Welcome the 45th president of the United States, president donald j. Trump. Bless the u. S. A. Plays] [cheers and applause] pres. Trump wow. Thank you. [cheers and applause] u. S. A. U. S. A. U. S. A. Pres. Trump so where else would you like to be but a trump rally . Right . [cheers and applause] hello, colorado. We love colorado. This beautiful place. I am thrilled to be back in colorado springs. I spent a lot of time here over the years. Beautiful place. Beneath the majestic peaks, the rocky mountains, thousands of terrific, hardworking, Great American patriots. [cheers and applause] with your help this november, we are going to defeat the radical democrats. [cheers and applause] and we are going to win colorado in a landslide. [cheers and applause] and you are going to help us get cory gardner across that line, because he has been with us 100 . [cheers and applause] he has been with us. There was no waiver. We appreciate it. Thank you, corey. This month, we mark a very special anniversary. 75 years ago this week, our unit our brave United States marines landed on the shores of iwo jima and began one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war. It was a rough one. Tonight, it is our great privilege to be joined by three of the heroes of the battle of iwo jima. James blaine, donald whipple, and john thurman. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting u. S. A. ] pres. Trump great, great patriots, very brave people. And tonight, we also honor the life of an extraordinary american hero, one of the last known survivors of the attack on the uss arizona at pearl harbor on december 7, 1941. He was in the Oval Office Just recently, a little while ago, a year and a half ago. And we just want to pay our respects, ok . You know who it is . Donald stratton. Wellknown guy. Just passed away. Sadly, he passed away a few days ago. He was going to be here. Passed away a few days ago. But he was great. I have a beautiful picture of him right outside, and we are going to honor him and his family. Great, great gentle man. We were going to have four. We have three, and we want to thank you for being here. Thank you. [applause] because america is truly a land of heroes. On behalf of the grateful nation, i would like to recognize the many veterans of the vietnam war and the iraq and afghanistan wars who are here this evening. Got a lot of them. Great people. Great people. This is a truly incredible time for america. We have the best economy in our history. The most prosperity of any country. We are doing better than any country in the world, it is not even close. [cheers and applause] and we have rebuilt our military over the last three years. Dont tell anybody, but we spent 2. 5 trillion. But when it comes to our military and our safety and security, we dont worry about budgets. Right . We dont worry about budgets. [cheers and applause] we had to rebuild it. It was depleted, it was in bad shape, it was old, it was tired. We have the best people in the world, but with old equipment. Now we have new missiles and rockets. We have everything. All made in the u. S. A. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting u. S. A. ] in my state of the union address, i proudly declared that we are in the midst of the Great American comeback. That is what we are doing. Our country is stronger today than ever before. [cheers and applause] after three years of ridiculous witchhunts and scams and partisan democrat crusades, the radical lefts attempt to poison our democracy and overturn the last election have totally failed. They have been a complete flop and we today have the highest poll numbers we have ever had. Today, just came out. [cheers and applause] and i dont know if anybody watched last nights debate. [crowd booing] pres. Trump it got very big ratings. And you know what . Mini mike did not do well last night. I was going to send him a note saying, it is not easy doing what i do, is it . It is not easy, mike. Not easy for any of them. Now make didnt do too well. He went way down. It is all right. Mini mike. How about klobuchar . Did you see her . She choked. She choked. [cheering] she choked. She could not breathe. Newman looked at her and said, something slightly derogatory. She said, are you accusing me of being dumb . Who would make a Statement Like that . Because that is really what he was doing, but he does not want to say that. How about that . Are you saying i am dumb . That was the end of her campaign in my book. You dont say that, even if it is true, you dont say that. You know, they had a crazy person on today on one of the fox shows. I tell you, fox does not treat us the way they used to, but we have a great show on sean hannity, and we have laura and tucker. And we have in the morning, fox and friends, steve, and brian has gotten much better. He has moment up. He hasas moved up moved up. And we have the great lou dobbs. He is the greatest since ronald reagan. Then he said about six month ago, he says, he is better than reagan. Then he said a few nights ago, he is the greatest we ever had. I said, does that include lincoln at George Washington . He said, that includes them all. That is lou dobbs. [cheers and applause] and you have got jesse waters, how about jesse . And judge jeanine . [cheers and applause] and even greg. You know, greg hated us, but now he says, whether i like him or not, he gets it done. It is all about getting it done. I have been getting it done. Nobody has done what we have done. But fox, it was different. It was different in the old days, it was better for us. It was better for us. But it is ok. We will win anyway. They had this woman was not too good. She says i dont like him. Nobody likes him. Remember in the ratings, remember who was last in the ratings . He got fired. Remember . Right . You remember . He is gone. Now neil has taken his place. Neil is a nice guy but he does not like trump too much. He put this woman on today and she said, donald trump did not do well in the debates, and he won, she was referring to mike bloomberg. Sometimes referred to as many mike mini mike. I said, i want every debate. We sent them poll after poll, not only one of them, but one by ivanka. I was just saying, every poll they do those polls. Time magazine i said, nobody is allowed to do that. You cant do that. We are at enough of a disadvantage with the fake news. Crow [crowd booing] where is dan . Bring me those pages up here. Bring those pages up. Go get them. It is such fake news. It is disgusting. They do better if they told the truth. Do you agree . They would do better. Someday in 10, 14, 18, 22 years when i am gone, when we leave office in 26 years or so, they are going to miss us. They are going to miss us. You know, i told the story, that a month before i ran 2016, i was thinking about it, i said to my wife, who has become a great first lady [cheers and applause] they said, one of the greatest deals ever assembled, and i said, what should i run for . I remember holding up the New York Times and it was like a leaflet that you give at a supermarket. That you get at a supermarket. It was blowing in the wind. It was dead. Now it is successful again. When we leave, we leave together. We are unified. This is the most unified the Republican Party has ever been. [cheers and applause] and when we leave, the New York Times thank you. Dan escobedo, the most powerful man in politics. Hey, dan. So zuckerberg left, who is number one in the world on facebook . And im saying this in front of the fake news, because if i am wrong, they are going to report me. Who is number one on the world in facebook . [cheers and applause] he walked in that is us. He walked in we had dinner recently just because i wanted them to pay taxes, i want to find out what is going on. He walked in, he is smart, he said i want to congratulate you, small dinner, few people, you are number one in the world in facebook, he said. I said, who is number two . He said, the Prime Minister modi of india. He has 1. 5 billion people and we have 350. So he should be number one. But we are never going to give up that position of number one in the world for our country, for facebook, for twitter, for anything. And they still have not figured it out. They have not figured it out. But look at all that press. Look at all that press. By the way, how bad where the Academy Awards this year . [crowd booing] and the winner is a movie from south korea. What the hell was that all about . We got enough problems with south korea out with trade. On top of it, they gave them the best movie of the year . Was it good . I dont know. Lets get going with the wind, can we get back gone with the wind, please . Sunset boulevard . So many great movies. The winner is from south korea. I thought it was best foreign film. Right . Best foreign movie. No, it was this has never happened before. And then you have brad pitt, i was never a big fan of his. [crowd booing] a wise guy. He is a little wiseguy. Anyway we are doing well. This horrible journalist, she is a trump hater. You know what she is worth . Zero ratings. Nobody watches her. She said look, bloomberg made a fool out of himself, he choked. He is another one who is going, i cant breathe, i cant breathe. Someone asked me a question, please. Please, i look at my wife, i said, lets send him a note, it is not so easy to do what i did out there, right . Not so easy. But this woman who is a third rate, 43, she fourth rate, has been with everybody. I want to use her name because we want maker to famous. It plays to their advantage. But she is third rate. She is on the lowest rated show on fox. Thats why. So she said, donald trump did not get good ratings, he did not do well in the polls, he did not do well in the debates. She said that we were defeated in the debates. Well, i defeated crooked hillary every time. By a lot. [cheers and applause] yeah, shes crooked as a three dollar bill. I go, what happened to the 33,000 emails . She deleted them. Could you imagine if a republican did that . They would want to bring back the death penalty, right . Two standards, but i think things are happening. I said drain the swamp, but i just did not know how deep it was. We have more garbage in the swamp than you would ever believe. She said donald trump didnt do well in the debates. Remember my answer . Rosie odonnell. We took down the house. The second, bret beyer, he asked me. Im the only one, i guess, that raised a hand, and the place went crazy because i was the only one telling the truth, ok . And, you know, the people get it, but she said i did not do well in the debates. I won every debate. Im a little guilty because these are all my friends, right . A lot of them are my friends now. They were not my friends then. They were all my mortal enemy. Hard to be friends when you are competing against somebody. Here is donald trump, 67. The next one was 13 . 2 , 1 , 4 , 3 , 2 , 2 , it is. O, but here thats time magazine. They dont like me. I dont like them either, by the i doalthough, actually, like the new owner. This year, i got beaten out by greta. You know greta . [crowd booing] when the world people when the world revolves around all of us, we should be chosen. Theres nothing wrong with it, right . Weve won it, but we should win it every single year, lets face it. Now they call it person of the year. They dont call it man of the a lot of the women out there dont like it. We could have a man of the year and a woman again. I would be happy with that. Trump and ted cruz i can say he came in second. He was a great debater. And marco came in third. And a guy who i dont like much, and they dont like him much in ohio, either, kasich. He was way down, way down. Ok, look, who won . Trump . [cheers and applause] heres another one, a different one, time magazine. Trump 33 . Ben carson, good man, he was there. Marco, jed, ted, carly free arena, name i have not heard in , long time Carly Fiorina name i have not heard in a long time. What happened to her . At this. P, look heres another one. Trump, 46 . I did not make this up. Heres another one. This is a different debate. I dont know, they are all different, i won every one of them. I just took this at random. 5 , 9 , 5 , 5 , 3 , 11 . 46 . [cheers and applause] one cnbc. R [crowd booing] well, you know, the market has been up. They have actually been not so bad. A good guy. Some of the rest i do not care for too much. Trump, almost 50 . Then they have all the rest of 3, 2, 2 point 8, 2. 50 4, 1. 9 im not going to give you the names. I wont tell you. I got 48 points. Jeb bush got 1. 1. The rest im not going to talk about, but he has not been exactly a great supporter, you know . Sort of a never trump or, i trumper sort of a never , i guess. Heres a nice one. Theres a nice one. Look at this. Look at this. Trump 70 . Next one is 18 . 7, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1. [cheers and applause] trump didnt do well in the debates. See . They are fake news. Heres another 1 trump kicked ass. Trump 48. Number two was six. Heres another 1 trump 75. 6. Was 24 . Illary this was against crooked hillary. So look at that. Was 74 point six. Crooked Hillary Clinton was 24. 1. Trump was 80 . Crooked hillary was 18 . [cheers and applause] and ive got this woman you know who it is, right . Nobody knows her name. Im not going to mention it. Everybody knows, neil caputo, she has no credibility and neither do you, neil caputo neil cavuto. One is a foxhole. One is bright art. One is the drudge report. Poll. Is a fox one is breitbart. Heres 1 trump 92. [cheers and applause. Im winning every poll, i beat crooked hillary. [applause] i am winning every poll. I beat crooked hillary. Heres the one. Trump, 61 . Crooked hillary, 39 . Then i turn on the show on fox it is not the same, it was better. I turn on fox and i have this third rate political journalist, if you call her that, saying trump did poorly in the debates but became no, i did great in the debates. I became president because of the debates. Unlike mini mike, i could answer the questions. [applause] these are the ones taken right after people call it hundreds of thousands of people, they call and time magazine, here is a cnbc. Crooked Hillary Clinton, 39 . Donald trump, 61 . Than a stupid person said i did not debate well. I dont mind. You can have that debates. But i want every single debate. Then i listen to this four years later, i have to listen to a person saying how we did not do well because these people are among be both dishonest people anywhere in the world. Take it. [booing] lets get back to business. Now i feel good. Now i feel good. [applause] she is a thirdrate journalist. Lets go. We are standing up in defense of our constitution. Our freedom and democracy itself. Right . The extreme left has been wasting americas time and doing all sorts of vile hoaxes, we went through hoaxes, we went through the impeachment scam. By the way, corey was with us all the way. He did not move, he did not budge. [applause] pres. Trump he said it is a lot of bull. While they are doing that stuff we are working with a clown, working with these people that want to take you out. They want to change the results they got caught spying on our election, fake news. Fake news, take your camera for a change and show them the room and show them behind you. [applause] pres. Trump show them the room. [cheers and applause] [chanting usa] pres. Trump they never do with. Including fox. Fox is not that much better, we just got lucky because their high rated shows are the ones that like trump. Their loser shows are the ones that dont like trump. How is shep smith doing by the way . He had the lowest ratings, and now cavuto took his place. They never show the room. My wife, our great first lady, she goes [applause] pres. Trump i say, did you watch the debate . Yeah. How did the room look . Last night, i think we turned away 21,000 people, we had an it held, like, 12, but we fill up the ice rink. We had a 16,000 people, it was like on fire. You are solid. It was great. You all saw it. It was great. She said to me, how did you do . I said, i did great. Did you see the are we not . She said, they never show the arena. [booing] pres. Trump you know dana white at ufc . I will not tell you about him yet. He is a brilliant guy. 4 billion, he got. Great people. You know what . They are always showing, it is full. These fakers, they dont want people. But i tell you what my wife said. They dont show it, but you cannot imitate 15,000 people. [applause] pres. Trump they want to show it. They never show it. [applause] pres. Trump we have never had an empty seat from the day i came down the escalator, not one. What these guys do come up and misses jones sitting up there, people couple, if they said, sorry, there is nothing i can do about it, i have to go to the bathroom, i will watch with you, the cameras clung onto those seats, they clung on and they say, there were two empty seats. These are the worst people. When i tell them to spin around those cameras, they stay that way. If we had a protester somewhere in the arena, it could be up in that corner where it is loaded with people, those cameras can do they look like a pretzel. They look like a pretzel, they want to fight if there is trouble, those same guys can cover anything. I used to think it is the equipment, it is rigid, they cant turn it. Then some idiot from in the corner start screaming stupid stuff. That is dangerous in this room, to be honest. We dont have it too much. [applause] pres. Trump they only pick on the guys that are by themselves and are not fighters. If summary up there does something, those cameras turn around, spin around like a pretzel. They bend that was the end of my theory that we have rigid equipment. By the way, i told them, turn around, not one camera turned around to show the room. It is fake news. [booing] pres. Trump while the extreme left has been wasting americas time with vile hoaxes, we have been killing terrorists, creating jobs, raising wages, enacting fair trade deals, securing our border, and living up citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed. [applause] pres. Trump we added another 225,000 new jobs last month. Why above what our geniuses back there thought it would be. 225,000, think of it. We have now more people working in our country than at any time in the history of our country. Almost 150 Million People. [applause] pres. Trump right now, since the election, we go by the election, a lot of things happened when we one. From the day we won that beautiful, november day, the most exciting night in the history of television, including ufc fights. [applause] pres. Trump the most exciting night, the biggest ratings in the history of television worldwide, they were watching i had friends in paris and london, what you doing . I am watching, 3 00 in the morning, 5 00 in the morning, the whole world was watching. That was the most exciting television that anybody has ever even espn, some guy on yes beyond said, this is the most exciting event i had ever seen. All