FW: TrackerBASE Report: Donald Trump on the Michael Savage show 1/10/2011

From:SorbieS@dnc.org To: Research_D@dnc.org Date: 2016-05-11 17:22 Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: Donald Trump on the Michael Savage show 1/10/2011

________________________________ Tracker Event Debrief Form TO: Presidential Tracking FROM: Mitchell Livingston Location: Des Moines, IA Date: 05/11/16 RE: Donald Trump on Michael Savage show- 01/10/2011 _____________________________________________________________ Event Details: Title: Donald Trump on Michael Savage show- 01/10/2011 Location: Michael Savage show Length: 15 minutes Attendees/Audience:unknown Press: unknown Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPSYOzr63L8 Summary of Event: Donald Trump calls into the Michael Savage radio show on January 10, 2011. Savage talks to Trump about a wide variety of topics including; tariffs on goods from China, NAFTA/ international agreements, foreign policy, and the economy in general. Key Points: ClipA: 00:02:30- Trump welcomed to show. Q: Where do you stand on tariffs with regard to Chinese goods? DT: Nobody is hurting, outside of OPEC, this country more than China. It shouldn’t be allowed. The president of china is coming to talk with our president and I was asked what his message should be and I said the president should cancel the meeting until they stop currency manipulation. When they manipulate their currency our companies can’t compete with theirs. I’m a big buyer of products glass and other things. Do we make anything in this country any more? China is the culprit and the advantage they have through manipulation of their currency. I would absolutely tax all products coming in from China. And you will say but don’t they buy a lot of our bond. And I would respond if you tax their products those bonds will be paid off very rapidly. Q: What percent? DT: I would say 25%. A firm strong 25% and then when they start behaving properly. You know we are building properties in China. We are rebuilding the whole place. What they are doing is taking all of our jobs. I don’t know if you heard Ben Bernanke, he said very strongly that job market won’t be back for 5 or 6 years. Q: We disagreed on one point. You said you can’t buy anything made in America anymore, but you can buy a congressman. DT: That is very true. Q: So instead of saying you are fired you want to say you are elected? DT: I don’t believe 5 or 6 years. Why aren’t jobs coming back in this country if everything is being made in China, Mexico, and lots of other places. You know what happened in Iowa. Maytag because of our brilliant system moved their manufacturing and virtually everything out of Iowa and into Mexico. Q: That is because of NAFTA and WTO. Would you repeal any of these international agreements? DT: NAFTA has been a total disaster. Look at New England and all you see if empty factories and decaying buildings. Those people moved out over to Mexico and other places. The truth is the United States is a whipping post for the rest of the world because our people aren’t smart enough or tough enough to do something about it. Q: Is it true China tariffs our products? DT: Totally true. I can tell you about a steel company who isn’t allowed to go into China and sell steal. GE had to give up secrets to go into China. It is terrible what is going on. Look at South Korea. They have a trade agreement that is so one sided for them. The president goes there and they refuse to sign it because they want more. Then North Korea a couple bombs over the border and then they want to sign it because they are a great ally. Sure. As we have the great George Washington aircraft carrier and many destroyers sailing right towards North Korea, I say to myself. They make millions of dollars with the US with TV’s, and cars. The agreement is horrendous. We are protecting them. Why aren’t we being paid for that? This nation is richer than us Why aren’t they paying us to sail ships over there, which costs millions. Q: So you are saying South Korea should pay us for protecting them? DT: Why don’t’ they. Why don’t we ask them for something? Instead, they give us a trade agreement that only an idiot would sign. Q: If you were chief executive, don’t you think Iraq owes us a few millions barrels of oil for the billions we spent there? DT: Iraq has $15 trillion in oil sitting under the ground. People don’t realize that after Saudi Arabia, Iraq is 2 in oil. We spent a $1.5 trillion. Pay us back. They should pay us back. I don’t know that Iraq is a great example because a lot of people say did we really do them a favor. It is a total mess and by the way. Iran will take over Iraq when we leave. They have been fighting for 100 years and now we neutered Iraq. Q; If you were president would you pull the boys out of Afghanistan? DT: I would as soon as I could. I’m a very hawkish person. I believe in really strong militaries. Stronger than what we have right now. What we are over there is police men. We didn’t lose the war. We are policemen over there. Q: In my book I said run the country like a business. Can’t run it at a loss forever right? DT: run it like business with compassion. There are certain time where the government really can help people and that is a great thing. You mentioned Afghanistan, think of this, $52 million dollars were given to somebody. It ended up in Dubai. We give $52 million in cash. I watch my cash business closely. Who is the general who gave the money. Who are the people who do that? Of the money that was given, how much was stolen? 00:12:15- Are you really ready to run for president? DT: I’m a proud American. I love this county. I’ve never seen anything like what is happening now. I’ve never seen OPEC go so crazy as they are right now. Oil is now $90.00 a barrel and should be around $30 $40. I’ve always been told by a smart friend of mine that when we have oil up above $30 $40 this country has to lose money. I believe it was OPEC and oil prices that really caused the almost demise of our economic nation. It got up to $150 a barrel. Q: It is a commodity that is almost acting like a currency. DT: The problem we have with the devalued dollar if you will be paying $25 for a loaf of bread, $10 for a coke, and the devalued dollar is no longer a respected currency is hurting this country. Look at the price of cooper, gold, all of these commodities including oil going through the roof and it is a very serious situation. Q: When will we know when you are going to run? DT: I will say I will make a decision sometime by June. We have Celebrity Apprentice coming up and I can’t run during that because then everyone would get equal TV time. The season 11 ends in the month of June and I will make a decision sometime then. What’s happening to this county is very sad and I’ve never seen it be such a whipping post. Q: If you run I would back you. We need someone like you. DT: Health care is destroying many many companies. I know for a fact, I have friends who are closing up their companies because they can’t afford health care. We recently signed a treaty with Russia, how would you like Russia dictating when and where we build missiles? Russia is telling what and where we can build. Q: Really concerns me. No debate on it. DT: They don’t want us to have a defense system. So you aren’t allowed to defend yourself, can’t build missiles, Russia is telling us what to do and they rush out to approve it. Unbelievable. 00:16:30 Thanks and good byes. Video File Label: 110110_MJL_607 Clip Label: 110110_MJL_607_A