David Pakman
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And then in come the carve outs.
We're going to wait on these.
We're going to pause.
Those will reduce this one.
There's exemptions.
We're going to walk it back.
But then we're going to tariff China even more and Canada even more.
And but we've had a very productive conversation and we're going to back off of that a little bit.
It's like on again, off again, on again, off again.
Why is this happening?
Well, with tariffs, it's because the economic blowback shows up almost immediately.
And then all of a sudden the tough guy stance from Trump needs a little bit of tweaking in order to meet the economic reality.
Look at the Iran war.
He launches strikes.
and crashes markets and sends oil prices soaring and gas prices soaring and it's all completely out of control.
And then very quickly he starts going, well, we've basically completed all of the objectives you did.
What are you talking about?
Which objectives did you complete?
Yeah, it's very complete.
It's almost done actually.