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Donald Trump: “One of the primary reasons for our country's stunning…”

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President Trump 2026 State of the Union Address & Democratic Response

Published | Video Starts at 32:01

They knew what was going to, what it was going to take. I'm so proud of them. I'm so proud of the people that got it started and now it's just taken off. One of the primary reasons for our country's stunning economic turnaround, the biggest in history, where the Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead of schedule and the S and P hit 7,000 where it wasn't supposed to do it for many years, were tariffs. I used these tariffs, took in hundreds of billions of dollars to make great deals for our country both economically and on a national security basis. Everything was working well. (32:01–32:21)

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Asserts that tariffs were a primary reason for the economic turnaround and stock market milestones.

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