After President Donald Trump last week raised tariffs on foreign goods to an average of 17.3% for countries that haven’t reached a deal, they know he’s deadly serious, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, now president of the Young America’s Foundation, said on Newsmax on Sunday. 

“The announcement with the European Union was tremendous, just because that’s by far one of our largest trading partners. To have that success, I think, bodes well,” Walker said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report. “President Trump, I think, has had the most success in his first six months that we’ve seen probably, if not in modern times, ever, and this is just a part of it.”

Now other countries are seeing that Trump wants a “real deal,” said Walker, adding that he thinks the other nations will fall in line with the U.S. by Labor Day. 

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