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 We've withdrawn from the job-killing disaster known as Trans-Pacific Partnership.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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. This country 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... We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Donald Trump during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

• Not that I'm a fan of Bernie Sanders, but a lot of Bernie people voted for Trump. You know why? Because he's right on one issue: Trade. He was right about trade.

  Donald Trump

  Issues, People, Fans

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• When I look at all of the things that I see and all of the potential that America has, we have such tremendous potential, whether it's in business and trade, where we're doing so badly.

  Donald Trump

  America, Looks, Trade

  Second presidential debate, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

• We've been the foolish country for so long with this free trade, but it's not free trade because it's - you know, just doesn't work. I mean, it's not working. You look at the deficits we have.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Mean, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

  Donald Trump

  Japan, Shame, Trade

• NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Worst, Trade

  "Presidential debate: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's first clash - full transcript" by Siobhan Fenton, www.independent.co.uk. September 27, 2016.

• We're being taken advantage of because we have leaders who are incompetent. They don't even know. When I went out and told them you know in their trade deal they didn't even discuss the devaluation, they didn't even discuss it. At least they started discussing it, only because of me.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Leader, Advantage

  Source: www.economist.com

• That's the kind of thinking that our country needs. When we have a country that's doing so badly, that's being ripped off by every single country in the world, it's the kind of thinking that our country needs, because everybody, we have a trade deficit with all of the countries that we do business with, of almost $800 billion a year.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

• People are disgusted. They're disgusted with their politicians. They're disgusted with our trade deals. They're disgusted with the fact that the military can't even beat ISIS. Can you imagine telling General George Patton we can't beat ISIS?

  Donald Trump

  Military, People, Imagine

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Usa, People

  Source: time.com

• Look, look, Jeb [Bush] said we were safe with my brother. We were safe. Well, the World Trade Center just fell down! Now, am I trying to blame him? I'm not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down. So when he said, we were safe, that's not safe. We lost 3,000 people, it was one of the greatest - probably the greatest catastrophe ever in this country if you think about it, right?

  Donald Trump

  Country, Brother, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• The trade is so easy for me. It's so obvious what's happening when our companies are flocking out. I am going to fix our trade, I am going to bring jobs back to America.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, America, Easy

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

• America has to make a new trade deal with Mexico because we're getting clobbered.

  Donald Trump

  America, Mexico, Trade

• I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Needs, Great Leadership

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• It was not Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre.

  Donald Trump

  Iraq, World, Knocked Down

  Source: www.economist.com

• We have people that are political hacks negotiating our trade deals.

  Donald Trump

  People, Political, Trade

  "One Day After Most Watched Presidential Debate Ever, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Back on Campaign Trail". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. September 27, 2016.

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