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. 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.