I actually read TRUMP’s trade stance on his website. I agree with him that if we make the USA a better place to do business the US will do better in trade. This seems reasonable. But it then seems bipolar to then have hostility towards business who leave the USA because the government has stuck it to em. Your own website admits we have a bad business environment and taxes!?
Trump is like that.
I frankly don’t think he meant it any more than proverbially as pent-up frustration. Especially to folks like Nabisco who would only be saving a fraction of a cent on a package of Oreos. Like folks, you owe an explanation for bailing out on us so easily, even though yes we will make it easier for you to be here.
I think if you heard it in person, you’d hear his voice drop for the grunted expletive, and you’d know that meant something like pent-up frustration. In print you can’t see any kind of nuance like this.