Trump: Tariffs Are Going to Be the Greatest Thing We’ve Ever Done as a Country

Trump: “Go ahead. What else?”
Reporter: “A lot of Americans have seen their retirement accounts fall in recent days, getting very nervous about these tariff conversations — “
Trump: “Well, I think the tariffs will be the greatest thing we’ve ever done of the country. It will make our country rich again. We have many companies, as you know, auto companies are opening up plants now. We’ve had 4 or 5 announced already, but many more are coming. And we’re basically going to take back the money, a lot of the money that we’ve given away over many decades. We’ve lost our jobs, we’ve lost our factories. We’ve lost 90,000 factories since beginning of NAFTA. It’s not that long ago. 90,000 factories. Think of that. And we are going to get them back. And they’re coming back, and they’re coming back in records. Look at what happened with the big chip company, the biggest in the world, by far the most powerful chip company in the world from Taiwan, they’re going in with $200B of money and they’re going to build — it’s going to give us 35 or 40% of the chip market just in one company. No, it’s gonna bring them back and I think it’s gonna make us — bring us to a level that we’ve never had before.”