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Remarks With Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom Announcing a United States Trade Agreement With the United Kingdom and an Exchange With Reporters

May 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times

  1. …have a discussion on that separately. And as you know, we're putting tariffs on that particular—film, he said; the moviemakers. And we're going to…
  2. …deficits—that this particular country is going to pay a 25-percent tariff or a 30 percent or a 50 percent or a 10 percent…
  3. …they haven't even spoken to us. They're doing it because of the tariffs. And tariffs have always been used against us, and I never understood…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and an Exchange With Reporters

May 6, 2025 Meeting 12 times

  1. …the only reason—but because of they have now a 145- percent tariff, there's no trading. You can't trade with 145 percent. We are therefore…
  2. …dollars a day on trade. Those numbers are rapidly turning. Between the tariffs—don't forget: We're now getting 25 percent on cars, 25 percent on…
  3. …a cram course. But they're all moving into America because of the tariffs and the—I don't think people have appreciated it. Some people do…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Upon Arrival From Palm Beach, Florida

May 4, 2025 Other 2 times

  1. …do that, and we're looking at it right now. Yes. The movie tariffs, what they've done is, other nations have been stealing the—the movies…
  2. …make a movie inside the United States, then we should have a tariff on movies that come in. And not only that, governments are actually…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

May 4, 2025 Other 3 times

  1. …signing. I'm going to be setting the deal. I'll be setting a tariff. You keep asking the same question: "When will you agree?" It's up…
  2. …a day. Now we're not dealing with China at all because the tariff is so high that they basically can't deal. And because of that…
  3. …of. So, at a certain point, I'll be just setting a certain tariff number. Say it. Well, that shouldn't be happening. But the other thing…

Commencement Address at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …dollars. And it's all about November 5—the November 5 election and tariffs and incentives that we've given that are going to make this country…
  2. …at any time. And it's all because they want to avoid the tariffs. "We want to get here fast." And I said, you know, a…

Remarks on the National Day of Prayer

May 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times

  1. …off anymore. You know, a lot of people like to talk about tariffs. Well, tariffs is exactly what they were doing for us. You know…

Remarks on Domestic Business Investment

Apr 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times

  1. …think two things happened. November 5 happened. And November 5 gave you tariffs, intelligently used tariffs and various other forms of incentive. But it's really…
  2. …very big plant because they want to be able to beat the tariffs. It's the only way to beat them. The entire Trump economic agenda…
  3. …understand that if you build your factory in the United States, your tariff rate is zero—zero—and you have other advantages too and not…

Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 30, 2025 Meeting 12 times

  1. …I just walked in—I heard Samsung is now—because of the tariffs, they're going to build massive facilities in the United States. If we…
  2. …money. What they need is an incentive to come in, and the tariffs—they're building because of the tariffs. If—without the tariffs—and I'd…
  3. …to say they're building because of November 5, the election, and the tariffs, but I'm going to be a little more blunt. They're building because…

Remarks in Warren, Michigan

Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times

  1. …and build cars again. You know why? Because of our tax and tariff policy. They're coming from all over the world. They're coming up, and…
  2. …mandated to do anything. And I've already proudly imposed a 25-percent tariff on all foreign automobiles, any foreign car—like they do to us…
  3. …rapidly as possible, I've just signed an Executive order to give partial tariff rebates to any company that assembles its cars right here in the…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey

Apr 27, 2025 Other 6 times

  1. …is way down. It's all coming down. It's all looking good. The tariffs are strong. It's—we're taking in a lot of money from tariffs…
  2. …of our country because the money is so great coming in from tariffs that I'll be able to reduce taxes to a very large extent…
  3. …it's possible we'll do a complete tax cut, because I think the tariffs will be enough to cut all of the income tax. Now, we…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Rome, Italy

Apr 25, 2025 Other 6 times

  1. …But I'm speaking to people from all over the world on the tariffs, and we're making very good deals. Very good deals. It's going to…
  2. …it open. They don't want it open. The big thing are the tariffs. But because of tariffs, I could possibly get that. What do you…
  3. …but we'll also make deals. In other words, we'll just set the tariff, and we'll be reasonable—very reasonable, and that will be the end…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Prior to Departure for Rome, Italy

Apr 25, 2025 Other 2 times

  1. …we're going to end up with a lot of good deals, including tariff deals and trade deals. We're going to make our country rich, but…
  2. …want to do it as fast as possible. What? I think the tariff plan is doing very well. We're resetting the table. We're going to…

Remarks at an Executive Order Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 21 times

  1. …it down almost even, maybe even better than even, because of the tariffs on cars and aluminum, and steel. We have tariffs 25 percent on…
  2. …deal with a company or a country, we're going to set the tariff. We just set the tariff at something that we think—— That will…
  3. …to 1913. It was a long time ago. We were an all-tariff nation. Foreign nations paid taxes. They paid money to us in the…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 23, 2025 Other 4 times

  1. The tariff negotiations—— The tariff negotiations are going very well. We're dealing with many, many countries. They all want to be involved with America. Be…
  2. …they traded to the income tax system. We used to be all tariff and we had no income tax. And we had the wealthiest country…

Remarks at a Swearing-in Ceremony for Paul S. Atkins as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times

  1. …or make their product in the United States, we have absolutely no tariffs, and we welcome people. But we're taking in a lot of money…
  2. …that everyone is going to do well in this country because of tariffs. We have $7 trillion of investment already. You can go back many…
  3. …of an election that people liked, and it's coming in because of tariffs. And if you look at Apple, Apple is going to start building…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 21, 2025 Other 1 time

  1. …very good meetings on Iran. We had very good on—and the tariffs are going very well, as you know. Everybody wants to negotiate. He's…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …this country. I guess we could talk about it with regard to tariffs. Howard—I mean, it's something that could be a part of it…
  2. …don't make a deal, we'll just set a limit. We'll set a tariff, we'll set some parameters, and we'll say, "Come in and shop." They…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 6 times

  1. …in are astronomical. We're taking in tremendous amounts of money with the tariffs. We were treated very unfairly on trade, and the countries are getting…
  2. …what? What about it? Yes. Go ahead, please. No. Sure. No. No. Tariffs are making us rich. We were losing a lot of money under…
  3. …we didn't do—we didn't take in anything before, other than the tariffs that I put on previous to Biden, which were the tariffs I…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez of El Salvador and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 11 times

  1. …of the election on November 5 and because of a thing called tariffs—as I say, the most beautiful word in the dictionary—after "love…
  2. …that we deal with. They're great people. They're brilliant people. And without tariffs, they wouldn't be doing it. Okay? Thank you very much. That's really…
  3. …other places—China. And all I have to do is impose a tariff. The more, the faster they move in. The higher the tariff, it's…

Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Apr 13, 2025 Other 6 times

  1. …allow people to forget it. Yes. Yes. Well—— That's right. But the tariffs will be in place in the not-distant future, because, as you…
  2. …want to make our drugs in this country, and by placing a tariff on the companies that are not in this country, they're going to…
  3. …Very much like, if you look, automobiles—again, automobiles, we have a tariff. Nobody is complaining about it. It went through the process. We have…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to West Palm Beach, Florida

Apr 11, 2025 Other 3 times

  1. …A lot of new companies are coming on board, because of the tariffs and because of the November 5 election. Is that the one that…
  2. …to do, but we want to be fair. We can set the tariff, and they can choose not to deal with us, or they can…
  3. …that's where we are. We can—you know, we can set the tariff, or we can do it a number of different ways, but that…

Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 10, 2025 Meeting 9 times

  1. …Look, U.S. Steel is going to do very well now because of tariffs, and I don't know why they even need a deal. But the…
  2. …to be filled up very soon because of what I'm doing with tariffs. It was a different kind of a thing. But if I didn't…
  3. …in the first term—in my first term, if I didn't put tariffs on, we would have—because China and others were dumping steel, billions…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times

  1. …billion a day right now—this country—$2 billion a day with tariffs, and they were making $2 billion a day. We'll be making more…
  2. …very, very weakened country—both economically, financially—because of all of the tariffs and all of the other companies just raiding us and ripping us…
  3. …it with China. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs and taxes from China in my first term, and we had the…

Remarks at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 36 times

  1. …interesting year. We have an interesting time. We're making a fortune with tariffs. Two billion dollars a day. Do you believe it? I was told…
  2. …billion a day. You know, I got hit by the press about tariffs. We're making $2 billion—billion. This isn't $35 million. That's peanuts. Two…
  3. …really think—and I really think we're helped a lot by the tariff situation that's going on, which is a good situation, not a bad…

Remarks on Domestic Coal Production

Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times

  1. …fantastic job. And for those of you that want to know, the tariffs—you've been hearing about tariffs. We're taking in almost $2 billion a…
  2. …that fast. But we don't have to, because, as you know, the tariffs are on and the money is pouring in at a level that…
  3. …been ripped off and abused by countries for many years with the tariff situation. They've used tariffs against us. We didn't use tariffs against them…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and an Exchange With Reporters

Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 27 times

  1. …lot of things. I appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs. We've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over…
  2. …fair deals, and, in certain cases, they're going to be paying substantial tariffs. They'll be fair deals. As you know, I spoke this morning with…
  3. …China, as you know, against my statement, they put a 34-percent tariff on, above what their ridiculous tariffs were already. And I said if…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Apr 6, 2025 Other 10 times

  1. …big hit, because everyone knows we're right. We—they have to pay tariffs because, otherwise, we have a surplus—that they have a surplus with…
  2. …would I want to talk? And, as you know, because of the tariffs, we have $7 trillion already committed to be invested in the United…
  3. …got elected—was exactly because of this. And we're going to put tariffs—we've already put them on. It's not a question of we will…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Miami, Florida

Apr 3, 2025 Other 12 times

  1. …review right now. What we have is we have a set of tariffs, based on what they have been charging us, that's reciprocal. And those…
  2. …have said, "No." Now they'll do anything for us. But we have tariffs. They've been set. And it's going to make our country very rich…
  3. …say, "We'll approve a deal, but will you do something on the tariff?" The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. Always have. I've used…

Remarks Announcing Additional United States Tariff Actions on Foreign Imports

Apr 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 31 times

  1. …a few moments, I will sign a historic Executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world. "Reciprocal"—that means they do to us…
  2. …slashed our trade barriers on other countries, while those nations placed massive tariffs on our products and created outrageous nonmonetary barriers to decimate our industries…
  3. …many years. The United States charges other countries only a 2.4 tariff on motorcycles. Meanwhile, Thailand and others are charging much higher prices, like…

Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 19 times

  1. …Cook—because of the election, but maybe more importantly because of the tariffs. You know, he's—got, really, an obligation to do it. But we…
  2. …And we have other—interesting things happening. But to me, the whole tariff situation—and essentially, they've done that to us for many years. So…
  3. …not sure that they've ever seen it. Steel—you know, we have tariffs on steel. They've been here for a while—steel and aluminum. Nobody…

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Mar 30, 2025 Other 9 times

  1. …very, very bad. So we have a couple. We have the secondary tariffs on Iran. And we'll probably give it a couple of weeks, and…
  2. …into Ukraine, likewise. But we're going to make a decision on secondary tariffs on Iran based on whether or not they're going to make a…
  3. …going to make a deal, then we're never going to put secondary tariffs on. We're going to hope they have a great, long, and successful…

Remarks on Signing the Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States

Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 24 times

  1. …very modest. What we're going to be doing is a 25-percent tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. If…
  2. …back to the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs and, I think, also, because of November 5, the election. They're very…
  3. …without what we're doing. So we'll effectively be charging a 25-percent tariff, but if you build your car in the United States, there is…

Remarks at a Women's History Month Event

Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times

  1. …decades and we start a process—we're going to go with the tariffs on cars. And as you've probably been reading—it's all over the…
  2. …all coming—they're all coming in so they don't have to pay tariffs. It's very simple. Because if you build your product in the U.S.A…
  3. …the election. I like to say the election result, but let's give tariffs a little— —a little of the—well, without the election result, you…

Remarks at a Document Signing Ceremony and Meeting With United States Ambassadorial Nominees and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 25, 2025 Meeting 3 times

  1. …April 1, for the obvious reason. April 2. But you'll be seeing tariffs, and I think I've been very fair. I have them set, but…
  2. …of dollars coming into our country very soon in the form of tariffs, because we were abused by Presidents and, frankly, in all fairness—it…
  3. …Once they're here, we'll protect them through taxes, through incentives, and also through tariffs. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you

Remarks on Manufacturing Investment and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times

  1. …because of the election on November 5, but it's also because of tariffs, I suspect, Governor. But I'm thrilled to welcome Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry…
  2. …never seen before. Get ready. This investment is a clear demonstration that tariffs very strongly work, and I hope other things also, but the tariffs…
  3. …in America, and as a result, they'll not have to pay any tariffs. You know, there are no tariffs if you make your product in…

Remarks Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 6 times

  1. …incentive for them to use it. But what is good is, the tariffs will make it so that they want to come back. That's why…
  2. …because of the fact that they have to come back because the tariffs are forcing them to come back. And remember, there are no tariffs…
  3. …under control. Tremendous amounts of money will be soon coming in from tariffs, which is about time that we were able to partake. We've been…

Remarks on Next Generation Air Dominance and Military Readiness and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 18 times

  1. …is going to be coming back to us in the form of tariffs. They're—I mean, tens of billions. It's going to be numbers like…
  2. …We would have had—if I didn't do, in my first term, tariffs to stop the onslaught, because they were dumping steel in order to…
  3. …I didn't do 50 percent and even 100 percent, in certain cases, tariffs on steel, you wouldn't have a steel plant in the United States…

Remarks on the Situation in Ukraine and an Exchange With Reporters Prior to Departure From Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …Yes. Well, it's going to bring tremendous wealth back. And it was tariffs used in reverse that really brought our country to a position that…
  2. …again. And when somebody is treating us badly, we're going to put tariffs on. They're going to be very fair. They're going to be fair…
  3. …strong. I think our country is going to come roaring back. The tariffs are a big deal. And, frankly, that's how China does it, and…

Remarks at the Department of Justice

Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times

  1. …the Afghanistan war—all of them combined. That's why I placed large tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, and they will remain in place until…
  2. …And I will tell you, as soon as I put on the tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, unbelievable results have been seen in the…
  3. …I thank the President of Mexico, actually. It was a call on tariffs, and we talked about drugs, and she gave me an idea that…

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 6 times

  1. …things. Number one, the election—November 5. And the other thing is tariffs. I think, probably, in that order. But Tim Cook came in and…
  2. …and that's because of the election result and it's because of the tariffs and the tax incentives too. You know, tariffs and tax incentives. And…
  3. …cars there. It's prohibitive because of their policies, and also their nonmonetary tariffs. That's—they put obstacles in your way that you can do nothing…

Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Micheál Martin of Ireland and an Exchange With Reporters

Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 6 times

  1. …ill will. And, as you know, we're going to be doing reciprocal tariffs. So whatever they charge us, we're charging them. Nobody can complain about…
  2. …time, we've done a very good job. And I think that the tariffs that we're talking about—and, again, reciprocal—I think that the tariffs…
  3. …anything into the United States, I'm going to put a 200-percent tariff on you, so you're never going to be able to sell anything…