Former President Donald Trump's Town Hall in La Crosse, Wisconsin

that song gets me fired up every time great Lee Greenwood so great great guy too well thank you Mr President this is a a very special evening for us all to have a conversation about some of the real issues that are facing Americans across the country and that don't get talked about often enough and I want to start with one that's very personal to me hard to talk about sometimes um this is only the second time I've spoken about it publicly but my husband and I were married almost 10 years ago we wanted to start a family we were very excited about it unfortunately it was very difficult uh we we were not successful in trying to get pregnant for us IVF seemed to be the only option and the last resort as you know it's a it's a pretty difficult process it's very very expensive I was in Congress at the time traveling I would carry the medicine that I had to administer shots to myself sometimes in an airport bathroom and and ultimately the most difficult part was every time going to the doctor for another transfer and and hoping that it would result in a positive pregnancy test and then being heartbroken over and over every time that test came back negative now I know some of your opponents your political opponents are saying that you want to ban IVF while it didn't work for us it's worked for a lot of families and uh I I just know that there are women and and couples In This Crowd or those who are watching here tonight who may be going through this same struggle and are concerned about being able to have this option either because they might not be able to afford it or they're concerned that it just may not be available and I'd love for you to talk to them about how they should feel well thank you very much Chelsea and I didn't know about your situation and uh it's tough stuff right tough life is pretty tough it can be beautiful but it can be difficult uh we are doing something with ibf because ibf as you know from Friends people you know it's really worked out very well for a lot of people it gave them a child when they would not have had a child and uh I told my people I wanted to look at this a couple of weeks ago and as you know we have no taxes one a thing called tips you know that and I said tell me we did three things we did that and we did no tax for seniors on Social Security benefits we want to have that and I've been seeing a lot of ibf and I kept hearing that I'm against it and I'm actually very much for it in fact in abama where the judge ruled against it and I countered the judge and came out with a very strong statement for it and the Alabama very quick in your response to that I was but they were too they were amazing the legislature approved virtually my statement I'm in full ibf and and it's really gone it's it's terrific and I said so with the tips and with the Social Security that no taxes on Social Security I said maybe for IVF and I've been looking at it and what we're going to do is for people that are using IVF which is fertilization we are going the government is going to pay for it or we're going to get or mandate your insurance company to pay for it which is going to be great we're going to do that I I can't tell you how lifechanging that would be for so many families because it costs a lot of money a lot of people go into debt just for the hope of being able to start their own family well it's big and you know what we want to produce babies in this country right we want to produce babies so I think it's going to be something we told we we sort of announced it a little bit we were in a great place Michigan we all love Michigan right we're going to bring back the car industry and we're going to get a lot of it back to Michigan they've been uh taking our cars away they've been taking our manufacturing away over years over decades and if if you look at it today it's a it's a shell of what it was years ago we're going to bring it back uh Mexico is right now building massive car factories actually being financed and built by China and they think they're going to sell their cars back into our country it's not going to happen that's not going to happen oh listen to that that is not going to happen but uh so much so many things have gone wrong in the car industry the union leadership has been horrible I think I'm going to win by 85% the union but because we're bringing it back and we're going to have electric cars but we're going to have gasoline powered cars and we're going to have uh hybrids we're going to have every kind of car we're not going with just that but I just felt that uh it would be a good place to announce it and we did sort of the announcement there a little bit and now we do the big announcement tonight in front of all of these uh television stations all the fake news you know the fake they're all over the place they're all over the place I don't know what's going on we don't even know I was saying because we're doing this and I finished and I figured I was going to come here and uh we're going to make a speech I had a speech all set for you I I was ready and they said sir you're actually doing a town hall I said oh nobody told me that I said who's doing this said Telly I said well that's at least good news she's been I've been a fan of hers for a long time I have to tell you so so I didn't even know I'm I'm in the plane and I'm looking over some material and we're going to give you a hell of a speech tonight we were set to give you one hell of a speech they said no sir it's a town hall I said why doesn't somebody tell me this stuff and I don't even have any idea who we're doing it for I don't know is it for a network or what I see a lot of Television all over the place so maybe it's on all of them but I did get to see uh the strangest thing today I looked at the news conference of Kamala I call her comrade comrade C comrade Kamala she's a uh you know that she's uh a Marxist her father was a Marxist before her so she was brought up in the family tradition and she really is and this country is not ready for a Marxist we don't want a Marxist as a president and she destroyed San Francisco she destroyed California and we're not going to let it destroy our country I'll tell you it's not going to happen so but just to finish so for some reason she doesn't want to talk to anybody so she's either not the smartest light in the ceiling I'm trying to be nice here I want to be they say be nice sir be nice you know it's hard to be nice when somebody is destroying your country and wants to destroy your country it's hard to be like that but but she is um she was a terrible vice president she was a terrible borders are worst in history probably not just in this country but the Border you know millions and millions of people I say 20 million plus have poured through the Border during their term I had the safest Border in the history of our country they have the most unsafe Border in the history of the world and they're coming through and many of them are from prisons and jails there's a slight difference as you know prisons and jails many are from mental institutions and insane asylums and many are terrorists and they're pouring into our country at a level I don't know if you saw the news today Tela they had a group of a lot of them Venezuelan people with lots of machine guns taking over a building someplace I'm looking I'm saying where is that they went in and they took over a building this is just the beginning they're taking their criminals from all all over the world not just South America not just Venezuela which you've been reading about all over the world they're taking their criminals and they're dumping them into the United States comma that's kamla is allowing it to happen and they actually want to actually they want to give them papers they want to make them citizens and they want to give them your Social Security they want to give them your Medicare and your Social Security will collapse under her I'm the one that's going to protect the Social Security but they're coming I will totally protect as I did for 4 years and there was no age increase there was no anything we're going to protect you know they destroy you with inflation and then they want to destroy your Social Security to it's not going to happen but this is going to be the most important election in the history of our country so I just want to say that it's an honor to be with you tonight it's a forum that's very different because I have no idea who the hell is broadcasting it but all we'll do is we'll talk because we're friends I love this State I gave them uh Marinette a week we gave them a very big you know telsy we have a ship contract and as you know we gave uh Marinette yards but we gave them a tremendous contract they wanted it all over the country I said we're going to get it for Wisconsin and it's a big one and they're doing a great job I understand so we got that and uh we're going to have a good time tonight so let's go Mr President you you talked talked about immigration we actually have Amber here who's quite concerned about that and she's got a question for you Mr President hello my name is Amber and I'm from Cameron Wisconsin I have three beautiful children and I'm torn on who to support my youngest daughter is here tonight my oldest son is 18 and he just started trade school this week very proud of him my concern is that illegal immigration is threatening opportunities for my children I worry that it's taking away jobs from Americans I'm wondering what will you do about that all right well it's great I think I'll stand up and do you mind if I turn around um thank you Amber very much and you're right I'll tell you we have the people that I'm talking about they're pouring in at levels never seen before they're coming in by millions and millions and a lot of them are taking the jobs for the black population the Hispanic population and unions are going to be very badly affected because and I was talking to some of the Union heads who I actually do get along with but uh they're very concerned about it because the jobs that are the people that are coming in are just taken it and it's going to start with the black population African-Americans are losing their jobs and I don't know if you heard the latest statistic that of the jobs that these people created which is very little every single job was taken about 107% was taken by illegal immigrants there's been no job creation from them the jobs were filled by illegal immigrants with all of that being said I want to give you a very positive answer so we're going to win this election we're going to turn this country around we're going to become an unbelievable growth country and your boy is going to have the greatest job and you want to have a lot of choice with jobs you know you want them to go up and they get up and they uh it's hard to believe I have that the way I get treated but I look I look forward to every day because we're going to make America great again so I really do I look forward to right but but we're going to we're going to create a lot of jobs going to create does he want to stay here does he want to go to a different state or anything yeah someplace in the midwest but this is a good place to stay right Wisconsin so we'll be creating tremendous jobs for our country and we're also turning away you know we're going to be closing the Border really closing it by the way did you see so kamla was for defunding the police she was for open borders she was for everything that you're not against I could go through 14 different she's changing every single one of them in fact I think we should make see the man in the red hat and the beautiful woman in the red hat says make America great again perhaps we should give kamla a make America great again hat right but the problem is that's not her belief her belief is open borders her belief belief is getting rid of Social Security her belief is doing all of the these plans like for health insurance where you have one big government run mess and if you have private plans a lot of the people in this room have private plans they're incredible plans they worked hard to get those plans and that's what they want but with her she wants to have it's really a communist type of government and I just saw her telsey on she was sitting behind the desk doing this interview and I said Dana Bash you could make yourself big tonight all you have to do is be fair I haven't seen the questions but they gave out a Le in fact she's going to be on later on tonight with a tape it was a tape we're doing it live why are we doing it live and she's doing it taped but but that's right he's real but she was sitting behind that desk this massive desk and she didn't look like a leader to me I'll be honest I don't see her negotiating with President she of China I don't see her with Kim Jong-un like we did with Kim Jong-un so we're going to have to see what happens I'll tell you what November 5th is going to be the most important day in the history of this country Mr President there are a lot of people who want to feel hopeful about our future I want to introduce you to Luke who is one of those people hi hello Mr President goodlooking guy thank you my name is Luke Ali and I'm a junior here at the University of Wisconsin lacrosse I'll be voting for the first time in November and I'm researching each candidate I have two questions for you first as I've been living on my own and buying my own gas and groceries I have noticed that everything has become more expensive for me personally I try to eat healthy and stay lean a pound of meat has gone from $4 to almost $7 I also would like to buy a home someday but that seems just impossible now what's your plan to make life more affordable and bring down inflation for someone like me very good thank you good it's probably the question I get most you know they say you're going to vote with your stomach I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true and groceries food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before we've never seen anything like it 50 60 70% you take a look at bacon and some of these products and some people don't eat bacon anymore and uh we are going to get the energy price down when we get energy down you know this was caused by their horrible energy wind they want wind all over the place but when it doesn't blow we have a little problem this was caused by energy this was really caused by energy and also their unbelievable spending they're spending us out of out of wealth actually they're taking our wealth away but it was caused by energy and what they've done is they started cutting way back we were in third place when I left we were by far far in first place beating Russia beating Saudi Arabia and we were going to dominate to a level that we've never seen before and then we had a bad election I'll be very nice I'm supposed to be nice when I talk about the election because everybody's afraid to talk about oh please sir don't talk about the election please you know if you can't if you can't talk about a bad election you really don't have a democracy if you think about it right but but what they did telsey is they took they took back the oil production the oil started going crazy that started the inflation then they went back they said go back to where Trump was the problem is that we would have been three times at level right now we we would have been so dominant over Russia and uh Saudi Arabia look Saudi Arabia Russia a lot of oil we would have had more you know we had something in Alaska anoir that we that I created I mean Ronald Reagan wanted it you remember Ronald Reagan wanted it they all wanted it and I got it approved nobody was able to get it approved I got it approved and they the first week in office they turned it back they said no it's the biggest site possibly in the world could be bigger than Saudi Arabia well we're going to start that up we're going to become the energy capital of the world we're going to pay down our debt and we're going to reduce your taxes still further and your groceries are going to come tumbling down and your interest rates are going to be tumbling down and then you're going to go out you're going to buy a beautiful house okay you're going to buy a beautiful house that's called The American Dream the American dream thank you Mr President I I want to ask you a question about National Security but first I think it's important to point out what Luke is talking about the cost of groceries the cost of gas the cost of housing mortgages rent everything has gone on up kamla Harris's plan that she has announced is government price controls and I think it's important to touch on you just laid out your plan what's going to happen if KLA Harris institutes price controls so that's a communist plan it's never worked and it's been tried by others believe it or not Richard Nixon tried it a lot of people tried it it's been tried many times and it always leads to the same failure uh tremendous inflation lack of product you don't have anything the stores are not stocked it has never worked it's called control they want control and uh you know look it just it's been so often and everybody that comes in they say it it sort of sounds great we're going to go price control actually when she announced it she got absolutely slaughtered by even Democrats because it doesn't work it's it's a known loser so now she doesn't talk about it you notice she doesn't talk about climate change anymore she's not talking about it you know why because people don't want want to hear it they want to find they want to live a good life they want to live a life they don't want to stop your industry with climate change they used to call it different things global warming remember that wasn't working because it was getting a little bit cooler so they said what are we going to do we'll call it global cooling no so they came up with the word words climate change because that takes care of everything it climate change the climate's changing but according to them we're all going to be gone at about what do we have 3 years left they had 12 years remember so in about 3 years let me tell you we do have a problem though it's climate change but a different kind of climate change it's called nuclear global warming we can say that's global warming and if we don't have a smart president you know you have five nations now with pretty massive nuclear power some have very massive including us and Russia China's behind way behind but within four or five years they'll catch up and we don't want them to catch up look we the biggest problem in my opinion the biggest problem our country has the biggest problem the world has is nuclear weapons they are a destructive force the likes of which nobody has ever seen before and we have to make sure they're never used we have to make sure it's not going to happen you're you're exactly right you brought up Ronald Reagan already Ronald Reagan famously said a nuclear war can never never be won and should never be fought and I think it's interesting you talked about climate change Mr President the Democrats and Kars they were quick to talk about how climate change is an existential threat but what they're not talking about is the existential threat of nuclear war and World War III which is exactly where we sit today because of the war mongers and their puppets Joe Biden and KLA Harris and they don't want to talk about it because the the consequence of where they have taken all of us as the American people in the world is economic hardship around the world a destruction of our economic well-being and an annihilation of humanity our families our kids our communities around the world there's a recent poll that uh yugov did that that pointed out over 60% of Americans feel that World War III and nuclear war is going to happen within 5 to 10 years and and when I heard that I I felt so sad because they're at a point where they feel like this outcome the annihilation of the world is inevitable so I I wanted to ask you about this because it's important that people understand what kind of leadership you bring what you will do to stop this slide towards nuclear war in World War II so that we can feel hopeful again well thank you so Victor Orban a very strong leader from Hungary prime minister of Hungary they asked him recently about what's the problem in the world a few years ago during my time we had no Pro we didn't have Israel being attacked we didn't have Russia attacking Ukraine and they asked him why is it so bad now the Middle East is on fire uh so many places are on fire and there are plenty uh places that could very well and very quickly catch on what's the problem he said you have to bring Trump back as president of the United States you will have no problem he single-handedly kept things and it's true and I could do it with telephone calls by being smart but literally he said you have to bring Trump back now he used the term I wouldn't use he said everybody was afraid of trump you know who was afraid of trump they said China was afraid of trump Russia was afraid of trump they were all and I don't want to say that I will say this they respected me and they respected our nation they don't respect our nation and anymore they don't respect our nation anymore think of it what would the world be like if Russia didn't do what they did and they would have never done it I used to speak to Putin about it I had very good relationship uh no chance you know what happened I think uh Afghanistan when he saw the horrible leadership that we were displayed that we displayed in Afghanistan I think he said wow this is a time to to go in because I wasn't there he would have never done it if I was president then Israel would have never been attacked think of it what would this world be like you wouldn't have had that disaster and wasn't leaving Afghanistan and they should have kept bogram that's the Big Air Base it's one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons they didn't keep it you know who occupies it now Chelsea China occupies it so we have uh if you have the right president and we don't right now right now do we even have a president he just came in think of it he just came in from wherever the hell he went you know there was a coup he just doesn't know it yet but there was a coup how about that he got 14 I'm not a fan of his he was the worst president but but think of this he got 14 million votes she was the first one to leave you know kamla was the first one to quit she never made it to the first state in the primaries which was Iowa never even came close other people did but never even came close and all all of a sudden she was picked and she's now running for president and look it just started really though it just really started the polls have us up here we're up in this we're up in States but it's close it's close it's it's close and you know they cheat like hell so we don't want to have it too close but we have because we have to get we have to win this we're not going to have a country but with him I was so far up we had a thing called how did he do in the debate did you think he did well not too good no they they wanted to have a debate I said okay it's a little bit early isn't it I was like I was trying to talk them out I said well it's a little early for a debate right and they said well I think we'd like to do it and that was not a good debate for them that was not a good debate so that was the beginning of the end for him and they started looking but they picked a woman that had absolutely no votes she got no votes and now she's running so when you say threat to democracy they are a threat to democracy I'm not a threat to democracy I'm not a threat thank you Mr President crime and the rise of crime is on the minds of a lot of people I want to call on Danielle here um who has a question for you hi Daniel well you need yeah it's a and you get a lot of those questions from Minnesota but you get a lot of those questions because Minnesota I mean they picked this guy he is weird right he's we I'm not weird he's no he's a weird guy he's a weird dude you know see they come up with sound bites every they always have sound bites and one of the things is that JD and I are weird what that guy is so straight JD is so he's doing a great job smart top student great guy and he's not weird and I'm not weird I mean we a lot of things were not weird I will tell you but that guy is weird don't you think you know he called he signed for uh and this is who would think that this is even happening in our country with men playing in women's sports and all of this but he has it he has it at a level that nobody can believe a bill that every boy's bathroom will have tampons okay hence his name tampon Tim but but think of it think of it and you know on the question of abortion he is the one abortion in the ninth month and if the baby in Minnesota and I'd love to win Minnesota because those people aren't digging this guy they're not taking this guy but think of this Six States Six States Minnesota is one of them if the baby is born you're allowed to execute the baby baby after think of that after birth in Minnesota you're allowed to execute and you remember the former Governor not the current governor who's terrific Len yunan we're going to win maybe Virginia we could do that but the former Governor and he said uh you sit the B you sit the mother down and the father down you sit them down and you talk and the baby is born and you make a decision what to do he meant do you execute the baby after birth and according to what they have passed and legislation in Minnesota they're allowed to execute the baby after birth and this guy is a participant and that's why she picked him because she is in fact a Marxist communist remember I'd say all the time our country will never be socialist right we will not have a socialist well I was right we skipped socialism we went to Communism this woman has to be stopped Mr President we have time for one final question I don't know if we can get a mic to Bernardo uh he's got an important question given very soon we will be honoring the anniversary of September 11th and all of the lives that were lost on that tragic day in that tragic attack where we were attacked by radical islamist terrorists and Bernardo wanted to to share his thought thoughts and had a question for you on this thank you Mr President my name is Bernardo I'm a voter here in Wisconsin live in the wonderful Lacrosse County here and I'm also a father of eight I have seven here with me and uh it's the iary of 9/11 is coming up I'm concerned that we're more vulnerable now than ever and we have a Democrat nominee who doesn't even want to say the words says we shouldn't say the words radical Islamic Terror how are we going to protect America from a terrorist attack uh a first of all it's a great question and you know we have radical islamists pouring into our country along with everybody else right now they're coming in at levels that nobody's ever seen before we kept them out we had one year where border patrol put down it was I believe 2019 where they and I don't believe this I don't believe it's right but uh I'll take it they said zero came in in 201 that was my term zero now we have thousands I'd like to say that was true it's probably not because I can't imagine that but we we were very tough on that now they have thousands and thousands coming in along with the prisoners and along with with the crime and remember a lot of these countries like Venezuela their crime is way down because they moved their criminals into our country it's not even believable but your question on islamists and all of the Jihad and all of the things that they talk about they have to respect your country they have to respect your leader you know I had no radical Islam crime for four years and I didn't want to talk about it I wanted to I I talked about it after but I didn't want to talk about to I don't want to say like I had absolutely in the next day you get hit but we had none four years of it because they respected your president they respected your country and they have to we have to bring back that level of respect and we're going to do it we're going to do it and we're not letting the wrong people into our country okay thank you very much great question thank you Mr President I know you have run out of time here but thank you for having this conversation with the people of wiscons and people across the country who are watching and concerned about these very same issues thank you Mr President thank you everyone for being here thank you everybody vote vote thank you everybody very much