welcomes, starting with debbie dingell. secretary of state and board member jocelyn benson with us. michigan's taught minority leader is with us today. the former gec ceo, beth chapel. and of course the board chair, sandy pierce. welcome. you also know that students are near and dear to the detroit economic club. courtesy of our generous corporate sponsors, their morning began with a private reception with president trump. we have students from saint katherine tai school. thanks to an anonymous donor. thank you. thank you to baker tilly.

wayne state university. thanks to the dow chemical company. an open university thanks to the motor city casino and hotel. how about one big round of applause. i always want to take a moment to thank our corporate sponsors and partners. we would not be here if it was not for their generosity. they are the reason we can do programs like today. thank you to those sponsors and partners. our speaking lineup is packed. we have something for everybody this fall. we are back at it next tuesday we host the president of the diversity of michigan, wayne state and others. tons more to calm so get your tickets before they sell out. 90 years of speakers i mentioned. since 1960, the detroit economic

club has hosted nine u.s. presidents and tons of presidential candidates. that's nick singh, ford, carter, reagan -- that's nixon, ford, carter, reagan, bush sr., jr., and president trump that's a record for the detroit economic club. you have been patient. time to get the program started and i will do so by introducing our presiding officer. when he does come out, it will be ambassador -- be an ambassador and chairman of will bridge. he served our country as ambassador to the uae from 2019 to 2021 during an important time in our country's relations with the you a. he is a dec board member and a proud supporter. john does so much for so many here in michigan and i want to personally thank john for

helping to get president trump here today. you will see him. you will see him momentarily. enjoy the event and please join the detroit economic club. thank you. [applause] >> what a great looking crowd. having had the honor of working for president trump, i can assure you that he's exactly the kind of person you want to go into battle with, a man of conviction, no fear, the tip of the spear, and the man who gets things done. during his four years in the white house, his domestic policy achievements, many of which were brought -- which brought the public and private sectors

together was unprecedented successful. we thought of all the things he did unbelievably with precision, with speed, you might even say warp speed. he built a prospering economy that lifted real wages for people in our nation's lowest income levels, achieving some of the strongest employment numbers in our lifetime. also tackled inflation and they brought under control for those four years and couple of decades. more than any other president in modern. a first president in 30 years to avoid starting a new war. [applause] he ushered in a legacy by

rebuilding depleted military. should have won the nobel prize for diplomatic breakthrough in the middle east and abraham accords. the policy and avoided and inevitable war with north korea. changed the bipartisan consensus on china in congress and flip the script. he convinced our allies that they needed to share more of the nato burden. have them basically at their.

the wouldn't have had october 7. you may not know. with donald trump for the first time much like 12 shortly before he became the republican candidate for president he met to discuss his forthcoming policy on its role in making america great. i observed really individual much distinctive patristic that i was immensely impressed with. first, intently and patiently for my ideas you fraction directly in my eyes. graphs what i was saying and

thoroughly canceling into the session and how we bring those middle-class jobs back to america. he asked provocative and insightful questions and he and i can work together. festival, there was intellectual tension. it helps with nativity and problem solving but even more within the oval office invited me is best just before my departure. that's what i learned peace and prosperity for the middle east.

ultimately would like role in the exchange, he floored me and he, what can i do to help? the president of the united states asking how he can help me do my job. clear and unwavering support breaking the code laying the groundwork for the abraham accords and the promise for the first time and our lifetime of peace in the middle east. trumps vision and policy did make america great again the world a safer place. it's my honor to present my former boss, 40 the president of the united states of america,

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♪♪ ♪♪ >> thank you, john. wonderful to be back in the united states. the economic club. i was here. going to do it again. we are going to do it again. affected by the hurricane as you know, it was a rough night also

the people of north carolina, georgia, south carolina and tennessee and hurricane haley, quite a combination. i like to congratulate florida, ron desantis georgia and carolina. and they've done a fantastic job. it's not done what you're supposed to be doing. unjustly a house and much more importantly and they were many many and georgia and north carolina. order will rebuild and come back strong very soon, they will be

there very soon. make sure that we make the bed into good, that's what we like to do. just announced that inflation came in substantially hotter than expected last month. "was predicted from food prices going up. interest rates, as you know are also a big factor. the gone from 2% and i was in office and present now you can't get that money, that means it's much higher than 10%. we have a lot of young people in college people in the federal reserve interest rates down to quickly and everyone knows it

was a political way they tried to do but they did the wrong thing. start to rise about four years ago when i left office, we had no elation with the entire four years so when people, it was really their money and get back to source know nothing about including biden and harris because of inflation, the economy has been a total disaster. kamala says she can't think of one two days ago and very unfortunate worker and there are many people particularly and like scott, on wall street the

stock market on because donald trump is doing very well in the polls look like he's going to win. [cheering] the only way and the suffering is to vote for change and we are doing, we are being scoffed at and. [laughter] around the world. the other big news devious together with the democrat party for you to get it with them which will go down as the single biggest handle and broadcast history. a big story, i don't know if you've seen in. the real answer kamala is very crazy. nobody knows, it was that to replace it, they've never done that to me.

they should place it having nothing to do with what she said before. another thing and put it in there, nobody has ever seen anything like it. nobody has ever seen anything like it. they wanted to look as possible, want her to look better. the big problem in our country is faced news, a recent thing where as an example the new york times, he wrote a piece about me and one of the many things he said was wrong but said that i would go around saying that i was honored here is about as a man of the year or whatever and i talked about the car industry, many years before iran for president, 18, 20 years ago.

never honored here. i didn't remember that specifics 20 years ago. much like kamala, she said she worked at mcdonald's and left i didn't want to get into that simulated with that defendant when it was like 19 years -- it was a long time. i was honored. [laughter] right here. nice-looking young guy but it was a long time ago so this was an update of article. oakland county jail.

[applause] day, fundraising in the military awards at the dinner. he was honored. here's the article right here. take your time. whatever they say, believe the opposite. [laughter] is killing our country this kind of stuff, killing our country. it is terrible. i want to thank the president of the detroit economic, steve, a wonderful guide as well as congressman john james, david

fisher, michigan senate republican leader, eric thank you, eric. you very much, how are we doing? i hear we are four points up. thank you. michigan, house provoking leader thank you, was john there? well. we have. the. you very much, a great guy. many of you know him very successful stand up next to be the father of tiffany's husband, michael. a very exceptional young guy.

she is an exceptional young woman and she's going to have a baby so that's nice. [applause] thank you for being here. thank you very much. many other english guests. we have distinguished democrats. good for everybody but i'm here to talk about a subject that's always been dear to my heart, saving the u.s. auto industry, that's what i spoke about in oakland many years ago. stealing your auto industry years ago, you got to stop it and we have to make it bigger and better than ever before and i've been reading about detroit.

it's coming around, coming around. everybody tries so hard but the auto industry bigger and better and stronger. you will come by its own one. i would be the way doing. make the auto industry, bring it back to work. that's my goal and i'm laying out a policy that will deliver life and very good at this over my life so my goal is to see u.s. bottom making industry even greater the center of action for generations where the world was. one after the next, the

corvette, the pontiac deal. i have two of them, actually. i had that gto, i thought i was the hottest guy around. [laughter] we didn't have all of the competition then. so proud to have the corvette. i never got a corvette. i was left behind i had my gto from top down. in those days my hair waved. [laughter] i go back here would be waiting. look at taking a? nobody. [laughter] today am a little more careful. little absurd. cover it up. [laughter] it was great. fantastic. but here is will the muscle car,

the median so much you made the american article, he was the american dream. michigan, auto workers in our nation, what washington did their and they were terrible. he lost nearly four politicians gave is disasters which terminated china's entry into the world trade organization, very expensive detroit here and to 50000 jobs including. what is anyone's and then i got

to be much higher than that. detroit was decimated. this was a foreign army invading us. people, clearly brilliant people the candy out of the pockets just as she taken from a baby. factories left in ruins, beautiful hotels. homes were abandoned and by the time i came into office with the 16, the michigan auto industry was taking for help and it was at the last breath of life and they had to move quickly. he will not have any auto industry. it was all gone. lucas fast is that, unwilling to

do things you're not going to believe. he a lot, he had taken it. foldable in certain countries nobody did that, i will put tariffs on you get your post i will tell you. very much left and learn specific ownership strike north auto industry, have been left, a disaster. if you remember hillary clinton and obama confident and when i did it, she came out against it because he said his regular in favor of it said and also

against it why was there so no tax on tips and two months later amalek came out and said no tax on tips. it didn't go well. my country. [applause] the u.s. embassy came a great job. i have talked about that very much. mexico and canada. the trade deal which was disaster. the auto industry takes most of

its money, you have no auto industry and the only reason is the tale on every single one -- if you didn't have the tariffs, about and put us tariffs and you wouldn't have it, every single one of the detroit and guaranteed we have a business, 50% of the trust, 50% and almost all the money and take it back there i want to be extremely active. they came to see you and will be interesting. perhaps most important, 27-point seven% tariff on all chinese

automobiles which largely kept them from the market and cap detroit in business cap china, chinese cars out of america and we had to do it because when they come in, they take over everything and you would have no car manufacturing adult. i met with a lot of resistance between the lobbyists and everything, it's brutal getting people to go along with you it's brutal even if your own thing but they get paid a lot of money so i want to say, or welcome we have the basis. >> if you look at your of, chinese cars have been drowning because of me, they are not

drowning, very few of them. when they do come in, they pay a lot of money in the biden administration is thinking of taking that tax often of the takeoff, wave goodbye to your auto industry in the worst new leader in the history of our country for any business, i do know -- a disaster but your industry will be done quickly under my leadership, half a million brand-new manufacturing jobs including 30,000 manufacturing jobs right away. we saved and got it going and that was nothing compared to what we are talking about now, nothing because we had covid coming, their cars for the first time many years going down, down, down