President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China will go into effect as planned, and how long they last will depend on the response from those countries, Dick Morris, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump and host of the Newsmax show “Dick Morris Democracy,” said Saturday.

“Trump understands that the United States, with our population, our income, the personal wealth in this country and our freedom, our ability to buy and shop and acquire what we want is really unique in the world,” Morris told Newsmax’s “Saturday Report.” 

In colonial times, he added, countries like Britain, France, and Germany expanded their empires so they could create new markets, but the United States doesn’t need to do that. 

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