But we had no other president that was willing to do this. I did it my first term with China and others, We took in hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs, no inflation, the most successful period of time that we've ever had financially in the country. The first term. I think this term is going to be much better, even much better than that. That was the best ever. And this is going to be, I think, substantially better. (04:05–04:14)
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Asserts that the U.S. collected hundreds of billions in tariffs without causing inflation, marking a successful financial period.
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