Ro Khanna
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180 recordings
43 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3d ago
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global tariff war, global trade war, which was something he wanted to try for decades.
He didn't have an economic theory of the case around tariffs.
He saw tariffs as a blunt instrument and a tool of power.
And he had wanted to do this sweeping tariff implementation program.
In term one, aides kept it pretty tailored.
It turns out with a reason, you know, they used this formula that was sort of
incoherent and indescribable.
And Trump is asking aides.
We have this vivid scene where he doesn't believe the numbers that his own commerce secretary is giving him.
And he tells his ever present aide, Natalie Harp, you know, get me the real numbers, go find literally just Googling whatever these numbers were.
The degree of fear and terror, frankly, that a number of his advisors had and cabinet officials had the lead up to Liberation Day and then the lead up to the
Almost total meltdown of the bond markets on April 9th when he finally pulls back.
We weren't hearing a ton about Herbert Hoover.
It was, you know, he tried this.
He took it as far as he could.
It's sort of hard to argue otherwise right now with the reality that he just can't bend to his will on this front.
The gas prices are what they are.
This MOU might be the paddle that gets them out of this particular creek, but it hasn't yet, and they're still moving toward it.
I was surprised to hear him just say that at a press conference, but as we write in the book, whatever thin filter he once had on what he says has pretty much evaporated.
So I don't know how much he wants to conquer left Cuba.
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