Them at a lot of schools where they had problems, these teachers love their students. The students love their teachers in many cases. These teachers love their students. And these teachers are talented with weaponry and with guns. They feel safe. Id rather have somebody that loves their students and wants to protect their students than somebody standing outside that doesnt know anybody and doesnt know the students and, frankly, for whatever reason, decided not to go in, even though he heard lots of shots being fired inside. The teachers, coaches and other people in the building, the dean, the assistant dean, the principal, they can they love their people. They want to protect these kids. I think were better with that. This may be 10 or 20 of the population of teachers, et cetera. Its not all of them. You would have a lot. You would tell people that theyre inside. The beauty is, its concealed. Nobody would ever see it, unless they needed it. Its concealed. So this crazy man who walked in wouldnt even know who it is that has it. Thats good. Its not bad. Thats good. And a teacher would have shot the hell out of him before he knew what happened. They love their students. They love those students, folks. Remember that. They love their students. Im telling you, that would work. We need offensive capability. We cant just say, oh, it is a gunfree school. Were going to do it a little better. Then you say, what happens outside . The students now leave school, and you have 1,000 students. 3,500 at the school were talking about. But you have 1,000 students standing outside. The teachers are out there, also. If a madman comes along, we have the same problem but its outside of the school. Or they drive cars. There are a lot of things that can happen. I want to stop it. I know its a little controversial to say, but i have to say, since i started this two days ago, a lot of people that were totally opposed to it now agree. They love their students. They dont want their students to be killed and to be hurt. So we have to do something that works. One of the big measures that we will do, and everything in this room, i think, has to agree, and theres nobody that loves the Second Amendment more than i do, and there is nobody that respects the nra theyre friends of mine. They backed us all. Theyre great people, patriots. Theyre great people. But we really do have to strengthen up, really strengthen up, backgrounds checks. We have to do that. For the mentally ill, we dont want people mentally ill having any form of weaponry. We have to be very strong on that. Were going to do that, and i believe congress is going to get it through this time. They have a different leader, somebody who wants to get it through. Not somebody who is all talk and no action, like so many of these folks. This is somebody that wants to get it through. I also want to protect. We need a hardened site. It has to be hardened. It cant be soft because theyll sneak in through a window, sneak in some way and, again, youre standing there, totally unprote unprotected. You know the five great soldiers from four years ago. Three of them were world class marksman. They were at a military base in a gun free zone. They were asked to check their guns quite far away. A maniac walked in, guns blazing, killed all five of them. He wouldnt have had a chance if these worldclass marksman had, on a military base, access to their guns. Im going to look at the policy on military bases. All five were killed. All five. The guy wouldnt have had a chance. Were going to look at that whole military base gun free zone. If we cant have our military holding guns, its pretty bad. We had a number of instances on military bases. You know that. We want to protect our military. We want to make our military stronger and better than its ever been before. We also need to create a culture in our country that cherishes life and human dignity. Its part of what were talking about. A culture that condemns violence and never glorifies violence. We need to force real human connections and turn classmates and colleagues into friends and neighbors that want to fight for us. Were not just having a conversation about school safety. Youve had conversations, in all fairness. Im new here. But ive been seeing this going on for 20 years. The president gets up, everyone is enthusiastic the first few days, then it fades, fades, fades. Nothing is done. Lets get it done. Lets get it done right. We owe it to our country. Ive been watching a long time. Ive seen a lot of words and very little action. You know, if you think about it, most of it is just common sense. Its not, do you love guns, do you hate guns, its common sense. Its all common sense. Some of the strongest advocates about what im saying are the strongest advocates i know them very well political people, the strongest advocates for the Second Amendment. But this is common sense. In addition to securing our schools, were also implementing a strategy to secure our streets. We want our kids to be safe everywhere they go. Whether theyre in a classroom walking home from school or just outside playing with their friends. Every child deserves to grow up in a Safe Community surrounded by a loving family and to have a future filled with opportunity and with hope. Thank you. Just not fair. Reducing Violent Crime in america is a top priority for my administration. We will do whatever it takes to get it done. No talk. Were going to do what it takes to get it done. As youve seen pretty well reported, were significantly increasing gun prosecutions by tremendous percentages. Were working to get violent offenders all our streets and behind bars and get them behind bars quickly, for a long time, or get them the hell out of our country. In 2014, we brought cases against more violent offenders than any administration in a quarter of a century. More than any administration. Were just gearing up. We have tough people. Ill tell you what, when you deal with ms13, the only thing they understand is toughness. They dont want anything. All they understand is toughness. If that ice agent or Border Patrol agent is tougher than them, they respect him. We have the toughest guys youve ever seen. We got tough. They shouldnt be in our country. They were let in for years. They shouldnt be. Were getting them out. Our administration prosecuted more people for federal firearm charges than has been done in more than a decade. Again, were just gearing up. 1,200 gang members and nearly 500 human traffickers for indicted. Human trafficking, who would think we have this in this age . With our foreign partners, weve learned charge or arrest more than 4,000 members of the savage gang that we talked about, ms13. They dont like guns. You know why . Theyre not painful enough. These are animals. They cut people. They cut them up in little pieces, and they want them to suffer. We take them into our country because our immigration laws are so bad. When we catch them, its called catch and release. We have to, by law, catch them and then release them. Catch and release. I cant get the democrats, and nobody has been able to, for years to approve common sense measures. That when we catch these animal killers, we can lock them up and throw away the keys. In 2017, our brave ice officers arrested more than 100,000 criminal aliens who have committed tens of thousands of crimes. Believe me, these are great people. They cannot the laws are just against us. Theyre against safety. They dont make sense. You meet with democrats, and theyre always fighting for the criminal. Theyre not fighting for lawabiding citizens. Theyre always fighting for the criminal. Doesnt make sense. Here are some of the criminal convictions for the illegal aliens. 11,000 charges or convictions for sex crimes. 48,000 for assault. 13,000 for burglary. 18,000 for killing people. Were cracking down on sanctuary cities. Can you believe this . They protect. Thats another one. Because we want our cities to be sanctuaries for lawabiding americans, not for criminals. By the way, the Senate Democrat s and the House Democrats have totally abandoned daca. They dont even talk to me about it. They have totally abandoned. We get the reputation like daca, its not republican. Well, it is republican. We want to do something about daca. Get it solved after all these years. The democrats are being totally unresponsive. They dont want to do anything about daca. Im telling you. Its very possible that daca wont happen. It is not because of the republicans. It is going to be because of the democrats. Frankly, you better elect more republicans, folks, or it will never happen. The democrats voted in favor of sanctuary cities. In other words, they voted to protect criminal aliens instead of voting to protect the american citizens. To secure our country, we are calling on congress to build a great border wall to stop dangerous drugs and criminals from pouring into our country. Now, theyre willing to give us the wall, but they dont want to give us any of the laws to keep these people out. So, were going to get the wall, but they dont want to give us all of the other, chain migration, lottery. Think of the lottery. You have a country. They put names in. Do you think theyre giving us their good people . Not too many of you people are going to be in a lottery. We pick out people. Then they turn out to be horrendous. We dont understand why. Theyre not giving us their best people, folks. I mean, use your heads. Theyre giving us its a lottery. I dont want people coming into this country with a lottery. I want people coming into this country based on merit. Based on merit. I want people, and we all want to be admitting people, who have skills, who can support themselves financially, who can contribute to our economy, whethwho will love our people and who will share our values, who will love our country. I dont want people who drive a car at 100 miles an hour down the west side highway and kill eight innocent victims and destroy the lives of 14 more. Nobody talks about that. Nobody ever talks about the people that have been so horribly injured, who lose legs and arms. In manhattan, where i used to spend my time, i know it very well, the stretch along the west side highway, people run in order to stay in shape. They want to be healthy. They want to look good. They run. Theyre running all the time. I see it. They run. We work in different ways. But they run. Think of this, they run. They want to be fit. Theyre proud people. They want to be fit. Theyre running up and down west side highway. Its beautiful. It is a beautiful thing. This maniac takes a car going down the highway and just turns to a right and kills eight. But he really badly wounded 12 to 14 other people. Somebody runs to stay in shape, leaves the house, is jogging along, working hard, ends up going home two months later with no leg or with no arm or with two legs missing. Nobody ever talks about them. They talk about the people, rightfully, that were killed, but they dont talk about the people that whose lives have been changed. Just changed. They dont talk about that. This guy came in through chain migration and a part of the lottery system. They say 22 people came in with him. In other words, an aunt, an uncle, a grandfather, a mother, a father, whoever came in, but a lot of people came in. Thats chain migration. Lets see how those people are doing, by the way. Weve got to change our way. I want merit system. All these companies are coming into our country. Theyre all coming into our country. When they come in, they need people who will work. We need workers now. We need workers. But when i walked in today, did anyone ever hear me do the snake during the campaign . Because i had five people outside say, can you do the snake . I said, well, people have heard it. Who hasnt heard the snake . You should read it anyway. Lets do it. Shall we do it . Now, this was rock n roll song, little amendments. But a rock n roll song. Every time i do it, people and you have to think of this in terms of immigration. We have to have great people come in. I want people to come into our country. I want people that are going to help us. I dont want people that are going to come in and be septemb accepting all of the gifts of our country and contributing nothing. I dont want that. You dont want that. I want people that are going to help and people who will go to work for chrysler, who is moving from mexico into michigan. And so many others. And apple, by the way. And foxconn up in wisconsin. Theyre going to need 25,000 workers. I want people that can come in and get to work and work hard, even if it means a learning period. Thats fine. I want people that are going to come in and work. I want people that love us and look at security and want you to be safe. They want to be safe. I want great people coming into this country. I dont want people coming in the way they do now. I want people that contribute. This is called the snake. Think of it in terms of immigration. You may love it or think, isnt that terrible . If you say, isnt that terrible, who cares. The way they treat me, thats peanuts compared to the way they treat me, okay . Immigration. On her way to work one morning, down the path along the lake, a tenderhearted woman saw a poor, halfhearted, frozen snake. His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew. Poor thing, she cried, ill take you in and ill take care of you. Take me in, o, tender woman, take me in for heavens sake. Take me in, o, tender woman, sighed the vicious snake. She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk. And laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk. She hurried home from work that night, and as soon as she arrived, she found that pretty snake shed taken in had been revived. Take me in, oh, tender woman, take me in, for heavens sake. Take me in, o, tender woman, sighed the vicious snake. She clutched him to her bosom. Youre so beautiful, she cried. But if i hadnt brought you in, by now, surely, you would have died. She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight, but instead of saying, thank you, that snake gave her a vicious bite. Take me in, o, tender woman, take me in, for heavens sake. Take me in, o, tender woman, sighed the vicious snake. I saved you, cried the woman, and youve bitten me. Heav heavens why . You know your bite is poisonous, and now im going to die. Oh, shut up, silly woman, said the reptile with a grin. You knew damn well i was a snake before you took me in. Thats what were doing with our country, folks. Were letting people in, and it is going to be a lot of trouble. Its only getting worse, but were giving you protection like never before. Our Law Enforcement is doing a better job than weve ever done before. We love our country. Were going to take care of our country. Were going to take care of our country. Just in finishing, our country is starting to do very well. Our economy is blazing. Jobs are at a record level. Jobs are so good. 2. 7 million jobs created since the election. Unemployment claims have reached a 45 year low. Africanamerican unemployment has reached the lowest level in our history. Hispanic unemployment has reached the lowest level in our history. Women unemployment is at the lowest level in 18 years. Wages are rising for the first time in many, many years. Small Business Confidence is at a record high. Thanks to our massive tax cuts, millions of americans are getting to keep a great perce percentage of their money, instead of paying it to a government that throws it out the window. I just leave you with this, we have to fight nancy pelosi. They want to give your money away. They want to give your money away. They want to end your tax cuts. They want to do things you wouldnt believe. Including taking your Second Amendment rights away. They will do that. They will do that. We have to get out there, and we have to fight in 18 like never ever. Just the way you fought with us. Just the way you fought with us. You fought so hard, and you were so tough, and you were so smart, you were so smart, and you know what, i know from a fact you did the right thing because were looking at the numbers. The numbers, even they have to given credit for the kind of numbers were producing. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. Under my administration, the era of economic surrender is over. Were renegotiating trade deals that are so bad, there its nafta or whether its world trade organization, which created china, it created. You look at china. It was going along like this. Then we opened, stupidly, this deal, and china has been like a rock rocket ship ever since. Now, last week, we had almost a 500 billion trade deficit with china. We cant have that. We cant have that. I have Great Respect for president xi, but we cant have that. We have to go and we have to do what we have to do. We just cant let countries, as an example, mexico, we have 100 billion trade deficit with mexico. What does that tell you . It tells you that nafta is no good. It never was any good. For some reason, nobody ever changed it. We emptied our faculties. You have to see the plants in mexico. Youve never seen anything like it before. I want those companies and theyre starting i want them back here. I want them back here. Theyre going to come back here, too. We want to make our neighbors happy, but we cant continuously have other nations taking advantage of the United States like never before. This has gone on for a long time. The last administration was a disaster, but this has gone on for much longer than the last administration. Weve got to change it. Were going to change it. Were renegotiating deals. Hate to say it, but if we cant make a fair deal for the United States, we will terminate the deal and start all over again. Well have to do it. So, under my administration, and with your help, dont forget, many of you were the forgotten people. You were the people that when the polls came out, they didnt know that you existed. The democrats are trying to figure out who you are because they want to get you back, but you were people. Weve had people that never voted, but theyre great patriots but never saw nobody they wanted to vote for. Then you see, trump pence, trump pence, hats, all sorts of things. Make America Great again hats, right . So, our country is starting to do well. We are going to make it greater, better, safer than it ever was before. The reason is you. This has been a great movement. They try like hell. They cannot stand what weve done. Were doing the right thing. Were even doing the right thing for them. They just dont know it yet. They just dont know it yet. Even the media, the media will absolutely support me sometime prior to the election. All those horrible people back there, theyre going to support me. You know why . Because if somebody else won, their ratings would go down. Theyd all be out of business. Nobody would watch. Theyd all be out of business. I just want to tell you that we are going to win. Id love you to get out and work real hard for 18. We need more republicans to keep the tax