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\"So the young man from North Korea starts acting up and having one of his fits, we immediately get our ships going. We get our aircraft. We get nothing for this...I'm not saying that we're going to let anything happen to them. But [South Korea has] to help us.: [Source<\/a>] NBC's Meet the Press Interview. August 16, 2015 <\/em><\/p>\n \"If somebody attacks Japan, we have to immediately go and start World War III, OK? If we get attacked, Japan doesn't have to help us. Somehow, that doesn't sound so fair. Does that sound good?\" [Source<\/a>] Campaign Rally in Hilton Head, South Carolina. December 30, 2015 <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI would want South Korea to pay us a lot of money. [\u2026] I just ordered 4,000 television sets, 4,000, they come from South Korea, a money machine, they pay us peanuts. We\u2019re defending them and I have many friends from South Korea, they buy my apartments, I do business with them, but South Korea should pay us and pay us very substantially for protecting them.\" [Source<\/a>] CNN. January 6, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe have 28,000 soldiers on the line in South Korea between the mad-man [Kim Jong-un] and them. We get practically nothing compared to the cost for this.\u201d [Source<\/a>] NBC's Meet the Press Interview. January 10, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cJapan, the same thing. They are devaluing -- it's so impossible for -- you look at Caterpillar Tractor and what's happening with Caterpillar and Kamatsu (ph). Kamatsu (ph) is a tractor company in Japan. Friends of mine are ordering Kamatsu (ph) tractors now because they've de-valued the yen to such an extent that you can't buy a Caterpillar tractor. And we're letting them get away with it and we can't let them get away with it.\u201d [Source<\/a>] 6th Republican Debate. January 14, 2016 <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOne thing I'd like to add to what the Governor [Kasich]'s saying, I think that we are now in a position -- are $19 trillion dollars because of the horrible omnibus budget that was approved six weeks ago, it's going to be $21 trillion dollars. We can no longer defend all of these countries, Japan, Germany, South Korea.\u201d [Source<\/a>] CNN\/Telemundo Debate. February 25, 2016<\/em> <\/p>\n \u201cOur military is depleted. But we take care of Germany, we take care of Saudi Arabia, we take care of Japan, we take care of South Korea. We take -- every time this maniac from North Korea does anything, we immediately send our ships. We get virtually nothing. We have 28,000 soldiers on the line, on the border between North and South Korea. We have so many places. Saudi Arabia was making a billion dollars a day, and we were getting virtually nothing to protect them. We are going to be in a different world.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Republican Debate in Miami, Florida. March 15, 2016 <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou know, South Korea is very rich. Great industrial country. And yet we\u2019re not reimbursed fairly for what we do. We\u2019re constantly, you know, sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games, doing other. We\u2019re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Meeting with Washington Post Editorial Board. March 21, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cLook. I have great relationships with South Korea. I have buildings in South Korea. But that\u2019s a wealthy country. They make the ships, they make the televisions, they make the air conditioning. They make tremendous amounts of products. It\u2019s a huge, it\u2019s a massive industrial complex country. And [\u2026] I think that we are not in the position that we used to be. I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country. And we\u2019re a poor country now. We\u2019re a debtor nation. How you going to get rid \u2013 let me ask you \u2013 how are you going get rid of $21 trillion in debt? You\u2019re going to be at 21 trillion in a matter of minutes because of that new omnibus budget. So they passed that ridiculous omnibus budget. How you going to get rid of that debt. We\u2019re spending that to protect other countries. We\u2019re not spending it on ourselves.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Meeting with Washington Post Editorial Board. March 21, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYes, I would. I would not do so happily, but I would be willing to [withdraw US troops from Japan and South Korea]. Not happily. David actually asked me that question before, this morning before we sort of finalized out. The answer is not happily but the answer is yes. We cannot afford to be losing vast amounts of billions of dollars on all of this. We just can\u2019t do it anymore. Now there was a time when we could have done it. When we started doing it. But we can\u2019t do it anymore. And I have a feeling that they\u2019d up the ante very much. I think they would, and if they wouldn\u2019t I would really have to say yes.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Telephone Interview with The New York Times. March 26, 2016 <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAnd if we say to Japan we need help, you have to help us, because we can\u2019t continue to lose a fortune defending you\u2014you have to be prepared to walk. You have to be prepared. That doesn\u2019t mean I want them to arm, but it\u2019s possible. You know, there\u2019s a group of people that are very smart people, that say maybe it\u2019s better for us if Japan pays their own way, they arm, and they take care of North Korea instead of us taking care of it.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Campaign Event in Wisconsin. April 3, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cFrankly, if you look at NATO, many of those 28 countries are not living up to their obligation of payig us so we\u2019re protecting NATO, we\u2019re protecting these countries and they\u2019re not paying up. We\u2019re protecting Japan\u2014and I love Japan we\u2019re gonna continue to protect Japan hopefully, but you always have to prepared to walk. [\u2026] Well let me ask you, [Japan is] paying 50% of the cost to defend themselves, why don\u2019t they pay 100%?\u201d [Source<\/a>] Rolling Thunder Memorial Day Speech. May 29, 2016 <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHillary Clinton came out and said \u2018That\u2019s terrible he\u2019s [Trump] not going to stick with our allies.\u2019 We\u2019re going to stick. But once the ally hears her dumb talk, \u2018cause it\u2019s dumb, why would they ever pay? When they hear that she will stick. [\u2026] So, you go and you want to negotiate with, let\u2019s say, Japan. And, you know, there are a lot of problems over there because you have North Korea and he\u2019s [Kim Jong Un] always threatening the area, he\u2019s always threatening Japan and South Korea with 28,000 soldiers on the boarder. But let\u2019s say Hillary Clinton makes this statement \u2018We will never abandon our allies.\u2019 And I think those statements are beautiful, I think they are great. One problem. When you go in and say \u2018We will never ever abandon you, but you have to pay us more money.\u2019 They are going to say \u2018We aren\u2019t going to pay you more money, if you\u2019re not going to abandon us.\u2019 You always have to be prepared to walk. I don\u2019t think we\u2019d walk, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be necessary, it could be though. Could be that Japan will have to defend itself against North Korea.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Rally in Des Moines, Iowa. August 5, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOne of the generals got up not so long ago and said \u2018Doesn\u2019t Mr. Trump know that Japan pays 50% of the cost of the defense?\u2019 [\u2026] I said \u2018Why don\u2019t they pay 100%?\u2019 You know what you are talking about in money? [\u2026] And for years I\u2019ve our military budget is many, many times more than China, more than everybody else and I used to say \u2018That\u2019s good.\u2019 [\u2026] It is because we protect all these countries. And that\u2019s okay, I think that\u2019s great, but they have to pay. They have to pay. Because this isn\u2019t 40 years ago, they have to pay.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Rally in Des Moines, Iowa. August 5, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou know, we have a treaty with Japan where if Japan is attacked we have to use the full force and might of the United States. If we\u2019re attacked Japan doesn\u2019t have to do anything. They can sit home and watch Sony television. What kind of deals are these? [\u2026] These deals are by people, it\u2019s got to be a two-way street, these deals are by people that don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Rally in Des Moines, Iowa. August 5, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s talk about South Korea for a moment, because it so perfectly illustrates the broken promises that have hurt so many American workers. President Obama, and the usual so-called experts who\u2019ve been wrong about every trade deal for decades, predicted that the trade deal with South Korea would increase our exports to South Korea by more than $10 billion \u2013 resulting in some 70,000 jobs. Like Hillary Clinton\u2019s broken promises to New York, these pledges all turned out to be false. Instead of creating 70,000 jobs, it has killed nearly 100,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Our exports to South Korea haven\u2019t increased at all, but their imports to us have surged more than $15 billion \u2013 more than doubling our trade deficit with that country.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Economic Speech in Detroit, Michigan.<\/em> August 9, 2016<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it's a big problem. And as far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world...\u201d [Source<\/a>] First Presidential Debate, Hofstra University<\/em>. September 27, 2016<\/p>\n \u201cHillary's Korea deal, South Korea, cost us another 100,000 jobs. Remember that? It was supposed to be a good deal. It cost us jobs, tremendous numbers of jobs. And South Korea, like almost every other country, is laughing at how stupid we are.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Campaign Rally in Henderson, Nevada<\/em>. October 5, 2016 <\/p>\n \u201cGenerations of Indian and Hindu-Americans have strengthened our country and strengthened it like few people could ever even believe, your values of hard work, education and enterprise have truly enriched our nation and we will be celebrating a Trump administration together. Indian Americans have the highest rate of entrepreneurship and college graduation in our country. That\u2019s pretty impressive by the way, you don\u2019t hear that often I will tell you. A Trump administration will massively lower taxes for our small businesses, eliminating job-killing regulations and we will repeal and replace job-killing Obamacare which is a disaster.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Speech to Republican Hindu Coalition<\/em>. October 15, 2016 <\/p>\n \u201cBut as we all know we can\u2019t have prosperity without security, and that is why we appreciate the great friend India has been to the United States in the fight against radical Islamic terrorism, a word that our president doesn\u2019t even use. [\u2026] India has seen firsthand the brutality of terrorism and cross-border violence, including the attacks in Mumbai and, I mean look, Mumbai is a place that I love, it\u2019s a place that I understand so for all of the people in Mumbai the attack on Indian parliament absolutely outrageous and terrible. We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism. When I am president we will stand shoulder to shoulder with India in sharing intelligence and keeping our people safe, mutually. This is so important in the age of ISIS, the barbaric threat Hillary Clinton has unleashed onto the entire world. India is key and a key strategic ally and we don\u2019t want to even talk about it because there\u2019s nothing like the relationship that we will have. I look forward to deepening the diplomatic and military cooperation that is the shared interest of both countries. India is the world\u2019s largest democracy, an amazing statement, and is a natural ally of the United States. Under a Trump administration, we are going to become even better friends, in fact I\u2019ll take the word \u2018even\u2019 out because we are going to be best friends. There won\u2019t be a relationship more important to us.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Speech to Republican Hindu Coalition<\/em>. October 15, 2016<\/p>\n \u201cI look forward to working with Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi [of India] who has been very energetic in reforming India\u2019s bureaucracy. Great man! I applaud him for doing so and I look forward to doing some serious bureaucratic trimming right here in the United States, believe me we need it also. [\u2026] Your great prime minister has been a pro-growth leader for India. He simplified the tax code and cut taxes and their [India\u2019s] economy is grown 7% a year . Excellent! Our economy is practically not growing at all in the United States, just about zero, and with a very, very bad jobs report just this last Friday. \u201d [Source<\/a>] Speech to Republican Hindu Coalition<\/em>. October 15, 2016<\/p>\n \u201cAs far as Japan and other countries, we are being ripped off by everybody in the -- we're defending other countries. We are spending a fortune doing it. They have the bargain of the century. All I said is, we have to renegotiate these agreements, because our country cannot afford to defend Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and many other places. We cannot continue to afford -- she took that as saying nuclear weapons.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Final Presidential Debate. University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/em>. October 19, 2016<\/p>",
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