That’s what former President Donald Trump told foreign companies during a campaign speech in Georgia Tuesday, proposing a “deal” that they can’t refuse so they can set up shop on US shores.
During the appearance in Savannah, the 45th president offered 15% corporate tax rates for companies that manufacture in the US, reduced regulations, cheap energy, and access to both federal land and port infrastructure — but only if the companies hire American workers and move their manufacturing facilities to the US.
“For years, Americans have watched as our country was stripped of jobs and wealth and our companies were sold off to foreign countries. You’ve been watching, and it’s been a horror show,” the 78-year-old Republican nominee said before vowing to “take other countries’ jobs” and “their factories.”
“American workers will no longer be worried about losing your jobs to foreign nations. Instead, foreign nations will be worried about losing their jobs to America.”
Trump promised his administration would “set up special zones of federal land, ultra low taxes and regulations for American producers” — that he claimed would incentivize foreign businesses to move en masse — and will “expedite environmental approvals” to unleash natural resources.
He also vowed to name a “manufacturing Ambassador” who would be solely tasked with convincing foreign industries to come to the US.
Trump also hit Vice President Kamala Harris over her economic plans, blasting her support for the Green New Deal, new federal spending that will increase inflation and her plan to repeal Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
“Under Kamala, there will be no car industry, no steel industry, no significant manufacturing of any kind, and we will be at risk of military defeat,” Trump claimed.
“Under Kamala, there will be no car industry, no steel industry, no significant manufacturing of any kind, and we will be at risk of military defeat,” Trump claimed, adding that if the “liberal agenda” is destroyed, “everyone will prosper. Every family will thrive. And every day will be filled with opportunity and hope.”
If companies don’t agree to his deal, Trump said he will levy tariffs similar to those he has imposed on other foreign merchandise imported into the US.
“We will put a 100% tariff on every single car coming across the Mexican border and tell them, the only way they’ll get rid of that tariff is, if they want to build a plant right here in the United States,” Trump said.
“We will put a 100% tariff on every single car coming across the Mexican border and tell them, the only way they’ll get rid of that tariff is, if they want to build a plant right here in the United States,” Trump said, before predicting that his policy would particularly benefit the US auto industry.
“It’ll be like it was 50 years ago, and these jobs will become roaring back, and they’re going to — we’re going to be making autos at a level that before we’ll be making cars bigger, better, more beautiful, stronger and faster than ever before,” he said.
“Billions of people around the globe will soon be buying products proudly stamped, ‘Made in the USA.’”
The former president has vowed repeatedly to block top companies like US Steel and John Deere from potentially moving their operations abroad and has said he will fight to boost American production so jobs are not decimated domestically.
“I’m just notifying John Deere right now, if you [move manufacturing to Mexico], we’re putting a 200% tariff on everything that you want to sell into the United States,” Trump said Monday at a farmers roundtable event in Pennsylvania.
He remarked in Georgia on US Steel, which is the subject of a takeover bid by Japan-based Nippon Steel.
“I will stop it. We got to do it fast. We got to work fast. But we’re not going to let it happen,” he said of the Japan deal.
Revenue from the economic migration, Trump said will be in the “trillions” of dollars and Americans will see the benefits within two years.
The campaign event was held in Savannah to highlight the large port in the city of the critical swing state.
He promised the voters in the Peach State that manufacturing will return to Georgia under his leadership and that their port will be used for the products.
“We had, we had a little bit to do with that deeper port. Under my leadership, we helped deepen the port,” he said. “You know that we helped deepen the port once, and now I understand they want to do it again, and we will, we will get in and we will get that done very quickly. We’ll work with you, governor, and we’re going to get that done very quickly
