In a presidential split screen Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced new tariffs on China while former President Donald Trump — speaking outside his New York hush money trial — blasted his 2024 rival on trade policy.
“On the electric vehicles that Biden is pushing down everybody’s throat, even though people don’t want them — he wants to put a big tariff on China, which is a suggestion that I said,” Trump said Tuesday at a Manhattan courthouse.
“Where have you been for 3 ½ years?’” Trump added. “They should have done it a long time ago.”
Trump’s remarks came as Biden rolled out sweeping new tariffs Tuesday aimed at blocking China’s access to the American market for clean energy technology by doubling duties on solar cells and effectively quadrupling the price of electric vehicles from China.
