.000 Is it because he's got some crazed extremist program?

00:07:21.000 No.

00:07:22.000 Everything he said was kind of moderate and sensible.

00:07:24.000 Like, I don't know, we should have a border.

00:07:26.000 And if we're going to have NATO, maybe the countries in NATO should help pay for it.

00:07:31.000 If we're going to defend Europe, maybe they could, you know, pony up a little bit.

00:07:36.000 Why are we paying the entire bill?

00:07:39.000 That didn't seem crazy to me. 0.97

00:07:41.000 Boy, they treated Trump like he was a dangerous freak. 0.99

00:07:44.000 Like he just escaped from the state mental institution. 0.99

00:07:47.000 Shackles on his arm and a butcher knife in his hand.

00:07:50.000 Stop this man.

00:07:52.000 And I just remember watching this.

00:07:55.000 I didn't really, I wasn't emotional about it at first.

00:07:57.000 I remember thinking my neighbors all seem so reasonable and sensible.

00:08:00.000 Even the Democrats.

00:08:01.000 All kind of normal people.

00:08:03.000 I mean, I lived on their street.

00:08:04.000 Why are they so mad about a guy who says stuff like we should have a border?

00:08:09.000 And then I realized that they hated Trump because Trump asked questions they couldn't answer.

00:08:15.000 Like, why are we doing it this way?

00:08:18.000 And I remember thinking and saying, well, I don't know, why don't you just answer his question?

00:08:23.000 If not having a border is such a good idea, if it's so important to have a tight labor market.

00:08:28.000 Or if you think tariffs are so terrible, why don't you just explain why?

00:08:31.000 Why are you yelling at the guy?

00:08:33.000 No matter what he said, he would get up and say, I think we should have tariffs.

00:08:36.000 And they would say racist.

00:08:38.000 And I would think to myself, what do tariffs have to do with race?

00:08:43.000 I was completely confused.

00:08:46.000 And then over time, within about a year, I realized people hated Trump because they were guilty of crimes.

00:08:53.000 And those people were my neighbors and coworkers.

00:08:59.000 My mind exploded.

00:09:00.000 I mean, ultimately, I had to leave the city where I spent my entire life.

00:09:03.000 Because thanks to Donald Trump, I saw what it really was, which was a scam.

00:09:11.000 It was the richest city in the United States.

00:09:14.000 Its suburbs, eight out of 10 of the richest suburbs were suburbs of Washington, D.C.

00:09:19.000 And we didn't make anything.

00:09:22.000 There was no business there.

00:09:25.000 There was no production of anything.

00:09:28.000 By the way, there was also no creativity or open mindedness.

00:09:31.000 How did these people get so rich?

00:09:34.000 Well, by stealing.

00:09:35.000 That's how.

00:09:36.000 That had never occurred to me until Trump came.

00:09:40.000 And yet everybody involved in the grift knew instantly the jig was up.

00:09:46.000 If this guy keeps talking, we're in deep trouble.

00:09:51.000 And I'm not even sure.

00:09:53.000 And he's coming on stage in a minute.

00:09:55.000 And maybe we can ask him.

00:09:57.000 I'm not even sure that when he got to Washington, Donald Trump understood how corrupt the city was.

00:10:02.000 I'm not sure he even knew.

00:10:04.000 He sensed there was a problem.

00:10:06.000 Neither he nor me nor any normal person had any idea that even before he got to the city,

00:10:12.000 the CIA and the FBI would be working to destroy him.

00:10:15.000 That's the threat that he posed to them.

00:10:18.000 And what was that threat?

00:10:20.000 Just being honest in a simple way about what he saw.

00:10:23.000 Telling the truth.

00:10:25.000 They saw the truth as a mortal threat and they see the truth as a mortal threat now.

00:10:30.000 I really think, I mean, look, let's be completely honest.

00:10:34.000 Donald Trump is the choice of American voters for president.

00:10:40.000 That's not wish fulfillment.

00:10:45.000 I'm not saying that because I want it to be true, though I do.

00:10:49.000 I'm saying that because it's completely obvious.

00:10:52.000 There is no Democrat running for anything who could fill a hall like this,

00:10:58.000 who could do it four times a day for a year.

00:11:01.000 There's not one.

00:11:02.000 There's no Republican in Washington.

00:11:04.000 Could Mitch McConnell fill this hall?

00:11:06.000 I don't think so.

00:11:08.000 Yeah.

00:11:09.000 Every boo is deserved if you only knew how deserved those boos were. 0.60

00:11:14.000 One of the things that we learned from Donald Trump, one of the many, many things,

00:11:19.000 completely changed my life watching it,

00:11:21.000 one of the many things we learned is that the Republican Party,

00:11:25.000 the leaders of the Republican Party, really despised their own voters.

00:11:30.000 They had zero interest in improving their lives.

00:11:35.000 And we know this because as 100,000 a year died of drug overdose,

00:11:41.000 as their towns died from offshoring of industry,

00:11:46.000 as their towns were invaded from people from foreign countries who were here illegally,

00:11:51.000 they did nothing.

00:11:53.000 Their attention was focused abroad to the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

00:11:58.000 That's where all the money went.

00:11:59.000 That's where all the prayers went.

00:12:01.000 That's where all the attention went, because that's all they cared about. 0.63

00:12:04.000 They didn't care at all about their own voters.

00:12:08.000 And by the way, I didn't really know that.

00:12:11.000 I think most people in this room sense that.

00:12:13.000 You know when someone doesn't care about you.

00:12:15.000 You can feel it.

00:12:16.000 You can feel the contempt coming off them in oily waves.

00:12:19.000 That's exactly what that is.

00:12:21.000 It's contempt. 1.00

00:12:22.000 Joe Biden's not the only one who thinks you're garbage, actually. 0.99

00:12:25.000 Mitch McConnell agrees with that. 0.99

00:12:26.000 That's a fact.

00:12:27.000 And that's one of the reasons that they don't want Donald Trump back in Washington.

00:12:33.000 But the main reason they don't want Donald Trump back in Washington is something called disclosure.

00:12:38.000 Do you know what disclosure is?

00:12:41.000 Disclosure means sunlight.

00:12:43.000 Disclosure is the principle that you, as an American citizen, an equity owner of this country,

00:12:50.000 not a renter, not a serf, not a slave, but as a citizen, an owner of this country,

00:12:56.000 a person on whose behalf the government exists.

00:13:01.000 There's no other reason to have the government except to serve you,

00:13:05.000 that you have a right to know what that government is doing with your money in your name.

00:13:10.000 It's not a privilege that you are granted.

00:13:14.000 If they're in a good mood one day, you can know a little bit more about how John F. Kennedy was murdered in 1963.

00:13:21.000 You have an absolute moral right to know because you own it.

00:13:28.000 They're your employees who somehow have decided they're your overlords.

00:13:34.000 And they're very concerned that if Donald Trump comes back to Washington,

00:13:38.000 we're going to find out what's happened to the hundred billion dollars that we've sent Ukraine over the past two and a half.

00:13:44.000 What happened to that money?

00:13:46.000 There's never been an audit of it.

00:13:48.000 Where do you think it went?

00:13:49.000 Have you been to McLean recently?

00:13:52.000 Yeah.

00:13:53.000 It's not just Hunter Biden, by the way.

00:13:56.000 Hunter Biden, I mean, to his great credit, was so high on crack he couldn't steal half as much

00:14:04.000 as, you know, your average contractor in Washington and his friends.

00:14:10.000 So the truth is, actual crimes have taken place, crimes that made people rich, crimes that hurt American citizens.

00:14:19.000 And you're not allowed to know their scale or the details about any of them because it's classified.

00:14:25.000 And they're terrified if Donald Trump gets back accompanied by a full cast of reformers, not alone this time, not a single man riding into Washington, man against the machine.

00:14:42.000 It's hard to do that.

00:14:44.000 He did it.

00:14:45.000 He fought off two impeachment attempts for daring to do it.

00:14:48.000 But if he comes back with, I don't know, Bobby Kennedy and Elon Musk.

00:14:55.000 When he comes back with an army of people who know exactly what's up, they know what's going on.

00:15:04.000 They know where the bodies are likely to be buried.

00:15:06.000 And they're coming with shovels to dig them up.

00:15:13.000 What you're seeing now is actual panic and desperation.

00:15:23.000 And I've just, I guess I've kind of backhandedly defended Hunter Biden on the grounds that he was so out of it, he had no idea what was actually going on.

00:15:31.000 I'll extend the same courtesy to Kamala Harris.

00:15:36.000 And that creepy guy who's following around on the campaign trail.

00:15:41.000 By the way, AOC just said the other day, speaking of which, AOC, that would be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:15:52.000 I love that.

00:15:54.000 She's this revolutionary who's named after a conquistador and doesn't even know it.

00:15:59.000 Your last name is Cortez, honey, sit this one out.

00:16:04.000 Excuse me.

00:16:06.000 And people would be like, Larry Mussolini shows up and is like, no, I'm against fascism, really.

00:16:11.000 All right.

00:16:12.000 Got it. 1.00

00:16:13.000 What a moron. 1.00

00:16:15.000 But she was at a rally in Vegas yesterday and she goes, Doug Emhoff is the model of masculinity. 1.00

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00:16:30.000 Yeah.

00:16:31.000 Memo to any unmarried women here, do not date a feminist man. 0.92

00:16:36.000 They'll smack you around, trust me. 0.88

00:16:39.000 It's the weak ones you have to be afraid of.

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00:16:50.000 And this is existential for them.

00:16:52.000 So I would just say, without putting too fine a point on it, but every person in this room senses what I'm talking about.

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00:17:24.000 People serve at the pleasure of the population for the benefit of the population.

00:17:29.000 It's literally that simple.

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00:19:49.000 Donald Trump has stood in the face of that group, which includes every power center, not simply

00:20:12.000 the United States, but in the world, almost since the day he called me in the car in the

00:20:17.000 winter of 2015 and said he was dead serious about running.

00:20:20.000 And he has faced them off and he has endured more punishment, graver trials than any politician

00:20:27.000 in the history of this country.

00:20:30.000 And he didn't need to.

00:20:32.000 He didn't need to.

00:20:33.000 At any point, he could have said, you know what?

00:20:35.000 I've got a lot of grandchildren, some of whom I enjoy playing golf with.

00:20:38.000 I'm pretty rich, actually.

00:20:39.000 You may have heard that.

00:20:41.000 And I don't need this.

00:20:43.000 And he has pulled forward with energy and cheerfulness from beginning to end.

00:20:55.000 And I would submit, since AOC raised the question of what a real man looks like, let me just tell

00:21:04.000 you my view of what a real man looks like.

00:21:07.000 A real man is a cheerful man.

00:21:11.000 And he's cheerful because he's brave.

00:21:14.000 Brave people have hope because they have a mission and they're strong inside.

00:21:21.000 And they know because they are living for something greater than themselves that even if they die,

00:21:26.000 they don't die.

00:21:27.000 The mission lives on.

00:21:29.000 And that's what gives them heart and cheerfulness.

00:21:32.000 They are not morose.

00:21:34.000 They are not self-pitying.

00:21:36.000 They are bright, bright-eyed, cheerful, energetic, and in command.

00:21:41.000 And that is exactly what Trump has proven to be, including on the day he was shot in the face.

00:21:47.000 And I know because I talked to him that night.

00:21:50.000 And he made a joke about it.

00:22:00.000 And I sometimes think, I'm a pretty tough guy.

00:22:02.000 I've been fired by all these cable networks.

00:22:05.000 It's really hard to be fired by a cable network.

00:22:09.000 I've really been through it.

00:22:10.000 Thank me for my service later.

00:22:13.000 It's absurd.

00:22:18.000 All of us are the heroes of our own drama.

00:22:21.000 Of course, no matter what it is.

00:22:23.000 You teach middle school social studies.

00:22:25.000 I'm sure you come home and think, man, I fought a battle today. 1.00

00:22:30.000 You run some stupid cable TV show and you're like, I'm tough as hell. 1.00

00:22:35.000 Try getting shot in the face at a rally. 1.00

00:22:38.000 And then pushing off the Secret Service and standing up with your fist in the air. 0.98

00:22:42.000 Try that.

00:22:43.000 That was the most revealing moment I have ever seen in the life, not just of any politician,

00:22:53.000 but of any person I have known personally.

00:22:56.000 Someone I actually know.

00:22:58.000 And that's the moment that little boys dream about.

00:23:01.000 That's, I mean, every little boy, because men do not become men organically.

00:23:07.000 They have to prove that they're men.

00:23:10.000 And every little boy dreams about some war scenario.

00:23:14.000 Everyone's dead but me.

00:23:15.000 And I'm charging the machine gun nest because I'm the bravest man.

00:23:20.000 Would you?

00:23:21.000 Would you be the bravest man?

00:23:23.000 Or would you be in fetal position calling out your mom's name?

00:23:27.000 I don't know.

00:23:28.000 We don't know.

00:23:29.000 You haven't been put in that position.

00:23:30.000 I haven't either.

00:23:31.000 Donald Trump just was on camera.

00:23:34.000 It was so unbelievable that Democrats on MSNBC and the internet immediately accused him

00:23:40.000 of faking it on the grounds that nobody could be that brave.

00:23:44.000 And it's true. 0.56

00:23:45.000 That's not a kind of Doug Emhoff thing to do.

00:23:48.000 Kind of hard to imagine the second gentleman standing up and being like, fight, fight, fight.

00:23:54.000 You know, or Tim Walls.

00:23:58.000 But the truth is, masculinity is still an indispensable thing.

00:24:08.000 I'm sorry.

00:24:09.000 It is.

00:24:11.000 Even in an age of Uber Eats and air conditioning, no one's going out to slay a mastodon with a spear,

00:24:19.000 but you still need a brave man in charge because it's a rough world and unexpected things happen.

00:24:24.000 And as my friend Mike Tyson said famously, everybody got a plan until he gets hit in the face.

00:24:31.000 So what's your plan when you get shot in the face?

00:24:33.000 You don't have a plan.

00:24:34.000 You act purely on instincts.

00:24:36.000 And that's when we find out if you're a leader or not.

00:24:39.000 And that's what we learned.

00:24:40.000 And we're learning it still.

00:24:42.000 We're learning it still because even if you or me have been able to pull that off,

00:24:47.000 you think that's the end?

00:24:49.000 You think that's the last time they're going to try to do that to you?

00:24:51.000 Are you joking?

00:24:52.000 No, probably not.

00:24:54.000 You think even if you manage to get the most votes, you can get elected.

00:24:59.000 If you get elected, what's it going to be like to govern?

00:25:01.000 It is an unending struggle every single day to represent the people you've promised to represent,

00:25:09.000 the people who otherwise have no representation.

00:25:12.000 None.

00:25:13.000 Because trust me, outside of Donald Trump, very few people in Washington care about you.

00:25:18.000 And I mean that because you're not Ukrainian. 0.98

00:25:22.000 But he does care.

00:25:24.000 And because he cares, because at this point, I don't care if you're a New York Times correspondent

00:25:29.000 and if there are any in this room, let me raise my middle finger in your face.

00:25:33.000 And that is heartfelt.

00:25:36.000 I mean that.

00:25:37.000 That's not just some talking point I'm throwing out there to make you feel good.

00:25:42.000 My hostility toward legacy media is earned.

00:25:45.000 I know them.

00:25:46.000 They're worse than you think.

00:25:48.000 But that's not just a talking point.

00:25:55.000 That is real.

00:25:57.000 Someone who is willing to do that on your behalf is not only the man you need, he's the only man who can represent you.

00:26:08.000 Because that's what it's going to take.

00:26:11.000 You're going to have to stare down the barrel of the hate aimed at you, not just from assorted people on the internet,

00:26:18.000 but from the most powerful people on the planet.

00:26:22.000 And you're going to have to stand up as straight and say onward with a smile on your face every day.

00:26:28.000 And he's the only person I have ever met in my entire 55 years on this planet who can do that.

00:26:36.000 So with that, let me get my handheld mic to introduce the former and next president.

00:26:45.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:27:08.000 Well, thank you.

00:27:09.000 Thank you.

00:27:10.000 So, I've been thinking this for the past eight years, and I think I've thought it more frequently this year.

00:27:23.000 What motivates you to keep going?

00:27:25.000 Who the hell knows?

00:27:26.000 I don't know.

00:27:27.000 I just want to be with people like this.

00:27:30.000 There's so much love in this room.

00:27:33.000 So much love, right?

00:27:35.000 Isn't that amazing?

00:27:37.000 Yeah.

00:27:38.000 It's pretty easy.

00:27:39.000 I could have a lot of different...

00:27:42.000 I have a lot of alternatives.

00:27:43.000 I could be in a beautiful beach with the waves hitting me in the face and all that boring stuff.

00:27:48.000 And I've been there.

00:27:49.000 And you get very bored pretty easily.

00:27:51.000 I have one thing in mind.

00:27:53.000 It's called make America great again.

00:27:56.000 That's all I think about.

00:28:00.000 Amen.

00:28:01.000 But was there ever a moment...

00:28:03.000 I mean, I don't want to go through the litany, but I was thinking about it today.

00:28:07.000 Because we've all...

00:28:08.000 Every person in this room has followed this so carefully.

00:28:11.000 But if you make a list of all the attacks, some of which are just mind boggling in their viciousness and unfairness,

00:28:19.000 culminating with being shot.

00:28:21.000 Was there ever a moment where you just thought, you know, come on, this is too much?

00:28:26.000 You like not to think about that, honestly.

00:28:29.000 And there are moments when you don't feel so good about things, but you try not to do that.

00:28:33.000 You try not to...

00:28:35.000 I always like to look forward.

00:28:37.000 I don't like to look so much in the present.

00:28:39.000 I don't like to look in the past so much.

00:28:42.000 Other than you have to learn from the past.

00:28:44.000 It's history.

00:28:45.000 You have to learn. 1.00

00:28:46.000 Otherwise, you're a very foolish person. 1.00

00:28:47.000 But I like to look forward. 1.00

00:28:49.000 I like to think of the positive.

00:28:50.000 I think you have to have a sort of the positive, the power of positive thinking in a way.

00:28:55.000 And I don't know.

00:28:57.000 It's just a mission that I'm on.

00:28:58.000 I felt we did great in the first election, 2016.

00:29:03.000 We did much better in the second election.

00:29:05.000 Bad things happened.

00:29:07.000 Bad, bad, bad things happened.

00:29:09.000 And had I not done well in the second, I would have said, all right, that's it.

00:29:12.000 Because, you know, you wouldn't have done well.

00:29:14.000 But I knew how well we did.

00:29:16.000 And now...

00:29:18.000 You're right about that.

00:29:20.000 But...

00:29:21.000 No, but if I didn't do...

00:29:23.000 You know, we got millions and millions more votes in the second election,

00:29:27.000 which rarely happens to a president.

00:29:29.000 Usually, they get less.

00:29:30.000 Almost all the time, they get less.

00:29:32.000 Obama got less.

00:29:33.000 Barack Hussein Obama.

00:29:34.000 He got a lot less.

00:29:36.000 And...

00:29:39.000 Had we not...

00:29:40.000 No, had we not done well.

00:29:42.000 But I knew how well we did.

00:29:44.000 And I said, well, let's see how they do.

00:29:46.000 And I waited.

00:29:47.000 And I waited around for a year.

00:29:49.000 And I looked at these people. 0.98

00:29:50.000 And Biden was grossly incompetent. 0.97

00:29:52.000 I saw that. 0.97

00:29:53.000 His vice president wasn't even a discussion.

00:29:56.000 She came in last.

00:29:57.000 She was the first one to get out of the Democrat primary.

00:30:01.000 She was, I guess, number 22.

00:30:03.000 I think there were 22 people.

00:30:05.000 And she was the last...

00:30:06.000 She was the last or first out, if you want to look at it that way.

00:30:09.000 She never got to Iowa.

00:30:11.000 But I was watching.

00:30:12.000 And if they could do well, I would have been very happy.

00:30:15.000 Actually, I would have been very satisfied. 0.93

00:30:17.000 But they were grossly incompetent.

00:30:19.000 And when I watched what they were doing and how they were destroying this country at the border...

00:30:24.000 I mean, millions and millions of people.

00:30:26.000 I'm sure we have some in here tonight with us.

00:30:28.000 You know, murderers and drug dealers, prisoners.

00:30:34.000 You know, they have prisons from all over the world are being emptied out into our country.

00:30:41.000 All over the world, the Congo and Africa, not just South America.

00:30:45.000 You know this.

00:30:46.000 They're opening up their prisons and they're bringing them into our country. 1.00

00:30:49.000 Anyway, so I watched other things, too.

00:30:52.000 I watched, I mean, Afghanistan.

00:30:54.000 You take a look at Afghanistan, what happened with Afghanistan, how bad that was. 1.00

00:30:59.000 I wanted to get out.

00:31:00.000 We were getting out.

00:31:01.000 We were going to keep Bagram, but we were getting out with dignity and strength. 0.68

00:31:05.000 We were strong.

00:31:07.000 And the way they got out, they took the soldiers out first.

00:31:10.000 No, you take the soldiers out last.

00:31:12.000 Anybody would know that.

00:31:14.000 And you watched all of the things that happened.

00:31:17.000 And I said, we're going to do this thing.

00:31:19.000 We're going to do it again.

00:31:20.000 And we're doing well.

00:31:21.000 I mean, now we're going to know in four days.

00:31:24.000 But we're doing very well.

00:31:25.000 I think we're leading by a lot.

00:31:28.000 And if we can keep them, if we can keep that cheating down,

00:31:33.000 because there are a bunch of cheats, if we can keep that cheating down,

00:31:36.000 we're going to have a tremendous victory.

00:31:38.000 I think, I think it'll be, I think it'll go down as one of the greatest victories of all time.

00:31:44.000 So we're going to have some, we're going to have an exciting time.

00:31:48.000 We're going to have an exciting time.

00:31:50.000 So you were in New Mexico the other day.

00:31:53.000 New Mexico is considered a pretty, pretty blue state.

00:31:56.000 What were you doing there?

00:31:58.000 Well, they're also a border state.

00:32:00.000 They have people pouring in by the tens of thousands and they're being decimated.

00:32:05.000 They're being hurt very badly.

00:32:06.000 They also have a pretty rotten economy for a lot of reasons.

00:32:09.000 But what they really have is tremendous inflation.

00:32:12.000 But beyond that, because I happen to think that the border is the single biggest issue.

00:32:16.000 I think the border is a bigger issue than inflation.

00:32:19.000 Inflation is destroying and it's a country buster.

00:32:21.000 You know, inflation, it's broken up many countries, including Germany from many years ago.

00:32:27.000 Lots of, you look at where there was big, big, this was the biggest inflation and the worst inflation we've ever had.

00:32:34.000 They say in 48 years, they don't include a lot of things.

00:32:37.000 It was the worst inflation we've ever had.

00:32:39.000 Inflation is a country buster.

00:32:42.000 So I'm not trying to minimize that.

00:32:45.000 But I think the biggest problem and the worst thing that's happened to this country is allowing millions of people in here that are criminal people. 0.77

00:32:54.000 Look, when you empty out your prisons and you put them into the United States, a lot of bad things happen.

00:33:01.000 And they're coming in totally unvetted, totally unchecked.

00:33:05.000 They're pouring in.

00:33:06.000 Venezuela has allowed thousands and thousands of the roughest prisoners in the world to come in. 0.99

00:33:14.000 You know, their crime rate, their crime rate is way down.

00:33:18.000 I think like 70 percent, 72 percent.

00:33:21.000 They've taken from Caracas and the cities in Venezuela where they have the problem.

00:33:26.000 They've taken the street gangs and they've delivered them into the United States. 0.99

00:33:30.000 Thank you very much.

00:33:31.000 They've taken their criminals.

00:33:33.000 They've taken their drug dealers and drug lords.

00:33:36.000 They've taken them out of Caracas and they brought them into the United States. 0.97

00:33:40.000 And it is a disgrace.

00:33:42.000 And we are going to have to do a very large deportation because you can't, you can't live like that.

00:33:49.000 You can't, it cannot be sustained, Tucker.

00:33:52.000 Cannot be sustained.

00:33:53.000 I think you know that better than anybody.

00:33:55.000 So I want, I do know, I think it's the gravest crime ever committed against the United States ever by any country.

00:34:04.000 We committed, our leaders committed against us.

00:34:07.000 But it does raise the question of motive.

00:34:10.000 It, it hasn't helped the labor market any.

00:34:12.000 It hasn't helped Americans at all. 0.54

00:34:15.000 The, I mean, you've heard a Democratic senator stood up and said the United States military should take these people.

00:34:21.000 We should give them guns. 0.57

00:34:22.000 New York City has given them guns and the police department.

00:34:25.000 Like you wonder like what is going on here?

00:34:28.000 So it's the hardest thing, you know, in business and you like to go and where you started from.

00:34:33.000 You sort of like to understand where the other side's coming from.

00:34:36.000 So here you're looking at something.

00:34:38.000 Why do they want men in women's sports? 1.00

00:34:42.000 And you know, I've been doing this now.

00:34:44.000 I used to say I was very proud to say I wasn't a politician, but I guess after a while you're sort of a politician.

00:34:49.000 I think you, you qualify.

00:34:50.000 And you know, so, I mean, I hate to say it, but you like to know where the other side's coming from.

00:34:55.000 And I'll say why do they want to have men, and they're so emphatic about it, men playing in women's sports. 0.86

00:35:05.000 You see what's happening in volleyball, what's happening in swimming, what's happening in weightlifting.

00:35:09.000 How about weightlifting, where records that stood for 18 years, you know, are being broken like by hundreds of pounds.

00:35:17.000 A whole thing is crazy.

00:35:19.000 And you say, why do they want to have transition, I call them transition operations by the thousands.

00:35:28.000 If you just say, well, I'm thinking about it, they throw you into an operating table.

00:35:32.000 And you say, why do they want to have that?

00:35:36.000 Who wants that? 1.00

00:35:37.000 Who wants to have open borders, which are, they're all the same thing.

00:35:40.000 They don't make any sense.

00:35:41.000 You know, we're the party of common sense, right?

00:35:43.000 Because I think we're really the party of common sense.

00:35:45.000 And, and they're only, there can only be a couple of reasons. 1.00

00:35:50.000 Number one, they're stupid. 1.00

00:35:52.000 Well, they're not stupid because you can't be stupid. 1.00

00:35:55.000 No, but you can't be stupid and be that good at cheating on elections. 1.00

00:35:59.000 Okay. 1.00

00:36:00.000 Because they're great at that. 1.00

00:36:02.000 So they could be stupid. 1.00

00:36:03.000 They could also hate our country. 1.00

00:36:07.000 They could hate our country.

00:36:09.000 They may, they may hate our country.

00:36:11.000 They may not even know it.

00:36:12.000 You know, they mean a lot of people don't know it, but they, and the other thing is they want to cheat on elections by signing these people up and they are trying to sign people up.

00:36:22.000 They're trying to sign people up that don't even know what country they're in.

00:36:25.000 Okay.

00:36:26.000 So that's the other thing.

00:36:27.000 So it's one of those three things.

00:36:29.000 Nobody really knows, but you'd say, okay, so I've been doing this for a while.

00:36:34.000 I've never had anybody.

00:36:36.000 I've had people come up and say, gee, it would be great if you could get the taxes down.

00:36:40.000 Gee, it would be great if you could do this.

00:36:41.000 It would be hundreds of things.

00:36:43.000 Nobody's ever come up to me and said, it's really important to me that we allow men to play in women's sports.

00:36:50.000 Nobody.

00:36:51.000 Nobody.

00:36:52.000 And yet, it's such a big deal.

00:36:54.000 It's such a big deal.

00:36:55.000 So you think the point may be just to destroy, just to break the country?

00:36:59.000 It could be they hate our country.

00:37:00.000 They hate our country.

00:37:01.000 I mean, they may hate our country. 1.00

00:37:03.000 And we deal with real scum. 0.99

00:37:05.000 It's a guy like Adam, Adam Shifty Schiff. 1.00

00:37:08.000 He's a sleazebag.

00:37:10.000 And he's probably going to be a senator, if you can believe it. 0.85

00:37:13.000 But I call him watermelon head.

00:37:15.000 He has the... 0.82

00:37:17.000 No, he's unattractive both inside and out.

00:37:20.000 That is...

00:37:21.000 No, but this is a really bad guy. 0.97

00:37:26.000 This is a dishonest guy. 0.99

00:37:28.000 Not a dumb guy at all. 1.00

00:37:30.000 He's got the smallest neck I've ever seen on a human bag. 0.99

00:37:35.000 He will never be a football player, I can tell you.

00:37:38.000 But he's a smart guy.

00:37:40.000 But he's a...

00:37:41.000 He's just a sleazebag. 0.90

00:37:43.000 You know, there's nothing else he could... 0.88

00:37:45.000 I'll give you...

00:37:46.000 Should I give you a little example?

00:37:47.000 I hope you will.

00:37:48.000 I'm really enjoying this a lot.

00:37:49.000 This gentleman happens to like my son, Don, I think.

00:37:52.000 A lot.

00:37:53.000 Because he likes you.

00:37:54.000 Now, maybe you don't, but he likes you.

00:37:55.000 I have a son, Don, who's a good guy.

00:37:57.000 He's a good guy.

00:37:58.000 He's a wild man.

00:38:00.000 A little wild.

00:38:01.000 I would say he's a little wild.

00:38:03.000 In a good way.

00:38:04.000 But in a good way.

00:38:05.000 He's a very good kid.

00:38:06.000 And I read about, like, all of a sudden, he's involved with Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:38:13.000 I said, but I know him so well.

00:38:15.000 He's my boy.

00:38:16.000 I know exactly.

00:38:17.000 He knows less about Russia than the cameraman that's sitting right there who's never been...

00:38:22.000 Don doesn't know anything about Russia.

00:38:25.000 But one day about, you know, two years, three years before, they met a whole group of people,

00:38:30.000 met with a Russian lawyer having to do with the Novitski Act or something, having to do with child adoption.

00:38:37.000 Adoption.

00:38:38.000 Adoption.

00:38:39.000 Crazy. 0.57

00:38:40.000 But she was a Russian. 0.90

00:38:41.000 Now, everybody in Congress knew this woman.

00:38:43.000 But anyway, they go after him.

00:38:45.000 Now, think of this.

00:38:46.000 Russia, Russia, Russia was a major hoax. 0.77

00:38:48.000 Okay?

00:38:49.000 It's now been a judge to be a total major hoax.

00:38:51.000 We had the Mueller commission.

00:38:53.000 We had everybody.

00:38:54.000 It's all a hoax.

00:38:55.000 It was a hoax.

00:38:56.000 It was made up to justify why Hillary Clinton lost the election, which she wasn't supposed

00:39:01.000 to lose.

00:39:02.000 It was a...

00:39:03.000 It was a totally...

00:39:04.000 And it was made up by Schiff and Hillary and some other sleep...

00:39:08.000 Just total sleazeballs.

00:39:10.000 And what happened is the fake news media, which is back there.

00:39:13.000 You do know that.

00:39:14.000 They're always around someplace.

00:39:16.000 But what happened is the fake news media, what they said is it started with a simple move.

00:39:27.000 How did you lose the election?

00:39:29.000 It was Russia. 0.70

00:39:31.000 And I'm saying to myself, wait a minute, I won this election.

00:39:34.000 What the hell did Russia have to do with it?

00:39:36.000 And then it went...

00:39:37.000 And it was only supposed to be a one-day deal by the Democrats.

00:39:41.000 In other words, it was gonna...

00:39:43.000 But the press picked it up and they liked it.

00:39:45.000 They liked, ooh, Russia. 0.59

00:39:47.000 That sounds good.

00:39:48.000 You covered it better than...

00:39:49.000 You were funny.

00:39:50.000 You'd go, Russia, Russia, Russia. 0.73

00:39:52.000 You'd go crazy.

00:39:53.000 But it drove you crazy, didn't it?

00:39:55.000 Because you knew it was such a hoax.

00:39:56.000 It was so insane and all these people I knew believed it.

00:39:58.000 It was such a hoax.

00:39:59.000 It was such a hoax.

00:40:00.000 I actually tried starting it up about two months ago.

00:40:02.000 Did you see?

00:40:03.000 It flopped.

00:40:04.000 This time, the press just couldn't get away with it.

00:40:07.000 I'll tell you about our lawsuit having to do with the Pulitzer.

00:40:09.000 You know, we brought a lawsuit against...

00:40:12.000 Because they said...

00:40:13.000 The New York Times, Washington Post.

00:40:15.000 They got the Pulitzer Prize for accurate and beautiful reporting on the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

00:40:22.000 You know, the whole thing.

00:40:23.000 And I sued them.

00:40:24.000 And it's doing very well, by the way.

00:40:26.000 I want the reporters to give back their awards because they were wrong.

00:40:30.000 There were plenty of guys that were right.

00:40:33.000 Like you and Sean.

00:40:35.000 And there were plenty of guys that were right.

00:40:38.000 But...

00:40:39.000 So I said...

00:40:40.000 But here's the thing.

00:40:41.000 Shifty shift.

00:40:42.000 See, that's the weave. 0.99

00:40:43.000 See, we start.

00:40:44.000 You know about the weave, right?

00:40:45.000 Start.

00:40:46.000 As long as you come back to the right location.

00:40:49.000 So what happens?

00:40:50.000 You understand that?

00:40:51.000 Yeah.

00:40:52.000 Somebody said, does he ramble?

00:40:54.000 I said, I don't ramble.

00:40:55.000 I do the weave.

00:40:56.000 I covered many, many subjects.

00:40:57.000 And you always come back to the right.

00:40:59.000 That's genius.

00:41:00.000 There's a difference between rambling and genius.

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00:42:26.000 Okay, so now getting back to the point but.

00:42:30.000 I have a son, Don, a good guy, knows nothing about Russia.

00:42:34.000 Has zero.

00:42:35.000 And they went through millions of phone calls.

00:42:38.000 There wasn't one call to Russia, etc, etc.

00:42:40.000 etc, etc. So, Shifty Schiff, Adam Schiff, a real sleazebag. He's at an intelligence meeting,

00:42:48.740 and he's not supposed to be talking, but wherever he goes, the press is out there standing because

00:42:53.080 he's provocative or whatever the hell, or because they figure they'll get something bad on me,

00:42:58.720 which is probably much more accurate. So, Schiff comes out. Now, think of this, how bad a person

00:43:03.460 you have to be. I have a son, and I love my son. I love all my children. You love your children. I

00:43:09.380 mean, there are a couple of people that, who doesn't love their children? There'll be about

00:43:12.720 20 people out there, but I have a son, and I love my son, and he's a good boy. He's a good guy.

00:43:20.700 You know Eric. You know Barron. I love my kids. I have good kids, but I love my son, and Schiff goes

00:43:30.300 out. Now, think of this. It was him and Crooked Hillary and some other people. They conceived of

00:43:36.420 this hoax, so they know it's a hoax. They know it's not real because it's a made-up story that

00:43:43.780 they conceived, and you know, they spied on my campaign, all this stuff, but they conceived of

00:43:48.700 the story, so he knows the story is false, and yet he leaves an intelligence meeting, goes to the

00:43:55.600 press, which is waiting outside, a lot of press, and he says something to the effect,

00:44:00.940 Donald Trump Jr., the son of the President of the United States, will be going to jail. He will spend

00:44:13.500 many years in prison for what he's done to our nation, and think of how bad you have to be.

00:44:22.740 He just said that an innocent kid is going to go to prison on a story that's a beckocked story. It's a

00:44:30.100 made-up story, and he said, my son, President's son, is going to spend many years in prison. I called my

00:44:38.180 son. I said, hey Don, how's everything? Are you okay with this? He said, Dad, I don't know what they're

00:44:44.580 talking about. He was, and he was demented. He said, I don't know what they're talking about. I didn't want 0.93

00:44:50.180 to get into it too much because I didn't want to make him nervous, and I said, well, you don't know

00:44:56.260 anything about Russia. He said, Dad, I don't know anything. I have nothing. I don't know what they're

00:45:00.660 talking about. So think of this. It turned out the Mueller report, and I tell you, it was an amazing

00:45:07.220 thing that happened because I had 18 radical left lunatics, and I had Mueller who didn't know where 0.84

00:45:14.820 the hell he was, okay? You saw that in the hearings. But think of this. I had no chance. It was a stacked 0.81

00:45:22.260 court, but I had an angel in that court. I had somebody that wouldn't allow them to do what some

00:45:31.060 of the sleazebags that you know, and you know who they are. Somebody on that court, and I think I know

00:45:36.260 the person, high quality person, and would not allow them to do what they would have loved to

00:45:42.020 have done, is convict even though you're totally innocent. You didn't even know what the hell.

00:45:46.180 So we were exonerated fully. There was no hoax. There was no anything. We were exonerated fully.

00:45:53.620 But just think of it. Just think. And the Mueller report came out, and it was a complete exoneration.

00:45:59.860 But here's a guy that made up a story that tried to put my son in prison for years. And he knew the

00:46:08.980 story was false. They made it up. How bad a person do you have to be? And I heard the son of the

00:46:17.140 President of the United States is going to jail, and he'll be there for many years on a story. Now,

00:46:24.900 how would you feel if you're the kid? I mean, you're a young kid, and you're hearing this crap. 0.99

00:46:28.820 Just think of it. But how bad do you have to be? So you know it's fake, because he made it up. 0.99

00:46:35.780 And you know, he's a storyteller, too. You know, he writes little bullshit stories. You know that, 1.00

00:46:39.700 right? But I just think they're really, we have some, and you know, I talk about the enemy from within,

00:46:46.580 and they do have, they're the greatest con people in the world. Oh, they talk about how dare,

00:46:51.700 that's a threat to democracy. They're always, they're the threat to democracy. You know,

00:46:56.100 the amazing thing, the amazing thing is where they say, he wants to become elected,

00:47:04.580 and he wants to put people in jail. How terrible. They want, that's what they've been trying to do

00:47:10.580 to me for four years. And I should say that your son, Don, had five small children.

00:47:18.420 Can you imagine threatening a man with five kids with prison for a crime he didn't commit? So you

00:47:25.300 said that you were saved in the end by an angel. How have your views about God changed in the last

00:47:32.820 eight years, and particularly after getting shot? Well, look, I've always been a believer,

00:47:39.860 but I wouldn't say, you know, there's a certain pastor, Robert Jeffress, and I didn't know,

00:47:45.300 his name is Robert Jeffress, nice guy from Texas. And he said, you know, Trump may not be the best

00:47:52.420 Christian of all, but he's the only one going to take us to the promised land because he's the best

00:47:57.620 leader and he's the toughest guy and he's going to be able to get us through this crazy lot. And he was

00:48:03.940 a big supporter. And now I have unbelievable evangelical and Christian support because I have, I mean,

00:48:11.060 I've done a great job for them. And we're, you know, we're, we're together. But he said,

00:48:15.540 he may not know the Bible quite as well as other people are supposed to. But you know,

00:48:20.500 he also did something. They picked Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter a long time ago. You know that

00:48:25.300 to sort of, that was, they said he wasn't quite as religious, but he's the guy that's going to get

00:48:30.180 the job done. And I really got, I did a great job with a lot of things having to do with saving

00:48:35.380 religion because these people want to put religion out of business. These people are,

00:48:40.900 you know, they go crazy when I say the enemy from within. And I said, 0.94

00:48:44.980 look, we have China, we have Russia, we have Kim Jong Un of North Korea. We have a lot of people out

00:48:51.540 there. But if you have a smart president, I had a great relationship with President Xi until the China

00:48:57.860 virus came in and that was a bridge too far, but we'll have a very good relationship.

00:49:02.420 And there's reasons for them to want to like us. There's big reasons. But if you have a smart

00:49:08.100 president who want that kind of smart, meaning with people, if you have a smart president,

00:49:13.060 somebody that knows what's happening, you're going to be fine. But you know, we do have an enemy from

00:49:17.780 within. We have some very bad people. And those people are also very dangerous. They would like to

00:49:22.580 take down our country. They'd like to have our country be a nice communist country or fascist in any way

00:49:28.820 they can. And we have to be careful of that. But they're the greatest con artists in the world,

00:49:33.620 because as soon as I said, an enemy from within, they said, oh, he wants that. Oh,

00:49:38.500 he's saying an enemy from within. These are sick puppies, I'm telling you. 0.97

00:49:43.700 Well, I mean, I got to say, just objectively, I noticed that the second you left and Biden came in,

00:49:52.020 we didn't have any more Antifa riots, which makes me wonder if like, how is Antifa not the

00:49:58.420 militia of the Democratic Party?

00:49:59.940 Yeah, but you do have, you did have a lot of riots and you have a lot of, you have a lot of

00:50:05.460 people being hurt in a different way. You have a lot of, you have a lot of people being hurt very,

00:50:10.980 very badly. We stopped, you know, we had a period of time where they wanted to tear down statues.

00:50:15.780 Yeah. And, you know, they thought the statue of Abraham Lincoln should be ripped down immediately

00:50:20.340 and a couple of others. And we stopped them. I signed an old bill that was old and dusty. It's

00:50:24.980 like 1910, the United Statues Act of like 1910. It said that if you tear down a statue or even get

00:50:34.420 near it, if you don't want it, if up to the president, you go to jail for 10 years.

00:50:40.020 And when they started getting a little bit frisky, I took that old dusty statue,

00:50:45.140 hadn't been used in a long time. We took it out and they were getting a little wild.

00:50:50.100 Do you remember that period of time? And I said, I had a little news conference and I said,

00:50:54.100 anybody that touches a statue, they were going to rip down Andrew Johnson. They were going to rip

00:50:59.060 down Andrew Jackson. And this, the rope was already on them. And I mean, I saw what was going on

00:51:05.060 and I signed that thing. And I had a news conference. I said, anybody that touches a statue,

00:51:12.100 if you touch the statue, you're going to jail for 10 years with no parole, no early,

00:51:18.580 no early getting out. And I looked because there was a little discord in Washington. I looked

00:51:26.820 at those people from the back and I saw those people. I saw about 1,000 asses. They were facing me as 0.99

00:51:34.900 they headed, as they headed out of town. They were heading out of town. And we never heard from

00:51:40.580 them again until recently, until recently, when you had, about two months ago, you had some horrible

00:51:49.700 riots in Washington, DC, where they took spray paint and they sprayed the limestone lions

00:51:55.220 and they burned the American flags badly. And, you know, I'd like to see anybody that burns the

00:52:02.420 American flag one year in jail. I really believe that.

00:52:08.500 You mentioned the enemy within. It's pretty clear. Well, it's not clear. It's a fact that the CIA

00:52:14.740 and the FBI, which are absolutely not allowed by law to have any influence in American politics,

00:52:20.660 because that's the end of democracy. Both of them and a bunch of other intel agencies worked against

00:52:26.420 you on behalf of the Democratic Party from the minute you got elected in 2016. And they're still

00:52:32.260 doing it. They're working against you now. What will you do about that?

00:52:36.740 So one thing I've learned in Washington, it's all people. You got to get the right people. So when I

00:52:42.740 got elected, I was only, according to the fake news, which I think in this case, it wasn't fake. They

00:52:47.700 said I was here 17 times during the course of my life and I never stayed over. So I wasn't a Washington 0.63

00:52:53.380 person. I was a New York person. I knew New York, but I didn't know Washington. And all of a sudden,

00:53:00.020 I'm the president of the United States. I'm saying, and I did, I didn't know anybody. I said,

00:53:04.980 hello, anybody. Does anybody would like to have dinner or something? But so I had to rely on

00:53:11.620 rhinos and good people too, even some good rhinos. There aren't too many of them. They're,

00:53:16.740 they're sort of a dying breed right now, I would say actually. But I had to rely on 1.00

00:53:22.420 people that I didn't know to give me information. And I won't use any specifics,

00:53:26.900 but I had some people in government with me and I realized, and you know, they, they have

00:53:31.060 pretty much different philosophies than I would have or than you would have.

00:53:34.740 And for the most part, we had great people. I mean, we had great trade people. I had great

00:53:38.820 military people. I had the real military, not the millies. It was a, you know, they're stupid

00:53:43.220 people. Some of these people, by the way, every one of those people having to do with Afghanistan 1.00

00:53:48.420 should be fired immediately. Every general should be fired immediately.

00:53:54.340 You know, Biden doesn't fire anybody. That's why he never has books written about. Well,

00:53:58.580 two reasons. Number one, nobody cares about him.

00:54:01.620 It's not like, oh, let's write a book about Biden. Nobody cares.

00:54:05.140 But the other thing is that he never, I don't think, has he fired anybody? I don't think he's

00:54:09.700 fired. I fired a lot of people. I didn't like people. I fired them.

00:54:12.340 And then he immediately get called by the New York Times or somebody because they're very,

00:54:17.380 I mean, they truly are the enemy of the people. They're the enemy of the people. Those people

00:54:21.940 right there, not all of them, but about 91%. They're the enemy of the people. So they'll say,

00:54:29.220 oh, he got fired. Therefore, and the interesting thing about firing people, you can fire them really

00:54:35.620 nice. Like even take, I've taken months nice and easy. Have lunch. Bah, let's think about it. Bah,

00:54:42.340 bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. In the end, they get fired. And then they wake up the next morning.

00:54:46.580 That son of a bitch fired me. Right? Or you can do like I did on The Apprentice. You're fired. 1.00

00:54:53.540 Get the hell out of here. It doesn't matter. When you fire somebody, you fire somebody. I've learned 0.95

00:55:00.420 after years, you might as well just fire. Then I do another thing. I say,

00:55:06.420 and I wouldn't do that again. Because I'm a nice person. I don't want to hurt somebody. I say,

00:55:14.180 give me a letter. You know what that means. Give me a letter. I said, look, it's not working out.

00:55:18.340 You're not the guy for me. Give me a letter of resignations. I say, give me a letter. Everyone

00:55:22.980 knows what that means. So a guy will write a letter, dear. And then he'll say he quit. And that's okay.

00:55:28.980 That's what I'm, you know, the problem is when that happens with me, it's always a big story.

00:55:32.900 So and so quits. Virtually every person that gave me a letter, I said, give me a letter.

00:55:39.140 Virtually every person that quit, they only quit because I said, essentially, you're fired. Get

00:55:44.580 the hell out of here. But I want to be nice because I'm not looking to fire somebody publicly. I wouldn't

00:55:50.100 do that anymore. I'm just going to say if somebody doesn't work out and no matter how good you are,

00:55:54.980 you always have people that don't work out. It's interesting. Sometimes people you think they're

00:56:00.820 okay, maybe not so great. They turn out to be great. And sometimes you say, this guy is going to be

00:56:06.740 phenomenal. And he turns out to be a stiff. But I had some, I had some people that were, you know,

00:56:13.860 like, like a guy like John Bolton. A friend of mine calls me after I put him on. He said, don't hire

00:56:20.580 that guy. He's no good. He's bad news. He's dumb as a rock and all that stuff. I said, it's a problem.

00:56:25.940 But I like him for a different reason. He's the one that got Bush, him and Cheney and a couple of

00:56:30.980 other of these lunatics, they got them to go into the Middle East and to create war in the Middle East 0.63

00:56:37.300 to spend nine trillion dollars. Remember, I used to say, don't go into Iraq. But if you do go in, 0.96

00:56:44.500 keep the oil. Well, they went in, but they didn't keep the oil. They didn't keep anything. You know,

00:56:49.300 Iraq is a massive oil country. They have 400 billion dollars right now. But I said,

00:56:57.620 don't go in. But if, but I said it as a civilian. So people cared because I get, for whatever reason,

00:57:03.220 I get a disproportionate amount of publicity. And someday some, he's going to explain to me why.

00:57:08.180 You know, will you explain that to me? So even as a civilian sort of, before I ran, I, but I'd be

00:57:15.780 very much, you know, involved with, uh, things and statements, they'd call and ask. But I said,

00:57:20.980 don't go in. They went in. It was such a bad decision. So Bolton, see again, you get back Bolton,

00:57:28.180 a real dope, but I thought he'd be great because he was so stupid. He was like a boiler every time. 1.00

00:57:36.740 If, if somebody shot down a little tiny crappy drone that cost about $15, he'd want to go to war 0.84

00:57:43.700 with Russia. I said, no, I think he was great for me though, for a period of time, because

00:57:49.780 he was a nut job and everybody, I could see his face get red, red, red with that stupid white mustache. 1.00

00:57:57.380 And he'd be ready to explode. And this was good for me. I went to Kim Jong Un in North Korea. I took this 1.00

00:58:05.620 moron with me and he never said anything. But when Kim Jong Un saw him, he said, oh, 1.00

00:58:13.060 shit, I think the guy wants to go to war. So he was great for me to negotiate with the same thing 0.99

00:58:19.300 with Russia. You know, when Putin saw him, I'd be very nice. I'd say, hi, Vladimir, how you doing?

00:58:25.220 And then Bolton said, you know, two rows back and he'd see that moron and he'd say, holy shit, 1.00

00:58:29.860 this guy wants to go to war with me. And I got a lot of what I wanted. You know, we killed, 1.00

00:58:35.300 as you know, the Nord Stream 2. I killed Nord Stream 2. That's the other thing that's great.

00:58:41.700 Their PR sense, their political sense, very interesting. They love to say that I was a friend

00:58:51.700 of Russia. I worked for Russia. I was a Russian spy. These people are sick. The biggest job Russia 0.99

00:58:59.620 ever had is Nord Stream 2. This is the biggest pipeline like in the world. It goes from Russia

00:59:04.740 to Germany and all over Europe. I killed it. Nobody would kill it but me. I stopped it. The thing was 1.00

00:59:11.860 half built, dead. Then there's obviously, look, in all fairness to Biden, he was dumb 35 years ago. 1.00

00:59:24.100 He was a dumb guy. Sure. It's true. But he comes in and he approves it, but he stops the Keystone 1.00

00:59:32.820 pipeline, which really we need. That's our pipeline. But think of it. Wrong country.

00:59:37.540 Yeah. But think of it. It's rough. It's rough stuff. He stopped. I said, wait a minute,

00:59:41.220 it's supposed to be the other way. Let Keystone go, but stop the Russian pipeline. And I went to the

00:59:47.700 Germany and the different countries, but mostly Germany and say, so let's get this straight.

00:59:52.500 We're helping you and guarding you from Russia, but you're paying Russia billions of dollars a month 0.98

01:00:00.580 for oil. How's that working? That's not working, dude. I mean, the whole concept. Anyway, I stopped it.

01:00:07.140 And then I keep reading stories that, oh, I was a puppet for Russia. Putin actually said to me,

01:00:12.660 if you're a puppet now, I'd hate to see if you were angry because this was the biggest economic job.

01:00:18.500 This was the most important thing that they probably had ever done. And I stopped it.

01:00:24.100 It's all about the people, Tucker. If you have the right people, it goes beautifully. It's like in my

01:00:29.300 real estate business. If I have a good building here and I have a good superintendent of the building

01:00:35.060 and that guy's doing a great job and I've done it over the years with my father would have a building

01:00:39.460 and another building and you'd have a great super here and a lousy super there. The one here, the

01:00:46.180 building, everything was perfect. Over here, everything was crappy that we have there. So now I say,

01:00:53.460 let's take this super move from over here. It worked beautifully for there, but not for there,

01:00:59.460 because now all of a sudden that one does it. It's all about the people. You got to put the people in.

01:01:04.900 And if I have any complaint about myself and I don't really blame myself because in all fairness,

01:01:11.540 I became president of the United States and I never did this stuff before. You know, it's pretty good.

01:01:17.620 I never did it before. I was driving down Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Avenue with Melania,

01:01:25.460 the new first lady who's great. People love her. She's got the number one selling book. 0.98

01:01:29.860 Tucker, she's got the number. Melania right now is the number one selling. Go out and buy it. It's a 0.88

01:01:36.020 great book. It really is. But think. So I had never done it before and I do it. We had 18 people,

01:01:45.460 including me. We had debates and all of a sudden we had 17, 16, 15, and they started disappearing.

01:01:53.380 And a lot of people thought I was doing it just for fun. You did. I think Tucker did too. He thought,

01:01:58.020 he thought I was having a good time. I was having a good time. I was actually having a good time.

01:02:03.060 But all of a sudden, did you notice? They started to disappear. Then you have 10 people.

01:02:07.700 And then, you know, you had low energy people. You had a lot of interesting people.

01:02:12.100 And then I came up with nicknames for everybody. And for the most part, they were extremely destructive,

01:02:16.660 right? We had some beauties. We had some like Pocahontas. Because I don't use my Republican names 0.74

01:02:24.180 anymore. Because I'm friendly with all those guys. We retired those days. But all of a sudden,

01:02:28.500 they start. And then we get down to 10. So now eight are gone. And we're down to 10. Remember,

01:02:36.020 we needed two stages because there were so many. I said, we have the children stage. And then we have

01:02:40.660 the grown-up stage. And it was all based on the numbers, the ratings, the numbers, your popularity,

01:02:46.180 how you're doing. So then we're 10. Then we're eight. Then we're five. Then we're four, three,

01:02:52.420 two, one, right? And all of a sudden, I'm the nominee. And everyone thought I didn't want to be.

01:03:00.180 But I did want to be. Don't let them tell you that. They said, he didn't. All these geniuses,

01:03:04.820 they said, he didn't really want to win. He's extremely upset that he wouldn't. No, no. If you're

01:03:11.460 going to play it, you know, win. And some people were surprised. But you heard that I didn't want

01:03:16.820 to win. And I was miserable that I wouldn't. No, that's a false story. That's their own

01:03:22.100 misinformation, a term I use a lot. And now they use it all over. I always say misinformation,

01:03:27.540 disinformation. And now everybody says that. So I don't use it anymore. But what happens is

01:03:33.460 I end up being the nominee. And then I watch the other side, Bernie Sanders and Crooked Hillary go at it.

01:03:41.540 And it's Crooked Hillary. And all of a sudden, I'm fighting against Crooked Hillary Clinton, 0.74

01:03:47.220 who's a smart woman, much smarter than Kamala, but doesn't lie as much. Hillary was a liar, 1.00

01:03:53.540 a horrible scoundrel. But this one lies so much. And she's a low IQ individual. She doesn't even know 1.00

01:04:01.380 she's lying. I'm telling you, this is not what you want for your president. That has nothing to do with

01:04:06.100 me. This is not what you want. She's a very low IQ individual. She's dumb as a rock. And you can't 1.00

01:04:11.620 have that. You can't have that. We love our country too much. You can't have it. We just went through

01:04:17.780 four years of it. You can't have any more. A country can only take so much.

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01:07:14.500 When you ran in 2016, the leaders and heroes of the Republican party were the Bush and Cheney families.

01:07:21.380 And is it weird for you to see Liz Cheney, that'd be Dick Cheney's repulsive little daughter, running 1.00

01:07:31.780 against you with Kamala Harris? Well, I think it hurts Kamala a lot, actually.

01:07:39.220 Look, she's a deranged person. The reason she doesn't like me is that she wanted to stay in Iraq. She 1.00

01:07:46.420 wanted to stay in Iraq. She wants to, you know, tough, tough person. You know, people get killed 0.79

01:07:50.660 all over. She's real tough, right? They're not the tough people. Don't forget, I went against her

01:07:57.220 and in her state, which is a great, beautiful state, she lost for Congress with the highest

01:08:05.220 number in history. There has never been a congressperson that lost by almost 40 points. And the reason is

01:08:13.940 because if they were ever in that situation, they'd quit. And she lost, she was beaten by a tremendous

01:08:20.100 person, actually tremendous, that I backed fully. But the reason she couldn't stand me is that 1.00

01:08:26.020 she always wanted to go to war with people. I don't want to go to war. She wanted to go,

01:08:30.340 she wanted to stay in Syria. I took them out. She wanted to stay in Iraq. I took them out. I mean, 1.00

01:08:36.340 if it were up to her, we'd be in 50 different countries. And you know, number one, it's very dangerous.

01:08:42.660 Number two, a lot of people get killed. And number three, I mean, it's very, very expensive.

01:08:48.740 That's why we owe 36 trillion dollars. We go, you know, it used to be you go to war to the victor,

01:08:55.220 belong the spoils, right? In other words, if you beat a country, you own that country,

01:08:59.700 you take the oil. We go to war, we bomb the crap out of it, then we leave. You know, 0.97

01:09:05.380 it's almost like, what are we doing? What's going on? We bombed the whole Middle East. 1.00

01:09:11.940 And then we left. What did we get? We got nothing. We destroyed. I mean,

01:09:16.020 we bombed the hell out of everything. You know, when they went into, when they took out Iraq 1.00

01:09:22.980 for a thousand years with different names, you had Iran and Iraq, similar powers. They were the two big

01:09:31.460 ones. And for a thousand years, they would fight each other this way, this way, this way, then they'd

01:09:37.140 rest, this way, this, then they'd rest. They were there, a self-check. Then one day we go in and bomb

01:09:43.620 the hell out of one. We destroy one. And then all of a sudden, Iran has the whole Middle East to itself. 1.00

01:09:49.380 And by the way, right now, Iran has Iraq. Iraq is like a subsidiary of Iran, all right?

01:09:56.260 We did so many bad moves. And her father was, you know, her father was, I was very critical of her

01:10:02.820 father for years. I'd never met him. But I'd say anybody that went into the Middle East, I thought 1.00

01:10:08.740 was stupid. And he, they say, convinced Bush. Bush, oh, he was just, he was another beauty. But he 1.00

01:10:17.300 supposedly convinced Bush to go in him, Bolton, and some other lightweights, convinced them to go in, 0.99

01:10:23.540 let's go into the Middle East and destroy the whole place and kill millions of people. 1.00

01:10:27.940 So they went in. But I was never a fan of China. I was always very critical. And when I announced 0.99

01:10:33.300 that I was very critical, actually, not personally, but I said, he made a horrible mistake. What are

01:10:38.740 these people doing? They're spending, we spent nine trillion trillion with a T, not even with a B.

01:10:47.540 Normally I say, not million, billion. But now I say not billion, trillion. We spent nine trillion

01:10:55.540 dollars bombing the hell out of the Middle East. And what the hell did we get other than lots of 0.96

01:11:02.100 dead people, including our people? We got nothing. So I was very critical of him. And then I announced

01:11:09.220 I was running. And I was shocked that he was one of the first people he endorsed me immediately. I said,

01:11:15.460 that's amazing. But he had something that was very interesting. He had

01:11:20.420 Scooter Liberty. I mean, these are little stories that are interesting. Scooter Liberty was a man that

01:11:27.460 could have done great destruction to Bush. And they left him behind. He was given to the

01:11:34.420 prosecutors. They prosecuted him rather violently. And he was almost like a sacrificial lamb.

01:11:41.860 And as somebody that knows a lot about what's happening, I said, you know,

01:11:46.340 if I were ever president, I'd do something with that guy. That guy got treated very badly. Scooter

01:11:50.420 Libby. And when I became president, I actually called Dick Cheney. I said, let me ask you about

01:11:57.300 Scooter Libby. He was best friends. He was begging Bush to give Scooter Libby a pardon. But Bush didn't have the

01:12:08.260 courage to do it. You know, it takes courage to give a pardon. It does take a certain courage because

01:12:13.700 the press comes after, you know, et cetera, et cetera. And he didn't have the courage to give him. He

01:12:18.500 should have given him a pardon, but he didn't have the guts to do it. But Scooter and what happened is

01:12:24.900 Dick Cheney, for years, for a long time, hated Bush. And don't let anyone tell you, he hated it. He said,

01:12:34.020 you don't leave your wounded behind. And I understand that. And Scooter Libby really saved

01:12:39.860 Bush because he could have said things that would have been very dangerous for Bush in terms of

01:12:45.860 in terms of getting impeached, in terms of going to jail, in terms of bad things happening.

01:12:53.860 But Scooter Libby didn't do that. And in all fairness to Cheney, I give him credit for this,

01:12:58.180 he was very loyal to him, but he couldn't get Bush to do what he should have done.

01:13:01.860 I came into government and I did what they should have done. They didn't have the guts to do it.

01:13:06.100 I did it. And Scooter Libby was pardoned. I gave him a pardon. And

01:13:13.300 I'd never met Scooter Libby, by the way. I never talked to him before that.

01:13:17.060 And I got a call from Scooter Libby after I did that. And he broke down in tears, thanking me so,

01:13:25.060 so much. And then Cheney called me. And he said, that was so incredible what you did for Scooter

01:13:33.460 Libby, because he was really on Scooter Libby. Scooter Libby took a lot of heat and took all of it and 0.99

01:13:40.580 didn't say anything bad about Bush or Cheney or anything else. Could have done it. I know,

01:13:44.980 because you have, you know, you have guys that do that. And you have guys that lie, which is worse,

01:13:49.220 right? But you have guys that do that. But he was very loyal to them. And he suffered greatly.

01:13:56.260 I released him. Cheney called me. He said, it's one of the nicest things I've ever seen done in

01:14:02.020 politics. I said, look, I've heard for years he was treated unfairly. I've heard for years that Bush

01:14:09.220 should have given him a pardon. All I did is do something that somebody else should have done. And

01:14:15.860 Cheney was so thankful. He said, I really want to thank you. He said, now I'm so glad that I

01:14:22.260 actually endorsed you. It's amazing. But that you would do this. And I didn't speak to him about it.

01:14:28.820 But then, you know, go a couple of years forward or go now. And I don't blame him for sticking with

01:14:35.300 his daughter. But his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb. She's a radical war hawk. 1.00

01:14:43.860 Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay. Let's see how 1.00

01:14:48.580 she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they're all war hawks

01:14:54.900 when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, well, let's send, let's send 10,000

01:15:01.380 troops right into the mouth of the enemy. But she's a stupid person. And I used to have, 1.00

01:15:07.380 I'd have meetings with a lot of people. And she always wanted to go to war with people. So

01:15:14.100 whether it's her, whether it's, I was surprised a little bit with Dick Cheney. I didn't know him at

01:15:18.900 all. I only had essentially the one or two phone calls. And it was only a call saying, thank you very

01:15:25.060 much for doing that for Scooter Libby. That was nice. And Scooter Libby, by the way, was beyond,

01:15:31.460 he couldn't believe that it happened. Nobody would do it. They should have done that for him years

01:15:36.260 before. But I was a little surprised because I actually thought that Dick Cheney would go with

01:15:41.940 me over his daughter. And he didn't. And you know what? I understand it. It's your daughter and you go.

01:15:47.620 But she's a, she's a bad person. One other thing. They had the J6 committee. And I say this for the 1.00

01:15:54.900 fake news back there. They learned a lot of phony things like that. I took on this. I took on,

01:16:02.500 when I was in the car, take me to the Capitol, I said, according to this young lady.

01:16:10.500 And then they said, sure, we won't do that. Well, number one, if I said it, they do it.

01:16:14.820 But I had two people, secret service guys, both extremely rough guys. One was like a karate champion.

01:16:24.420 One was a weightlifter. She said, I grabbed the one by the neck. And when I was rebuffed, 0.99

01:16:32.260 I went over to the other one and I grabbed him in a chokehold or something. And actually, no, no,

01:16:40.580 but how ridiculous. Okay. It's just not my thing. You would know. Hey, we can be tough, 0.92

01:16:46.660 but it's not my thing. I wouldn't do it. I said, actually, can we go down to the Capitol? They

01:16:52.820 said, sir, it's better if we don't. This was before anyone knew there was a problem,

01:16:56.340 because there's a lot of people and it's going to be tough. Probably not. And you know, we had

01:17:00.820 more people than I've ever seen up at the ellipse, up on top. And a small group went down to the

01:17:08.820 Capitol. But I said, can you take, they said, sir, it's really a little bit tough. But I said,

01:17:12.820 that's okay. Whatever you think is, that's it. She had me grabbing the one around the neck and being 0.90

01:17:18.820 rebuffed. And then I grabbed the other one. And these are, I know them both very well. Bobby.

01:17:24.260 I know Bobby wins Bobby. And they're good. And they're good guys, too. But they're tough guys.

01:17:30.660 I think they probably could have rebuffed me. I'm a little bit older. But friends of mine love

01:17:37.060 the story. They said, leave the story. You sound like the toughest dude around. It's a great story.

01:17:43.780 But it was totally made up. It was all made up. But here's the end result. The J6 committee, 0.80

01:17:50.340 I call it, they call it the J6 select committee, like select. They're not select. They're scum.

01:17:58.660 So what happens? Take a look at them. They're all political hacks. But here's the thing that bothers 1.00

01:18:04.340 me. They found out all this stuff was untrue. They found out her story was untrue. The two guys in the

01:18:13.060 cars testified. It's ridiculous, they said. It is ridiculous. Can you imagine? I'm going to, 0.96

01:18:20.340 they also, I think, said it was the beast. And it wasn't. It was one of the other ones. But you

01:18:23.620 can't even get your hands through. But to think that I would be taking on two nice young guys

01:18:29.860 simultaneously. All right. Same. I'm ripping one and ripping the other. Are they? They're crazy.

01:18:37.460 And then I went, oh, and then I went back to the, to the White House, which I love. And I started

01:18:44.180 throwing hamburgers all over the place. Okay. I finished the story. It says, what happened is

01:18:51.780 terrible. They went a year and a half. And Kevin McCarthy was a very nice man. He made a mistake.

01:18:58.020 Because we wanted Jim Banks and Jim Jordan on the committee. And so there'd be like eight to seven or

01:19:04.660 something. And called me on this. He said, they didn't want Jim Jordan. He's a fighter. They

01:19:11.380 didn't want Jim Banks. He's a fighter. And so Kevin said, we don't want anybody on the committee.

01:19:19.700 We think this committee is a sham. And I understood that was good for a day. But for the two and a half,

01:19:26.180 we had nobody to fight for us. In other words, we had a committee. You know who was representing us

01:19:30.260 on the committee? Crying Adam Kinzinger and Liz the moron Cheney. That was who was on the committee. 1.00

01:19:39.860 So these were the two Republicans. Kinzinger, who was a total whack job, and Cheney, who was worse

01:19:46.980 than him. This was ours. So they talk about, it was a bipartisan, they call it a bipartisan commission.

01:19:53.300 And I think I'd never like the idea of not, because even if you didn't have Jim Jordan,

01:19:57.300 who's very good, and Jim Banks. We have a lot of great people that would have been good. And they

01:20:01.060 would have, you know, they would have mixed it up. End result. Like, they finished their report.

01:20:09.060 They burned and destroyed and deleted everything. Everything. And nobody. And you know why? Because

01:20:19.940 they found out that Nancy Pelosi, it was her fault. She didn't put the security. I offered 10,000

01:20:28.660 National Guard or military. They found out it was Nancy Pelosi. They found out that the stories about me

01:20:36.820 attacking two very tough guys that are slightly younger than me, just a few years, that that wasn't true.

01:20:45.860 They found out that much of it wasn't true. And they were very embarrassed. So the unselect committee,

01:20:53.460 I call it the unselect committee, which I always thought was a great name because it was a select,

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01:24:05.780 So I have to ask you about the pardons. I keep hearing you're considering

01:24:27.460 pardoning Hunter Biden. Is that true? And if so, why?

01:24:30.660 No, I mean, I've never... Look, I don't like the idea of what's happening. I don't like it at all.

01:24:39.540 They've weaponized government, but they've weaponized it against me like nobody's ever been

01:24:44.740 weaponized. The big case was the documents case. We won the case in Florida. We're winning other cases,

01:24:51.140 too. But I've had to devote money and time to this. Instead of running against these stupid people,

01:24:57.860 I had to devote a lot of money and a lot of time, which is what they want. I had Fanny, F-A-N-I. 1.00

01:25:06.500 To me, it's Fanny, but she said Fanny. I think she changed it once she became the DA. She wanted

01:25:12.260 to put a little French accent on Fanny. And her lover boy, Wade, who was hired for like a million 0.53

01:25:22.180 dollars because of his expertise in whatever the hell law, RICO law, RICO. He was... But he never

01:25:27.380 did a RICO case. And then they would take sailing trips like six times during the year, six times.

01:25:33.780 Who the hell goes away or to sail for six times? Nobody. And he got paid a lot of money. He took that

01:25:40.900 money. They took trips. You know, there's a whole thing. That's a whole... But that's just one.

01:25:46.020 They totally controlled it. They controlled the Manhattan DA's office. They had their man in the

01:25:51.860 Manhattan DA's office. He was there. They put a man in the Manhattan... They put a man into the

01:25:58.260 into the Letitia James office. They had a guy running the whole thing. It's all run out of Washington.

01:26:05.140 They went after... In the Attorney General's office, they had people. But think of it. They went after

01:26:11.940 their political opponent. That's never happened to any great extent. Maybe a little bit someplace. I

01:26:17.460 don't know. Nobody knows of it. But it's never happened to any great extent in this country.

01:26:22.900 It happens in banana republics a lot. And it happens in third world countries. But it's never happened.

01:26:29.540 They went after their political opponent. So it's hard to believe that I'm winning,

01:26:36.260 it seems, by a lot. If they don't cheat too much... If they don't cheat too much... You know,

01:26:42.420 we found a lot of things over the last three days. You've seen that. We found a lot of votes in

01:26:49.380 in a certain county, in York, in York County, Lancaster County. You know, we found a lot of bad votes.

01:26:57.300 There were 2,600 votes that happened to be written by the same pen, same hand, same signature, same

01:27:03.380 everything. Maybe there's an explanation for that. 2,600 votes. But we found a lot of stuff. But we're

01:27:11.620 seeing to work it out. But think of it. It's hard to believe that I'm winning the election by a lot.

01:27:18.660 Now, we've got to keep the cheating down. We've got to keep their cheating. Thank you. I love you too,

01:27:25.140 darling. Thank you. We've got to keep their cheating down. But think of this. With all I've been through,

01:27:32.980 with these animals, these animals coming and what they've done to this country, how they've hurt this

01:27:38.100 country between the borders and between the weaponization. And think of it. I'm leading by a

01:27:44.660 lot. I'm leading in every single swing state with all of the stuff they've done.

01:27:50.980 Where I've spent millions of dollars. I've spent millions of dollars on legal fees. Half of my time

01:27:59.140 is taken up by this. They can campaign. Half of my time is taken up. And they're the dishonest ones.

01:28:06.420 They flip it. They're the dishonest ones. But it's hard to believe. I said to somebody last night, 0.98

01:28:11.140 can you believe the numbers came out last night? I'm really leading by quite a bit. Now, a lot of

01:28:16.340 things can happen. Who knows? It flips. Maybe. I don't know. But I'm leading by a lot. I said,

01:28:21.220 can you believe I'm leading by a lot? And what they've done to me, that I'm leading it all,

01:28:28.820 that I'm even living, is almost hard to believe. These are bad people.

01:28:32.740 So you've expanded and changed the Republican Party. And one of the amazing things that I have

01:28:41.380 learned is that Republican voters really care about issues I didn't realize they cared about,

01:28:47.300 like clean air, clean soil, clean food. You've won, somehow, the full-throated endorsement of Bobby

01:28:55.700 Kennedy, lifelong Democrat, who's now like a full-time surrogate for you.

01:29:01.700 He's a very, very good man, too, by the way. So what's that going to look like after you get

01:29:07.300 elected? Well, you know, I feel interesting about this kind of stuff. I like to, number one,

01:29:12.900 get elected. I hate to talk to stuff. A lot of people, they set up, I know that even when I ran,

01:29:19.460 Hillary had an office set up where they were interviewing all the people. I don't want to do

01:29:24.420 that. I want to get elected first, and then we'll cram a little bit. But, you know, I don't like doing it.

01:29:29.460 No, I remember she set up this big office. They're interviewing people for jobs. And actually,

01:29:34.980 you're supposed to do it. But I want to win. I want to win. In five days from now,

01:29:41.540 it's almost four days from now, right? In five days from now,

01:29:48.340 when we have a victory, we're going to have the best people. Here's the one difference,

01:29:52.740 one big difference between now and 2016. I know Washington and the people through testing,

01:30:01.700 real testing, better than probably any human being that's ever hired people. So I went from not

01:30:07.620 knowing anybody and having to rely on, in all fairness, Mike Pence and many other people. You know,

01:30:14.180 I had Mike Pence, and I had others, and they would recommend people. Sloppy Chris Christie recommended

01:30:23.460 some people. And I wouldn't have used him had I known. But you rely on people. And by the way,

01:30:34.260 you know, in a way I hate talking about this because we had mostly great people. Think of it. We had the

01:30:39.940 greatest economy in the history of our country. We rebuilt the entire U.S. military. We defeated ISIS,

01:30:46.180 and we had no wars. We cut more regulations than anybody in the history of the country times five.

01:30:55.140 And, you know, but we had the best economy in the history of our country. I took in billions and

01:31:00.580 billions of dollars in taxes and tariffs from China. I mean, we did it. We had an unbelievably successful

01:31:08.420 administration. We were energy independent. We didn't need anybody's energy. We had so much oil.

01:31:14.900 We didn't know what to do with it. And now take a look. Four years ago,

01:31:20.500 we were energy independent. Think of it. And today we're taking tar

01:31:26.900 from Venezuela. You know, they don't really have oil. They have tar. You have to heat the hell out of it.

01:31:30.900 Of course, you're more to heat it than it does to sell it. But we are going to Venezuela. Think of it.

01:31:38.980 Venezuela was like the enemy. We are now giving — you know, I got a kick a month ago. You saw it.

01:31:44.980 They foreclosed on his plane, but they give him billions of dollars. And he said, that's okay. He's

01:31:51.620 going to buy a much better plane with the money we give him, right? But we go to Venezuela for oil.

01:31:57.540 We were energy independent. We have more liquid gold — that's oil and gas — under our feet

01:32:03.300 than Saudi Arabia, than Russia. And we were going to be not only energy independent within six months.

01:32:11.140 We were going to be energy dominant. We started off at number four.

01:32:15.380 And when I left, four years later, we were number one. We were much better and bigger than Russia 1.00

01:32:22.660 or Saudi Arabia. Think of that. But we were going to be triple the size of both.

01:32:28.020 And we were going to supply it to Europe. We were going to supply it to Asia. All over 0.94

01:32:32.420 the world, we were going to supply — we would have made a fortune. But then we had a little mishap

01:32:37.460 with the election, where I got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country.

01:32:43.220 You do know that. More than any sitting president. The only one that supposedly got more votes — and I

01:32:50.100 wouldn't believe it — was sleepy Joe Biden, who campaigned brilliantly from his basement.

01:32:57.860 People had no interest in this guy. But he got more votes than anybody in the history

01:33:03.140 of the United States of America. So anyway, so bad things happened. But we had something going that

01:33:12.420 nobody had. I mean, we had an unbelievably successful administration. But I also put in people,

01:33:18.420 some people that, in retrospect, I wouldn't have used. But I had to rely on other people for

01:33:25.860 recommendations. Now, I know everybody. I know the dumb ones, the smart ones, the weak ones, the strong

01:33:32.580 ones. I know — I think I know everybody. And, you know, I've got people that I think will be great. 1.00

01:33:40.420 With that being said, you pick people, and sometimes they disappoint you. Everybody knows that.

01:33:45.620 And then you pick people, and sometimes they turn out to be better than you thought.

01:33:49.380 But for the most part, I tell you what, I think we have some incredible — we have some incredible people

01:33:54.900 in Washington. We really do. We have some great people. And I now know, I believe, for the most part,

01:34:00.740 I know who those people are. Do you think Bobby Kennedy and Elon Musk will be influential figures

01:34:08.020 without being specific about what those roles will be in your administration?

01:34:12.100 Yeah, I do. I think so. Look, Bobby — let's talk two of them. Elon's so — you know where he is right now?

01:34:21.140 He's in Pennsylvania campaigning for me. Elon. That rocket ship, right?

01:34:26.980 No, it's so great. He docked that big monster, 22 stories. I thought the sucker was going to be — you

01:34:34.740 know, I was — you know, it's a very crazy story. I mean, I saw it coming in on television. I was 0.96

01:34:40.980 talking to a very — I told the story tonight, but I thought it was a very — you know, I'm talking to

01:34:46.260 this very important guy — not as important as Tucker, but important. Big — a big shot. Somebody,

01:34:52.180 everybody would know. I'm talking to him. I'm bored like — I'm bored stiff. He's a boring guy.

01:35:00.580 Oh, who is he? So anyway, no, I'm talking to this very big shot, important guy. And I have the

01:35:07.780 television muted. This thing's going on. You know, the whole thing was really boring. Then I see this

01:35:13.700 monster thing coming down. I see fire all over — fire, left, right. And I'm looking, I'm saying,

01:35:22.820 hey, could you hold it a minute? Yeah, sure. I said, yeah, I just want to see something. I put the

01:35:30.500 phone down. I sort of forgot. And I didn't pick him up for like 50 minutes. And 5-0. And you know

01:35:39.220 what? Because of the fact that I was president, and I very well might be president again, he held on

01:35:46.340 the whole time. Can you believe it? But it's true. I pick the phone up. I say, oh,

01:35:51.940 shit, the phone — hello? Hello? He goes, hello? The poor guy. But I had to see this. 0.99

01:36:01.300 And I turn it on. I see if — now you have to understand, it left. I saw it leave, and it was

01:36:05.940 beautiful white paint. Now it's coming down, and it's just dark brown — you know, it's coming down

01:36:12.740 at 10,000 miles an hour or something. I think it's 10,000. It's coming down at levels of speed that

01:36:18.740 nobody ever even conceived of. And it's all burned and where it's rough. But it's coming, and now it's

01:36:25.300 turned around. It turns around. And you have the gantry, the big, beautiful gantry. And it's coming — and

01:36:32.660 it's going to — I said, oh, it's going to crash, because you see at that bottom, this section right 0.98

01:36:38.340 here, that sucker's — oh! I'm going, come on, baby. Come on. And I didn't know, actually, if it's — if 0.98

01:36:48.500 I'm watching a science fiction movie or am I watching the news, I didn't know what the hell I'm watching.

01:36:53.460 But I see this thing coming down, and all of a sudden, it's going into the steel — the big

01:36:59.460 steel gantry up here. It goes — the thing's like 20 stories tall, too. It's going to crash. I said,

01:37:04.500 oh, shit, it's going to crash. Coming down. And the lower section, right, it's coming right — it's ready. 1.00

01:37:10.580 And then all of a sudden, pwah! Fire flames come pouring out of the lower section. It's jets.

01:37:17.540 And they're pushing it over right here. And then it comes down. And I'm saying,

01:37:23.460 I mean, is that the coolest thing you've ever seen, right? Is that the coolest?

01:37:28.340 If you don't think I want a guy like that working for us — so, you know, we've got to cherish

01:37:34.180 our brilliant people. They don't treat him right. We've got to cherish our brilliant people,

01:37:38.900 because we don't have too many of them. Nobody does. Nobody does.

01:37:42.580 So, Elon — oh, talk Elon first. Elon wants to — by the way, I'm having a great time up here. Are you

01:37:51.380 having a good time? Okay. Is he the greatest interviewer? He asked me one little question.

01:38:00.500 I talked for 20 minutes, and they're going to say he's better than Larry King at his prime, right?

01:38:05.380 It's an easy job. Is that the greatest? You're an easy interviewer.

01:38:09.460 He is a great — he is great at what he does. There's few like him, I will tell you that. So,

01:38:15.380 so, with Elon, here's a theory — and he's right — that there's unbelievable wasted fraud.

01:38:24.900 Like, I saved much more than a billion dollars when I came into the White House. And one day,

01:38:30.100 when I said, I'm not going to pay that much to Boeing for Air Force One. And they ended up taking,

01:38:36.260 like, more than — much more than a billion dollars off the price. It took about a couple of weeks,

01:38:41.780 you know, saying, I'm not buying it. No, I don't want it. But there's a plane that you're saving much

01:38:48.180 more than a billion dollars. And you've got thousands of things like that. Not as much, and in some cases,

01:38:55.540 much more. They're building an aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford. The thing came in like at 20

01:39:01.620 billion dollars for a boat — 20 billion. And it doesn't work because they decided to use

01:39:07.780 electric catapults that throws the planes off instead of steam. They decided to go electric.

01:39:14.100 Why are the people that are going all electric? By the way, I'd end the electric mandate on cars day one.

01:39:20.020 You should have electric, but you've got to have gasoline. You've got to have everything.

01:39:23.300 That'll come off on day one. Many things will be done on day one. Your head will spin when you see

01:39:29.620 what's going to happen — the stupidity. But what I like about Elon — you know, Elon's a great cost 1.00

01:39:35.380 cutter. And Elon thinks he can cut the costs of our government by two trillion dollars. That's the entire

01:39:46.260 deficit, you know, because it's now at a level — by the way, we have the biggest deficit we've ever had 1.00

01:39:51.620 under this stupid group of people. But he thinks he can cut two trillion dollars without affecting 0.99

01:40:00.740 anybody, just through — and I think he can do that. I do. I believe that. And that's really what he

01:40:07.380 wants to do. He doesn't want to work. He doesn't want to become a secretary of something. I mean,

01:40:12.260 I'd love to have him, to be honest with you. But he doesn't want to — he's doing a couple of other

01:40:17.140 things, you know, like rocket ships. You know, he sends — Tucker, he sends 92 percent of the rockets

01:40:25.380 that go up are his rockets. Think of that. Russia, China, and us — 92 percent are him. And he's the

01:40:33.700 only one — I asked him, I said, are you the only one that can do that? He's the only one that can land

01:40:40.260 it like that. And he said it'll be years before they can do it. He's a great guy. He wants to cut

01:40:45.300 costs. That's what he wants to do. He wants to save the country. He said that if Trump doesn't get

01:40:50.180 elected, the country is finished. Because, you know, he understands me. And — and I got to know him a

01:40:56.020 little bit in the White House, but much more so over the last few months. He endorsed me. He gave me an

01:41:02.100 endorsement that was so beautiful. He said, if Trump doesn't win, I think this country is finished.

01:41:06.820 He's worried about the country. He's worried about it. He thinks he can save two trillion dollars,

01:41:12.820 in which case we don't have a deficit. We — I mean, the whole thing would be

01:41:16.820 two trillion dollars a year, by the way. A year. And I will definitely — now, Bobby is — is great.

01:41:26.580 The only thing I'm a little bit worried about with Bobby — so I want him to work on health,

01:41:31.860 and I think there's nobody like — I mean, I think he's right with so much of the things he's

01:41:36.020 talking about. Because, you know, we're not a healthy country. If you look at some of the

01:41:40.420 countries in Europe, they're much more healthy than us. We're a rich country. I mean, you know,

01:41:46.020 we've got to get rid of a little debt, but that's okay. We're — we've typically been very good at

01:41:51.060 that. I've been very proficient at that. I've had it both ways. I've had a lot of debt, and I've had very

01:41:55.780 little debt. And as you get older, having very little debt is much better, believe me. But you know what?

01:42:01.300 He is — he really wants to — with the pesticides and the, you know, all the different things — I said,

01:42:09.060 he can do it. He can do anything he wants. He wants to look at the vaccines. He wants everything. I think

01:42:14.260 it's great. I think it's great. The only thing I say to Bobby is leave the liquid gold under our feet

01:42:24.340 alone. I want — we want to have a little gasoline. We want — because you know what I'm going to do?

01:42:29.140 We're going to unleash much of that. And we're going to — you know, Germany tried to go all green, 0.75

01:42:35.460 and they almost destroyed their country. And that was the end of Angola, by the way. That was it for 0.99

01:42:40.500 Angola. They went all green. They had windmills all over the place. And the wind stopped blowing for a

01:42:45.940 couple of weeks. And that was almost the end of Germany, actually. But the only thing — and I say it 0.88

01:42:51.620 jokingly — but I say, Bobby, I love you looking at health. I want you to take care of the women of

01:42:59.140 this country, the men of this country, and the children of this country. You don't have to worry

01:43:04.660 about anybody else. But the one thing you got to do for me, Bobby, is leave that — leave what's under

01:43:13.300 my feet — the oil and gas. You leave that to me, Bobby, because that's going to — we're going to make so

01:43:19.380 much damn money. And it's clean. It's going to make it clean. We're going to make — you know,

01:43:24.500 we have — look, China doesn't have that. That's why China's going electric. If we go electric,

01:43:30.580 we're playing right into their hands. We have oil and gas. They don't. They have things for making

01:43:37.860 the batteries and other things. They're going to make the electric cars. We're not going to be making

01:43:42.340 the electric cars. The problem with the electric cars — and I think they're great in a smaller

01:43:46.420 application. They don't go far. They cost too much, and they're going to be made in China.

01:43:52.020 Three minor problems, okay? But if you listen to this government, they want to make army tanks electric

01:43:59.140 because they want to invade countries with their army tanks in a very friendly way from the pollution

01:44:05.540 standpoint. The whole — you know what you have to do? The batteries are so big, they have a design where

01:44:11.460 the army tank is going in, and they have like a wagon, like a child's wagon with these massive batteries.

01:44:18.260 These — Wait, we're going to have green wars? 0.97

01:44:21.060 These people are crazy. No, they want trucks to be all electric. The problem is they don't go far.

01:44:26.740 That's a problem. You know what else is a problem? So the trucking industry comes to see me because they

01:44:31.940 think I'm going to win, and they come in to see me. And these guys come in, and they're great guys.

01:44:37.700 They've been in, like, Roger Penske. How good is Roger — the guy's won, but he's in the trucking

01:44:42.740 business too. He's won, like, 19 Indianapolis 500. Think of how good this guy is. Japan spends billions

01:44:50.340 on coming up with a race car. Germany spends billions — I don't know if they've ever won,

01:44:55.220 maybe one or two. Roger Penske is an incredible guy. He won 19 Indianapolis 500. It might even be 20.

01:45:02.980 That was two years ago. I gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom because I said he deserves it.

01:45:08.180 After the 19th, I said he deserves it. But the truckers came in to see me. They say,

01:45:13.380 Sir, they want us to go all electric, and it'll destroy the industry. Why?

01:45:18.260 Because a truck is two and a half times heavier if it's run by a battery.

01:45:23.780 I said, That's not good. I don't like that. What does that do to the bridge? He said,

01:45:27.940 How did you pick it up so fast, sir? Every bridge in the United States would have to be rebuilt.

01:45:33.620 Every roadway would have — because they're not set for that kind of weight. A little problem.

01:45:39.300 They don't go far, right? They only go — I said, How many times would you — New York to L.A. — how

01:45:45.460 many times would you have to stop? Six times, sir. Six. How many times would you have to stop if you

01:45:51.700 loaded up with diesel fuel? We wouldn't have to stop at all, and we can come back a little bit of a ways,

01:45:57.140 too. And he said, That's a problem. They have a lot of problems, right? Another problem is the

01:46:02.180 battery is much bigger than the tanks of diesel, so it would take a lot of their payload out.

01:46:09.300 I said, Have you explained this to the government? Yes. What do they say? We don't care. We want all

01:46:14.100 electric. You know? I mean, these are problems that fairly short-term are absolutely insurmountable,

01:46:20.820 but the government is pushing them anyway. So we have to bring common sense back to our

01:46:26.820 country. We have to have borders. We have to have fair elections. You know, we shouldn't be worried

01:46:32.980 about how they're stealing in Pennsylvania and how — we should have fair elections. We should have

01:46:40.020 one-day elections, all paper ballots, voter ID, and we're finished.

01:46:44.900 So I know you've been up — your schedule is — and this is not a talking point — your schedule is beyond

01:46:53.780 belief, and I know you've been working since 6 a.m. this morning. I don't even know what time it is or

01:46:57.460 what time zone we're in. So this is my last question to you. But after almost 10 years of doing this,

01:47:03.460 going around the country, speaking to huge audiences, almost a decade, you're four days from — that's it.

01:47:11.940 How do you — are you sad about that? Do you — how do you feel?

01:47:16.100 So, you know, we have these rallies, and it's nice to have a president that doesn't need a teleprompter.

01:47:23.300 Isn't it really nice? And — because you can't have successful rallies if you're reading, oh, they

01:47:30.980 were, ah-ha, ah-wah, ah-wah. Everybody would pick up and we have great — we have the greatest rallies.

01:47:37.700 Even look at this crowd, although I would assume they're here for Tucker, mostly Tucker.

01:47:42.260 Look at this crowd of people you have here. This is not a normal — this isn't normal.

01:47:46.260 The President Trump's handsome people, too.

01:47:47.620 No, this isn't a normal situation. I mean, what the hell time is it? And you go back —

01:47:52.980 this is a monster building. I don't know how many people you have here, but you also have a lot of

01:47:56.660 people outside. When we were driving up, there are thousands of people outside. So,

01:48:02.580 I was making a — a couple of days ago, and I said something that I've never said. I said,

01:48:09.140 you know, I've been doing this for nine years, and you've been with me. This is the greatest

01:48:13.860 political movement in history, by far. By far. It's MAGA. It's called Make America Great Again.

01:48:23.620 When our — when our — I'm going to be nice to him. When our president — no, when our slightly off — I mean,

01:48:34.420 look at the way he performed in the debate. They should have never taken it away from him.

01:48:39.140 Look at the way he performed. He was brilliant. Okay.

01:48:41.300 So — but they knew that a long time ago, okay? And she knew that, too. And our country's a danger.

01:48:49.460 We're dealing with Kim Jong-un. We're dealing with very — you know, we're dealing, by the way,

01:48:54.740 with unbelievably smart, talented, vicious people that are at the top of their game.

01:49:01.860 And we're dealing with people that, number one, aren't smart. They never were. They never were.

01:49:06.180 She wasn't. She was a bad student. She couldn't pass her damn law exam. Okay? 0.64

01:49:11.140 She wasn't smart. And he was definitely not smart. And we're dealing with other people that are at the

01:49:17.300 absolute top of the poll. And we can't do that. That's a great danger. And people should have let

01:49:24.340 us know. But I was talking. And I said, we've been doing this together for nine years. You know,

01:49:30.020 a year before I started, in terms of before we won. Almost a year, anyway. And I said, you know what?

01:49:50.500 It's sad, in a way, because there's never been rallies like this. When that sleazebag said,

01:49:57.060 during the debate, she said, oh, your rallies aren't well attended. And people leave. They

01:50:02.580 don't leave. And they're really well-intended. We can't get places big enough. And then — and then I

01:50:10.500 said — I said — I said, no, no. You know, the rallies are the biggest in history. We never have — just

01:50:20.900 like this. This is a part of a rally. We never had an empty seat. And nobody leaves early.

01:50:26.980 And you know what? If I saw people leaving, you know what I'd do? Ladies and gentlemen,

01:50:32.180 we're going to make America great again. Goodbye, everybody. And everybody would be happy. Nobody

01:50:36.660 would leave. But we don't have to do that. Nobody leaves. It's a love fest. It's never happened before.

01:50:43.140 This has never happened before. He's a big fan of Ronald Reagan. So am I. But if Ronald Reagan,

01:50:49.940 let's say, went to New Mexico like I did today, we probably had 25,000 people standing in an airport

01:50:55.860 early in the morning today. But we have massive crowds. Look, we had 107,000 people in New Jersey.

01:51:06.660 We had 101,000 people in Butler just a few weeks ago, right? We had 114,000 people

01:51:14.500 in California a month ago, right? 114,000. The owner said, the person that has the land, the nice guy,

01:51:24.340 he said, you get bigger crowds than these guys that play guitars. And I don't have a guitar.

01:51:28.740 So this has been a love fest. But I said, and I meant it too. I said, you know,

01:51:35.780 we've done this for nine years. And it's sad. I never thought of it, actually.

01:51:41.140 It'll never happen. It'll never happen again. It's never going to happen again.

01:51:46.100 In four years, somebody's going to be running. It could be

01:51:49.540 JD. It could be this one. By the way, he's doing a good job.

01:51:54.420 He's doing a good job. But it could be JD. And he'll have competition no matter what.

01:51:58.500 But when you have a rally, they're going to have 250 or 300 people. If Ronald Reagan came back from the

01:52:07.140 dead, at the height of Ronald Reagan, if he went to California to have a rally, he'd have 250, 300

01:52:15.780 people in a ballroom someplace. We have 50, 60, 70, 80, 100,000 people. And in all fairness, we're late.

01:52:24.740 I don't know. I have no idea. I've been doing this all day. I have no idea what time it is. But

01:52:29.620 I know it's not exactly prime time for doing this stuff. And you look up into the rafters of this

01:52:34.740 massive building, and you don't have, there's no empty seat. There's no anything. It's, it's,

01:52:40.020 by the way, it's, and for whatever reason, I don't, I can't explain the reason, but it'll never happen

01:52:46.420 again. And there'll be somebody running, and he'll be the hot one next year. And he'll come here,

01:52:52.740 and he'll go there, and he'll have two, three hundred people. That's what it's going to be.

01:52:56.100 My consultants was telling me that. Said, we've consulted for 25 years. If we'd have 300 people,

01:53:03.300 we were thrilled. If we'd have 200 people, we were thrilled. And you have like 30, 40, 50, 60. In

01:53:10.180 South Carolina, we had 88,000 people. In Alabama, we had 68,000 people. It's an amazing phenomenon.

01:53:18.020 And I'm not giving myself, it's just, I'm giving you the credit. You're tired of being the stupid 1.00

01:53:25.220 country. We've become a stupid country. We were run by stupid people. And you're tired of it. So, 1.00

01:53:33.060 I said to myself the other day, Tucker,

01:53:36.340 it's sad. And I was telling the people, because it'll never happen again. This is never going to

01:53:41.780 happen again. I don't care. I just don't believe. It's never happened in any country. When Biden got

01:53:47.140 up with a red background, the pink background, and he looked like the devil, he looked so stupid, 1.00

01:53:51.940 right? And he said, we will stop MAGA. MAGA, we're going to... I said, listen, you stupid bastard. 1.00

01:54:01.620 MAGA means, because I don't think, I think if you asked him, what does it mean? He doesn't know. 1.00

01:54:06.500 MAGA means, make America great again. That's what MAGA means. So, for the first time, I never said it to

01:54:18.180 anybody. I never really thought about it that much. But all of a sudden, it was down to like,

01:54:23.620 maybe 10 or 8 or 9 days, a few days ago, right? I said, you know, in 10 days,

01:54:30.180 this will never happen again. Because I'm not running again. And

01:54:35.780 you're going to lose interest. We're going to meet, but we're going to meet on a different basis.

01:54:39.940 We're going to meet on the basis of fixing our country. And we'll meet, but it'll be different 0.76

01:54:45.460 than having rallies and having, you know, things where you have elections and all. It's never going

01:54:51.060 to be what we've done together. We got to win, first of all. But we are leading. Just keep the cheating

01:54:57.700 down. The only thing that can stop us is the cheating. It's the only thing that can stop us.

01:55:02.580 If we win, it's the biggest event in political history. It's the biggest event in political

01:55:06.980 history. But, and there's something, and it's going to be the most important. I believe

01:55:12.100 that the next election is the most important election in the history of the country. I really

01:55:17.380 believe that. The one that's coming up in four days. But I said to myself, it's sad. I told the people,

01:55:25.300 some people are in the road, they're crying. They go, we have people that have gone to 200 and 250

01:55:30.900 rallies. We have the beautiful ladies of North Carolina. We have the front row Joes. I mean, 0.96

01:55:35.940 we have people that have gone to hundreds of rallies. I said, this will never happen again.

01:55:41.700 I don't believe it will. I don't think it'll ever happen again. And we'll get together,

01:55:46.180 but it'll be different. We're going to get together and we're going to make America great again.

01:55:50.100 We're going to fix our country. We're going to have strong borders and we're going to have fair

01:55:54.020 elections and hopefully we'll get a fair press eventually. Because that's a very important

01:55:58.660 element. You need a fair press. He and I understand the press because you give them a story,

01:56:05.300 you know exactly everything that happened and they'll write it the opposite, like the exact opposite.

01:56:09.940 They'll write it to actually hurt you. It's hard to believe. You almost, that's the other thing.

01:56:14.420 You wonder why do they do that? It's so bad. And they've lost such credibility. You know, when I first came

01:56:20.260 to politics, the news, the press had a 92 percent approval rating. Yesterday it hit 14 percent.

01:56:33.140 And I'm actually very proud of that because I've exposed them for being a total fraud. They're a fraud.

01:56:40.340 But hopefully they won't be a fraud for long. Hopefully that'll straighten out. Because that's a very

01:56:45.940 important. The press, a free press, a real press is a very important part of greatness, of making a

01:56:52.900 country great. They're like, they're almost like, they're glue that keeps it together. But they're

01:56:58.820 also like, in a way, a police force that keeps it honest. But they're so dishonest that they have

01:57:04.420 no credibility. Think of it, 60 minutes, ask sir question. And you know, I brought a lawsuit on this

01:57:13.700 today. You saw that 60 minutes because it's so long. She gives an answer that only a moron would give. 0.61

01:57:23.460 You can give bad answers. But this was an answer that a person who, who is not a smart person, 1.00

01:57:30.260 a person who got the lowest score, perhaps in the history of the bar exams. Okay.

01:57:35.620 You know, she failed the bar exam. Okay. But this is a person, this is a very low IQ individual.

01:57:44.820 This is the answer of a very low IQ individual. And by the way, I think everybody that runs for

01:57:52.340 president or vice president should have cognitive tests. They should have testing because, you know,

01:57:58.500 and I don't mean by age, because, you know, some of the greatest leaders in the world were in the 80s,

01:58:03.380 in the 80 period, because there is an experience thinking other things. Some of the greatest leaders

01:58:07.860 in history, you look back and, and I know many people that are in their 80s that are, I know one

01:58:13.860 person from 80 to 90 made billions of dollars and he was a failure for his whole life. And you know him,

01:58:19.300 I'll tell you who it is later. But he was a failure for his whole life. But I said to myself, it's sad 0.68

01:58:26.340 that in a way, this whole great thing that we've built is, is never going to happen again.

01:58:31.940 But what is going to happen again is we're going to turn our country around. We're going to make it

01:58:35.860 great. And we're going to be so proud of ourselves because we have to save our country. Our country is

01:58:42.260 going bad. We're a failing nation. We are, as I say, we are a nation in decline. We are a nation in very

01:58:49.780 serious decline. And look at what these stupid people have done. They've allowed Russia, China, 1.00

01:58:58.100 Iran, North Korea, and others to get together in a group. This is impossible to think.

01:59:06.340 When I was a young guy, I loved, I always loved the whole thing, the concept of the history and all of

01:59:12.500 the things that can happen. The one thing — and I had a professor at the Wharton School of Finance,

01:59:18.340 but we had history classes also — he said, the one thing you never want to happen is you never want

01:59:24.980 Russia and China uniting. We united them because of the oil. We united them. Biden united them.

01:59:35.940 It's a shame. The stupidity of what they've done. I'm going to have to ununite them. And I think I can 1.00

01:59:41.700 do that too. I have to ununite them. But early on, I've read — and you've learned — you never want

01:59:48.820 Russia and China — and they're natural enemies because Russia has massive land and China needs it.

01:59:57.460 Okay? They need that land. China doesn't have the land for the population. Russia has — if you ever

02:00:03.940 look at the size of the Russian land mass, it's like four times or five times. Doesn't it have like

02:00:08.980 12 time zones or something? It's massive. They're a natural enemy. And we've allowed them to come to

02:00:17.540 get together. It's such a dangerous thing. Another thing — another thing that we're doing is we're

02:00:24.900 losing the dollar as the standard because of these people that are so — if we lose the dollar as the

02:00:31.300 standard, that's like losing a war. And it'll never happen with me. There's no way that will happen

02:00:37.700 with me. We've got to put it back together. We cannot — that is like losing a war.

02:00:45.380 So we're going to get together, and hopefully we'll get together a lot. But we're going to get

02:00:49.380 together — and I think it's going to be very happy times. We're going to put our country back together,

02:00:53.700 and we're going to make it the greatest country in the world again.

02:00:56.420 And you're going to be very proud of all these rallies that we had. And I just want to thank

02:01:02.100 you for being here so late in the evening. I've been doing this all day. And this guy is fantastic.

02:01:09.220 President Donald J. Trump, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you.

The Tucker Carlson Show - November 01, 2024

Tucker Carlson Live Tour Grand Finale with President Donald Trump LIVE in Glendale, AZ

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