User Clip: Trump: Our Founders Believed in The American System of Economy

President Trump states: "I called it the American model... And this

is the system our Founders wanted. Our greatest American leaders

-- including George Washington, Hamilton, Jackson, Lincoln --

they all agreed that for America to be a strong nation it must

also be a great manufacturing nation... The Republican platform of

1896 -- more than a century ago -- stated that `Protection and

reciprocity are twin measures of American policy and go hand in

hand.... We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of

protection, as the bulwark of American industrial independence

and the foundation of American development and prosperity." close