The recurring claim that foreign countries pay the tariffs

And as time goes by, I believe the tariffs, paid for by foreign countries, will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love.

We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs' economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.

I mean, the paper is an embarrassment,

The claim that foreign countries pay these tariffs is a myth. The data show the opposite: Americans are footing the bill.

After nearly a year of promises that tariffs would boost the U.S. economy while other countries footed the bill, a new study shows almost all of the tariff burden is falling on American consumers.

Foreign exporters absorb only about 4% of the tariff burden—the remaining 96% is passed through to U.S. buyers

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said it was mostly “companies and governments, many of them foreign, picking up the tabs.”

“I think that David should go out and get himself a new Economist or, maybe, he ought to just focus on being a DJ, and not bother running a major Financial Institution,” Trump wrote on social media.

“We stand by the results of this study,” Goldman economist David Mericle told CNBC's Squawk on the Street the next day.

If you look at China, I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in my term—hundreds of billions. They never paid 10 cents to any other President, and yet they paid hundreds of billions.

I took in, during my 4 years, hundreds of billions of dollars from China, and we also took in a lot of money from other countries—but, in particular, China, because it was just getting started.

We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share.

Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.

Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.

She makes up crap … I am going to put tariffs on other countries coming into our country, and that has nothing to do with taxes to us. That is a tax on another country,

We’re going to be a tariff nation. It’s not going to be a cost to you. It’s going to be a cost to another country.

No, no. You know who the taxpayer is? It's called China. China pays $28 billion, and you know what they did to pay it, Joe? They devalued their currency, and they also paid up

The president is therefore right when he says farmers "got" his tariff money. That money came not from China, however, but from taxes he imposed on Americans.

And they're paying for these tariffs; we're not.

you’re not paying for those tariffs. China’s paying for those tariffs,

And we're not paying for the tariffs; China is paying for the tariffs, for the one-hundredth time.

So our country can take in $120 billion a year in tariffs, paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us. A lot of people try and steer it in a different direction. It's really paid — ultimately, it's paid for by — largely, by China.

There is no reason for the U.S. Consumer to pay the Tariffs which take effect on China today. This has been proven recently when only 4 points were paid by the U.S. 21 points by China because China subsidizes product to such a large degree.

"Fair enough," Kudlow replied. "In fact, both sides will pay. Both sides will pay in these things."

If you tax that $50 billion at 20 percent of imports... we can do $10 billion a year and easily pay for the wall just through that mechanism alone.

It's to show that there are ways that the wall could be paid for. Full stop. That's it.

a significant share of the tariff will be passed through into higher U.S. prices, thus actually resulting in U.S. consumers paying for the wall

In the first month of Trump’s presidency, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump was mulling a 20 percent tariff on all imports from Mexico to pay for the wall.