Billionaire businessman Donald Trump no longer wishes to be considered part of the financial elite, who he claims have robbed Americans of “their means of making a living and supporting their families.”
“I want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we declare independence from the elites who’ve led us to one financial and foreign policy disaster after another,” Trump said during a policy speech Tuesday in rural Pennsylvania.
“I used to be one of them. Hate to say it,” he added.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee urged Americans to “take back their future,” citing the Brexit vote to make his case.
“Our friends in Britain recently voted to take back control of their economy, politics and borders,” Trump told the crowd, referring to the British referendum to leave the European Union.
“I was on the right side of that issue — with the people — while Hillary, as always, stood with the elites, and both she and president Obama predicted that one wrong,” he said, adding that “now it’s time for the American people to take back their future.”
Trump went on to criticize multinational trade agreements, the growing gap between rich and poor Americans and the flow of manufacturing jobs overseas.
“We are going to make America wealthy again,” he assured the audience. “We are going to reject Hillary Clinton’s politics of fear, futility and incompetence. We are going to embrace the possibilities of change.”
