Donald Trump is seeking nothing less than a total restructuring of a global trade environment

which penalizes American companies, American workers, and American taxpayers through all manner

of unfair trade, tariffs, non-tariff barriers, in this case taxation, as you mentioned, regulation.

And it worked back in the 50s when we were trying to

help the global economy recover after a war. But we have this practice of just surrendering

our treasure to the rest of the world for no good end anymore and ultimately these are national security issues

because if we don't have a manufacturing in the defense industrial base and tech companies which

have every dollar they need for cutting edge AI and research and development we're not going to be the country we need to

end. I mean, back, the manufacturer went into recession back in late 2018, 2019, because of the

tariffs. So, I mean, we're in a different world, a globally connected world where, you know,

some of these CEOs that we talk to are very concerned about tariffs. They're worried about demand destruction.

They're worried about price shocks.

They're worried about trading relationships.

We heard the same concerns back during the first term when President Trump

levied historic tariffs on China, levied historic tariffs on steel and aluminum, levied historic tariffs on china levied historic tariffs on steel and

aluminum

levied historic tariffs on things like solar and uh... and washing machines

and what we got out of that was not the skies fall in recession

uh... or inflation what we got was price stability and prosperity and one of the eight I think the

eighth wonder of the world is you go to the pride of Clyde in Ohio and you go to the

whirlpool factory there's a washer machine it comes off every four seconds out there

come back to it's another like four or five minutes I begged to differ with

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