{ "error": "", "type": "text", "title": "Remarks by President Trump on Supporting the Passage of the U.S-Mexico-Canada Agreement - China", "slug": "remarks-by-president-trump-on-supporting-the-passage-of-the-u-s-mexico-canada-agreement-china", "text": "
\"For years, politicians let China take the crown jewels out of our country. My administration has taken the toughest-ever stance to stop these incredible abuses. [...]<\/p>
And I didn\u2019t blame China. I didn\u2019t blame all of these countries \u2014 Mexico. Mexico, they took 30 percent of our automobile business. I don\u2019t know if you know that or not. They have plants the likes of which you\u2019ve never seen before. They took 30 percent \u2014 probably more than that \u2014 of our automobile \u2014 I don\u2019t blame them. I don\u2019t blame anybody. I blame our past leaders. I blame the people and administrations that allowed this to happen.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not China\u2019s fault that we were stupid. It\u2019s not China\u2019s fault that we allowed it to happen. We lose $500 billion a year. It\u2019s now turning. We\u2019re taking in billions and billions of dollars in tariffs. I\u2019m giving billions of dollars back to the farmers because they pinpointed the farmers. They said, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to buy here. We\u2019re not going to buy there because then Trump will stop doing to us what he\u2019s doing.\u201d Except the farmers said, \u201cWe don\u2019t care because he\u2019s right.\u201d Because for 15 years, the farmer \u2014 if you look, 15 years, it\u2019s been like this. It\u2019s a one-way street and it was a street downward.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s been incredible. And I\u2019ll never forget, I had a meeting, Marillyn, with farmers a year ago. And I told them what is going to happen. And I said, \u201cYou\u2019re going to be the single-biggest beneficiaries, ultimately. And I said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to get you subsidies, we\u2019re going to get\u2026\u201d And farmers looked at me like \u2014 all at one time. I had probably 30 in a big, beautiful room \u2014 the Cabinet Room at the White House. Beautiful. For the Cabinet \u2014 but I wanted the farmers in the Cabinet Room because I like the farmers.<\/p>\n
And they said, \u201cSir, we don\u2019t want subsidies.\u201d I said, \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t want subsidies. We want a level playing field.\u201d I said, \u201cHow can you tell me \u2014 nobody has ever said that. Everybody is coming in here looking for whatever they can get. They\u2019re\u2026\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t want subsidy.\u201d It was \u2014 to this day, it\u2019s never happened before. They didn\u2019t want that. They just wanted a level playing field. They said, \u201cGive us a level playing field and nobody can beat us at what we do.\u201d I thought it was one of the most beautiful thing.<\/p>\n
But, in the meantime, they were targeted by China. I went to Sonny Perdue, and I said, \u201cSonny, how much has China spent, let\u2019s say, in the \u2014 in just about the biggest year?\u201d He said, \u201cSixteen billion dollars, sir.\u201d I said, \u201cHere\u2019s what I\u2019m doing. I\u2019m giving our farmers $16 billion out of the tariffs, which frankly, are much more than that.\u201d I shouldn\u2019t say that, because they\u2019ll ask for more. (Laughter.) But they are. The tariffs are far more than that.<\/p>\n
And a lot of companies are leaving China now because they want to go to a non-tariffed country, and some of those companies are coming here. It\u2019s been incredible.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re taking in billions and billions of dollars, and I\u2019m giving our farmers a chunk because they were targeted. These are great American patriots. And I\u2019ll tell you, I didn\u2019t see anybody \u2014 you know, they go and they do these focus groups on television. Even on the real fakers on television, where you think it would be \u2014 the farmers were all, \u201cNo. It\u2019s not like things are perfect, but we are with our President.\u201d<\/p>\n
But now things are pretty good because we are doing $16 billion and that was the most that China ever purchased. And some of the farmers are really doing well. I think they\u2019re really starting \u2014 we\u2019re over the hump. We\u2019re doing really well.<\/p>\n
And, in the meantime, our government has billions of dollars of money pouring in, and that money is paid for by China through reducing \u2014 if you take a look, what they\u2019re doing is they\u2019re playing around with their monetary policy to a level like nobody has ever seen before. We\u2019re not paying. And they\u2019re also pumping out cash into their system. And China is paying; our people are not paying.<\/p>\n
Now, other countries, it\u2019s a little bit different. China is China. But they\u2019re doing things in order to make sure that they keep those jobs in China. But they\u2019re losing a lot of companies, and some of those companies are coming here because we get it done. We know how to get it done. I know how to win.\"<\/p>", "quote": null, "citation": "