great. but ultimately but they had farmers. these guys are amazing, i love them. they voted for me and they love me. and they said we don t care if we get hurt, he s doing the right thing. and you know a lot of people, it s a complex game. a lot of people don t know exactly what it is. they don t know how to define tariff, they don t know if it is really different than a tax although it s getting close. but they know that for the first time in many, many years they have a president that s fighting for them. that s not letting their jobs be taken to other countries, that s not allowing the kind of abuse that we i mean when you look at what happened as an example with nafta, and for years because it was never changed, nafta was a defective deal the day it was signed. you know why? because they had a vat tax of 17%. nobody from this country knew that. by the time they found out, which was about a week later, nobody went and changed it.
which was about a week later, nobody went and changed it. so you went many years and they never changed it. there was a vat tax that mexico got. so we were 17 points or 16 points behind before we even started. nafta was a horrible thing. so the farmers and, by the way, the steelworkers you know, i stopped the dumping. the dumping was horrible. now if they want to dump, that s okay, but they ve got to pay the united states of america 25% on everything they dump. that s okay. but as i told you before, steel is doing phenomenally well. but the farmers say, this man s fighting for us. no president has ever fought for us before. you really have to study what has happened over the 15 years with the farmers. the farmers have been decimated over a 15-year period. they ve been decimated. the farmers are going to come out great. these are great people. they re great, great patriots. i think we should finish with that one. is that okay? go ahead. let s go.
up and the farmers are going to do great. but ultimately. but they had farmers, and these guys are amazing. i love them. they voted for me and they love me. they said, we don t care if we get hurt, he s doing the right thing. you know, a lot of people, it is a complex game. a lot of people don t know exactly what it is. they don t know how to define tariff. they don t know it is really different than a tax, although it is getting close. but they know that for the first time in many, many years they have a president that s fighting for them, that s not letting their jobs be taken to other countries, that s not allowing the kind of abuse that we i mean when you look at what happened as an example with nafta, and for years because it was never changed, nafta was a defective deal the day it was signed. you know why? because they had a vat tax of 17% and nobody from this country knew that. by the time they found out,
troops serving there. president trump tweeted about trade making several false claims, quote, there s no political necessity to keep canada in the new nacht au deal. if we don t make a fair deal for united states after years of abuse, canada will be out. remember, nafta was one of the worst trade deals ever made. the u.s. lost thousands of businesses and millions of jobs. we were far better off before nafta. should never have been signed. even the vat tax was not accounted for. we make new deal or go back to prenafta. i love canada but that s taken advantage of our country for many years. we shouldn t have to buy our friends with bad trade deals and free military protection. as several republican senators pointed out, the president cannot unilaterally kill nafta without coming to congress since it was passed through the legislative branch, nor can he unilaterally modify it without
sell a car over there, europe charges us a high vat tax and 10 % tariff. they want to sell it here we give them a 2.5% tariff. that s not fair. canada just kicks us, kicks us on lumber and puts people out of work and they kick us on dairy puts people out of work in wisconsin so these are our friends they re our allies, we engage strategically with them, but at the end of the day, this is a trade dispute and the president is going to defend this country. he stands for american workers, and he s standing up for them now. maria: those american workers are also wondering why they re seeing joblessness, why they re seeing an impact to the very states that voted for donald trump for this last election. are you worried that the very areas that this president is targeting aluminum and steel are going to be the states that actually see higher prices and perhaps job losses?