PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, accused the Democratic president of undermining Democratic President Joe Biden's administration's efforts to once again launch significant policy in the United States.
Speaking to Breitbart News for more than two hours at the Mar-a-Lago resort in late December, President Trump said that while he was president, major critical industries would return to the United States from overseas. “It was happening,” he said. But now that Biden is president, Trump claimed that no such thing is happening anymore, despite the Biden White House claiming that he is interested in making things in the US again. .
President Trump said, “Even with the CHIPS Act, money is going overseas,'' one of Biden's signature legislative achievements, authorizing billions of dollars to make semiconductor chips again in the United States. criticized. “How about that?”
“We were moving in a big way to get everything back,” Trump continued. “I've done it through tariffs and other systems, but frankly, if you take our business, we're not going to protect you. We're not going to protect you if you take our business. I don’t want to lose business.”
The Trump administration saw major critical industries return to the country for the first time in decades, and other critical industries slowed out of the country. President Trump's steel and aluminum import tariffs essentially saved these industries. His US Steel, once a “powerhouse” company representing American power, is now under the Biden administration. reportedly It is probably about to be sold to a Japanese competitor.Now that Biden is in the White House, this is common in many industries, even the semiconductor industry after the CHIPS Act. failure It aims to equalize the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the metal industry in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, some reports published late last year suggested that President Biden would close down a proposed medical glove manufacturing facility after President Trump tried to revitalize one in the final stages of his administration. It is said that it was thwarted. It goes without saying what has happened to the auto industry under the Biden administration, but last fall it was so bad that the largest auto worker strike in years paralyzed the industry.
In the interview, President Trump pointed out that the United Auto Workers (UAW), which went on strike against three major U.S. automakers last year, is in big trouble because of Biden's push for electric vehicles. Trump therefore probably won't have the support of UAW Chairman Sean Fein (Fain is a committed Democrat), but he will win most of the rank-and-file. He argued that the United States did not have the necessary systems in place. American electric car.
“The United Auto Workers union is in great trouble because of this electric vehicle policy,” President Trump said. “We can't make electric cars in this country. The United Auto Workers union is in a very big problem. I think I can get their votes. He's probably a committed Democrat, so I don't think I'll probably be able to win at the top, but I think a lot of the unions will support me. Their people will vote for me. A lot of Teamsters employees will go and take the quiz. Get out there and vote. Their employees are voting for me.”
Immediately after this interview, President Trump met with Teamsters President Sean O'Brien. Asked for details on why he thinks he will win over these union members in November, President Trump said there are many reasons.
“I think there's a lot of things. I think they watch him on TV,” Trump said. “They're smart people. They look at him and know they can't vote for this guy. Look at this guy, he can't answer questions. How can they vote for him? These union people are smart. Unions that have never talked to Republicans before are talking to me, and I'm wondering why they're talking about this. Because I'm saying, can you support a man like this?”
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally for auto parts manufacturer Drake Enterprises in Clinton Township, Michigan, on September 27, 2023. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
President Trump said the Biden administration's policies to promote electric vehicles are failing commercially because consumers don't like them.
“First of all, he's selling to foreign countries at a level that no one has ever seen before,” Trump said. “He's going to let go of everything we were doing to get it back. What he's doing to the car companies is going to be a disaster. Why make these cars? I mean, car companies aren't that stupid because they get huge subsidies to make electric cars. They're sitting all over the United States right now, and they don't need an hour to charge. No one wants to buy it because they want to be able to drive it for a little while before they have to sit down. Electric car policy is a disaster. I'm not knocking electric cars. This kind of product They all sound great, but they're not very effective and they're very expensive.”
President Trump elaborated further on electric cars, saying that if drivers don't want to go “long distances” and have “money to burn,” electric cars are “okay,” but that all electric cars will be made in China. He said U.S. automakers will not be able to catch up. .
“If you don't want to drive long distances or if you have the money, an electric car is fine. They'll all be made in China,” Trump said. “There's a big plant out there. We can't do what China can do for it, but they can't do what we can do for something called gasoline. Even if we move to cars, the impact on emissions will be negligible, very negligible. If you immediately say that no cars burn, no cars provide gasoline. , the impact would be very small, but we're going through and he's actually destroying lives by doing this. Cars are too expensive. They're not made here. They're just far away. I’m not going to.”
Trump, who just won the Iowa caucuses, appears to be on track to win the Republican presidential nomination, and appears to be gearing up for a rematch with Biden, also said this in the interview. He told Breitbart News in part that he believed that would be the case because of these Biden failures. He is trying to cut into the Democratic coalition ahead of November and defeat Biden's election protections.
“The Democratic Party automatically has the advantage because they have the largest base of support,” Trump said. “They have a base of certain groups. I think that base is eroding. I think African Americans are coming to me. I think the unions are coming to me. Masu.”
President Trump talked about how a Democrat friend once asked him why he couldn't beat Biden by a wide margin in the polls.
“My friend is actually a Democrat, and he voted for me, and he called me and said, 'Can I ask you a question?'” Why did he only get a 10 or 11? Hasn't it gone up? It’s no big deal…” President Trump said. “I explained to him, 'No matter who it is, they have a base, they have an automatic base.' When you put a kid in there, their base score is he's a 39 or whatever. It will be.”
But Trump maintained that Democrats are concerned about him being the Republican presidential nominee and believe he is deploying nefarious tactics within the party. He noted how Democrats destroyed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is currently running as an independent, and are trying to do the same with Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.). Florida Democrats literally canceled the primary to crown Biden without giving voters a voice here in the Sunshine State.
“Look what they did to Kennedy,” President Trump said. “Look, Kennedy wasn't a threat, but his scoring percentage was 15 percent. That's embarrassing. You're the incumbent, but the guy over there is knocking you down. They think he's the election.” They've made it impossible for me to even function. It's unbelievable — and now they're saying I'm a threat to democracy? Dean Phillips, he's doing quite a bit, right?”
In this regard, Trump claimed that Democrats are masters of prediction. Part of the reason I think Trump is claiming he's a threat to democracy, fascists, authoritarians, anything they can think of is because they themselves engage in that very act. He said he was simply falsely accusing Trump of doing the same thing. not admitting their wrongdoing.
“They always do what they say,” Trump said of Democrats. “In other words, they're blaming you for their actions. That's what they did. They make a living doing it. If they were good at running it, they were doing it for years before I came along, but think about it. Look at their policies: high taxes, open borders, high interest rates. They're the worst. They have policies. They cause a lot of hatred. I think right now there is more division in this country than ever before. It started with Obama.”
