Didn't like the way she talked: Trump on why he hiked Switzerland tariffs
India Today
Donald Trump said he found Swiss leader Karin Keller-Sutter's tone "aggressive" during a call urging him to roll back reciprocal tarrifs.
US President Donald Trump said he ordered an additional nine per cent increase in tariffs on Switzerland because he did not like the way a Swiss leader spoke to him while urging him to roll back the duty.
Trump, in an interview with Fox Business, said he found the tone of Karin Keller-Sutter, a member of the Swiss Federal Council -- whom he mistakenly referred to as the Prime Minister -- “repetitive” and “aggressive”.
“I put on a 30 per cent tariff, which is very low. Then I got an emergency call from, I believe, the Prime Minister of Switzerland, and she was very aggressive but nice but very aggressive. She said, ‘Sir, we are a small country. We can't do this. We can't do this.’ I couldn't get her off the phone,” he said.
Trump said he told the Swiss leader that despite being a small country, Switzerland ran a USD 42 billion trade deficit with the United States.
“‘No, no, we are a small country’. Again and again and again. I couldn't get her off the phone, so it was 30 per cent. And I didn't really like the way she talked to us and so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39 per cent,” he said.
#Trump: "So I put on a 30% #tariff, which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive ... I didn't really like the way she talked to us, so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%."(Trump-> I didn’t pic.twitter.com/FwbWclIKxd— Boris Alexander Beissner (@boris_beissner) February 10, 2026
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