Thank you. Thank you very much. Sorry to keep you waiting.
Complicated business. Thank you very much. I've just received a call from
Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us. It's about us. On our victory. And I
congratulated her and her family on a very, very hard fought campaign. She
fought very hard. Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period
of time and we owe her a major debt of gratitude to her service for our
country.
Now its time for America to bind the wounds of division. We
have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and Independents across
the nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people. It's
time.
I pledge to every citizen of our lands that I will be the
president for the American people. For those who have chosen not to support me
in the past, for which there were a few people, I'm reaching out to you for
your guidance and your help so we can work together and unify our great country.
As I've said from the beginning, ours was not a campaign but
rather an incredible and great movement made up of millions of hardworking
American men and women who worked together to make America better for their
family. It is a movement combined of all races, religions, backgrounds, and
beliefs who want and expect to serve the American people and serve the people
it will. Working together, we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our
nation while fulfilling the American dream. I've spent my entire life in
business looking at the untapped potential of the American people all over the
world.
That is now what I want to do for our country. Tremendous
potential. It's going to be a beautiful thing. Every single American will have
the ability to realize their fullest potential. The forgotten men and women of
our country will be forgotten no longer. We are going to fix our inner cities
and rebuild our highways, schools, hospitals. We will rebuild our
infrastructure. Which will become second to none, and we will put millions of
our people to work as we rebuild it.
We will also finally take care of our great veterans who
have been so loyal and I've gotten to know so many over this 18-month journey.
The time that I have taken with them I consider among my greatest honors. We
will embark upon a project of American growth and renewal. We will call upon
the best and the brightest to leverage our tremendous talent to benefit all. It
will happen. We will have a great economic plan. We will double our growth and
build the biggest economy, anywhere in the world. At the same time we will get
along with all other nations willing to get along with us.
We will have great relationships. We expect to have great
great relationships. No dream is too big no challenge is too great. Nothing we
want for our future is beyond our reach. America will no longer settle for
anything less than the best. We must reclaim our country's destiny and dream
big and bold and daring. We have to do that. We are going to dream of things
for our country. Beautiful things. Successful things. Successful things once
again. I wanna tell the world community that while we will deal with America's
interests first, we will get along with all other nations, willing to get along
with us. We will be. We will have great relationships. We expect to have great,
great relationships. No dream is too big, no challenge is too great. Nothing we
want for our future is beyond our reach. We will barely with anyone. All people
and all other nations. We will seek common ground not hostility. Relationships
not conflict.
And now I'd like to take this moment to thank some of the
people who have really helped me with this very historic victory. First, I
would like to thank my parents, who are looking down on me right now. Great
people. I've learned so much from them in every regard; truly great parents. My
sisters, Mary Anne and Elizabeth, they're here with us tonight. They're very
shy. And my brother, Robert, my great friend. My brother, Robert. And they
should all be on this stage, they're so great. And also my late brother Fred,
great guy, fantastic guy. Fantastic family. I was very lucky. Great, fantastic
parents. To Melania and Don. And Ivanka and Eric. And Tiffany and Barron. I
love you and I thank you and especially for putting with all of those hours
this was tough. This political stuff is nasty and it's tough. So I want to
thank my family very much. Thank you all. Thank you. And Lara, unbelievable
job. Vanessa, thank you.
Unbelievable group. You've all given me such incredible
support and I'd like to tell you we have a large group of people. Look at all
these people. And KellyAnne. And Chris. And Rudy. And Steve. And David. We have
got tremendously talented people up here and I have to tell you, it's been very
special. I'd like to give a very special thanks to our former mayor Rudy
Giuliani. Unbelievable. He traveled with us and he went to meetings. Rudy never
changes. Rudy. Gov. Chris Christie, folks, was unbelievable. Thank you. The
first man, first senator, first major, major politician. He is entirely
respected in Washington because he is as smart as you'll get. Sen. Jeff
Sessions. Great man. Another great man, very tough competitor. He was not easy.
Oh, Rudy got up here. Another great man who has been a friend to me, but I got
to know him as a competitor because he was one of the folks negotiating against
those Democrats Dr. Ben Carson, get up here. Where is Ben? Where is Ben? And by
the way, Mike Huckabee is here some place and he is fantastic. Gen. Mike Flynn.
Where is Mike? And Gen. Kellogg. We have over 200 generals and admirals that
have endorsed our campaign. And they're special people. It's truly an honor. We
have 22 congressional Medal of Honor recipients we have truly tremendous
people.
A very special person who believed me, I never had a bad
second with him, he is an unbelievable star. Let me tell you about Reince. I've
said this. I've said Reince, I know it, I know it. Reince is a super star. But
I said they can't call you a superstar Reince, unless we win. Because you can't
be called a superstar — because if Secretariat came in second, Secretariat
wouldn't have that beautiful bronze bust at Belmont. But I'll tell you, Reince
is really a star and he is the hardest-working guy. And in a certain way I did
this — where is Reince? Get him over here. Boy, oh boy, oh boy. It's about time
you did this, Reince. Say a few words. Say something.
At that point, Reince Preibus (Chairman of the Republican National Committee) took the mic from Trump and
said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the next President of the United States,
Donald Trump. Thank you, it's been an honor, God bless, thank God."
Then Trump continued:
Amazing guy. Our partnership with the RNC was so important
to the success with what we've done. So I've got to say I met some incredible
people. The Secret Service people. They're tough and they're smart and they're
sharp and I don't wanna mess around with them, I can tell you. And when I want
to go to wave to a big group of people and they rip me down and put me down.
But they are fantastic people, so I want to thank the Secret Service. And law
enforcement in NYC. They're here tonight. These are spectacular people.
Sometimes under appreciated but we appreciate them, honestly. With what they go
through.
So. It's been what they call it a historic event, but to be
really historic we have to do a great job. And I promise you I will not let you
down. We will do a great job. I look very much forward to being your president.
And hopefully at the end of two years or three years or four years or maybe
even eight years, you will say so many of you worked so hard for us. And I can
only say that while the campaign is over, our work is really just beginning.
We're going to get to work immediately for the American people. And we're going
to be doing a job that hopefully you'll be so proud of your president. You'll
be so proud.
Again, it's been an honor. It's been an amazing evening.
It's been an amazing two-year period. And I love this country. Thank you, thank
you very much. Thank you to Mike Pence, thank you everybody.
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