Bullshit. We all heard the comment. His bullshit excuse, which you mindlessly repeated like a brain-damaged cockatoo, is bullshit.
Going out on a limb and saying you didn't hear a damned thing, or you're just plain lying. Here is the whole quote:
Let me tell you something, to China, if you're listening, President Xi — and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal — those big, monster car-manufacturing plants that you're building in Mexico right now, and you think you're going to get that, you're going to not hire Americans, and you're going to sell the cars to us?
No, we're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that's going to be the least of it, it's going to be a bloodbath for the country, that'll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars, they're building massive factories.
Sounds a lot less like what it's being portrayed as when it's not take out of context, doesn't it?
With all of the above said, fuck you for making me defend Darth Cheeto.