thanks to steel tariffs, hundreds of thousands of tons, think of this, were dumped on our shores. and steel is like something else. o it s not quality. they were dumping garbage. they call it sand steel. they collect dirt steel. it was mixed up. it was bad stuff. and we didn t want to use that for our jet fighters and for our beams that hold up buildings.t but they were dumping tremendous quantities of steel and what was happening is, united states steel and all of our companies were going virtually out of business and i stopped it. i put on a 25% tariff, billions of dollars is now pouring into our treasury, and our steel companies and our steelworkers are coming back. [cheers and applause] right here in ohio, nucor, a great steel company, and a steel
president trump: banks to steal tariffs, hundreds of thousands of tons, think of this, were dumped on our shores. end steel is like something else. it s not quality. they were dumping garbage. they call it sand steal. they collect dirt steel. it was mixed up. it was bad stuff. and we didn t want to use that for our jet fires and for our beams that will the buildings. but they were dumping tremendous quantities of steel and what was happening is, united states steel and all of our companies were going virtually out of business and i stopped it. i put on a 25% tariff, billions of dollars is now pouring into our treasury, and our steel companies and our steelworkers are coming back. [cheers and applause] right here in ohio, nucor, a
you might see one or two buildings which are made of concrete, which have withstood the tsunami, and then there ll be anything up to a mile, a mile and a half of utter wasteland, debris, houses reduced to matchwood, personal effects, a child s doll, a wedding photograph, an old guitar, and thousands, hundreds of thousands of tons of girders, of bricks, of morter, of concrete, anything imaginable that you could see from a town which has been put through the most extraordinary pulverizing machine of the tsunami. you can build in a certain degree of protection against earthquakes, and goodness me, the japanese do that as well as anybody on the planet. you cannot build in protection against these sorts of forces when a tsunami upwards of 30 feet high comes in to a town at 15 to 20 miles an hour and pushes five, six miles into the land. does the government or do the news media have a full picture
and a half of utter wasteland, debris, houses reduced to matchwood, personal effects, a child s doll, a wedding photograph, an old guitar, and thousands, hundreds of thousands of tons of girders, of bricks, of morter, of concrete, anything imaginable that you could see from a town which has been put through the most extraordinary pulverizing machine of the tsunami. you can build in a certain degree of protection against earthquakes, and goodness me, the japanese do that as well as anybody on the planet. you cannot build in protection against these sorts of forces when a tsunami upwards of 30 feet high comes in to a town at 15 to 20 miles an hour and pushes five, six miles into the land. does the government or do the news media have a full picture yet of the damage? reporter: we do not have anything like a full picture of the damage. i m speaking to you from sendai, which is one of the more easily