Trump Tells Joe Rogan How he Will 'Make America Rich Again' If Elected
Former President Donald Trump told Joe Rogan during his historic podcast on Friday how he’ll make “America rich” again if he wins the presidency.
Trump suggested that he seek to use tariffs to eliminate the income tax.
In the nearly three-hour episode, Trump was asked if he was “serious” about using tariffs to offset the elimination of income taxes.
“To me, the most beautiful word — and I’ve said this the past couple of weeks, in the dictionary today — is the word tariff,” Trump told Rogan.
“It’s more beautiful than love, it’s more beautiful than any — it’s the most beautiful word. This country can become rich with the use, the proper use, of tariffs.”
The former president said he impose a 200% tariff on John Deere’s tractors if it closed an American factory and moved production to Mexico in September.
“Did you just float out the idea of getting rid of income taxes and replacing it with tariffs?” Rogan asked.
“Were you serious about that?”
Trump responded:
“Why not?”
“Our country was the richest, relatively, in the 1880s and 1890s, a president who was assassinated named McKinley, he was the tariff king. He spoke beautifully of tariffs.”
“His language was really beautiful: We will not allow the enemy to come in and take our jobs and take our factories and take our workers and take our families unless they pay a big price and the big price is tariffs.”
However, Kamala Harris falsely claimed that Trump’s plan to impose tariffs would act as a “national sales tax” and insisted that it would cost American families $4,000 a year in higher prices.
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