Source: Reuters
“U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was ‘pissed off’ at Russian President Vladimir Putin and will impose secondary tariffs of 25% to 50% on buyers of Russian oil if he feels Moscow is blocking his efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Trump told NBC News he was very angry after Putin last week criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s leadership, the television network reported, citing a telephone interview early on Sunday. … ‘If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault … I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,’ Trump said. ‘That would be, that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States,’ Trump said. ‘There will be a 25% tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil.'” (03/31/25)