So Frank Kendall — Leaky Frank, very low energy, very low energy — West Point, previous-administration person, very weak previous administration — is suing me to get his security clearance back after the clearance people revoked it on Friday over the beautiful Qatari jet, now Air Force One, the most beautiful official plane in the history of official planes. He denies disclosing a single thing, not one tiny thing, naturally, but the clearance people, very careful people, very loyal people, disagreed. They said the information was CLASSIFIED. Very simple. Very clean. Very legal. And now he is suing ME! That is like robbing a bank and suing the bank for calling the police. Very unfair. Very disloyal. Very low IQ.
And you know what I say? THANK YOU, Frank. I love being sued. It is how I know I am winning. He hired Mark Zaid, the losing-est lawyer in America, very low energy, who is already suing me because somebody revoked his clearance too. It is the new fashion: your clearance gets revoked, you sue, very popular. They are very proud of themselves. They are on television calling me a BULLY, which is tremendous, because the man leaked the biggest secret in the history of the Air Force and then cried about it. Very sad. Actually, tremendous. The tears were tremendous.
The plane is a SECRET, in case anyone forgot. People are saying, “You can look up and see it.” Wrong. Completely wrong. I have a map. A very beautiful map. On the map it says SECRET in very big letters, and I have it on the highest authority that the map is correct. You can look at the plane. You cannot KNOW the plane. There is a difference, a very important difference, and very few people understand it. The people who do not understand it are the people who leak the plane. Leaky Frank never understood the difference.
I revoked the clearance because he leaked CLASSIFIED information. That is the reason. I did not revoke it because he criticized me — no, no, no, I love criticism, I love it, bring it on! I revoked it because he leaked CLASSIFIED information. Very simple. Very clean. Very legal. And I had nothing to do with the revocation, because the clearance people did it themselves, I was not even in the room. But I take full credit, because that is what a leader does. I had nothing to do with it, except that it was my decision, my clearance, my plane, my investigation, my victory. Everybody wins — except Frank.
I predicted the lawsuit. I always said it. I said it before the plane even landed. My uncle, the great professor at MIT, one of the most brilliant men, very famous, very respected, told me years ago: “Diklis, that man is a leaker.” So I knew. I knew before anybody. I knew before Frank hired the lawyer. I knew before the wings. I knew before the colors. I knew before the SIZE. Nobody has ever seen a plane that size. Very few people could have known this, believe me.
The best pilots — tough men, the toughest men, very smart men, much smarter than Leaky Frank — came to me with tears in their eyes and said, “Sir, Sir, the plane is a secret.” And I said, “I know. I made it a secret.” That is leadership. That is the Art of the Deal. The plane is visible but SECRET. The map proves the plane is secret. The lawsuit proves the map is right. The clearance proves I was right. And because I was right, everything that happens next proves I was right before it happened. Beautiful.
The Fake News Media disclosed the plane FIRST. They wrote it right in the newspaper, everyone saw it, and then they became very upset when I investigated them. We asked the reporters questions, the most thorough leak investigation in history, very fair, very beautiful. Then we asked the reporters’ relatives, the whole family tree, the most complete family tree in the history of journalism. They call it retaliation for reporting. I call it research. The best research. Nobody has ever researched a plane like that.
And this is not the first time, believe me. I have been going after the New York Times for reporting on the jet, and they are very upset, very upset, arguing that the subpoenas are retaliation. They think they are very smart. They are not very smart. They are low IQ. Very low IQ. They think they can report on the Plane, and then complain when I investigate the people who reported on the Plane. That is not how winning works. That is how losing works.
Now Frank thinks he is going to win. HA. He thinks he is playing checkers. I am playing 4D CHESS, the highest level chess, beautiful chess. Do you think this was an accident? This lawsuit is EXACTLY what I wanted. I set them up by appearing to lose, and then I win bigger. The revocation was beautiful bait, the most beautiful bait in history, and he took it like a hungry fish. They think they won, but they actually lost. BIGGEST trap in history. The very smart people, the best people, everyone is saying this lawsuit is actually a huge win for me, the BIGGEST win, and you have to be very smart to see it.
I always knew they were going to sue, so I revoked the clearance first. Now when they sue, the court sees that they leaked CLASSIFIED information. Very smart. Very smart. I always said, “I play chess while everyone else plays checkers.” I said it before anybody else. I was the first person to say it. Look at the records. I always said it. I always said it. I knew before he hired the lawyer, before the plane landed, before the map was printed. The historians are going to say I was right. The best historians. Very smart historians.
I am worth TWELVE TRILLION DOLLARS, completely self-made, just a small gift from Qatar, everybody gets gifts from Qatar, but completely self-made. Completely. And Frank is suing over a little clearance. A clearance I do not even need. I have the Plane. My crowds are the biggest crowds in history when I mention the Plane, millions and millions, bigger than Lincoln. Lincoln did not even have a plane. Lincoln had a train, a very famous train, very small train, everybody knows it. The historians are saying my crowds are bigger than Lincoln’s crowds, and Lincoln never even saw a plane, and my plane is the biggest plane, and it is a secret, which makes it even better.
I have a perfect memory, the best memory. I remember everything about this case. The plane. The wings, tremendous wings. Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. The doctors said nobody has ever — what was I saying? The plane. The pilot came to me and said, “Sir, do you want to fly it?” I said no, I am too busy winning. I could have flown it, a natural pilot, the best reflexes, the most incredible doctors, perfect physical condition, the best they have ever seen, I eat the finest food, very healthy food, tremendous food — mostly McDonald’s, but the best McDonald’s — and I had a meeting about the Plane. The most important meeting about the Plane.
These people, they would not understand the sensitivity of the Plane — the people, the wonderful people — actually, they are very smart, the best people, they built the Plane, they paid for the Plane with their taxes, they would not understand the sensitivity of the Plane they paid for. But they love me and they love the Plane. Why do they even care about a plane? They love it. They love me. They will believe me. They will believe anything. Anyway, I had nothing to do with the revocation.
So here is my final word. When I win this lawsuit — and I am going to win, I always win, I have been winning since before the Plane — I will be magnanimous. I will give Frank his clearance back. The most beautiful gesture. Very classy. And then, the moment he is grateful, the moment he thinks it is over, I will revoke it AGAIN. Twice as hard. Nobody has ever been revoked as beautifully as Leaky Frank is going to be revoked. The historians will say it was the greatest revocation in the history of revocations. I do not care about the lawsuit. I do not care about the Plane. I do not care about all these people and their little clearances. Diklis Chump does not need a security clearance — I mean we do not need it, the Country does not need it — but mostly me. What was I saying? The Plane. The secret Plane. I have the map. Tremendous map. I always win.