You know, in China, for years, they ripped off our country.
They paid hundreds of billions of dollars during our time in office.
They never paid 10 cents, never 10 cents, between tariffs and taxes.
Hundreds of billions of dollars.
And, you know, we made a trade deal, and it was an incredible deal for our farmers and our manufacturers.
That's why our farmers are doing so well, because China.
Now I understand that China, once I'm out, China's not going to adhere to the deal.
They wouldn't do that with me.
But they're not going to hear. But the farmers did fantastically well.
But we made incredible deals with China.
We saved our steel industry because they were dumping steel all over our country.
Our steel industry was going down the tubes.
I've had so many people in the steel industry thank me for the job we did.
We put massive tariffs on steel that they were dumping in our country.
But we took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China.
Nobody else took in 10 cents over many, many years.
And I'm very proud of it.
And China respected us.
And then, of course, when COVID or the China virus came in, we had to deal a lot differently.
But we're very proud of the job we did.
We did something that I don't think anybody else could have done.
And I want to thank certain governors that did a very good job.
Certain Republican governors did a very good job.
And I can't think of any Democrat governor that did a good job.
They were all in lockstep.
Let's lock up your cities.
Let's lock up your towns.
Let's lock up your state.
And let's harm your children.
Let's take their social lives away at a very young age.
We will place tariffs on other countries to restore the glory of American manufacturing.
And we will ensure our future is made right here.
We're going to manufacture.
We started it big time right here in the USA. And these are just a few of the steps that we have to take.
To save the nation that we love, the rest of them you know, the rest of them we've discussed today.
If we fail in our mission, we already know what the fate of America will be.
The radical left is trying to extinguish our very identity as Americans so that when they try to take our freedom, we do not even think to resist.
They don't resist. They got to resist.
They got to fight. They got to fight.
We have no choice.
We got to fight like hell. We can't let them destroy our country.
But our opponents have made a very big mistake.
They have done the one thing you must never do if you seek to harm America.
They have grossly underestimated the strength and brilliance and pride of the American people.
They're not going to stand for it.
They're not going to take it. The crackdown, censorship, and cancel culture are not an expression of confidence.
They are an expression of cowardice and of fear.
And they are afraid.
They reveal not the dominance of the radical left, but their desperation and their despair.
They are losing.
We are winning. They know it.
They know it. And that's why they're going so far.
That's why they're doing some of the crazy things that they're doing.
They're acting as though they were lunatics, maniacs, and the people get it.
And we have to stop it.
And we have to stop it now.
My fellow Americans, this nation does not belong to the radicals and it does not belong to the corrupt establishment in Washington that I've gotten to know very well.
This nation belongs to you.
Belongs to you. It was patriots like you that built this country, and it's patriots like you that are going to save our country.
So to all of those who think that they can coerce and subjugate the citizens of this land, hear these words from me tonight.
The people of America will not surrender our borders.