We Will Make This Society Great Again
We Will Make America Great Again
Donald Trump'due south speech to the 2016 GOP Convention
Remarks equally prepared for delivery.
Friends, delegates and boyfriend Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United states of america. Who would have believed that when nosotros started this journey on June 16th of last year nosotros — and I say "we" because we are a team — would have received almost xiv meg votes, the most in the history of the Republican Party, and that the Republican Political party would get 60 percent more than votes than it received four years ago. The Democrats, on the other hand, received nearly 20 per centum fewer votes than they got eight years ago.
Together, we will lead our political party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace. Nosotros will be a country of generosity and warmth. Merely we will also exist a state of law and lodge. Our Convention occurs at a moment of crunch for our nation. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very manner of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country. Americans watching this address this evening have seen the contempo images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities.
Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have fifty-fifty been its victims. I take a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on Jan 20th 2017, safety will be restored. The nigh bones duty of authorities is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a authorities unworthy to lead. Information technology is finally time for a straightforward assessment of the state of our nation. I will nowadays the facts plainly and honestly. We cannot beget to exist and then politically correct anymore. So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully-crafted lies, and the media myths — the Democrats are property their convention side by side week. Merely here, at our convention, there will exist no lies.
We will laurels the American people with the truth, and nix else.
These are the facts: Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this Administration's rollback of criminal enforcement. Homicides last year increased by 17% in America's fifty largest cities. That's the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation'south capital, killings have risen by 50 pct. They are up well-nigh 60% in nearby Baltimore. 27 In the President'south hometown of Chicago, more than than two,000 people have been the victims of shootings this yr lonely. And almost four,000 have been killed in the Chicago expanse since he took function. The number of constabulary officers killed in the line of duty has risen by about 50% compared to this indicate last yr.
Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our state, are tonight roaming costless to threaten peaceful citizens. The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015. They are being released by the tens of thousands into our communities with no regard for the touch on on public safety or resource.
One such border-crosser was released and fabricated his manner to Nebraska. There, he ended the life of an innocent young daughter named Sarah Root. She was 21 years-sometime, and was killed the day after graduating from college with a 4.0 Grade Signal Average. Her killer was then released a 2d time, and he is now a fugitive from the police force. I've met Sarah's beautiful family. Merely to this Administration, their amazing daughter was just ane more American life that wasn't worth protecting. Ane more child to sacrifice on the altar of open borders.
What about our economy? Again, I will tell you the apparently facts that have been edited out of your nightly news and your morning newspaper: Most 4 in 10 African-American children are living in poverty, while 58% of African-American youth are not employed. 2 one thousand thousand more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years agone. Another fourteen million people have left the workforce entirely. Household incomes are down more than iv thou dollars since the year 2000–16 years ago. Our merchandise deficit in goods reached nearly 800 billion dollars terminal twelvemonth alone.
The budget is no better. President Obama has nearly doubled our national debt to more than nineteen trillion dollars, and growing. Even so, what do we take to prove for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and twoscore-three million Americans are on food stamps.
Now let usa consider the state of diplomacy abroad. Not just have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they accept lived through 1 international humiliation subsequently another. We all remember the images of our sailors beingness forced to their knees by their Iranian captors at gunpoint. This was just prior to the signing of the Iran bargain, which gave back to Iran 150 billion dollars and gave us nothing — it will get down in history as one of the worst deals e'er negotiated. Another humiliation came when president Obama drew a ruby-red line in Syrian arab republic — and the whole globe knew information technology meant zip. In Libya, our consulate — the symbol of American prestige around the world — was brought downwardly in flames.
America is far less rubber — and the world is far less stable — than when Obama made the determination to put Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy.
I am sure it is a conclusion he truly regrets. Her bad instincts and her bad judgement — something pointed out past Bernie Sanders — are what caused so many of the disasters unfolding today.
Let'due south review the record. In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was non even on the map. Libya was stable. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq was seeing a reduction in violence. Iran was being high-strung by sanctions. Syria was under control. Later 4 years of Hillary Clinton, what do nosotros have?
ISIS has spread across the region, and the world. Libya is in ruins, and our Ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of barbarous killers. Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim brotherhood, forcing the war machine to retake control. Iraq is in anarchy. 91 Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons. Syria is engulfed in a civil war and a refugee crisis that now threatens the Westward. Afterwards fifteen years of wars in the Eye East, later on trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than information technology has always been before.
This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism and weakness. Just Hillary Clinton'south legacy does non have to be America'south legacy.
The bug we face now — poverty and violence at domicile, war and devastation abroad — will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them. A change in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes.
Tonight, I volition share with yous my plan of activeness for America. The most important departure between our plan and that of our opponents, is that our plan will put America First. Americanism, non globalism, will be our credo. As long as nosotros are led by politicians who will non put America Showtime, so we tin be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect. This will all change when I accept office. The American People will come up first once again.
My plan volition begin with safety at abode — which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There tin be no prosperity without law and order. On the economy, I will outline reforms to add millions of new jobs and trillions in new wealth that can be used to rebuild America. A number of these reforms that I will outline tonight will be opposed by some of our nation's most powerful special interests. That is because these interests take rigged our political and economical system for their exclusive do good. Big business organisation, elite media and major donors are lining up backside the campaign of my opponent because they know she volition proceed our rigged system in identify. They are throwing money at her considering they have full control over everything she does. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings.
That is why Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change. My message is that things take to modify — and they have to change right now.
Every day I wake upwards adamant to evangelize a better life for the people all across this nation that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country. People who work difficult just no longer have a vox. I AM YOUR VOICE.
I take embraced crying mothers who have lost their children considering our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. When innocent people suffer, considering our political system lacks the will, or the courage, or the basic decency to enforce our laws — or worse however, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash — I am not able to await the other way. And when a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them then the government tin can't see her criminal offence, puts our country at take chances, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence — I know that corruption has reached a level similar never before.
When the FBI Director says that the Secretary of Land was "extremely devil-may-care" and "negligent," in treatment our classified secrets, I besides know that these terms are minor compared to what she actually did. They were just used to relieve her from facing justice for her terrible crimes. In fact, her single greatest accomplishment may be committing such an egregious crime and getting away with information technology — specially when others, who have washed far less, have paid so dearly. When that same Secretary of State rakes in millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers I know the time for activity has come.
I have joined the political loonshit so that the powerful tin no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves. Nobody knows the organization better than me, which is why I solitary tin can fix it.
I accept seen immediate how the system is rigged confronting our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders — he never had a adventure. But his supporters will bring together our movement, because nosotros will fix his biggest upshot: trade deals that strip our land of its jobs and wealth. Millions of Democrats will join our motion, because we are going to fix the organisation so information technology works adequately, and justly, for each and every American.
In this cause, I am proud to have at my side the adjacent Vice President of the United states of america: Governor Mike Pence of Indiana. We will bring the same economic success to America that Mike brought to Indiana. He is a homo of character and accomplishment. He is the right man for the job.
The first chore for our new Administration volition be to liberate our citizens from the crime and terrorism and lawlessness that threatens their communities. America was shocked to its core when our police officers in Dallas were and so brutally executed. Immediately after Dallas, we accept seen continued threats and violence against our law enforcement officials. Law officers have been shot or killed in recent days in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan and Tennessee. On Dominicus, more than constabulary were gunned down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Iii were killed, and three were desperately injured.
An attack on law enforcement is an assail on all Americans.
I accept a message to every last person threatening the peace on our streets and the safety of our police: when I accept the adjuration of office next year, I will restore police and club to our country. I will work with, and appoint, the best and brightest prosecutors and police enforcement officials to become the task done. In this race for the White Business firm, I am the Constabulary And Society candidate.
The irresponsible rhetoric of our President, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide u.s.a. by race and color, has fabricated America a more dangerous environment for everyone. This Administration has failed America's inner cities. It's failed them on instruction. It's failed them on jobs. It'southward failed them on crime. It's failed them in every manner and on every level. When I am President, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally, and protected equally. Every activity I accept, I will ask myself: does this brand life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson who have the same right to alive out their dreams as whatever other kid in America?
To make life prophylactic for all our citizens, nosotros must also address the growing threats nosotros face from outside the country: nosotros are going to defeat the barbarians of ISIS. 169 Once once again, French republic is the victim of brutal Islamic terrorism. Men, women and children viciously mowed down. Lives ruined. Families ripped apart. A nation in mourning. The impairment and devastation that can exist inflicted by Islamic radicals has been proven over and over — at the World Trade Center, at an office political party in San Bernardino, at the Boston Marathon, at a armed forces recruiting eye in Chattanooga, and many more than. Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist. This time, the terrorist targeted our LGBTQ customs. As your President, I volition do everything in my ability to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful strange ideology.
To protect us from terrorism, nosotros need to focus on three things. Nosotros must accept the best intelligence-gathering operation in the world. We must carelessness the failed policy of nation-building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, Libya, Arab republic of egypt and Syria. Instead, we must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terror. This includes working with our greatest ally in the region, the State of State of israel.
Recently I take said that NATO was obsolete, considering it did not properly cover terror, and also, that many of the member countries were non paying their fair share. Every bit usual, the Us has been picking up the cost. Shortly thereafter, information technology was announced that NATO will be setting up a new program in order to gainsay terrorism — a truthful step in the right direction.
Lastly, we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised past terrorism until such time every bit proven vetting mechanisms take been put in place. My opponent has called for a radical 550% increase in Syrian refugees on top of existing massive refugee flows coming into our land under President Obama. She proposes this despite the fact that there's no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from. I only desire to admit individuals into our land who will support our values and love our people. Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never will be. Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, particularly for African-American and Latino. We are going to accept an immigration organisation that works, but 1 that works for the American people.
On Monday, nosotros heard from iii parents whose children were killed by illegal immigrants — Mary Ann Mendoza, Sabine Durden, and Jamiel Shaw. They are just 3 dauntless representatives of many thousands who take suffered so gravely.
Of all my travels in this country, zilch has afflicted me more deeply than the time I have spent with the mothers and fathers who accept lost their children to violence spilling across our edge. These families have no special interests to represent them. In that location are no demonstrators to protest on their behalf. My opponent will never meet with them, or share in their hurting. Instead, my opponent wants Sanctuary Cities. But where was the sanctuary for Kate Steinle? Where was the Sanctuary for the children of Mary Ann, Sabine and Jamiel? Where was the Sanctuary for all the other Americans who have been so brutally murdered, and who accept suffered and then horribly?
These wounded American families have been alone. But they are lone no longer. Tonight, this candidate and the whole nation stand in their corner to support them, to transport them our dearest, and to pledge in their accolade that we will salve countless more families from suffering the same awful fate. We are going to build a smashing border wall to finish illegal immigration, to end the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities.
I have been honored to receive the endorsement of America's Border Patrol Agents, and will work directly with them to protect the integrity of our lawful immigration system. By ending catch-and-release on the edge, nosotros volition end the bike of human being smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will get down. Peace will be restored. By enforcing the rules for the millions who overstay their visas, our laws will finally receive the respect they deserve.
Tonight, I desire every American whose demands for immigration security have been denied — and every politician who has denied them — to mind very closely to the words am well-nigh to say.
On January 20th of 2017, the day I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake upwardly in a state where the laws of the United States are enforced.
Nosotros are going to exist considerate and compassionate to anybody. Merely my greatest compassion volition be for our own struggling citizens. My programme is the exact opposite of the radical and dangerous clearing policy of Hillary Clinton. Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration. Communities want relief. Yet Hillary Clinton is proposing mass amnesty, mass clearing, and mass lawlessness. Her programme will overwhelm your schools and hospitals, further reduce your jobs and wages, and make it harder for contempo immigrants to escape from poverty and bring together the middle class.
I have a different vision for our workers. Information technology begins with a new, off-white merchandise policy that protects our jobs and stands upwardly to countries that cheat. It'south been a signature bulletin of my campaign from twenty-four hour period one, and it will be a signature feature of my presidency from the moment I take the oath of office.
I have made billions of dollars in business organisation making deals — now I'yard going to make our state rich again. 218 I am going to turn our bad merchandise agreements into great trade agreements. America has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, following the enactment of disastrous trade deals supported past Nib and Hillary Clinton. Recall, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, ane of the worst economic deals ever made by our country. Never once more.
I am going to bring back our jobs to Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and New York, and Michigan and to all of America — and I am not going to let companies move to other countries, firing their employees forth the way, without consequence.
My opponent, on the other manus, has supported virtually every merchandise understanding that has been destroying our center course. She supported NAFTA, and she supported People's republic of china'south entrance into the World. She has supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership — which will not but destroy our manufacturing, but it will make America subject field to the rulings of strange governments.
I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers, or that diminishes our freedom and independence. Instead, I will make individual deals with private countries. No longer volition we enter into these massive transactions, with many countries, that are thousands of pages long — and which no one from our country even reads or understands. We are going to enforce all merchandise violations confronting any state that cheats. This includes stopping Mainland china's outrageous theft of intellectual property, along with their illegal production dumping, and their devastating currency manipulation. Our horrible trade agreements with Prc, and many others, volition be totally renegotiated. That includes renegotiating NAFTA to get a much better deal for America — and we'll walk away if nosotros don't get the deal that we want.
Our country is going to commencement edifice and making things over again.
Next comes the reform of our tax laws, regulations and energy rules. While Hillary Clinton plans a massive tax increment, I accept proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for president this year — Democrat or Republican. Heart-income Americans and businesses will experience profound relief, and taxes will be greatly simplified for anybody. America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world. Reducing taxes will cause new companies and new jobs to come roaring back into our country.
And then nosotros are going to deal with the effect of regulation, ane of the greatest task-killers of them all. Excessive regulation is costing our state as much as 2 trillion dollars a year, and we volition end it. 256 257 Nosotros are going to elevator the restrictions on the production of American energy. This will produce more than than 20 trillion dollars in job-creating economic activity over the next four decades. My opponent, on the other mitt, wants to put the great miners and steel workers of our country out of piece of work — that volition never happen when I am President.
With these new economic policies, trillions of dollars will starting time flowing into our country. This new wealth will improve the quality of life for all Americans. Nosotros will build the roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, and the railways of tomorrow. This, in turn, will create millions more jobs. We will rescue kids from failing schools by helping their parents send them to a safe school of their choice. My opponent would rather protect bureaucrats than serve American children. We will repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare. You will be able to choose your ain doctor once again. And we will fix TSA at the airports!
Nosotros're going to work with all of our students who are drowning in debt to have the pressure off these immature people just starting out their adult lives. Nosotros will completely rebuild our depleted armed forces, and the countries that we are protecting, at a massive cost to united states, will exist asked to pay their fair share.
We will take care of our great Veterans similar they have never been taken care of before. My just-released X Point Plan has received tremendous veteran support. We will guarantee those who serve this land volition be able to visit the medico or hospital of their choice. My opponent dismissed the VA scandal — one more sign of how out of touch she really is. We are going to inquire every Department Head in government to provide a listing of wasteful spending projects that nosotros can eliminate in my offset 100 days. The politicians take talked about information technology, I'm going to practice it.
Nosotros are likewise going to appoint justices to the United states Supreme Court who volition uphold our laws and our Constitution. 275 The replacement of our beloved Justice Scalia will exist a person of similar views, principles, and judicial philosophy. This will be one of the about important issues decided by this election.
My opponent wants to essentially cancel the 2nd amendment. I, on the other hand, received the early on and strong endorsement of the National Rifle Clan and volition protect the right of all Americans to keep their families safe.
At this moment, I would like to give thanks the evangelical and religious community in general who have been so skilful to me so supportive. Y'all take much to contribute to our politics, still our laws preclude you from speaking your minds from your own pulpits. An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson, many years agone, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their taxation-exempt condition if they openly advocate their political views. I am going to piece of work very difficult to repeal that language and protect free oral communication for all Americans.
We tin accomplish these slap-up things, and then much more — all we need to do is first assertive in ourselves and in our land once more. 281 It is time to show the whole world that America Is Back — bigger, and better and stronger than always before.
In this journey, I'thou so lucky to accept at my side my married woman Melania and my wonderful children, Don, Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron: y'all will always be my greatest source of pride and joy. My Dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest working man I ever knew. I wonder sometimes what he'd say if he were here to see this tonight. It's because of him that I learned, from my youngest historic period, to respect the dignity of work and the nobility of working people. He was a guy most comfortable in the visitor of bricklayers, carpenters, and electricians and I accept a lot of that in me also. Then there's my mother, Mary. She was strong, but also warm and fairminded. She was a truly keen female parent. She was also ane of the most honest and charitable people take ever known, and a great gauge of character. To my sisters Mary Anne and Elizabeth, my brother Robert and my tardily brother Fred, I volition always give you my love — you lot are most special to me.
I take had a truly great life in business. But now, my sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for our country — to go to work for you lot.
It's time to deliver a victory for the American people. Only to do that, we must break gratuitous from the petty politics of the past.
America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is existence led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. Remember: all of the people telling you lot that yous can't take the country yous desire, are the same people telling you that I wouldn't be standing here tonight.
No longer can we rely on those same people in the media, and politics, who will say anything to keep a rigged arrangement in place. Instead, we must choose to Believe In America. History is watching united states of america now. It's waiting to run into if we will rise to the occasion, and if we will show the whole globe that America is even so costless and independent and stiff.
I'1000 request for your support tonight and then that I can exist your champion in the White Firm. My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads: "I'1000 With Her". I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads: "I'One thousand WITH Yous — THE AMERICAN PEOPLE."
I am your voice. And so to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you lot tonight: I'm with you, I will fight for you, and I volition win for you. To all Americans this night, in all of our cities and in all of our towns, I make this promise:
Nosotros Will Make America Strong Again.
Nosotros Will Make America Proud Once again.
We Volition Make America Prophylactic Once again.
And We Volition Make America Not bad Again.
God bless You And Good Night
We Will Make This Society Great Again
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