After
shocking the world by defeating favourite, Hillary Clinton, the
president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump has delivered a
remarkable victory speech.
US President-elect, Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you very much, everyone. 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. 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. Sen. 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
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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