Paul Rogers

At a time like this, there's one thing you always have to remember.

There's an acronym, AIM, or A-I-M.

And that stands for accidents, incidents and mavericks.

The kind of unplanned events when you have two sides of loggerheads which spill things more.

And that's one of the things to watch at present.

You do not want that kind of happening at this time, given what the game is and what we're all playing for.

It probably is.

I mean, essentially, Trump's support base tends to stem primarily from on the Christian side, from the religious side, from the basically the Christian Zionists and the evangelical Protestants.

So that is the main base.

But he does also have a base among conservative Catholics.

And I think they are hugely offended.

by this, but it seems to go right across the Christian communities in the United States.

It's getting flack from a number of different causes.

It was a huge miscalculation on his part, at the very least.

And the real worry is, you know, how is his mind working?

Will he even think of putting this up at this time?

You know, putting it up any time, but now it seems quite extraordinary.

I'm hopeful that things will change for the better.

But right now, we're still stuck with the stock that we've paid high prices for.

So it's going to be a long time before a small business like ours starts to see the benefits of the tariffs again.