John Cassidy

And I didn't think it was going to be sustainable to have a Republican government introducing blanket tariffs because it damages so many businesses and the markets are going to hate it. I think he thought he could take some pain, but when it came to it, it didn't. I mean, that's the great irony here. The Chinese have shown that, you know, they're willing to take more pain than we are.

And I didn't think it was going to be sustainable to have a Republican government introducing blanket tariffs because it damages so many businesses and the markets are going to hate it. I think he thought he could take some pain, but when it came to it, it didn't. I mean, that's the great irony here. The Chinese have shown that, you know, they're willing to take more pain than we are.

they can withstand a tariff war because they're a single-party totalitarian state.

they can withstand a tariff war because they're a single-party totalitarian state.

they can withstand a tariff war because they're a single-party totalitarian state.

Public opinion is not particularly highly rated. And Xi doesn't really care about the stock market that much either. If Trump is going to tariff all America's major trading partners, this gives China an opportunity to sort of make... you know, in outreaches to Europe and Asia and the global south and sort of replace the US in various parts of the world.

Public opinion is not particularly highly rated. And Xi doesn't really care about the stock market that much either. If Trump is going to tariff all America's major trading partners, this gives China an opportunity to sort of make... you know, in outreaches to Europe and Asia and the global south and sort of replace the US in various parts of the world.

Public opinion is not particularly highly rated. And Xi doesn't really care about the stock market that much either. If Trump is going to tariff all America's major trading partners, this gives China an opportunity to sort of make... you know, in outreaches to Europe and Asia and the global south and sort of replace the US in various parts of the world.

Peter Robinson Is it Bannon or Besson, I guess it would be the... Peter Robinson The Treasury Secretary. Peter Robinson The Treasury Secretary now is the sort of, you know, the representative of Wall Street, although he hasn't been doing, until recently, he wasn't doing a great job even defending Wall Street's interests. Peter Robinson I think Trump is always going to end up straddling the two.

Peter Robinson Is it Bannon or Besson, I guess it would be the... Peter Robinson The Treasury Secretary. Peter Robinson The Treasury Secretary now is the sort of, you know, the representative of Wall Street, although he hasn't been doing, until recently, he wasn't doing a great job even defending Wall Street's interests. Peter Robinson I think Trump is always going to end up straddling the two.

Peter Robinson Is it Bannon or Besson, I guess it would be the... Peter Robinson The Treasury Secretary. Peter Robinson The Treasury Secretary now is the sort of, you know, the representative of Wall Street, although he hasn't been doing, until recently, he wasn't doing a great job even defending Wall Street's interests. Peter Robinson I think Trump is always going to end up straddling the two.

I think he emotionally and instinctually is very much on the Bannon ultra-protectionism, economic nationalism side of things. But I think as we've seen in the last few weeks with the whole tariff fiasco, There isn't a political coalition inside the Republican Party to support that over the long term. And Trump himself is not willing to take the political heat that comes along with that.

I think he emotionally and instinctually is very much on the Bannon ultra-protectionism, economic nationalism side of things. But I think as we've seen in the last few weeks with the whole tariff fiasco, There isn't a political coalition inside the Republican Party to support that over the long term. And Trump himself is not willing to take the political heat that comes along with that.

I think he emotionally and instinctually is very much on the Bannon ultra-protectionism, economic nationalism side of things. But I think as we've seen in the last few weeks with the whole tariff fiasco, There isn't a political coalition inside the Republican Party to support that over the long term. And Trump himself is not willing to take the political heat that comes along with that.

Once the stock market starts crashing or falling sharply, once the bankers start calling up and saying, Mr. President, the bond market's going berserk, you have to do something. Once the opinion poll numbers start falling, he backs off.

Once the stock market starts crashing or falling sharply, once the bankers start calling up and saying, Mr. President, the bond market's going berserk, you have to do something. Once the opinion poll numbers start falling, he backs off.

Once the stock market starts crashing or falling sharply, once the bankers start calling up and saying, Mr. President, the bond market's going berserk, you have to do something. Once the opinion poll numbers start falling, he backs off.

Right. I'm afraid it looks like to me we're going, we're sort of condemned to just continuing chaos with him sort of rotating between the two wings. And I think all we can, all we guaranteed is more instability and chaos.

Right. I'm afraid it looks like to me we're going, we're sort of condemned to just continuing chaos with him sort of rotating between the two wings. And I think all we can, all we guaranteed is more instability and chaos.

Right. I'm afraid it looks like to me we're going, we're sort of condemned to just continuing chaos with him sort of rotating between the two wings. And I think all we can, all we guaranteed is more instability and chaos.