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Kenneth Raposa

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399 total appearances

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The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

This is harder than rocket science. A rocket might have 10,000 pieces in it, but we import tens of thousands of items and we have tariff codes for tens of thousands of items. So this is harder than rocket science, really. And it's not going to be easy, but we cannot be afraid.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

This is harder than rocket science. A rocket might have 10,000 pieces in it, but we import tens of thousands of items and we have tariff codes for tens of thousands of items. So this is harder than rocket science, really. And it's not going to be easy, but we cannot be afraid.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

This is harder than rocket science. A rocket might have 10,000 pieces in it, but we import tens of thousands of items and we have tariff codes for tens of thousands of items. So this is harder than rocket science, really. And it's not going to be easy, but we cannot be afraid.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

The United States, since the days of Ross Perot back in 1990s, and I know you're a Gen Xer, I'm pretty sure you are, and you know who Ross Perot is.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

The United States, since the days of Ross Perot back in 1990s, and I know you're a Gen Xer, I'm pretty sure you are, and you know who Ross Perot is.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

The United States, since the days of Ross Perot back in 1990s, and I know you're a Gen Xer, I'm pretty sure you are, and you know who Ross Perot is.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

If you're a millennial news junkie, you would know who Ross Perot is. Since that time, though, the electorate has said The free trade deals, NAFTA, for example, eh, not so sure it's great for us because blue collar labor, which dominates the United States, right? We're not all software engineers and doctors and lawyers or Wall Street brokers, right?

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

If you're a millennial news junkie, you would know who Ross Perot is. Since that time, though, the electorate has said The free trade deals, NAFTA, for example, eh, not so sure it's great for us because blue collar labor, which dominates the United States, right? We're not all software engineers and doctors and lawyers or Wall Street brokers, right?

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

If you're a millennial news junkie, you would know who Ross Perot is. Since that time, though, the electorate has said The free trade deals, NAFTA, for example, eh, not so sure it's great for us because blue collar labor, which dominates the United States, right? We're not all software engineers and doctors and lawyers or Wall Street brokers, right?

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

Those guys have been... Okay, I don't know if I can say this on the air, so I have to pause. I bet you can. Give it a try. No, give it a try. Have been screwed. Okay, and government reports that have said this, okay? The International Trade Commission, look it up. Free trade deals were great for Walmart. They were great for Microsoft. These are multinational corporations.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

Those guys have been... Okay, I don't know if I can say this on the air, so I have to pause. I bet you can. Give it a try. No, give it a try. Have been screwed. Okay, and government reports that have said this, okay? The International Trade Commission, look it up. Free trade deals were great for Walmart. They were great for Microsoft. These are multinational corporations.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

Those guys have been... Okay, I don't know if I can say this on the air, so I have to pause. I bet you can. Give it a try. No, give it a try. Have been screwed. Okay, and government reports that have said this, okay? The International Trade Commission, look it up. Free trade deals were great for Walmart. They were great for Microsoft. These are multinational corporations.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

They're not really interested in the homeland, like me and you and our widget factory. Our widget factory is interested in the homeland. Microsoft is not interested in the homeland. They're not. So the electorate has said, we want someone to pay attention to our interests. So a lot of times you hear people will say, oh, All these guys who import goods, they're going to be crushed.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

They're not really interested in the homeland, like me and you and our widget factory. Our widget factory is interested in the homeland. Microsoft is not interested in the homeland. They're not. So the electorate has said, we want someone to pay attention to our interests. So a lot of times you hear people will say, oh, All these guys who import goods, they're going to be crushed.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

They're not really interested in the homeland, like me and you and our widget factory. Our widget factory is interested in the homeland. Microsoft is not interested in the homeland. They're not. So the electorate has said, we want someone to pay attention to our interests. So a lot of times you hear people will say, oh, All these guys who import goods, they're going to be crushed.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

All these guys have a whole business importing goods from Vietnam and Cambodia. They're going to be absolutely crushed. It's absolutely devastating. Okay. I get it. Look, there are companies in the United States, large and small, who have invested tens of millions of dollars, maybe even just hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies that have four or five people in it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

All these guys have a whole business importing goods from Vietnam and Cambodia. They're going to be absolutely crushed. It's absolutely devastating. Okay. I get it. Look, there are companies in the United States, large and small, who have invested tens of millions of dollars, maybe even just hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies that have four or five people in it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

All these guys have a whole business importing goods from Vietnam and Cambodia. They're going to be absolutely crushed. It's absolutely devastating. Okay. I get it. Look, there are companies in the United States, large and small, who have invested tens of millions of dollars, maybe even just hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies that have four or five people in it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

And they are constantly being crushed by import penetration from around the world, from countries that no one can compete with because their wages are lower, not because they're being paid slave labor, but because their currency is worth The price of a seashell at a gift shop at Cape Cod in the summertime. So these are countries that you cannot compete with on labor alone.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 5th, 2025: Trump's Economic Gambit & China Flexes On Taiwan

And they are constantly being crushed by import penetration from around the world, from countries that no one can compete with because their wages are lower, not because they're being paid slave labor, but because their currency is worth The price of a seashell at a gift shop at Cape Cod in the summertime. So these are countries that you cannot compete with on labor alone.