Watch: President Trump speaks in Nashville

us thank you very much everybody thank you so we're just going to let the other folks come in fill it up this is some crowd you have to see what's outside you wouldn't even believe it unbelievable so I'm thrilled to be here in Nashville Tennessee the home of country music southern hospitality and the great President Andrew Jackson I just came from a tour of Andrew Jackson's home to Mark the 250th anniversary of his birth Jackson's life was devot voted to one a very crucial principle he understood that real leadership means putting America first before becoming

President Andrew Jackson served your state in the House of Representatives and in the United States Senate and he also served as commander of the Tennessee militia tough cookies tough cookies so let's begin tonight by thanking all of the incredible men and women of the United States military and all of our wonderful veterans the veterans [Applause] amazing amazing there's no place I'd rather be than with all of you here tonight with the wonderful hardworking citizens of our country I would much rather spend time with you than any of the pundits Consultants or special interests certainly or

reporters from Washington [Applause] DC it's patriotic Americans like you who make this country run and run well you pay your taxes follow our laws support your communities raise your children love your country and send your bravest to fight in our Wars all you want is a government that CHS you the same loyalty in return it's time that Washington heard your voice and believe me on November 8th they heard your voice [Applause] the Forgotten men and women of our country will never be forgotten again believe [Applause] me I want to thank so many of your state

leaders State party chairman Scott golden Congressman Scott djal congresswoman Marsha Blackburn congresswoman Dian black Congressman Jimmy Duncan right from the beginning Governor Bill Haslam a great friend of mine Senator Bob Corker an incredible guy respected by all Senator Lamar Alexander and so many more thank you all for being here we're going to be working closely together thank you to deliver for you the citizens of Tennessee like you've never been delivered for before thank you thank you thank you we are going to reduce your taxes big leag big big and I want to start that process

so quickly got to get the health care done we got to start the tax reductions we are going to enforce our trade rules and bring back our jobs which are scattered all over the world they're coming back to our country we're going to support the amazing absolutely amazing men and women of law enforcement protect your freedoms and defend the Second Amendment and we are going to restore respect for our country and for its great and very beautiful flag it's been a little over 50 days since my inauguration and we've been putting our America First agenda

very much into action you see what's happening we're keeping our promises in fact they have signs he's kept his promise they all over the place I have we have done far more I think maybe more than anybody's done in this office in 50 days that I can tell you and we have just gotten started wa don't you see what's coming folks we've appointed a Supreme Court Justice to replace the late great anonin Scalia his name is Judge Neil Gorsuch he will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States we are proposing a budget that

will shrink the bloated Federal bureaucracy and I mean bloated while protecting our national security you see what we're doing with our military bigger better stronger than ever before you see what's happening and you're already seeing the results our bud calls for one of the single largest increases in defense spending history in this country We Believe especially the people in Tennessee I know you people so well in peace through strength that's what we're going to have and we are taking steps to make sure that our allies pay their fair share they have to pay we begun

a dramatic effort to eliminate job killing Federal Regulations like nobody has ever seen before slash slash we're going to protect the environment we're going to protect people's safeties but let me tell you the regulation business has become a terrible business and we're going to bring bring it down to where it should be [Applause] okay let's go one person and there'll be the story tomorrow did you hear there was a protest we're going to put our miners back to work we're going to put our Auto industry back to work already because of this new business climate

we are creating jobs that are starting to pour back into our country like we haven't seen in many many decades in the first two job reports since I took the oath of office we've already added nearly half a million new jobs and believe me it's just beginning I've already authorized the construction of the long stalled and delayed Keystone and Dakota access pipelines lot of jobs I've also directed that new pipelines must be constructed with American Steel they want to build them here they use are steel we believe in two Simple Rules by American and hire

American on trade I've kept my promise to the American people and withdrawn from the transpacific partnership disaster Tennessee has lost onethird of its manufacturing jobs since the institution of NAFTA one of the worst trade deals ever in history our nation has lost over 60,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization 60,000 think of that more than that we're not going to let it happen anymore from now on we are going to defend the American worker and our Great American companies and if America does what it says and if your president does what I've been

telling you there is nobody anywhere in the world that can even come close to us folks not even close if a company wants to leave America fire their workers and then ship their new products back into our country there will be [Applause] consequences that's what we have borders for and by the way aren't our borders getting extremely strong [Applause] very don't even think about it we will build the wall don't even think about it in fact as you probably read we went out to bid we had hundreds of biders everybody wants to build our wall

usually that means we're going to get a good price we're going to get a good price we're going to build the wall some of the fake news said I don't think Donald Trump wants to build the wall can you imagine if I said we're not going to build the wall fake news fake fake news fake news folks a lot of fake now the wall is way ahead of schedule in terms of where we are it's under design and you're going to see some very good things happening but the Border by itself right now is doing

very well it's becoming very strong General Kelly has done a great job General [Applause] Kelly my Administration is also following through on our promise to secure protect and defend that border within our United States our Southern border will be protected always it will have the the Wall Drugs will stop pouring in and poisoning Our Youth and that will happen very very soon you're already seeing what's going on the drugs are pouring into our country folks they are poisoning Our Youth and plenty of others and we're going to stop it we're not going to be playing

games not going to be playing [Applause] games following my executive action and don't forget we've only been here for like what 50 days we've already experienced an unprecedented 40% reduction in illegal immigration on our Southern border 61% 61% since inauguration day 61% think of that [Applause] and now people are saying we're not going to go there anymore because we can't get in so it's going to get better and better we got to stop those drugs though we got to stop those drugs during the campaign as I traveled all across this country I met with many

American families whose loved ones were viciously and violently killed by illegal immigrants because our government refused to enforce our already existing laws these American victims were ignored by the media they were ignored by Washington but they were not ignored by me and they're not ignored by you and they never will be ignored certainly any longer not going to happen as we speak we are finding the drug dealers the robbers thieves gang members killers and criminals praying on our citizens one by one you're reading about it right they're being thrown out of our country they're being

thrown into prisons and we will not let them back [Applause] in we're also working night and day to keep our nation safe from terrorism we have seen the devastation from 911 to Boston to San Bernardino hundreds upon hundreds of people from outside our country have been convicted of terrorism related offenses in the United States courts right now we have investigations going on all over hundreds of refugees are under federal investigation for terrorism and related reasons we have entire regions of the World destabilized by terrorism and Isis for this reason I issued an executive order to

temporarily suspend immigration from places where it cannot safely occur but let me give you the bad news we don't like bad news right I don't want to hear and I'll turn it into good but let me give you the bad the sad news moments ago I learned that a district judge in Hawaii part of the much overturned ninth circuit court and I have to be nice otherwise I'll get criticized for for speaking poorly about our courts I'll be I'll be criticized by these people among the most dishonest people in the world I will be [Applause]

criticized I'll be criticized by them for speaking harshly about our courts I would never want to do that hey judge has just blocked our executive order on travel and refugees coming into our country from certain countries the order he blocked was a watered down version of the first order that was also blocked by another judge and should have never been blocked to start with this new order was tailored to the dictates of the ninth circuits in my opinion Floyd ruling this is in the opinion of many an unprecedented judicial overreach the law and the Constitution

give the president the power to suspend immigration when he deems or she or she fortunately it will not be Hillary she when he or she deems it to be in the national interests of our country [Applause] so we have a lot of lawyers here we also have a lot of smart people here let me read to you directly from the federal statute 212f of the immigration and you know what I'm talking about right can I read this to you listen to this now we're all smart people we're all good students we're all everything some are

bad students but even if you're a bad student this is a real easy one let me tell you ready so here's the statute which they don't even want to quote when they overrule it and it was put here for the security of our country and this goes beyond me because there'll be other presidents and we need this and sometimes we need it very badly for security security of our country it says now listen to easy how easy this is whenever the president find mind that the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens would

be detrimental to the interests of the United States he may by proclamation and for such period as he see it wasn't politically correct because they should have said he or she you know today they'd say that that's all right actually that's the only mistake they made as he shall deem necessary suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate in other words if he thinks there's danger out there he or she whoever is President can

say I'm sorry folks not now please we got enough problems we're talking about the safety of our nation the Safety and Security of our people now I know you people aren't skeptical people because nobody would be that way in Tennessee nobody not Tennessee you don't think this was done by a judge for political reasons do you know this ruling makes us look weak which by the way we no longer are believe me just look at our [Applause] borders we're going to fight this terrible ruling we're going to take our case as far as it needs

to go including all the way up to the Supreme [Applause] Court we're going to win we're going to keep our citizens safe and regardless we're going to keep our citizens safe believe me even liberal Democratic lawyer Alan dersu with's good lawyer just said that we would win this case before The Supreme Court of the United [Applause] States remember this I wasn't thrilled but the lawyers all said oh let's tailor it this is a watered down version of the first one this is a watered down version and let me tell you something I think we ought

to go back to the first one and go all the way which is what I want to do in the first place the danger is clear the law is clear the need for my executive order is clear I was elected to change our broken and dangerous system and think in government that has weakened and endangered our country and left our people defenseless and I will not stop fighting for the safety of you and your families believe me not today not ever we're going to win it we're going to win it we're going to apply common

sense we're going to apply intelligence and we're never quitting and we're never going away and we're never ever giving up the best way to keep