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Donald Trump: “They manipulate their currencies like nobody can even…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump's Liberation Day Speech on Economic Independence and Reciprocal Tariffs

Published | Video Starts at 27:39

Likewise, to all of the foreign presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, ambassadors, and everyone else who will soon be calling to ask for exemptions from these tariffs, I say terminate your own tariffs. Drop your barriers. Don't manipulate your currencies. They manipulate their currencies like nobody can even believe. which is a bad, bad thing and very devastating to us. And start buying tens of billions of dollars of American goods. Tariffs give our country protection against those that would do us economic harm. (27:39–27:44)

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Asserts that foreign countries manipulate their currencies to the detriment of the U.S.

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