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Peter Navarro: “President Trump has said correctly, if the court does not…”

Featuring: Peter Navarro, Republican | Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing, Trump Administration | National

FULL GAGGLE: Navarro Says Trump's Tariffs Being Taken Down In Court 'Will Be The End Of The U.S.'

Published September 2, 2025 | Video Starts at 10:17

We don't have to. The tariffs will remain in place at least to October and perhaps beyond until the Supreme Court rules on this. And again, President Trump has said correctly, if the court does not uphold the Trump tariffs, it will be the end of this country. We will lose all sorts of bargaining power and the rest of the world will continue to do what it has been doing, have its way with us. (10:17–10:28)

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Asserts that President Trump believes the removal of tariffs would be detrimental to the U.S.

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“During the Biden regime, you had 26 straight months where inflation rose faster than wages.”
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“$8 trillion have come into this country in terms of pledged investment.”
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“The effect of costing this country millions of jobs, over 100,000 factories.”
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“The trade deficits [are] $1.3 trillion a year.”
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“India literally is the maharaja of tariffs. It has the highest tariffs of any major country in the world.”
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“The de minimis Louis loophole is insane. No country in the world has an $800 limit where anything can come in below $800.”
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“It's the single highest source of narcotics and, and fentanyl being smuggled across the borders.”
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“2.5 million jobs [were created] since President Trump took office for American born citizens.”
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“In the Trump administration, inflation is trending below 2%.”
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“We're going to have an average of $15,000 tax cuts for blue collar in middle America.”
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“$63 billion in benefits for no tax on overtime for seniors.”
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“No tax on tips, no tax on overtime is going to mean $1,500 a year more in the pockets of service workers.”
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“If the lower court's ruling is upheld, President Trump has correctly said that will be the end of the United States.”
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“It's unconscionable that Communist China, in league with the Mexican and Canadian drug cartels, are killing Americans with fentanyl.”
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“It's over a million since the fentanyl war against America started.”
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“Countries around the world have done exploiting their mercantilism is take apart key aspects of our supply chains.”
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“We're exposed by that debt to blackmail from other countries, including Communist China, which holds a lot of our debt.”
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“Tariffs constitute regulation of importation. Would it qualify as a form of regulating imports? And yes, of course it will.”
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“Neither Howard Lutnick, Jameson Greer, Scott Bessant myself, or the President himself ever said that these tariffs were permanent.”
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“The tariffs have helped start to stem that flow [of fentanyl].”
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“Every single year we have to revisit these tariffs with Congress.”
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“India, for all practical purposes, did not buy any oil to speak of from Russia before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.”
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“India charges the highest tariffs in the world, has the highest non tariff barriers.”
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“We have now 50% tariffs on India.”
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“It's over 50% total on China.”
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“Historically, India has been in a cold war with communist China for decades.”
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“China now is using India as a big transshipment hub for all sorts of products to avoid the Chinese tariffs.”
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“This de minimis loophole has been one where counterfeits and pirated goods are coming in.”
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“China could send these things in, they'd steal a design, send them in.”
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“They'd send them in through De Minimis.”
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“They could send a mug for half the price [than] Mighty Mug could send to the house next door.”
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“We've had a tremendous influx of investment.”
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“The third party is the one that actually does it that's the foreigners who export to us.”
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“Countries that rely most heavily on us... have no choice other than to lower their prices when we raise our tariffs.”
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“We don't see inflation coming in.”
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“Domestic industry, the businesses are elated with the protection we're giving them.”
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“Celebrate the revival now of our steel and aluminum industries which in tariffs itself.”
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“China ate the whole damn thing and they're going to do it again.”
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