Trump Vows To Save Auto Industry From ‘Complete Obliteration’: I'll End The EV Mandate 'On Day One’

3 months ago

During his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, former President Donald Trump delivered remarks on EV legislation.

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00:00And I will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one, thereby saving the U.S. auto industry

00:19from complete obliteration, which is happening right now, and saving U.S. customers thousands

00:25and thousands of dollars per car.

00:32And right now, as we speak, large factories, just started, are being built across the border

00:38in Mexico.

00:39So with all the other things happening on our border, and they're being built by China

00:44to make cars and to sell them into our country, no tax, no anything.

00:49The United Auto Workers ought to be ashamed for allowing this to happen.

00:54And the leader of the United Auto Workers should be fired immediately, and every single

00:59auto worker, union and non-union, should be voting for Donald Trump, because we're going

01:05to bring back car manufacturing, and we're going to bring it back fast.

01:14They're building some of the largest auto plants anywhere in the world.

01:18Think of it.

01:19In the world, we're going to bring it back.

01:21We're going to make them.

01:23We don't mind that happening, but those plants are going to be built in the United States,

01:27and our people are going to man those plants.

01:35And if they don't agree with us, we'll put a tariff of approximately 100 to 200 percent

01:40on each car, and they will be unsellable in the United States.

01:47We have long been taken advantage of by other countries.

01:52And think of it.

01:53Oftentimes, these other countries are considered so-called allies.

01:56They've taken advantage of us for years.

01:58We lose jobs, we lose revenue, and they gain everything and wipe out our businesses, wipe

02:04out our people.

02:05I stopped it.

02:06For four years, I stopped it.

02:08And we're really ready to make changes like nobody had seen before.

02:12And remember, USMCA, I got rid of NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever made, and replaced

02:18it with USMCA, which is, they say, the best trade deal ever made.

Trump Vows To Save Auto Industry From ‘Complete Obliteration’: I'll End The EV Mandate 'On Day One’

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