Speaking to reporters in Morristown, New Jersey, President Trump discussed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's comments about textile manufacturing.
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00:00President Trump, Secretary of the U.S. New York Post.
00:04Oh, well, I like the New York Post.
00:06I like Keith Poole.
00:08Okay.
00:09So, Secretary...
00:10Now I'm going to be nicer to him.
00:12I didn't know he was with him.
00:13Go ahead.
00:14Secretary Besant has said that we don't need to return
00:16textile manufacturing to the United States.
00:18Yes.
00:19How do you see, like, a lot of your reciprocal tariffs,
00:21they're pretty big on those low-income countries?
00:23Yeah, no, I tend to agree.
00:25We're not looking to make sneakers and T-shirts.
00:28We want to make military equipment.
00:30We want to make big things.
00:31We want to make, do the AI thing with the computers
00:34and the many, many, many, many elements.
00:38But the textile, you know, I'm not looking to make T-shirts,
00:43to be honest.
00:44I'm not looking to make socks.
00:45We can do that very well at other locations.
00:48We are looking to do chips and computers and lots of other things.
00:52And tanks and ships, meaning ships, yeah.
00:57You mentioned that you were happy with the...