President Trump discusses possible tariff exemptions.
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00:00a chance it won't even come to us yeah yesterday you mentioned short-lived product exemptions
00:07which specific products are you considering and how long is short-lived these months i'm looking
00:12at something to help some of the car companies where they're switching to parts that were made
00:18in canada mexico and other places and they need a little bit of time because they're going to make
00:24them here but they need a little bit of time so i'm talking about things like that what about any
00:29apple products other cell phones look i'm a very flexible person i don't change my mind but i'm
00:36flexible and you have to be you just can't have a wall and you'll only go sometimes you have to go
00:42around it under it or above it uh there'll be maybe things coming up i speak to tim cook i helped him
00:49cook recently and that whole business i'm not i don't want to hurt anybody but the end result is
00:55we're going to get to the position of greatness for our country we're the greatest economic power
01:01in the world if we're smart if we're not smart we're going to hurt our country very badly
01:07we lost with china over the biden years trillions of dollars on trade trillions of dollars
01:16and he let them fleece us and we can't do that anymore and you know what i don't blame china at
01:23all i don't blame president xi i like him he likes me i mean you know i think who knows who the hell
01:29cares you know what what you have any updates for talks with china no let me just tell you this
01:35i don't blame china i don't blame vietnam i don't i see their meeting today is that wonderful that's a
01:41lovely meeting the meeting like trying to figure out how do we screw the united states of america
01:47don't forget the european union was formed to do just that the european union was formed to hurt the
01:53united states and and on trade and they get us on nato because they don't pay their bills but now since
01:59i got involved they have been paying their bills i took in uh 600 over 600 billion dollars
02:07for nato nobody took in anything i mean we were they were all delinquent most of the
02:12they had eight nations out of 28 paid their bills the rest of them were way delinquent and i said if
02:18you don't pay your bills we're not going to protect you anymore and the money poured in over 600
02:22the secretary general last week made that statement he said i've never seen anything like it we couldn't
02:26get anybody to pay because the united states was footing the bill for nato well we got hurt there
02:33and we got hurt on trade likewise european union and they've got to come to the table and they're
02:40trying to they're trying to but the european union has taken terrible advantage they don't take our food
02:46products they don't take our cars we take we have millions of their cars bmw volkswagen mercedes-benz many
02:55others they come in by the millions they don't take there are no chevrolets in munich i can tell you
03:01that i said to angela merkel and when she was there and she was letting millions of people
03:07infiltrate germany which was not so good from we would call them illegal immigrants but she made
03:14them legal but i said to and i got along with her very well i said how many chevrolets do we have in
03:19munich munich or frankfurt why none donald none i said you're right and yet we take in millions and
03:29millions of cars no those days are over okay thank you very much
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