Better than anyone · 2024 campaign · № 46
Navarro 'understood China better than anybody but me'
“He understood China better than anybody but me. I understood him better now. We both understood.”
- Said
- , Turning Point USA summit, West Palm Beach, Florida
- Subject
- China
- Topic
- Trade & tariffs
- Era
- 2024 campaign
What the record showed
The tariff program Trump and Peter Navarro designed began March 4, 2025 with duties on Canada, Mexico and China; the Tax Foundation put the 2025 average effective tariff rate at 7.7 percent, the highest since 1947, with an estimated cost of about $1,000 per household. On February 20, 2026 the Supreme Court ruled in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump that the president could not impose tariffs under IEEPA, requiring refunds with interest. On June 3, 2026 Trump revised the ranking: Navarro 'Knows more about China than any human being on Earth except for—I would say President Xi knows a lot more.'