37 posts from Thursday, October 10, 2024

there. Overall inflation is up almost 20 percent. All food is up 22 percent. Housing up 23. Energy almost 30 percent higher for Americans. Auto insurance 60 percent almost. It's higher than it was before under Trump. Oh and wages oh yeah real wages from when Trump left office to last month are also down.

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Kamala Harris is going to significantly raise taxes. Taxes are going to have to go up. Kamala's plan will raise families' taxes by nearly $2,600 a year. Under Kamala, prices have already soared. Now she'd make it worse with even higher taxes. Taxes are going to have to go up. President Trump will cut taxes a damn. No taxes on tips, overtime, or social security. I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message.

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Of the seven swing states right now, President Trump, Charlie, is ahead in every single swing state, every single one. Vibrizio is one of the best pollsters in America. Trump's a plus three in Arizona, plus five in Georgia, plus three in Nevada, and then he's plus one in Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Now, you know, they're polls, they're not votes, just the snapshots in time, but two or three or four weeks ago, Charlie heard, that would not have been the case. So the Kamala buzz is gone, I think, and it looks like Trump is taking command of the race. What do you think? Yeah, no, I agree with you and I, like you, I take all of the polls with a grain of salt. I think what's actually sort of more interesting to look at right at the moment is the change in tactics by the Harris campaign. They are now trying to put her out to do interviews, which they have assiduously avoided, and we now, of course, know why they so assiduously avoided putting her out to do interviews because there are catastrophes for her. She's terrible at it, even when she's doing something with 60 Minutes with CBS, very, very, very a fawning and favorable crew of reporters asking her questions that are really very basic questions. She fumbles through it and it's a disaster and they have to clean everything up. And so I think that to me, I'm starting, I always look at campaigns and I always look at what are they doing, and when a campaign smells the way they smell, I just smell sort of death on them. They're getting desperate, they're trying stuff, and it's not working. Well, I think one of the reasons for Trump's improvement polls is exactly what you described, all these little one-on-one or having beer with goofball late night MCs, which is the nicest thing I guess I can say about that. You're doing a sex podcast? No, on a sex podcast, I was hoping you wouldn't remember.

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I will keep your taxes low and your job numbers high. That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna have the highest job. We had the highest job numbers in history in my administration. We're gonna make that look like peanuts. The theft of our companies, factories, jobs, and wealth by foreign countries is over. We are not going to allow it to happen anymore. And many of those who left will be coming back and they're gonna be coming back fast. They wanna come back. They wanna come back.

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Today I am also announcing that as part of our tax cuts, we will make interest on car loans fully deductible. So a man who's, a lot of you people are in the car industry, actually I made a lot of them backstage. What do you do? I'm in the car industry. But a lot of them, and I told him about a very knowledgeable person. He said, here's a guy, he's done it all his life, he's sitting right over there, I don't want to embarrass him. But he said, where did you come up with that idea? That's the coolest thing. It's like the paperclip again, right? It's like the paperclip. Somebody comes up with the paperclip and everybody says, why the hell didn't I think of that? Somebody came up with the paperclip, I guess made a lot of money, and other people said, why? But he said, I've been in the car industry all my life, I've never thought about that. So we're going to make it fully deductible, the interest payments, that's going to revolutionize your industry. This will stimulate massive domestic auto production, and make car ownership dramatically more affordable for millions and millions of working American families. This is a phenomenal thing. If I do say so myself. Who likes that idea? Isn't that great?

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businesses. As president, my policy will be to maximum -- it's going to be maximum energy production to achieve low prices and make the United States into a -- really a manufacturing -- I want to be a manufacturing powerhouse. We're going to be more powerful than ever before. You know, AI is a new industry and it's a very big one, and I don't know, it's got some interesting difficulties, but China wants it and other countries want it and we've got to be there. But you know, in order to be able to compete with China or compete even with anybody with AI, we have to make double the electricity that we have right now. So take all of the electricity we have. We have to make -- we have to double it up just for that one very big industry. It could be very big, but it needs unbelievable amounts of electricity. I will cut the price of energy and electricity in half. Ready? 12 months from January 20th to take office on January 20th, your electric bill, including cars, air conditioners, heating, everything, your total electric bill will be 50, 5-0, 50% less. We're going to cut it in half. And we have it. We have the power to do it because we have it. We don't need ships. We don't need long train. We have everything. We're going to have to build some pipelines because we can't transport it. But that's easy to do, and that's safer than trains. But we're going to get this done, and you're going to have -- within one year -- think of it -- within one year, you're going to have electric bills and energy bills and your gasoline for your car is going to be 5-0, 50% cheaper than it is right now. That's a big thing. That's a big thing. So we will seriously expedite our environmental approvals. I will expedite them. If I have to, I'll just approve them, and approve them, because they use that -- you know, they use the environmental approvals to stop progress and quickly double our electricity capacity, and we're going to have it doubled and tripled. This will drive down inflation and make America and Michigan the best place on Earth to build a factory.

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Today, I am announcing a detailed plan to save the American auto industry and bring millions and millions of jobs back to our shores and very quickly. If you vote for Trump and you will see a mass exodus of manufacturing jobs, but from Mexico to Michigan, from Shanghai to Stirling Heights, and from Beijing to right here in beautiful Detroit. Wait till you see Detroit. And they'll also be going to places like South Carolina, Tennessee, and others. We have a lot of car making states, a lot of parts making states, too. And our car industry will have a renaissance, the likes of which we have never seen before in this country. We have never seen since the golden years. It's my goal to get our country on an auto making path, where at some point in the near future it will be bigger and more important than it ever was. And even in its heyday many years ago, it was unbelievable. I think we can be bigger and more important because we have some very, very great assets. And this is very personal for me, personal. One of the reasons is because I've been talking about it for 20 years. I can't believe it happened. That was the when I was honored. That's all I talked about. I was watching this happen. It was at that time, Japan, Japan was just taking our cars like we were a bunch of babies. I always say candy from a baby. That's how easy it was. Now it's Japan, but it's China and it's a lot of countries. This was one of the biggest reasons I ran for president in the first place. You know, it was probably the auto industry that was most abused. You were the most abused. There are a lot of industries that are abused. We stopped it, but now I could put the brakes on it. Not only stop, I now know the game a little better. You know, I had never been a politician before. I got to the White House. I said, yeah, I've never done this before, but I had to learn and I had some great people. Bob Lighthizer was great, our trade representative, but we had some people that I didn't like. I wouldn't have picked, in retrospect, we had some clinkers. But you have to understand, I just got there. I was only in Washington 17 times and I never stayed over. So I wasn't a part of Washington society. It wasn't my thing. I was a New York person, developer, did great. And I knew New York, but I didn't know Washington. So I came, I had to rely on people. Sometimes I'd rely on rhinos and that's what I'd get. I'd get a rhino. And that wasn't so good. But we had mostly great people, but we had some ones that I would not have again. And we're going to finish the job that we really brilliantly started because we had numbers that the ambassador gave you some of them. I don't want to bore you by going through it, but he gave you some numbers that were unprecedented.

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Instead of American workers worrying about losing their jobs to foreign nations, I want foreign nations to be worried about losing their jobs to America. That's going to happen. It's going to happen.

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But under Kamala, we are now in a manufacturing recession, with manufacturing contracting in 22 -- think of this -- it got smaller. In 22, out of the last 23 months, it got smaller. It loses -- we're losing jobs every single month. We've lost nearly 50,000 manufacturing jobs this year alone. Car sales are down by 38 percent since I left. The share of domestically produced cars sold has dropped significantly, and the U.S. trade deficit and automobiles has exploded by nearly $50 billion to an all-time high, the worst they've ever had it right now.

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For generations, this city and state were the world capital of automotive production. And American automakers rolled one iconic model off the line after the next. The Mustang, the Corvette, the Pontiac GTO. I had two of them, actually. I had that GTO, oh, I thought I was the hottest guy around, it was crazy. We didn't have all of the foreign competition then. You were so proud to have a Corvette, oh, if you had a Corvette, I never got a Corvette, I tell you, I feel, I was left behind. But I had my GTO, I was something, man, I'd put that top down. See, in those days, I didn't mind when the hair waved, I'd go fast, and that hair would be waving, that blonde hair, and I'd say, who the hell can take me, nobody? Today I'm a little more careful, I wanted to be. I want to cover up that little area up there, it's a little bit soft up there. Cover it up. Now, it was great. But you did, you had the greatest product, it was just fantastic. And right here in Detroit, Americans invented the muscle car and the minivan and the family SUV, so much. And along the road, you made the American automobile an inseparable part of the, and it was inseparable of the American dream, it was part of the American dream. But after decades and decades of Michigan auto workers giving our nation their very best, our leaders in Washington did their very worst for them, they were terrible. You lost nearly 4 million manufacturing jobs after globalist politicians gave us the twin disasters of NAFTA, which I terminated, and China's entry into the World Trade Organization, that was a very expensive two things. Nearly a quarter of a million jobs were destroyed here, right here in Michigan alone, think of it, a quarter of a million, 250,000 jobs, including 40% of all of the auto jobs, and then it got to be much higher than that. Detroit was decimated as if by a foreign army. This was a foreign army invading us, but it was an army of business people, very brilliant business people that took the candy out of our pockets just like you take it from a baby. That's how easy it was for them. Factories were left in ruins, beautiful hotels and theaters crumbled, more than 80,000 homes were abandoned. And you see it outside.

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By the time I came into office, after our victory in 2016, the Michigan auto industry was on its knees begging for help, gasping. And really it was at the last breaths of life. And I had to move quickly. You're going to not have any auto industry here. You were, it was going, it was all gone. It was just about over, they were going to move so fast and I let countries that were stealing our businesses know you do that. I'm going to do things to you. You're not going to believe, I'm going to put tariffs. They laid off a lot. They could have taken it. We were at a very vulnerable point. I let certain countries know that if you do that, I'm going to put tariffs on you and you're going to, you're going to get your asses kicked, I'm telling you. And they laid off, they really laid off, but they laid off what? We had not very much left. So just as I promised, I withdrew from the job killing Trans Pacific partnership in my very first week and the reason I did is that that would have absolutely destroyed your auto industry. You would have had none left. It would have been, it was a disaster. And if you remember, Hillary Clinton wanted it and Obama wanted it. And then after she read the facts, when I did it, she came out against it because she said, you know, he's right. She was totally in favor of it. But when she said she came out actually and agreed with me and she said, uh, I'm also against it, but I was there sort of like no tax on tips. And then two months later, Kamala came out, no tax on tips. And it didn't, it didn't play well for her. It didn't play well for Hillary either, obviously. I ended the disaster known as NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever made by our country and replaced it with the brand new USMCA, Bob Lighthizer and his team did a great job, the best trade deal they say ever made. I actually think maybe our deal with China, but I don't talk about that deal very much because of COVID, but we have a deal with China where they buy $50 billion worth of our product. That was a great deal. We had made a lot of good ones, but with the USMCA that's Mexico and Canada, we have massive incentives to make cars in the United States of America.

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when I left office, we had no inflation. We had virtually, just think of it, we had virtually no inflation for the entire four years. So when people made money, that was really their money. It wasn't money that they have to give back to a source that they know nothing about, including government under Biden and Harris because of inflation. The economy has been a total disaster. But Kamala says that she can't think of one thing that she would do differently. She said that two days ago in a very unfortunate interview for her. And there are many people saying in particular, highly respected analyst like Scott Besant, one of the top analysts on Wall Street, that the only reason that the stock market has gone up is because Donald Trump is doing very well in the polls and it looks like he's going [applause]

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It was just announced that inflation came in substantially hotter than expected last month, double what was predicted with much of the gain coming from food prices going up, rent and housing costs going up and car prices going up. Interest rates, as you know, are also a big factor. They're very high. They've gone from 2% when I was in office to 10% now and you can't get the money. That means it's much higher than 10%, which really kills the American dream for young people. We have a lot of young people here, a lot of college people here. The fact is that the Federal Reserve brought the interest rates down a little too quickly. It was too big a cut and everyone knows that was a political maneuver that they tried to do before the election, but they did the wrong thing. It was totally a political decision and inflation has started to rise.

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>> He voted against President Trump's national emergency on the border. He said the border's not that big of a deal in Arizona when he was talking to people who were donating money to his campaign and said he's not an expert on the border. We need somebody who understands the threat on the border, and I do. And President Trump does, and on day one, we're gonna get busy undoing the damage caused by Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Ruben Gallego who's voted with him 100% of the time. This isn't just about an open border. We've got 20 million people pouring in. They're taking jobs, they're taking housing. This is why nobody can afford housing anymore because we're having to compete with people who've come in illegally. I am completely opposed to an open border. I am 100% for legal immigration. We're not only going to extend the Trump tax cuts. We're gonna make sure that we're not making anybody who's a senior citizen on social security pay taxes on their social security check. No more taxes on tips and no more taxes on overtime. We gotta stop printing money like it's going out of style. That's what Ruben Gallego, Kamala Harris, and the Democrats have done, and we're gonna start cutting back on the wasteful spending of the government.

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Hello, Florida. This is President Donald J. Trump. Milani and I are praying for you as you face the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. We are deeply saddened by the devastation being reported. And it sounds like it's as bad as it gets. And we feel so sorry for you. And we want God to be with you. And we know God is with you. Our hearts go out to each and every one of you. To those who've lost so much, know that you are not alone. We've seen you stand tall against storms before and you will stand tall now. And hopefully on January 20th, you're going to have somebody that's really going to help you and help you like never before because help is on the way together. We will rebuild, we will recover and we will come back stronger, bigger, better than ever before. Please keep your faith hold strong and look out for one another because the sun will shine again over the beautiful Florida that we love so much. I live there also. We love it so much. You're in our thoughts and together we will come back better than before. You're going to be better than before. And just keep your chin up and God bless you all. And God bless the great state of Florida. Your governor is doing an excellent job. I've been talking to him and watching. Ron is doing a really good job. We're proud of him. And we're going to have something very, very special in the end. I think it's going to turn out a lot better than people thought. But this is a big one. So be very, very careful. Thank you very much.

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(engine revving)

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I will never quit, I will never bend, I will never break and I will never, not ever. In any circumstances, even in the face of death, we will never give up.

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So Kamala just said that she can't think of one thing she'd do differently than Crooked Joe Biden, right? So how about -- I'll read off a little this to you. How about the following? She wouldn't do one thing. Remember that. What about the nation-wrecking border invasion, 21 million people? 21 million people plus came into our nation and among them are murderers, drug dealers, people from mental institutions, human traffickers, mostly in women. How about that? She wouldn't do that differently? She went from the best border in the world to the worst border in the world. She went from -- we had a border that was the best in U.S. history and now we have the worst border anywhere in the world at any time. There's never been a border like this. What she's done and what he's done, what they have done to this country, the worst inflation in the history costing a typical family almost $30,000, the inflation, she wouldn't do that over again either. Maybe the worst of all and something that a lot of people don't hear about because look at all the fake news. That's a lot of fake news. I think this is the worst of all in a sense and you'd almost say how could it be worse? She lost 325,000 migrant children. Their parents are looking for them. Think of you with their parents. Think of you with their parents. 325 due to incompetence, due to the fact that she had the worst border, due to the fact she let our great people not run the border. She got rid of all the things that we were doing. We had the safest border. We went from the safest to the worst. Those children are now dead in slavery or just plain missing. Probably most of them will never be found again. Think of that. 325,000 because of their incompetence. They're missing. Probably many of them are dead. Number four, migrant flights. Flying illegal migrants into our cities. Remember when she said no we want to about a month ago she realized this was not playing well for her in the polls. So they came up with a phony little idea that they'll do something. The only thing they didn't do though they didn't stop the flights that were pouring in with thousands and thousands and actually over the course of a couple of years hundreds of thousands of people flying over our borders. They didn't stop that. So they came from places all over the world into your cities and small towns, changing them forever and I have to say ruining them, ruining your cities and towns including murderers, drug dealers, gang members, people from mental institutions and insane asylums, human traffickers and women. How about number five, the Afghanistan catastrophe, the most embarrassing event in the history of our country? She wouldn't do that again. You have to understand. She said no I'd leave it the way it is. We're just going over just a small list. That was the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. Probably Putin went into Ukraine because of it. He looked at the gross incompetence of this president that can't speak. The October 7th attack on Israel would never have happened but she said that was fine too because she didn't want to change. She actually said she didn't want to change anything. She'd leave it the way it is. So I said let's make a list of just some of the bad things. This is just a small list. October 7th where you take a look at what happened. She doesn't want to change that. The slaughter of a lot of people. The Ukraine disaster. Millions of dead people because of the weakness of this administration. Putin never would have gone into Ukraine if I were president. It would never ever have happened. How about the natural gas export ban that is crushing Pennsylvania right now? Most of you don't even know about that. You know you hear fracking and all but and she will but if she ever won this thing you wouldn't be fracking for 24 hours. But how about that and it's crushing Pennsylvania hurting you. It's going on. It's on right now. Pushing how about this? Pushing transgender ideology on minor children. How about that one? Your child goes to school and they take your child. It was a he and comes back a she. And they do this. And often without parental consent. Can you even believe we're saying this? How about how about men playing in women's sports? How about that? How about the insane electric vehicle mandate where everybody's got to have an electric car almost immediately?

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To bring jobs, factories and wealth racing back to Pennsylvania, we will have a 15% made-in-America corporate tax rate cutting the tax from 21 to 15, and I got it down to 21 from 39. But there is a but, but only for those who make their product in America, made in America. One of the biggest guys, highly sophisticated guy, wealthy guy on Wall Street called me up. He said, "Who the hell gave you that idea? It's so simple, right? You're going to get that additional tax cut, but you have to have your product made in America. Isn't that great?" They said, "Who gave you?" That's like the paper clip. Somebody came up with the idea of a paper clip many years ago, and people saw it. They said, "Why didn't I think of that? But we're going to give a tax cut. You make your product here, because that means jobs, it means a lot of things, it means a lot of great things, and we're going to stop Mexico and China and all these countries from hurting this country, because they're hurting it, and they're killing the automobile industry. You're not going to have any cars manufactured here. If we win, this country will become the automobile manufacturing place. We will bring plants back at levels that haven't been seen for 50 years in this country." Right now, the Chinese are building big factories, auto plants in Mexico. They think they're going to make cars and send them over to our border and put everybody in Detroit out of business, put everybody in South Carolina out of business. That's not going to happen, because I'll put 100 or 200 percent tariff. We don't want their cars. We want to make our cars here, and that includes in Pennsylvania. And for those who don't make their product in America, they will be forced to pay a rather stiff tariff for the privilege of competing with our cherished companies that we're going to take care of, and for the privilege of stealing our jobs, our treasure, and our wealth. They're going to do that. That's okay, but they're going to pay something for it, and it's going to be substantial. And we will take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. And let me tell you, for 30 years, for 25 years, China didn't pay 10 cents to this country. And when I was president, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars, hundreds of billions. Not 10 cents. They literally never went under the guise, "We are a developing nation." Well, we're a developing nation, too. Our nation's gone like this. We've got to get it back up, and we're going to get it back up fast. But American citizens will use all that money. We're going to pay off debt. We're going to reduce your interest rates. We're going to -- we are going to, by the way, do things. When I was president, the interest rate was 2 percent. Now it's 10 percent. But it's not really 10 percent, because you can't get any money at 10 percent. The American dream for young people is gone. They can't buy a house. You can't get any money. So it's not 10 percent. It's 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 percent. It was 2 percent. Five years ago, we had 2 percent, and now we have not 10, probably 14 or 15 before you get it. But that puts you out of business. Tariffs against us. Remember this. One thing is going to happen or another thing. Number one, they're going to drop all tariffs against us. You know, we have countries that charge us 150 and 200 percent, and we charge them nothing. And I started it, and it was good. We were making a fortune, and then these idiots came in, and they changed it. But we're going back to it. It's a pro-American. It's America first policy, if you don't mind. America first. We have America first.

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Before we begin, I want to send our prayers to the people of Florida, getting hit just about now in a little while. You're going to see a hurricane like we haven't seen in a long time, as well as all of the people still recovering from Hurricane Helene. So we have -- North Carolina has been hit very hard, and this administration has not done a proper job at all. Terrible, terrible. Nobody's seen anything like it, but we just pray for everybody. We want them all to be good, and we're going to be there hopefully soon, and we're going to help them rebuild and get it all back together. We hope that God will keep them safe. God will keep them safe.

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