Trump talks trade agreements, jobs at Bangor rally
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee and New York businessman Donald Trump made a campaign stop in Bangor on Wednesday.
Following an introduction by conservative radio show host Howie Carr and Gov. Paul LePage, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used part of Wednesday’s rally in Bangor as a chance to reiterate his economic platform.
“We are going to make the greatest trade deals in the history of our country and maybe beyond that,” Trump told the crowd at the Cross Insurance Center, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network reports. “We are going to go from the stupid people who don’t know what’s happening, to people who are thriving again.”
Trump set his sights on the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to MPBN, and drew comparisons between the decline of the steel industry in Pennsylvania and the hardships of Maine’s forest product industry, WCSH-TV 6 reports.
Like many of Trump’s rallies, there were protesters present in the near-capacity 8,000-seat venue. The Portland Press Herald reports that a dozen protesters briefly disrupted the speech at numerous points before being escorted out of the rally by Bangor police and security.
And if Trump fails to clinch the presidency in November, he said he might just come back to Maine for something of a sabbatical.
“If things don’t work out for me, I may just come on up here and just say the hell with it, OK?” Trump told the crowd, according to MPBN. “It could definitely happen, when you have a big chunk of real estate up here. Nobody knows. Nobody realizes it.”
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