Donald Trump on Wednesday morning said that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is the only other candidate in the presidential race who cares about trade issues and believes that the United States is “being ripped off.”
During an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Trump mentioned that his campaign has focused a lot on trade — the real estate mogul has slammed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and said he would “make great trade deals” as president.
“We’re being ripped off by everybody. And I guess that’s the thing that Bernie Sanders and myself have in common. We know about the trade,” Trump said on MSNBC. “But unfortunately he can’t do anything to fix it, whereas I will. I have the best people in the world, and we’ll fix it. We’re losing hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a year. And we will fix it. And we’ll make it good. And we’ll bring our jobs back.”
“Bernie Sanders can’t even think in terms of that,” Trump continued. “The only thing he does know, and he’s right about, is that we’re being ripped off. He says that constantly, and I guess he and I are the only two that really say that.”
Sanders, who won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, has blasted the TPP for more than a year.
Watch Trump’s interview on MSNBC. He starts talking about trade near the 1:40 mark.
Hey, Trump, there is a big difference between Bernie’s nuanced and knowledgeable criticism and your loudmouth sloganeering.
Would Donald assign the same brilliant minds to trade issues he had negotiating with the Scottish authorities over this golf resort deal?
LONDON—Donald Trump on Wednesday lost a protracted legal battle over a wind farm within sight of his Scottish golf resort as Britain’s highest court dismissed his appeal to halt construction.
The ruling comes amid growing disdain between the billionaire Republican presidential candidate and Scotland, where Mr. Trump in 2006 parlayed his ancestry into a $1.19 billion luxury hotel and links course near Aberdeen.
Trump was initially welcomed by Scotland’s pro-independence politicians, who saw the golf course as a source of jobs and tourist dollars along an unfashionable stretch of blustery coastline. However, relations between the real-estate mogul and Scotland’s nationalist government deteriorated sharply after it gave a local company permission to erect 11 giant wind turbines a few miles off the Aberdeen coast.
In a unanimous decision, five Supreme Court judges on Wednesday rejected arguments by Mr. Trump’s lawyers that the Scottish government had erred by allowing Aberdeen Wind Farm Ltd. to erect their proposed wind farm so close to his Menie Estate.
Neither should be president.
And in comes Donald with the giant bear hug.
I’d say that this is a fine line that Sanders needs to walk re: having Rump agree with anything he says.