Jim Cramer: "I'm with Trump" on Trade, We're "Exporting Jobs"

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JOE KERNEN: Jim Cramer joins us now. Jim, over the years you've had kind of a non-establishment view of free trade too. I've seen you go back and forth in the last couple of days even though I was in another country. But I still follow your line of thinking. Got to be a better way, right?

JIM CRAMER: I'm with [Donald] Trump on this. Look, we lose on every trade deal. I always ask all these people from either party, "Name me one trade deal that we have a surplus on in the last decade?" They can't name any. I always find it amusing to think people don't seem to mind that we lose on these deals because we're able to export a lot of premium products that are not made necessarily by people in our workforce.

So it always seemed like, "When are people going to wake up?" The only guy who ever talked about it before this election was Donald Trump. When you would go see him, and you know that because you and I both know him from before, he would always say, "Why do we always lose on these trade deals? Why can't we negotiate?"

You throw up your hands and say, "I don't know. We just seem not to know how to negotiate." There are very few people I ever met on both sides who know how to negotiate.

So, no, I have no problem. I think that, you know, maybe people should understand this has been his view from day one. And he's always been pro-worker. And it just seems to me so revelatory to everybody. But you and I have known it for a decade. Why is it such so shocking? People pay no attention to what this man has been saying about trade deals. He's been right the whole way.

KERNEN: I always thought it helped increase profitability. Then corporations want to get more competitive, they hire more workers. Unfortunately, they're not hiring them here.

CRAMER: Not here. This is an export program. Exporting jobs.

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