Trump claims BRICS 'broke up' after his 150% tariff threat

US President Donald Trump claimed that the BRICS broke up after he issued a 150% tariff threat.

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00:00US President Donald Trump is now claiming all is not well within the BRICS nation.

00:06Donald Trump is now saying that it appears BRICS have broken up.

00:11Donald Trump is claiming that the BRICS states just broke up, these are his specific words,

00:15after threatening to slap the BRICS block with very high tariffs.

00:20And remember BRICS is where India is one of the nations.

00:23Donald Trump is saying we have not heard from the BRICS states lately, it is an amazing

00:28turnaround, remember especially with tariffs for example when it came to China, now India

00:34is a part of the BRICS as well and therefore what precisely led to that statement that

00:39came in from Donald Trump saying we haven't heard from them lately, looks like that they

00:45have for now broken up.

00:48I just want to tell you BRICS means, it's an inter-government organisation, 10 countries

00:52at least, more and more are adding but initially primarily is Brazil, Russia, India, China

00:59and then South Africa, there are of course Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, UAE, slowly

01:03and steadily side partners that are coming in.

01:07Shivani Sharma joins me for the latest on that, remember that Shivani, BRICS has been

01:13a very important group together, that they can build together and this is without the

01:17United States of America, it wasn't really going down well with the USA earlier too.

01:22What is this claim that Trump is making, what do you make of it?

01:27See Pooja, Donald Trump has been quite vocal and has been quite harsh on the BRICS nation

01:34and this is his second such threat that he is giving to the BRICS nation, he is saying

01:40that BRICS nations have broken up and he also says that he will be levying 150% tariff on

01:46BRICS nations.

01:47He is also putting some charges on the BRICS nation that they wanted to destroy the dollar,

01:51we know that the worry of Trump has been the dominance of the US dollar in the international

01:58exchanges and he doesn't want to lose that and BRICS nations have been working together

02:03Pooja for a better understanding between nations in terms of economic trade, economic exchanges

02:11and what Trump has been saying is, saying that he will be taxing the BRICS nation to

02:15maintain US dollar dominance.

02:18So we have heard what Trump has been saying about the economy of America, he claims to

02:24make America great again and this is one of his perspectives where he has been levying

02:30harsh tariff over nations and BRICS is also one of them that he has been threatening.

02:36So clearly he is after the BRICS and specially because the USA is not a part of it but can

02:40the BRICS nations despite their differences stay together on this one, we will be tracking

02:43that and more.