President Trump re-upped his assaults on low-cost Chinese language imports and stood by his assertion that American kids might be tremendous in the event that they “have two dolls instead of 30.”
“I don’t think that a beautiful baby girl needs – that’s 11 years old – needs to have 30 dolls,” Trump reiterated to NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday.
“I think they can have three dolls or four dolls because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.”
Final week, Trump raised eyebrows for suggesting that kids might be tremendous if they’ve fewer dolls with which to play. Prime coverage adviser Stephen Miller later mused that dolls manufactured in China “might have … lead paint in it.”
The president emphasised that he’s not predicting that American customers will see empty retailer cabinets, however quite that he’s merely attempting to shut the commerce deficit with China.
“No, I’m not saying that,” he mentioned when requested about whether or not he was anticipating shortages. “I’m just saying they don’t need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
The president burdened that “we don’t have to waste money on a trade deficit with China” for “junk that we don’t need” and ripped into America’s longstanding commerce imbalance.
In April, Trump ratcheted up tariffs on imports from China to 145% for many items, with a couple of exemptions in place.
