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Exclusive — JD Vance on ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs: ‘First Time’ in Decades ‘We Have an American President Saying No More’ to U.S. Being World’s ‘Piggy Bank’
Breitbart ^ | 2 Apr 2025 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 04/03/2025 1:16:26 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday evening that for the “first time in probably 40 years,” the United States has a president in President Donald Trump who is reversing the trend of the U.S. serving as a “piggy bank” for the rest of the world.

“So for 40 years, America has been the piggy bank of the world,” Vance said when asked about the importance of the president’s announcement on Wednesday. “We absorb all of the ridiculous trade practices and economic practices of friend and foe alike. For the first time in probably 40 years, we have an American president who’s saying, ‘No more,’ that it’s not going to work, that he’s not going to allow America to be taken advantage of anymore. This decision is going to cause incredible benefits for American workers. You’ve already seen a number of American manufacturers and a number of foreign manufacturers who are saying they’re going to build or expand plants in America. That means more workers with good middle-class jobs. That means more self-sufficiency in the United States of America. Again, it can’t happen unless you have a president who fights back against these ridiculous trade practices. Finally, we have a president who’s doing exactly that.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: minime; tariffs; trump; vance
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“Yeah, so it’s funny. You have countries who threaten to retaliate against President Trump standing up for American workers,” Vance said when asked to respond to the critics. “And my response is, well, if tariffs are so terrible, then isn’t them raising their tariffs good for us? Because these people always say that any tariffs are bad. Well, all these other countries have applied tariffs to the United States and non-tariff barriers to the United States for a generation. If it was so terrible, why do these countries keep on doing it? If it’s so terrible, why are these countries calling us, lobbying us, begging us not to do this thing? It just doesn’t make any sense. What we know from experience is that a lot of countries have gotten rich by using the United States as a piggy bank. We know that President Trump stopping this makes these countries nervous, and the reason it makes them nervous is because they know what common sense tells us, which is that when they impose tariffs on us, it’s bad for American workers, and when we fight back, it’s good for American workers.”


1 posted on 04/03/2025 1:16:26 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

‘We Have an American President Saying No More’ to U.S. Being World’s ‘Piggy Bank’

And also saying ‘no more’ to being the world’s dumping ground for lunatics, criminals, and malcontents.


2 posted on 04/03/2025 1:22:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SoConPubbie

The world’s biggest piggy bank has been looted to the point were it’s now the worlds greatest debtor.


3 posted on 04/03/2025 1:48:45 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: SoConPubbie

If tariffs are so bad, why do other countries do it?


4 posted on 04/03/2025 2:22:36 PM PDT by BipolarBob (After my drug test, they either said "Urine Trouble" or You're in trouble". )
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To: BenLurkin

‘We Have an American President Saying No More’ to U.S. Being World’s ‘Piggy Bank’

And also saying ‘no more’ to being the world’s dumping ground for lunatics, criminals, and malcontents.
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If only the masses of brain-dead eligible voters who either don’t vote or who vote for Marxist-Democrats and their RINO sycophants had a clue as to how detrimental those two issues are to their own welfare they would be ecstatic that President Trump’s plan is to END both of those absurd policies.


5 posted on 04/03/2025 9:16:34 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Vult!)
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