Trump mocks BRICS nations, says his 10 pc tariff threat 'hi them very hard'

Washington, July 19 -- Doubling down on his 10% tariff threat against all BRICS countries, US President Donald Trump in press briefing yesterday claimed that he 'hit' the intra-governmental organisation 'very hard', adding that he will never allow another any the group's attempts at de-dollarisation, calling USD 'the king.'

Mocking the multi-nation bloc's attempts at de-dollarisation, Trump, while talking about his administration's attempts at strengthening the US dollar said "You have this little group called BRICS, it's fading out fast. But they wanted to take over the dominance of the dollar, and the standard of the dollar.

"Anybody that's in the BRICS consortium; we are going to tariff you 10%."

Reasserting that the USD will re...