Success Quote by Donald Trump

“Fair trade” is doing a lot of work here, less as an economic principle than as a moral badge. Trump frames himself as the straight-talking referee of a rigged game: America as the generous host, China as the bouncer at an exclusive club. The line’s power comes from how quickly it moves from belief (“I believe”) to hearsay (“many, many friends”) to a vivid, frictionless contrast (“virtually impossible” vs. “open arms”). It’s an argument built for television: anecdote over data, imagery over policy.

The subtext is grievance as strategy. By emphasizing that his corporate friends can’t “come into China,” Trump recasts the complaints of multinationals as a national injury, letting resentment travel across class lines. “They say” functions like a shield: it borrows insider credibility while keeping him unpinned from specifics. The repetition (“many, many,” “very, very”) isn’t accidental either; it’s the cadence of emphasis, substituting intensity for evidence and inviting the audience to feel the imbalance rather than audit it.

Context matters: this is the Trump-era trade message in miniature, the prelude to tariffs and hardline negotiation. China becomes a symbol of globalization’s asymmetry, and the U.S. becomes the sucker with “open arms.” The intent isn’t just to critique barriers; it’s to justify a tougher posture by casting openness as naivete and restriction as common sense. The line works because it turns a complicated trade ecosystem into a simple storyline: we’re polite, they’re predatory, and only a dealmaker can fix it.