I just want to be fair. I want to be a firm and fair trader.
The problem is, we have leaders and negotiators that don't realize we have the power. And they're essentially incompetent. And we would be able to straighten out that thing.
China only did the biggest devaluation in 20 years, only for one reason. Because they could get away with it.
I will make great deals with China and they will like us more than they do now. You know they don't even like us.
We have deficits with everybody. Who do we have a positive with?
I ordered all of these sets [ from South Korea] and I'm thinking to myself, this is ridiculous. We don't even make televisions here [in U.S].
Now, when North Korea rears its head, we send our ships, we send our planes, we get ready, we got our 28,000 soldiers on the border, that's a seriously dangerous border by the way, they've got their million and a half man army and we have 28,000 soldiers. But here we are, doing this, protecting, and I am saying to myself, we don't even get money; we don't get anything for doing this.
I don't mind being at their side, with respect to the Ukraine. But why should we always be out front? How many times can we be out in front on these issues?
[We] mention the South China Sea, we mention North Korea, South Korea, we mention Ukraine. We could mention five others. Yemen, and this, and that. How many places can we do this? We have a country that is a debtor nation, we have an infrastructure that is crumbling all over the place, 60% of the bridges we have in this country are in trouble.
There are certain areas which ISIS has the oil and you take the oil, you keep it. You just go in and take it.
We cannot continue to be a policeman for the rest of the world.
I said in 2004,in fact a group was sent to me from the White House to try talk to me, because I was getting a lot of publicity.I said it in 2004, you're going to destabilize the Middle East, Iran is going to take over Iraq... and somebody else is going to help and that turned out to be ISIS. It's an exact.
We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.
Now, with that being said, we cannot allow, we shouldn't have gone into Iraq.
Look, Iraq and Iran would fight for years and years and years, it went on forever. They were almost identical strengths, and the line would never move, right? Then they would go home and rest for ten years and then they would start fighting and they'd rest, that was it. We knocked out one of those two pegs, and so now Iran is taking over.
The deal with Iran is so stupid, it's so insanely stupid, that when people vote for me, they know I don't make deals like that. I get our prisoners back, I don't have 24 day inspection periods, I don't have self-inspection where they inspect themselves, I don't give them $150 billion that they can use for terrorism all over the world.
I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal.
I don't make a deal with Sergeant Bergdahl, where we get Bergdahl, a traitor, and they get their five people that they most wanted. Five for one.
I've heard the term ["silent majority"], but for the last 20 years I really haven't heard the term. But I went to a rally in Alabama, and there were 31,000 people there, you've seen it, you've read about it. And I looked and I said, this is the silent majority. Though they weren't silent, because they want to see proper change, not [Barack] Obama change.
Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.
Look I'm politically correct, I went to a great school, I was a good student, look, I'm a smart guy.
The words "silent majority" are very descriptive of what is happening with me.
I do great with Tea Party, I do great with conservatives I do great with moderates, I do great with evangelicals, I do great with everybody.
Look at evangelicals, you can't even use the word "Christmas" any more, Macy's doesn't use the word "Christmas". With me, it is going to stop, it is going to stop, and they understand that.
Great people in the United States have been disenfranchised.I'll give you an example, it has always been the way to do it, to work hard, save your money, put your money in the bank, get interest on your money and retire wealthy, at least modestly wealthy. Well, the people that have done that have been hurt terribly because there is no interest on your money. You get no money. I just signed for some CDs where you are getting a quarter of one percent. A quarter of one percent! They don't even want your money, the banks.