JD Vance Brushes Off Canada's Retaliatory Actions Against Trump Tariffs

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At a press briefing at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, Vice President JD Vance responded to Canada's responses to President Trump's tariffs.

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00:00The tariffs. There's been some retaliation, some signals at least, in the media that Canada is going to respond.

00:08Some of these others are going to respond to the President's tariffs.

00:11What's your message for Americans that are going to see costs increase on auto manufacturing, new cars, that kind of thing?

00:18Is it buy America or what's the message going forward there?

00:22Well, let me say a couple of things.

00:24First of all, for the Canadians, and we have many dear friends in Canada, and of course we love the Canadian people,

00:31but the Canadian leadership threatening retaliatory tariffs against the United States, as President Trump often says,

00:37they just don't have the cards.

00:39There is no way that Canada can win a trade war with the United States.

00:43What President Trump has said is that he wants to level the playing field.

00:47For decades, Canadian leadership has forced American farmers and American manufacturers to play by an unfair set of rules.

00:55All President Trump has said is that we're done playing by an unfair set of rules.

00:59If you're going to do something to our industries, then we're going to do something back to your industries.

01:04That's how you protect American manufacturing, and that's how you protect American jobs.

01:08Now, what I'd say to the American people is, look, the President ran on this,

01:13and he said very clearly that we're done being the piggy bank of the entire world.

01:18For 40 years, in the same way that our European friends, I think, have neglected international security,

01:24for 40 years, a lot of our friends all over the world have used America as a piggy bank.

01:29They have used us to absorb all of their excess economic production.

01:33What does that mean for Americans?

01:35For Americans, that's meant manufacturing jobs declining.

01:38That's meant middle-class wages going down.

01:41That's meant whole towns that have been hollowed out by empty factories,

01:45and that means an America that is less safe because our manufacturing isn't as powerful now as it was 30 years ago.

01:51I've got all these brave Americans in front of me and a few behind me, too.

01:55We want to send, if God forbid we have to send Americans to war,

02:00we want them to have weapons, the best weapons in the world, that are manufactured in America and not in China.

02:06The way you do that is to rebuild the American manufacturing sector.

02:10The days of America being the piggy bank of the world, the days of closed factories,

02:14the days of people not being able to get a middle-class job in this country, they're over.

02:19And yes, that means we're going to have to fight back even against some of our friends and their unfair economic practices,

02:24but the long-term consequence of this is going to be higher wages, more manufacturing,

02:29and more economic security for the American people.

02:32I'll take a couple more questions.

JD Vance Brushes Off Canada's Retaliatory Actions Against Trump Tariffs

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