<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/17/trump-pushes-made-in-america-as-white-house-defends-trump-companies-making-products-overseas/?utm_term=.40de8888aa1b" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/17/trump-pushes-made-in-america-as-white-house-defends-trump-companies-making-products-overseas/?utm_term=.40de8888aa1b</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 9pt; line-height: 45pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 42pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class="">Trump pushes ‘Made in America’ as White House defends Trump companies making products overseas<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h1><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2pt;" class=""><span class="pb-byline"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/abby-phillip/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(25, 85, 165);" class="">Abby Philli</span><span style="color: rgb(25, 85, 165);" class="">p</span></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""> </span><span class="pb-timestamp"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" class="">July 17 at 5:11 PM</span></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32.25pt; background-color: black;" class=""><font color="#eeeeee" class=""> </font></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">President Trump wants more products to be stamped with “Made in America” again, but on Monday, the White House wouldn't say he was willing to apply that standard to the products sold by his companies or those of his daughter Ivanka Trump.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">To launch “Made in America” week, President Trump showcased products made in all 50 states. He argued that making products in the United States was an act of patriotism and national security.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">“Remember the old days? We used to have 'Made in the USA,' 'Made in America,' ” Trump said at the White House event. “We're going to start doing that again. We're going to put that brand on our product because it means it's the best.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">“When we purchase products made in the U.S.A., the profits stay here, the revenue stays here and the jobs, maybe most importantly of all, they stay right here in the U.S.,” he continued.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21.6pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">But <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/ivanka-trump-overseas/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.0af1c043c2c8" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(25, 85, 165);" class="">a Washington Post investigation last week</span></a> found that many of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/26/how-many-trump-products-were-made-overseas-heres-the-complete-list/?utm_term=.f199b4bfba21" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(25, 85, 165);" class="">Trump's own products</span></a> are made overseas and the products sold by his daughter Ivanka Trump's companies are also similarly made in countries such as China, Bangladesh and Indonesia.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/ivanka-trump-overseas/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.adbb222c40ce" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(25, 85, 165);" class="">Ivanka Inc.</span></a>]</span></i><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Asked whether the president would begin by making his own commitment to making products in the United States, White House press secretary Sean Spicer declined to comment on the president's businesses.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">“It's not appropriate for me to stand up here and talk about a business,” Spicer said. “That would be a little out of bounds.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">But later, he defended the Ivanka Trump Co.'s use of foreign labor to manufacture products, arguing that some simply can't be made in the United States anymore. The argument is similar to the explanation given by the president of the Ivanka Trump brand, Abigail Klem, who said that making products in the United States “at a large scale is currently not possible.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">“There are certain industries that we don’t do much anymore, and there are certain things we do do here,” Spicer said. “In terms of scalability there are certain things that we may not have the capacity to do here in terms of having a plant or a factory that can do it.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">But President Trump blamed the problem on unfair trade deals and regulations. He promised that his administration's policies will turn “boarded-up communities into new outposts of American commerce.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">“We're going to stand up for our companies and maybe most importantly for our workers,” Trump said. “For decades, Washington has allowed other nations to wipe out millions of American jobs through unfair trade practices.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">“We will protect our workers, promote our industry and be proud of our history, because we will put America first,” he said.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; line-height: 21.6pt; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Trump made little mention of how his administration would rectify the primary reason companies such as Ivanka Trump's produce their products overseas: cheap labor.</span></p></body></html>