Trump Has No Clue What NAFTA Is

ONE AREA WHERE PEOPLE MIGHT NOT EVEN BE TRUMP
SUPPORTERS MY HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FAITH THAT MAYBE HE WILL
DO THE RIGHT THING IS IN THIS AREA OF TRADE DEALS LIKE NAFTA.
IT'S AN ISSUE THAT HE TALKED TO BUT A LOT DURING THE
CAMPAIGN THAT HE IS EITHER GOING TO TOTALLY ELIMINATE NAFTA,
REMOVE US FROM IT, OR CHANGE IN SOME SORT OF MASSIVE WAY
AND HE CARES ABOUT TRADE DEALS.
THAT IS WHAT HE CARES ABOUT THAT HE IS A NEGOTIATOR SO HE
CAN IMPROVE THEM.
SOME PEOPLE ARE HOLDING OUT HOPE ON THAT.
UNFORTUNATELY, I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU.
HE DOESN'T KNOW A SINGLE THING ABOUT NAFTA AND THAT BECAME
IMMEDIATELY CLEAR THIS WEEK WHEN HE SAT DOWN AND SPOKE WITH
THE ECONOMIST.
IT'S A 10 PAGE INTERVIEW.
YOU SHOULD READ THE WHOLE THING BECAUSE IT IS AMAZING THAT
WE ARE JUST GOING TO READ A FEW EXCERPTS THAT THEY ASKED
HIM WHAT HIS TRUMPET ON MIX AND HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM
STANDARD REPUBLICAN ECONOMICS?
HIS FIRST STATEMENT THAT THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION,
I'VE NEVER HEARD IT PUT THAT WAY.
HOW IT'S DIFFERENT FROM REGULAR PUBLIC AND ECONOMIC STUDIES
AS A VERY MUCH RESIDUE A TRADE.
WITH SOME OF THE BAD TRADE DEALS TO A POINT WHERE I'M NOT
SURE WE HAVE ANY GOOD TRADE DEALS.
I DON'T KNOW THE PEOPLE ARE THAT WOULD PUT US INTO A NAFTA
WHICH WAS SO ONE-SIDED BOTH FROM THE CANADA STANDPOINT AND
FROM THE MEXICO STANDPOINT.
SO ONE SIDED, WHICH I THINK WOULD BE AT LEAST TWO SIDES
SINCE THEY ARE NOT THE SAME COUNTRY.
IT'S WEIRD THAT IT'S SO ONE-SIDED AND THE WORD BOTH
IS USED.
HE SAYS PUT US INTO A NAFTA WHICH WORRIES ME THAT HE
MAY NOT KNOW WHAT THE LETTERS ACTUALLY MEAN AND NAFTA.
OF COURSE HE DOESN'T.
IT GETS WORSE THAN THAT.
IF YOU ARE A REPORTER, PLEASE ESTIMATE THE LETTERS OF
NAFTA ARE YOU ARE GOING TO GET A GREAT ANSWER.
YOU'RE GOING TO GET FAMOUS JUST ACT ASK THEM.
BIG ACRONYMS THAT THEY GOING TO SAY SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE
A MATCH NEEDING A PRETTY BIG RENEGOTIATION OF NAFTA.
WHAT WHATEVER NAFTA LOOK LIKE?
BIG IS IN A GOOD ENOUGH WORD.
MASSIVE.
THE ECONOMIST IS HUGE?
AND HE SAYS IT'S GOT TO BE.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY POLITE AND PATIENT WITH THEM AND
TRY TO GET THEM TO BE SPECIFIC HOW HE WOULD IMPROVE IT.
THEY SAY WHAT WOULD A FAIR NAFTA LOOK LIKE AND HE SAYS NO,
IT'S GOTTA BE.
OTHERWISE WERE TERMINATING NAFTA.
AGAIN WHAT WHATEVER NAFTA LOOK LIKE?
I WAS ALSO DETERMINED A,
YOU KNOW?
BUT MR.
PRESIDENT, WHAT HAS TO CHANGE FOR YOU NOT
TO WITHDRAW?
WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THEIR DEALS.
NO CLUE, NO PLAN, THERE NEVER WAS A PLANTAR
HE'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR 18 MONTHS NOW.
WHAT DID HE SAY ABOUT HEALTHCARE AND NORTH KOREA
AND WHAT IS HE GOING TO SAY ABOUT NAFTA?
THIS IS REALLY COMPLICATED AND THEY USE LETTERS.
WHAT ARE THOSE LETTERS MEAN?
THAT IS HIS EXCUSE FOR EVERY
CAMPAIGN PROMISE HE MADE WHEN THE ISSUE HAS ACTUALLY COME UP
IN THE WHITE HOUSE, HE HAS SAID, LITERALLY, THIS IS VERY
COMPLICATED LIKE I HAD NO IDEA THAT THIS WAS DIFFICULT HER
THERE WAS DEATH TO THIS ISSUE.
THIS IS JUST ONE MORE TIME WITH THAT SAME EXCUSE WILL COME UP
THAT THOSE ANSWERS WERE HILARIOUS.
IT WAS
LITERALLY LIKE HE WAS ANSWERING DIFFERENT QUESTIONS THAN
WHAT HE WAS ASKED AT THE
HAVE BEEN WITH LESTER HOLT 2.
HE IS NOT EQUIPPED.
THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS PERSON.
HE PERPETRATED A FRAUD.
HE IS A FRAUDULENT GUY IN GENERAL.
TO CALL HIM INTELLECTUALLY VAPID DOES A DISSERVICE TO
INTELLECTUALLY VAPID PEOPLE THAT HE IS NOT INTERESTED IN
ANYTHING THAT HE HAS NO WORLDVIEW OR CURIOSITY.
HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT NAFTA.
WHAT HE KNEW WAS CRITICIZING NAFTA AND SAYING WE MAKE BAD
TRADE DEALS GOT A HUGE THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE SO HE KEPT
SAYING IT AND YOU THINK HE IS SURROUNDED BY SOMEBODY WHO CAN
EXPLAIN TO HIM HOW NAFTA MIGHT BE IMPROVED UPON?
AND IF HE DOES
CHAINS NAFTA, HE WILL CHANGE IT TO THE BENEFIT OF WHAT EVER THE
CORPORATIONS SAY SHOULD BE CHANGED TO.
ROW QUICK BECAUSE ALONSO MENTIONED HEALTHCARE, THIS
WAS TODAY.
OR CAME OUT TODAY.
IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING THERE
WAS TO KNOW ABOUT HEALTHCARE.
THAT IS TRUMP.
WE DID THE RIGHT THING AND THE RIGHT NEGOTIATING AND
ACTUALLY, IT'S A VERY INTERESTING SUBJECT THAT
YOU DON'T SAY.
HE GOES ON TO SAY MAKING DOES AS PRESIDENT OR REAL ESTATE
IS THE SAME.
YOU HAVE YOUR SUBJECT AND I WOULD BE THE MISCONCEPTION
MISCONCEPTIONS THAT'S NOT THAT I WOULD LIKE I ALWAYS HAD
HEALTHCARE FOR MY COMPANY BUT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT JUST WASN'T
HOW MY LEFT EYE I HAD PEOPLE NEGOTIATED FOR MY COMPANY.
OKAY, HE'S GOT IT.
HIS IDEA OF FIGURING OUT HEALTHCARE IS I HAD
HEALTHCARE FOR MY COMPANY.
IT'S NOT REMOTELY THE SAME AS HEALTHCARE FOR THE WHOLE
COUNTRY.
ON THIS STUFF THEY ARE LIKE MR.
PRESIDENT, WHAT DO YOU
WANT IN NAFTA.
WHAT IS IN NAFTA, WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT, WHAT WOULD YOU PREFER?
I'VE GOT MASSIVE PROBLEMS WITH IT.
NOT FAIR.
I'M GOING TO TERRIBLY AND SO MY FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER BY
FOUR-YEAR-OLDS GO NOT FAIR.
BUT WHAT IS NOT FAIR?
NAME ONE THING IN NAFTA OR NAME ONE LETTER IN NAFTA, WHAT
IT STANDS FOR.
HE DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING.
NAME ONE LETTER, G.
I HAVE ONE OTHER QUOTE THAT
AND IF YOU SUPPORT HIM BY THE WAY IT SAY NO, HE IS NOT STUPID
AFTER THIS, NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE?
I GET IT.
THEY ARE NOT THAT INTO POLITICS.
BUT IF YOU WATCH THIS AND SAY I LIKED HIS ANSWER THAN YOU
ARE STUPID.
OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR LET ALONE DECADES, THE TERMS OF
WHICH ANY FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT ARE SET UP UNDER FX MILLIONS
AND MILLIONS OF AMERICAN LIVES LET ALONE LIVES IN OTHER
COUNTRIES THAT ARE PART OF THE AGREEMENT AND HE DOES NOT CARE.
THIS IS THE ISSUE THAT SUPPOSEDLY HIM AND HIS
BIGGEST SUPPORTERS ARE CLOSEST ON.
HE REALLY UNDERSTANDS HOW THEY HAVE BEEN HURTING OVER
DECADES BUT HE DOESN'T CARE AND HE DOESN'T KNOW AND THEN HE
SAYS THINGS LIKE THIS.
I LOVE THIS.
THE ECONOMIST SAYS SOME PEOPLE THINK THIS IS A NEGOTIATING
TACTIC, THEY SAY VERY GENETIC THINGS ACTUALLY YOU WOULD
SETTLE FOR SOME VERY SMALL CHANGES IS THAT RIGHT?
HE SAYS NO, IT'S NOT, REALLY NO NEGOTIATION.
IT IS REALLY NOT.
NO, LET'S SETTLE FOR LESS THEN I GO IN WITH?
YES, WHO WOULDN'T?
THAT WAS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS HE WAS HAVING
WITH HIMSELF.
IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT.
IT IS.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT HIS SUPPORTERS ON NAFTA THOUGH,
THIS IS WHERE HIS CORPORATE SUPPORTERS ARE LIKE ALL
RIGHT, STUPID, DON'T GET IN THE WAY THAT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
YOU LOOK AT THE AUTO'S INDUSTRY REPORT IS LIKE WE MAKE
TRUCKS IN CANADA AND SOME CAR IN MEXICO AND WE ARE GOING TO
MAKE THIS NEW CAR HERE IN DETROIT.
THERE LIKE YOU WANT TO TAKE CREDIT FOR DETROIT, FIND
DON'T WE DON'T CARE BUT DON'T GET INVOLVED IN OUR BUSINESS.
AND BOTH, WHO IS THAT HANDSOME DUDE IN CANADA?
TRUDEAU, BOTH HIM AND WHO IS THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT?
LET THE SHAME.
BOTH OF THEM HAVE TOLD HIM PLEASE DON'T.
THEORETICALLY THEY ARE GUYS WHO, SOMETHING IN THEIR LIFE,
NOT SAYING THEY ARE THE PERFECT CHOICES BUT THEY GET THE
VALUE IN THOSE DEALS AND NEITHER OF THEM WANT HIM TO PALAU.
I JUST WANT TO BE SUPER CLEAR ABOUT THIS.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN FAVOR OF NAFTA.
NAFTA HAS SIGNIFICANT ISSUES.
THE ONLY THING I HAVE AGREED WITH TRUMP ON SO FAR IS
THAT HE DID NOT GO FORWARD WITH TPP.
ASK THEM WHAT THOSE LETTERS AND FOR, SEE WHAT YOU GET.
WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE POLICY ITSELF.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HOW TRUMP DOESN'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF AND BY
THE WAY, IF YOU ARE CITING THAT HE KILLED TPP, GRAY, GOD BLESSED
I'VE YOU THINK HE IS ACTUALLY GOING TO TAKE AWAY NAFTA,
LOOK AT THE TERRIBLE THINGS HE SAID ABOUT NAFTA RIGHT THERE.
HE IS NOT DOING IT.
TO ALONSO'S POINT, THE ADULTS CAME IN, MINUTIA AND NOT
JUST HIS ADVISORS, BUT HIS BIG BUSINESS LEADERS AND DONORS
CAME IN AND SAID DONNIE, SIT IN THE CORNER.
WE'RE GOING
TO KEEP GOING WITH NAFTA, WE'RE MAKING A LOT MONEY WITH IT.
YOU RUN YOUR MOUTH ANY WAY YOU LIKE, GUESS WHAT HAPPENED WAS MY
AND TBP WAS NOTHING TO GET RID OF.
CLICK ON THE HEALTHCARE THING BECAUSE IT IS SO RELATED,
THAT NOTION BECAUSE TO ME, IT SAYS WHAT WE KNOW HAPPENED
BUT IT IS REPETITIVE TIME, I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING THAT
WAS TO KNOW ABOUT HEALTHCARE.
FORGETTING THAT WHO TALKS THAT WAY?
BUT I'M SURE HE IS TALKING
ABOUT AN ACTUAL MEETING, RIGHT?
21 MINUTES OR 41 MINUTES AND HE
WAS LIKE OVERWHELMED AND HE WAS LIKE I GOT IT.
THANKS.
THINGS ARE COMING IN.
THAT IS AS FAR AS ANYONE IS GOING TO GET WITH EXPANDING
NAFTA TO HIM.
YOU HAVE 18 MINUTES.
TALK FAST OUT
THAT IS AS FAR AS HE IS GOING TO GO.
HE IS NOT CURIOUS.
HEREíS ANOTHER POLL QUESTION HEíS ASKED AND HE CAN'T ANSWER
THE START OFF QUESTION FROM THE ECONOMIST WHICH ESSENTIALLY
WAS WHAT IS YOUR ECONOMIC PLAN?
HOW IS IT DIFFERENT THAN GEORGE BUSH'S AND RONALD REAGAN'S?
IT SHOULD BE A FREEBIE.
THAT'S A SOFTBALL.
IS DESIGNED FOR HIM TO SAY MY ECONOMY IS THIS, IT'S GONNA
REACH OUT AND TAKE AMERICANS BACK UP AND GET PEOPLE BACK
TO WORK YOU HASN'T HAVE A MEANINGFUL JOB IN 10
YEARS THAT DO BROAD STROKES THERE.
ONE IN LOVE HOW YOUR TAX CUTS ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE
REPUBLICANS IN THE PAST I DO SO EASY.
YOU CAN SEE NAFTA.
THOSE GUYS WERE BRIEF GOING TO HAVE TAXES BECAUSE I WAS
GOING TO STIMULATE THE COUNTRY.
WE'RE GOING TO PROTECT JOBS AND BE WORKING AGAIN.
WE MIGHT BE HEARING THAT NEXT WEEK.
WHEN HE SAYS I FIGURED ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT HEALTHCARE.
ANY ONE SENTENCE OF DONALD TRUMP WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BIGGEST
SCANDAL OF OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION.
IF OBAMA
HAD SAID I FIGURED OUT EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW
ABOUT CARE THEY WOULD'VE BEEN LIKE HOW DO YOU SAY THAT?
WHAT A RIDICULOUS OUTRAGEOUS THING TO SAY.
LOOK HOW HAUGHTY BARACK OBAMA IS.
HE THINKS HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.
THEN WHAT IS THIS AND WHAT IS THIS AND THEY WOULD'VE
CRAWLED HIM.
THERE WAS MORE CONCERN OVER HOW HE SAID PAKISTAN THEN
SAYING I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HEALTHCARE.
IT WAS MORE CONCERNED OVER HIM WEARING A TAN SUIT THEN
HIM SAYING I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HEALTHCARE.
HE WERE A TAN SOON WE WERE ABOUT TO SHUT THIS COUNTRY DOWN.
AND BY THE WAY, HE WORE THAT TAN SUIT.
IT LOOKED GREAT.
WELL HE WASN'T THE HANDSOME GUY FROM CANADA BUT HE DID
ALL RIGHT.

Trump Has No Clue What NAFTA Is

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