If he wins the US election, Donald Trump wants to implement an aggressive industrial policy – to the detriment of Germany and other countries. He announced this during a campaign appearance.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced an aggressive industrial policy if he wins the election – to the detriment of trading partners such as Germany and other countries. “We will take jobs away from other countries,” Trump said on Tuesday at a campaign event in Savannah, Georgia. “I want German car companies to become American car companies.”
For years, the US has watched “other countries steal our jobs,” said the 78-year-old Republican, who has championed the isolationist “America First” policy for years. “We will take over their factories,” Trump continued. If he returns to the White House, he will also ensure that US companies such as General Electric and IBM, which have left the US, “return to our shores full of remorse.”
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He wants to achieve this by offering companies in special economic zones “the lowest taxes, the lowest energy costs, the lowest regulatory burden and free access to the best and largest market in the world” – but on the condition that they produce in the USA. If they choose not to manufacture their products in the USA, they would have to pay high tariffs when importing them into the United States.
Once again, the real estate billionaire made derogatory comments and false claims about the energy transition in Germany. Under the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), Germany decided to phase out energy production using fossil fuels. “Germany was in the process of destroying itself,” said Trump. Then Merkel was replaced “by someone else who is now building a new coal-fired power plant in Germany every week.”
Trump: Kamala Harris wants to make politics like Germany
The right-wing populist referred to Germany as a negative example of a policy that his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris is also pursuing. Because of her climate and environmental policies to curb global warming, companies are “fleeing” the USA, Trump said. Already in his first term in office (2017-2021), Trump had pursued an aggressive trade policy and imposed a series of punitive tariffs on products from the European Union.
The former president and the incumbent Vice President Harris are neck and neck in the battle for the White House in the polls. Georgia is one of the so-called swing states, where people sometimes vote for the Republican and sometimes for the Democratic candidate. The outcome of the presidential election on November 5 will be decided in these states due to the peculiarities of the US electoral system.
Source: Stern
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