--- title: Donald Trump: Read Donald Trump's Speech on Trade description: Read Donald Trump's full remarks from his trade speech in Pennsylvania canonical: https://time.com/4386335/donald-trump-trade-speech-transcript/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-28T20:55:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:55:11.653Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Donald Trump's Speech on Trade og:description: Trump spoke out against free trade deals og:url: https://time.com/4386335/donald-trump-trade-speech-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88e0161ead30f93d/698899cd8e060168194667a5/trump-monessen.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Donald Trump's Speech on Trade twitter:description: Trump spoke out against free trade deals twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88e0161ead30f93d/698899cd8e060168194667a5/trump-monessen.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Donald Trump's Speech on Trade by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 28, 2016 8:55 PM UTC  Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Alumisource, a metals recycling facility in Monessen, PA, June 28, 2016. Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Alumisource, a metals recycling facility in Monessen, PA, June 28, 2016.Keith Srakocic—AP by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 28, 2016 8:55 PM UTC Donald Trump spoke in Monessen, Penn., Tuesday afternoon, detailing [his plan to rewrite global trade rules](http://time.com/4385989/donald-trump-trade-china-speech/) and revitalize the American economy. “Hillary Clinton unleashed a trade war against the American worker when she supported one terrible trade deal after another – from NAFTA to China to South Korea,” he said. “A Trump Administration will end that war by getting a fair deal for the American people. The era of economic surrender will finally be over.” Here are his full remarks. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4386335/donald-trump-trade-speech-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4386335/donald-trump-trade-speech-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Donald Trump's Speech on Trade","datePublished":"2016-06-28T20:55:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:55:11.653Z","description":"Trump spoke out against free trade deals","url":"https://time.com/4386335/donald-trump-trade-speech-transcript/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88e0161ead30f93d/698899cd8e060168194667a5/trump-monessen.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/blt88e0161ead30f93d/698899cd8e060168194667a5/trump-monessen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Alumisource, a metals recycling facility in Monessen, PA, June 28, 2016.","creditText":"Keith Srakocic—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/4386335/donald-trump-trade-speech-transcript/","name":"Read Donald Trump's Speech on Trade"}}]}] ```