Donald J. Trump: What General “Razin” Caine Told Me

But I was told by a general who I had a fire. I said, general, how long before we get 100% of the caliphate? He said, sir, two years. I said, I can't take it two years. And then I flew to Iraq. First time I left the White House because I stayed in the White House for months and months because I wanted the Democrats to get back from their vacations from Hawaii and these other places. And I figured it would look good if I stayed in the White House so that you people all love me and vote for me. I figured it would look good. So I stayed in the White House. And I'll tell you what, I was there. I told my wife, go to Florida. Enjoy your Christmas. I stayed for Thanksgiving. I said, I mean, I was in the White House for a long time, months, months. I had cabin fever in the White House. But if you've got to have cabin fever, that's the place to do it. OK, but I was there, I don't know, for a number of months through Christmas. I spent my New Year's all by myself. Don't cry. It was me and about 500 men and women outside with machine guns. I never saw so many beautiful looking machine guns. I'd look at that equipment. I'd say, man, they sit in the trees. They sit on the lawn. I told people I'm in this massive, you know, people don't know how big the White House first was one of the most beautiful places in the world. It's really I made a lot of money with luxury. This building is in 1799, which, of course, when President Xi comes, I say 1799 like it's old to him. That's like a brand new house in China. In China, they go back. They go back 8000 years. So that's that's like a new that's like a new residence. But I sat in the White House for months and months, except I took a day off. I flew to a lovely place called Iraq and I flew at night and I got there at night and I said to myself, this is interesting because they say, sir, all of the lights in the plane, sir, are going off. I say, why? Because we're getting ready to land. We're an hour out. I said, what about the shades? Well, we wanted better than that. Maybe like it. So we turn the lights off, put the shades down. There's a big 740 Air Force One and we're landing. And I go up and I look and I've landed. I like to sit with pilots. I respect people that know what they're doing. And these are the best in the world. I really these are the best in the world. And the pilot says, sir, we're landing in approximately one and a half minutes. I say, but there's no runway. No, sir. The runway is right up there. I say, I don't see it. I have pretty good vision, at least for my age. I have good, I guess, for my age. I have great vision, but I don't have vision like a 35 year old captain. He said, no, it's right up there. I said, I'm sorry, Captain. How about this? Should we lift off and try to get Captain? There's no runway. Anyway, he said right up there. Now we land. There's practically no lights. These are little pin spots. And I said, think of this. We spent seven trillion dollars in the Middle East, and we can't land a plane with the lights on 20 years later. How bad is it? Now, seriously, how bad is it? How bad is it? Seven trillion dollars, and we have to fly in with no lights. But I met some incredible people. I met some incredible people. Generals. One of them came from Syria, the operation in Syria. And I was upset with my generals because they weren't getting it finished. I want the job done. I want to bring our people back home. It's not fair. And this is why I flew. So I met generals I didn't know. General one, General two, General three. I mean, these generals, there's no person in Hollywood that could play the role. These guys are like perfect people. I said, what's your name? Sir, my name is Raisin. What the hell kind of a name? I said, Raisin, like the fruit. He goes, yes, sir. Raisin. What's your last name? Cain. Raisin Cain. I said, you got it. It's true. Raisin Cain. Just made him a big star, just like I did with Mattis when I said, we're going to give you a new nickname because chaos is not a good nickname. So we changed his name, called him Mad Dog. But it wasn't working too well. Mad Dog wasn't working too well. So what happened is I flew to Iraq. I want to meet the people on the site because I learn more sometimes from soldiers what's going on than I do from generals. I do. I hate to say it. I tell that to the generals all the time. But I didn't have to go there. I didn't have to go there because I meet. And I landed this airport, the most incredible thing. We must have spent $3 billion building it. One of the reasons I don't want to leave Iraq so fast. I said, how do we leave this thing? So I have Raisin Cain, three other generals, colonels, sergeants. And I said, bring the cameras. I'm going to make a movie. This is the most incredible thing. And I said to the generals, listen, we got to get out. I want to know why is it going to take two years to knock off two or three or 4%, which is why we had left. It won't, sir. I said, tell me why it won't. It won't, sir. If we attack them in a different manner, we can do it much faster. OK, General Raisin Cain, how fast? Sir, we can have it totally finished in one week. I said, one week. I was told two years, one week. That's right, sir. We're only hitting them from a temporary base in Syria. But if you gave us permission, we could hit him from the back, from the side, from all over, from the base that you're right on right now, sir. They won't know what the hell hit him. They won't know what the hell hit him, sir. And I said, why didn't my other generals tell me that? Why didn't they tell me that? I said, did you tell them that? Not our place to say it, sir. They come in from Washington, sir. We have to take orders. You're the first one to ask us our opinion. True. So I went back and I said, I'm going to get back to you soon, Raisin. I think you're great. I like you, Raisin Cain. But I did say, I said, well, hey, listen, we're in Iraq. Isn't that very far away from? I was here in a very short time, sir. I flew right in. Of course, he's taking a plane that goes 2,000 miles an hour, you know. But incredible. What you learn from being on this site. My father was a builder. He always used to say nobody ever got rich by sitting behind their desk. It's true. He'd say, you got to be on this site. You got to be with the contractors. You got to see if they're ripping you off. You got to collect every nail that's dropped. Every piece of wood you can sell it. You got to be on the site. You got to see while they're building, while they're under construction. Is that wall straight or if it's crooked? And you have to fix it before they build it. Not after they build it when you rip everything down. True.