习近平没提及二战美国援助中国, 特朗普感到 '吃惊'

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(1) 特朗普说，他对中国领导人习近平没有承认美国帮助中国获得自由感到 '吃惊.'  VOA Chinese, Sept 4, 2025
https://www.voachinese.com/a/tru ... 250903/8062854.html

, which is based on

(2)
(a) President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Poland. White House, Sept 3, 2025 (video only).
https://www.whitehouse.gov/video ... republic-of-poland/
(b) Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Bilateral Meeting with Karol Nawrocki of Poland. Roll Call September 3, 2025
https://rollcall.com/factbase/tr ... d-september-3-2025/

in the Q&A session:

(i) on Xi's speech before military parade in Beijing on Sept 3, 2025:

Q (by a reporter; 00:05:23-00:05:49 (26 sec) ): "Thank you. [Inaudible] we saw a dramatic picture where we saw the leaders of Russia and North Korea and China together, the first time the leaders of those three countries have been together to sort of show solidarity. You said that they're conspiring against the United States. What do you think they're conspiring to do? And given this[,] is [it] a reason why you should slap or would consider slapping secondary sanctions on Russia if they're conspiring against the US now?

Donald Trump 00:05:49-00:06:07 (18 sec): "Well, I've already done that with regard to India and we're doing it with regard to other things. And I put out a Truth last night, you saw that, and I was the one that brought it up. I said they're only doing this to really -- they're looking to -- when they -- when they did what they did, I thought it was a beautiful ceremony.

Donald Trump 00:06:07-00:06:31 (24 sec): "I thought it was very, very impressive, but I understood the reason they were doing it and they were hoping I was watching and I was watching. My relationship with all of them is very good. We're going to find out how good it is over the next week or two. I think that we helped China very much, as you know, when they talk about freedom and I don't believe that -- and maybe I'm wrong.

Donald Trump 00:06:31-00:07:00 (29 sec): "I hope I'm wrong, but I don't believe that America, that the United States was acknowledged for helping China to get to gain its freedom. But perhaps that was just a -- that was a sleight of hand. I mean, I was very -- I was very surprised. I watched the speech last night. President Xi is a friend of mine, but I thought that the United States should have been mentioned last night during that speech because we helped China very, very much.

Question 00:07:00-00:07:15 (15 sec): "Invited you, Mr President -- do you think they should have invited you? You've expressed many times, your frustration and disappointment with Putin, but there's no action since you took your office. Don't you worry that --

Donald Trump 00:07:15-00:07:17 (2 sec): "How do you know there's no action?

Question 00:07:17-00:07:21 (3 sec): "But don't you worry -- what actions have you taken?

Donald Trump 00:07:21-00:07:21 ( sec): "Who are you with?

Question 00:07:21-00:07:22 (1 sec): "I'm with Polish Radio.

Donald Trump 00:07:22-00:07:43 (21 sec): "OK. How do you know there's no action? Would you say that putting secondary sanctions on India, the largest purchaser outside of China, they're almost equal -- would you say there was no action? That cost hundreds of billions of dollars to Russia. You call that no action? And I haven't done phase two yet or phase three.

Donald Trump 00:07:43-00:07:59 (15 sec): "But when you say there's no action, I think you ought to get yourself a new job. Because if you remember, two weeks ago, I did -- I said, if India buys -- India's got big problems and that's what happened. So don't tell me about. Go ahead.

(ii) on his tariff:

Question 00:23:34-00:23:48 (14 sec): "You talked about how historic these tariffs have been bringing in revenue, additional revenue for our country. You've also mentioned before they could possibly replace federal income tax --

Donald Trump 00:23:48-00:23:48 ( sec): "Possibly.

Question 00:23:48-00:23:49 (1 sec): "Do you think -- do you think that --

Donald Trump 00:23:49-00:24:17 (28 sec): "Someday it's possible. It used to be. So if you go back to 1913 [that] is when they ended tariffs. We were the richest ever from 1850 -- it was all tariffs. We didn't have income taxes from 1850 to 1913[.] In the 1887s, about 1887, they had the Great National Tariff Act and it was a group of people that got together because our country was so rich.

Donald Trump 00:24:17-00:24:42 (25 sec): "They didn't know what to do with the money. We had so much money, they didn't know what to do. It was a group of very prominent people that were set up to hand out money to everybody because we were the richest we ever were. Proportionately, we were, in 1887, around that time -- even in 1913. We ended them in 1913. How did that work out?

Trump 00:24:42-00:25:02 (20 sec): "And then we went to the income tax system and then we had the depression. And by the way, a lot of people try and say that, oh, tariffs with the depression, no. They ended in 1913 And then we went to income tax. And then in 1929 you had the depression, they did try and bring it back in 1931, '32, but the depression had long started.

Donald Trump 00:25:02-00:25:24 (22 sec): "And -- and this poor beautiful nation was gone. It was gone. We suffered for 25 years, took 25, 30 years to really recover from the depression. And we don't ever want to see that happen again. The tariffs are vital to the success of this country. When I say I ended seven wars, at least half of those wars were ended because of the power of tariffs.

Donald Trump 00:25:24-00:25:45 (22 sec): "I was able to say, well, we're not doing any business with you or if you're going to war, we're putting a tariff on you and all of a sudden they announced that the war was settled. I would settle -- I settled seven different wars. One going 31 years. One -- look at the Congo and Rwanda, look at that. Thirty-one years, 10 million people dead.

Donald Trump 00:25:45-00:26:03 (18 sec): "I got it settled and a little bit of that one, less than in some cases, had to do with trade and had to do with tariffs. So you know what I'm saying, tariffs are vital to our country. And just so you know, other countries use them on us. But I just used them a lot better. We're in a much better position.

Donald Trump 00:26:03-00:26:30 (26 sec): "We have trillions of dollars coming into our country. If we didn't have tariffs, we would be a very poor nation and we would be taken advantage of by every other nation in the world, friend and foe. We're not going to let that happen. And we have a very, very big case in the Supreme Court. I can only say this, our country has a chance to be unbelievably rich again, but it can also be unbelievably poor again.

Donald Trump 00:26:30-00:26:36 (6 sec): "If we don't -- if we don't win that case, our country is going to suffer so greatly, so greatly.

Question 00:26:36-00:26:36 ( sec): "[Inaudible] sir.

"Donald Trump 00:26:36-00:26:56 (20 sec): "But I think we're going to have a big victory. Even if you look at the people that brought the case, they're foreign-oriented. They're foreign. Countries have taken advantage of the United States for so many years. And I started with China. You know, last term I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs from China.

Donald Trump 00:26:56-00:27:13 (17 sec): "But when COVID came, the last thing I was going to do is we're going to tariff France and Italy and, you know, others, Spain, when they were doing so badly. But now, we made a deal with the European Union where they're paying us almost $1 trillion, and they're happy to do it. You know what, they're happy.

Donald Trump 00:27:13-00:27:36 (23 sec): "It's done. These deals are all done. I guess we'd have to unwind them. We've done deals with Japan, with South Korea. We've done deals with many countries and others to come. And if we didn't have the power, prestige and dignity of tariffs -- and I used them wisely and people respect America again and we've become a rich country again.

Donald Trump 00:27:36-00:27:56 (19 sec): "The money coming in is incredible. And again, they use them on us. If we didn't have them, they would use them on us and we would have no way to fight them. We would be a third world nation. So I think it's one of the most important cases I've ever seen go before the Supreme Court of the US.


Note:
(a) The Whit Houose website does not have the transcript or press release. White House's Facebook page also has the same video (only)..
(b) Roll Call
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_Call
(1955- ; based in Washington, DC)
(c) The erm "[inaudibile]" were origial in the transcript; I did NOT insert the term.
(d)
(i) On tariff, Trump mentioned China only once, which is highlighted in boldface.
(ii) Trump: "It used to be. So if you go back to 1913 [that] is when they ended tariffs. We were the richest ever from 1850 -- it was all tariffs. We didn't have income taxes from 1850 to 1913[.] In the 1887s, about 1887, they had the Great National Tariff Act and it was a group of people that got together because our country was so rich. * * * It was a group of very prominent people that were set up to hand out money to everybody because we were the richest we ever were. Proportionately, we were, in 1887, around that time -- even in 1913. We ended them in 1913. How did that work out?   And then we went to the income tax system and then we had the depression. And by the way, a lot of people try and say that, oh, tariffs with the depression, no. They ended in 1913 And then we went to income tax. And then in 1929 you had the depression, they did try and bring it back in 1931, '32, but the depression had long started."
(A) Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si ... States_Constitution
(was ratified in 1913 and effectively overruled Supreme Court's 1895 ruling in Pollock v Farmers' Loan & Trust Co; section 3 Income taxes before the Pollock case: "Until 1913, customs duties (tariffs) and excise taxes were the primary sources of federal revenue.[5]")
(B) United STates has never had "Great National Tariff Act." There was nothing set up to distribute collected tariff.

Around 1887, there was McKinley Tariff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinley_Tariff
("Tariff Act of 1890, commonly called the McKinley Tariff, was an act of the United States Congress framed by then-Representative William McKinley"/ section 2 Reactions)