OPINION: Trump Fights Back in Industrial Warfare

OPINION: Trump Fights Back in Industrial Warfare
President Donald Trump with First Lady Melania Trump during the President's Make America Great Again Rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on July 25, 2017. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times
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Aluminium industry. Steel industry. Car industry. Aircraft industry. Donald Donald Trump is engaging all countries at all levels after decades of the United States being abused through poorly designed trade deals.

It was always going to be the case. The loss of industry after industry has left entire communities desolated by factories leaving the United States to go elsewhere to produce their products and send them right back into the United States to earn currency. Shareholders earned huge dividends and customers were delighted at the lower prices of goods and faster delivery of products through “pile them high and sell them cheap” strategies that benefited the companies that sold these products.

Most countries in the world took advantage of the liberal economic policies of the United States, which encouraged outsourcing to a degree never seen or done before in the history of the U.S. economy.