--- title: Donald Trump's Speech on Jobs and the Economy Transcript description: Donald Trump outlined aspects of his economic plan in a new speech Thursday, promising an "American economic revival." canonical: https://time.com/4495507/donald-trump-economy-speech-transcript/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-15T16:38:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:37:56.076Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Donald Trump's Speech on Jobs and the Economy og:description: Trump delivered his speech at the New York Economic Club in Manhattan og:url: https://time.com/4495507/donald-trump-economy-speech-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Donald Trump's Speech on Jobs and the Economy twitter:description: Trump delivered his speech at the New York Economic Club in Manhattan twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Read Donald Trump's Speech on Jobs and the Economy  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 15, 2016 4:38 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 15, 2016 4:38 PM UTC [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4495133/donald-trump-flint-nervous-interruption/) outlined aspects of his economic plan in a new speech Thursday, promising an “American economic revival.” [Trump](http://time.com/4494889/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health/) delivered his speech at the New York Economic Club in Manhattan. Here is the text of his remarks as prepared for delivery: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4495507/donald-trump-economy-speech-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4495507/donald-trump-economy-speech-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Donald Trump's Speech on Jobs and the Economy","datePublished":"2016-09-15T16:38:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:37:56.076Z","description":"Donald Trump outlined aspects of his economic plan in a new speech Thursday, promising an \"American economic revival.\"","url":"https://time.com/4495507/donald-trump-economy-speech-transcript/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"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/4495507/donald-trump-economy-speech-transcript/","name":"Read Donald Trump's Speech on Jobs and the Economy"}}]}] ```