- May 08, 2015 -
Donald Trump: ‘Disaster’ Trade Deal Empowers America’s Enemies
Real estate magnate and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump minced no words in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in which he dissected just how much of a “disaster” the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would fast-track President Barack Obama’s secret Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal is for America.
“I deal with foreign companies all the time. I do a lot of business with foreign companies and do well with foreign companies,” Trump said.
The trade deal is a disaster for many reasons. Number one, we don’t have any good negotiators in our government. That’s possibly the single greatest reason—we don’t have our best and our brightest negotiating for us. That’s a real problem. Number two, and very, very importantly, it doesn’t take into consideration the currency manipulation because we get beaten in trade more by currency manipulation than any single other factor. So it’s not even discussed in the trade deal.
They’re not addressing the number one cause of the unfairness which is the currency manipulation. China manipulates their currency so brilliantly and it’s very, very hard to compete. The other thing they do and they do it despite agreements is they make it impossible to sell product in their countries even after they sign an agreement so we need much stronger penalties if they continue to do that.
Trump noted that the new trade deficit numbers—the deficit was the biggest in six years at $51.4 billion in March, just announced this week—are another sign the United States is getting raked over the coals on an international level.
“The numbers that came out this week. It’s far bigger than it’s been in years. The reason is because the trade is so one-sided. And another reason I would like to see it stopped is because if I run and I win, I would like to negotiate trade deals that are great for the United States—not terrible, like the one we’re negotiating now.”
Trump, who recorded radio ads that Manning’s group is running in New Hampshire against the trade deal, also said this issue will be a very big deal on the 2016 campaign trail even if voters don’t understand the intricacies of complicated trade police because at the very least, he said: “
“The voters understand the country is going to hell.”
