Donald Trump's Michigan Speech Appealing to Black Voters, Working Class (Text Transcript and Full Video)
One thing we know for sure is that if you keep voting for the same people you will keep getting the same result.
My Administration will go to work for you as no one ever has.
By contrast, the one thing every item in Hillary Clinton's agenda has in common is that it takes jobs and opportunities from African-American workers. Her support for open borders. Her fierce opposition to school choice. Her plan to massively raise taxes on small businesses. Her opposition to American energy. And her record of giving our jobs away to other countries.
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America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton who sees communities of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.
Hillary Clinton would rather provide a job to a refugee from overseas than to give that job to unemployed African-American youth in cities like Detroit who have become refugees in their own country.
It is time to get our country back to work, and that includes an all-out effort to help young African-Americans get the good-paying jobs they deserve.
Hillary Clinton's plan would bring in an estimated 620,000 refugees in her first term – at a lifetime benefit cost of some $400 billion dollars, according to the U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee. She wants to be America's Angela Merkel. By the way, for the price of supporting 1 refugee in the United States, we could support 12 in a safe zone in the Middle East.
The improved refugee screening standards I have proposed will save countless billions of dollars. We will invest a portion of the money saved in a jobs program for inner city youth.
The African-American community has given so much to this country. They've fought and died in every war since the Revolution. They've lifted up the conscience of our nation in the long march for Civil Rights. They've sacrificed so much for the national good. Yet, nearly 4 in 10 African-American children still live in poverty, and 58% of young African-Americans are not working.
We must do better as a country. I refuse to believe that the future must be like the past.
In a Trump Administration, all workers – of all colors – will get priority for jobs in their own country. I want higher wages for African-Americans, for Hispanic-Americans, for all Americans.
Hillary Clinton is a throwback to an ugly past where politicians preyed on our poorest citizens while selling them out for personal gain.
We must turn the page on yesterday. Only a change in leadership will produce a change in outcomes.
In this New American Future, American workers will always come first.
This will include a complete revitalization of the Michigan manufacturing sector, which has been so badly hurt by Hillary Clinton's policies.
We are bringing the jobs back to Michigan.
Michigan lost more than 1 in 4 of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA. As you know, NAFTA was signed by President Bill Clinton. It was supported by Hillary Clinton. Right here, in this community, you've lost 1 in 7 manufacturing jobs since Bill Clinton put China into the World Trade Organization – another Hillary Clinton-backed deal. Detroit lost more than 1 in 3 manufacturing jobs following the NAFTA and WTO agreements supported by my opponent.
No industry has been hurt more by Hillary Clinton's policies than the car industry. It's been a total disaster.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000.
In 2014, GM announced plans to double its investments in Mexico by 2018.
In April 2016, Ford Motor Company announced plans to invest $1.6 billion constructing an auto plant in Mexico.
That same month, Fiat Chrysler announced 1,300 layoffs. Lear Corporation launched plans to build two new factories in Mexico.
The list goes on and on.
We will turn it all around. But to do that, we have to win in November.
The destruction that NAFTA started will be finished off if the Trans-Pacific Partnership is approved. We know from Hillary's closest friend, Terry McAuliffe, that she is planning to ram through the TPP if she's elected. She even called the TPP the "gold standard."
It's passage would be a disaster. We won't let it happen.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the U.S. trade deficit with the proposed TPP member countries cost over 1 million manufacturing jobs in 2015.
By far the biggest losses occurred in motor vehicles and parts, which lost nearly 740,000 manufacturing jobs.
