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Donald Trump speaks about his plans for the American economy before the US election. As is so often the case, he is looking for a common enemy. A US expert explains what his goal is.
After Hurricane “Milton” passed over the US state of Florida, the campaign ahead of the US election continues. Donald Trump appeared at the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday (October 10) to talk about the American economy and his plans for it. A statement by the Republican presidential candidate has once again caused a stir.
As Trump laid out his plans for the American economy ahead of the US election, he said: “This is the deal I’m going to offer to the world, to the companies outside our world, big companies, powerful companies that have become powerful because of us were stupid. We have allowed them to invade and invade and rape our country. That’s what they did.”
“Oh, he used the word ‘rape.’ That’s right. I used the word ‘rape,'” Trump continued in Detroit. “They raped our country,” he repeated.
Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate and former US President, speaks at a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club. © Julia Demaree Nikhinson/dpa
Donald Trump names economic plans before the 2024 US election – has “massive effects” for German companies
Before the US election, Trump promoted his plan to give companies in other countries incentives to set up factories in the US. With him as president, the US would offer companies the lowest taxes, the lowest energy costs “and the lowest regulatory burdens,” Trump claims. When asked for more details and which companies Trump was referring to, someone from his campaign said that “weak and incompetent career politicians like Kamala Harris have sold our country out on bad deals,” reports NBC News.
“Populist Trumpism has become the central element of the conservative movement – combined with the promise of economic nationalism,” says US expert Julian Müller-Kaler from the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Basically, it’s about bringing well-paid jobs in the manufacturing sector back to the country and not just importing products.
“Combined with his brutal accusation that companies have ‘raped’ the USA in the past (with the important addition that the political class allowed this) is always the offer to return to the USA via tax breaks, investments and jobs bring to. Such an understanding of economics naturally also has massive effects for German companies,” explains Müller-Kaler BuzzFeed News Deutschland von IPPEN.MEDIA.
How Donald Trump wants to win the US election in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan
Trump’s path back to the White House, i.e. a victory in the 2024 US election, will not be possible without political successes in the states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, says the US expert. There it is precisely the white middle class that has lost massive amounts of wealth due to mercilessly advancing globalization. “For many people living there, the American dream has now become a nightmare,” says Müller-Kaler.
Donald Trump still knows how to “exploit this feeling of social and economic decline like no other, to mobilize voters through a clear rhetorical demarcation of a common enemy,” says the US expert. At the speech in Detroit it was globalization and global companies.
