The new poll numbers are out, and they are FAKE, completely fake, the most dishonest numbers you have ever seen. They say the Democrats are leading on the economy — four points in April, nine points in July, the FIRST time since 2010 — and three-quarters of voters say the economy is in fair or poor shape. Three-quarters! The biggest number, the most people, the greatest amount of complaining in history. They think this is my Waterloo. They think I am finished. WRONG. This is the BIGGEST TRAP in history, the most beautiful trap, and they have walked right into it. I am playing the greatest game anyone has ever seen. They are playing checkers. Children play checkers — although I am very good at checkers, very good — but I am playing the GREATEST game now, and the trap is already sprung.
Let me explain the economy, because nobody knows the economy like I do, very few people could have done what I did, believe me. The stock market is soaring, the biggest stock market in history, bigger than Lincoln’s stock market, the historians are saying it privately, through tears, because they are very jealous people. The best economists come to me — fantastic people, smart people, the BEST people — and they say, “Sir, Sir, we have never seen anything like it,” and I tell them to calm down because it is only greatness. I do this every day. The economists cry, the pollsters cry, everybody cries. Beautiful.
Now they say inflation is 3.5 percent, per the low-IQ papers, the people who get everything wrong and never apologize. Three-point-five percent? That is nothing. That is the BEST inflation number anybody has ever seen, the most beautiful number. I said it in January. I said it before January. My uncle, the great professor at MIT, a genius with great genes, told me years ago that everything would work out, before anybody else knew anything, which is why I knew first. That is retroactive foresight, but it is also just foresight when I do it.
And the power bills, the grocery bills, the cost-of-living nonsense — everybody talks about it, a million times, very boring, very sad — I say GOOD. It proves the voters are SMART. A very smart Republican pollster, the best pollster, told me personally that voters know exactly, to the dollar, what their power bill is. To the dollar! Is that bad news? No, it is the BEST news. Because people who know their power bill to the dollar also know it is not my fault. It is the war. It is Iran. It is the oil people. It is the Democrats in Congress, the worst Democrats in history. I had nothing to do with it, never touched a price, never went near a price, had NOTHING to do with any of it — and the tax cuts were mine, tremendous tax cuts, the greatest tax cuts, everybody is talking about the tax cuts.
The 3.5 percent is not my inflation. It is Iran’s inflation. I had nothing to do with Iran, never touched Iran, but I always said the war with Iran would happen. I predicted it years ago, before anybody, because my uncle told me, and now it is happening exactly as I wanted. This is the Deal. You set them up by appearing to lose, then you win bigger. Beautiful negotiation. The art of the deal. When I force a successful resolution with Iran, oil prices will plummet — they will plummet like nobody has ever seen — and everyone will say, “Brilliant.” The tariffs were terrific decisions, the most beautiful tariffs, and when the prices fall in October, people will walk into the grocery store and say, “I can handle the cost of living.” I will be there. I will say I ALWAYS said it. The smartest prediction. The most beautiful prediction. Tremendous.
And the polls leave out the Border, where my numbers are through the roof, the greatest numbers, way bigger than the economy numbers. Even Republicans who have doubts about me on the economy approve of me on the Border, which is what actually matters. They leave out the Gallup people, fantastic people, who say confidence has been climbing from its May low — just like I predicted — up from the low and on the way back. The comeback is already happening. They leave out the fact that four out of five of my people are coming back. Four out of five! That is the biggest crowd in history. Lincoln never had four out of five. The historians know it. They just will not say it.
Now, the one in five who are thinking about staying home — let me talk about them, because I confront EVERYTHING. Fine. Good. Let them stay home. I do not need them. I never needed them. They can sit in their houses and worry about their power bills. What do I care? They are weak, disloyal people, very low energy — actually, hold on. They are the ones who do the hardest work. They built everything. The smartest workers, the best workers, they know their power bills to the dollar, exactly what we just established. But anyway, let them stay home. They will not stay home. They will come back because they are smart, and smart people always come back. Sixty percent come running back when they see the socialist agenda, the beautiful trap, the most beautiful trap. I will say I told you so. I ALWAYS tell you so. I told you in January, before January, since the day I was born, which was a tremendous day.
The Democrats think they are going to win because they lead by nine points on the economy, while 69 percent disapprove of the Democrats in Congress. Sixty-nine percent! The biggest number of its kind, the worst numbers in the history of Congress, and they cannot stop fighting each other — socialists against centrists, beautiful chaos, everybody tearing everybody apart. That is what happens when you do not have a real leader, when you do not have me. They think the economy is their issue now, but the economy is MY issue. I own the economy. I have always owned the economy. They printed four points in April, nine points in July, and people forget that I led by fifteen points — FIFTEEN, the biggest lead in history — and they talk about nine as if it means something. They are not even close.
I am completely self-made. Completely. A small loan, a very small loan, and then twelve trillion dollars, the biggest number, the biggest market, the biggest crowds, bigger than Lincoln, bigger than Washington, bigger than Jesus if Jesus had understood branding. I built the Country from nothing. I had nothing to do with the bad prices, but I caused the good prices. I had nothing to do with the market, but the market is all me. I am the art of the deal, the deal is the economy, the economy is the Country, and the Country is winning because I am winning. Diklis Chump did this, very few people could have done it, believe me. I did it completely alone, except for the voters, the workers, my uncle, the economists, the pollsters, the tax cuts, the tariffs, Iran, the oil people, the stock market, and everybody who is saying it.
The numbers are wrong, the economy is perfect, and the very smart people who know their power bills to the dollar know it. When the Democrats finally understand that they walked into the biggest trap in history, and when the voters figure out that I was right all along, they will come to me — the economists, the pollsters, the voters — and they will say, “Sir, Sir.” And I will say: I told you so. Now go home and pay the beautiful low prices. Everything is going great. Tremendous.