Returning to the state where he launched his meteoric ascent to the nation’s highest office, Donald Trump zeroed in on the pocketbook concerns of his Long Island audience, among the highest taxed in the country, during a raucous rally in Uniondale, and spelled out how he will “make America wealthy again.”
“We’re going to rescue this country,” Trump vowed, “and we’re going to start by saving New York,” he said to thunderous applause from a crowd of nearly 20,000, with an estimated 30,000 more watching from big screens outside of the Nassau Coliseum. “I’m going to reduce your taxes, reduce crime, and reduce your level of stress. The only thing I’m going to raise are your incomes and your love for your state.”
According to the 45th president, many New York industries have been relocated overseas, and the middle class has been eviscerated. “Housing costs are out of control and inflation has caused the typical family $28,000,” he noted. “With four more years of Kamala Harris, New York State will be like a Third World nation if it isn’t already. With Trump, the Empire State will once again be the envy of the entire world. We will have no crime, only success, and unlike your current radical Democrat regime, I’m not driven by partisan ideology; I’m driven by results, and I’m driven by New York common sense.”
Under his economic plan, Trump pledged that energy prices will be cut in half within 12 months. “We have more liquid gold under our feet, and we don’t use it. We go to places like Venezuela when we have more than Russia, we have more than Saudi Arabia,” he said, pointing out that he cleared the way to tap Alaska’s substantial energy reserves, which Biden stopped during his first week in office. Making the U.S. the world’s dominant energy producer will allow the economy to “grow, grow, grow” and allow the government to start paying off the $35.3 trillion national debt.
“We will cut interest rates, cut insurance costs, and massively. We will cut your taxes again. I gave you the largest tax cut in the history of our country, and we have some more to go. Kamala Harris, as you look at her plan, will give you very simply the largest tax hike in American history. This is the only person I’ve ever seen, and Biden too, they announce that they’re going to raise your taxes, and it’s supposed to be good politically.”
Instead, Trump vowed to “turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower more than it has ever been before” by bringing industry back to the country. The “Trump Reciprocal Trade Act” will foster investments in the U.S. by imposing tariffs on countries sending products into the U.S., particularly electric automobiles, which China plans to make in Mexico. “If a country charges a tariff on American goods, we will charge the same tariff for their goods coming to our country,” the former president explained.
Trump also panned Harris’ plan to tax unrealized capital gains, predicting it would be ruinous to the stock market and drive even more investors overseas. “By contrast,” Trump said, “I will cut taxes for families, small businesses, and workers, including restoring the SALT deduction. Factories will pour back into New York. I know how to do it better than anybody’s ever known how to do it. We can do it so easily. Wages will soar. The cost of living will fall, and I will deliver the greatest economy in the history of the world to our country and one of the greatest economies in the history of New York State.”
During his first week in office, Trump said he will reach out to the governor and mayors across the state and “tell them it’s time to work together for the good of the people. We will make this state incredible again. Rebuild roads, bridges, highways, and airports—they’re falling apart, they’re falling down. We will renovate New York’s subways and get the criminals out of there. We will once again support our incredible police officers, New York’s finest,” Trump said before railing Harris on her support for cashless bail.
“This is the kind of story we hear every single day under radical Democrat policies like cashless bail. You kill somebody, and you’re out on the streets in two hours. Cashless bail has been a disaster for our country,” Trump charged.
“When I get back into the Oval Office, the madness ends, and the law and order is going to return to our country,” the GOP candidate went on. “A fully reformed Federal Department of Justice will deliver massive public safety funding for New York and other Democrat-run cities that are under siege. But in exchange, they will give our police back their protection and their respect. We are going to take care of our police, and we’re going to respect our police; everyone here does.”
A crucial part of restoring safety and saving the economy, according to Trump, is stopping the flood of illegal immigrants into the U.S. “I’m going to be known as your border president,” he promised. “Kamala Harris will be the Invasion President,” he said, noting that Harris vowed to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. “She supports free healthcare for illegal aliens. How about that one? You don’t get free healthcare. She wants mass amnesty and citizenship for all illegals, which means totally bankrupting Social Security and Medicare. She wants to put illegal aliens into your Social Security and your Medicare system, which guarantees their bankruptcy. She says, ‘We must not utter the words illegal alien again or radical Islamic terrorist again.’”
Trump also noted that Harris pledged to eliminate private health insurance plans. “She wants to abolish anybody that’s worked hard and made some money and has private healthcare, and force everyone into a socialist government-run system with high taxes and deadly wait times. And she even endorsed free sex change operations for illegal aliens in detention, all at taxpayer expense. Now, think of that one. They come into the country illegally, and they say, ‘I want to change my sex.’ She’s totally in favor of it. I’m sure she’ll deny it now, but that’s what she is.”
Trump whipped up the partisan crowd by harkening back to the days of his hit show, "The Apprentice," where failing candidates were shown the door. “We cannot allow this insanity to continue. That’s why, less than two months from now, we are going to tell Kamala that we’ve had enough. Kamala, you’ve been a terrible vice president. You will be an even worse president. We’re not going to take it anymore. Kamala, you are fired. Get out.”
Continuing his promises to New York, Trump said: "You’re not going to have to pay tax on your Social Security benefits. And I will always protect Social Security and Medicare. And they won’t. They’re going to destroy it. They’re putting the migrants all over the place. And while working Americans catch up, we’re going to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates. We’re going to cap it at around 10%. We can’t let them make 25% and 30%. We will terminate the green new scam, one of the greatest scams in the history of our country.”
Furthermore, Trump pledged: “We will keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. We’re losing that, but I’ll keep it. China wants to take it over. And if that happened to us, that would be like losing a war. That would be the biggest thing. That would make us a Third World country. We will keep our dollar as the reserve currency.”
Earning an ovation that lasted nearly a minute, Trump challenged the crowd: “And so l say to the people of New York with crime at record levels, with terrorists and criminals pouring in, and with inflation eating your hearts out, vote for Donald Trump. What the hell do you have to lose?”