💬 “We can never let anyone mess with us. That’s why, when we heard about this BRICS group — basically SIX countries — I hit them very hard. We have this little group called BRICS, which is disappearing quickly. But BRICS wanted to challenge the dollar, the dollar’s dominance, the dollar standard.

And I said: anyone in the BRICS bloc, we’ll slap a 10% tariff on you. They had a meeting the next day, and almost no one showed up. They didn’t want to be tariffed — it’s incredible,” Trump said.