When you look at the trade defic that we have with certain countries, way over a billion per country. With China it's a trillion dollars. And we have to solve our trade deficit with China. We have a trillion dollar trade deficit with China, hundreds of billions of dollars a year. We lose with China. And unless we solve that problem, I'm not going to make a deal. Now I'm willing to deal with China, but they have to solve their surplus. (02:15–02:21)
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Asserts that the U.S. has a trillion-dollar trade deficit with China annually.
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