The Trump Effect
People saw, for the first time in their lives, a man stand and say things that they'd been thinking or had gotten into barroom fights over ... and the man had the money to not give a shit what ANY one thought about it
THIS was a man joe sixpack (no offense to OUR Joe Sixpack) could relate to and applaud
There is nothing magic about this or even worth explaining
WE Trumpsters instinctively know what happened and what is happening
The losers are the ones ALWAYS raising the question because they just can't believe someone ELSE would pee in their panties and make them WEAR them !
He's not PC and how incredibly refreshing that is ESPECIALLY coming out of the mouth of someone who isn't agreeing with the leftist media's previous intimidations and social outcasting. He simply doesn't care and sees that game as a challenge (and for what it is which is a game and an act of TRYING to intimidate and he doesn't cower to it.)
Agreed....but there was one guy before Trump. Duncan Hunter, who the GOPe made SURE people never got to hear.
Interesting comparison on candidates of what they had to say about trade when they made their announcement speeches.
TRADE
Cruz
Imagine instead of economic stagnation, booming economic growth.
(Not specifically trade, but as close as he got to it!)
Rubio
They are busy looking backward, so they do not see how jobs and prosperity today depend on our ability to compete in a global economy.
Trump
Renegotiate our foreign trade deals.
When was the last time anybody saw us beating, lets say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.
When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? It doesnt exist, folks. They beat us all the time.
When do we beat Mexico at the border? Theyre laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But theyre killing us economically.
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody elses problems.
TRUMP: Last quarter, it was just announced our gross domestic product a sign of strength, right? But not for us. It was below zero. Whoever heard of this? Its never below zero.
ll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many places. Ill bring back our jobs, and Ill bring back our money.
Right now, think of this: We owe China $1.3 trillion. We owe Japan more than that. So they come in, they take our jobs, they take our money, and then they loan us back the money, and we pay them in interest, and then the dollar goes up so their deals even better.
How stupid are our leaders? How stupid are these politicians to allow this to happen? How stupid are they?
. Im going to tell you a couple of stories about trade, because Im totally against the trade bill for a number of reasons.
Number one, the people negotiating dont have a clue. Our president doesnt have a clue. Hes a bad negotiator.
TRUMP: So we need people Im a free trader. But the problem with free trade is you need really talented people to negotiate for you. If you dont have talented people, if you dont have great leadership, if you dont have people that know business, not just a political hack that got the job because he made a contribution to a campaign, which is the way all jobs, just about, are gotten, free trade terrible.
Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid. We have people that arent smart. And we have people that are controlled by special interests. And its just not going to work.
So, heres a couple of stories happened recently. A friend of mine is a great manufacturer. And, you know, China comes over and they dump all their stuff, and I buy it. I buy it, because, frankly, I have an obligation to buy it, because they devalue their currency so brilliantly, they just did it recently, and nobody thought they could do it again.
But with all our problems with Russia, with all our problems with everything everything, they got away with it again. And its impossible for our people here to compete.
So I want to tell you this story. A friend of mine whos a great manufacturer, calls me up a few weeks ago. Hes very upset. I said, Whats your problem?
He said, You know, I make great product.
And I said, I know. I know that because I buy the product.
He said, I cant get it into China. They wont accept it. I sent a boat over and they actually sent it back. They talked about environmental, they talked about all sorts of crap that had nothing to do with it.
I said, Oh, wait a minute, thats terrible. Does anyone know this?
He said, Yeah, they do it all the time with other people.
I said, They send it back?
Yeah. So I finally got it over there and they charged me a big tariff. Theyre not supposed to be doing that. I told them.
Now, they do charge you tariff on trucks, when we send trucks and other things over there.
Ask Boeing. They wanted Boeings secrets. They wanted their patents and all their secrets before they agreed to buy planes from Boeing.
Hey, Im not saying theyre stupid. I like China. I sell apartments for I just sold an apartment for $15 million to somebody from China. Am I supposed to dislike them? I own a big chunk of the Bank of America Building at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, that I got from China in a war. Very valuable.
I love China. The biggest bank in the world is from China. You know where their United States headquarters is located? In this building, in Trump Tower. I love China. People say, Oh, you dont like China?
No, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders, and we cant sustain ourself with that. Theres too much its like its like take the New England Patriots and Tom Brady and have them play your high school football team. Thats the difference between Chinas leaders and our leaders.
They are ripping us. We are rebuilding China. Were rebuilding many countries. China, you go there now, roads, bridges, schools, you never saw anything like it. They have bridges that make the George Washington Bridge look like small potatoes. And theyre all over the place.
We have all the cards, but we dont know how to use them. We dont even know that we have the cards, because our leaders dont understand the game. We could turn off that spigot by charging them tax until they behave properly.
So Mexico takes a company, a car company that was going to build in Tennessee, rips it out. Everybody thought the deal was dead. Reported it in the Wall Street Journal recently. Everybody thought it was a done deal. Its going in and thats going to be it, going into Tennessee. Great state, great people.
TRUMP: All of a sudden, at the last moment, this big car manufacturer, foreign, announces theyre not going to Tennessee. Theyre gonna spend their $1 billion in Mexico instead. Not good.
Now, Ford announces a few weeks ago that Ford is going to build a $2.5 billion car and truck and parts manufacturing plant in Mexico. $2.5 billion, its going to be one of the largest in the world. Ford. Good company.
So I announced that Im running for president. I would...
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... one of the early things I would do, probably before I even got in and I wouldnt even use you know, I have I know the smartest negotiators in the world. I know the good ones. I know the bad ones. I know the overrated ones.
Let me give you the bad news. Every car and every truck and every part manufactured in this plant that comes across the border, were going to charge you a 35-percent tax, and that tax is going to be paid simultaneously with the transaction, and thats it.
Now, heres what is going to happen. If its not me in the position, its one of these politicians that were running against, you know, the 400 people that were (inaudible). And heres whats going to happen. Theyre not so stupid. They know its not a good thing, and they may even be upset by it. But then theyre going to get a call from the donors or probably from the lobbyist for Ford and say, You cant do that to Ford, because Ford takes care of me and I take care of you, and you cant do that to Ford.
And guess what? No problem. Theyre going to build in Mexico. Theyre going to take away thousands of jobs. Its very bad for us.
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