It's making our country rich and beautiful, and it's very important. I felt so foolish for years watching this take place. You know, we did it in my first term with China. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs [from China]. But when Covid came back, we focused on that. We did a really good job, but the whole world suffered with that one. I was a terrible thing. (16:07–16:10)
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