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[00:00:02]So, I was born and raised in New York State and my heart has always been here.

[00:00:07]I love this place. So, we got to straighten it out. We got to get it back. We got to get it back.

[00:00:14]We're not going to let this happen. And we're sending a lot of money your way.

[00:00:18]We're going to We're going to get it back. But we need talent. That's why we have some of the people that you see right here. We have a lot of talent, a lot of political talent. From the beginning, this was a symbol of American excellence and American grit and really the American dream. And New Yorkers are people who built Wall Street into the world's financial capital. Who turned Broadway into the heart of American culture and entertainment who dug the Eerie Canal. You know what the Eerie Canal is? Big stuff. And launched a thousand innovations that built really the middle class, the middle class of our country. He really built the country. Unfortunately, in recent years, the state's been held back by bad policies, bad politicians, and foolish radical left idiocy. It's crazy what's going on.

[00:01:10]But under the Trump administration, we're doing everything we can to bring New York back in bigger, better, stronger than ever before.

[00:01:23]and I'll introduce him in a second, but you have a guy named Bruce Blakeman. Let me just say he's a friend of mine for a long time. He won in landslides in Nassau County. If you know Nassau County, it's all Democrat. He's a Republican and he won in landslides and he just had the biggest election in the history of Nassau County as a Republican. Nobody. And he's very conservative, by the way. I don't want to scare you. He's right here. Bruce, I'm going to introduce you in a second.

[00:01:51]You better get ready, Bruce.

[00:01:54]He's going to win. He's going to win.

[00:01:57]You know, when he ran years ago, he ran in Nassau. They said, "You got to be kidding. It doesn't happen." No Republican wins in Nassau and he ran and he won. And uh you better watch yourself. You better watch yourself, Tathy.

[00:02:13]You got a race.

[00:02:16]Got a big race.

[00:02:19]So, we're going to start turning New York around. I'm going to work with Bruce. I'm going to work with the whole group in New York. We're going to work with Mike. Mike Lawler is fantastic.

[00:02:30]He's fantastic.

[00:02:33]He is a fant I call him Mr. Salt. He didn't stop. He wouldn't stop. He was driving us crazy. WE HAVE TO GET SALT.

[00:02:41]WE HAVE TO get salt back. And he got it back. And he's a terrific guy. And you're lucky to have him. I'll tell you.

[00:02:47]He loves you. He loves his He loves this place. Mike, great. Great. Mike, it's uh terrible things are happening.

[00:02:58]However, we have to take the good with the bad. Companies are leaving. Rich people are leaving. People that pay a lot of money. All these rich companies, big fat, beautiful companies, they they have jobs and they have money and they're taking they're leaving and nobody's stopping them from leaving.

[00:03:17]New York can never if we don't stop this and I'm for you and I'm helping you in Washington much more than I'm supposed to be helping you. I believe me. New York can never be the same if it's losing its tax base and the people that pay 85% of the taxes are leaving and we're taking in illegal immigrants.

[00:03:41]So they're wonderful people and all but they're not paying any tax. They're taking your money. Okay, they're taking your money. The people that pay 85 to 90% of your taxes are leaving. And you know, when they go, they never come back. They never come back. Nobody calls them. Nobody does anything. Nobody talks to them. Nobody says, "Please don't LEAVE. WE'LL GIVE YOU A TAXATE. WE'LL DO ANYTHING. Don't leave." But they're leaving. They're going to Florida. They're going to Tennessee. They're going to Texas.

[00:04:16]>> They're going to South Carolina, North Carolina. They're going all over the place, but they're leaving. And we can't let it happen. It's a great place. We can't Bruce will stop it. Mike will stop it. They're all going to stop it.

[00:04:29]They'll bring them back.

[00:04:32]On top of that, the streets are dirty.

[00:04:35]The crime is out of control. We have a family here that's so incredible.

[00:04:40]Really, two families. We have somebody else. We're giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, something we've never done for this reason, but the mother is here of a great young man, and we're going to give him a very special honor.

[00:04:56]The illegal aliens are all over the place. The people are getting shot left and right. The elections are rigged.

[00:05:02]They don't have voter ID. They don't have proof of citizenship. Think of it.

[00:05:08]We want to get the Save America Act passed now.

[00:05:25]USA.

[00:05:32]>> Think of this. Save America today. It's voter ID. Who's against voter ID? You ever see the Democrat National Convention? I call it the Democrat.

[00:05:42]Democrat. They're Democrat.

[00:05:44]But you ever see it? They have cards on them for the Democrat National Convention. Cards like bigger than your chest. Name, address, everything you want to know about a person. They might even have a social security number on there. They have that's to get into their convention. But for voting, you're allowed to go in, right? It's horrible.

[00:06:07]So, it's voter ID. It's proof, a little thing called proof of citizenship. And it's mail-in voting is a disaster. If you have military, if you're going to be away, if you're not feeling well, if you're in any way disabled, absolutely, we have it. We'll be very generous. But generally, you got to go and vote.

[00:06:29]Otherwise, it's a rigged system.

[00:06:34]And that in a nutshell is the Save America Act. Not very complicated. Think of it. Voter ID. Think of it. Voter ID, proof of citizenship, and mail-in ballots are gone. Except if you need it.

[00:06:49]Now, I added two best of no men playing in women's sports. Has nothing to do with them.

[00:06:57]No men.

[00:07:02]Like I'm looking at Jackson. I'd like to know is there any woman in the audience that thinks they can tackle that guy?

[00:07:10]Cuz I'd like to meet you. I'd like to shake your hand. I don't know. Jackson, you think you could play against women?

[00:07:17]Okay. Do you think you'd have any problem? I don't think so. What? Don't get involved, Jackson. Don't get he Don't get involved, Jackson. Don't answer that question. No, I'm looking at the legs. He's this beautiful guy. guys got legs like tree trunks. This is not a good thing for women. This would not be good.

[00:07:35]No, it's no good. And we don't want open borders where prisoners pour in from other countries all over the world. They pour in. We don't want open borders.

[00:07:46]We don't want sanctuary cities where you have sanctuary for criminals. We don't want and we don't want transgender mutilization of your children. If that's okay.

[00:08:00]We don't want it.

[00:08:03]But you know, I looked at a story. I read a story yesterday where the pharmacies, they're going out of business. They have glass all over the place. You want toothpaste. You have to open up. You have to get a a clerk to open up the thing. And they open and they hand them a toothpaste. And in the meantime, other people are waiting to steal it. They got a guy. They were saying a guy right here, Mr. Lutnik, said Mr. Lutnik, he's a rich guy, but he was in a store and he noticed when he was in a drugstore, the people were with duffel bags. They're putting crap in a duffel bag and walking. And the clerk says, "You're not supposed to be doing that." And the kid said, "The hell with you." Walks out. And if the clerk does anything at all, they arrest the clerk.

[00:08:49]How screwed up is our country? How the hell do you make your money if you got to open up glass, expensive glass to give somebody a toothbrush or to give somebody some toothpaste? That does not sound like a good that does not sound like a good business model. So you have empty source the whole thing. We got to change it. Now the way you stop that, you know how you stop that? You come down hard on those people hard.

[00:09:21]In one day, you'd solve that problem all over the country. You just come down so hard that they never forget it. And they'll never do it again. They'll never do it again. It's horrible. What's happening is horrible.

[00:09:36]And it's all in the uh blue cities, you know. It's all blue. The 25 worst cities are blue. Blue means Democrat.

[00:09:45]That's a new name I came up with. You've never heard. I was I was thinking about this character we have in the house. His name is Hakee Jeff and he's a low low IQ person, very low IQ. And I watched what he was saying and what the horrible things he was saying and I said, "He's a dumb guy." I said, "Wait a minute. He's a Democrat." That's how I got the name. You take the E out.

[00:10:15]You don't use the B. A lot of people don't know dumb has a B in it. Actually, you don't need it. You discard the B.

[00:10:22]But you take the E out and you replace it with a U. THEY'RE DUMB. THEY ARE DEMOCRATS.

[00:10:28]You know why? Because their policies are dumb. Their policies are very dumb.

[00:10:34]All of that policies. said, "You see, they did an autopsy on why they lost the election." And they said, "You lost the election because of Trump primarily, but other than Trump, you lost the election because you had crappy candidates and you had bad policy and they didn't know how to speak properly and they weren't smart people and various other reasons."

[00:10:55]They spent $10 million for the autopsy.

[00:10:58]It was called an autopsy. And they had typos, Jackson. They had typos in every other sentence. They had misspelled words. They had commas in the wrong location. They gave him $10 million for the autopsy. I could have given him the autopsy without any charge at all. I said, "You had one candidate named Sleepy Joe Biden."

[00:11:22]What's a better name? Sleepy Joe Biden or crooked Joe Biden? Ready? Who likes sleepy Joe Biden?

[00:11:32]Who likes crooked Joe Biden about pretty similar? They're both pretty good. Who likes crooked Hillary? Oh, she's Anyway, but you know, we have another problem because we have the great law enforcement. I met a lot of your law enforcement back there. They're incredible. But law enforcement, I love them.

[00:12:01]I got 99% of law enforcement vote. Can you believe it? And we're trying to figure out we're trying to figure out who were the 1%.

[00:12:10]We want to figure out who the hell were the 1%. Who would vote for Kamala? Who would vote for Sleepy Joe? But even the police are leaving. They're going to Florida, Tennessee, Texas. They're going all over the place where they put them really where they give them respect. The respect they have our respect. to have everybody in this room's respect. But it's this radical turnaround and we better do it fast because we're not going to have a New York left and we got to have New York left. And you really can. Guys like Mike Lawler, guys like Bruce Blakeman, you put them in, they'll turn it around.

[00:12:49]Bruce will go down to Florida and he'll talk to all those companies that are leaving. You'll get them to come back.

[00:12:55]He's going to get him back. It's not easy. It's a lot easier to stop them from leaving. Don't you think, Chris?

[00:13:01]So, but it's a campaign that I promised that I would cut taxes. I had a big beautiful campaign. We won in a landslide. We won every swing state. We won by millions of votes. We won the electoral college in our fortune. But we had another thing that we won. 86% of the counties in America. Think of it.

[00:13:21]That's why the map is all red except for two blue stripes. And those were rigged, by the way. They were rigged on the They were rigged. We had rigged elections.

[00:13:30]But I cut your taxes and cut the taxes on workers, families, small business who are the soul of this state. And I made special promises that I would save your thousands of dollars a year by restoring. And we did that your state and local tax deductions. And what did we save? Your salt deduction. We brought it back, Mr. Salt.

[00:13:56]Mr. Salt. Where's your hat, Mike? He's got a hat calling himself Mr. Salt.

[00:14:02]There it is. Beautiful. I bet I think I'll take one of them. But he did. He didn't stop. This guy was a pain in the ass. It was terrible. He didn't stop.

[00:14:13]But he did. You're lucky to have him in this community. That I can tell you. And And you had some good help from Republicans, right? Good help from Republicans. But with the help of your great congressman, it's what happened.

[00:14:27]We got your taxes cut. Not only from the standpoint of salt, but your taxes were cut. Your take-home pay is soared. And uh all of the other things that we did when you look at what we've done, and my motto was promises made, promises kept.

[00:14:43]And here in Rockland County, the typical owner, you know, your typical homeowner loses over $15,000 each year alone because of your state taxes. They're going to cut your state taxes in half and more than half. They're going to they will do things that you won't believe. And you know, the bottom line is the state itself will make more money than it made before. I did it. I cut tremendous amounts of taxes in my first term. We had the greatest most successful economy in history. And by the way, we're blowing it away in this term. So today, today today we just an amazing thing happened. They said it couldn't happen for four years.

[00:15:28]An amazing thing. The Dow Jones hit 50,72 and the S&P is way over 7,000. So these were two things that said they said he won't be able to do when I first got elected. They said he won't be able to do that. There's no way he's going to be able to do that in his first term, which is my first term of numerous terms. By the way, you know, we're a three-term president. We just don't want the results. We don't want We won three times, but we only want the results of the first and the third.

[00:16:10]I know.

[00:16:21]>> We have a hat. The hat says four more years. It drives the radical F lunatics crazy.

[00:16:28]But we did all of the different things and we've saved you from 10 to $40,000 a year. The people in Rockland, on average, over 1 million New Yorkers claimed the deduction this year. You're able to write off nearly $22,000 on average, putting thousands of dollars back in your pockets. And these are all Republican tax cuts. The Democrats voted against every one of these tax cuts.

[00:16:53]Everyone. They voted, as an example, in favor of open borders. They voted against the border. They voted against the wall. They voted against They voted against the sanity of when we talk about men playing in women's sports. I tell you how ridiculous it is. That's why I love having Jackson because it's so easy. I just say, "How would you like to play against him?" But we have even better Jackson. We have a weightlifter.

[00:17:19]He was a failed male weightlifter and then decided to he decided to transition to the other side and they had a major major contest an Olympic triyout and they had a young woman who was really good. She was one of the greatest ever and she could lift 204 pounds over her head and the record STOOD FOR 17 YEARS.

[00:17:42]Jackson 17 years and she was going to break the record. It was a big record, but she was going to break it. And they took an eighth of an ounce and they put it on one side and they took an eighth of an ounce and they put it in the other side. And her parents were right where you are. You beautiful parents, right?

[00:17:59]Are you parents? Yes. Even if you weren't, I'll say you are. Not her. Good job. You did. Good job, Mom. And they had this beautiful young weightlifter.

[00:18:09]Female. Real female. Real. This was a real female.

[00:18:15]So she had an eighth of an ounce. An eighth of an ounce. She had like 28 pounds and she was going to do it. And her parents were so proud. Her father knew she couldn't do it, but the mother thought she would. That's typical mother. The father was sort of not so sure. He loved his daughter, but he wasn't sure. And she bent over and she lifted that sucker and she pulled it up and she was getting close and she could barely. And the mother was, "Come on, darling. You can do it." 17 years it stood. Come on, darling. you. And she got the And she got it UP TO HERE, JACKSON. She said, she she was almost, "Come on, darling."

[00:18:52]The mother and the father was almost bored because he knows she's not going to do it.

[00:18:57]And the mother's screaming, "Come on, darling. I love you so much. Mom, I love you. I love you."

[00:19:04]And she she couldn't do boom, it dropped. And then in sepsis, young transitioned person. You know, I've gotten very good with the words. It took me a long time. I used to get criticized. He was a transitioned person. And he stepped up. Now, he was a failed lowest of the low for the male weightlifterss. And he stood over that weight. He looked at it.

[00:19:32]He could have done it four or five times, you know.