Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would steal jobs from other countries if he’s elected to the White House once more – as he attacked rival Kamala Harris for being more ‘cognitively impaired’ than President Joe Biden.
Trump traveled to Savannah, Georgia to lay out his economic vision, but the speech also took some turns.
In 82 minutes, he also spoke about the double assassination attempts, the Philadelphia debate, his beef with Oprah Winfrey and exploding hydrogen cars.
‘Under my leadership, we are going to take other countries’ jobs,’ Trump said. ‘Your only worry will be which job to take,’ he promised his supporters to loud cheers.
Trump said he would entice companies to produce products in the U.S. by threatening them with tariffs if they refused.
‘I will give you the lowest taxes, the lowest energy cost, the lowest regulatory burden and free access to the best and biggest market on the planet,’ he said. ‘But only if you make your product here in America.’
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would steal jobs from other countries if he’s elected to the White House once more – as he attacked rival Kamala Harris for being more ‘cognitively impaired’ than President Joe Biden
Former President Donald Trump dances to The Village People’s YMCA at the conclusion of his 82-minute speech in Savannah, Georgia on Tuesday. Trump talked about some economic proposals but also spoke about his beef with Oprah Winfrey and exploding hydrogen cars
The Harris campaign had rolled out billionaire Mark Cuban in the hours ahead of Trump’s economic speech who told reporters over Zoom that the Republican ‘says things off the top of his head that tend to often be ridiculous, if not insane.’
Cuban then proceeded to explain why several of Trump’s proposed economic policies wouldn’t work.
At his Savannah stop, Trump talked about how he wanted German car companies to become American companies – but that talk eventually segued to his detest of electric cars – though he carved out a compliment for Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who endorsed him.
‘Elon Musk is great. He makes an excellent car. And he endorsed me at a level you wouldn’t believe,’ Trump said.
From there, the ex-president warned about the cars of the future – hydrogen-powered vehicles.
‘The new thing – and I’m sure Elon will get it if it’s any good – but it’s got one little problem: it explodes,’ Trump said. ‘Hydrogen. ‘They say the new thing is hydrogen cars. But they’re having a problem. If it explodes you end up about seven blocks away and you’re dead.’
Trump talked about how he wouldn’t allow the Japanese company Nippon to buy the Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, which is currently under review by a U.S. national security panel.
Former President Donald Trump points out into the crowd as he filled the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center in downtown Savannah, Georgia on Tuesday. Trump’s economic-focused speech took a number of twists and turns
And then from there, he spoke a bit about the state of the 2024 race.
Trump boasted that he was holding more events than Harris – and that he won the Philadelphia debate against Harris earlier this month.
‘We’re definitely outworking the opposition,’ the 78-year-old former president said. ‘She was so bad,’ he added of Harris’ debate performance, despite most polls showing that she was the clear winner.
‘We absolutely destroyed her,’ Trump claimed.
‘Throughout his remarks, he pushed that Harris wasn’t quite right.
‘We talk about cognitive problems. She’s got bigger cognitive problems than he does,’ he said at one point.
‘If you saw her with Oprah the other day, or if you saw some of these interviews, there’s something going on up there. We just had four years of that. We can’t have another four years. Not going to happen,’ Trump said at another.
The ex-president also explained how Winfrey, who hosted a Hollywood-filled special for Harris in Michigan last week and spoke before the Democratic National Convention, ‘loved’ him before he entered politics.
Trump told supporters how Winfrey called his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago ‘the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen’ and how the longtime talk show host convinced the real estate developer to hold a funeral at the property for their friend, the late CBS CEO Roger King in 2007.
‘She loved the key lime pie,’ Trump said of Winfrey’s time spent at Mar-a-Lago.
The ex-president also falsely claimed that Harris made up that she worked at a McDonald’s as a student.
‘She lied about McDonald’s. She said, “I was a worker at McDonald’s and I stood over the French fries,”‘ Trump said. ‘I’m going to a McDonald’s over the next two weeks and I’m going to stand over the French fries because I’m going to see what her job really wasn’t like.’
‘She never worked there, it was a lie,’ he told the crowd.
Former President Donald Trump stands below the chart he credits with saving his life. As he had turned his head to look at it when Butler, Pennsylvania shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks took his shot. ‘I sleep with that chart every night. I kiss it. I love it,’ Trump said in Savannah
He spent a lengthy amount of time recalling the two attempts on his life.
Trump credited God for being responsible for saving him in Butler, Pennsylvania and said of West Palm Beach, ‘I’m telling you God was watching there too.’
The ex-president also heralded the immigration chart he was looking at in Butler when shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks took his shot.
‘I sleep with that chart every night. I kiss it. I love it,’ he said.
The audience cheered as the chart was displayed.
Trump appeared to fill the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center – a smaller venue than where he usually holds rallies – in downtown Savannah.
Savannah is one of Georgia’s blue dots – with the broader Chatham County going for Biden over Trump 59 percent to 40 percent four years ago.
Harris paid a trip to the city in late August.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, sporting a red dress and cowboy boots, was among the Republican politicians tasked to warm up former President Donald Trump’s Savannah crowd on Tuesday
Ahead of Trump’s appearance, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was among those tasked to warm up the crowd.
Greene sported a red dress and cowboy boots and got much louder cheers than other Georgia Republicans, including former Sen. David Perdue, whose 2021 election loss helped tilt the Senate to the Democrats.
The congresswoman told the audience that ‘November 5 is a job interview.’
‘Are we going to hire a woman who has received a government paycheck her entire life – abusing government power?’ Greene asked. ‘Or are we going to hire a successful businessman?’ she said to cheers.
‘The American people are not stupid but the media thinks you are,’ she continued. ‘They want to convince you that Donald Trump is all these nasty things that they have been calling him. Well, all of those nasty names and all of that talk nearly got him assassinated – twice.’
Sharp-shooters were seen walking into the auditorium Tuesday ahead of Trump’s visit, as security has been heightened around the ex-president.
Harris plans to deliver her own economic-focused addressed on Wednesday from Pittsburgh.
Ahead of former President Donald Trump’s economic-focused speech Tuesday in Savannah, businessman Mark Cuban appeared on a Zoom on behalf of the Harris campaign, to push that her economic policies were more concrete
Ahead of Trump’s remarks, the Harris-Walz campaign tapped Cuban to rebuff the GOP nominee’s economic plans.
‘In a nutshell, the vice president, her team, thinks through her policies,’ Cuban said Tuesday morning. ‘She doesn’t just off the top of her head say what she thinks the crowd wants to hear like the Republican nominee.’
Cuban noted that the Harris campaign has a ‘whole policy team’ and when he asks them a question ‘I get back a serious, well-studied response.’
‘That’s the antithesis of what Donald Trump is doing,’ Cuban said.
Cuban took issue with Trump’s recent threat to tariff John Deere by 200 percent if the company moved to Mexico.
The Shark Tank star explained that the net result of such a move would be that Trump would make Chinese manufacturers more competitive against John Deere.
‘You literally face the destruction of one of the most historied companies in the United States of America,’ Cuban said, calling the Trump-proposed policy ‘ridiculously bad and destructive.’
Cuban also mocked Trump’s push to have credit card interest rates capped at 10 percent.
‘Next in the what-the-hell-is-he-thinking list is the 10 percent price cap on credit card interest rates. I mean literally, Bernie Sanders suggested a cap of only 15 percent. right?’ Cuban said. ‘So now you have Donald Trump getting involved in price caps and price controls to a greater extent than self-described socialist Bernie Sanders.’
‘And I think that just says so much about how far Donald has gone to his socialist and communistic tendencies, right?’ Cuban poked.
The billionaire investor said he realized it ‘sounds funny and a little bit out of whack.’
‘These things he takes off the top of his head, he just makes up in real time and everyone around him tries to justify it,’ the Harris surrogate said. ‘And that’s the even crazier part.’