Trump reveals why tariff is only his ‘fifth favorite word’

Donald Trump went on a largely aimless rant to a group of Navy midshipmen and a handful of members of the armed forces’ top brass on Tuesday as he announced the construction of a new submarine shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland.The president spoke Tuesday afternoon in front of a combat vessel at Sparrows Point, Maryland, where he announced that defense contractor Anduril would build the facility to support the construction of the Navy’s new autonomous submarine craft. But the point of his visit was once again obscured by an unfocused diatribe about the war in Iran, the U.S. strike on Venezuela, and the tariff policies his administration has used to reshape global trade frameworks.Trump repeated a refrain about tariffs becoming his “fifth” favorite word, after others such as “wife” and “God”, to a mostly silent batch of bored Navy undergrads who came up from the Naval Academy in Annapolis to stand and hear the president talk.“We're building more car plants than we ever have in history,” the president told his audience. “It's all because of my favorite word, my fourth favorite, maybe my fifth-- tariff. Without tariffs, we wouldn't be doing that.””The word tariff for us was has made us a rich country again, and rich in a lot of ways,” Trump added.This is a developing story.