Chris Michael
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104 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Chris Michael’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they were buying up these tariff refunds on, you know, like sort of 10 cents on the dollar, hoping to make a buck in the future.
Yeah.
I mean, the sort of, you know, the argument that he gave was he wanted to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.
He wanted to address the trade issue.
deficit.
There's a rational argument for that, whether or not you think tariffs is the right way of doing it.
Who knows?
US manufacturing, however, did not recover.
It is in a profound slump and continues to be.
So in that sense, it really didn't work at all.
But it was central to Trump's economic message, this America first thing.
Who cares about the rest of the world?
We just want to
you know, make t-shirts back in the US.
So that, you know, that was kind of one element of it.
But then the other big part of it, as you say, was the geopolitics of it.
The reason he thinks tariffs is such a beautiful word is that it was a kind of cudgel that he could use to browbeat other countries into doing what he wants.
It started with the country of Colombia right after he got elected.
You know, he threatened tariffs on them.
They immediately backed down
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