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Donald Trump: “We import virtually all of our computers, phones…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump's Liberation Day Speech on Economic Independence and Reciprocal Tariffs

Published | Video Starts at 18:07

We have a tremendous problem. We have to go to foreign countries to treat our sick. If anything ever happened from a war standpoint, we wouldn't be able to do it. We import virtually all of our computers, phones, televisions and electronics. We used to dominate the field and now we import it all from different countries. A single shipyard in China now produces more ships every year than all of the American shipyards combined. (18:07–18:13)

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Asserts that the U.S. imports nearly all of its electronics.

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