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Trump says only he can make America great again
VIENNA
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump rallied Ohio workers by saying his focus isn’t on “acting presidential,” but on providing the jobs to make America great again.
“Our country is falling apart. It is Third World in many respects,” Trump told some 2,000 supporters who turned out for a Monday evening rally at Winner Aviation’s hangar at Youngstown Warren Regional Airport. Trump turned in a rousing but rambling 45-minute speech.
Trump cited the nation’s immigration problem, which he said is resulting in job outsourcing and social problems. “They are poisoning our youth,” he added.
A controversial wall between the southern United States and Mexico will be built, Trump said. He chanted, “Build that wall” with the crowd.
“We have a trade deficit with Mexico – $58 billion. The wall is going to cost $10 billion, a peanut in comparison. There are various ways they can do it and I’m not pushy. I’m a very, very unpushy person. But they’re [Mexico] going to pay for the wall. It’s so easy. If not, we’re going to have a little problem,” Trump said.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie accompanied the candidate in his private jet and said Trump is going to not only make America proud again, but strong as well.
“America needs a strong leader to restore our hope and our strength and there’s only one man to do it, and that’s Donald Trump,” Christie said. “America is going to have a leader the rest of the world is going to respect.”
Trump said the Republican Party had the right idea in the last presidential election to reshape the state the country is in, but failed because of the person it chose.
“Mitt Romney couldn’t run for dog catcher. That guy was a disaster,” Trump said. “No, this time, folks, we are going to do it ourselves. ... We are going to make our country great again and it’s going to happen quickly.”
Trump said leaders of other nations are smarter than America’s current leadership.
“I love China. I love Mexico. Their leaders are too smart for ours right now though,” Trump said. “We don’t know how to win anymore and this country is so badly led. It’s not even in our culture anymore. ... We don’t know what we’re doing, but we’re going to learn.”
Despite disagreeing with getting involved in Middle East conflicts, Trump said rather than pulling back all of the troops, he would have left some behind to help police places such as Iran and Iraq.
“Instead, Iran is taking over as you stand here – taking over Iraq,” Trump said.
He said rival Republican contender Gov. John Kasich “cannot make America great again.” Trump said Kasich’s only economic success stems from Ohio’s newly thriving petroleum industry.
He also blasted the governor for supporting the North American Free Trade Agreement when Kasich was a U.S. House member from Ohio.
“Hillary doesn’t have the strength or energy to be president,” Trump said of Democratic contender Hillary Clinton. “All the other candidates are totally controlled 100 percent by lobbyists. Not me. I put in the greatest financial means in the presidential election in the history of the United States.”
Across state Route 193, protesters were able to stand with signs, flashing lights and sharing loud opinions.
Tamara Garcia, 40, of Liberty, said she is protesting everything Trump stands for.
“Trump is only for his people,” Garcia said. “First, the billionaires, and second are white people.”
Lauren Davis, 20, a Bethany College student, said Trump appeals to only certain groups of people, not the entirety of the people in this country.
“I just don’t believe Trump is for the people, not minority groups,” Davis said.
But Emily Anderson, 20, another Bethany College student, stood with Davis and didn’t agree with the protests. “Just because I’m voting for Trump doesn’t mean I’m a racist,” Anderson said.