Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump blasted incompetent politicians, unfair international trade deals, and high taxes in a speech Monday in Detroit. The address to about 1,500 people at the Detroit Economic Club was billed as a major policy speech.
Trump said industrial cities like Detroit are still struggling while current policies send jobs and wealth to other countries. He promised to change that.
“It will be American hands that re-build this country. And it will be American energy, mined from American sources that powers this country.”
Some Michigan Republicans hope the speech will help the Trump campaign recover from controversies that have dogged it in recent weeks.
Demonstrators showed up outside Cobo Hall before Trump took the stage. One of them, Jan Tjernlund, carried a sign reading “Trump the Divider.” Tjernlund says she considers Trump temperamentally unfit to be president.
“He is just completely incompetent to run a country, and he has no knowledge of the Constitution, no knowledge of the government, and how government works.”
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is scheduled to talk about her economic plans in the Detroit area on Thursday.
