Robert Pape

But a large part of this, and a lot of the business people will know this, and certainly Alan Greenspan will be able to come and tell you about this, is we are filling, this is the spread of global capitalism here to large parts of the world, even Vietnam, for example.

Vietnam today is almost a golden case of growth here, and it's really soaring from the 1990s on as the Cold War ends.

Well, that is a success story for America.

So we can say, you know, oh, poor us.

All we've done has been taken advantage of by the world.

We're making out like bandits here, and I think we need to understand that that's really healthy for us.

That's how we're staying at 26% of the world's GDP.

We're making out as change happens.

I am with you right there.

It's just we have no strategy to get there with President Trump.

All I can say is you are, I will say, there is no evident sign of that strategy.

And there's a lot of evidence of everything going negative.

So if this were two months ago, that would be a different story, Patrick.

But it's not two months ago.

This is not just the opening days where we're going to have a short air campaign and things are going to work out.

And President Trump has many off ramps here.

President Trump, we're now at, I believe this is day 60, if I remember right.

So we are now starting the third month of this campaign.

And so it is high time now for there, if there is a strategy, where we can be confident.

It's time.