Jared Kushner

I was doing it on behalf of President Trump.

People knew that I had access to President Trump, and they knew that I could say, you may say this that we don't like, but I'm going to have to take it back to him, and then we'll see what he does.

One of the biggest instances was on the USMCA trade deal, where

Um, that deal happened because Mexico was legitimately concerned and smartly so that president Trump was going to impose tariffs on the car industry, which would have been decimating to their economy.

And by the way, he was ready to do it.

We were holding him back from doing it with every ounce of strength that we could.

So it wasn't a bluff.

I mean, that was actually real, but they were smart to read that it was real.

And ultimately we created a great win-win deal.

I'll tell you a funny story that just popped into my mind from the tariffs.

We used a 232 national security exemption to protect our steel industry, and we put tariffs on steel and aluminum.

Again, I thought about this because we also negotiated them with Canada.

There was a very funny phone call where Trudeau was calling Trump.

Again, they got along decently well.

And Trudeau's calling and saying, you can't put national security tariffs on us in Canada.

You know, we're your NATO ally.

We fought wars with you.

We do military together.

And Trump says to him, didn't you burn the White House down in 1812?

And Trudeau says, that was the French.