Apparently Donald Trump doesn’t hate women, he hates China. At least that is what he says in his own words, making him a racist and not a sexist. (Good save!)
Once again, Trump hasn’t done himself any favors in his latest child-like Twitter rant. Commenting on Hillary Clinton’s latest ads campaigning against him, Trump says he was talking about China and not women when he is quoted: “You can tell them to go BLANK themselves (sic).”
The pathetic new hit ad against me misrepresents the final line. "You can tell them to go BLANK themselves" - was about China, NOT WOMEN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 17, 2016
Trump also hit back, bringing up Slick Willy’s infidelity while he was President. But again, he “didn’t start it…”
Amazing that Crooked Hillary can do a hit ad on me concerning women when her husband was the WORST abuser of woman in U.S. political history
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 17, 2016
This isn’t the first time Trump has had some pretty harsh words for China. In a YouTube video from April 2011, he called them [motherBLANKERS] as he threatened that he would tax Chinese imports by 25%.
During his campaign to secure the Republican presidential nomination, Trump has only increased his rhetoric against China, which is one of the largest holders of U.S. government debt. As part of his official positions on China’s trade reform, Trump highlights four pillars that he would pursue as president: call China out as a currency manipulator, force the nation to uphold intellectual property laws, end China’s illegal export subsidies and make America more competitive by lowering its corporate tax rate and also boost America’s military presence in the South China Sea.
However, many economists and market professionals note that Trump’s stance would create a massive trade war as nations would be expected to implement retaliatory policies, which would end up hurting the already beleaguered U.S. manufacturing sector, which relies heavily on global exports.
“There’s no way a tariff of this kind could deliver the kind of benefits that he’s talking about, and it’s quite wrong to think that the big problem for American workers has been foreign trade,” said J .W. Mason, a professor of economics at John Jay College and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, said in an May 2 interview with the New York Times.
In a Wall Street Journal article from March, research prepared by Moody’s Analytics said that retaliatory tariffs from China and Mexico would push America into a recession. Interestingly, if China and Mexico didn’t retaliate, U.S. growth would only “flatline.”
Trump’s comments haven’t gone unnoticed as China has also pushed back. In March, in a state-owned newspaper, the government condemned the presumptive Republican candidate as a “racist,” “narcissist” and a “clown.”
It is nice to see that Trump, while not even president, is willing to push the nation into another recession all because he doesn’t understand how intertwined America is with the global economy and vice versa.
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