With insults slung at presidential candidates, the international community and most political leadership, Donald Trump rallied the crowd at the Oklahoma State Fair on Friday with a call to win.
Promising to make a better America to the more than 5,000 people surrounding the Bandshell stage, the top Republican presidential candidate said he had a plan to fix America’s confidence problem.
“Our country doesn’t have victories anymore,” Trump said. “We don’t win, we don’t win at anything – think of it. We don’t win with ISIS, we don’t win with China, Japan, Mexico – we don’t win with anybody.”
Trump’s 49-minute speech went through his usual list of problems the country is facing and his vague solutions to fix them. He said the vagueness of his policies, or lack of policy, was a ploy to keep his opponents guessing.
With another call for an insurmountable border wall with Mexico, Trump cited the need for better immigration control. He also pressed the need to expunge “anchor babies.”
“I love the Mexican people, I love them, thousands work for me – thousands,” Trump said. “I love Mexico. We’ve got to build a wall on the border.”
Trump then went on to talk about the Iran deal – a deal he said was “stupid” and created by “stupid people.” But before he could get into the thick of the deal, Trump veered in several different directions to take stabs on an array of topics.
“We don’t get along with anybody,” he said. “We don’t get along with Russia, we don’t get along with China. We don’t get along with Mexico, and yet every one of those countries rips us off, takes our money, takes our jobs. We don’t know what we are doing.”
Going back and forth from the Iran deal, Trump spoke on Washington’s “political hacks,” the past and current “lightweight” presidential candidates, his business competence and cable news distorting his coverage.
Trump reached a point on Iran saying he would be harsher on the deal; he would make demands for the imprisoned Americans to be released from Iran.
“I’m the most militant person here,” Trump said. “I’m the most militaristic person you’ll ever meet. I believe in the military strongly, but I didn’t want us to invade Iraq.”
According to Trump, he would make the military so strong that nobody would mess with the U.S. He said he was against the wars in Iraq, and the wars have upset the region to where anything is now possible – even historic enemies joining together.
“Right now as you are standing here, Iraq is negotiating with Iran – they’re going to merge,” Trump said. “And Iran is going to get the oil, everything that I said, and the one that is going to get the rest of it – is going to be ISIS.”
Before Trump took the stage, State Senator Ralph Shortey emceed the opening acts. Oklahoman violinist Kyle Dillingham and singer Olivia Kay performed. State Representative Mike Christian warmed up the crowd for Trump’s arrival. Shortey and Christian are leading Trump’s Oklahoma campaign.
“I’m asking you … pick up a pitchfork, follow our next commander in chief, join the Trump brigade – take back America, God bless you all,” Christian said.
Midway through his speech, Trump invited “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson, who was watching from the side of the stage, to the podium. Trump asked, “Willie, do you love Trump?”
“I do like me some Trump – I got to admit,” Robertson said. “Here’s the deal, we’re both successful businessmen, we both had pretty big shows on television, we both have wives that are a thousand times better looking than us.”
With Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” blaring behind him, Trump exited the stage into the crowds’ applause.
“We’re going to win, win, win and we are going to make our country great again.”
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