Our Trade Policy Is Insane

This is a statement that I made at a D.C. news conference on trade policy last Thursday: Trade is a simple concept. You sell me yours, and I'll sell you mine. That's not what's happening. What's happening is that day after day, month after month, and year after year, Americans are buying goods and services manufactured by foreigners, and those foreigners are not buying goods and services manufactured by Americans. We are creating millions -- no -- tens of millions of jobs in other countries with...