For generations, this city and state were the World Capital of Automotive Production. American Automakers rolled one iconic model off the line after the next—the Mustang, the Corvette, the Pontiac GTO. Right here in Detroit, Americans invented the muscle car, the minivan, and the family SUV—and along the road, you made the American Automobile an inseparable part of the American Dream…
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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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