Trump Reacts To Scott Bessent Saying The U.S. Does Not Need To Restore Textile Manufacturing

Speaking to reporters in Morristown, New Jersey, President Trump discussed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's comments about textile manufacturing.

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00:00President Trump, Secretary of the U.S. New York Post.

00:04Oh, well, I like the New York Post.

00:06I like Keith Poole.

00:08Okay.

00:09So, Secretary...

00:10Now I'm going to be nicer to him.

00:12I didn't know he was with him.

00:13Go ahead.

00:14Secretary Besant has said that we don't need to return

00:16textile manufacturing to the United States.

00:18Yes.

00:19How do you see, like, a lot of your reciprocal tariffs,

00:21they're pretty big on those low-income countries?

00:23Yeah, no, I tend to agree.

00:25We're not looking to make sneakers and T-shirts.

00:28We want to make military equipment.

00:30We want to make big things.

00:31We want to make, do the AI thing with the computers

00:34and the many, many, many, many elements.

00:38But the textile, you know, I'm not looking to make T-shirts,

00:43to be honest.

00:44I'm not looking to make socks.

00:45We can do that very well at other locations.

00:48We are looking to do chips and computers and lots of other things.

00:52And tanks and ships, meaning ships, yeah.

00:57You mentioned that you were happy with the...