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FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump’s Roundtable in Drexel Hill, PA

Read the full transcript former President Donald Trump’s community roundtable with former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee and former United States Representative Lee Zeldin on Tuesday, October 29, 2024.

Listen to the audio version here:

TRANSCRIPT:

MIKE HUCKABEE: Very special forum. Let me begin. There we go. Let me begin by just expressing that whoever came up with this entire event, they flunked geometry. This was told to be a round table discussion. There is nothing round about this table. It is a U-shape for whoever designed it. But we’re going to have a great time this afternoon as we talk about issues that really affect all of us.

And I think that most Americans are beginning to fully understand that there are two kinds of people who get elected to public office. There are the people who get elected because they really want the people of the country to serve them. And then there are people who get elected because they truly want to serve the people of the country. Donald J. Trump is here to serve the people of America.

Well, let me be honest with you, folks. Donald Trump was not my first choice for president. I was my first choice for president. But I was one of those 16 people that he obliterated on the stage back in 2016. But I’m going to tell you this. The moment I got out, there was never a doubt as to who I was going to support. And for eight years, this has been my president.

And I know you want him to continue to be your president. No one who has ever been president has had the courage to face down the extraordinary giants of opposition that he’s had to deal with. And I’m convinced that next Tuesday, when he wins and becomes not only the 45th, but the 47th president of the United States, this is going to be a time that we can celebrate of once again having a president that listens to the people rather than demands that the people just listen to him. And he serves us and works for us. A bottom-up government rather than a top-down government. And we’re long overdue for it. That is for sure.

Well, this afternoon, what a privilege to be here with seven distinguished people from Southeast Pennsylvania, and also Congressman Lee Zeldin, the distinguished former congressman from New York, who is one of the smartest and most articulate people that we have in our political system today. But we’re going to get started with this opportunity to just discuss some issues with some of these folks who live right here in your area. And I want to start with Donald Clark, who is right down here to my left. I don’t think that’s his political position to my left, although I don’t think you could possibly be to my right, Donald. Not possible. He’s a retired police lieutenant. He served 32 years with Upper Darby Township. He is going to be one of our panelists.

And all of these folks are going to be talking. But before we get to the panelists, I know the person you came to hear was neither Donald Clark or me. It is our next president, ladies and gentlemen, President Donald J. Trump.

Trump’s Opening Remarks

DONALD TRUMP: Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Great to be here. Yeah, this was supposed to be just a little group. We’re talking about senior issues. It’s a lot of people in here. Thank you very much. It’s an honor.

And I want to tell you, likewise, this man is a fantastic man. He has been from the day I met him, from the day I met him. And he’s smart and he can be tough. Oh, he can be tough. He can be. You know, you don’t know that. Rightly, we know he can be a brutal guy, but always on the side of right. It’s just a great guy. And he’s been my friend. I think we have never had a little. We haven’t. We’ve never even had a spat, have we? With all the years, right? Not very, very good man. And I’m not that stupid. I’m not going to fight with you. I love having him around.

I want to also thank, as you know, we have Congressman Lee Zeldin, who’s fantastic, almost almost did a big upset in New York. He ran against everybody’s advice and he pulled it. I mean, what you did was incredible. You showed it could be done and maybe it can be done. We’re going to find out because we had something the other night. It was incredible at Madison Square Garden. We could have filled it up many times.

We could have filled that up, Mike, many times. We had it going down all the way down to people all the way back, if you’re familiar with it, all the way down to the Hudson River. And nobody’s seen anything like it. Even the owners, good, good people, very good people. And they said, we’ve never seen anything like this. And they’ve had some pretty big championships there over the years, Madison Square Garden. And Wesley Hunt, a person with a tremendous leadership. Thank you, Wesley.

Trump on the State of the Country

And this is an election that’s really a choice between whether or not we’ll have four more years of total failure. This has been the worst four years I’ve ever seen. Gross incompetence, but total failure, disaster under Kamala Harris. Nobody knows. You know, if you I say all the time, if you say Harris, nobody knows who the heck we’re talking about, right? Harris. And this is what we have or whether we’ll begin the four greatest years in the history of our country.

And we’re starting. We’re starting a little bit from behind because we’ve been set back. We’ve been set back badly in every single way with inflation.