His threat was directed at countries in the so-called BRIC alliance, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
To be fair the C in BRICS is China and I don’t think Trump will actually impose a 100 percent tariff on China since that would crash the economy to the extent that rich people will lose money. So he’s definitely bluffing there. His base won’t judge him on that basis though.
To be fair the C in BRICS is China and I don’t think Trump will actually impose a 100 percent tariff on China since that would crash the economy to the extent that rich people will lose money. So he’s definitely bluffing there. His base won’t judge him on that basis though.