Trump's Top Quotes of Trump Speech

On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump unveiled his prices from the “Liberation Day”, sending fears of a trade war that ricoche around the world.

In a discourse closely viewed in the Garden Rose Garden of the White House, the billionaire businessman said that on April 2, 2025 “would forever remain memories when the day when American industry is reborn”, insisting that national manufacturing would increase with companies that flock to the United States to manufacture their products.

It has not yet been seen, but Trump clearly indicated that he no longer authorized imports to the United States without appropriate tariff – and countries should adopt “a little bit of a little hard”.

“Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters ransacked our factories and foreign scavengers have torn our former American dream,” said Trump.

“But it will not happen anymore.”

Here are the other quotes of highlighting its remarks.

– “Independence” –

“For decades, our country has been pillage, looted, violated and looted by close and far nations, both friend and enemy,” said Trump, stressing that trade abuses by allies were often more intense than those committed by competitors.

“It is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It is our declaration of economic independence.”

“Jobs and factories will return to our country, and you can already see it. We will overeat our indoor industrial base. We will open foreign markets and decompose the barriers of foreign trade, and ultimately, greater production at home will mean stronger competition and prices lower than consumers.”

– Bévival? –

Despite the unveiling of “minimum basic” tariffs of 10% on business partners, Trump sought to run his decision as a positive for world trade.

“We are very nice,” said the president. “We will charge them about half of what they are and billed us.”

What if countries retreated? “If they complain, if you want your rate rate to be zero, you build your product here in America.”

– China has struck hard –

The second world economy, China, appeared at the top of the list of prices that Trump held on the podium, the president claiming that the total prices on American goods billed by Beijing – of manipulation of currencies taken into account – amounted to 67%.

“We will therefore charge a reciprocal rate reduced by 34%” on imports in China, said Trump.

“They charge us, we invoice them, we invoice them less. So how can someone be upset?

Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping was one of several world leaders who “understood” the need for prices, such as those he stuck on Chinese steel and other products during his first mandate as president.

“They all understand that we are going to have to go through a little hard love, perhaps. But they all understand. They tear us out and they understood it.”

– Way when –

“From 1789 to 1913, we were a nation supported by prices, and the United States was proportionately the richest he has ever been,” said Trump, who raised several occasions the protectionist president of the 1890s, William McKinley, as one of his heroes who also slapped import prices.

“In 1913, for unknown reasons for humanity, they established income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, began to pay the money to manage our government,” said Trump.

“Then, in 1929, it all ended very sudden with the great depression. And that would never have happened if they had stayed with pricing policy,” said Trump, easily ignoring multiple factors – including the global economy, banking problems and the stock market crash – which led to the great depression.

– No surrender –

In addition to highlighting the prices on China, other Asian powers and the European Union, Trump got closer to his anger from home.

“The United States can no longer pursue unilateral economic surrender policy,” he said.

“We cannot pay the deficits of Canada, Mexico and so many other countries. We used to do it. We can no longer do it.”

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