Andrew Weissmann
speaker
1,068 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 May
Andrew Weissmann’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's still got the Trump Organization kind of fake blind trust set up along the same lines as the first term. But now he is openly trading on not just making money in his pre-existing ventures and skimming off the top in that way, but launching online.
all of these new ventures that trade on his brand as the president of the United States, all of these different crypto schemes, all of these different NFTs and the sneakers and the watches and all of these things that, again, just put money directly in his pocket, many of which are just sort of skeevy and lame.
But these crypto ones, which are particularly kind of alarming and untraceable and corrupt.
I do think they're a little bored of the of the Glazers. I think I think like Tim Pool and and the Gateway Pundit and those people like that's not a good look even for the White House. Carolyn Leavitt doesn't get anything out of that.
And she is like kind of constrained by the nature of the thing to like dignify their question and be like, wow, I'm so glad you asked me that. The mainstream media would never kind of pat him on the back. And you know that internally she's like, these fucking guys are like no use to us. It's not helpful. It's not like they want to mix it up with the reporters.
They want to clown on us as the fake news and beat us up and let the clips go viral. So like... She can keep bringing the podcasters in as much as she wants to. And I guess they will keep doing that a little bit, but they can also have me back anytime they want to. I'm, you know, our door's open. You're uncountable, Andrew.
Obviously, China hawks exist, right? I mean, there are people out there who have for a long time been clanging a bell about various unfair trade practices from the People's Republic of China, various national security concerns that may be implicated with letting them to do a whole lot of our critical manufacturing, things like that. Those are not like fake concerns.
But the thing that we have seen over the last month is a lot of people kind of putting on those concerns sort of as a skin suit, just as kind of momentary MAGA messaging at the moment when Trump very improvisationally in early April, decided to narrow his tariff focus from the whole world to China, right?
Like April 9, April 10, he pulls down all of the quote-unquote retaliatory tariffs on most of the world that he had slapped into place a week before. And he says, now we're just doing China. Now we're going after China, 135% tariffs on China. And again, from a certain kind of subset of the MAGA world, the response to this is finally, absolutely,
At long last, we are getting serious about this gaping wound that we've been bleeding out from, which is our previous trade relationship with China, this thing where they sell us cheap goods and we economically prosper in the short term. But in the long term, we're destroying our domestic manufacturing base and we're selling our future overseas and all these sorts of things.
And finally, finally, someone's willing to do something about that. Kevin O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank. He had a clip on CNN that went very viral. He was like, I want 400% tariffs on China.
Right, right. And people very easily kind of go into and come out of that that kind of pantheon of voices that are worth listening to, because it's just it's anyone who's gassing up Trump at the moment can go momentarily viral over there. Right. So like he has this thing where he's like, finally, Trump's doing it. I want 400 percent tariffs.
on China to punish them for all their trade cheating and stealing. And, you know, Donald Trump Jr. is pushing that. And Libs of TikTok is pushing that. And, you know, you basically have all these people.
And then as the economic conditions start to deteriorate and the conversation starts to become a little bit more about the pain, about the cost of all of this, this decoupling from China, then it's the messaging sort of shifts, even in the White House, from that kind of thing to, you look, this is the play.
We have to do this and we all have to be willing to kind of suffer a little bit of pain for the glorious future to solve these problems to stand up to China. And all that lasted for about a month, right? And then this week, the White House just pulled the plug.
And you might think that all of these people who were so overjoyed to see the White House finally stand up on all of these things after, you know, supposedly, according to all these people, the previous status quo was completely untenable and unsustainable and indefensible, right? But now Trump's trying to go back to the status quo.
You're not exactly seeing like this outpouring of rage and this sense of betrayal from all these people who thought this action a month ago was so necessary. I mean, it's just tariffs go on. We're bringing domestic manufacturing back. Tariffs come off. Art of the deal. Tariffs go on. We're doing it. We're bringing it back. Tariffs come off. Art of the deal.
And I guess we're just going to repeat this ad infinitum for the rest of the administration.
I think it's a combination of two things. One is sort of just strategic silence, right? I mean, nobody wants to come out and be the fly in the ointment while the Trump administration is trying to trumpet this deal. And the Trump administration kind of has these people in a little bit of a bind because, you
Situation where we were both kind of doing this ad hoc trade embargo with China while also antagonizing the rest of the world on trade was completely antithetical to what these hawks want, which is to sort of isolate China on the world stage, right?
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