Trump: Reciprocal Tariffs Taking Effect On April 2 Will Be 'Liberation Day For Our Country'

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Speaking to reporters on Air Force One last night, President Trump touted his reciprocal tariffs.

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00:00The President has markets and consumers continue

00:03reacting to tariffs.

00:04I'm sorry.

00:05Has markets and consumers reacted to tariffs?

00:07Do you have any inclination to create

00:09exceptions or to ease up on any of them?

00:11The President About what?

00:12The Press To create exceptions, the steel and

00:14aluminum tariffs?

00:15The President No, I have no intention of it, no.

00:18The Press No.

00:19Is this a recall?

00:20The President April 2nd is a liberating day for our

00:22country.

00:23We're going to be getting back some of the wealth

00:25that very, very foolish Presidents gave away,

00:29because they had no clue what they were doing.

00:30And April 2nd, I would have made it April 1st.

00:34But you know what April 1st is, April Fool's Day, I

00:36figured.

00:37You know, I don't like doing it, but I made it

00:39April 2nd.

00:40But it's a liberation day for our country because

00:44we're going to be getting back a lot of the wealth

00:46that we so foolishly gave up to other countries,

00:49including friend and foe.

00:51Yes, go ahead.

00:51The Press You've talked about the hangover from

00:53the Biden economy.

00:54Is this your economy now?

00:57The President Certain things are.

01:00Certainly tariffs are.

01:02We've already taken in billions of dollars.

01:05You know, we've taken in already billions of

01:07dollars, and we haven't even really started the

01:09program other than certain areas, certain

01:12pinpointed areas, as you know.

01:14And many billions of dollars have already come

01:18into our country.

01:19The big money is coming in on April 2nd, from April 2nd.

01:23But I will tell you what it's for.

01:25When I took it over, eggs were through the roof,

01:27and now eggs are down 35 percent over a short

01:29period of time.

01:30And other things, fuel, gasoline, energy is down

01:35way down.

01:36Oil is down to $65 a barrel.

01:38It was $82 a barrel.

01:40And when energy comes down, pricing is going to

01:43come down.

01:44Prices for groceries, et cetera, are going to come

01:46down.

01:47So, yeah, I think we're setting a good table.

01:49The Press Sir, on April 2nd's tariffs, are you

01:52planning to do sectoral and reciprocal tariffs?

01:55Will you do sectoral tariffs, too?

01:56The President What are you going to do?

01:57In certain cases, well, it's going to be

01:59reciprocal.

02:00In other words, whatever they're charging, we're

02:02charging.

02:03Very simple.

02:03If they're charging us, we're charging them.

02:06It's no longer they charge us, but we don't

02:08charge them.

02:09It's a foolish President.

02:11And Biden, but others also.

02:14In all fairness, look, Biden is the worst

02:16President we've ever had.

02:17He made Jimmy Carter look like a good President.

02:21But on this, a lot of other Presidents were

02:25guilty also.

02:25Some very good Presidents were guilty.

02:28They charge us and we charge them.

02:31Then, in addition to that, on autos, on steel, on

02:34oil, we're going to have some additional tariffs.

02:36The Press Mr. President?

02:38The President Yeah.

02:38The Press So, to follow up on the Biden auto

02:41patent, are those executive orders, those

02:43bargains from the former President now null and

02:46void?

02:47The President Well, I think so.

02:48It's not my decision.

02:49That'll be up to a court.

02:50But I would say that they're null and void

02:53because I'm sure Biden didn't have any idea that

02:56it was taking place.

02:57And somebody was using an auto pen to sign off and

03:00to give pardons to, as an example, just one

03:05example, but the J6 unselect committee.

03:08They gave, think of it, they gave pardons with an

03:12auto pen.

03:12I don't think Biden knew anything about it.

03:15And what they did is they deleted and destroyed all

03:18of the information that took them over a year to

03:20get.

03:21And the reason they did that is because the

03:24information was very incriminating about them.

03:28Like Nancy Pelosi, it was determined conclusively

03:31that she knew about 10,000 soldiers and turned it

03:34down.

03:35And if we used 500 soldiers, you would have

03:37no problem, let alone 10,000.

03:40The young lady that said that I grabbed these

03:44powerful young Secret Service agents by the

03:47neck.

03:48Okay.

03:48You know, that was a big hoax.

03:50It was a lie.

03:51And she admitted it and they deleted everything.

03:55So, you know, what they did is criminal.

03:57I think we're about to land, everybody.

04:00Okay.

04:01Have a good time.

04:02We'll see you very soon.

04:05I'll see you at the Kennedy Center.

04:09You know, we have to straighten it out.

04:11It's not a good situation, like everything else in

04:15this country.

04:15But we're going to straighten it out.

Trump: Reciprocal Tariffs Taking Effect On April 2 Will Be 'Liberation Day For Our Country'

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