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Kenneth Raposa

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

Look, oh no, the Atlantic and the Democratic advocacy media was shocked by Trump. I mean, I don't even know what to say to that. Of course, he could literally come out and say, we found an alien race and they're going to cure cancer and they're friendly and here's their big spaceship and they're going to teach us how to travel at warp speed. And it would be like, what? These guys...

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

you know, it would be the end of the world. It's the apocalypse. Yeah, how dare he? How dare he do that? We totally discount anything that they say. Now, as far as the rest of the world goes, no, the Europeans are absolutely beside themselves with grief. The economist today is talking about how this is the end of the world.

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

you know, it would be the end of the world. It's the apocalypse. Yeah, how dare he? How dare he do that? We totally discount anything that they say. Now, as far as the rest of the world goes, no, the Europeans are absolutely beside themselves with grief. The economist today is talking about how this is the end of the world.

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

you know, it would be the end of the world. It's the apocalypse. Yeah, how dare he? How dare he do that? We totally discount anything that they say. Now, as far as the rest of the world goes, no, the Europeans are absolutely beside themselves with grief. The economist today is talking about how this is the end of the world.

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

There's a big image of Orange Man Trump carving out the United States from the rest of the planet. Like we're somehow the bad guys and we hate the rest of the world and we're giving the rest of the world the big middle finger and tell them to go fend for themselves. The United States has been the consumer market for all of their goods forever.

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

There's a big image of Orange Man Trump carving out the United States from the rest of the planet. Like we're somehow the bad guys and we hate the rest of the world and we're giving the rest of the world the big middle finger and tell them to go fend for themselves. The United States has been the consumer market for all of their goods forever.

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

There's a big image of Orange Man Trump carving out the United States from the rest of the planet. Like we're somehow the bad guys and we hate the rest of the world and we're giving the rest of the world the big middle finger and tell them to go fend for themselves. The United States has been the consumer market for all of their goods forever.

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

And all we're saying is, can we please be a consumer of our own goods? Not all, not 100%, but some. Can it be possible? We don't have antibiotics in this country that we make, at least not in big numbers. We have one company that makes amoxicillin, which is a pedicillin, which would have saved you from COVID if you had it in 2011. I can count one company on my hand.

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

And all we're saying is, can we please be a consumer of our own goods? Not all, not 100%, but some. Can it be possible? We don't have antibiotics in this country that we make, at least not in big numbers. We have one company that makes amoxicillin, which is a pedicillin, which would have saved you from COVID if you had it in 2011. I can count one company on my hand.

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

And all we're saying is, can we please be a consumer of our own goods? Not all, not 100%, but some. Can it be possible? We don't have antibiotics in this country that we make, at least not in big numbers. We have one company that makes amoxicillin, which is a pedicillin, which would have saved you from COVID if you had it in 2011. I can count one company on my hand.

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

So Ireland is going to cry about all that because they're the big pharmaceutical guys because they lowered taxes or whatever the tax rate is in order to attract all American pharmaceutical companies there. Look, what if you didn't have all of these medications? What if your country didn't have it? What would you think about it?

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

So Ireland is going to cry about all that because they're the big pharmaceutical guys because they lowered taxes or whatever the tax rate is in order to attract all American pharmaceutical companies there. Look, what if you didn't have all of these medications? What if your country didn't have it? What would you think about it?

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

So Ireland is going to cry about all that because they're the big pharmaceutical guys because they lowered taxes or whatever the tax rate is in order to attract all American pharmaceutical companies there. Look, what if you didn't have all of these medications? What if your country didn't have it? What would you think about it?

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

If you want us just to be totally import dependent, this is a terrible idea. So the United States is saying, we're still going to trade with the world. We still want to buy your BMWs and Jaguars, okay? That's not going to end, but we want you to invest in our country. If you don't want to, and the American consumer decides he's not going to buy the BMW, okay? He's going to buy a

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

If you want us just to be totally import dependent, this is a terrible idea. So the United States is saying, we're still going to trade with the world. We still want to buy your BMWs and Jaguars, okay? That's not going to end, but we want you to invest in our country. If you don't want to, and the American consumer decides he's not going to buy the BMW, okay? He's going to buy a

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

If you want us just to be totally import dependent, this is a terrible idea. So the United States is saying, we're still going to trade with the world. We still want to buy your BMWs and Jaguars, okay? That's not going to end, but we want you to invest in our country. If you don't want to, and the American consumer decides he's not going to buy the BMW, okay? He's going to buy a

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

a Tesla instead or whatever, then that's their prerogative and that's you. You failed. And I will say this, I believe BMW has a factory in Mexico, so they could stop crying because they could just ship cars from Mexico to the United States.

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

a Tesla instead or whatever, then that's their prerogative and that's you. You failed. And I will say this, I believe BMW has a factory in Mexico, so they could stop crying because they could just ship cars from Mexico to the United States.

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

a Tesla instead or whatever, then that's their prerogative and that's you. You failed. And I will say this, I believe BMW has a factory in Mexico, so they could stop crying because they could just ship cars from Mexico to the United States.

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

Okay. Well, I did give you a worst case too because I said, again, using our amazing widget factory, I said that if we require parts from Vietnam and Southeast Asia in order to make our widget, and we're just a small company with 10 guys running the show, that we are going to be in trouble because we can't tell those guys, hey, let's up the ante.