And unfortunately, we made decisions in our foreign policy on that ridiculous basis that actually caused us to hurt our country. We started saying things like, we don't care where things are made, let it be made in another country, as long as it's cheaper prices for America. And it ended up deindustrializing our country and costing us millions of jobs. So what you see President Trump doing now is rebalancing those things on the economy, using tariffs, on geopolitics, using our presence in the world, especially in the Western Hemisphere, our own, you know, area, neighborhood that we live in. (08:13–08:25)
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Asserts that prioritizing cheaper prices over domestic manufacturing deindustrialized the U.S. and cost millions of jobs.
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