Mexico Came to Us BEGGING, and the Smart People Are Talking About the Most Beautiful Deal in the History of Deals

So Mexico — very smart people, the BEST people — they came to us this week with a TREMENDOUS counteroffer in the USMCA talks. Mexico is asking to bring the tariff on North American autos from 25% down to 5% or 10%, a beautiful number, a perfect number. Sounds like a lot, folks. It is NOT a lot. Believe me. Because the existing USMCA already requires 75% North American content for preferential treatment — that’s the rule, very strict rule — so the only thing we’re really arguing about is the OTHER 25%. The OUTSIDE parts. The non-North-American parts. And the cars are already MOSTLY North American. We’re talking about a quarter of a vehicle, the smallest quarter, the most beautiful quarter. Most of that is Mexican anyway — beautiful workers, the best workers, but not as good as OUR workers, the American workers, tremendous workers, the most tremendous.

You know who figured this out first? ME. I knew it before Mexico knew it. I knew it before the automakers knew it. I always knew it. I said it very publicly, “this is exactly what I wanted, the art of the deal,” and they wrote it down. I have the transcripts. They’re tremendous. People are reading them — smart people, the BEST people — and they’re saying, “Sir, you did this, Sir, this is exactly what you predicted, Sir.” Very emotional. Tough men. Big tough men. They weep, sometimes. Beautiful.

And here’s the part nobody’s talking about — Mexico is doing us a FAVOR. They sent this proposal specifically so Jamieson Greer could take a VICTORY back to me. A victory! That’s what they’re giving me. They want me to WIN. They WANT me to have a win. I mean, why wouldn’t they? I’m the best negotiator in the history of the world, maybe the history of the UNIVERSE, they say, the historians are saying it, the very smart historians, much smarter than the historians who said mean things about me.

The 50% U.S. content thing — the Mexican negotiators don’t want it, the automakers say it’s unworkable, and you know what, I always knew it was unworkable too, I said that. I had nothing to do with the 50% number. That was just the opening, a beautiful opening, the Art of the Deal says you START HIGH. You start so high they think you’re crazy, then they come down, and you WIN. Mexico came down to 5%. Beautiful negotiation. Beautiful deal. This is four-dimensional chess while everyone else plays checkers, folks, beautiful chess, the highest level chess. They think they’re coming to us but they walked right into the biggest trap in history, a TRAP, the most beautiful trap.

The Mexican negotiators, very tough men, very strong men, much smarter than people are saying — and people are saying very smart things about these men — they came to us with tears in their eyes, they said “Sir, Sir, please take our deal.” I said fellas, I said, you came to the right place. Only Diklis Chump could have gotten this deal, believe me, very few people could have done it. My uncle, who was a great professor at MIT, told me years ago, he said Diklis, he said, one day the Mexicans will come to you and bring you a beautiful deal. I was the first to know.

I have a perfect memory for these things — what was I just saying? — I have a perfect memory, the doctors said, no one has a better memory than Diklis Chump, person woman man camera TV, the best, the absolute best. And I always said this would happen. Look at the MAP. I drew it on a Sharpie. The map was the most beautiful map. And it shows exactly what I said, which I said FIRST, before any of these very stupid people who are now trying to take credit for my foresight.

Jamieson Greer, our GREAT Trade Representative, very loyal, very strong, tough as they come, is doing a tremendous job. Jamieson is working day and night, the BEST workers in Washington, and he’s going to bring home a deal like nobody has ever seen. $20 billion in Canadian goods alone — that’s just Canada — and that’s just the THREAT, beautiful threat, the most beautiful threat, a FANTASTIC 50% tariff on twenty billion dollars of their stuff if they don’t make a deal. And Canada? Beautiful Canada. I told Canada, I said, you have until August 19. AUGUST NINETEEN. LeBlanc, the Canadian fellow, very nice guy, nice family, comes to see Jamieson THREE TIMES in three weeks. Three times! They never did that for Obama. Obama couldn’t get a meeting, couldn’t get a phone call returned.

The automakers, beautiful companies, the best companies, they’re warning they might pull the cheapest cars out of the U.S. market if we don’t lower the tariffs. That is a tremendous problem — for THEM. Not for me. I have the best tools, the biggest tools, the greatest negotiating tools in the history of tools. The leverage is tremendous, more leverage than anybody, maybe more leverage than any country has ever had. The cards are tremendous, the most tremendous cards. Well actually the cards are very simple — they’re called TARIFFS, beautiful tariffs, why do the workers keep complaining about my cards, anyway.

So the bottom line — and I keep saying this, the bottom line, the SMART bottom line, the line that only the very smart people can see — is that Mexico just gave us a TREMENDOUS gift. They came to us BEGGING. They want to lower tariffs. They’re BEGGING us to lower tariffs. ON THEMSELVES. Because I made them. With the most beautiful 25% you’ve ever seen. And now they’re coming down to 5% — or 10%, very low, very good, just tremendous — and the WINNERS are: me, the workers, the automakers who will stay, the consumers, the country, the AMERICAN workers, all of them, ALL of them winners, because that’s what happens when Diklis Chump does the deal. Some people are saying it’s too much, low IQ people, very low IQ people, they don’t understand the art of the deal.

This deal is going to be tremendous, going to make me — I mean us — make us all very rich, especially me, just for the workers, but mostly me. The workers are going to be so happy they’re going to cry, believe me, tears of joy, beautiful tears. People are saying it’s the greatest deal ever made. Many people. VERY smart people. The best people. They say I did more than Lincoln on trade. Lincoln was good — Honest Abe, very honest, terrible negotiator, would have LOST Canada — but Lincoln didn’t have my tools. They say I did more than Washington, more than Jefferson, maybe more than JESUS, very religious, the most religious, more religious than the religious people, believe me.

The fake news media, the failing media, very failing, they’re saying “oh the talks are in early stages, oh they’re going to stretch into next year.” Early stages, they say. EARLY STAGES! Folks, if THIS is the early stage, just imagine the LATER stages — the later stages are going to be so beautiful, the most beautiful later stages in history. Greer told lawmakers last month, very smart lawmakers, the best lawmakers, that discussions will stretch into next year. Next year! That’s the FASTEST negotiation in history, the most tremendous. We got more done in early stages than Obama got done in eight years, ten years, however many he had, a LOT of years, very long years, terrible years.

Mexico handed Jamieson a trophy. A trophy! For me. The most beautiful trophy. Last July the administration walked away from the existing deal — the one I have been threatening to walk away from for months — and now Mexico is at the table BEGGING for new terms. That’s what happens when Diklis Chump does the deal. Very few people could have done this. Very few.