Not since senators Smoot and Hawley, has anyone loved tariffs more than Donald Trump, even self-identifying as ‘Tariff Man’. Speaking at a roundtable with voters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, the Republican president-elect said he thought “tariff” was “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”.
“You have other words that are damn nice, like ‘love’,” Trump said, while others in the room laughed. “But I tell you, I think it’s more beautiful than ‘love’.”
As Tariff Man, Trump has proposed various tariff policies, including tariffs of up to 20% on all imports not out of China and 60% on Chinese goods.
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