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On ‘thank you’ tour, Trump vows America first, pledges US jobs

PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump has kicked off his post-election “thank you tour” by railing against globalization, promising the return of manufacturing jobs to American workers, and vowing to shut US borders to some Middle East migrants.

Speaking in an arena that was about three-quarters full, Trump on Thursday rallied the crowd by repeatedly attacking the “extremely dishonest” media and invoking the populist message that resonated with millions of voters.

“There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag and that flag is the American flag,” Trump said.

“From now on it’s going to be America first, okay?” Trump said as he stressed job-creation spurred by trade deals he intends to renegotiate, including the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The New York real estate magnate also announced that he would nominate Marine General James Mattis — calling him “Mad Dog Mattis” — to be his secretary of defense.

Noting an attack on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus earlier this week by a Somali immigrant, Trump said such threats against Americans were “created by our very, very stupid politicians; refugee programs.”

In order to keep the United States safe from further attacks, Trump said he will suspend immigration “from regions where it cannot be safely processed.”

This would include some countries in the Middle East.

“People are pouring in from regions of the Middle East,” Trump said.

“We have no idea who they are, where they come from, what they’re thinking and we’re going to stop that dead, cold flat.”

In the past, Trump also has said he would stop the entry of all Muslims into the United States.

In a Twitter message earlier on Thursday, Trump said: “ISIS is taking credit for the terrible stabbing attack at Ohio State University by a Somali refugee who should not have been in our country.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations accused Trump of seeking to exploit the “tragic situation in Ohio.”

Trump’s remarks came at the end of a day in which he also traveled to neighboring Indiana to celebrate a decision by Carrier Corp, an air conditioner maker, to keep about 1,000 jobs in the United States rather than move them to Mexico.

That decision came after Trump, during the long presidential campaign, publicly called on the company to retain the jobs in Indianapolis and threatened to punish American companies that move operations abroad with stiff import tariffs.

The company, which is owned by United Technologies, still intends to move 1,300 other jobs from Indiana to Mexico.

In the run-up to his January 20 swearing in as president, Trump is expected to tour cities in swing states, like Ohio, that contributed to his election victory on November 8.

During a nearly hour-long speech in Cincinnati, Trump promised to deliver new tax cuts to the middle-class, roll back federal regulations that he said hurt companies and build a wall along the southwestern border with Mexico.




 

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