Andrew Weissmann

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,

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.