At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, President Trump was asked about China.
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00:00When will you speak to President Xi of China?
00:03That'll happen.
00:04Look, right now, and I told you before, they're having tremendous difficulty because their factories are not doing business.
00:12They made a trillion dollars with Biden, a trillion dollars, even a trillion one, with Biden selling us stuff.
00:21Much of it we don't need.
00:22You know, somebody said, oh, the shelves are going to be open.
00:25Well, maybe the children will have two dollars instead of 30 dollars, you know?
00:29And maybe the two dollars will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.
00:33But we're not talking about something that we have to go out of our way.
00:37They have ships that are loaded up with stuff, much of which, not all of it, but much of which we don't need.
00:44And we have to make a fair deal.
00:46We've been ripped off by every country in the world.
00:50But China, I would say, is the leading, the leading one, the leading candidate for the chief ripper offer.
00:58There has never been, there has never been a country that's been ripped off more than the United States of America under some of the dumbest leadership.
01:08And it usually starts with the president.
01:11And you can go back, and I'm not just talking about Biden.
01:14It's been the worst.
01:15I mean, the trade deficits and everything else, he's been the worst.
01:19But he had no idea what he was doing.
01:21And I think somebody ought to look at the auto pen to find out who was really running this country, because it wasn't Biden.
01:27Because nobody could agree to what he agreed to.
01:31He put our country at risk, at tremendous risk, and fiscal risk, financial risk.
01:39So I think we have it very much.
01:42I really believe that the next 100 days is going to be even better than this.
01:48Look, I read an editorial yesterday from a group that normally wouldn't write a good bit.
01:52This is the most consequential presidency in history, in the history of our country.
01:57This is not a particular group that would write that kind of an editorial.
02:02But they see what we're doing and what we had to do.
02:06And I believe if this group, not just me, if this group wasn't here, I think our country was going to be in, if it was lucky, just serious trouble.
02:16But a lot worse than that.
02:17I think our country could have been a total disaster.
02:20Bad things were happening with our country.
02:23And we've stemmed the tide.
02:25We've turned it around, but we're going to really turn it around over the next, over the next three years, three and a half years, we're going to turn it around.
02:31And then hopefully it'll be in such great shape.
02:34That's my goal, to put it in such great condition that it can't be destroyed.