Donald Trump Has Long Benefited From Trade Practices He Now Scorns
Donald J. Trump vowed on Tuesday that as president, he would put an end to policies that send American jobs overseas, threatening to impose tariffs on Chinese imports and promising to punish companies that relocate their manufacturing to countries with cheaper labor.“It will be American hands that remake this country,” said Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, standing before a hunk of aluminum at a recycling plant in western Pennsylvania.But such declarations are at odds with Mr. Trump’s long history as a businessman, in which he has been heavily — and proudly — reliant on foreign labor in the name of putting profits, rather than America, first. From cheap neckties to television sets, Mr. Trump has benefited from some of the trade practices he now scorns.Far-flung apparelBesides construction, Mr. Trump is big in the clothing business. But most of his line of suits, ties and cuff links bear a “Made in China” label. Some also come from factories in Bangladesh, Mexico and Vietnam. He has blamed China’s currency manipulation to argue that it is almost impossible to find garments that are made domestically these days, or that they are prohibitively expensive.“The answer is very simple,” Mr. Trump told ABC News when asked about his merchandise in 2011. “Because of the fact that China so manipulates their currency, it makes it almost impossible for American companies to compete.”Despite that claim, some companies such as Brooks Brothers continue to make clothes in the United States.Furniture from abroadIn 2013, Mr. Trump teamed with Dorya, a Turkish maker of luxury furniture, for his Trump Home brand. In a news release at the time, the Trump Organization promoted the craftsmanship of the pieces, which furnish some of Mr. Trump’s hotels.“The entire production process, from the moment the raw wood is cut until the product is finished or upholstered occurs in Dorya’s Izmir, Turkey, production facility,” the release said.Mr. Trump also invested in a line of crystal bearing his name to go with his Trump Home line. The collection was produced in Slovenia, the home of his wife, Melania. Mr. Trump told The New York Times in 2010 that the production facilities were first class.“I’ve seen factories over there; their glass and crystal works are unbelievable,” he said.Putting Romanians and Poles to workMr. Trump has not held back when it comes to his concern that undocumented immigrants are taking jobs from American workers, but he has used them on occasion.In 1980, a contractor hired by Mr. Trump to demolish the Bonwit Teller building in New York and make way for Trump Tower used undocumented Polish immigrants who reportedly worked round-the-clock and even slept at the site. Mr. Trump said that he did not know they were undocumented and later settled a lawsuit over the matter.Last summer, The Washington Post found that Mr. Trump was using undocumented immigrants for the construction of his Trump International Hotel at the site of the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington.And The Times reported this year that Mr. Trump had employed hundreds of foreign guest workers from Romania and other countries at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Mr. Trump said that he found it difficult to find qualified local people to work there during the high season.For outsourcing before he was against itWhile Mr. Trump has for years railed against trade and currency policies that he says are unfair, he has not always been opposed to outsourcing.Writing on the Trump University blog in 2005, Mr. Trump acknowledged that foreign labor was sometimes needed to keep American companies from going out of business.“If a company’s only means of survival is by farming jobs outside its walls, then sometimes it’s a necessary step,” Mr. Trump wrote. “The other option might be to close its doors for good.”Mr. Trump usually makes the case that foreign labor is necessary to keep production costs down, but in aninterview with David Letterman in 2012 he also offered a humanitarian argument for outsourcing. Teased for selling dress shirts that were made in Bangladesh, Mr. Trump expressed pride that he was creating jobs around the world.“That’s good, we employ people in Bangladesh,” Mr. Trump said. “They have to work, too.”
elevision is slowly but surely coming to dominate your every waking moment of media consumption, from binge to basic cable, and we’re only halfway through the year. Already 2016 has brought us all-time greats from high up in the Northern battlefields to down on Canal Street. And if the Golden Globes can reward Lady Gaga, surely ScreenCrush can recognize TV’s best too, right? Right?
Here’s ScreenCrush’s Britt Hayes, Erin Whitney and Kevin Fitzpatrick’s favorite TV shows from the first half of 2016:
Erin Whitney’s Top Three
Comedy Central
3. Broad City
Season 3, Comedy Central
I’m not sure if it’s just because I’m a New Yorker that I love Broad City so much and find it so relatable, but damn is it accurate. Here’s one example: After this season’s episode “B&B-NYC” where Abbi and Ilana camp on their rooftop with a tent, someone on my Facebook feed posted a picture of them doing the same thing days later. Or there’s Ilana’s annoyance at the dead body that’s stopped the subway in “Getting There,” the hipster Phish-loving volunteer in “Co-Op,” or Abbi’s DMV nightmare in “2016” (oh yeah, we’ve all been there). Abbi and Ilana’s hilarious misadventures capture the utter chaos and lunacy of living in New York City, especially as a young person. It’s like taking all the geographically-focused comedy of Seinfeld, Sex and the City, and Girls, hotboxing it, and then stepping back to ask, “Wait, why do we live in this weird, disgusting city again?”
But you don’t have to live in New York to appreciate Broad City’s humor. The third season of the show perfectly captures the zeitgeist. There’s Abbi’s Tinder dates, which hilariously poke fun at the deception of the app’s well-manicured profiles. There’s the shock and awe of meeting Hillary Clinton as two liberal female millennials. There’s the impossibility of getting a Uber when the surge is too high and you’re too broke to afford it. And two of the season’s best moments celebrate the nostalgia of two millennial-certified, beloved ’90s movies, Sister Act and Mrs. Doubtfire. Best of all, Broad City touches on how sex-positive our generation is with the proudly bisexual and poly Ilana. The show’s timely humor may not resonate as strongly in five or 10 years, but for right now, it’s the most refreshingly funny thing on TV.
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Netflix
2. Lady Dynamite
Season 1, Netflix
“What the [expletive]?!” Is the first thought I had when I jumped into Maria Bamford’s Lady Dynamite completely blind, very confused, and a little inebriated. The series opens with the comedian, who’s playing a version of herself, acting in a high-energy hair commercial, smiling maniacally into the camera. But Maria is not in a hair commercial; she’s standing on a street corner dazed and talking to herself. A woman walks up to her and says, “No no, this is not a hair ad. It’s the show. Your show.” Maria looks to the camera, introduces herself infomercial-style and then jumps in the air as a van explodes behind her.
That bizarre introduction is just the beginning of how weird and erratic things get on Lady Dynamite, a semi-autobiographical show that’s as wacky and delightful as it is profound. It follows the fictionalized Maria through three time periods: her past working in LA before she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, when she returned home to Minnesota and checked into a mental health clinic, and her present-day self as a comedian in LA (similar to Curb Your Enthusiasm). The show’s surreal, meta moments and oscillating energy are at times confusing and overwhelming, but they also echo Maria’s manic ups and downs. You’re tossed around Maria’s mind as she navigates mental illness, relationships, her acting career, issues with confrontation and self-esteem, finding stability through various new-age life coaches, and being a woman in the entertainment industry. It’s difficult to describe just what’s so brilliant about Lady Dynamite because it comments on so many topics with so many different types of comedy. There’s no rules to Lady Dynamite, and that’s what makes watching it feel like such an invigorating, thrilling experience. It’s quite the ride, and I only hope Netflix lets Bamford to continue taking us on it with a second season.
JoJo Whilden/Netflix
1. Orange Is the New Black
Season 4, Netflix
Orange Is the New Black began as a show about a privileged white woman entering an ethnically diverse New York prison, commenting on race and class in a place where everyone is equalized. But in its fourth year Orange became a true character-driven ensemble. Shifting away from Piper (Taylor Schilling) and turning her into one of the show’s most disliked characters, this season focused on telling the stories of the minor characters we rarely spend time with. This season’s best conceived storylines revolved around Lolly (Lori Petty), Blanca (Laura Gómez), Diane (Maritza Ramos), Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning), and Healy (Michael Harney), all with some of the series’ best performances, including an especially fantastic performance by Petty, along with Christina Brucato as the young Lolly.
The fourth year of Orange also marked a significant shift in tone. While the series has been most celebrated as a comedy, Season 4 distinguished the show as a proper member the drama category, spending more time on darker, emotional moments. I laughed out loud a lot less this season, which was partially a disappointment – Poussey, Taystee, and Black Cindy were somewhat under used this year. But two-thirds of the way into the season I began to appreciate that shift and how committed the writers were to telling important, if often uncomfortable and upsetting narratives about police brutality, Black Lives Matter, mental illness, and addiction. The show became so heavy by the end that at one point I decided to take a short break from it, needing some space before I jumped back into the emotional episodes about grief and loss.
But that break also made me realize why Orange is one of the best shows we have right now, and what sets Season 4 apart from the rest. While Orange is one of the original bingewatching shows, this season’s 13 episodes were full of powerful moments best consumed with breaks and a slower pace. It might not have been as fun to watch as the last three years, but it certainly felt more cathartic.
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