Donald Trump actually said...

"They will bolster the U.S. economy over the long term, while acknowledging that they could cause prices to go up for Americans in the short term."

"25% and higher — and it'll go very substantially higher over course of a year."

"I want to give companies a little bit of a chance to set up factories in the U.S."

"I wanted to see if I could get a couple of more years tacked on, but I figured the fight wasn't really worth it."