BATTLE FOR WORLD | August 7, 2020: President Donald Trump visited the Whirlpool Corp. Manufacturing Plant in Ohio on August 6 and said the following:

"...Represented for a change, but during the course of the next four years we will bring our pharmaceutical and medical supply chains home. We are going to bring them home where they belong, and we are going to end reliance on China, just like we did with the washers and dryers; just like we did with many other things. ...And support advanced manufacturing processes that will keep our drug prices low and allow American companies to compete on the world's stage. ...We are now going to have the lowest prices as to opposed to by far highest prices. I have people that I know that go to Canada to buy prescription drugs..., because the prices are so much lower than the United States, and yet it's made by the same company, often in the same plant, it's a disgrace. And the politicians allowed this to happen for many, many decades. You have people called "middle-man". I don't know who the middle-man are, I don't know; they never say middle-woman, so they are politically not correct. But I have learned the term "middle-man" for a longtime. They are so wealthy...nobody has any idea who the hell they are or what they do. They make more money than the drug company, in all fairness at least the drug companies have to produce a product; it has to be a good product. But the middle-man, well the rebate that I'm doing cuts out the middle-man and reduces cost and the money goes back to the people purchasing the drugs. SO, I HAVE A LOT OF ENEMIES OUT THERE, and this maybe the last time you will see me for awhile. A LOT OF VERY, VERY RICH ENEMIES, but they are not happy with what I'm doing. But I figured that we have one change to do it and no other president is going to do what I do. No other president would do a favored nations, a rebate, a buy from other nations at much less cost, nobody. And they're a lot of unhappy people and they're very rich people."

"Here's my fourth promise to the American worker, beyond our medical supply chains over the next four years we will launch over millions of manufacturing jobs across many other critical sectors that are vital to our national security and prosperity - from electronics, to machine tools, to shipping aerospace autos and of course to iron and steel, and we will never forget your washers and dryers, OK. ..."

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