Donald Trump has said he will continue to impose tariffs on other countries despite a ruling by the Supreme Court overturning his import tax policy, and claimed the levies could replace income tax.
Speaking at his State of the Union address at the US Capitol building, the US President said: “It’s saving our country, the kind of money we’re taking in.”
Trump’s latest trade tariffs came into effect on UK imports at 10% on Tuesday, lower than the 15% rate he threatened over the weekend, after he signed an executive order following the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday.
He insisted that “almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made,” and that they would continue on the “same successful path that we had negotiated before the court’s unfortunate involvement”.
“Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. “Yet these countries are now happy and so are we. We made deals. The deals are all done. And they’re happy.
“Many of the wars I settled was because of the threat of tariffs, wouldn’t be able to settle them without.”
He also claimed tariffs paid by foreign countries would “substantially replace the modern day system of income tax.”
“Trillions and trillions of dollars will be pouring into the United States of America, because we finally have a president who puts America first.”
Democrat Al Green was escorted out of the chamber after unfurling a sign (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)However import taxes accounted for less than four per cent of federal revenue, while income taxes and payroll taxes that finance Social Security and Medicare account for 84 per cent.
Before the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs based on an emergency declaration, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that his new taxes would raise $3 trillion over 10 years, or $300 billion annually.
Trump also announced a “war on fraud” to be headed by Vice President JD Vance, and repeated his attacks on the Somali community in Minnesota, accusing them of taking “an estimated $19bn (£14bn) from the American taxpayer”.
He also called on Congress to pass a law to prevent any state from granting commercial driving licences to illegal aliens.
Trump’s speech comes amid heightened tensions with Iran, which he addressed briefly more than halfway into his address.
“My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy,” he said.
“But one thing is certain, I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon,” he added.
Trump began his speech declaring the US to be “bigger, better, richer than ever before”.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is seen wearing a badge in support of Epstein survivors before Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)He also repeatedly attacked the Democrats, accusing them over policies related to migration and the economy.
However a number of Democrats in the chamber made their opposition to Trump clear, with some wearing tags saying “Stand with Survivors, Release the Files,” in reference to the Epstein files.
Democrat Al Green was escorted out of the House chamber just minutes into the address for holding a sign reading “Black people aren’t apes,” a reference to a social media video shared, and later deleted, on Trump’s TruthSocial account.
“I wanted the president to see it, and he saw it, and I told him, Black people are not apes, and for him to do what he did was racist, and he knows it. But sometimes we have to let him know in the public that we know it,” the Texas Democrat told CNN.
The video had featured Barack and Michelle Obama superimposed onto apes, dancing to the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”.
During his speech, Trump was also heckled by Democrats after saying they should be “ashamed of yourselves” after they did not stand to support his statement that the government’s duty was “to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens”.
He repeatedly asked why they did not stand, called them “crazy”, and said “Democrats are destroying our country” over young people transitioning gender.
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