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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

Trump fumes and again insists companies pay tariffs not consumers as he bashes criticism of his plan

President Donald Trump raged against Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and even his former Treasury secretary as he defended his global reciprocal tariffs - and continued to promote claims its countries, not consumers, are footing the bill.

"Also, it has been shown that, for the most part, Consumers aren't even paying these Tariffs, it is mostly Companies and Governments, many of them Foreign, picking up the tabs. But David Solomon and Goldman Sachs refuse to give credit where credit is due," Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday.

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