January 09, 2018. I know a lot about a person who very strongly believes in academics. Time and time again I say I had an uncle who was a great professor at MIT, did a fantastic job in so many ways academically - an academic genius - and then they say, is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me, I’m a smart person.

You know when I was young, of course I feel young, I feel like I was 30, 35 perhaps, and not more than 39 somebody said. Are you young? I said, I think I'm young, therefore I'm young. Was stopping in the final months of the campaign, four stops, five stops, seven stops, speeches, speeches in front of twenty-five, thirty thousand people, fifteen, nineteen thousand. I feel young, I think we’re all so young. When I was young we were always winning things in this country. We win with trade, we win with wars, I remembering hearing from one of my instructors at certain age, the United States has never lost a war. And then, after that, it’s like we haven’t won anything. You know the old expression, to the victor belongs the spoils? You remember I always say, keep the oil. Now that’s not bad, but it’s a lie.

I wasn’t a fan of Iraq, I didn’t want to go into Iraq. But I will tell you when we were in we got out wrong and I always said in addition to that keep the oil. Now I said it for economic reasons, but if you think about it, Mike, if we kept the oil we wouldn’t have ISIS because that’s where they made their money in the first place, so that’s why we should have kept the oil. But okay, maybe you’ll have another chance, but the fact is, we should have kept the oil.

The reason you are my first stop, as you know I have a running war with the media, they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth, and they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community, and I just want to let you know the reason you’re the number one stop is exactly the opposite, and they understand that. I was explaining numbers. We did, we did a thing yesterday at the speech. Did everybody like the speech? You had to like it. But we had a massive field of people. You saw them. Packed. I get up this morning, I turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field and I say, Wait a minute, I made a speech. I looked out - the field was - it looked like a million, million and half people. They showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. And they said Donald Trump did not draw well and I said it was almost raining, the rain should have scared them away, but god looked down and said we’re not going to let it rain on your speech and in fact when I first started I said, Oooh no, first line I got hit by a couple of drops, and I said, Oh this is too bad, but we’ll go right through it, the truth is it stopped immediately and then it became really sunny and I walked off and it poured right after I left. It poured but we have something amazing because, honestly, it looked like a million, million and a half people, whatever it was it was, but it went all the way back to the washington monument and by mistake I get this network and it showed an empty field and it said we drew two hundred fifty thousand people.

I also happen to like Churchill, Winston Churchill, I think most of us like Churchill, doesn’t come from our country but had a lot to do with it, helped us, real ally, and as you know the Churchill statue was taken out. So a reporter for time magazine and I have been on the cover like fourteen or fifteen times. I think I have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine. Like if Tom Brady is on the cover it’s one time because he won the Super Bowl or something. I’ve been on fifteen times this year. I don’t think, Mike, that’s a record that can ever be broken, do you agree, what do you think?

And we had another one yesterday which was interesting. In the Oval Office there’s a beautiful statue of Dr. Martin Luther King. I will say they said it was very interesting they say Donald Trump took down the bust, the statue, of Dr. Martin Luther King, and it was right there, there was a cameraman that was in front of it. So Zeke, Zeke, from time magazine, writes a story that I took it down. I would never do that. I have great respect for Dr. Martin Luther King. But this is how dishonest the media is. Now big story, but the retraction was like this. Is it a line or do they even bother putting it in? I only like to say I love honesty, I like honest reporting. I will tell you, final time, although I will say it when you let in your thousands of other people who have been trying to come in, because I am coming back, we may have to get you a larger room, we may have to get you a larger room and maybe, maybe, it will be built by somebody that knows how to build and we won’t have columns. You understand that? We get rid of the columns, but you know I just wanted to say that I love you, I respect you, there’s nobody I respect more. You do a fantastic job and we’re going to start winning again, and you’re going to be leading the charge, so thank you all very much.