But...they're still also linking it to NAFTA.
@jonathanvswan reported that Trump simply decided that 25% sounds cooler.
His senior administration official tried to clean up his mess by linking the exemptions to "security," not NAFTA explicitly. Trump then linked them again to NAFTA explicitly.
"We're going to be doing a lot of that," he says.
That's a remarkable, Putin's-dream kind of statement from the American president.
"He's still alive," the worker says.