Donald Trump: America's Comeback Was REAL | CPAC

Other countries are doing very poorly and that makes it even harder for us to be successful. Plus, we have a gentleman that likes raising interest rates in the Fed. We have a gentleman that loves quantitative tightening in the Fed. We have a gentleman that likes a very strong dollar in the Fed. So with all of those things, and we want a strong dollar, but let's be reasonable. You understand. With all of that, we're doing great. Can you imagine if we left interest rates where they were? There's no inflation, essentially. There's no inflation. Can you imagine if we left interest rates where they were? If we didn't do quantitative tightening, taking money out of the market. If we didn't do quantitative tightening, and this would lead to a little bit lower dollar, a little bit. I want a strong dollar, but I want a dollar that's going to be great for our country, not a dollar that's so strong that it is prohibitive for us to be dealing with other nations and taking their business. Since the election, we've created a number that I would have said during the campaign, the fake news just back there would have said this is crazy. 5.3 million new jobs, including over now 600,000 beautiful brand new manufacturing jobs that were never going to come back to our country. These are jobs that were never coming back to our. Remember not to talk badly about the other administration, but if that theory went forward with crooked Hillary winning the election, instead of being up almost 50% with the stock market, you would have been down 50%. It was heading down. It was going to be a disaster. We have nearly 5 million Americans that have been lifted off of food stamps. Nobody ever thought that was possible. The unemployment rate has reached the lowest in over 51 years and African American and you've heard me say this many times. Hispanic American, Asian American unemployment rates are at their all time historic lows and African American income has reached an all time high. So when I'm on the debate stage with one of these maniacs, I mean trains to Hawaii. How do you get to Europe? We haven't figured that one out yet. We don't use airplanes anymore. You saw what I'm doing in California. They have a fast train. The fast train goes from San Francisco to Los Angeles. It's over budget by hundreds of billions of dollars. So they have a great idea. The new governor. Nice guy. Yes, nice guy. When I'm with him face to face, nice. When he speaks about me, not so nice. But face to face, he loves me. Call me up. He said, you're a great president. You're doing a great job. He actually did two weeks ago, three weeks. So he'll probably deny it. But check the phone records at the White House. Everybody else does. Check them. Call me up three or four weeks. I think they need some forest money because honestly, the management of the forest is very bad and that's one of the problems they have. I said, you got to get those forests. We can't keep sending billions and billions and losing hundreds of lives. More importantly, got to clean it up. It's called management. When a tree falls, you can't let the environmentalists say you can't take that tree out. It becomes like a matchstick, that tree. It hits a flame. It goes up the leaves every once in a while. You have to remove the leaves because they are so a guy smoking a cigarette. He throws it away. He doesn't mean it. The thing catches on fire. We lose 400,000 acres and people are killed. You got to have management. But he called me up the other day recently. Let's say four weeks ago or so. I just want to tell you, you're a great president and you're one of the smartest people I've ever met. That's what he said. Now, that's what he said. Will he admit it? No, I doubt it. But that's what he said. And you're doing a great job. And then he did start talking about, in all fairness, additional money for the fire, which is OK. That's OK. We have great talks. I mean, I like him. Gavin Newsom. I like him. Nice guy. But they say things, you know, politicians, they say things to your face and then you see two days later, they're giving a news conference. It's like, where did that guy come from? Where did he come from? But everyone in this great country right now, because of our great new economy, is doing well, except, of course, for the never Trumpers. But they are on mouth to mouth resuscitation. It's mouth to mouth, mouth to mouth. They're hanging in there. A couple of them. I mean, these guys have gotten me wrong. Not only never Trumpers. You have never Trumpers. You have certain hard line. They're basically dishonest people. Because, look, let's face it, whether you like me or not, if my name is Smith instead of Trump, and if you told him I put in over 100 federal judges, it'll soon be 145 federal judges and two Supreme Court judges and 17 appellate division judges that we've got the best economy maybe in our history, that we've got the best employment numbers and unemployment numbers in our history, that we've got more regulations in two years than any president has ever done, whether it's for eight or beyond. But we've taken care of our military with one point seven billion dollars. Think of what we did. Think of what we did with our military. Think of the numbers that we have for our military. We have numbers. Nobody's ever heard of these numbers before. And, you know, part of the problem that we have, because I'm a Coast Guard, but and you are all Coast Guard, but we have to take care of our military. We have to. Seven hundred billion dollars we spent. And that was the first year. And then the second year, seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars. Now, I have no choice. I'd like to spend much less. Obama was spending much less. But our military was being depleted. He was fighting an endless wars. They never end. And by the way, as of probably today or tomorrow, we will actually have 100 percent of the caliphate in Syria, 100 percent. And we'll leave a small group of guys and gals. But we want to bring our people back home. We want to bring our people back home. It's time. And in these wars, we're going to be in Syria for four months. We ended up five years just fighting. They just like to fight. We want to fix our country. We want to fix our bridges, our highways, our roads, our schools. We want to fix our country up. It's time.