While you're looking up Trump's details for housing, let's do a direct comparison. Trump did a 'town hall' meeting in Flint, Michigan yesterday. And he took questions. And a local worker asked him:
'What will you do to eliminate those threats, sir (to Flint car manufacturing)?'
Now the answer is a little on the long side. I can't apologise for that because it's Trump that takes literally 10 minutes to give a quick heads up what he's going to do for Flint. You'll note that he starts talking about nuclear war, which I guess might be a threat to Flint. Then how three dictators are people he really gets on with. Then on to global warming - which of course is not a problem as far as he's concerned, then covid (which didn't come from France, apparently), then...well, trying to precis the whole thing is beyond me. So just read it. Then tell me that it couldn't be described as the very essence of a rambling response. Then see if you can pick out what details there were in help for Flint and let me know what they were. You can quote from his answer if that would help.
"Okay so I'll get into another little bit of a long answer because when you say major threat to me we have one really major threat that's called nuclear weapons. We call we have other countries that are hostile to us, they don't have to be hostile to us I always say if you have a smart president you'll never have a problem with China, Russia any of them okay.
I got along great with Putin, I got along great with President XI I got along great with Kim Jong-un of North Korea everybody said oh you can't get along with him. He liked me, I got along great with him and he has a lot of nuclear force but you essentially have five countries and you're going to have more whether you like it or not you're going to have more it's the single biggest threat to the world not only Michigan - to the world and uh you're not going to care so much about making cars if that stuff starts happening and we have people that are not good at negotiation the war, should have never happened uh President Biden...
I want to be nice, he was so nice to me yesterday, but you know in one way I sort of wish the call wasn't made because I do feel he's so so nice I'm so sorry about what happened and all that but I have to lay it out. We have very important and the same with Kamla today she could not have been nicer but the fact is the fact is we have to have people that are respected by the opponent by The Other Side, by other countries that have this even Pakistan has nuclear we have we have countries, India has a lot of nuclear force, we have countries that have tremendous nuclear power.
And when I hear these people talking about global warming that's the global warming you have to worry about not that the ocean's going to rise in 400 years an eighth of an inch and you'll have more seafront property right, if that happen I said is that good or bad I said isn't that good thing if I have a little property on the ocean I have a little bit more property I have a little bit more ocean but the fact is that um it's it's a tremendous problem and we are closer to World War III today than we've ever been and the difference is and I say this a lot, this isn't army tanks going back and forth and shooting at each other this is obliteration, the power of these weapons and I'm the one that revived it and I hated to do it but you know we had stuff that was 48 years old they didn't even know if it worked we have incredible stuff so does Russia China has much less but they're going to catch up over four or five years it's the single biggest threat by far to civilization and nobody talks about it.
They talk about global warming, used to be, remember, used to be global warming you know they changed the name. You know why? Because the planet's getting cooler now so now what they call it is climate change. That covers everything see, climate change if it gets...it's hot, cooled you know...these people I...I don't know if they're for real but if they're not they're covered by the words climate change. If it gets cooler that's good, if it gets hotter that's good, global warming wasn't working so well but the single biggest threat.
Okay now let's assume we have a really smart president and that's not going to be a threat because we have a lot of power. Doing business with China is a good thing but you have to have a fair deal doing business with Russia, they have so much in terms of minerals and things, the size of their land mass is like four times bigger than the United States, the minerals and things they have we can do great business and you keep everybody happy you can solve that problem. But let's talk about the local problem.The local problem is that you have countries stealing your business.
Mexico is a very big one Mexico this year we have a deficit with Mexico of $250 billion think of this with Mexico. Little Mexico you think of it as a little innocent place we're losing our ass to Mexico. China you don't even have to talk about, we have over a trillion dollars this year. I was charging them numbers that were unbelievable and now he's just totally given up the ghost and we're going to lose a trillion dollars in deficits to China. A trillion. That's not sustainable, we're going to turn it all around and we're going to do it through taxation and tariffs it will be done in 24 hours and it'll change the whole planet.
Just so you know Sarah, China became powerful because they charged... they don't call them tariffs, they call it a tax they call it, they don't call it tariffs. The word tariff is a beautiful word to me but to a lot of people that don't understand it's not a beautiful word because you have a lot of people that are paid for destroying the United States. They want millions of dollars in fees and consultation but we will in literally in a period of 24 hours we can change the whole trading of the whole world. They've taken advantage of our country for years. I stopped it. I stopped so much of it.
And then we had a focus on Covid which a lot of people said was put in there for a reason. You know it came out of the Wuhan lab which I said right from the beginning all of you know it didn't come out of a cave. They said a cave. It didn't come from France. They blame France. They blame, they blame...I call it the China virus cuz I like to be accurate you know. They call it, they call it the Spanish Flu. They call it all different names when something comes from a country except for China. We have to call it covid. What the hell does Covid mean? The China virus and a lot of people think they did that because they were not happy with me as president. I actually had a great relationship with President Xi and in his own way he probably liked me the most but maybe and maybe not. I saw that Putin the other day endorsed Kamala and you have to understand these are major chess players so when he endorses Kamala he may say well I did that because I love you and it's better to be doing it, so who knows but he...which is a little unusual I was watching you, I said that's interesting I think that's a good thing isn't it? It really is.
But look we have to turn it around, if we can we're going to have a reciprocal trade tax we're going to have a...so if China charges 152% which they do in a car if we sell a car made here into China which you don't do because the taxes too high they say to all your companies and to others and to Elon Musk who gave us...he is a great guy, he gave me the strongest endorsement and he's a really wonderful guy, but they say to him we don't want your car unless you build your plant in China and there's nothing wrong with saying that. That's smart. People say that we haven't said it for many years. I said it, we have a lot of plants going up with Apple and other things. I said you, you got to build plants. You don't build PL here we're going to put the tariffs on your products coming in from China so we can do it quickly. But we're going to have what's called the reciprocal trade act.
Now I dealt with a senator, a very good Senator actually, but he knows nothing about trade. I said here's what I want to do Senator. I want to take the reciprocal trade, if they charge us 100% we charge them 100%. He said you mean they charge us, we charge them? You got me how simple could it be. It was sort of cool cuz he doesn't care - he's a senator. Doesn't care about trade. But you know, so we're going to call it the Trump reciprocal trade act or I'll leave the name Trump off as long as we do it so when India, which is a very big abuser - he happens to be coming to meet me next week and he's fantastic, I mean fantastic man, these...a lot of these leaders are fantastic. You have to understand one thing, they're dealing, they're 100%. These people are the sharpest people, they're not a little bit backward, they’re not...they are at the top, you know the expression they're at the top of their game and they use it against us. But India's very tough, Brazil's very tough there are certain countries - I can tell you, everyone I can give you from top to bottom. China is the toughest of all but we were taking care of China with the tariffs so we're going to do a reciprocal trade. If anybody charges us 10 cents if they charge us $2. If they charge us 100%, we charge them the same thing and you know what's going to happen. Everything's going to disappear and we're going to end up having free trading again and if it doesn't disappear we're going to take in a lot of money okay? But you know the biggest beneficiary I believe is going to be your state and I won't say that to other states, I promise about your state. You are going to have plants built at a level that you haven't seen in 50 years. Great question.'
