one week. 2,000 soldiers, they started with. now they have 6,000 soldiers on their southern border. they used to have like three soldiers. they had nobody. they wouldn t do it. for 45 years, 50 years, people have tried in the state department, one of mike s people said the woman we respect has been a judge in mexico for 20 years, she laughed when we said we were asked we would ask for these things. she said she s been there for 20 years but they can try to get it for 45 or 50 years, the things that i asked for. they all laughed. i got it done in one day. i said, if you don t do it, we will put tariffs on. and every car that comes through that used to be made of the united states, now mexico has 30% of our car business. but that s not going to happen anymore. no more companies are going to leave, because we have reasons they can t leave anymore. there s no reason for them to leave anymore.
let s take it what would candidate trump have said. the border is doing great, mexico has been fantastic, trying to get a deal with mexico for 45 years. for 45 years couldn t get a deal. i got one in one day. i said we put tariffs on, have a deal or not. one day, mexico moved 6,000 people to the southern border. 6,000 troops to the southern border. the border is working well, the wall is being built. a lot of people don t like to talk about it. we will have 400 miles built by end of next year, and that s hard. the democrats don t want to approve it. we beat them in a big lawsuit in washington, d.c. we beat them in a big lawsuit. doesn t it frustrate you that border numbers are worse than obama? people are coming up because our economy is good. they are pouring up because the economy is so good. obama had a dead economy. can i ask about that? let me show you this chart. that s the unemployment rate from peak of recession. your economy is great, not saying it is not great,
years and years and before it happened i was against going to iraq. and some people said i don t know. i was a private citizen. it never made sense to me. i was against going to the middle east. we spent $7 trillion in the middle east right now. what would candidate trump have said about under his watch, a venezuelan dig tartd thumbing his nose, and drone shot down and let s take a look. the border s doing great. mexico s doing fantastic. so for 45 years they couldn t get a deal. i got one in one day. i said we re going to put tariffs on. and mexico just moved 6,000 people to their southern border. 6,000 troops to their southern border and the wall is being built. a lot of people don t like to talk about it. we will have 400 miles of wall built by the end of next year
here from the president s conversation with jose. this is the president s answer to whether he thinks mexico is a friend or a foe. let s talk about mexico. do you consider mexico an ally, an adversary, a friend, or a foe? this week i consider them a friend. they ve been doing a great job, actually. we signed an agreement last week. they have 6,000 people going to their southern border, troops, and they are doing a really good job. so far they ve been doing a really good job. is this a week by week i have to see how they do. they can easily stop if they want to, they can easily stop this tremendous migration to the united states and then we have all these the illegals coming in. it s no good. mexico has been great for the last week and a half. now, i signed the agreement a week and a half ago. but they ve been great. they ve honored the agreement. if they weren t great, i would put tariffs on. where do we see this relationship going, jennifer?
probably doing better right now in our economy, wages are up, haven t gone up in years, in decades. wages are up over 3%, the things that have happened in jobs, unemployment, the amount of people working, companies are pouring back into our country from japan. they re coming back from china because i put the tariffs on. they are coming back into this country, the way i get the word out is through social media. i don t know that i would ve been successful if i didn t have it. there was a fantastic woman in the front who said please keep tweeting, it matters. i think it does matter. i don t do it because i enjoy it, i do it because when someone says an outright lie on msnbc or cnn, both of whom are really suffering in the ratings which is really interesting it s