Trump's Remarks During Thanksgiving Video Teleconference with Members of the Military; 11-26-2020
"The foundations are ready" = he'll take credit for everything good that happens.
The phrase "thank you" appears 43 times.
Remarks by President Trump During Thanksgiving Video Teleconference with Members of the Military
Issued on: November 27, 2020
Diplomatic Reception Room
November 26, 2020
4:59 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Well, Im thrilled to be online with heroic members of the United States Military. Incredible people. I want to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving. Were going to have a great year. We have a year coming up the foundations are ready for one of the best years weve ever had.
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Today, I send you the love, gratitude, respect, and prayers of our entire nation. Once again, I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving. Youre doing an incredible job, and your country is doing well. We just set a record in the stock market: over 30,000 in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Over 30,000 think of that. Nobody ever thought we were going to hit that during a pandemic.
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Thank you all. Have a great Thanksgiving, and dont eat too much Turkey. Thank you. (Laughs.) Thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanksgiving.
Q Mr. President, do you have any big plans for your last Thanksgiving at the White House?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we dont know what is last, if you look at whats going on. You have to really take a look at whats going on. Theyre finding tremendous discrepancies in the votes. Nobody believes those numbers. Those numbers are incorrect numbers. A lot of numbers have already been reported thats incorrect.
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And you go to Pennsylvania. You saw the meeting we had yesterday with Pennsylvania. You saw people come up how they went to vote, and they said, No, you cant vote. Somebody else already sent in a ballot. And a woman but this is happening tens of thousands of times.
Q But
THE PRESIDENT: I think it was six hundred-and-some-odd thousand 687,000 fraudulent votes cast in Pennsylvania. And I will tell you, the if you look at the state house now the Republican state house theyre starting to see whats going on there. But theyve really known it for a long time.
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So I dont know what is going to happen. I know one thing: Joe Biden did not get 80 million votes. And I got 74 million, but there were many ballots thrown away, so I got much more than that. But I got 74 million. Seventy-four million is eleven million more than I got last time. Its millions more than Ronald Reagan got when he won all he won 49 states, I guess. He won 49 states. Yes. And its its millions more millions more than Hillary Clinton got.
Joe Biden did not get and, by the way, Joe Biden did not beat Barack Obama with the black vote. He didnt beat him, okay? But they have him as beating him. And if you look at the numbers, the numbers are false. The numbers are corrupt. It was a rigged election 100 percent and people know it. Thats why you have people marching all over the United States right now: They know was a rigged election.
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Theres tremendous fraud here.
Q But
THE PRESIDENT: If you look at wait, just one second. If you look at 10 oclock in the evening, you saw what happened. Then you had these massive dumps. Nobody has ever seen anything like it.
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Stacey Abrams pulled the wool over the Secretary of State. I dont know who he is. But the Secretary of State
Q He said he donated to you.
THE PRESIDENT: It doesnt matter. I mean, you know, he says that too, but I dont know him. I never met him. I have no idea who he is. All I know is thats the ultimate you know, he I donated to Trump. I respect Trump. I love Trump. I think Trump is great. By the way, were giving nothing. This guy got played like Ive never seen anybody played.
Tell him if he donated to Trump, if he likes Trump, let us see the signatures. Why is he not letting us see? Theres only one reason you cant see the signatures. Thats because theres fraud all over the place.
And even without looking at signatures, as you know, we found thousands of wrong votes. And, by the way, always against me. It was not like 50/50; it was always against me.
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Q Mr. President
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah. Yeah, please go ahead.
Q Mr. President, if the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden on December 14th, will you concede the election?
THE PRESIDENT: I its going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud.
Q But will you
THE PRESIDENT: So, as to whether or not I can get this apparatus moving this quickly because time isnt on our side. Everything else is on our side. Facts are on our side.
This was a massive fraud. This should never take place in this country. Were like a third-world country. We have machines that nobody knows what the hell theyre looking at. I mean, you take a look at all the mistakes they made. Look at even Georgia. Look at all the mistakes they made. And that all that was is a simple you press a button.
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Q But will you concede?
THE PRESIDENT: was a fraud. Just so you understand, this election was a fraud.
I mean, they have Biden beating Obama Obamas vote in areas that mattered in terms of the election, in swing states. And yet, hes losing to Obama all over the place, but hes beating Obama in swing states, which are the states that mattered for purposes of the election.
So, no, I cant say that at all. I think its a
Q You wont concede?
THE PRESIDENT: its a possibility theyre trying to look, between you people
Q Just answer the question about concession.
THE PRESIDENT: Dont ans- dont talk to me that way.
Q Im sorry, sir, Im just asking you to
THE PRESIDENT: Youre just a youre just a lightweight.
Q answer the question about concession.
THE PRESIDENT: Dont talk to me that dont talk to Im the President of the United States. Dont ever talk to the President that way.
Q Sir, Im just asking you to answer the question about concession.
THE PRESIDENT: All right. Im going to go with another question.
Go ahead.
Q So, if the Electoral College does elect President-Elect Joe Biden, are you not going to leave this building?
THE PRESIDENT: Just so you certainly, I will. Certainly, I will. And you know that. But I think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of January. A lot of things.
Massive fraud has been found. Were like a third-world country. Were using computer equipment that can be hacked. They talk about glitches: How many glitches did they find? So a glitch Oh, gee. We had a glitch: 5,000 votes.
In all cases right? In all cases, the votes went from Trump to Biden. They didnt go from Biden the glitches were never from Biden to Trump.
So they had many glitches. And they said, Oh, we had a glitch. That a glitch is like, The equipment is a little broken. Well fix it up. No. A glitch is, in this case, we caught them cheating. We caught them stealing. We caught a fraudulent effort to get votes. And they said, Oh, yes, its true. It there was, but And there were many of them.
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So I think youre going to see something. I mean, I think its going to be a very big story.
Yeah, please.
Q Yes, Mr. yes, Mr. President
THE PRESIDENT: Its going to be not only a big story, its the most important story of our time.
Yes.
Q Yes. Mr. President, if Joe Biden takes over the White House on January 21st, will you announce a candidacy for 2024?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, no, I dont want to talk about 2024 yet.
Q Will you run again in
THE PRESIDENT: Because this this is far from being
Q If and when Joe Biden takes over
THE PRESIDENT: Look, look, look
Q will you announce a candidacy in 2024?
THE PRESIDENT: I and the people that work on this are very professional, and all of this stuff is coming. Its a lot of it came out if you look at the Philadelphia meeting, if you look at the Pennsylvania meeting yesterday, a lot of it came out.
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The vaccines and, by the way, dont let Joe Biden take credit for the vaccines. If Joe Biden you know, Joe Biden failed with the swine flu, H1N1. Totally failed with the swine flu. Dont let him take credit for the vaccines because the vaccines were me, and I pushed people harder than theyve ever been pushed before.
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And Im serious: If the media were honest and if big tech were honest, which its totally not its a terrible thing. That whole Section 230 is a disgrace that they even have it. But big tech is totally dishonest. If the media were honest and big tech was fair, this wouldnt even be a contest, and I would have won by a tremendous amount, a tremendous amount. And I did win by a tremendous amount, but it hasnt been reported yet.
But people understand whats happened. They know what happened.
Yes, please. Go ahead.
Q As you know, of course, it is tradition for
THE PRESIDENT: Say it.
Q You know that its tradition for previous Presidents to go to the next Presidents inauguration. So will you attend Joe Bidens
THE PRESIDENT: I dont want to say that yet.
Q But he is
THE PRESIDENT: I mean, I know the answer. Ill be honest, I know the answer
Q Is it yes?
THE PRESIDENT: but I just dont want to say it yet. Look, a thing like this possibly has never happened before, but maybe people just didnt catch it. But weve caught it. Weve caught
Q But why have your attorneys
THE PRESIDENT: Weve caught weve caught hundreds of thousands of votes.
Q If I may, sir
THE PRESIDENT: Listen, excuse me. Excuse me.
Q If I may
THE PRESIDENT: When they dont allow a poll watcher, which is a sacred person in our country. People dont know what a poll watcher is. A poll watcher is its considered sacred in our country. When they throw them out of rooms
Q But thats not true. They didnt do that.
THE PRESIDENT: Sure, it is.
Q Your attorneys
THE PRESIDENT: And when they put them in pens
Q Your attorneys admitted they were in the room
THE PRESIDENT: Excuse me. No, they didnt. My attorneys did not admit anything. And its all different places.
But where they throw them out of counting rooms; where they put them in whats called pens, and theyre 20, 30, 40 feet away, and, in some cases, 200 feet away; when things like that happen when a woman walks in on November 3rd to vote a proud woman and this is by the thousands, tens of thousands and she said, Im here to vote. And they said, Youve already voted, maam. Im sorry. No, I didnt vote. I wanted to vote on November 3rd. I want to cast my vote in person. Im sorry, maam. Youve already voted. You voted by ballot. And then they leave. This is a horrible thing. And we have tens of thousands of that happening. This is a horrible thingAnd Im serious: If the media were honest and if big tech were honest, which its totally not its a terrible thing. That whole Section 230 is a disgrace that they even have it. But big tech is totally dishonest. If the media were honest and big tech was fair, this wouldnt even be a contest, and I would have won by a tremendous amount, a tremendous amount. And I did win by a tremendous amount, but it hasnt been reported yet.
But people understand whats happened. They know what happened.
Yes, please. Go ahead.
Q As you know, of course, it is tradition for
THE PRESIDENT: Say it.
Q You know that its tradition for previous Presidents to go to the next Presidents inauguration. So will you attend Joe Bidens
THE PRESIDENT: I dont want to say that yet.
Q But he is
THE PRESIDENT: I mean, I know the answer. Ill be honest, I know the answer
Q Is it yes?
THE PRESIDENT: but I just dont want to say it yet. Look, a thing like this possibly has never happened before, but maybe people just didnt catch it. But weve caught it. Weve caught
Q But why have your attorneys
THE PRESIDENT: Weve caught weve caught hundreds of thousands of votes.
Q If I may, sir
THE PRESIDENT: Listen, excuse me. Excuse me.
Q If I may
THE PRESIDENT: When they dont allow a poll watcher, which is a sacred person in our country. People dont know what a poll watcher is. A poll watcher is its considered sacred in our country. When they throw them out of rooms
Q But thats not true. They didnt do that.
THE PRESIDENT: Sure, it is.
Q Your attorneys
THE PRESIDENT: And when they put them in pens
Q Your attorneys admitted they were in the room
THE PRESIDENT: Excuse me. No, they didnt. My attorneys did not admit anything. And its all different places.
But where they throw them out of counting rooms; where they put them in whats called pens, and theyre 20, 30, 40 feet away, and, in some cases, 200 feet away; when things like that happen when a woman walks in on November 3rd to vote a proud woman and this is by the thousands, tens of thousands and she said, Im here to vote. And they said, Youve already voted, maam. Im sorry. No, I didnt vote. I wanted to vote on November 3rd. I want to cast my vote in person. Im sorry, maam. Youve already voted. You voted by ballot. And then they leave. This is a horrible thing. And we have tens of thousands of that happening. This is a horrible thing.
They gave Biden a lot of votes that he would never have gotten. This is not a candidate that could get 80 80 million votes. This is just not a candidate. This is not a candidate that beat Barack Hussein Obama with the black voter, okay? This is not a candidate that beat Obama with the black voter. This is not a candidate that beat Hillary Clinton to a pulp. It just doesnt work that way.
But when you look at the number, when you look at the data, and when you look at the things we have, we have affidavits from hundreds and hundreds of people. This election was a rigged election.
Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
END
5:43 P.M. EST
LakeVermilion
(1,040 posts)in the ninth grade class election.
So dumb it defies words.
LSFL
(1,109 posts)I am going to yell "The Armenian genocide never happened!"
C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)Future generations will read this and wonder what the fuck went wrong with us.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Donald Trump won the election by a landslide! If that doesnt work neither will your proclamation..
Know that I am not responsible for whacks on the head!
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)Go fuck yourself. You work for us, you putrid waste of air and carbon, not the other way around.
January 20th cannot come soon enough.
Clearly fogged in
(1,896 posts)The voters he encouraged to send in their ballots and then go to the polls on the 3rd are the ones he is now calling out.
- when a woman walks in on November 3rd to vote a proud woman and this is by the thousands, tens of thousands and she said, Im here to vote. And they said, Youve already voted, maam. Im sorry. No, I didnt vote. I wanted to vote on November 3rd. I want to cast my vote in person. Im sorry, maam. Youve already voted. You voted by ballot. And then they leave. This is a horrible thing. And we have tens of thousands of that happening.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Did he mention that he wanted to deny many of their military votes because they were by mail?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)I don't agree with the first statment. I do agree with the second statement:
DontEverTalkToTheHatThatWay Retweeted
I give you the right to talk to the President of the United States however you want
Pshh, silly amendment. You memorialize the right we already have
Link to tweet
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts){snip}
The Court's 63 decision, delivered by Justice Robert H. Jackson, is remembered for its forceful defense of free speech and constitutional rights generally as being placed "beyond the reach of majorities and officials".
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Decision of the Court
The Court held, in a 6-to-3 decision delivered by Justice Jackson, that it was unconstitutional for public schools to compel students to salute the flag. It thus overruled its decision in Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940), finding that the flag salute was "a form of utterance" and "a primitive but effective means of communicating ideas". The Court wrote that any "compulsory unification of opinion" was doomed to failure and was antithetical to the values set forth in the First Amendment. The Court stated:
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
The Supreme Court announced its decision on June 14, Flag Day.
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