Trump SLAMS Biden TOTAL FLIP FLOP on Tariffs, eating our lunch; tariffs Biden criticized in 2020

Trump SLAMS Biden’s TOTAL FLIP FLOP on Tariffs: I said where have you been for 3½ years? They should have done it a long time ago. China is eating our lunch - and they went away from what I was doing… it was VERY BAD for the auto industry.

Reporter: “In 2019, Biden slammed President Trump’s tariffs and pledged to reverse them. Why did he change his mind?

USTR Katherine Tai: No he didn’t!

(Yes he did)

REPORTER: “How do you respond to criticism that these tariffs are not enough and have come too late?”

USTR Katherine Tai: “We have put a lot of heart and a lot of effort!”

REPORTER: So Biden is keeping in place tariffs he criticized during the 2020 campaign?

US Trade Rep. Katherine Tai: Yes

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Key Points

Trump SLAMS Biden’s TOTAL FLIP FLOP on Tariffs: I said where have you been for 3½ years

• They should have done it a long time ago
• China is eating our lunch - and they went away from what I was doing
• it was VERY BAD for the auto industry

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• I just want to start by saying that on the electric vehicles that Biden is pushing down everybody’s throat even though people don’t want him
• They’re eating our lunch so they have to do it on much more than electric vehicles and they have to get going fast but it should have been done three and a half years ago
• I did it and I started and then they started playing games and it was very bad, very bad for the auto industry
• In Michigan the auto industry is doing very poorly because jobs are starting to leave
• We’re losing, you know, with the electric vehicle mandate they’re going to be made in China
• They’re all going to be made in China and also in Mexico owned by China
• I know that these new tariffs are seen as more targeted and strategic but the administration has chosen to keep in place those Trump-era tariffs on some 300 billion dollars worth of goods which Biden himself had said in 2019 that Americans are paying for
• So why make that decision to keep it in place and aren’t you concerned that it’s going to keep prices elevated
• So first of all let me say a couple things
• In terms of the price that Americans paid for in the previous era, some of that, maybe a lot of it, was about the chaos and unpredictability that it created and the escalation that resulted

Full transcript: 635 words transcribed via Whisper AI.