They charge us, we charge them, we charge them less. So how can anybody be upset? They will be, because we never charged anybody anything. But now we're going to charge.

We're going to be charging [China with] a discounted reciprocal tariff of 34 percent.

From 1789 to 1913 we were a tariff-backed nation, and the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been.

Then in 1929 it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression. And it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy.

You've seen my statements, I do very well, I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing and it's ridiculous.

For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike.