--- title: Read Donald Trump's Economic Speech in Detroit description: Read what Donald Trump said during his economic speech at the Detroit Economic Club on Monday. canonical: https://time.com/4443382/donald-trump-economic-speech-detroit-transcript/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-08T16:31:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:45.945Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Donald Trump's Economic Speech in Detroit og:description: Trump said he could cut taxes and regulations on corporations og:url: https://time.com/4443382/donald-trump-economic-speech-detroit-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7970d1cb4febd80a/6988a1892dce01041e9ea37a/donald-trump-economic-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Donald Trump's Economic Speech in Detroit twitter:description: Trump said he could cut taxes and regulations on corporations twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7970d1cb4febd80a/6988a1892dce01041e9ea37a/donald-trump-economic-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Donald Trump's Economic Speech in Detroit > Sponsored content. 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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers an economic policy speech to the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit on Aug. 8, 2016. Evan Vucci—AP by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 8, 2016 4:31 PM UTC Donald Trump tried to reset his campaign with a speech pushing tax cuts for working families and businesses on Monday in Detroit. The Republican presidential nominee said America needs to fight globalization and trade deals he believes have led to the decline of manufacturing and blue collar jobs. “In short, the city of Detroit is the living, breathing example of my opponent’s failed economic agenda,” he said. “Every policy that has failed this city, and so many others, is a policy supported by Hillary Clinton.” Read Trump’s remarks as prepared for delivery: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4443382/donald-trump-economic-speech-detroit-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4443382/donald-trump-economic-speech-detroit-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Donald Trump's Economic Speech in Detroit","datePublished":"2016-08-08T16:31:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:45.945Z","description":"Trump said he could cut taxes and regulations on corporations","url":"https://time.com/4443382/donald-trump-economic-speech-detroit-transcript/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7970d1cb4febd80a/6988a1892dce01041e9ea37a/donald-trump-economic-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7970d1cb4febd80a/6988a1892dce01041e9ea37a/donald-trump-economic-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers an economic policy speech to the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit on Aug. 8, 2016.","creditText":"Evan Vucci—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4443382/donald-trump-economic-speech-detroit-transcript/","name":"Read Donald Trump's Economic Speech in Detroit"}}]}] ```