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"We're being invaded by Mexico. But now they have a new president in Mexico ... very, a very nice woman, they say, I haven't met her. And I'm gonna inform her, on day one or sooner, that, if they don't stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I'm going to immediately impose a 25 percent tariff on everything they send in to the United States of America. ... You're the first ones I've told it to, congratulations, North Carolina."
Trump said the tariffs have a "100 percent chance of working" because if the 25 percent tariff doesn't work, he'll increase it to 50 percent, then 75 percent, and then 100 percent.
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