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MARIA BARTIROMO: I was surprised at the Democrats' behavior the other night, because you delivered among the most diverse, expanded audience -- Republicans, Democrats, Independents. So does -- is it just the Democrat leadership that does not see that?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: There's something wrong with them. There's just something -- I can't even believe it. They lost an election in a landslide. They were talking about men playing in women's sports.

When I looked the other night, I made a speech. The Republicans were going wild. And the Democrats were having their little signs up, their little signs, little, tiny signs. And I said, it's unbelievable. They don't get it. They don't get it now.

And I think they're going to end up being a minor party if they keep going like this, because people don't want to hear about these stupid ideas that they have. "Transgender for everybody." And, again, the men in women's sports. What is that, a 90-10 deal? I don't even know who the 10 would be. But there are, they're fighting for it.

And I try and say to myself -- because you always like to understand where your opponent is whether it's in business or anything else. Is there something I don't understand? But we don't understand it.

You look at their theories on tax. You know, all my life I've watched politicians. I've always liked it, I've watched it. I participated but from the standpoint of a donor. But I participated. And all my life I've watched politicians. "We will cut your taxes, we will cut" -- these people say we're going to raise your taxes. This is the only time. It's never said -- I've never heard it. They say it even if they don't mean it, "We will cut you taxes!"

These people say we're going to give you the biggest tax increase you've ever had, and that's what they're running on. And I tell Republicans, take that night -- because that was a great night. We got record ratings, you saw that. The highest-rated speech, like, ever of its kind. Take that night and run your midterms on it. And show us, I'm talking about some young child with cancer or some young, beautiful girl like Laken Riley, who was killed, and they don't get up. And they don't salute the mother who's there devastated. Nunguary, they don't get up and salute the mother whose child was devastated. I mean, brutally killed. The young boy with cancer that wants to be a cop, and they don't get up and salute that child.

They not only don't get up, they're angry. And the only thing that happened, it was interesting really, when I mentioned Ukraine and people being killed, they started clapping. And that clap was led by Pocahontas.

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