Trump: ‘I Inherited a Mess’ as President

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TRUMP: "We have a lot of tremendous things happening. Remember this, when I came into this job, I inherited a mess. It was a mess in the Middle East. Whether you like it or not, the economy was very, very weak. You look at 96 million people, you look at all of these people. I have good work numbers. I have very good work numbers, employment numbers, unemployment numbers. They say 4.6, 4.7 percent and I'm supposed to take a bow, but they're not really the numbers because you have people that want jobs that have given up looking for jobs. And when you start adding those numbers onto your numbers, it’s not really reflective of what I see. A lot of those people are the people that got me elected. They elected me. And I will take care of those people. I’m here today because we are going to be opening up automobile plants in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania — places where the plants have left. And not just automobiles. Places where the plants have been stripped out of our country. The jobs have been absolutely destroyed by — I could say stupid management, I could say politicians that did not know what they were doing — plants that have moved to Mexico. Look at what has happened in Mexico. It's the eighth wonder of the world in terms of plants, in terms of what is happening with automobiles. It will stop. Now, hopefully we will get along with Mexico. We will see what happens but I will tell you we cannot continue to close plants in Michigan and have them move to Mexico."