US president announces global tariffs, including on 51 African nations

United States President Donald Trump announced plans for sweeping tariffs Wednesday, saying “our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, plundered” by other nations.

The aggressive rhetoric came as Trump showed a willingness to dismantle a global economic system that the United States helped to build after World War II.

“My fellow Americans, this is liberation day,” he said as he announced duties across almost all countries,…