Donald Trump Quotes

Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to our country in terms of making our product. They're devaluing their currency, and there's nobody in our government to fight them. And we have a very good fight. And we have a winning fight. Because they're using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China, and many other countries are doing the same thing.

We're going to stand up to China, we're going to stop their currency manipulation and product dumping, which is killing us.

China must voluntarily cut back on exports to America otherwise American politics will become unmanageable.

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

Ohio workers and Ohio manufacturers already know that we are, in fact, in a trade war, and the Chinese have done very well, thank you.

I would tell China that if you don't straighten out your manipulation of the currency - and I mean fast; I mean really fast - we are going to tax your products 25%.

In America, we're being hurt very badly by China with devaluation, with taxing us heavy at the borders when we don't tax them, with building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn't be doing.

I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business.

Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country or, frankly, any other country. Never, ever again.

The countries we are defending are stealing our markets.

A trade war between the U.S. and China would hurt both countries, but there is reason to believe that the U.S. has more to lose. Today, 80% of global trade comprises international supply chains,” she writes. “Declining trade costs have allowed firms to splinter their production lines geographically, with goods processed and value added in multiple countries along the chain. If China threw a handful of sand in the gears of these chains, it could disrupt entire production networks, doing serious damage to the U.S….

We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit.

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.

We're already in a trade war with China. The problem is we've not been fighting back. Trump, through tariffs, wants to call a truce.

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

We will trade freely with free nations and not spend our time chasing trade deals with predatory countries like communist China.

The currency bill we have would finally do something for China's rapacious policies.

We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.

What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country.

America's in deep trouble. We don't know what we're doing when it comes to devaluations and all of these countries all over the world, especially China. They're the best, the best ever at it. What they're doing to us is a very, very sad thing.

When they talk about raising your taxes, I think raise the taxes on some of these countries that are taking advantage of the United States.

With our trade deals we are always second. You can pick any country and they're eating our lunch and making us look bad and so we're going to change that.

America doesn't make product anymore. You have other countries devalue their currencies. They make it impossible.

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.