Absolute bollocks.
Most every time the US has tried large tariff regimes in the past it has caused economic disaster.
Please go do the most basic of research about it before you listen to that profoundly ignorant fool Trump.
I will assist you with one such instance, one that greatly deepened The Great Depression:
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot–Hawley_Tariff_Act
The Tariff Act of 1930, also known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, was a protectionist trade measure signed into law in the United States by President Herbert Hoover on June 17, 1930. Named after its chief congressional sponsors, Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, the act raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods in an effort to shield American industries from foreign competition during the onset of the Great Depression, which had started in October 1929. Excluding duty-free imports, the tariffs imposed by the act raised the existing import duties by an average of 20%, to the third highest levels in U.S. history, after the tariffs imposed on the world by President Donald Trump in 2025 and the Tariff of 1828.
Hoover signed the bill against the advice of many senior economists, yielding to pressure from his party and business leaders. Intended to bolster domestic employment and manufacturing, the tariffs instead deepened the Depression because the U.S.'s trading partners retaliated with tariffs of their own, leading to U.S. exports and global trade plummeting. Economists and historians widely regard the act as a policy misstep, and it remains a cautionary example of protectionist policy in modern economic debates. It was followed by more liberal trade agreements, such as the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934.
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During his 2024 political campaign, Donald Trump pledged to institute similar tariffs.
In its annual forecast supplement for the global economy that was published in November 2024 ('Year Ahead' for 2025), The Economist observed that [in the wake of the Tariff Act] "... global trade fell by two-thirds. It was so catastrophic for growth in America and around the world that legislators have not touched the issue since. 'Smoot-Hawley' became synonymous with disastrous policy making".
