'Donald You Cannot Do This': Trump Impersonates French President Macron During Tariff Story

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At a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday, former President Trump spoke about how he leverages foreign nations by imposing tariffs.

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00:00I proudly imposed a 27.5 tariff on all Chinese auto imports to keep China and Chinese cars,

00:09keep them out of America.

00:10You don't sell a lot of Chinese cars in here because of what, and if you did, it'd be fewer

00:16cars that you made.

00:17We're going to bring back the auto industry because of, we're going to bring it back.

00:22We're going to have them.

00:23If they want to come in and sell us cars, they can, but they have to build plants here

00:27and they have to hire our workers and that's fine and nobody can say anything about it.

00:32Under the radical Democrat policies, the US auto industry is being decimated.

00:38You know, we lost 64% of our industry over the years, 64%.

00:42We were a giant and now they're made, a lot of them made in Mexico.

00:46Mexico has taken 35% of the auto industry and we did something very strong.

00:52We did something very strong with Mexico, but you know, when I was building the wall,

00:57I said, you have to give us 28,000 soldiers.

01:01And they laughed at me.

01:02I hate when people laugh at me.

01:04I hate it.

01:05I hate it.

01:06No, it's so disrespectful.

01:07They laughed at me.

01:08We won't do that.

01:09Why would we do that?

01:10I said, because you have to.

01:11We're building the wall.

01:12People are flowing in through your country.

01:14We want 28,000 soldiers to protect us while we're building the wall.

01:18They said, no, no, no.

01:20And then they said, after I said, look, here's a story.

01:24If you don't do it, we're going to charge you a 25% tariff on every car that you send

01:29into America.

01:32And then it's going to 50% next month.

01:35Then it's going to 75% and then it's going to 100% and then I'll stop.

01:42And the gentleman representing the president, the president is a great guy.

01:45He's no longer president, but he's a great guy.

01:47He was a great guy, still is.

01:49But he said, I'd like to discuss this with the president.

01:53I said, five minutes.

01:54I got to go.

01:55I have something much more important to do.

01:58And he came back.

01:59He said, Mr. President, we would love to give you soldiers to protect your wall.

02:04Free of charge, of course, free of.

02:06That's how I got those great numbers on that beautiful, beautiful graph that we talk about.

02:13They gave us everything I wanted.

02:14I got everything from Mexico.

02:16And then this stupid person, low IQ.

02:19He's a low IQ individual.

02:21Take his IQ.

02:22I guarantee you it's in the low 50s or 60s.

02:27And he's negotiating against Putin, President Xi of China, Macron of France.

02:33Very smart guy.

02:34I told him he was going to do something very bad to our country.

02:37I said, that's OK.

02:38You can do it.

02:39But I'm going to put a 100% tariff on all wines and champagnes that come in from France.

02:45He said, no, no, no, Donald.

02:46You cannot do that.

02:47I said, I'm doing it.

02:48Donald, you cannot do that.

02:50That's not fair.

02:51We charge our companies 25, American companies, 25% for doing nothing, for being in France.

02:57Big deal, right?

02:58Big deal.

02:59So I said, OK, that's all right.

03:00I'm charging you 100% tariff.

03:02I gave it to all my people, Mnuchin, all smart guys.

03:05They came back.

03:06Sure, they won't do it.

03:07They won't budge.

03:08I said, they'll budge.

03:09I called them up.

03:10And I talked to the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, who's a nice guy, I said.

03:14But he's, you know, he likes France.

03:16I like the USA.

03:17Does that make sense?

03:18I said, Emmanuel, it's so nice to talk to you.

03:22I understand you're going to charge our cut.

03:24You're going to charge our companies 25% Emmanuel.

03:27Yes, yes, yes, Donald.

03:29It was approved by whoever the hell approves the parliament, whatever the hell they have

03:34over there.

03:35They were going to approve it.

03:36It's been fully approved.

03:37Yes.

03:38I'm so sorry.

03:39I said, well, that's OK.

03:40You can have it approved.

03:41But here's the story.

03:42Starting tomorrow morning at seven o'clock, every bottle of wine and every bottle of champagne

03:46that shipped into the United States is going to have a 100% tariff on it.

03:51No, no, no.

03:52You cannot do that.

03:53That is not fair.

03:54I said, not fair for you to charge our companies 25%.

03:58He said, you cannot do it.

03:59I said, I'm signing the papers now.

04:01I will call you right back.

04:03Calls me back.

04:04Donald, we would be delighted, Mr. President, to take that tax off.

04:08We have decided to take it off.

04:09It'll be off by tonight, sir.

04:10It'll be off by tonight.

04:11It'll be off by tonight.

04:16And it was off.

04:18And it was off.

04:21You think Joe Biden does that?

04:25He doesn't know what the hell he's doing.

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