'That Means We Lose Less Money': Trump Celebrates Slowing Traffic At Ports Due To Tariffs

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump spoke about the slowing traffic at ports due to tariffs.

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00:00business has slowed down as you mentioned we're seeing but we're seeing as a result the ports

00:05here in the US the traffic has really slowed and now thousands of dock workers and truck drivers

00:12are worried about their jobs is that that means we lose less money you know when I see that that

00:17means we lose less money look China was making over a trillion 1.1 trillion in my opinion you

00:22know different numbers from 500 billion to a trillion or a trillion what I think was 1.1

00:27trillion and frankly if we didn't do business we would have been better off okay you understand

00:32that so when you say it slowed down that's that's a good thing not a bad thing but we're going to

00:38make it so they can I'd like to say they could do better actually in terms of the bottom line

00:43we'd like to see China opened up so we can compete in China and you know give people something that

00:50they've never had you know access to something that'd be great for the world it would be great

00:54for our businesses and I think it would be great for friendship I really expect a lot of people

00:58think I'm a militant guy I'm really not I think that trade can bring a greater friendship with China

01:05can be something good but you know one of the things that I know Scott's going to be talking

01:09about very high on the list is open up and let our businesses go into China because when you talk

01:15about a closed country that's a really closed country and I think it would be great if it was opened

01:21up give people a lot of choice and would create a lot of jobs a lot of everything so I think it

01:26would be a great thing for China and that's going to be one of the things we'll be discussing like

01:30we discussed with UK