Donald Trump actually said...

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

"The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. Always have."

"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."

"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."