U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to impose tariffs on imported cars around April 2.

Trump made the remark in the Oval Office when asked by reporters about his auto tariff comments earlier in the week.

“Over the next — sometime, maybe, around April 2,” Trump said. "I would have done them on April 1, believe it or not. I’m a little superstitious. No, literally, we had it planned for April 1. I said, ‘let’s make it April 2.’

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The scope of the tariffs is unclear.

Does this idiot not realize all of his “American” cars are made in Mexico and then imported??

He doesn’t care about his American cars… he just greenlit a $1T Japanese manufacturing partnership, which includes Toyota, while Ford CEO says it blows a hole in US automotive sector…

Finding a non-US version of this was harder than it needed to be… https://asiatimes.com/2025/02/japan-goes-for-broke-with-1-trillion-trump-bet/

He sabotaged NA automotive, while inviting foreign automotive over.

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