Donald Trump Quotes About Trade

• Let me list to you some of the things that we've done in just a short period of time. Again, each of these actions is a promise I made to the American people. We've withdrawn from the job-killing disaster known as Trans-Pacific Partnership. We're going to make trade deals, but we're going to have one-on-one deals, bilateral. We are now in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border. We've begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, People, Southern

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay. And the reason they're going to pay and the way they're going to pay, Bob, is this. We have a trade deficit now with Mexico of $58 billion a year. The wall is going to cost $10 billion a year. That's what it's going to cost. It's going to be a powerful wall. It's going to cost $10 billion.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Powerful, Years

  "The 9 toughest media interviews for Donald Trump". Interview with Bob Woodward, "Bob Woodward presses Trump on Mexico paying for border wall" (March 9, 20016), www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2016.

• The scope of our cybersecurity problem is enormous. Our government, our businesses, our trade secrets and our citizens' most sensitive information are all facing constant cyberattacks and reviews by the enemy.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Secret, Enemy

  Source: time.com

• Our country is in serious trouble. We don't win anymore.We don't beat China in trade. We don't beat Japan, with their millions and millions of cars coming into this country, in trade. We can't beat Mexico, at the border or in trade.We can't do anything right. Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Military, Taken

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, People, Arms

• This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the NAFTA deal and then China's entry into the World Trade Organization, another Bill[Clinton] and Hillary[Clinton] backed disaster, have sent those jobs to other countries.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Organization

  Source: time.com

• Hillary Clinton has supported virtually every trade agreement that has been destroying our middle class. She supported NAFTA and she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization, another one of her husband's colossal mistakes and disasters. She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership which will not only destroy our manufacturing, but it will make America subject to the rulings of foreign governments. And it's not going to happen.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Husband, Mistake

  Source: time.com

• I have visited the laid off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country and they are forgotten, but they're not gonna be forgotten long. These are people who work hard but no longer have a voice. I am your voice!

  Donald Trump

  Country, Hard Work, Men

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• America has lost 70,000 factories since China entered the World Trade Organization, WTO, another Bill and Hillary Clinton backed disaster.

  Donald Trump

  Organization, America, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I was against it [war in Middle East]. And I was against it very early. And we shouldn't have been in there. And I think it is probably perhaps the worst mistake we have ever made. First of all, they didn't knock down the World Trade Center, OK? It wasn't Iraq. It was other people.

  Donald Trump

  War, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• America has hundreds of billions of dollars of losses on a yearly basis - hundreds of billions with China on trade and trade imbalance, with Japan, with Mexico, with just about everybody. We don't make good deals anymore.

  Donald Trump

  Loss, America, Japan

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• We have to renegotiate our trade deals.

  Donald Trump

  Trade, Deals

  "Presidential debate transcript: Trump and Clinton, verbatim" by Evan Vucci and Julio Cortez, www.macleans.ca. September 26, 2016.

• In America, we have the greatest businesspeople in the world. We have to use them to negotiate our trade deals.

  Donald Trump

  America, Use, World

• I think Brexit's going to be a wonderful thing for Britain. I think when it irons out, you're gonna have your own identity and you're going to have the people that you want in your country and you're going to be able to make free trade deals without having somebody watching you and what you're doing.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Iron

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• America is in big trouble. We don't win anymore. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, America, Borders

  Source: www.npr.org

• [Bill Clinton] approved NAFTA, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Bills, Clinton

  Source: time.com

• We have the greatest negotiators in the world, we have the greatest business people in the world, we don't use them. We use political hacks. So we have a trade deficit of almost $800 billion.

  Donald Trump

  People, Political, Use

  Source: time.com

• I think I see a tremendous amount of waste. I see a tremendous amount of job opportunities that have been let go for many years, and I'm not just talking about President Obama. I'm talking about for many, many years. And I was a big, big fan of Ronald Reagan, but I was a never big fan on trade with respect to Ronald Reagan.

  Donald Trump

  Letting Go, Jobs, Opportunity

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2017.

• Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity.

  Donald Trump

  People, Democracy, Doe

  "Trump's 'America First' Agenda Marks Sharp Break In U.S. Economic Policy". "Morning edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 28, 2017.

• We're going to bring a lot of money in on trade. We're going to bring a lot of money on reciprocal. You know, as an example, when you have countries with a big tax and we get nothing for the same product and we're paying - our companies are paying 100 percent tax in some countries and if they send their product to us we pay nothing. Doesn't make sense.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taxes, Trade

  "Transcript: President Donald Trump's Interview With Bloomberg News". Interview With Jennifer Jacobs, www.bloomberg.com. May 2, 2017.

• I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say. We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things. You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest. You look at what happened in Nice, France.

  Donald Trump

  Nice, Islamic, Cutting

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Without mentioning names, it was other people. Some day, they ought to open the report and find out. But it was other people that knocked down the World Trade Center. So, it's no reason to go into a big - now. But it was a horrible mistake that unfortunately we should never have done it. We have lost trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, wounded warriors, who I love, all over the place. And here is the other part. Iran is taking over Iraq. They have wanted it for decades and decades and decades. They're taking it over.

  Donald Trump

  Mistake, Warrior, Iran

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Wages

  Source: www.npr.org

• You have to be able to negotiate our trade deals. You have to be able to negotiate, that's right, with Japan, with Saudi Arabia.

  Donald Trump

  Japan, Saudi Arabia, Able

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

• I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom and our independence. We will never, ever sign bad trade deals. America first again. America first!

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Agreement, America

  "Donald Trump accepts nomination: 'Safety will be restored' - as it happened" by Tom McCarthy, Scott Bixby, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2016.

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