On Sunday, Former President Donald Trump reiterated a major campaign promise, vowing to make America “energy-dominant,” leading the world in energy and oil production.
During an interview with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures,” the 2024 Republican presidential nominee discussed several of his economic and energy policies, promising “to get energy way down,” along with his energy slogan “Drill, baby, drill.”
Trump also stressed the importance of bringing prices and inflation down, and argued that “if we bring energy down, other things are going to follow.”
Trump was also asked how his economic policy would differ from that of Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposed policies. He joked that he didn’t have enough time, saying “you’d have to give me the entire day,” but did say that he would “base it very strongly in energy.”
“We have more energy — we have more liquid gold, as I call it, under our feet than Saudi Arabia, than Russia, than anybody,” he said. “We’re going to be energy-dominant, we’re going to make a fortune, we’re going to supply it all over Europe, all over the world. We’re going to be double and triple what they’re doing. We’re going to have tremendous energy, and we’re going to lower our prices of energy.”
“Do you know people in New England — they pay some of the highest prices in the world because we don’t have a pipeline, because New York won’t let a pipeline go through a very poor section of New York,” he added.
Earlier in the interview, Trump had touted his economic achievements during his first term, including his tax cut policies, saying that his policies just before COVID would have reduced the national debt.
Trump also promised to work to create more jobs in the auto industry, and create a tariff system, encouraging the building of auto plants.
“Those people in Michigan that love me and that I love, and they’re going to give us a victory because their auto industry won’t exist in two years, if she [Harris] gets elected — China is going to make, and other countries are going to make, all the cars. They’re building some of the biggest auto plants.”
Trump promised to build plants that were “the biggest in the world.” When Bartiromo asked if it would be more expensive, he said, “No, it’ll be great, it’ll be unbelievable.”
“By the way, when you add it all up, including the taxes and everything else, we’re going to create jobs like you’ve never created before,” he added. “If you look at auto manufacturing, it’s down 64% from its high number of jobs and everything else. But we used to be the world manufacturer, and every year it gets eaten away, and a big factor is Mexico. Mexico stole 32% of our auto manufacturing. We’re going to say, ‘You want to do that? We’re putting tariffs on your cars coming in.’”
Trump said that within his first two weeks in office, he would begin to take steps to bring back the auto industry.
“We’re going to have more auto jobs than we’ve ever had, we’re bringing back the automobile industry, and we’re going to do that with tariffs,” he added. “We’re going to do that by saying we’re not going to accept. I put the tariffs on Chinese cars, you know that. Now Biden wants to take the tariffs off of Chinese cars — he wants to just tax the electric car. That’s not good enough. So we’re going to have more auto production in the United States than we’ve ever had before, and it’s going to happen very fast.”
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