April 14, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
04:22
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| Hey, my name's Art. | |
| I was fortunate enough to go with the School of Public and International Affairs to China this past May, and we got to go to the U.S. Embassy. | |
| In the embassy, I guess this question is more for you, Mr. | |
| Trump Jr., but, yeah, at the embassy, we got to learn about a lot of the, like, actions and comments that your father has made, I guess. | |
| Consequences, or however you want to look at it, consequences that come with that. | |
| But they were saying that it's creating an erratic style of international policy that a lot of other countries cannot, I guess, not contend with, but I think you hit it right. | |
| They can't contend with it because they're used to us bowing down and giving them whatever. | |
| This is the first presidency to actually use the economic might of the United States. | |
| We are the largest consumer in the world! | |
| The fact that these countries are used to it, they come, they say, oh no, he's going to do something with trade. | |
| Guess what? Why wouldn't we? | |
| Why has it not been touched before? | |
| We import 100x from them that they do from us. | |
| When we send something over there, it's tariffed. | |
| When they do it from us, if we enter a trade war and we have the guts to stay in it for more than two seconds, we win because we consume So much more. | |
| The problem we have with other countries is they're used to bureaucrats being incompetent. | |
| They're used to people not even asking the question of, well, why are you taking advantage of us and why should we just accept that? | |
| No one even asked the question before. | |
| So doing this and changing it up is changing the game because all of these guys, then they get on TV and they say, oh, it's so terrible. | |
| Trump's doing this. It's really going to affect our friendship. | |
| Well, guess what, guys? If your friendship with us is predicated on you being able to screw us, on you being able to take advantage of us, you're not that good a friend. | |
| That's the reality. | |
| Make no mistake. | |
| China will do whatever is right for China. | |
| Most of these other countries, with the exception of some of the crazy politicians in this country, will do whatever is right for their country. | |
| So when they act a little outraged, it's not because It's good for them. | |
| It's because we're finally taking care of ourselves. | |
| I use the analogy all the time. | |
| You know, when you're in an airplane, and we fly a lot these days, okay? | |
| Something happens. The pilot says, put on your mask before taking care of those around you. | |
| When we solve our own problems, then we can deal with the rest of the world. | |
| I'm not against that. | |
| But we have a lot. We're number 28 in education, behind a long list of third world countries that spend A basis point, a fraction of what we spend per capita educating our kids. | |
| How about that? Why don't we solve that problem first? | |
| Why don't we build up our military? | |
| Why don't we take care of our vets? | |
| And then we can worry about it. | |
| So when these other countries do that, and you've seen them now, okay, well, we'll give up on the trade war because they know that if we have the guts and we don't have these feckless politicians that the second China says, oh, we're going to impose a tariff, guess what? | |
| When you import 100 items from them and they import one of yours, You stay in the game for more than about two seconds, you can win. | |
| We have to start using our economic might to take care of ourselves first, and then we can help others. | |
| By the way, the president is just doing what he's supposed to do, which is actually run this country in a responsible way like any strong business CEO would. | |
| Because for years and years we've been taken advantage of, there has been a tremendous disparity, In terms of what we've been doing with trade and with tariffs, he is simply asking that there be some reciprocity and that we should not continue to be taxed and burdened. | |
| It makes absolutely no sense. | |
| So yes, perhaps he's doing things in somewhat of an unconventional way. | |
| Thank God. Also, don't mistake some of these deep-seated bureaucrats in these places. | |
| These guys aren't necessarily Trump fans. | |
| They are part of that establishment system that he's fighting against. | |
| I mean, when you look at what, say, Rick Grinnell in Germany, the ambassador to Germany has done, he's shutting down Iran because he's finally putting some pressure on Germany to not just do business. | |
| You've got to pick. You either do business with Iran, the world's number one sponsor, state sponsor of terrorism, or you do it with the United States. | |
| You can't have both. And guess what? | |
| Now they're going on those sanctions. |
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