“This [good economic news] also allows me the latitude and timing to take some of the horrible, incompetent, just terrible trade deals that have been made over the years, and make them great. It’s like “Make America Great Again” — make the trade deals great. I don’t know if I can use the word “again.” Make them great. Period. Because I don’t think they were ever any good. (Laughter.)
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“They passed the disastrous trade deals that encouraged the shuttering of American plants and the offshoring of American jobs by the millions. In short, the failed political class sold out American workers, sold out American prosperity, and sold out the American Dream.
“This was the alarming situation I was elected to end. And ending, it’s never that easy. And you see that. You do have people that want to keep it going that way, but they’re losing and they’re losing now rapidly and fast. Those days are gone, and we’re not going back.
“As you know, one of the key insights of economics is the power of incentives. Unlike past leaders, my goal is to ensure that this power works for America’s favor and for America’s workers and for America’s companies. We want the incentives created by our tax, trade, regulatory, and energy policies to be pro-growth, pro-worker, and 100 percent pro-American. And more is yet to come.”
— Remarks by President Trump at the Economic Club of New York, November 12, 2019
“They passed the disastrous trade deals that encouraged the shuttering of American plants and the offshoring of American jobs by the millions.”
And all the time that was happening, the pinheads on the Wall Street Journal, the National Review, Hamster Krugman, pundits, profs and gurus, denied what was happening before our very eyes! And all those usual suspects are STILL in favor of the Giant Sucking Sound and STILL want to return to giant “trade” deals, offshoring, yadda yadda yadda. They are incorrigible.