"I'm allowed to destroy the country,"
"I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country-destroying embargo. I can embargo. I can do anything I want,"
"I am allowed to cut off any and all trade or business with that same country. In other words, I can destroy the trade. I can destroy the country! ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."
"They're very unpatriotic and disloyal to our constitution."
President Donald Trump said "I'm allowed to destroy the country" while defending his international tariff strategy and claiming authority to impose embargoes. He said he could "cut off any and all trade or business" with a foreign nation and repeatedly stated he could "destroy the trade" and "destroy the country." Media outlets and political figures circulated the remarks, with California Governor Gavin Newsom posting the clip and writing "What an inspiring message." Trump called conservative Supreme Court justices "embarrassment[s] to their families" and "fools and lapdogs," calling them unpatriotic and disloyal.
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