DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
AS
DELIVERED
TRUMP TOWER
NEW
YORK CITY
JUNE 16, 2015
Our country is in serious
trouble. We are not respected by
anyone. We are a laughing stock
all over the world.
ISIS,
China, Mexico are all beating
us. Everybody is beating us. Our
enemies are getting stronger and
we are getting weaker.
Politicians are all talk and no
action. They will never be able
to fix our country. They will
never bring us to the Promised
Land, and I cannot sit back and
watch this incompetence any
longer.
Ladies and
gentlemen, I am officially
running for President of the
United States.
While I
love my company and what I have
built, I love my country even
more. When was the last time the
US won at anything? When was the
last time we beat China or Japan
in trade? or Mexico at the
border? or anybody in
negotiation? When was the last
time we had a military victory
that was so complete and total
that the other side just said
“We Quit!” It just doesn’t
happen for the US anymore.
Our country needs and
deserves a comeback…but, we are
not going to get that comeback
with politicians. Politicians
are not the solution to our
problems-- they are the problem.
They are almost completely
controlled by lobbyists, donors
and the special interests—they
do not have the best interests
of our people at heart.
We will never achieve our full
potential if we send yet another
politician to the White House.
They will grow government, not
cut it--they will grow debt, not
stop it. We are right now in a
massive bubble that could be
ready to explode—real
unemployment in the range of
20%, artificially induced low
interest rates, and a stock
market that bears no relation to
reality-- are symptoms of
something that could be
catastrophic. We better have a
great leader who truly
understands what’s going on.
Our country has a debt which
will soon pass $20 trillion. We
have unsecured borders. There
are over 90 million Americans
who have given up looking for
work. We have 45 million
Americans on food stamps and
nearly 50 million Americans
living in poverty.
Clearly, our so called “leaders”
in Washington are failing us.
They have failed to honor their
sacred duty to care for our
veterans and their families.
They have failed to keep our
military strong and vibrant.
Through gross incompetence, we
give billions of dollars of high
grade military equipment to our
enemies. Our President truly
doesn’t have a clue!
At
the same time, the world is
becoming far more dangerous
every day. Iran is racing
towards developing nuclear
weapons. China is exponentially
expanding its military power,
ISIS is beheading Christians
simply for being Christian. In
Benghazi, Islamic terrorists
killed our diplomats without any
consequences. Iran and ISIS,
separately, are taking over vast
areas in the Middle East and
with it the largest oil reserves
in the world. Our President has
no plan.
The America we
love will continue its decline
because Washington is broken. We
will never fix Washington from
the inside unless we send
someone to Washington from the
outside. It is time for
government to be run efficiently
and effectively. It is time to
get things done, and by done I
mean properly done!
This
is our time to once again make
our government a government of
the people, by the people and
for the people. That is why
today I am declaring my
candidacy for President. I will
Make America Great Again!
We will change Washington
together and defeat the special
interests. I am not a
politician. I can’t be bought. I
won’t be running around the
country begging people for money
for my campaign. I won’t owe
anybody anything. I won’t be
beholden to anyone except to
you, the American people, if you
elect me to serve as your
President.
It is time to
take our country in a bold new
direction.
It is time to
get Americans back to work.
It is way past time to build
a massive wall to secure our
southern border – and nobody can
build a bigger and better wall
than Donald Trump. A country
without borders is, quite
simply, not a country. Mexico is
not our friend. They are beating
us at the border and hurting us
badly at economic development.
They are sending people that
they don’t want—the United
States is becoming a dumping
ground for the world.
It
is of primary importance to take
care of our veterans and their
families -- to make sure that
every veteran has access to
great medical care and
attention. Our veterans are our
heroes but are treated as third
class citizens.
It is
essential to rebuild our
military so we have a strong
presence that will send a clear
message to our enemies that
America is the leader of the
free world. As President Reagan
proved, there is only peace
through strength.
The
government must honor its
obligations to our seniors. We
must protect Social Security,
Medicare and Medicaid, without
cuts…there will no longer be any
waste, fraud and abuse on my
watch.
ObamaCare must be
repealed and replaced with
something far superior and at
far less cost.
Likewise,
we must greatly simplify our tax
code. Our middle class, which
has been totally forgotten, will
thrive once again under
President Trump.
It is
time to stop sending jobs
overseas through bad foreign
trade deals. We will renegotiate
our trade deals with the
toughest negotiators our country
has… the ones who have actually
read “The Art of the Deal” and
know how to make great deals for
our country.
It is time
to close loopholes for Wall
Street and create far more
opportunities for small
businesses.
It is
necessary that we invest in our
infrastructure, stop sending
foreign aid to countries that
hate us and use that money to
rebuild our tunnels, roads,
bridges and schools—and nobody
can do that better than me.
We have to stop Common Core.
We must keep education local and
under parental control.
Unelected Washington bureaucrats
shouldn’t determine what is best
for our children.
It is
important for our allies to know
they can once again depend on
us. We will no longer bow down
to our enemies.
We must
stand by Israel. We will remind
the world that a threat against
Israel is a threat against the
United States.
We need
to stop Iran from developing
nuclear weapons. We cannot allow
a nuclear arms race in the
Middle East.
It is time
to defeat ISIS. With a proper
plan, it can be done quickly and
effectively.
It is time
to get tough with the Chinese on
currency manipulation and
espionage. We will tax China for
each bad act, and if they
continue then we will tax them
at an even higher level.
Quite simply, it is time to
bring real leadership to
Washington.
The fact is,
the American Dream is dead --
but if I win, I will bring it
back bigger and better and
stronger than ever before.
Together we will Make
America Great Again!
Thank You!
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Source: Donald Trump for President