Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…a week. We are—we have a 50-percent tariff on steel, aluminum, and various other things—copper just got brought into the picture—and…
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Remarks Following a Meeting With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…range of 15 to 20 percent. Probably one of those two numbers. Aluminum? You're a pretty big aluminum maker, aren't you? You mean on the…
…to make our own steel and we're going to make our own aluminum, for the most part. But we buy a lot of aluminum from…
Remarks Following a Meeting With President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…what? The steel is staying the way it is. The steel and aluminum, et cetera, et cetera, that's a worldwide thing. That stays the way…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission and an Exchange With Reporters in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…start on August 1. Most of the deals—other than steel and aluminum, which we've been getting 50-percent tariffs from, I guess, just about…
…in, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars just on steel and aluminum. You've seen the numbers. We had a tremendous amount of money come…
…which is fair. We have a lot of steel mills and plants—aluminum mills and plants being built. We have a lot of AI being…
Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…ones. We did steel, as you know. They're 50 percent. We did aluminum, 50 percent. Lumber just came out. And we did cars. Cars. And…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and an Exchange With Reporters
May 6, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…don't forget: We're now getting 25 percent on cars, 25 percent on aluminum, 25 percent on steel. And maybe more importantly, massive numbers of companies…
…We have trade. They're—paying a tariff on cars and steel and aluminum, and I think we have a baseline of 10 percent or something…
…speak. We really don't want Canadian steel, and we don't want Canadian aluminum and various other things, because we want to be able to do…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…in 25 percent on cars, 25 percent on steel, 25 percent on aluminum, 10-percent baseline. We put penalties on China for sending us fentanyl…
Remarks Prior to a Working Lunch With Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…now, 25 percent on cars, 25 percent on steel, 25 percent on aluminum. And we're getting a 10-percent baseline. We took that down just…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez of El Salvador and an Exchange With Reporters
Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…tariff on cars. We have a 25-percent tariff on steel and aluminum. And that's what that category fits right now. I have a timeline…
…We're doing it because we want to make our own steel and aluminum, lumber, other things, and they're all coming in. We have record numbers…
Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…cars very shortly. And we already announced steel, as you know, and aluminum. We'll be announcing pharmaceuticals at some point in the not-too-distant…
…wars or anything else, we need steel. We need pharmaceuticals. We need aluminum. We need a lot of these things that we sort of don't…
Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Secretary General Mark Rutte of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an Exchange With Reporters
Mar 13, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…ripped off anymore. No, I'm not going to bend at all on aluminum or steel or cars. We're not going to bend. We've been ripped…