Way back in 2015, we all got to see then-candidate Donald Trump lay out his vision for America after he descended that infamous golden escalator in Trump Tower.
It was, in a word, bleak. It included “beating” China, Japan, and Mexico, the latter of which was sending drugs, crime and rapists to our borders, according to him. We should have taken Iraqi oil, he said. “Our nuclear arsenal doesn’t work,” he said. “Free trade is terrible,” unless you have a good negotiator, he said. “I would build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall,” he said.
