Howard Lutnick: “The idea is to bring copper home, bring copper production home.”

The words medium and heavy-duty trucks were raised in these trade negotiations on Friday at 4 o’clock. I met with [Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic] LeBlanc 10 times… [and] these were not raised. These were not part of it.

Now, the U.S. gets 50% of net revenues until 2041 and a say in setting the tolls.

They wanted to walk away. This is politics only. If you think I ever said the words French, do I care about how the Quebecois speak? I mean, what could matter less to America? We don’t care. So the fact is, we never thought those words up.

This is manufactured and that’s why the president put out a truth saying it was a complete lie,