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I said why wouldn t you tax w them when they re taxing us ? you know, jaitapur massive tariffs on us, asbut we didn t want to and others i m not just talking about him. stupidi call these people.ey a so they re allowed to dore a ite us but we re not allowed a to do it to them.at it is? is that what it is?s? well, yes, that s called freefr tradeee. no, that is i said no, that s called stupid trade. anyway, we did we did great.we d we created the greatest economy in history, shot the greatest economy in history. african-american in, asianca american, everybody, women everyn an, single person, every group, every categoryso was at the highest level we were ever at and we were taking china to the cleaners. we were growing muchhwe were bes much faster.te. and then we got hit with a china virus that we had slow it down and then we did it all over again. and whenen i handed it back , the stock market was higher than it was at the time we got hit. but that period of time prioror ....
,but they were very tough on trade., i asked angela merkel how many w chevrolet s are you selling this month in munich or berlin? and she looked at me well, probably none. i saidd, you re exactly right, none. and yet we had the mercedes and the volkswagen said all of them we had all of the german companies and the same thing with farmers. rs. our farmers sell virtually to europe. you take a look at what we sell and yet we take w their product they treated us very badly in trade and we defended them and we really if you look at the real numbers, i bet you it s close to 80%. i said you have to pay and if you don t pay, we re not goingar to defend you. that, and as soon as i saide that everybody we took in hundreds of billions of dollars and nato became rich. rc it was goingh down at a level w that nobody it was not even it would not have been sustainable . you wouldn t be in a position now of giving them a rifle, let alone billions of dollars worth of equipment. so we did i had a big imp ....
95% wiped out. it s all rubble today. mariupol is wiped out. i asked you th ei asked you the last time you were on whether you think that this is evill in our time. do you believe this is evil in our time? i think in one hundred yearsgo people are going to lookin back and they re going to say how did we stand back and nato stand back ? which in many ways i ve called a paper tiger. don t forget i rebuilt nato because when r i became presided the first thing i noticed when i went there to the first meeting was that most of the countries were not paying. we re paying far less than they were supposed to. there were only eight out of t 28 countries that were paid in for the united states washa w not one of them. we were making up the deficit in order to protect europe. we were paying possibly 80% of nato to protect them and then they take advantage of us .heeyt yetake on trade because on trad they re every bit as bad as china. they treated us very badly on trade. we changeded a lot of that ....
We understood each other and i got along very well with president xi. i made one oflith the greatest trade deals ever made, not only the u.s. sba with mexico, canada, but the deal the trade deal i made for the farmers with china and manufacturers with china until the china virus came in .as a bridge to that was that was a bridge too far that is that as far as i was concerned because you know, china taking advantage of the united states for fromm the day they started dealing with usted from the day it wasth horrible, was a horrible thing that happened. atthey would take it out 500 billion dollars a year for manyy ,many years. i get back hundreds of billions of dollars with the taxes and with the tariffs and i had to fight for it because we had guys like to me republicans and all of the democrats, but to me a republican, that s why he s not running anymore got he wouldee have gotten shellacked in pennsylvania. t want but some of these people, they didn t want to charge china anything. ....
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