Watch: Trump Roasts the Mess in Detroit While Trashing Kamala Harris During Speech

Former President Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris during his speech at the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday.

He also addressed the struggling conditions of Detroit and its economy, but with a hopeful message that the city will flourish again if he is re-elected.

During the speech, Trump discussed revitalizing the auto industry and curbing inflation, which he argued was a result of "bad, big government economic policies" implemented by the Biden-Harris administration.

“I don’t think anything that we’re talking about today is high on [Harris’] list,” Trump remarked. “The whole country’s going to be like…. You want to know the truth? It will be like Detroit.”

“Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president,” he continued. “You’re going to have a mess on your hands.”

At the beginning of his address, Trump said, “I’m here today to talk about a subject that’s always been very dear to my heart: saving the U.S. auto industry.”

His plan, through revisions in federal trade and tax policies, is to make the industry larger and stronger than ever before.

Trump recalled how Detroit was once the hub of automotive innovation, producing iconic vehicles like the muscle car, the minivan, and the SUV.

However, he blamed "globalist politicians" for allowing Detroit to lose its global dominance in auto manufacturing.

He pointed to the 1992 North American Free Trade Agreement and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 as pivotal moments that negatively impacted U.S. manufacturing, including the auto sector.

“Detroit was decimated as if by a foreign army,” Trump argued.

He claimed that during his time in office, steps were taken to reverse years of decline. These included withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and replacing NAFTA with the USMCA, which incentivized U.S. auto manufacturing.

Additionally, Trump noted that he imposed a 27.5 percent tariff on Chinese cars, which “kept them out of the market and kept Detroit in business.”

Turning to inflation, Trump said, “Four years ago when I left office we had no inflation—and we had…virtually no inflation during my entire four years… Under Biden and Harris, because of inflation, the economy has been a total disaster, but Kamala says she can’t think of one thing that she would do differently.”

Trump went on to say that respected Wall Street analysts like Scott Bessent believe the stock market’s rise is linked to Trump’s strong polling numbers and the possibility of his return to office.

“The only way to end this suffering is to vote for change this November,” Trump urged.

When Trump left office in January 2021, the inflation rate stood at 1.4 percent. By April of that year, it had risen to 4.2 percent and continued to climb following the passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which economists across the spectrum predicted would spur inflation as the economy was already recovering.

Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to pass the bill, which had no Republican backing.

She also cast the tie-breaker on the over $1 trillion Inflation Reduction Act, which was filled with green energy initiatives costing nearly three times the original estimate. This new spending contributed to a spike in the deficit, which is inflationary.

Overall, Trump expressed optimism that Detroit and the nation could experience an economic resurgence, but not if the Biden-Harris administration's big government, globalist policies persist.

Instead, the solution, according to Trump, is to prioritize the American worker once again.