Howard Lutnick
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So that's basically the model.
And when I was done with that two or three minutes, one person of the 200-odd people in the room booed, and I felt honored because it was Al Gore.
You know what I mean?
Alcor food.
And I was like, really?
No, I mean, I put it in the FT.
I mean, I wasn't like trying to be quiet about it.
I mean, I think that globalization, right, and the idea of global supply chains and finding the lowest cost, I mean, that is just not the way to take care of your auto workers, right, who are in Ohio and Michigan.
And so we're bringing that back.
So think about
this, when we were done with, we started auto tariffs, we started working on it in March, and we finished in November.
And we were done, the last day when we finished, General Motors and Ford stocks each went up 10%.
General Motors ended the year up 60%.
If I had told you on January 1st that General Motors was gonna be on 60%, you would all say, oh stop it.
And how about this, on that same day, Sean Fain, who runs the United Auto Workers, called me and said, I can't believe I'm calling a Republican
Secretary of Commerce to say, thank God for you and your administration.
You're the first administration who's actually taking care of the auto workers of America.
So think about that.
You can, if you really think it through, you can take care of the company and the worker.
You don't have to pick sides because we want union labor growth in America.