“BRICS was an attack on dollar”, says Trump

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Trump made the remarks during a bilateral lunch with Argentine President Javier Milei at the White House.

“I’m very strong on the dollar, and anybody that wants to deal in dollars, they have an advantage over people that aren’t,” Trump said. “I told anybody that wants to be in BRICS, that’s fine, but we’re going to put tariffs on your nation… Everybody dropped out. They’re all dropping out of BRICS.”

“BRICS was an attack on the dollar and I said, you want to play that game, I’m going to put tariffs on all of your products coming into the US. They said, like I said, we’re dropping out of BRICS…They don’t even talk about it anymore,” he added.

The grouping, originally formed by Brazil, Russia, India, and China, has now expanded to ten full members: Brazil, Russia, India, Chi