If you want your tariff to be zero, you build your product, you build your plant in America

Chronic trade deficits are no longer merely an economic problem, they're a national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life.

make America wealthy again

No, I never said that.

We will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs... we will charge them approximately half of what they are

Trade deficits are no longer merely an economic problem. They are a national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life. It's a very great threat to our country.

Tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs. They’re about protecting the soul of our country.

A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see.

The Great Depression would never have happened if they stayed with the tariffs

Factories shuttered and left our shores.

We're standing up for the American worker, and we are finally putting America first.

American industry will be reborn.

Chronic trade deficits are no longer an economic problem—they are a national emergency that threatens our security

This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It’s our declaration of economic independence.

This is going to lead to the construction of a lot of plants, in this case auto plants.

This will be a very big moment. I think you’re going to remember today.

I have asked then–Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.

For years, hard working American citizens were forced to sit on the sidelines as other nations got rich and powerful, much of it at our expense.

Reciprocal. That means they do it to us, and we do it to them.

The reciprocal tariffs are still only half the rates charged by those nations on U.S. products, characterizing his new levies as 'kind.'

The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom.

The Senate Budget plan gives us the tools that we need to get our shared priorities done, including certain PERMANENT Tax Cuts, Spending Cuts Energy, Historic Investments in Defense, Border, and much more.

In the coming days, there will be complaints from the globalists and the outsourcers, and special interests and the fake news.

I didn’t want [it] to be April Fool’s Day because then nobody would believe what I said

taking advantage of the U.S. and ripping us off.