Rand Paul actually said...

They’re afraid of what I’m saying, so they think they’re going to punish me, I can’t go to the picnic, as if somehow that’s going to make me...

Tariffs are taxes, and the power to tax belongs to Congress—not the president.

I think I'm the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic.

I wouldn't have done it. The images you saw in the Soviet Union and North Korea, we were proud not to be that.