A little later he said:
“At our meeting, I asked them, how are you doing, how is business? They said that it’s good. I asked them further how they are doing with other countries, mainly international sales. They told me — without even complaining because they have been mistreated for so long that they have become used to it — that it is very hard to do business with other countries because they tax our goods at such a high rate. They said that in one case another country taxed their motorcycles at 100 percent.”
I think he presumes we know those countries pay the tarrif, not us.
I don’t think Trump is stupid (even though I question where he’s really thought this thing through).
But his representation of this to the public is misleading IMO. Since this was a, if not THE, cornerstone of his being elected, I’ll accept that, but at some point we need to get on track - and I think we will - and focus more on issues of repealing unconstitutional minimum wage, a job and economy killer, and letting the market economy free from government interference do what it does best - create wealth.