2016 ELECTION/CHINA/NAFTA/WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: “Since NAFTA was approved, we’ve lost nearly one-third of our manufacturing jobs in the United States. Since China entered the World Trade Organization, we’ve lost 60,000 factories. Hard to believe. Our trade deficit last year reached nearly $800 billion. Who’s making these deals? I can take anybody in the audience — you’ll do better, believe me.
These statistics really should have shaken up Washington to do action, but nothing happened. But something did happen — happened on November 8th [2016]. Believe me, it happened. It happened for you.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at American Center for Mobility | Detroit, MI,” whitehouse.gov, Mar. 15, 2017