Donald Trump asked Rolex executives if he would have been invited to watch this month’s US Open final from the luxury watchmaker’s VIP box had he imposed steep tariffs on Swiss exports weeks earlier. “Rolex is not, nor has it ever been, engaged in any negotiation with the US government regarding tariffs,” he wrote. But Dufour described how Trump brought up the tariffs he had imposed on Switzerland, and Swiss exporters like Rolex, weeks earlier. “No substantive discussion” took place “regarding tariffs, trade policy, or any other official matter” during the US Open final, or since, he claimed. “How much more out of touch can Trump be?”Trump was gifted “a golf sweater and a sports gilet” as “a token of appreciation for attending the event”, said Dufour.
