Anonymous ID: 23f3b5 Sept. 20, 2020, 10:42 a.m. No.10722289   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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https://www.c-span.org/video/?297952-12/donald-trump-remarks

 

Donald Trump

Trump Organization Chairman and CEO

CPAC 2011

Washington, DC

February 10, 2011

"…the United States has become a whipping post for the rest of the world. The world is treating us without respect; they are not treating us properly. [applause]

 

America today is missing quality leadership and foreign countries have quickly realized this. It's for this reason that the United States is becoming the laughingstock of the world. Now whether we like it or don't like it, that's what's happening. I deal with people from China. I deal with people from Mexico. They cannot believe what they're getting away with.

 

I've said on numerous occasions that countries like China, like India, South Korea, Mexico, and the OPEC nations view our leaders as weak and ineffective and have repeatedly taken advantage of them to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

 

When they talk about raising your taxes, they talk about—I think raise the taxes on some of these countries that are taking advantage of the United States. [applause]

 

Over the years, I've participated in many battles and have really almost come out very, very victorious every single time. I've beaten many people and companies and I've won many wars. I have fairly but intelligently earned many billions of dollars which in a sense was both a scorecard and acknowledgment of my abilities.

 

During my lifetime I've—a little different, right? A little different than what you've been hearing. [laughter, applause]

 

During my lifetime, I've always been told that a person of great accomplishment and achievement cannot become a politician or run for political office because there are too many enemies, both very smart and not so smart, strewn along this highway to success.

 

People who have been in wars—and this is war. Life is pleasant, but it can be war. People who have been in wars, even the most successful of them, leave themselves open to great criticism from the many that they have beaten and those that have watched the battles.

 

The fact is, this theory of a very successful person running for office is rarely tested because most successful people don't want to be scrutinized or abused. And that's what happens. If you see it, that's what happens. And this is why we don't have the kind of people that we should have running for office.

 

Unfortunately however, this is the kind of person that the country needs, and they need it now. We don't have time to wait 25 years and get the right— This country is in serious trouble. We need it now. [applause]

 

Our current president came out of nowhere, came out of nowhere. In fact I'll go a step further. The people who went to school with him, they never save him; they don't know who he is. [cheers, applause] Crazy.

 

With no track record, and I will tell you, he's got nothing to criticize—you've got no record, you can't be criticized. Wonderful guy, he's a nice man, but there was no record, nothing to criticize. He didn't go in wars, he didn't go in battles, he didn't beat this one, that one, have enemies all over the place. Nobody knew who the hell he was. [audience reaction] He's now our president; he's our president…."