United States President Donald Trump has long embraced tariffs as a central policy tool, proudly referring to himself as a "tariff man" since his first term in office, according to Associate Professor Paul Poast of the University of Chicago.

Speaking to ANI, he said, "US President Donald Trump loves tariffs. Going back to his first term, he labelled himself a tariff man. Going into this term, throughout the campaign, he kept bringing up tariffs as a policy that he was going to favour and that has proven to be the case during his first several months in office." Poast explained that Trump`s demand for imposing tariffs is "a little bit understandable" because of his criticism of countries continuing to buy oil from Russia despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.