His job was to convince the 47% that he can do a better job in FP than PBO. Why, because the 47% is more concerned with their jobs than what is happening somewhere else. 47% of us think that having more of what we have will make us wealthier and safer.
Costco and the Walmart stockholders are squirming- imagine, a trade war with China will mean higher costs to consumers.
China manipulating their currency- maybe so, but a higher Yuan means that China will be winning on the same resources that US bids.
Give us more military ships and planes that make USA safer?