President Donald J. Trump
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So we defend them.
A very bad deal for us.
We were paying, before I got there, I say we were paying 90% of the cost of NATO.
Yes.
And I hate to use this word because you have some young, brilliant future soldiers watching, but they screw us on trade.
So they screw us on trade and we're defending them.
It's always a one-way street.
You know, when I came in,
We had such bad trade deals with South Korea, with Japan.
Abe was great, by the way.
He's a great man.
He got assassinated.
But we had such bad trade deals with so many countries, China.
I made a great trade deal with China.
They have to buy $50 billion a year of our product.
But I don't even talk about it because when COVID came in, it was such a bad, you know.
I had a great relationship with President Xi, and I will again.
But I don't see a lot of people that go, you have to be tough with this.
We have so many advantages, but we're not going to have the advantages long if we don't get smart.
Because our country is going bad.