President Trump: April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to Make America Wealthy Again. For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike. American steel workers, auto workers, farmers, and skilled craftsmen, they really suffered gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American Dream…our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than fifty years, but it is not going to happen anymore. It's not going to happen.
President Trump: From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation, and the Untied States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been. So wealthy in fact, that in the 1880s's, they established a commission to decide what they were going to do with the vast sums of money they were collecting…then in 1913, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the Income Tax, so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, would start paying the money necessary to run our government. Then in 1929, it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression, and it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy. It would have been a much different story.
President Trump: The United States can no longer produce enough antibiotics to treat our sick. We have a tremendous problem. We have to go to foreign countries to treat our sick. If anything ever happened from a war standpoint, we wouldn't be able to do it.
President Trump: For nations that treat us badly, we will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs, non-monetary barriers, and other forms of cheating,and because we are being very kind…we will charge them approximately half of what they are, and have been, charging us. The tariffs will be, not a full reciprocal; I could have done that, I guess, but it would have been tough for a lot of countries, We didn't want to do that.
President Trump: Foreign nations will finally be asked to pay for the privilege for access to our market, the biggest market in the world. We're right now the biggest market in the world.
President Trump: To all of the foreign presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, ambassadors, and everyone else who will soon be calling to ask for exemptions from these tariffs, I say, terminate your own tariffs. Drop your barriers. Don't manipulate your currencies; they manipulate their currencies like nobody can even believe, which is a bad, bad thing, and very devastating to us, and start buying tens of billions of dollars of American goods. Tariffs give our country protection against those who would do us economic harm.
President Trump: We have, so far, it looks like we're going to have about six trillion dollars of investments, and you wouldn't do that in years in thus country over the last number of years. Six trillion dollars, and that;s going to be much higher by the end of the year. Think of what six trillion dollars is. You wouldn't have even a small percentage of that under this other system. We're going to be an entirely different country, and it's going ot be fantastic for the workers, it's going to be fantastic for everyone. There will never have been a transformation of a country like the transformation that's already happening in the Untied States of America. It's an incredible thing to watch.
President Trump: This will be an entirely different country in a short period of time. It will be something the whole world will be talking about.
President Trump: And now we;re going to pass the largest tax cuts in American history…and we will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits, and the democrats will, because if they got in, the entire economy would collapse. This country was heading for a collapse under the people that you saw.
President Trump: From this day on, we're not going to let anyone tell us that American workers and families can not have the future that they deserve. We're going to produce the cars and ships, chips, airplanes, minerals and medicines that we need, right here in America.
I'm sure it's wildly unrelated, but I suddenly remember that in 'Two Mules For Sister Sarah', Eastwood orders a bottle of champagne, year 1789, used as a code for information or something.