Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump says he could announce 50 to 100 trade deals now.
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00:00Yeah. Well, I can announce all of them now. I could announce 50 to 100 deals right now because, you know, I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store and, you know, I know what countries are looking for and I know what we're looking for.
00:18And I can just set those terms and they can go shopping or they don't have to go shopping because everybody wants to shop here. This is like a beautiful store. This is like one of Bernard Arnault. Maybe I should say Alex, even more importantly, young, the future. But Bernard's an honor to have you have a meeting after this.
00:37But he has the greatest stores in the world and they want to shop. Our country is the greatest store in the world of that kind. And everybody wants a piece of it.
00:47And they took advantage of us for years because we allowed presidents. Our presidents allowed it to happen.
00:53You know, I don't blame China and I don't blame Vietnam. And I could name every single country all the way up and down the line. South Korea, every single country took advantage of us without exception.
01:05Japan. These are friends of mine. But they took advantage of this country. They ripped off our country, selling us millions and millions of cars a year.
01:14And we sold them none. We weren't allowed to sell them a car. They took advantage of us. I don't blame them.
01:20I blame the people that sat behind that desk that allowed it to happen. But I don't allow it to happen.
01:26I didn't in the first term. But this is a much stronger position because we did we the greatest economy in history in our first term.
01:35Stock market was up 88 percent. We had numbers much better than that. But this is going to be, I think, a much better term.
01:41And I think the tariffs are coming in, starting to come in. We're we were losing five billion dollars plus a day on trade.
01:53Now we're not losing that kind of money and we'll soon be making a lot of money a day and a year and a month.