Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated
business, complicated. 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.
I mean 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 for her service to our country.
I mean that very sincerely. Now it is time for
America to bind the wounds of division, have
to get together, to all Republicans and
Democrats and independents across this nation
I say it is time for us to come together as one
united people.
It is time. I pledge to every citizen of our land
that I will be president for all of Americans,
and this is so important to me. For those who
have chosen not to support me in the past, of
which there were a few people, I'm reaching
out to you for your guidance and your help so
that 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
hard-working men and women who love their
country and want a better, brighter future for
themselves and for their family.
It is a movement comprised of Americans from
all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs,
who want and expect our government to serve
the people, and serve the people it will.
Working together we will begin the urgent task
of rebuilding our nation and renewing the
American dream. I've spent my entire life in
business, looking at the untapped potential in
projects and in people all over the world.
That is now what I want to do for our country.
Tremendous potential. I've gotten to know our
country so well. Tremendous potential. It is
going to be a beautiful thing. Every single
American will have the opportunity to realize
his or her 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, bridges, tunnels, airports,
schools, hospitals. We're going to rebuild our
infrastructure, which will become, by the way,
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 I've spent with them during this
campaign has been among my greatest
honors.
Our veterans are incredible people. We will
embark upon a project of national growth and
renewal. I will harness the creative talents of
our people and we will call upon the best and
brightest to leverage their tremendous talent
for the benefit of all. It is going to happen. We
have a great economic plan. We will double
our growth and have the strongest 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 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.
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're going to dream of
things for our country, and beautiful things and
successful things once again.
I want to tell the world community that while
we will always put America's interests first, we
will deal fairly with everyone, with everyone.
All people and all other nations. We will seek
common ground, not hostility, partnership, not
conflict. And now I would like to take this
moment to thank some of the people who
really helped me with this, what they are
calling tonight a very, very historic victory.
First I want to thank my parents, who I know
are looking down on me right now. Great
people. I've learned so much from them. They
were wonderful in every regard. I are truly
great parents. I also want to thank my sisters,
Marianne and Elizabeth who are here with us
tonight. Where are they? They're here
someplace. They're very shy actually.
And my brother Robert, my great friend. Where
is Robert? Where is Robert?
My brother Robert, and they should be on this
stage but that's okay. They're great.
And also my late brother Fred, great guy.
Fantastic guy. Fantastic family. I was very
lucky.
Great brothers, sisters, great, unbelievable
parents. To Melania and Don and Ivanka and
Eric and Tiffany and Barron, I love you and I
thank you, and especially for putting up with
all of those hours. This was tough.
This was tough. This political stuff is nasty
and it is tough. So I want to thank my family
very much. Really fantastic. Thank you all.
Thank you all. Lara, unbelievable job.
Unbelievable. Vanessa, thank you. Thank you
very much. What a great group.
You've all given me such incredible support,
and I will tell you that we have a large group
of people. You know, they kept saying we have
a small staff. Not so small. Look at all of the
people that we have. Look at all of these
people.
And Kellyanne and Chris and Rudy and Steve
and David. We have got tremendously talented
people up here, and I want to tell you it's been
very, very special.
I want to give a very special thanks to our
former mayor, Rudy Giuliani. He's unbelievable.
Unbelievable. He traveled with us and he went
through meetings, and Rudy never changes.
Where is Rudy. Where is he?
[Chanting "Rudy"]
Gov. Chris Christie, folks, was unbelievable.
Thank you, Chris. The first man, first senator,
first major, major politician — let me tell you,
he is highly respected in Washington because
he is as smart as you get, senator Jeff
sessions. Where is Jeff? A great man. Another
great man, very tough competitor. He was not
easy. He was not easy. Who is that? Is that
the mayor that showed up? Is that Rudy?
Up here. Really a friend to me, but I'll tell you,
I got to know him as a competitor because he
was one of the folks that was negotiating to
go against those Democrats, Dr. Ben Carson.
Where's been? Where is Ben? By the way, Mike
Huckabee is here someplace, and he is
fantastic. Mike and his familiar bring Sarah,
thank you very much. Gen. Mike Flynn. Where
is Mike? And Gen. Kellogg. We have over 200
generals and admirals that have endorsed our
campaign and there are special people. We
have 22 congressional medal of honor people.
A very special person who, believe me, I read
reports that I wasn't getting along with him. I
never had a bad second with him. He's an
unbelievable star. He is -- that's right, how did
you possibly guess? Let me tell you about
Reince. I've said Reince. I know it. I know it.
Look at all of those people over there. I know
it, Reince is a superstar. I said, they can't call
you a superstar, Reince, unless we win it. Like
secretariat. He would not have that bust at
the track at Belmont.
Reince is really a star and he is the hardest
working guy and in a certain way I did this.
Reince, come up here. Get over here, Reince.
Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. It's about time you did
this right. My god. Nah, come here. Say
something.
[Reince Priebus: Ladies and gentlemen, the
next president of the united States, Donald
Trump! Thank you. It's been an honor. God
bless. Thank God.]
Amazing guy. Our partnership with the RNC
was so important to the success and what
we've done, so I also have to say, I've gotten
to know some incredible people.
The Secret Service people. They're tough and
they're smart and they're sharp and I don't
want to mess around with them, I can tell ya.
And when I want to go and wave to a big
group of people and they rip me down and put
me back down in the seat, but they are
fantastic people so I want to thank the Secret
Service.
And law enforcement in New York City, they're
here tonight. These are spectacular people,
sometimes under appreciated unfortunately, we
we appreciate them. So it's been what they
call an historic event, but to be really historic,
we have to do a great job and I promise you
that I will not let you down. We will do a great
job. 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, with
you you will say that — you will say that that
was something that you were — really were
very proud to do and I can — thank you very
much.
And I can only say that while the campaign is
over, our work on this movement is now 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 will
be so proud of your president. You will be so
proud. Again, it's my honor.
It's 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.
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