Donald Trump was on 60 Minutes Sunday night, saying things like this about trade in an interview with Scott Pelley:



Trump: … Mexico, by the way, is taking our jobs. I love the Mexican people. They’re great people. But the leadership is too smart for our country. Ford Motor Company, moving a $2.5 billion plant to Mexico. Mexico.

Pelley: But there’s nothing you can do about that as president.

Trump: Sure there is.

Pelley: How do you keep them from exporting American jobs to Mexico?

Trump: Let’s say Ford, let’s say Ford moves to Mexico. If they want to sell that car in the United States they pay a tax. Here’s what’s gonna happen: They’re not going to build their plant there. They’re going to build it in the United States.

Pelley: But there is a North American Free Trade Agreement.

Trump: And there shouldn’t be. It’s a disaster.

Pelley: But it is there.

Trump: OK, yeah, but—

Pelley: If you’re president, you’re going to have to live with it.

Trump: Excuse me, we will either renegotiate it or we will break it. Because, you know, every agreement has an end.

Pelley: You can’t just break the law.

Trump: Excuse me, every agreement has an end. Every agreement has to be fair. Every agreement has a defraud clause. We’re being defrauded by all these countries.

Pelley: It’s called free trade—

Trump: No, it’s not.

Pelley: —and it is a plank—

Trump: It’s not the—

Pelley: —of the Republican platform.

Trump: Scott, we need fair trade. Not free trade. We need fair trade. It’s gotta be fair.