Posted on 08/24/2015 7:13:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald Trump criticized President Obama for inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping to a state dinner later in September, saying, “I would get him a McDonald’s hamburger and say’You will get down to work because you can’t continue to devalue [your currency].'”
Trump, appearing on “The O’Reilly Factor” Monday, got in a feisty debate with Bill O’Reilly over who exactly is responsible for “sucking out” American jobs. Trump blamed the president of China, while O’Reilly blamed U.S. companies.
Bill O’Reilly: Two people coming to the United States of note in September, the Pope, okay, and the president of China is coming, a man named Xi Jinping. Do you know him? I have never heard who he is. But he is the president…
Donald Trump: Very smart.
O’Reilly: He is coming over. He is getting a big dinner free at the White House and addressing the U.N. If you were president of would you be throwing him a dinner?
Trump: I would not be throwing him a dinner, we’ve had this conversation. I would get him a McDonald’s hamburger and say ‘You will get down to work because you can’t continue to devalue.’ You know, we will give him a state dinner and what he has done is sucked all of our jobs and he has sucked the money right out of our country.
O’Reilly: Again, he hasn’t done it. U.S. companies do it. They’re doing it.
Trump: No, it’s our system.
O’Reilly: So, you would be confrontational with the Chinese? You are saying look,’I’m not giving you a dinner, here is a Big Mac’? Is that what you are going to do?
Trump: I would give them probably a double sized Big Mac. Look, it’s not so much the companies. It’s our government that allowed China to do that to us.
O’Reilly: I don’t buy that for a second. Trump: I do 100%, Bill.
O’Reilly: Our companies, they want as much money as they can. They go to Mexico. Our government let’s them do it but this is a free nation. So they want to go and do it, you can’t stop them.
Trump: Bill, our government, our government should have stopped China from devaluing.
O’Reilly: They can’t. Trump: They never even bring them up.
O’Reilly: How? Trump: Do you know how they can?
O’Reilly: Yeah, how?
Trump: Very simply, Bill, it’s so simple, they put a tariff on Chinese goods. You know, China …
O’Reilly: Alright. Then you have got a trade war.
Trump: You have to, you have to do that and then you bring it back to normal. You have no choice. You do that. Our government doesn’t even, and by the way, China does it to us. Do you think that we sell to China without a tariff? They call it a tariff. I call it a tax.
O’Reilly: There is no question the imbalance, there is no question the imbalance is that way.
Trump: Do you know what the big imbalance is? Intelligence. Their leaders are intelligent. Ours aren’t. We don’t know what we are doing. We had to do this and it should have taken place a long time ago, and you wouldn’t have this bubble right now, Bill.
O’Reilly: Okay, so I’m not going to get Xi Jinping and you together. I was going to take you both out to dinner but I’m not doing that because I think it might be bloody.
Trump: I’d get along with him very well. I think we would get along. I get along very well.
O’Reilly: I know, just like Putin and the Chinese, you would be vacationing in the Yellow Sea with them.
Yeah, I saw that live. I was laughing hard.
Go Trump! See any Demo Candidates going on O’Riley, they are cowards!
Why are’nt Jeb & walker on BOR?
I think Trump gave in and said he’d get him a double cheeseburger
Because, like Trump, O’Reilly is all about ratings. Nobody wants to see the other guys. It is a quite a phenomenon.
Why on Earth does Trump go on this blowhard RINO’s show? He doesn’t need the audience.
They can’t handle it.
The only other candidate with any speaking energy is Cruz. But Cruz does not generate ratings. So you are quite right.
They’ve been friend for years. Trumps dad built a home for O’REALLY dad. They often attend ball games together. And both support the veterans in the NY area
Two blowhards blowing hot air.
on another note, are you feeling better?....
Originally it was a simple hamburger. Trump was being benevolent, and offered an upgrade
No, but I have an appointment on Thursday.
Trump ..OReilly video
It was an excellent metaphorical answer. It was pretextual answers to a question that meant something entirely different than spoken.
O’Reilly knows what ‘devalue’ means but he doesn’t understand that’s the incentive that pulls factories to China and makes our goods expensive relative to Chinese goods.... Trump needs to explain it to O’Reilly...
O’Reilly’s smart - but he doesn’t get economics...
The only other candidate with any speaking energy is Cruz. But Cruz does not generate ratings.Energy? You must work in a library.
Carson is soft spoken but more effective than Cruz (Don't take my word for it, see the polls).
Cruz is meek, he's painful to watch and he always looks pathetic like he's just been scolded for something...But hey, he's "conservative".
Name your favorite candidate that has addressed those issues recently...better yet post a link to it.
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