US will be world's premier pharmacy drug store and medical manufacturer: Trump

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven once and for all that to be a strong nation, America must be a manufacturing nation, US President Donald Trump said on Thursday declaring the goal of making his country the world's premier pharmacy, drug store, and medical manufacturer. "The global pandemic has proven once and for all that to be a strong nation, America must be a manufacturing nation.... Today, I'm declaring a simple but vital national goal. The United States will be the world's premier pharmacy, drug store, and medical manufacturer. We are bringing our medicines back, he said in Michigan. The United States, he said, must produce critical equipment, supplies, pharmaceuticals, technologies for itself. We cannot rely on foreign nations to take care of us, especially in times of difficulty, he said. In previous decades, he alleged, politicians shipped away jobs, outsourced supply chains and offshored industries. They sent them abroad and we're bringing them back and we've been doing that long before this crisis. We're bringing them back. That's why we have so many plants being built all over the United States that make a beautiful product called cars. Bringing them back. You see it, he said.