During his tariffs announcement, President Trump brought up Brian Pannebecker, a retired Michigan autoworker who founded Autoworkers for Trump, to speak.
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00:00That's why, effective at midnight, we will impose a 25 percent tariff on all foreign-made
00:06automobiles.
00:08Brian, I'd like to have you come up here for a second, okay?
00:18I just see him sitting.
00:19He's been a fan of ours, and he understands this business a lot better than the economists,
00:26a lot better than anybody.
00:27Brian, say a few words, please, would you?
00:31It's a great honor to have you.
00:32Thanks.
00:33Thank you, Mr. President.
00:34I grew up just north of Detroit, Michigan, in Macomb County, known as the home of the
00:38Reagan Democrats.
00:40My first vote for president was for Ronald Reagan.
00:43I thought that was going to be the best president I ever saw in my lifetime until Donald J.
00:47Trump came along.
00:51I have watched my entire life, I have watched plant after plant after plant in Detroit and
00:58in the metro Detroit area close.
01:00There are now plants sitting idle.
01:02There are now plants that are underutilized, and Donald Trump's policies are going to bring
01:08product back into those underutilized plants.
01:11There's going to be new investment.
01:13There's going to be new plants built, and the UAW members, and I brought 20 of them
01:18with me.
01:19They're sitting right over here.
01:21We support Donald Trump's policies on tariffs 100 percent.
01:26So Mr. President, we can't thank you enough, and in six months or a year, we're going to
01:31begin to see the benefits.
01:32I can't wait to see what's happening three or four years down the road.
01:36Thank you, Mr. President.
01:38Thank you so much.
01:40What a great guy.
01:41He got it right from the beginning.
01:43He got it before almost anybody else has gotten it.