President Trump: "We want cars BUILT IN THE USA. It's very simple -- We'll be having auto manufacturing at levels we have not seen in 50 years. And we're going to make it competitive so they can come in and thrive."
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I appreciate that you talked about tariffs, and I think it's so important that you continue to call out China, and we support you on that, because we don't want China building those plants in Mexico and then running those cars across the border. Without any tax whatsoever, and putting everybody here in not only danger, it's over. Your union head, I don't know who he is, Sean Fain or something, whoever this guy is. He sold you out, because he let Biden, who doesn't know what he's doing, I mean, you probably noticed, he let this guy come up with an all-electric mandate. Those cars are all going to be built in China. We want cars built in the USA, it's very simple, and they're going to come in at levels. We'll be having auto manufacturing at levels that we haven't seen in 50 years. We're going to have a lot of companies coming in, and we're going to make it competitive so they can come in and they can thrive, not like this gentleman, where they come in and they dump product, and you know what they do, they dump the product cheaply, and then everyone goes out of business, then they take over the businesses and they sell it for two and three times what it was selling for before. The whole thing, it's really not too -- you know, Rockefeller in the old days, he used to open a gas station, he used to underprice it by 50 or 100, he'd give the gas away, he'd drive the people out of business around him, then he'd buy up the gas stations or close them, and he'd make a fortune. That's exactly what they do on an even bigger scale. We're not going to let it happen, it's going to be over, we're going to have a smart system of tariffs. And by the way, if they don't want to play that game, then we're going to get a lot of money from tariffs. So I charged -- Marcia can tell you -- I charged hundreds of billions of dollars to China in tariffs and taxes. No other president has ever charged China 10 cents. And we've taken hundreds of billions of dollars, so much so that Biden can't get rid of it. He's still got it on, you know, he wants to, but it's so much money. And frankly, it's a lot of money. But also, if you did get rid of it, they'd come in and they'd put all your businesses out of business.
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