Taoiseach Micheál Martin Refutes Trump Directly To His Face About Ireland Taking US Business

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00:00And I want to tell you this tremendous optimism out there about our country in terms of regulations

00:04being cut, in terms of taxes being cut, and it would be great if the Democrats would do

00:11what's right. It would be great if the Democrats would do what's right for our country for a

00:16change because they really are there. They've lost their way. They've lost their way. They think

00:23they think that people pouring into our country from prisons,

00:27jails, murders. We have 11,088 murderers that were allowed into people that murdered people,

00:35half of which murdered more than one person in our country. We're getting them the hell out.

00:41But who would run it? Who would allow this to happen? Who would allow men to play in women's

00:45sports? And they're still fighting it. There's still it's got to be a 95 percent issue. But

00:50they're on television this morning. I see this person, a Democrat, say we should have the right.

00:56No, no, men should not be hurting women. They're hurting women very badly. They're hurting women.

01:04And they should not. And they're also demeaning women. But who would want these things? And

01:08everything's transgender. Everybody transgender. That's all you hear about.

01:13Now, that's why we won the election in record numbers. But very importantly, now it is what

01:18it is. The Democrats should get with us and come up with good tax policy so that Ireland

01:25and other countries can't take our businesses away from us. And he understands exactly. You

01:30guys did the right thing. I'm not upset with you. I think I respect what you've done. You've done a

01:35great job. But our people, our people, our people did a very bad job. How advanced are your plans

01:44to try and bring some of those companies back to America? I'd love to have them back. I mean,

01:48I'd love to have them back, but he'll be fighting me. I mean, what I would say,

01:53if I could, if I could, one second, just to make the point, it's a two-way street, too. And we are

01:58investing a lot more in America now. And people may not realize, but Ryanair, one of our biggest

02:04airlines, for example, Aircap, they buy more, the two of them together buy more Boeing airplanes

02:12than anybody else outside of America. That's a little known fact. It doesn't turn up in the

02:17statistics, but Ryanair and Aircap, big aircraft leasing company, Irish company,

02:22have done great work with Boeing and huge investments over the last couple of years.

02:27And there's a lot of Irish companies here now, about 700 and odd Irish companies based in America,

02:31Glanbia, Smurf, a lot of them creating thousands of jobs in America. And it's only fair. I mean,

02:41that's correct. That's the way it should happen. And I think it's a very good relationship we have.

02:46It's a historic one. It's happened over time. We've added value to American companies. We've

02:51increased our value. They've got access to the European market, and they did all of that.

02:54I understand where you're coming from fully. But I think it's a relationship that we can develop

02:59and that we'll enjoy into the future. And we'll change it when it happens. And you're evolving,

03:03and you're doing things. And they've done a very good job. Now, I just will say this,

03:08but with all that we've said, we can talk about Ryanair. There's a massive

03:12deficit. I don't mean by a little bit. I mean, there's a massive deficit that we have with

03:18Ireland and with other countries, too. And we want to sort of even that out as nicely as we can,

03:24and we'll work together. We're going to work together. Great. But the deficit is massive.

03:32Will you hear this one?

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