Donald Trump was the runaway winner of the first contest in the 2024 GOP primary, notching the biggest victory ever in the contested Iowa caucuses.
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00:00 ♪ That I'm proud to be an American ♪
00:03 ♪ Where at least I know I'm free ♪
00:06 (applause)
00:08 (chanting)
00:16 Well, I want to thank everybody.
00:18 This has been some period of time.
00:19 And most importantly, we want to thank the great
00:23 people of Iowa.
00:24 Thank you.
00:25 We love you all.
00:26 (applause)
00:27 What a turnout.
00:28 What a crowd.
00:29 I want to congratulate Ron and Nikki for having a
00:34 good -- a good time together.
00:36 We're all having a good time together.
00:37 (laughter)
00:39 And I think they both actually did very well.
00:42 I really do.
00:42 I think they both did very well.
00:43 We don't even know what the outcome of second place is.
00:47 And I see Gary Lake.
00:50 Congratulations, Gary.
00:51 Very good.
00:52 (applause)
00:53 I spotted her, I have to announce, because she's terrific.
00:55 She's going to be a senator -- a great senator, I
00:58 predict, right?
00:59 You're going to be a great senator.
01:01 And I also want to congratulate Vivek because
01:07 he did a hell of a job.
01:08 He came from zero, and he's got a big percent --
01:13 probably 8 percent, almost 8 percent.
01:15 And that's an amazing job.
01:17 They all did.
01:18 They're all very smart -- very smart people, very
01:20 capable people.
01:22 And we're going to have to deport -- we're going to
01:24 have to have a deportation level that we haven't
01:28 seen in this country for a long time, since Dwight
01:30 Eisenhower, actually.
01:32 (applause)
01:34 So I don't want to be overly rough on the
01:37 President, but I have to say that he is the worst
01:42 President that we've had in the history of our
01:44 country.
01:45 (applause)
01:45 He's destroying our country.
01:47 And, you know, my wife attended the funeral two
01:53 months ago of Rosalynn Carter, and it was
01:57 beautiful.
01:58 And Jimmy Carter was there, and I thought to
02:00 myself, "Jimmy Carter is happy now because he will
02:04 go down as being a brilliant President by
02:08 comparison to Joe Biden."
02:10 He'll be a brilliant President.
02:11 It's going to be -- he's going to be known as
02:13 "brilliant" by comparison.
02:16 So it's now off to New Hampshire, a great place.
02:19 We won it last time, and we won it both times.
02:23 And we love it.
02:24 The people are great.
02:25 But, you know, the truth is, the people in our
02:27 country are great.
02:28 They're all great.
02:29 We love Iowa, but they're all great.
02:31 (applause)
02:33 They only want to see one thing.
02:36 They want our country to come back.
02:39 They're embarrassed by what's going on.
02:41 Our country is laughed at.
02:42 All over the world, they're laughing at us.
02:45 And they want our country to come back.
02:48 They want America -- you know, they want us to be
02:50 great again.
02:51 It's a very simple -- MAGA, Make America Great
02:54 Again, and America First.
02:58 America First is a very important part of MAGA.
03:01 (applause)
03:01 So we're going to put America first.
03:06 We're going to make America great again.
03:11 Again, Iowa, we love you.
03:13 You are going to -- oh, you just go out and buy
03:16 larger tractors in Moorland.
03:18 Don't worry about it.
03:20 And to all of the people standing behind me and all
03:24 of the people in this room, and so many great
03:26 politicians and great dignitaries and friends, I
03:30 just want to thank you all.
03:31 This is a very special night.
03:32 And this is the first because the big night is
03:37 going to be in November when we take back our
03:40 country, and truly, we do make our country great again.
03:44 Thank you very much, everybody.
03:46 Great honor.
03:46 Thank you very much.
03:47 Thank you.
03:48 Thank you very much.
03:50 (applause)
03:55 (upbeat music)