Trump on Trade: We Have to Change Our Ways, We Can No Longer Be the Stupid Country

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TRUMP: "We can do one on one with Mexico, one on one with Canada and Canada -- and by the way, they like to talk. There are great neighbor. They fought World War II with us, we appreciate it. They fought World War I with us and we appreciate it but we are protecting each other. There was a story two days ago in a major newspaper talking about of people living in Canada coming into the United States and smuggling things back into Canada because the tariffs are so massive, the tariffs to get common items back into Canada are so high that they have to smuggle them in. They buy shoes and they wear them. They scuffed them up, they make them sound old or look old. We are treated horribly. Daily -- 275 percent tariff. So basically, that’s a barrier without saying it’s a barrier. And I told them, if they don’t change their ways -- so we have a tremendous deficit. People say, well there’s really not that much of a deficit. They’re not including two things, energy and timber. And those are the two big things when it comes to Canada. Now, we have to change our ways. We can no longer be the stupid country, we want to be the smart country." (Cheering and Applause)