Fox report well take you now back live to the president at the values voters summit in washington d. C. President trump he said a lot of what he said to the press so well take a look at it and go after these people. These are bad, bad people. I told my lawyers sue him anyway , hes got immunity. I said sue him anyway even if we lose the American Public will understand. [applause] President Trump and soon nancy pelosi, or maybe we should just impeach them, because theyre lying and what they are doing is a terrible thing for our country and the president of ukraine said, there was nothing wrong with the call and you heard the words there was no pressure. He didnt even know what we were talking about. I tell you what i respect him so much because a lot of times i dont want to comment or get involved. He said that its a very nice call. It was nothing there and the people that read it after we gave the transcript said it was great. I had one very smart brilliant lawyer from new york. I didnt like your call, with your crime, mr. President , he used to call me donald, now mr. President. 30 years he calls me donald, and nobody calls me that any more. I lost all my friends they call me mr. President. [laughter] President Trump its true. Its true. He goes mr. President , i keep saying call me donald. Mr. President , i didnt like that call to the ukraine yankees president. I said really, what was wrong with it . It was terrible the way you
threatened him and it was horrible and i said i didnt threaten him. Of course you did. I said where did you read it . I didnt read it, i listened to what adam schiff was reading. I assumed that was a correct statement and i said no. He then calls me back after reading it and he said i cant believe it. Ive never seen anything like that. A lot of people saw that. A lot of people thought it was bad thought it was bad because they heard adam schiff and they dont hear us talking and they dont know what were saying. They think that its somebody, hes reading it like i said it. Its a terrible thing going on in this country, but they are using that call to impeach your president who won in 2016 perhaps the greatest election of our time. [applause] President Trump and i won it for you. I didnt win it for me. I won it for you and others but i won it for you. Theyre coming after me, because
im fighting for you. Its a big part of it. And im fighting for all americans and our way of life but im fighting for you and they dont like you. They dont like you when you explain why. You explain why. Your values are so incredible. They dont like you. Nobody in this room would do what adam schiff did. Nobody would ever think of it. By the way, he only did it because he never thought i was going to release the transcript. Had he thought, and i didnt even know, i was going to release it even before he did it but i said release to help transparency can you get, right . Hes saying were holding back. I gave the transcript of the call, but he did it and then i release the transcript, they never thought in a million years , even in terms of violation with another country, but we got the approval, so hes very embarrassed but he gets up
to the microphone and remember he used to say well i have personal proof that the president was very closely aligned with russia. Russia im starting to say, does he know something that i dont know gets up with his very narrow neck, do you remember . Dana youd not be impressed with him physically. But he gets up, no dummy, but hes a crooked person, smart guy , crooked as hell. And this is what theyre using, and theyre going to be very unsuccessful but this is what theyre using this call to impeach the president of the United States, who did win one of the great elections of alltime. [applause] President Trump and It Couldnt Have come at a better time
because if we had lost that we would be in a lot of trouble wed have a very different country, even with china they are saying its incredible what youve done. Our economy is up many many trillions of dollars. Their economy is down many many trillions of dollars. [applause] President Trump big gap. We would have been number two if our opponent had won and they would have been way ahead of us and now theyre way behind and thats okay. We made a great deal yesterday, have to get it papered but we will because they want to make that deal because theyve never had pressure like this and i dont blame china by the way. I blame the people that were leading our country for 25 years , allowing that to happen, where 500 billion is being taken out of our country and given to china so they can rebuild their entire empire, so i never blamed china and i say that openly. I dont blame china. I wish we could have done it to
them. I would have left it. And now maybe we are. [laughter] President Trump they are trying to destroy anyone of fundamental ly transforming the United States of america and the one thing about the radical democrats, that is something that you have to admire, they stick together. The republicans dont and i love the republicans. They have horrible policies, the democrats and theyre for sanctuary cities, the democrats and theyre against strong, powerful and beautiful, i love our law enforcement. [applause] President Trump they believe in open borders where anybody can come into our country, anybody. You have to see that weve done
a great job. No support, the only opposition we have 27,000 mexican soldiers on our border and the numbers are dropped like off the table. And i want to thank the president of mexico and mexico for doing that. [applause] President Trump but the democrats have one thing. They stick together and its like glue. Its been that way for a long time, not just now but for whatever it is its been that way for a long time and its the one trait that i do respect and admire. They stick together. They dont have people coming out against the president , and you know, im at 94 approval rating, but still, you have people out there, they dont get it so we love the republicans, we love what were doing, we love our programs, in many cases were better politicians, we
have much better policies we want strong borders, we want powerful education, we want freedom of speech, we want a Strong Military, we want a powerful Second Amendment which They Dont Want. [applause] President TrumpThey Dont Want , i wouldnt say theyre too much into the Second Amendment the world of the Second Amendment. I will tell you if certain of these people i would say almost anyone or your Second Amendment is in serious serious trouble. Serious trouble. Socialism is obsessed with the pursuit of power because it is replaced religion within government and in their eyes it has absolutely replaced religion when you look at some of the things that they are in favor of , its like anything, nobody has ever seen anything like thought. The new green or green new, you could say that by the way it
means the same thing. [laughter] President Trump somebody said which comes first and i said it doesnt matter. They are both crazy. No planes, no people, no energy, no oil, no gas, no nothing. This evening we reaffirmed true foundations of americal society, we believe that every american has the right to live by their conscience and the teachings of their faith. We believe in the right to free exercise of religion. [applause]
[route chanting] four more years four more years four more years four more years President Trump all right thank you very much. You know, years ago you could have said that and people would have said yes and it would have been routine. Today you said you get standing ovations, because were under assault and we believe in the right to free speech. We believe in the right to life. [applause]
President Trump thank you. We know that families and churches, not government officials, know best how to create strong and loving communities. Its been that way in our country and above all else, we know this in america, we dont worship a government. We worship god. [applause] President Trump thank you. You were there from the first
minute of my presidency. I have taken historic action to defend religious liberty. Tony knows that very well. Tony wasnt really sure, he was saying what do you think . I dont to him very well. But i think youre very happy now, tony, right . Something im very proud of i stopped the Johnson Amendment from inter fearing with passes rights to speak their minds. You can do whatever we want. Youre the people we want to hear from. We want to hear from you. We are protecting the conscience , rights, and think of this, those rights of doctors and nurses and teachers and groups like the Little Sisters of the poor, incredible people
and were preserving our country s tradition of faith based adoption. [applause] President Trump as you know just a few days ago a democrat running for president proposed revoking the Tax Exempt Status of many churches and religious groups. And you know why and you know who it is. Hes a wacko. [applause] President Trump i will never allow the federal government to be used to target, harass, or punish communities of faith and i will never allow the irs to be used as a political weapon, as it has been and currently is, it is currently being used. But has been used so viciously, so violently against many people in this room. Virtually every top democrat lawmaker also now supports taxpayerfunded abortion, right up to the moment of birth, but its really now even worse. The governor of virginia, if you remember, he was on a show and he talked. People said what did he say . What was that . He said the baby is born and then we have a conversation as to whether or not what he meant, as to whether or not we execute the baby because now its an execution, and that was a very big moment, and they dont do anything about it. Those unbelievable moments to the people in this room, for the people on the radical left, they didnt understand what was wrong with what he said. Thats where weve come but
were going now in a different direction, and dont forget [applause] , when i go after what i call the fake news, i call it the corrupt news because its stronger than fake but fake sort of reads a little bit better, there they are. But when i go after the fake news, i have a magazine for one of the many covers ive been on the covers of this particular magazine, im magazine and they were in my office and maybe ill get a better story out of these people so we had a nice talk, and i was talking about unfairly the press treats me and you. They treat us all very very badly. No matter what we do, it doesnt matter. Itll never be considered good and if its just a neutral, its a horror. And if its something bad, i
hate to say it, its like the electric chair, okay . Bring back the electric chair, they say. But i was talking and i was going after fact after fact after fact about how crooked and Corrupt The Media is and then i realized im in the oval office and i said but im president and youre not. So whats this all about . [applause] President Trump im going on for like 20 minutes ranting and i said wait a minute, here i am, here i am. Here it is, its right there. And i walked away with a big smile on my face. [applause] President Trump but because of the late term abortion, this is why ive asked congress to prohibit the late term, abortion
of babies, and its a big thing and i have a lot of fighting, you wouldnt think there would be a lot of fighting remember the debate with Crooked Hillary where i said she wants to rip the babies out of the womb and everybody said wow, thats the first time they heard that statement and youre just lick it that we won, because we won, i didnt win, we won. This would be a much different country and by the way its like a plant. You seed the plant, you put the plant in, but those roots have to gain. Thats why we need the next four years. We have to have those roots they have to grab on. [applause] President Trump thats why. Weve done so much theres no administration thats done what weve done in the first two and a half almost three years if you look at everything weve done with taxes and regulations and right to try and all of the
different things that weve done , the vets, the military, weve rebuilt our military. [applause] President Trump we had a general come to my office and respected general and having a big trouble with one country. First week in office, very early , and said sir, we have no amunition. I said do you know what . Were going to have amunition a lot of it and hopefully well never have to use it but well have a lot of it but i also said i never want to have another president of the United States hear those words from a general, because does that puts in bad position . And this administration, we believe that every child, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of god. [applause]
President Trump during my first week in office i reinstated the Mexico City Policy to protect the lives of the unborn. We have issued a final rule to prohibit title x Taxpayer Funding from subsidizing the abortion industry. [applause] President Trump we stopped federal funding of fetal tissue research. My administration has also made tremendous progress in fighting back against the lefts effort to use the federal courts to impose their fringe ideology and crush the same religious liberty than weve been speaking of tonight, to defend our constitution, we have confirmed more than 160 highlyqualified
judges to interpret the law as written including two incredible new Supreme Court justices. [applause] President Trump you know ive always heard that federal judges , judges and justices, Supreme Court justices, most important decision a president can make and i disagreed. I always said look, defense to me has always got to be number one, but i got it. I said you know it is. Its really incredible, and usually when a president comes, theres no previous president would have, should be no vacancy. Whatever their ideology is, but i guess they thought that the crooked one was going to win or something. So i came in, and in the first couple of days i said by the way , i had a couple of other things going too including the
fact that a few minutes after i was sworn in the Washington Post wrote a story that the impeachment starts right now. You saw that right . Did you see that, right after i took the other of office they did a story literally a very few moments after the swearing in. The road to impeachment starts right now, but i have a lot of other things but i said during the course of the first very early period like a week, i said by the way how many federal judgeships do i have . They said sir, we have 142. I said what . You have 142, sir. I said youve got to be kidding. 142 . You mean, i have two. One, none. Now i have 142. And president obama was not very
good automate getting it done because you know, people held him up but with time you get them all done. Get them done, but he put a big rush on at the end when he saw that we were doing well in the polls and coming up and up but it wasnt enough time so we inherited 142 open federal judge ships including Court Of Appeals. [applause] President Trump first time in history. First time in history anything like that has ever happened and then they say oh, he was a great president. Oh, great. He was great. Great for who . He was great for us. [laughter] President Trump and then that way he was. Theres never been a better president for the republicans in what they consider the most important way, tony. Gave us 142 judgeships in the first day in office. And you go back and check it out , youll find that others left none, usually none or one or two, but one, none, 142 and
then we have extras that we got through attrition, through retirement, through death and we will very shortly and less than a couple of months well have 182 federal judgeships including appeals judges, Court Of Appeals 182. [applause] President Trump and we were getting killed with the court decisions. If you look at our first few months i think i was 0 for 8 and then we won one in a newspaper i think it was the failing new york times, what would they do without me . The paper was dead until i came along. Two months before i ran, i remember holding one up that was like from a Grocery Store the things that you hand out it was
like this. Its all right when we leave in 10 or 14 years, theyll fail. [applause] President Trump im only kidding by the way. I told you he wants to stay. Did you see the crazy comedian . I wont even give him the name, but you know who. He said hes interviewing a guest a couple of weeks ago and he said very liberal guest and he said you know hes going to win dont you . You know hes going to win. The guest said no, no, were going to fight very hard. No, no, hes going to win and you know hes not leaving after that dont you . Hes going to stay. Theres no way we will ever get him out of office. I thought he was kidding and he was really, he believed it so do you know what . Let him believe it. I think its great. [applause] President Trump hes never leaving. In recent years, the hard left has tried to muzzle christian voices in their aggressive attack on free speech, last year , remember the Student Government at the University Of California Berkeley slightly liberal out there, abstained from a campus vote, that violated her christian faith. She was condemned by the Student Government and kicked out of nearly every single club of which she was a member at college. On the way that members of Student Government condemned her they went after her like nobody would believe and she sent out Christian Community is here to love and serve this campus, and isabella is here somewhere
tonight. Where is isabella . [applause] President Trump beautiful. We a slight you thank you very much, isabella to safeguard the rights of students my administration has taken historic action to withhold taxpayer dollars, were talking about billions of dollars by the way, from schools that infringe on students First Amendment, freedoms and other peoples First Amendment freedoms. Do you notice theyve been treating us much better lately
and say we got to let this person speak. We got a lot of millions of dollars every year these schools they are all of a sudden letting them speak but they still dont speak properly about us, we dont like that, but its really had a big impact to support american families, we double the Child Tax Credit and cut a Record Number of jobkilling regulations. [applause] President Trump weve created over 6 million new jobs since the election nobody would have believed that. If i would have said that, tony, the media back there, the wonderful people in the media would have said hes exaggerating. I would have never said six actually. You really have to go by the day after the election, because you know when you look the day after the election there was euphoria and the market went up tremendously before signing, and obama gives credit, the market was crashing. The market would have gone down the tubes, so i said why did he
get all of that upside . They only did the upside for two and a half months or whatever it was, between Lets Say November 9 and january 20, they only did the upside because we got elected. [applause] President Trump if he would have gotten elected it would not have been a good situation. Last month unemployment reached the lowest rate in over 51 years and youve heard me say this African American, Hispanic American and Asian AmericanUnemployment Rate have all set record lows, and women, 71 years im sorry you didnt break a record, but were doing very well with the women. Do you know why . Women are so smart and they want safety, security, they want a great military, they want strong borders. Remember last time, he will not get the womens vote, there is no way to get to 270. They needed 270 electoral votes. He will not get the womens votes, and then after the election said man he did good with the women [applause] President Trump he did good with the women. Hes like a tape recording the same thing now. He will not get the womens vote i said really They Dont Want to have a Strong Military or security or safety . Were working harder than any administrations ever worked on opioid and drugs and our numbers are coming way down. Nobody has seen numbers like this. Nobody has seen numbers like what weve done. Weve lifted 1. 3 million American Children out of poverty , our agenda is lifting up americans of every background , race, religion, color, and creed, last year with the help of many faith leaders, many of you are in the room right now, i signed groundbreaking criminal Justice Reform into law, everybody wanted that. [applause]
President Trump the African American community wanted it so badly they couldnt get it. President obama couldnt get it done. Previous president s couldnt get it done, we got it done to protect the well being of our citizens were fighting violent crime, securing our border, building the wall and it is going up rapidly by the way, rapidly. Do you think that was an easy one . That was a tough one and its the, i said the rolls royce that criticized me on that. They said that car is not made in the United States. I said were building a rolls rose. We brought in border security, brought in the border parent l toes, we went over that and i said give me your alist. I want every single thing so when i build it, i build it right. What do i know about Building Walls . And they gave me every single thing and i got every single thing from the height to the vision through to the type of steel that cant be cut easily, to the type of concrete, 5,000
pounds, very strong concrete. To the type of rebar, to the anti provision that we have on top. Who knows about the anticlimb provision . And we built and were building a wall and its going up rapidly and thats tough because i built it against every single democrat who four years ago wanted it, and the only reason They Dont Want it now is because i want it. President trump the only reason only one reason and i said, you know, the first time i said i cant believe it took me so long to figure this one out. If i would have said i do not want the wall, i will not build a wall, they would have insisted on a wall that would have been so much easier. It would have been so much easier. Oh, dana it would have gone up so fast but i took money from here, and there, and here, and
military, because it is National Security, okay . How about these people that say its not, when drugs are pouring in, human trafficking, women, mostly women, human trafficking, and children but mostly women, and its going up really fast and its all financed, its really financed and we may get more if we get additional financing well extend it a little bit, but we should have by the end of next year, we should have anywhere from 400 to 500 miles of wall built in the most important areas thats exactly what we need. [applause] President Trump to protect National Security we are fully rebuilding and for the most part have fully rebuilt our military. [applause] President Trump because as i say and ive said tonight, my first duty as president is the defense of our nation, as a
candidate i promise to make fundamental changes to our foreign policy, after years of Deadly Debacles and blunders under previous administrations, its been pretty bad out there. We have the greatest soldiers in the world, but they had equipment that was depleted. It was old. We had jets that didnt fly. 50 of our jets didnt fly. They would go to the Plane Graveyards out in the deserts, and they would take parts because they didnt make the parts any more. And weve now spent, think of this, 8 trillion in the east. Thousands of american soldiers have lost their lives and Tens Of Thousands more have been severely wounded. The hardest thing i have to do as president , the single hardest thing by far is sending letters to the families of our fallen heros. Its the worst to come in with letters three, four, five, and
sometimes im call the parents. Its the hardest thing i have to do, and sometimes ill go to dover and ill see the big big incredible machines come in, the cargo planes and ill see them take those coffins off those planes and ill see parent s and sisters and wives and brothers, family, ill see families, ill meet them inside and they will seem fine sometimes, and ill say to the people that did it, they greet the dead. Thats what they say. They greet the dead. They greet our heros, but ill say to the people that do theophanore so professional. Thats what they do. Thats what they do every day. Thats what they do. So professional. Sir, you will stand here, you
will then hear the drums. You will then hear the horns, you will this and you will that. Its like but ill go, Dover Air Force base. Ill see the parents and the wives and the husbands and whoever it might be, and oftentimes, ill say to the colonel in charge, theyre doing great. No, sir theyre not. I said no, i think theyre really doing great. I had a great talk with them. They are really strong. Sir, they wont do good. I said what do you mean . Youll see in 20 minutes when the plane pulls up and the door opens up that big huge cargo door thats as big as, much bigger that back wall here, when you see that, sir, its rare that bad things dont happen for those families. Its rare. I said all right, this is my first time. When i first came into office,
and that big plane pulled up and i had just spoken with the families but that big plane pulled up. Its beautiful in its strength, its power and it pulled up, just arrived and were all standing there, everybody, the military, im with generals and some cabinet members, and the families are over here. That tremendous door in the back , where they roll up the tanks and they roll up like unlimited amounts of equipment and you wouldnt believe its possible to fly with all of the things, you know the power of those planes, and that door came down and theres five soldiers on each side, beautiful soldiers , beautiful. And a coffin with a flag on it and the same people, the same
exact people, that 20 minutes ago i was saying to the colonel, oh, theyre doing great, but he was right. And that door opened and you would hear screaming and cries like youve never heard before actually, like ive never heard before. And the colonel explained to me, sometimes youll see a mother or a wife, sometimes youll see a sister break the line, breakthrough the military and run to the coffin and jump on top as these incredible, strong, beautiful soldiers are carrying this coffin, jump and jump on top of the coffin just like
devastating, and they move as though nothing has happened, they just keep moving. And they take the body to where its going, they place it in the hearse, and it goes away, but you think this is easy, and weve been in these wars now one of them 19 years and they didnt fight to win, they fight to just stay there. In theory we were supposed to be there for 30 days and weve been there for 10 years and these wars never end and they have to bring our great soldiers back from the neverending wars. I see the other day, i went to friday, i went to walter reed medical center, the hospital, first of all those doctors are
incredible what they can do but i gave out Purple Hearts and i see in this case, young men, all men, and they had been just decimated. They stepped on a bomb and whats done to them is just in credible, so i see this, and its the very hard thing to do. It doesnt mean we wont fight. Well fight harder than anybody, but sometimes we have to know what were fighting for, and we cant stay there for ever. We have to bring our great heros and soldiers, we have to bring them home. Its time. Its time. [applause] President Trump in the case of turkey and the kurds, and i could go into a whole story because i understand it i think
better than most, but the kurds were going to fight the iraqis about a year and a half ago and remember they say with ehave to fight with the kurds and i said well wait, we just spent 4 trillion on a wreck and now well fight with the kurds against iraq, im not going to do it. This was in a different part of syria. Totally different. They said well the kurds are going to fight and they are going to fight its going to be horrible. Well, i said so we just spent 4 trillion fighting with iraq which by the way, was the single worst mistake this country has ever made going into The Middle East. [applause] President Trump now for 8 trillion, thousands of our lives, and millions of lives on the other side, by the way, millions. Im talking about millions and millions of lives, but i said were going to stand by, were not going to choose sides, they
will have to go at it lets see what happens. The kurds left, they left. And there was very little combat and it was a great decision, we could have stayed and fought, fight the people that weve been fighting for, whether right or wrong, and we left and we watched and nothing happened. And most people dont even know where im talking about because it was a year and a half ago and even at the time, and nobody got credit for that correct decision, and now im sort of one again but now this may be happening again that 30 kilometers at 22 miles strip along turkey, and the kurds are tending to leave and thats good let them have their borders but i dont think our soldiers
should be there for the next 50 years guarding our border between turkey and syria when we cant guard our own borders at home. [applause] President Trump i dont think so. So lets see what happens, and its a long ways away. We killed isis. We defeated. We did our job. We have to go home. We did our job. Another story i went over to iraq and said we can do it, sir. They told me it would take a year to two years, my washington generals, highly overrated. They said its going to take one year to two years and i said man , thats a long time. Remember i wanted to pull out . Dana it was 97 i wanted to go and i said thats enough lets get out. You wouldnt believe the military Industrial Complex came down on me, so i went to get 100 but it was going to take a
year to two years and then i went over and i met with the generals and i said so generals, and these guys are like im telling you, like better than anybody in hollywood, theres nobody that looks like this in hollywood, i said a couple of them looked better than tom cruz , they are just tougher and taller. [laughter] President Trump better than tom cruz but i said so general, let me ask you the big question. They said its going to take a year, maybe two. How long will it take you . Two weeks, sir. What do you mean two weeks . You could do it in two weeks maybe a month but two weeks, sir how do you do that . And why are they saying you could do it so much longer you say sir, two weeks were going to hit them in the left, were going to hit them in the right, were going to hit them underground, overground, this way that way, they would never
let us fight. I said but i they went in and tt him in the left, they hit them in the right and hit them down the middle and within three weeks after i gave the go ahead, isis, we had 100 of isis, and we captured a lot, a lot were killed the fighters, they dont do big white flag things, people said maybe they will give up the generals said no they wont, sir they dont give up. Its an ideology and its tough ideology, but we did it very quickly, and so we did what we should have done. Most of these fighters came from europe. They came from germany, they came from france and many countries in europe, and i called them and i said youve got to take back your fighters and they said nope, we dont want them. I said you dont understand. Were not going to take the fighters. We dont want them, were not
bringing them to guantanamo, were not bringing them to our prisons and the United States. They come from france, they come from germany, and in many cases they are citizens, they left the fight. We dont want them back. I call them again and i said got to take them back or were going to let them go right in your dam n border. But they wouldnt do it. They wouldnt do it. They didnt want them back. We have thousands of them. They had really bad ones, the beatles, you know the beatles are the ones with the chopped off heads and do you know what we did . The night that the war that the shooting started we had some incredible military people go into that prison and grab them and take them and bring them out and we have them totally under wraps. They were the worst of everybody , and weve got them now. [applause] President Trump but people dont treat us right. We did them a big favor. We captured these people, and i just want you to know that
because theres a big story to this. Its not just what these people say, and by the way, if i did the opposite, if i stayed and fought, we could have stayed and we could have fought and we would have knocked turkey around and we, they would have hated it if they get out they hate it. No matter what we do they will hate it. No matter what decision we make, if im right, i hope they do because its very hard to beat a force that has planes and they dont or they have weapons that the kurds dont have, we paid a lot of money to the kurds over the years and dont forget they are fighting for their land. They are fighting for their land and thats good but weve helped them. But no matter what we did the media will say its the wrong decision. Makes no difference. If i said were going to stay in sight, were going to fight them like you never saw, they
will say its terrible, i told you, he loves war. Dont forget when i got elected everybody thought id be in world war iii the first day, right . Now they say, not only arent we but we have the strongest economy in the history of our country. [applause] President Trump just so you know wars and economies dont go well together you can check that out so despite all of the blood that was spilled, the lives lost and the money that was spent, The Middle East is right now, remember when i say it ill say it going in with the worst decision. They went in in for Weapons Of Mass Destruction and there were none. There were none. But it was the intelligence agencies, there were some real beauties. Its less safe now, its less secure. Less stable, and they fight. Thats what they do, they fight. The generals came to me in afghanistan. Sir, its going to be a rough spring. Why . My first year. Why . Well, sir, the taliban is going to come out of the mountains and start fighting. I said but why do you say rough . Well thats what they do. Theyve done this for a thousand years come out in the spring, they fight. Its what they do. They are very good very good fighters thats what they do. You know, tony wants to go watch a football game. I want to go do things they want to come out and fight thats what they do. Right, tony . They probably are a little tougher than tony but thats okay. [laughter] President Trump just ask russia if theyre tough but we could beat anybody. We could beat them easy. Were policing in afghanistan. But weve been there 19 years, so i just wanted you to understand these things. Weve got to bring them back home were rebuilding our country. Were rebuilding our military. We dont want to deplete it as fast as we build it and we have
other problems. You have russia, you have china, you have other big problems. I think well get along great with china. I think well get along great with russia but when they create a phony russia hoax it makes it tougher to get along with russia when they create lots of different scenarios with china, it makes it tougher to get along with china. I think well do great, but they got to let us run our country the way its supposed to be run. [applause] President Trump so these never ending wars have increased , not decreased. And the grave danger posed to historic Christian Communities has been incredible. Since the United States went to war in iraq, now listen to this. I was against going to the war. Nobody cared i was a civilian, but i got a lot of publicity for whatever reason. They always liked me, or hated me. No i used to get the greatest publicity thats how im here. Once i announced i was going to
run they killed me and then when i won i said you know, i told my wife first lady shes doing a great job. [applause] President Trump doing a great job. If you were married to a Liberal Democrat hed say she may be the greatest in our History Of The World but shes married to me but the first day, i won, it was historic, people didnt think although three polls said we would win, i thought we would win because of the crowds we were getting just like we got last night in louisiana lets see what happens with that, just like we got in a blue area of minnesota. I think were going to win minnesota. [applause] President Trump group from minnesota. 22000 teachers like madison garden, the timberwolves arena
where they play the nba games and it was packed and we could have sold it out four times so somethings happened but i said we won. You know the great thing is, because the press was so dishonest during these campaign, like unbelievable and i said you know the great thing, told to my wife i said now they respect what we did and im going to get great publicity for a while like i used to get my whole life and it got worse. Its worse, its not even close. Its worse now than ever but thats okay. Because as i said to time magazine, were here and youre not, right . So since the United States went to war in iraq, in 2003 the Christian Community in the country has decreased by 80 from roughly 1. 5 million people, to right now just 250,000 christians, in iraq, you dont hear that. My administration is absolutely committed to protecting religious minorities in the
middle east, and all around the world. You know if you were [applause] President Trump if you were a christian in syria which is a rough place to be youd have almost no chance during the last administration of coming into the United States, so they say the hardest thing to do to come into the United States number one, most people place in the world to come in is if you were a christian and syria, if you were a muslim in syria it was extremely easy to come into the United States, and christians were prosecuted in syria. And thats the way it is. But its not that way any more. [applause] President Trump this week i directed 50 million to support christians and other religious minorities and syria, i did it on friday. 50 million. Ill make it in honor of Pastor Brunson, tony, dana, people that have done a great job for us. 50 million and thats going to
help christians in syria, not an easy situation for them. In total my administration has provided more than a half A Billion Dollars in support of religious minorities and other suffering from atrocities in syria, and iraq alone. Other president s would not be doing that. Theyd be spending a lot more money, but theyd be spending it on things that would not make you very happy. With one clear voice, the United States of america condemns the prosecution of christians. [applause] President Trump and we pledge our support to Christian Communities everywhere suffering under the brutal heal of oppression and violence our hearts and souls are joined with these brave believers in their religious struggle and pastor its great to have you back here [applause] President Trump ive made clear to turkey that if they do not
meet their commitments including the protection of religious minorities, and also watching over the isis president in other words that we capture, we will impose a very swift, strong, and severe economic sanction, like i did with respect to my negotiations to get Pastor Brunson out, otherwise i hate to say this pastor youd still be there and i hate to say this also and this isnt done from ego, any other president of the United States, you would still be there. You know what we had to do and i have to say you were very brave the way you put up with it but it wasnt an easy situation. Any Military Engagement where we send young men and women to fight and die must have clear objectives, vital nation interest and a realistic plan for how the conflict will end. We dont want to be a 19year wars where we serve as a Policing Agent for the whole
country. We will continue our fight against the menace of radical islamic terrorism. [applause] President Trump a lot of people dont want me to use that term. President dont use that term. I said but its the truth. I dont want to use that term but its the truth and we will never tire or waiver in our defense of religious liberty. A few weeks ago i was honored to be the first president to host a meeting at the United Nations to call upon all nations to end religious persecution. Could you imagine . [applause] President Trump the first president that did that, and can you imagine that . You would have thought that would be done every year for 40 years wouldnt you . And i read that and it became a big story and i said can you believe thats the first president that said we want to put an end to religious
persecution. How can that be the first president its been there a long time but thats the way it is. Earlier this year i appointed a certainly envoy to monitor and combat the poison of antisemitism. Unfortunately the Democrat Party is an invited antisemitism into its own ranks, look at omar, look at her. Have you seen what she says . Not only about our country, but look at what she says about israel. And theyre always making excuses. Well, she didnt mean it, oh, she meant it, she meant it much moreso than even her words. My administration is confronting this and were standing with our Close Friends and partner, the state of israel. [applause] President Trump and as you know very well, i recognize the internal capitol of israel and open the American Embassy in
jerusalem. [applause] President Trump thank you. And we did it for the right price. Right, tony . We got the building and it was an interesting, im sure some of you have heard it. We have a great ambassador, David Friedman but great lawyers one of the top lawyers in new york, made a lot of money and he wanted to be the ambassador, but he wanted it, everybody wanted it and every president has promised that for years and years and they promised, going to recognize the capitol of irs and were going to move the embassy, to jerusalem, but they didnt do it. I understand why, because once i got into office, you have no idea the pressure that was put on. Now that was called a quiz pro quo. [applause] President Trump that was a quiz pro quo. The pressure put on me by so many other countries calling, please dont do it, please dont do it. The last two weeks i didnt take anybodys phone call. I got calls from kings, you could imagine, i got calls from everybody. Not to do it, please dont do it so what i did is i said do you know what ill do . I wont take their call, ill call them back in a couple of weeks and i said do me a favor tell the Prime Ministers ill call them back in two weeks, im busy. They said two weeks thats a long time. Tell the king, i call him back in a few days. So anyway i did it and then i made all those phone calls and a lot of publicity, it was a big story. Nothing happened. Remember the world was going to come to an end right . Nothing happened. I kept saying are we okay . Yeah. Is there a protest . No. Three, four days go by and i said Whats Going On . This is strange. But then i started making the
calls and i said king, what do you want . Whats up, king . And it goes i wanted to call you to tell you we would be very much opposed and i said oh, i wish i spoke to you sooner, sorry. [laughter] President Trump and everybody is happy. Everybody is happy. So we had to decide on a building and they came in, sir, would you please sign this order i said whats it for . Were going to build, start the process, well take 30 years by the way, of building the embassy the actual embassy. How much is it . 1 billion, sir. I said its a one Story Building how do you spend 1 billion . Sir were going to purchase land and then were going to get approvals. I said how old are we going to be by the time this thing finishes . For more than an hour now an energized President Trump has been speaking to a supportive