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Here is a transcript of the speech.

With exception of this line it's pretty good:

It’s rigged by big businesses who want to leave our country, fire our workers, and sell their products back into the U.S. with absolutely no consequences for them.

It's called freedom Donald. If we were not regulating and taxing them to death they'd be coming here, not leaving. You're not going to cure the problem of the heavy hand of Government by adding to it's weight. If you disagree with free trade then read this first before flaming me. And yes I'm voting for Donald, but I'd vote for a homicidal monkey rather then Heil Hillary.

Donald understands that. Read his tax policy position.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform

Trump is THE ONLY candidate talking about corporate inversion. In Bismarck ND when asked what is federal government’s role in energy policy he said “I think the federal government need to GET OUT OF THE WAY.” That is John Galt right out of Atlas Shrugged.

So Donald understands the freedom you are talking about.

“If we were not regulating and taxing them to death they'd be coming here, not leaving.”

With all due respect, American corporations should hopefully have some allegiance to America as well, but that is not always the case. It's not as if all of them are trying their best to make things work in the US, but have been forced to leave because of regulations etc. Some corporations will go anywhere in the world, irrespective of any allegiances or principles, just to get the very cheapest labor they can. I believe they should be free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't involve exploitation of people. I also believe, however, that if they act entirely in self-interest with no loyalty to the US, then we owe them nothing either, and should act in our own self-interest by buying squat from them.

“It’s called freedom Donald. If we were not regulating and taxing them to death they’d be coming here, not leaving.”

Don’t forget that the large corporations are often to blame for goverment’s over regulation and over taxation of business. It seems counter intuitive at first - why would businesses want to add to their own tax and regulatory burden?

The answer is that due to their size, the cost of compliance is negligible as a percent of their revenue, where the smaller businesses they compete with are crushed by the same burden. They can afford teams of lawyers, accountants and lobbyists to minimize or avoid compliance, and they can afford the option of relocating to escape the taxation or regulation altogether.

One of the most common ways large corporations use the government to knock out their competition is through regulatory and tax ‘reform’, the ostensible justification for which is usually product safety, environmental safety or anti discrimination. The real reason is that the largest corporations can afford for example wheelchair access throughout their facilities, whereas the competition would be wiped out by such a requirement. The big corporations know this and lobby for excessive regulations and fees on purpose. It happens all the time.

Trump is right, everything is rigged and the biggest corporations are the ones doing it - they use the government strategically to enforce monopolies this way.

You can be against the big corporate lobbyists and still be a true free market conservative. It took me a while to figure it out, but once you see it it’s pretty obvious what’s going on.