Rahm Emanuel
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I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Well, oh, I got a text. And it was from a staff person who said, I've had it. And I said, what did I do? What are you so upset about? I thought they were quitting or something. I've had it. I can't do this. And they have two young kids. And I said, well, we'll talk about the hours. You don't have to do this in a text. And I didn't know the name of the podcast was called I've Had It. Yeah.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I've had it, first of all, a couple of things in political life right now. I've had it with us not focusing on the American people. And I've had it with us talking around each other and scoring political points. And I'm not beyond scoring political points, but not at the expense of the national project, so to speak. So that's what I've had it.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I've also had it with, I would say, we have a series of topics that I think sometimes consume and other topics that don't actually get the attention that they should get. I don't know how many kids you guys have. I have three grown children. I've been animated. I've spent a good portion of public life on education. It was a 30-year worst reading scores ever and math scores.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
30 years, you know, we're literally at the bottom of where we were when we first started. And nobody wants to talk about it. We're talking about everything else but our kids' education. And it's a disaster. And so I've had it with the fact that certain things we're not talking about versus certain things that we do talk about to ad nauseum that are really diversions.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
You know, you say you come from a state. To me, that's another way of scratching this itch of how do we not. And that's not really a Democrat or a Republican. How do we make sure that every child, not just your children or my children, have a plan for themselves, a future? Because we know a high school diploma just doesn't cut it no more.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And so that, to me, is how we have to approach these things. There are things going on in red states, and there are things that are going on in blue states that are a problem, but there's things that we can learn from each other.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I've had it, and this gets back to where I started, is neither Democrat or Republican governors are calling an international emergency meeting of the Governors Association Dealing with the fact that we have a massive academic crisis on our hands, and our kids are failing, and all the adults are looking at their shoes. Not talking about it. They don't want to deal with it.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Can I ask you a personal question? Yeah. How old are your kids?
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Okay. Ever since they were in that high chair at the kitchen table, you built in expectations, right? This is my one point. Every child is homeschooled. Every child. Some better than others. At your home, like at our home, kids learn the value of an education, whether it's valued or not valued. And what happens at school is not the only place to get an education.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
They get an education at home, get an education in the community, in the neighborhood, et cetera, and you invest in it. Ones at Syracuse, and I don't know, but I assume that a high schooler is off to college. But nobody from day one at that high chair at that kitchen table was high school considered the end of their education. They were inculcated with expectations. Now, I'm a mayor.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I was a mayor, rather, in the city of Chicago, where 83% of our kids are from poverty or below. That's not reinforced. Your kids are like, where am I going to be in four years? There were kids in Chicago, they wouldn't know if they were going to be alive in four weeks. And you have to stretch out their imagination and have them posit themselves where they have a tomorrow.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And your visa and your passport to the future is not going to be the high school diploma. It's going to be every one of the other pieces of that educational piece. And to me, that is the most important thing we have to give every child. And some of them will get it at home.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And some of them will get it at the school that makes up where, not that the parents don't want to get it or the mother doesn't want to do it, but they don't have the agency or the capacity. And, you know, I could get here, be philosophical. We're short plumbers and pipe fitters and steel workers and carpenters. We're short people in our armed forces.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And we're also short people that have the technical skills that community colleges give. don't have a person to waste and we got to invest in them and i don't think that's a blue state red state or anything it's just an understanding what the future will bear uh and i do think and i will say this is you know somebody in my own life who fought for marriage equality
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
There are others that give you an example of this, of all the challenges we have in the world. We have a war in Europe, a war in the Middle East. We have challenges with China. We have climate change. We have AI.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Two people want to love each other and build a home of love? We want to get in the way of that? You love each other? You want to build a home? You want to raise children? I'm for it. We got broken families everywhere. You want to marry each other? You want to build a home of love? God bless you. Let's go.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Here's what's going to happen. You're going to see coming up, whether, you know, especially like a state like Oklahoma, you said you're from, you tell me a rural hospital, a rural community that can survive with Medicaid cuts. There's no rural hospital, forget Tulsa and Oklahoma City, et cetera, no rural hospital that's going to survive with these Medicaid cuts.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And you're going to put kids and families back into poverty behind the eight ball when you cut that health care. We know what we did to eliminate poverty with the Child Tax Credit. We know it. And it has an immediate impact on life expectancy, all sorts of other ancillary benefits come from it. And people talk about family, but every family needs support.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Some can get it from other family, but some are going to need other type of assistance that's related to that. And the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit, All these poor parents trying to raise their children, no right from wrong and out of poverty. And, you know, it's ironic also not to get too philosophical here.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Outside of senior citizens in the last 40 years, welfare reform, minimum wage, children's health insurance, private sector, etc. We've actually done a pretty good job lifting kids out of poverty. We're on the 10 yard line. We could finish the job here. And nothing would be better for that child's life than having an adolescence not enmeshed in poverty.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
It changes their trajectory in so many ways that are beneficial to them and then to the rest of the community of Harnham.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Well, it's interesting you say that. So two things I would say to you. One is I think people, we're only in, I don't know where you are, but We're a month, let's say it's April, so it's basically three and a half months. And I think people are pretty goddamn exhausted by all this. And I think if you fast forward in another 20 weeks, they're going to be, the last thing they want is more fighting.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And I'm not, I'm a middle child and I'm known as a fighter. I'm not one for unilateral disarmament. But I think to read the room, I think the American people, A, want to go south on him pretty quickly. He's at 41%, 42%. They think they got betrayed and stabbed in the back by this president, and it's only getting worse.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And I do think Democrats should stand up not only to fight for their own principles, but to also fight for democracy. the people we represent. And for too often, on a whole host of cultural issues, we were off on tangential things that didn't matter to them. Their kids' education, the price of groceries, security of their children's education, the security of their parents.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
People were missing medications and doctor visits because they couldn't afford them. Things that we broke faith with them on. And so I'm not against fighting, but I want to make sure we're not just fighting for the sake of fighting, but fighting for the sake that people know and know what we care about, what's in our soul and what our North Star is. And we ended up fighting for the wrong things.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I got to be honest with you. I mean, I was sitting over in Japan for the last three years as ambassador. And I learned a lot about Japan. I learned a lot about India.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Shit's blowing up. But you want to know something? Being away from America, you learn a lot about America.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And I will just tell you, we look mighty strange having some of the arguments. We had the luxury of being a superpower. We're having superfluous arguments about things that didn't matter to people. We became not a party that was built on the culture of acceptance, but a party that became an advocate for certain things that, in my view, were just nuts. Nice. And they weren't core.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Now look, I think you pick. So you say to me fight, tell me what we're gonna fight about. Because I'm not interested in fighting about how you play this. I just I said this just a minute ago to somebody else. We were really south on kitchen table issues. We weren't really good about the family room issues.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
The only room we were doing really well was the bathroom. And that's the smallest room in the house.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Hey, let me say this. As mayor, 2016, I dealt with the bathroom issue. It's just not my most important issue. It was dealt with and I appropriately dealt with marriage equality, as I said.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Listen, I'm happy where you choose to live, but I've just got to be honest with you. You keep talking about living in this red state craziness. You know, there is U-Haul if you want to move out. But I would just tell you this. My view is there's a whole set of issues and these are side tangential issues. They're not core and they're not core to what we believe in.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And if you go through presidential history, you go through working for President Biden, President Obama, President Clinton or President Kennedy. We never got sidetracked on a set of issues. Our main focus was education, economic vitality and the American dream. And that's where we're going to make our bread and butter.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I wasn't bullying anybody. I just like the record to show I was just giving and expressing my view on this show.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
As somebody here, as one person on this podcast that actually won a house, worked on a presidential campaign, ran and said, OK, look, I don't have a... I'm going to get back and I'm going to just say this. I get the spirit of fighting given when you see all the assaults by Donald Trump and his people on things and values and ideas that we care about. I get that.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
But I want to know what we're fighting for and who we're fighting on behalf because not every fight is equal. Okay. And when it comes to quote unquote progressives, I don't think there's anything more progressive than an education of a child.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And I don't see anybody standing up for that. And we have the worst reading scores, worst math scores in 30 years. We're not fighting for that. We're over there and we're fighting on a whole host of what I would not call secondary, but periphery issues that are core if you want to go win elections. That's President Obama, President Clinton, myself. I add to that Nancy Pelosi.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Elections have consequences. If you don't win elections, all the other stuff is just secondary.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And they're valuable. So look, they're valuable issues. But you've got to deal with an electorate where they are. And I would just, like on a series of subjects, I would just tell you, Democratic brand now is down at 27%. They think we care about a set of cultural issues that are tangential and that those are our main focus. So you can sit here and say, I don't want to bully.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I get you don't want to bully. I'm not interested in bullying either. I never have bullied.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
on that but the fact is we're down to the lowest level we've been in 50 years because we're seen as caring about a set of issues as a set of priority issues that aren't core to them and i got to deal with the electorate where they are when you put your name on the ballot or you try to win an election and you know and i can tell you this that
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
two other presidents I work for, I know firsthand that their assessment is of politics and what happened differently, is we were seen as not hearing, listening, and seeing what was priority A for the American people. And it was a set of issues. And connecting on what is core to the American people is crucial if you're going to win those elections.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And if you're seen as fighting, and I'm using this both metaphorically and literally, on bathroom access and who plays in what sports, but not on who's reading and writing and what the math capability of those kids are or access to a post-high school education or ability of a first-time home buyer to buy a home, then you're going to be seen as fighting for something that's not part of the problem.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
But let me ask you this. Wait a second. Okay. And I'll get back to this. Your son's about to graduate Syracuse, right?
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Okay. Okay. I don't know you very well. We just met. You've seen all the good sides of her. Okay. Well, your, your kid, yours, your child may be coming home to Oklahoma, may go on somewhere else, but they're not going to live in the basement. They're not going to have $40,000 worth of debt. They're going to go on in their life in a way that they're going to be on the road.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
You've launched them and they're going to have a shot at the American dream. That dream is not accessible. to the lion's share of his classmates. That dream of not only owning a home, a job, saving for your retirement, and your children's children, your grandchildren's one day education, and not having a health care, that is missing. Now, you want to talk about bathrooms? Great.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I dealt with that in 2016. It's just not core and central when you have people graduating with $30,000 worth of debt, are living in the basement of their parents' home, their grandparents have moved into the house, they're missing medications, and you're using your 401k. Like I said, basically an ATM machine to make sure that you pay bills on the monthly time.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
This is, that to me, is where we're not only going to succeed electorally, it's actually where we're going to get America right with America. And that to me is core.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
The last election was a bit schizophrenic. Here's my analysis. President Biden and Kamala Harris are eight to nine points down from Joe Biden after the debate, et cetera. President Biden steps down. Kamala Harris takes the mantle, runs a campaign focused on the economy, and moves from eight down to plus three. That's an 11-point swing. That's not a statistical error.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
You could say it was seven down, plus two, whatever, but it's a big swing movement. After that debate, she drops her economic argument that is resonating and scoring, and picks up this argument around democracy. Now, if you care about democracy, which based on this interview, I'm assuming all three of us do, you had to say hello.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
It was the economic story that swung 11 points, and as democracy, when we started making that as a central to our argument, we went down three. That was a six-point swing. Now, I study politics too much. It's an obsession of mine. But if you move 11 points, I won't get off of it. I agree with you.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And we were exactly what I was talking about on the American Green monthly bills, being able to pay them and understanding the pressure. They wanted a president that appreciated the pressure that was on that family. And every policy you have fills in that picture of that pressure. And somewhere after the debate, there was...
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
almost like somebody flipped a switch and we veered off into this discussion. And I care. You can see daily the assault on the legal system and the institutions that back up and define what America is. And it's valuable. But if you wanted to win the election, it wasn't that. It was what got you from down eight to plus three, which is the core economic pressure on a family.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
And that's how you win elections. And if you want to make a difference in policy, across the waterfront of issues, elections have consequences.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
This may be the last time you let me on the show. So let me just say this.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
No, let me just be clear. You're not wrong, but you're not totally right.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
We give them a lot of material to work with. And you're missing that.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Hit it. So every day as chief of staff, I have secret service. You know, they drive me home. I'm getting up to the front stoop and the suburbans drive off and I open the door and I go in. So after about six months, I said to my secret service, I said, how come every time I get to the front stoop and start to open the door, you guys drive off? They go, well, you're safe.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I said, I don't know if you know this. The only people want to kill me in that house. And I said, so that was our joke.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I mean, you know, I'll tell you, I'll bet you. I'll tell you why. He used to stand up for NATO. He stood up for Ukraine. He stood up against Putin. And he's taking all his principles and put them in a lockbox.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I have no idea why you would lose your dignity to that, A, in any case, or B, to that man. It's wild.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Nobody ever works for him. as an improvement in their career.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
Yeah, I could tell. I could tell that was a total middle child war or peace kind of statement.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
and i don't have a problem arguing i like i think it's so i do too i like it i want to have them get them in trouble for playing middle childhood i'm a middle child too see i'm trying to like be a peacemaker here and i'm being vilified for it as being a dad she goes yeah kids what y'all do today i substitute on mom's podcast so here's what i do you know what i do every morning what
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
So Layar, the youngest, goes off to college. And I, first day, we're empty nesters. I make coffee in the morning. I get up at 5.30. And I bring it to Amy in bed. And I said, it's Mother's Day. The kids are all grown up. Everybody's up. I bring coffee in bed. She loved it. So next day, six years later, I'm bringing her coffee in bed.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
So until you start doing that, you just be that peacemaker over there. Every morning.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I'll tell you, I'll tell you even a funnier story. Is that right? Oh yeah. We're six months into empty Nesterville and we're sitting on the couch and neither one of us can figure out how to get an apple tea. We're totally technologically, you know, back to the stone age. And I look over to Amy's knitting and we're trying to figure out something.
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I leaned over and I said, Amy, I think this marriage needs a project. We had had 21 years filled with free projects. And we went off and we started a reading group on Shakespeare together. We did that for a while. We did a couple other things. Then we decided to build a house together and stuff like that. But all right, what's my other had it or hid it?
I've Had It
Total Bullsh*t with Rahm Emanuel
I may just need it for marriage. Yeah. Why think about proper coffee? I may just want to square off beforehand with you before I get to the kitchen. Hey, you keep getting that five 30 coffee and you're going to be, I am the Neville Chamberlain of our marriage. Peace in our time. That's all I seek.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
You have to believe.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Well, I'm doing daily show writing. Uh-huh, uh-huh.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Yeah, I'm working for Centerview, and I do write for the Washington Post, and I'm on CNN. I thought you worked at an investment bank. Yeah, Centerview. Oh, Centerview.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
How's that going? I'm out there with a takeout. When did you join? Yeah. About a month ago. Uh-huh.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Well, there's a six-letter word that a lot of people are saying lately. What's that? Tariffs.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Cash? Yeah, yeah. I mean, here is... I'm going to breathe calmly. Don't panic, because everything's going to be fine. Yeah. 11 weeks and $11 trillion. Out the window. Arrivederci. Shalom Aleichem. Whoa. Yeah, bon voyage. Look at you. Yeah. And we only have 200 more weeks to go.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Yeah.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Yeah, as my father would say, so what could go wrong?
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Yeah, let me try to help you, John. Please. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm just very, I have a Elon Musk measure. What does that mean? How many kids do you have? What does that mean? This is supposed to be a manufacturing renaissance. Manufacturing is going to come back. Screws, next to Apple phones, as you said.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Elon Musk has a 20,000-person factory in Shanghai, a 12,000-person factory in Berlin. When those get repurposed back in the United States, this is an incredible success. Until that time, it's an absolute failure. And what is really, I mean, on a serious note, also driving me absolutely crazy, we had China isolated.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
We had the whole world angry at China for exporting and destroying their economies, and we were going to be their hope and dream. We worked on getting Japan and Korea to align with the United States, isolate China. Now they're working their own economic deal, and we're isolated. It's really the most... Japan and South Korea are working their... Working now with China.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Yes, but they were actually... Number one foreign investor in the United States? Japan. Japan. A million Americans work for them. One of the biggest manufacturing countries that support manufacturing in the United States, Japan. It's the most reckless thing done by a president. I mean, there is natural disasters, human disasters. There's lightning, creates a fire.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
There's arson that creates a fire. This is arsonist.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
You look like you're taking... I'm thinking of how I can do this. I was going to bring some Excedrin for you. Excedrin?
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
He's giving China a get out of jail card. They were in the doghouse with everybody. They were isolating. They were destroying steel plants in Chile. They were destroying steel plants in South Africa.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
But they were also exporting all their economic problems domestic all over the world. Yes. And they had a lot.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Yes, yes, yes. And they were isolated. And they were becoming a problem for everybody. We are going to be the safe haven. We've now become the problem. We've given them a get out of jail card. This is, listen, the way I look at it, March Madness used to be about basketball. Right. Now, it's about the Trump administration. You used to do brackets. Now you do 401ks. And you used to do portfolios.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
I'm telling you, I've literally... He's going to announce. The only thing that I can say good about this is you see all these CEOs on the shows that are all now like, this is crazy, this is insane. I'm going to say, Schmuck, what took you so long? I mean, I cannot believe all these guys running around. Oh, it's the largest tax increase in American history. Thank God for the American people.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
They think this is horrible. They don't? You listen to his people? No, his people. I'm talking about the American people, not his people. It's totally different. Oh, yeah.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
His people are literally, their grasp of the English language is down to four words. Yes, sir, Mr. President.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
I used to, I worked for three presidents. I used to be 6'2". I'm now only 5'8". Your job is to go in the Oval Office and tell them, You're out of your mind. These guys, yes, they go off and they repeat all this crap on TV. You know, Ludnick, the Secretary of Commerce, he makes a used car salesman look like a decent guy. I've never seen anything like this.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
I want to go back to your first point. Please. In your book here, The Art of the Deal, he is the worst negotiator. China never bought anything. They took him to cleaner. North Korea never agreed to anything. He negotiated the trade deal with Canada and Mexico, and then he just blew it up. He's blowing up his own deal. Yeah. He is not a good negotiator.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
When you claim you're a good negotiator, it should cover up the fact that you're a horrible negotiator. You could have done this seven different ways. He picked the eighth way. Right. And the problem is not just, and you are right, he's going to say after Japan or after Israel, I got this deal, and he's going to try to calm the markets down.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
But the fact is the damage to America, nobody will ever trust us. In eight weeks, he's destroyed 80 years of reputation that America built, all of us collectively. All through all the battles, he has destroyed it. And just like your dog, he threw up on the bed. That was my point.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Did you miss the point of the whole story? That was my point. But I wanted to say it my way, and I feel better for being here. Thank you, John. Did you think I just brought that up randomly? No, that was.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
OK.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
No, no doubt about it. Here's we got to own this. Here's the fact, which is we disappointed the country. Now they will stab you in the back. We will disappoint you. And that's just down to where it is. And you get to pick as the American people. That's the good news.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
You ask me. No, but you know, I disappoint you. We got to be honest. When you make a mistake, you got to own it. And that's the only way to be. And here and here and here. No, here's and here's what it is. Yeah. We were just talking earlier. Yes. The Stewart kids and the Emanuel kids, they're going to be good. Loving home, good education.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
And the American dream, they're going to get a shot at it, which is a deal. But in fact, out of Washington, the American people haven't gotten the shot. They've gotten the shaft. And what happened is trying to own a home, trying to basically save for your retirement, save your kid's education and health care so you're not in the poorhouse one sickness away. People are missing medications.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Kids are coming home from college or living in the basement. And the American dream is good for only about 10% of the kids. That's not how we keep score. And we are responsible for not keeping faith with that.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Here's my thing. Here's my thing. Yeah. More than that, because of what happened both in Iraq war, what happened in the financial meltdown. The American people lost their lives, their livelihood, and the elite let them down. There is no doubt that their right to be angry. I have no problem with some of the people that make up the MAGA.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
They have a right to be angry because they've lost the elite, lost faith with them. What I have is all these other executives who've lived large on America. who allow a president to run roughshod over the law, who run roughshod over America, they have no right to that.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
That's, again, placing it to... So let's stay with... No, the Democrats have a responsibility for what they have done with losing faith. You can't let Peoria, Youngstown, you can't let parts of Wisconsin, La Crosse... But we did. No, we did. And that's why the first thing... Sorry. We owe you. No, we do.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
You have to get clean with people, own what we did wrong, and worst case scenario, we then get sidetracked into side issues rather than the main cause, which is the American dream. So how would Democrats bring that back? The American dream is unaffordable. Right. It's inaccessible. Yes. And that should be unacceptable to us.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
And then number two, what you have to do is right now is deal with the fundamentals, OK? No part of America is off from being invested or invested in. You've got to make sure every American has a chance at the American dream, which means it starts first and foremost with education.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Even when we did it. Wait a second, hold on. No, don't. No, wait a second. I've got one. I've got to own that. Okay, number two, you own with the fact is you've got to invest in this country. And we did not do that. We basically let Americans and let the Chinese eat their lunch. And that's not fair.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Yeah, you pointed out, and I agree with you 100% of what we literally did. Passing the legislation should be hard, not actually getting the resource out. On the other hand, let me give you one reverse. Can I ask you? Is this about a dog? No. It's about when the auto industry was on their back. And they were literally, I remember, as the chief of staff for President Obama. Right.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
And we got a notice that there were six weeks left before Chrysler and GM are belly up. And thousands of jobs and thousands of communities were on their back. The United States came in and saved it. And our auto industry came back. So, in fact, there is moments you can point to. You can't get a charging station. You go...
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
You're looking at the guy 100%.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
We saved GM when all the guys that work at GM lost their houses. You're looking at the guy. Well, that's actually, that's cheap. That's not actually true. GM jobs got saved rather than go back. Some people were out here. But you know what I'm talking about. Yes, but you're not totally accurate. This may be the last time I'm asked on the show.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
But on the second thing, here's the thing. We did do, and we saved the auto industry from going under.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
And the second thing is, on that part, and somebody who was in the White House had advocated for Old Testament justice on bankers, because they should have been put into the public square and literally had the crap beat out of them, because they were asking for bonuses when people were losing their homes. And I... No. Now...
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Whip them! Actually, to be honest, it wasn't the Oval Office. Put them in a stockade! It wasn't the Oval Office. It was in the Roosevelt Room. Yeah, they should be beaten up because they're sitting there asking for their bonuses as if they earned a bonus when people lost their homes, their livelihood, and their life savings. That's right.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
And that is where we lost faith in the Iraq war, which is built on deception. The liar's loan that lost people their homes was built on deception. And then you got COVID coming around, and the Democrats sat around and acted like they were scientists and doctors.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
I was the one that called you. When he was with you, I got free time and I actually got the work done.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
The answer is, in the Talmudic way, yes and no. And I'll tell you why. No, yes, I was like... No, no, I feel like... Don't ever say that again. Okay. Or I'll have to give you... I understand. This hand. I understand. I understand. Here's the thing. I, like, sometimes I look around and I literally... I set up a blind trust. You look at these people. They're literally trading.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
They're setting up Bitcoin. I'm like, we were schmucks. We were idiots for doing this. On the other hand... Nobody had ever had an ethics problem in the Obama White House. We did follow the rules of law. America was respected around the world. And we did create jobs. So did we follow it and say, oh, we should have done it audaciously like this and break over?
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
No, because as many... What would you have done, though, if you could? Oh, that's going to... We have to do three more shows. All right. No, but I say to... Yeah. In defense of President Obama... It's not in defense.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
No, no, no. He said... You know, my presidency's a marathon, and I hand over the baton to somebody else to pick up. I actually think he left America better than the one he inherited from President Bush in a whole host of ways. I don't agree with everything. And then you look at this. No, I don't wish we did this. And I'm glad we didn't do this. Was it constraining? Yes.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
But leaving here, literally walking around saying, will be a recession what do you need a 401k for no and then i don't mean i mean to to push things in a way that didn't follow well somebody who uh pushed a number of people yeah known for that that's why i'm that's why i'm asking you this question there are things there's no doubt like what they're about to do let's take this on the budget and say
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Well, $5 trillion in the Texas doesn't cost anything. Well, I'm sorry. Any kid in third grade math, even post-COVID, knows what $5 trillion does cost, okay? I mean, give me a break. So when they sit there and do all this... They got it. You didn't get it.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
I want the dumb children removed. No, wait a second. I think the American people agree with me about bankers getting beaten.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
I know, but I'm only here for 20 minutes, so it feels pretty good. Here's what we need. Okay, but here's, no, the thing is, do I feel like I could, back to your original question, do I feel like we should have done certain things like this? Yeah, but for a guy, I believe in the end of the day, following the rules, playing by the rules is better for the country. Ultimately.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
Not just ultimately, also at the time. There were definitely frustrating things. There are things that, what I will say this, is you look at what they did on the courts and how they stacked them versus the way we did it in the sense of the process, full background checks, et cetera. You could have no doubt pushed that much harder and much faster. No doubt about it.
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Jon Stewart on Trump's Botched Tariff Rollout & Market Meltdown | Rahm Emanuel
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
Here's what you should note. Ever since the United States in Ukraine showed a weakness and a vulnerability towards Putin, That very week or a week later, China did an unprecedented naval exercise against Australia, our ally. They had to shut down civilian air traffic near Sydney. They did an unprecedented move against Japan in the Sea of Japan. They did it against Vietnam.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
They did it in the Philippine area, and they did it on Taiwan Straits. So they see weakness. Weakness invites aggression.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Well, if you have 11 billionaires in your cabinet, what do they know about pain? For a family that can't make it to the 31st of the month on their paycheck and is trying to get it to Walmart or to Target, and they are buying less and less and less, as noted by the Walmart CEO, this is real economics. And I think one of the things that's missed in the past is
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Those who are doing well, we're actually healthy as consumers. The rest of the consumers in our society, we're actually living in a recession. Our job is to help them economically, not hurt them.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Yeah, well, look, here's my thing. America today is less safe, the economy is less stable, and our future is less secure. Our obligation, because the middle class have been betrayed, not just now, but in the past, and the American dream, is unaffordable to the American people. It's inaccessible to the American people. And for us, that is unacceptable. We're going to work tirelessly.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
We didn't get here overnight, but we're going to work tirelessly to get us out. And this is an administration not only that has betrayed you, but is corrupt to its core. And that's what I would do. And I would start with things like Social Security. I would start with things like Medicare.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
And I do think we should remember, while there's a lot of focus and energy on Washington, it's kind of a tale of two parties. What's happening in the rest of the country, you can see by these special elections, Democrats at the ballot are strong, vibrant, and aggressive.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Washington needs to understand that and be strategic in its direction of the demarcation between the Trump administration, the Republicans who are blindly falling in line, versus a party that offers not just, we're not anti-Trump, but an alternative of what we're gonna do for the working middle class of this country.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
make of all this i would take it at two points first japan's the number one foreign direct investor in the united states for the last four years consecutively over a million americans or a million americans work for japanese companies and nearly half of their investment goes to manufacturing so it's a kind of you know we're going to kind of be penny wise and dollar foolish here uh second
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Japan hosts the largest military footprint the United States has anywhere in the world. It's the only country that has a permanent aircraft carrier. It is the long pole in our deterrence against China in the Indo-Pacific. And so, you know, nothing stays just in the economic lane. It's a relationship. So that means national security, diplomatic support.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
It means political support and it means economic support and integration. Second, imagine this. When the United States wants to put further sanctions on China as it relates to export controls for high tech, the only way it's successful is Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the Dutch stand shoulder to shoulder with the United States.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
They're going to think real hard about whether we should stand with the United States or allow our companies to continue to export to China. So, you know, relationships don't just have one length. It's a series of things you weigh equities against each other. So I think this is very short-sighted in this approach.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
There's a way you could have approached as we did in years past, both when I worked for President Clinton, we did the five pillars on trade, et cetera. Japan now is the number one, as I said, number one foreign investor in the United States. Nearly a million Americans work for them. And of those, half are in the manufacturing industrial space. the exact job we want in the United States.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Well, let me be clear. It's not like economic relations don't need to be reformed, changed, altered. What we're successfully doing is breaking. Nobody has successfully in this administration yet built. We're very good at the breaking part. The building part, you have yet to see.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
And if the whole idea is that out of the zenith is going to come some new world, as he says, it's going to be Liberation Day. This is a country that has, as I said, is creating manufacturing industrial jobs in the United States. What are you looking at? Where is this zenith? Describe it. Who's coming? Outside of you say it's going to happen. In fact, give you an example.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Japan has increased, gone from 1% to 2% of their GDP will go to defense. It's going to become the third largest defense budget in the world, United States, China, Japan. 99.9% of that budget is going to go into purchasing equipment. We're going to be the largest. What if Japan decides to start partnering with Europe?
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
That means we're going to lose manufacturing jobs inside the military industrial part of the United States. What if they decide to cut back on the F-35, the Patriot? the cruise missile, and they're gonna say, we're gonna partner and do that with Europe. You're gonna actually lose manufacturing jobs, not gain it. So this is, I know it comes as a shock, sit down, I wanna be able to do this gently.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
And it was historic because it showed a united front and a clear, credible deterrent against China. China was very nervous. Now that we have decided to pull back, step back and beat our allies like their adversaries, China is in the middle of having now had two meetings, both with Japan and Korea jointly on both the foreign policy diplomatic front and also on the trade front.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
So they're going to reap all the advantages that we had built previously. between the United States, Japan, and Korea. And so we're literally hurting not only our allies, but hurting the credibility of our deterrence against our number one threat, China. Sorry about that.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Here's what you should note. Ever since the United States in Ukraine showed a weakness and a vulnerability towards Putin, That very week or a week later, China did an unprecedented naval exercise against Australia, our ally. They had a shutdown civilian air traffic near Sydney. They did an unprecedented move against Japan in the Sea of Japan. They did it against Vietnam.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
They did it in the Philippine area. And they did it on Taiwan Straits. So they see weakness. Weakness invites aggression.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
You have to be smart about your deterrence, but it is not an accident that both while China is talking to Japan and Korea, which are very important allies, they project our power, they reinforce the basic message of the United States that we are a permanent Pacific power and presence, you can bet long on us, versus China's theory, we're the rising power, the United States is declining power, you either get in line or you're gonna get coercion.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
And in this situation, we built something that is a fundamental restructuring the strategic landscape of the region, enhancing America's credibility of its deterrence. China took note of it. Now, all of a sudden, the administration's walked away from it. And China is stepping into that void and taking all the benefits and all the fruits of our hard work.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Because your perspective here, you know, needs to be- Actually, watching this unfold in the last 48 hours, I think the Trump administration's national, the moniker on their national security will be dumb and dumber. It'll be the reissuing of an old classic. And I can't I look at this and think about other instances.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Did you think this was happening when we were planning and preparing for Osama bin Laden? I was in the situation room with the president in the first seven weeks of his administration. We had a meeting in a small situation room, not the big one, on how to handle the pirate situation, which the U.S. ship was taken. And we dealt with it.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
It was four of us, the president, myself, Tom Donilon, deputy national security advisor, and the national security advisor, Mr. Jones. He made a decision on Friday night. That was the execution in a secure area.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
If you had done this when we were preparing to put our men and women's boots on the ground in Pakistan in the preparation for the exercise of the president's plan for the capturing or eliminating Osama bin Laden, there was six months of preparation. Nothing leaked. It was not on a public diet. There was a security. There's a reason you have these plans secure. A, the element of surprise.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
The ability for our men and women in uniform, Air Force, Navy, otherwise Marines, to execute the mission that the commander in chief details them with. That surprise is a piece of your security. If what they're saying is true, that Jeff Goldberg figured out how to get on there on his own, that means China, Russia, and all our adversaries that are trying to harm the United States can get on there.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
So that's crap. So they have earned a reputation as the Keystone Cops. The reissuing of the movie, the moniker on the national security team will be Dumb and Dumber, and you can figure out who plays dumb and who plays dumber.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
One of the things that we dealt with a lot during President Obama's time, and I've There are different moments of different things with President Clinton as it relates to Bosnia, et cetera. But President Obama, when we were picking or selecting targets, leaders in terrorist organizations, there was a process, a very secure process run by the national security that had intel, military intelligence.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
you know, collateral type of damage, weighing different equities. There's none ever. None of it leaked because, you know, God forbid, the heads up was, you know, given to the terrorists to change their patterns, to change how they move, to change the way they communicate. If this had been picked up by Iran, they would change.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
And obviously, if it was successful and it looks like it was successful operation, they would have notified the individuals we were trying to target, the missiles. The person for the Houthis operates their missile program, which is what we're trying to degrade, if not eliminate. And this gets back to something I also said. They talk pathetically.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
using their term, about our allies who actually, the UK, Canada, the 51st state, Denmark, the colonial power of Greenland, the Dutch, Aussies, Kiwis, and Bahrain, have all been part of an operation since January 12th. Those are our allies, standing shoulder to shoulder. The people that are freeloading are President Trump's allies, Russia, China, Belarus, and North Korea.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
They're the ones that the ships haven't been hit. And if you think that's an accident, I gotta bridge over the tigers for every you can buy. This administration doesn't know who an ally and adversary is. The freeloaders are President Trump's allies.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
The allies of the United States of America are the ones that are not pathetic, but actually are risking their own servicemen and women on behalf of the freedom of seas. So the freeloaders are our adversaries. Those defending the freedom of navigation are our allies.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
One of the things, I mean, look, all we know right now is what's broken. And I'm surprised none of the Republicans have said, whoa. If I was in leadership like I used to be in Congress, they have grandmothers sitting on the phone for five hours with nobody to answer that for their Social Security check. They are breaking.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
That is, if your husband dies, you're trying to secure your benefits and your check. They have ruined the system. Now, I think this is going to be a you. It has a potential. there's both a political standpoint and a policy. Politically, the Republicans aren't going to own this. If I were the Democrats, I would press this issue right now on the floor.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
And there's plenty of time to do it while there's stuff about Signalgate, etc. But I would prepare an attack on the way they have hurt our grandparents and their retirement security that they earned. They're sitting on call centers for five hours with nobody picking up the phone. That's also true at IRS.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
So all they know how to do, and remember, I think Colin Powell told George Bush, you break it, you own it. That's going to be true here too. So all we know is what they know how to break. You have yet to tell me where the savings are, and what they've actually, is a better service before.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Whether that's the veterans benefits, whether that's going to, today you're asking me the day in which we're going to lay off all these people on healthcare. There's going to be massive impacts on cancer drugs, HIV drugs, other types of things, and also delivering services to seniors that rely on Medicare. Seniors and poor people that rely on Medicaid. And so breaking is easy.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Building, very difficult. And you're going to see that. And the Republicans are going to own it also in the midst of what is a desire by the president for a recession and his economic theme. You think he actually has a desire for it? Does he want a recession?
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
I don't know why he said it, but well, first of all, I don't know if he wants it, but I worked for President Obama when we inherited what's called the Great Recession, and it was this close to going and tipping into a depression. We stopped it, pulled the economy back. I worked for President Clinton, who inherited a recession.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
We worked as an administration, the presidents led them, to pull the country out of of a recession and to then build an economy that became, in both cases, examples of great growth and job creation. This administration, through their tariffs and chaos, are driving a healthy, and we just got today, you're asking me, today they showed the report, the economy was doing well and had forward momentum.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Tariffs go up, 401ks go down. Consumers have pulled back. And when the consumers pull back, the economy tips over. That's right. And he said, well, there could be a recession. I've never seen anybody be so cavalier with people's own personal economy. and economic security for the working middle class of this country. But he said it. I'm using his words. And his treasury secretary, he's at AC.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
They basically, oh, that could be the consequence. I don't know. I worked for two administrations tirelessly that worked every day, 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year to get out of a recession and to build the economy. You have an administration that shrugs their shoulders and says, well, There could be a little pain here.
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Yikes! Republicans Blow Up on Live TV over Trump Crash
I don't know why he said it, but well, first of all, I don't know if he wants it, but I worked for President Obama when we inherited what's called the Great Recession, and it was this close to going and tipping into a depression. We stopped it, pulled the economy back. I worked for President Clinton, who inherited a recession.
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Yikes! Republicans Blow Up on Live TV over Trump Crash
We worked as an administration, the presidents led them, to pull the country out of of a recession and to then build an economy that became, in both cases, examples of great growth and job creation. This administration, through their tariffs and chaos, are driving a healthy, and we just got today, you're asking me, today they showed the report, the economy was doing well and had forward momentum.
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Yikes! Republicans Blow Up on Live TV over Trump Crash
Tariffs go up, 401ks go down. Consumers have pulled back. And when the consumers pull back, the economy tips over. That's right. And he said, well, there could be a recession. I've never seen anybody be so cavalier with people's own personal economy. and economic security for the working middle class of this country. But he said it. I'm using his words.
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Yikes! Republicans Blow Up on Live TV over Trump Crash
And his treasury secretary, he said, he said, they basically, oh, that could be the consequence. I don't know. I worked for two administrations tirelessly that worked every day, 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year to get out of a recession and to build the economy. You have an administration that shrugs their shoulders and says, well, there could be a little pain here. Well,
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Yikes! Republicans Blow Up on Live TV over Trump Crash
If you have 11 billionaires in your cabinet, what do they know about pain? For a family that can't make it to the 31st of the month on their paycheck and is trying to get it to Walmart or to Target, and they are buying less and less and less, as noted by the Walmart CEO, this is real economics. And I think one of the things that's missed in the past is
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Yikes! Republicans Blow Up on Live TV over Trump Crash
Those who are doing well were actually healthy as consumers. The rest of the consumers in our society were actually living in a recession. Our job is to help them economically, not hurt them.
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Trump Top Advisor Hides From Press After Causing Crash
I don't know why he said it, but, well, first of all, I don't know if he wants it, but I worked for President Obama when we inherited what's called the Great Recession, and it was this close to going and tipping into a depression. We stopped it, pulled the economy back. I worked for President Clinton, who inherited a recession.
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Trump Top Advisor Hides From Press After Causing Crash
We worked as an administration, the presidents led them, to pull the country out of of a recession and to then build an economy that became, in both cases, examples of great growth and job creation. This administration, through their tariffs and chaos, are driving a healthy, and we just got today, you're asking me, today they showed the report, the economy was doing well and had forward momentum.
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Trump Top Advisor Hides From Press After Causing Crash
Tariffs go up, 401Ks go down. Consumers have pulled back. And when the consumers pull back, the economy tips over. That's right. And he said, well, there could be a recession. I've never seen anybody be so cavalier with people's own personal economy and economic security for the working middle class of this country. But he said it using his words.
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Trump Top Advisor Hides From Press After Causing Crash
And his Treasury Secretary, he said, you see, they basically, oh, that could be the consequence. I don't know. I worked for two administrations tirelessly that worked every day, 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year to get out of a recession and to build the economy. You have an administration that shrugs their shoulders and says, well, there could be a little pain here.
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Trump Top Advisor Hides From Press After Causing Crash
Well, if you have 11 billionaires in your cabinet, what do they know about pain? For a family that can't make it to the 31st of the month on their paycheck and is trying to get it to Walmart or to Target, and they are buying less and less and less, as noted by the Walmart CEO. This is real economics.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Top Advisor Hides From Press After Causing Crash
And I think one of the things that's missed in the past is those who are doing well are actually healthy as consumers. The rest of the consumers in our society, we're actually living in a recession. Our job is to help them economically, not hurt them.