Trump shares his ‘favourite word in the dictionary’, carries meaning for India

India, besides Brazil, has been amongst the highest-tariffed countries by the US, at 50% since August. Half of that is “penalty” for buying Russian oil, Trump has said. Even at the UN recently, he called India and China the primary funders of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

“Other countries were taking advantage of us for years and years. Now we’re treating them fairly,” he said in his speech at a gathering of top US military generals and others at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Arizona.

Trump said tariffs are “making us very rich” as he claimed trillions are coming into America ever since he went big on tariffs about two months ago.

He also expressed confidence that the Supreme Court won’t rule against the tariffs. A lower court had held that Trump did not have the required powers — only the US Congress did — to impose tariffs through executive orders. That court deferred the implementation of its strike-down decision, and the Trump administration is now in appeal at the SC. Mentioning the case, Trump justified the tariffs: “This is what other nations have done to us.”