Fareed Zakaria

That's right.

You know, that the president should be the one doling out, you know, I'm going to give NVIDIA this contract.

I'm not going to give it to Exxon because you wasn't nice to me.

Right.

And now the Swiss can have lower tariffs because they gave me a gold bar.

I mean, that is, you know, that's that state power of a kind that, you know, no president has ever wielded.

It looked like that at the time.

You know, it's funny.

It's like, it's like, that's the thing about life is, you know, this is what gives me hope, John.

Nothing stays the same.

So that's what we have to hope.

To the rare parts.

Let's take car production. In America, cars are made as a kind of integrated supply chain. In other words, parts moving back and forth from America to Canada to Mexico. They cross the border three or four times and you build essentially North American cars. So you're tariffing the part of the American supply chain. And guess who's going to come in?

Let's take car production. In America, cars are made as a kind of integrated supply chain. In other words, parts moving back and forth from America to Canada to Mexico. They cross the border three or four times and you build essentially North American cars. So you're tariffing the part of the American supply chain. And guess who's going to come in?

Let's take car production. In America, cars are made as a kind of integrated supply chain. In other words, parts moving back and forth from America to Canada to Mexico. They cross the border three or four times and you build essentially North American cars. So you're tariffing the part of the American supply chain. And guess who's going to come in?

The Korean car manufacturers and the Japanese car manufacturers for whom there are no tariffs. This is a gift to Japan and Korea.

The Korean car manufacturers and the Japanese car manufacturers for whom there are no tariffs. This is a gift to Japan and Korea.

The Korean car manufacturers and the Japanese car manufacturers for whom there are no tariffs. This is a gift to Japan and Korea.

You know, the part of the problem with Trump is he's so mercurial. He's so idiosyncratic that just when you think you figured out the Trump doctrine, he goes and says something that kind of sounds like the opposite of the Trump doctrine. But I do think that there is one coherent worldview that Trump seems to espouse and has espoused for a long time.

You know, the part of the problem with Trump is he's so mercurial. He's so idiosyncratic that just when you think you figured out the Trump doctrine, he goes and says something that kind of sounds like the opposite of the Trump doctrine. But I do think that there is one coherent worldview that Trump seems to espouse and has espoused for a long time.