The countries that followed the rules, all their factories have been plundered. It's really. It's really sad to watch. They've been broken. They've been broken by countries that broke the rules. That's why The United States is now applying tariffs to other countries. And much as these tariffs were for many years applied to us, uncontrollably applied to us, we've used tariffs as a defense mechanism under the Trump administration, including my first term, where hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs were taken in. (49:08–49:12)
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