"China is the biggest and best abuser. Mexico is a smaller version of China," Trump told his cheering supporters in this steel city of Pittsburgh, which is said to be a key swing state for November general elections as he hit out at several countries including Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Trump said he believes in free trade, but it needs to be fair. "I believe in free trade. But for free trade, you need to have smart people on our side. I want to make good deals. I do not want care what you call it," he said.
"If they do not behave, we will put tax on them. They (Chinese) tax us. But we do nothing about it. This is one-way street. ...We got ripped off," he said. "If in November if you pull the right trigger, we are going to have so much fun together," he said, urging people to come out in large number and vote in November presidential elections.
Trump slammed Obama in his speech. Observing that he never thought Obama would be a great president but believed that he would unite the country. "He (Obama) is a great divider. The country has never been so divided ever," he alleged, adding he would unite the country. "President Obama is incompetent," he claimed.
got weak leaders. We are going to change. We are going to change. We need competent people folks," he said.
"They (American leadership in Washington) have no clue. We have incompetent people in Washington. Like a bunch of dumb babies. The world is laughing. Countries all over the world are taking advantage of us. Mexico, we have huge trade deficit," he said.
"We will build the wall," he said, adding that Mexican leadership are taking benefit of the weak leadership of the US.
He slammed Mitt Romney for calling him triple down racist. "It's absolutely pathetic. He lost. He choked like a dog. We are going to win. I do not choke. I backed John McCain, he lost. I backed Mitt Romney, we lost. So this time we would do it ourselves," he said. He acknowledged that McCain lost because of "a lot of bad things was happening" in an apparent reference to the economic crisis that hit in the last few months of the Bush Administration.
"We are not going to protect all these nations with massive subsidy. And they do not pay. They got to pay us for our services... They got to help us out," Trump said. "We subsidise Germany. We subsidise Saudi Arabia. We are paying the rent on military bases. They are charging us rent. We have 28,000 soldiers on the line in South Korea. Can you imagine, if these countries paid a fair price," he said, adding the US is in a great debt of USD 19 trillion and soon increasing to USD 21 trillion.
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