Donald Trump

Because we've been doing that for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective.

They have faster boats.

Some of these boats are seriously, I mean, they're world-class speedboats, but they're not faster than missiles.

But we've been trying to do that for years, and so much of the drugs, 25%, 30% would come in through the seas.

We tariffs are a very important tool for our defense, for our national security.

If we don't have tariffs, we're not going to have national security.

As an example, if you look at Pakistan and Iran, I told them I was in the midst of negotiating a trade deal

with actually with Iran and Pakistan was gonna be in line.

And because of tariffs, they all wanna negotiate much differently.

I heard that they're shooting at each other.

And I said during one of my conversations,

Are you guys going to go to war?

Two nuclear powers we are thinking about.

I said, here's the deal.

You go to war.

I'm going to put a 200 percent tariff.

I'm going to stop you from doing any business in the United States.

I said it to both of them.

Within 24 hours, the war ended.

That would have been a nuclear war.