Pres. Trump thank you everybody, so great to be with you. Great to be back at cpac. The place i have really i love this place. Love you people. So, thank you, thank you very much. First of all i want to thank matt schlapp and his incredible wife and boss mercedes who have been fantastic friends and supporters. And so great when i watch them on television defending me, nobody has a chance. I want to thank matt and mercedes. [applause] pres. Trump and when matt called and asked, i said, absolutely. I will be there with you. The real reason i said that, i didnt want him to go against me. Because of that one, you cannot beat. I said absolutely, and it really is an honor to be here. I wouldnt miss a chance to talk to my friends. These are my friends. [cheering] [applause] pres. Trump and we will see you again next year and the year after that. I will be doing this with cpac whenever i can and i will make sure we are here a lot. If you remember, my first major speech. Sit down, everybody come on. The Dishonest Media will say, he didnt get a standing ovation. You know why . Because everyone stood and nobody sat. They will say he never got a standing ovation. [applause] [cheers and applause] usa. Usa. Usa. Pres. Trump so, sit down. Donald trump did not get a standing ovation. They leave out the part, they never sat down. They leave that out. My first major speech was at cpac. Probably five or six years ago, first Major Political speech. And you were there. I loved it, i love the people and the commotion. They did these polls where i was i went through the roof and i was not even running. It gave me an idea. I got concerned when i saw what was happening in the country. And i said lets go to it. It was very exciting. I walked the stage at cpac. I will never forget it, really. I had very little notes and even less preparation. So when you have practically no notes and no preparation and you leave and everyone was thrilled, i said i think i like this business. I would have come last year but i was worried that at that time i would be too controversial. We wanted Border Security and a very, very strong military. We wanted all of the things were going to get. People consider that controversial, but you did not consider it controversial. [applause] pres. Trump i have been with cpac for a long time. All of these the years we have been together and now you finally have a president. Finally. Took you a long time. Took you a long time. [applause] pres. Trump and it is patriots like you that made it happen. Believe me. You did it because you love your country, because you want a Better Future for your children and because you want to make America Great again. [applause] pres. Trump the media did not think we would win. [indiscernible] [laughter] pres. Trump you are right, they had an idea the pundits didnt think we would win. The consultants that suck up all that money, so they suck it up so good they are not good at politics but they are really good at sucking up peoples money. Especially my opponents because i kept them down to a minimum. The consultants did not think we would win. But they all underestimated the power of the people, you. And the people proved to them totally wrong. This is so true and this is what has been happening. Never underestimate the people. Never. I dont think it will ever happen again. [applause] pres. Trump and i want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news. It is fake, phony, fake. [applause] pres. Trump a few days ago i called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are. They are the enemy of the people, because they have no sources. They just make them up where there are none. I saw one story recently where they said nine people have confirmed there are no nine people. I dont believe there was one or two people. Nine people. I said give me a break because i know the people. I know who they talk to. There were no nine people but they say nine people. Someone reads it and they think nine people, they have nine sources. They make up sources. They are very dishonest people. In covering my comments, the Dishonest Media did not explain that i called it the fake news the enemy of the people. The fake news. They dropped off the word fake and all of a sudden the story became the media is in the enemy. They take the word fake out as and now i am saying no, this is no good. But that is how they are. I am not against the media, im not against the press. I dont mind bad stories if i deserve them. I love good stories. [laughter] pres. Trump i dont get too many of them. I am only against the Fake News Media or press. Fake, fake, you have to have that word. Im against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They should not be allowed to use sources unless they use somebodys name. Let their name be put out there. Let their name be put out. [applause] pres. Trump a source says that donald trump is a horrible human being. Let them say it to my face. [applause] pres. Trump let there be no more sources. And not in all cases. I had a story written about me in reuters by a very honorable man. There are some great reporters around. They are talented and honest as the day is long. Theyre great. But there are some terrible and dishonest people who do a tremendous disservice to our country and to our people. They are very dishonest people. They should not use sources. They should put the name of the person. You will see stories dry up like you have never seen before. You have no idea how bad it is because if you are not part of the story, and i put myself in your position sometimes, because many of you are not part of the story. If you are not part of the story, then you sort of know if you are part of the story, you know what they are saying is true or not. When they make it up and they make up Something Else and you saw that before the election, polls, polls, the polls, they come out with these polls and everyone was so surprised. A couple of polls got it right. Los Angeles Times did a great job. Shocking, you know. They did a great job. [applause] pres. Trump we had a couple of others that were right. Generally speaking i can tell you the network. Someone said a poll came out. I said, what network is it . And they said, lets not even mention names, all right . You have a lot of them. Look the Clinton News Network is , one. [applause] pres. Trump take you look, honestly. We take a look at their polls over the past three years. You would think they would fire the pollster after years and years of getting battered. Who knows, maybe they are just bad at polling or they are not legit. But it is one or the other. Look at how inaccurate, look at cbs, look at abc, look at nbc, take a look at some of these polls. They are so bad and so inaccurate. What that does is it creates a false narrative. It creates this narrative that is just like we are not going to win. People say i love trump but im not feeling great today, he cannot win, so i will not go vote. It creates a false deal and we have to fight it, folks. We have to fight it. They are very smart, they are very cunning and they are very dishonest. To conclude, it is a very sensitive topic. And they get upset when they when we expose their full stories. They say we cant criticize their dishonest coverage because of the First Amendment. They always bring up the First Amendment. I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. Who uses it more than i do . [laughter] [applause] pres. Trump but the First Amendment gives all of us, gives it to me, to you, to all americans the right to speak our minds freely. It gives you the right and me the right to criticize the fake news and criticize it strongly. [applause] pres. Trump and many of these groups are part of the large media corporations that have their own agenda and it is not your agenda and is not the countrys agenda. It is their own agenda. They have a professional obligation as members of the press to report honestly. But as you saw throughout the entire campaign, and even now, the fake news doesnt tell the truth. It doesnt tell the truth. Just in finishing, i say it doesnt represent the people, it never will represent the people and were going to do something about it because we have to go out and we have to speak our minds and we have to be honest. Our victory was a win like nobody has ever seen before. [applause] pres. Trump and i am here fighting for you and i will continue to fight for you. The victory and the win was something that was really dedicated to a country and people that believe in freedom, security and the rule of law. [applause] pres. Trump our victory was a victory and a win for conservative values. And our victory was a win for everyone who believes it is time to stand up for america, to stand up for the American Worker and to stand up for the American Flag. There we should stand up. There we should stand up. Okay. [applause] pres. Trump by the way, we love our flag. By the way, you folks in here, the place is packed, there are lines that go back six blocks. And i tell you all that because you will not read about it. There are lines that go back six blocks and there is such a love in this country for everything we stand for. You saw that on election day. And you will see it more and more. We are all part of this very historic movement. A movement the likes of which actually the world has never seen before. Theres never been anything like this. There have been some movements but there is never been anything like this. There been some movements of that petered out. Like bernie, petered out. But it was a little rigged against him. Superdelegate, superdelegate. She had so many delegates before the thing even started. I said to my people, how does that happen . Not that i am a fan of bernie but a lot of bernie people voted for trump. You know why . He was right on one issue, trade. Our country is being devastated by bad trade deals. We have a lot of bernie support. I actually like bernie. I am here today to tell you what this Movement Means for the future of the Republican Party and the future of america. First, we need to define what this great, Unprecedented Movement is and what it actually represents. The core conviction of our movement is that we are a nation that puts and will put its own citizens first. [applause] [chanting] usa. Usa. Usa. Pres. Trump for too long we have traded away our jobs to other countries. So terrible. We have defended other nations borders while leaving ours wide open. Anybody can come in. Build the wall. Pres. Trump oh, were going to build the wall. Dont worry about it. We are building the wall. In fact, it is going to start soon. Way ahead of schedule. Way, way ahead of schedule. Going to start very soon, general kelly has done a fantastic job. Fantastic job he has done. And remember, we are getting the bad ones out. These are bad dudes. We are getting the bad ones out. If you watch these people, it is like, that is so sad. We are getting bad people out of this country. People that should not be, whether it is drugs or murder or other things. We are getting bad ones out, those are the ones that go first. I said it from day one, basically all i have done is keep my promise. [applause] pres. Trump we have spent trillions of dollars overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total disrepair and decay. In the middle east, we have spent, as of four weeks ago, 6 trillion. Booing] pres. Trump think of it. And by the way, the middle east is in much worse shape than it was 15 years ago. If our president s would have gone to the beach for 15 years, we would have been in much better shape than we are right now, that i can tell you. [applause] pres. Trump be a hell of a lot better. We couldve rebuilt our country three times with that money. This is a situation that i inherited. I inherited a mess, believe me. We also inherited a failed Health Care Law that threatens our medical system with absolute and total catastrophe. I have been watching and nobody says it but obamacare does not work, folks. I could say, i could talk, it doesnt work. And now people are starting to warm up. The people youre watching, they are not you. They are largely, many of them are the side that lost. They lost the election. Its like how many elections do we have to have, they lost the election. Ive always said obamacare doesnt work. The same people two years ago and a year ago were complaining about obamacare. And the bottom line, changing it, were going to make it much better. We are to make it less expensive. We going to make it much better. Obamacare covers very few people and remember, deduct from the number all of the people that had great health care, that they loved that was taken away from them, was taken away from them. [applause] pres. Trump millions of people were very happy with their health care. They had their doctor, they had their plan. Remember the lie 28 times, you can keep your doctor, you keep your plan. Over and over and over again you heard it. Were going to repeal and replace obamacare. [applause] pres. Trump and i tell paul ryan and all of the folks we are working with very hard, dr. Tom price, very talented guy. But i tell them from a purely political standpoint, the single best thing we can do is nothing. Let it implode completely, it is already imploding. You can see the carriers are all leaving, it is a disaster. Two years dont do anything. The democrats will come to us and beg for help. They will beg, and it is their problem. But it is not the right thing to do for the American People. Not the right thing to do. [applause] pres. Trump we inherited a National Debt that doubled in eight years. Think of it, 20 trillion. It has doubled. And we inherited a Foreign Policy marked by one disaster after another. We dont win anymore. When was the last time we won . Did we win a war, did we win anything . Did we win anything . Were going to win and were going to win big, folks. We are going to start winning again, believe me. [chanting] usa. Usa. Usa. Pres. Trump we are taking a firm, bold and decisive measure to turn things around. The era of empty talk is over. It is over. Now is the time for action. Let me tell you about the actions that we are taking right now to deliver on our promise to the American People and on my promise to make America Great again. We have taken swift and strong action to secure the southern border of the United States and to begin the construction of a great, great border wall. [applause] pres. Trump by doing this and with the help of our great border police, with the help of i. C. E. , with the help of general kelly and all of the people that are so passionate about this, our border patrol, ill tell you what they do. They came and endorsed me, i. C. E. Endorsed me, they had never endorsed a president ial candidate before. They might not even be allowed to. But they were disgusted by what they saw. We will stop it. We will stop the drugs from pouring into our nation and poisoning our youth. Pouring in. Pouring in. [applause] pres. Trump we get the drugs, they get the money. We get the problems, they get the cash. No good, no good, it is going to stop. By stopping the flow of illegal immigration, we will save countless tax dollars. That is so important because the tax dollars we are losing are beyond anything you can imagine. And the tax dollars that can be used to rebuild struggling American Communities including our inner cities. [applause] pres. Trump we are also going to save countless american lives. As we speak today, immigration offices are finding the gang members, the drug dealers and the criminal aliens and throwing them the hell out of our country. [applause] pres. Trump and we will not let them back in. They are not coming back in, folks. If they do they will have bigger problems than they ever dreamt of. I am also working with the department of justice to start reducing violent crime. Can you believe what is happening in chicago as an example . Two days ago seven people were shot and i believe killed. Seven people. Seven people. Chicago, a Great American city, seven people, shot and killed. We will support the incredible men and women of law enforcement. [applause] [cheers and applause] pres. Trump thank you and thank them. I have also followed through in my Campaign Promise and withdrawn america from the Transpacific Partnership so we can protect our economic freedom. We are going to make trade deals, but were going to do it oneonone and if they misbehave we terminate the deal and they will come back and we will make a better deal. None of these big quagmire deals that are a disaster. Take a look at nafta, one of the worst deals made by any country having to do with economic development. Economic undevelopment as far as our country is concerned. We are preparing to repeal and replace the disaster known as obamacare. Were going to save americans from this crisis and give them the access to the Quality Health care they need and deserve. We have authorized the construction, one day, of the keystone and Dakota Access pipelines. [applause] pres. Trump and issued a new rule, this took place while i was getting ready to sign, i said, who makes the pipes for the pipeline . Well, sir, it comes from all of all over the world. Isnt that wonderful . Nope, it comes from the United States or we are not building it. American steel. [applause] pres. Trump if they want a pipeline in the United States, theyre going to use pipe made in the United States, do we agree . But can you imagine, i told the story the other day. Can you imagine the gentleman, never met him, dont know the name of his company. I sort of know it but i wouldnt i want to get it exactly correct. Big, powerful company. They spend hundreds of millions on the pipeline. Same thing with the dakota. They get their approvals in the case of dakota but then they couldnt connect it because they had people protesting that had never showed up before. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars with bloodsucker consultants. Sucking the blood out of the company. I used them all my life. Dont worry, were going to get it approved, im connected. I am a lobbyist, dont worry. Bottom line, obama did not sign it. Could be 42,000 jobs, somewhere around there. A lot of jobs. Did not sign it. Can you imagine, he gave up. It is dead. Now he is doing nothing. Calling his wife, hello darling. I am a little bored, remember pipeline at that has killed our company . Knock, knock, mr. Soandso. The Keystone Pipeline out of nowhere has just been approved. Can you imagine the expression . And you know the sad part . The same bloodsucking consultants will go back to him and say, didnt we do a great job . We want more money. Because that is the way the system works. That is the way the system works. We are preparing bold action to lift the restrictions on American Energy including shale, oil, natural gas, and beautiful, clean coal, and were going to put our miners back to work. Miners are going back to work. [applause] pres. Trump miners are going back to work, folks. Sorry to tell you that, but they are going back to work. We have begun a Historic Program to reduce regulations that are crushing our economy. Crushing. And not only our economy, but crushing our jobs because companies cant hire. We are going to put the regulation industry out of work. And out of business. And by the way, i want regulation. I want to protect our environment, i want regulations for safety. I want all the regulations that we need and i want them to be so strong and so tough. But we do not need 75 of the repetitive, horrible regulations that hurt companies, hurt jobs, make us noncompetitive overseas with other companies from other countries. That we do not need. But we are going to have regulations, really strong and really good. We are going to protect our environment and we are going to protect the safety of our people and our workers, ok . [applause] pres. Trump another major promise is tax reform. We are going to massively lower taxes on the middle class, reduce taxes on american business, and make our tax code more simple and much more fair for everyone including the people and the business. [applause] pres. Trump in anticipation of these and other changes, jobs are already starting to pour back into our country. You see that. In fact, i think i did more than any other prepresident. They say president elect, they say he is meeting with ford, chrysler, general motors, i just wanted to save a little time. [laughter] pres. Trump ford and fiat because chrysler, general motors, sprint, intel and so many others are now, because of the election result, making Major Investments in the United States, expanding production and hiring more workers. And they are going back to michigan and they are going back to ohio and they are going back to pennsylvania and they are going back to North Carolina and to florida. [applause] pres. Trump it is time for all americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. Youre going to love it. Youre going to love it. Youre going to love it. [applause] pres. Trump we are also putting in a massive budget request for our beloved military. [applause] pres. Trump and we will be substantially upgrading all of our military. All of our military. Offensive, defensive, everything. Bigger and better stronger than ever before and hopefully we will never have to use it but nobody is going to mess with us, folks. It will be one of the greatest military buildups in american history. No one will dare question, as they have been, because we are very depleted. Very, very depleted. Sequester. Sequester. Nobody will dare question our military might again. We believed in peace through strength and that is what we will have. [applause] pres. Trump as part of my pledge to restore safety for the American People, i have also directed the Defense Community to develop a plan to totally obliterate isis. [applause] pres. Trump working with our allies, we will eradicate this evil from the face of the earth. [applause] pres. Trump at the same time, we fully understand that National Security begins with Border Security. Foreign terrorists will not be able to strike america if they cannot get into our country. [applause] pres. Trump and by the way, take a look at what is happening in europe, folks. Take a look at what is happening in europe. I took a lot of heat on sweden and then a day later, i said has anybody reported what is going on . It turned out they did not, not too many of them did. Take a look at what happened in sweden. I love sweden. Great country. Great people. They understand the people over , there understand i am right. Take a look at what is happening in sweden. Take a look at what is happening in germany. Take a look at what has happened in france. Take a look at nice and paris. I have a friend who is a very substantial guy. He loves of the city of lights. He loves paris. For years every year during the summer he would go to paris. It was automatic, with his wife and his family. I havent seen him in a while. I said, jim, i have to ask you a question. How is paris doing . Paris, i do not go there anymore. Paris is no longer paris. Four, five years, he has not gone there. He wouldnt miss it for anything. Now he doesnt even think in terms of going there. Take a look at what is happening to our world, folks. And we have to be smart. We have to be smart. We cant let it happen to us. [applause] pres. Trump let me state this as clearly as i can. We are going to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. [applause] pres. Trump we will not be deterred from this course. And in a matter of days we will be taking brandnew action to protect our people and keep america safe. You will see the action. I will never, ever apologize for protecting the safety and security of the American People. I wont to do it. If it means i get bad press, if it means people speak badly of me, that is ok. It does not bother me. The security of our people is number one. Is number one. [applause] pres. Trump our administration is running with great efficiency even though i still do not have my cabinet approved. Nobody mentions that. I still have people waiting to be approved. Everyone knows they are going to be approved. It is just a delay, delay, delay. It is really sad. These are great people. We still do not have our cabinet. I assume were setting records for that. That is the only thing good about it, we are setting records. I love setting records. [laughter] pres. Trump but i hate having a Cabinet Meeting and seeing empty seats. I say democrats, please approve our cabinet and get smart on health care if you dont mind. We are taking meetings every day with top leaders in business, in science and industry. Yesterday i had 29 of the biggest Business Leaders in the world in my office. Caterpillar tractor, campbells soup, we had everybody. I like campbells soup. [laughter] [applause] pres. Trump we had everybody. And we came to a lot of very good conclusions and a lot of the folks in that room will be building big, big massive new plants and lots of jobs. And they are going to be building them in this country, not some other country. We are meeting with unions, law enforcement, and leaders from all around the world. Where the white house doors used to be totally closed, they were closed, folks. You do not realize that, folks. They were closed. They are now wideopen and they are open for people doing business for our country and putting people to work. [applause] pres. Trump and when they come into the white house, we are translating these meetings into action. One by one, were checking off the promises we made to the people of the United States. One by one, a lot of promises. And we will not stop until the job is done. We will reduce your taxes, we will cut your regulations. We will support our police. We will defend our flag. [applause] pres. Trump we will rebuild our military, we will take care of our great, great veterans. We are taking care of veterans. [applause] [cheers] pres. Trump we will fix our broken and embarrassing trade deals that are no good. None of them. You wonder, where do the people come from that negotiated these deals . Where did they come from . They came also from campaign contributions, i must be honest. They are not as stupid as you think. We will cut wasteful spending, we will promote our values, we will rebuild our inner cities. We will bring back our jobs and our dreams. So true. [applause] pres. Trump and by the way, we will protect our second amendment. [applause] pres. Trump wayne and chris are here from the nra. They did not have that on the list. It is lucky i thought about it. [laughter] pres. Trump but we will, indeed. They are great people. By the way, they love our country. The nra has been a great supporter. They love our country. The forgotten men and women of america will be forgotten no longer. That is the heart of this new movement and the future of the Republican Party. People came to vote, and these people, the media, said where are they coming from . What is going on here . These are hardworking, great, Great Americans. These are unbelievable people who have not been treated fairly. Hillary called them deplorable. Theyre not deplorable. [booing] [indiscernible] lock her up. Lock her up. Lock her up. Pres. Trump who would have thought that a word was going to play so badly . That is the problem in politics. One wrong word and its over in politics. She also said irredeemable, but we will not mention it. The gop will be from now on the party also of the American Worker. [applause] pres. Trump we have not been as a group given credit for this but if you look at how much bigger our party has gotten during this cycle. During the early days when we had 17 people running. Millions and millions of people were joining. I will not say it was because of me, but it was, ok. [laughter] pres. Trump we have an amazing, strong, powerful party that truly does want to see america be great again and it will see it and it will see it a lot sooner than you think, believe me. A lot sooner than you think. [applause] pres. Trump we will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests but we will serve the citizens of the United States of america, believe me. [applause] pres. Trump global cooperation, dealing with other countries, getting along with other countries is good. It is very important, but there is no such thing as a global anthem, a global currency, or a global flag. This is the United States of america that i am representing. Im not representing the globe. I am representing your country. [applause] usa. Usa. Usa. Pres. Trump there is one allegiance that unites us all and that is to america. America. The allegiance to america. No matter our background or income or geography, we are all citizens of this blessed land. And no matter our color or the blood, the color of the blood we bleed, it is the same red blood of great, great patriots. [applause] we all salute with pride the same American Flag and we all are equal, totally equal in the eyes of almighty god. We are equal. [applause] thank you. And i want to thank, by the way, the evangelical community, the christian community. [applause] communities of faith, rabbis and priests, pastors, ministers the support for me was a record, as you know, not only in numbers of people, but percentages of those people who voted for trump. I want to thank you folks. That was amazing. R and i willutpou not disappoint you. As long as we have faith in each other and trust in god, there is no goal beyond our reach. There is no dream too large, no task too great. We are americans and the future belongs to us. The future belongs to all of you and america is coming about and it is coming back and it is roaring and you can hear it. It is going to be bigger and better. It is going to be. It is going to be, remember, and it is roaring. It is going to be bigger and better and stronger than ever before. [applause] [cheers and applause] i want to thank you and matt and mercedes, i want to thank the two of you and all the supporters that i have. I see them, they are all over the place. You are really great people, i want to thank you. And it want to say to you, god bless you and god bless the United States of america. Thank you, folks. [applause] you cant always get what you want you cant always get what you want you cant always get what you want but if you try sometimes, well you just might find you get what you need fromncer cpac also heard nigel farage, who drew comparisons between the u. S. President ial election and the u. K. s brexit movement. This is 20 minutes