Trump says April 2 tariffs will bring ‘liberation of America’

Published March 19, 2025 11:00pm ET



President Donald Trump believes by implementing reciprocal tariffs beginning on April 2, he will bring the “liberation of America.”

“We’ve been ripped off by every country in the world — friend and foe,” Trump told Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle in an interview that aired on Wednesday. “On April 2, I call it the liberation of America. We’ve been the fat, dumb, foolish country that allowed everyone to rip us off.”

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