Mark Caputo
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There is none. And Trump has been talking about this for at least 38 years in a political context. I wrote a story the other day called Trump's Tariff Brain, pointing out that in his first toe in the water flirtation with running for president in 1987 in New Hampshire, he gave a speech where he talked about other countries are ripping us off. We need to get better trade deals.
We need to stop subsidizing the defense. It's the same thing he's saying now. So for at least 40 years, Donald Trump in one way, shape or form has waited for this moment. And He could have done this differently. I was doing another show and someone had brought up rather intelligently, shouldn't Donald Trump have done this later? That is, he's got to do the reconciliation tax package.
We need to stop subsidizing the defense. It's the same thing he's saying now. So for at least 40 years, Donald Trump in one way, shape or form has waited for this moment. And He could have done this differently. I was doing another show and someone had brought up rather intelligently, shouldn't Donald Trump have done this later? That is, he's got to do the reconciliation tax package.
We need to stop subsidizing the defense. It's the same thing he's saying now. So for at least 40 years, Donald Trump in one way, shape or form has waited for this moment. And He could have done this differently. I was doing another show and someone had brought up rather intelligently, shouldn't Donald Trump have done this later? That is, he's got to do the reconciliation tax package.
These are huge, heavy things to lift. He has small margins in the House that make these big things very difficult to do. And then he threw the tariff and the change in the global financial system on top of it. And it's just one big mess. That's a good point. But the reality is Donald Trump is sort of an old man in a hurry, and he believes in doing as much as he can as fast as he can.
These are huge, heavy things to lift. He has small margins in the House that make these big things very difficult to do. And then he threw the tariff and the change in the global financial system on top of it. And it's just one big mess. That's a good point. But the reality is Donald Trump is sort of an old man in a hurry, and he believes in doing as much as he can as fast as he can.
These are huge, heavy things to lift. He has small margins in the House that make these big things very difficult to do. And then he threw the tariff and the change in the global financial system on top of it. And it's just one big mess. That's a good point. But the reality is Donald Trump is sort of an old man in a hurry, and he believes in doing as much as he can as fast as he can.
And unlike a conventional politician who would have looked at this and done it in a conventional way, let's come up with a plan, let's do it this way, let's do it later, let's phase it in, he realizes in his mind that he just needs to go for broke and go for the gusto, and he doesn't mind However, he'll never admit that he failed in real time. He doesn't mind experimenting in real time.
And unlike a conventional politician who would have looked at this and done it in a conventional way, let's come up with a plan, let's do it this way, let's do it later, let's phase it in, he realizes in his mind that he just needs to go for broke and go for the gusto, and he doesn't mind However, he'll never admit that he failed in real time. He doesn't mind experimenting in real time.
And unlike a conventional politician who would have looked at this and done it in a conventional way, let's come up with a plan, let's do it this way, let's do it later, let's phase it in, he realizes in his mind that he just needs to go for broke and go for the gusto, and he doesn't mind However, he'll never admit that he failed in real time. He doesn't mind experimenting in real time.
And that's what we're seeing, which is just unseen in politics, which is a real time experiment of constantly sort of fine tuning, doing deal making almost in public and in real time. It's just sort of staggering. Yeah. On top of that, the scope of changing the global financial system. Like we're in for a ride.
And that's what we're seeing, which is just unseen in politics, which is a real time experiment of constantly sort of fine tuning, doing deal making almost in public and in real time. It's just sort of staggering. Yeah. On top of that, the scope of changing the global financial system. Like we're in for a ride.
And that's what we're seeing, which is just unseen in politics, which is a real time experiment of constantly sort of fine tuning, doing deal making almost in public and in real time. It's just sort of staggering. Yeah. On top of that, the scope of changing the global financial system. Like we're in for a ride.
People are going to disagree with this, but, well, maybe not. Miller, Stephen Miller, you see one.
People are going to disagree with this, but, well, maybe not. Miller, Stephen Miller, you see one.
People are going to disagree with this, but, well, maybe not. Miller, Stephen Miller, you see one.
Rubio. That's actually true.
Rubio. That's actually true.
Rubio. That's actually true.
People are going to disagree with this. It's Howard Letnick.