Don't forget China's great and Xi is a great gentleman. He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day.

He said, 'But I am not king, I am president.' I said 'No, you're president for life, and therefore you're king.' He said, huh. He liked that. I get along with him great.

He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. I mean, he's a brilliant guy, whether you like it or not.

I was really being tough and so was he. And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love. OK? No, really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they're great letters. We fell in love.

I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of Ukraine as independent. Oh, that's wonderful… How smart is that? And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper… Here's a guy who's very savvy. I know him very well. Very, very well.

I got along with him great. He liked me. I liked him. I mean, you know, he's a tough cookie, got a lot of great charm and a lot of pride. And he loves his country.

There's nobody that's better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán. He's fantastic. He's a noncontroversial figure because he said, 'This is the way it's going to be,' and that's the end of it, right? He's the boss.

Let me just tell you about world leaders. Viktor Orbán, one of the most respected men—they call him a strong man. He's a tough person. Smart. Prime Minister of Hungary.

He's a friend of mine, and I'm glad we didn't have a problem because, frankly, he's a hell of a leader, and he's a tough man, he's a strong man.

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!

There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly.

I hope they take my words to heart. I believe the press is the enemy of the people.

We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections. They'll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.

The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within.

They let—I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They're poisoning the blood of our country. That's what they've done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR NATION. THEY'RE COMING FROM PRISONS, FROM MENTAL INSTITUTIONS — FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.

I never read 'Mein Kampf'… Immigrants in the U.S. illegally are 'destroying the blood of our country, they're destroying the fabric of our country.'

In 2016, I declared I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution.

I will totally obliterate the deep state. I will fire the unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who have weaponized our justice system like it has never been weaponized before.

HANNITY: 'Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?' TRUMP: 'Except for Day One.'

I love this guy. He says, 'You're not going to be a dictator, are you?' I said, 'No, no, no. Other than Day One.' We're closing the border, and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator.

I didn't say that. I said I want to be a dictator for one day. You know why I wanted to be a dictator? Because I want a wall, and I want to drill, drill, drill.

A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great 'Founders' did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!

Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION?

I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and destroying our country… We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics.

I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or if really necessary by the military, because they can't let that happen.

It is the enemy from within, and they're very dangerous. They're Marxists and communists and fascists, and they're sick… I use a guy like Adam Schiff because they made up the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax… The more difficult are the Pelosis, these people, they are so sick and they are so evil.

I always say, we have two enemies. We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries.

Christians, get out and vote just this time. You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.

In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote.

No. I think they haven't gone far enough because we've been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama.

Yeah, because you have to get the people out.

But if I needed it, I could do it. And if I needed it, that would mean I could bring in the Army, the Marines, I could bring in whoever I want. But I haven't chosen to use it.

Starting February 1, we're not making any payments to Sanctuary Cities or states having Sanctuary Cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American Citizens.

No, I can't assure you on either of those two, but I can say this: We need them for economic security.

We're going to be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult. Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.

I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way.

I never take military force off the table.

Panama's promise to us has been broken… China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China, we gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back.

China is running the Panama Canal that was not given to China… they violated the agreement, and we're going to take it back, or something very powerful is going to happen.

We've got assets in the air, assets in the water, assets on ships, because this is a deadly serious mission for us.

We're not a laughingstock anymore.

The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear.

One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada… Canada was meant to be the 51st state because we subsidize Canada by $200 billion a year.

I suspect I won't be running again, unless you do something. Unless you say, 'He's so good, we have to just figure it out.'

I've raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can't use for myself, but I'm not 100% sure. I think I'm not allowed to run again. Am I allowed to run again?

I want to be here with you, and I have to be here with you. And I do that despite the fact that they say I can't run again.

I'm not joking… There are methods which you could do it.

This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years.

These are the hostages, approximately 1,500 for a pardon, full pardon.