Through. assuming you are president, what is the top priorities for president trump? i think the first thing i would do is announce very strongly we re going to tax 25% on all chinese products. they will stop manipulating their currency which they are doing. it s hard for our companies to compete because of their manipulation. i buy glass and steel it s hard for our countries to compete with china. we make better products than them. that s the most important thing. we make better products. you look at their sheetrock, making people sick and killing people all over the world. the sheetrock was you see them as the enemy, don t you? i see them as the enemy. they know that they are the enemy. they say they are the enemy. not in the sense that they don t want to kill you. they want to take over this country economically.
Middle ground for to you storm through. assuming you are president, what is the top priorities for president trump? i think the first thing i would do is announce very strongly we re going to tax 25% on all chinese products. they will stop manipulating their currency which they are doing. it s hard for our companies to compete because of their manipulation. i buy glass and steel it s hard for our countries to compete with china. we make better products than them. that s the most important thing. we make better products. you look at their sheetrock, making people sick and killing people all over the world. the sheetrock was you see them as the enemy, don t you? i see them as the enemy. they know that they are the enemy. they say they are the enemy. not in the sense that they don t want to kill you. they want to take over this country economically. but that s different to wanting to kill you, like an al
but that s different to wanting to kill you, like an al qaeda or something. it s very bad. when you say enemy, that s a strong word. they are a business competitor who at the moment is outcompeting america? they are not really out competing. when you have cheating, we have the wrong people in office and they don t know what to do. that is not outcompeting. do you think we have smart enough people to deal with the chinese and indians that are out there in business? i think that they are smart but they don t have the savvy. they don t have what it takes. you know who we have negotiating with the chinese? diplomats. that s a person that from a young age is trained how to be nice. in other words, you could never be a diplomat. everybody said he should be fired. they wanted me to fire this guy because he was so smart i didn t want to fire him. [ applause ] you re terrific. frankly, you d be a really good
Isn t the answer to go where the business enemy is and take them on with their own game? isn t that what you would do? i think that s great but if you look at what happened to general electric, with technology where they had to give up all of their technology, build plants in china, do all of these things, hey, i like the chinese. i m fine with the chinese. if i were there, i would be the doing the same thing if we could get away with it. what are the other problems here? you saw the degrade of the financial system. what was wrong with the system that should now be put right properly? you re always going to have problem with financial systems. i went to the warn ton school of finance, the best business school in the world. i dealt with brilliant people. i know how smart these people are. they find ways around regulations. you have really smart guys running regulation and smarter guys figuring out how to
it s very bad. when you say enemy, that s a strong word. they are a business competitor who at the moment is outcompeting america? they are not really out competing. when you have cheating, we have the wrong people in office and they don t know what to do. that is not outcompeting. do you think we have smart enough people to deal with the chinese and indians that are out there in business? i think that they are smart but they don t have the savvy. they don t have what it takes. you know who we have negotiating with the chinese? diplomats. that s a person that from a young age is trained how to be nice. in other words, you could never be a diplomat. everybody said he should be fired. they wanted me to fire this guy because he was so smart i didn t want to fire him. [ applause ] you re terrific. frankly, you d be a really good