Former US President Bill Clinton on Donald Trump: I have known President Trump for a long time. 24 years ago we had quite friendly relations. we played golf He kept saying, "We are the biggest, strongest and richest country in the world. Why don't we impose tariffs on everyone and pay no taxes at all? " I said, "Well, because of Donald" - he was Donald then, not Mr. President -. "Because these people don't just eat these rates. They just pass them on to whoever buys that merchandise, whatever it is. So we pay those rates. And he, like now, didn't hear what he didn't want to hear.