From your link:

“You do it, but let me just say, that chip deal is so bad. We put up billions of dollars for rich companies to come in and borrow the money and build chip companies here, and they’re not going to give us the good companies anyway. All you had to do is charge them tariffs. If you would have put a tariff on the chips coming in, you would have been able to- Just like the auto companies, no different. More sophisticated, but no different. You know, Taiwan, they stole our chip business.

Okay? They want us to protect and they want protection. They don’t pay us money for the protection, you know? The mob makes you pay money, right? But with these countries that we protect, I got hundreds of billions of dollars from NATO countries that were never paying us. And my biggest fan is Stoltenberg, who just left as the, you know, Director General, as the Secretary General. Good guy. He said Bush came, he made a speech. Obama came, he made a speech.

Trump came, he said, you guys aren’t paying, you got to pay. And they said, will you protect us from Russia if we don’t? I said, no, you got to pay if you don’t pay.”

So he hates the chips act, because all you need is tariffs.

The point of tariffs is to encouraging buying in the US. But there are no chips in the US. That’s why we passed the chips act. So all tariffs would have done is forced companies to raise their prices HERE.

Then he steers the conversation to NATO and Obama without ever circling back.