Sarah Smith
speaker
3,811 appearances
45 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6d ago
Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was unbelievably obvious that Donald Trump was seeing these lines for the first time as they were going past on the autocue.
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So it was a series of not terribly well-written jokes that maybe would have got a laugh, except they were
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So badly delivered.
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It was practically unconscionable.
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And a long lecture about how the ballroom that we were in wasn't quite as good as the one he's building at the White House, but almost as good because we were in a hotel that he used to own.
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So, yeah, it was a bizarre evening, I have to say.
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I'll give my answer and then Anthony can correct me because that's usually the way it works when he's got the grasp of the detail.
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But basically what happened was the Trump administration applied these global tariffs under one law that the Supreme Court found couldn't be applied to tariffs.
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So basically they were doing it unlawfully because they were using a piece of legislation that wasn't designed for that purpose.
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So they've found different laws to do it under.
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So then for 90 days, I think it was, they were applying tariffs under one kind of emergency piece of legislation, but that was very, very time limited.
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So it was just last Friday that they changed the rules again.
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And now they're saying that they're applying tariffs to countries that don't crack down hard enough on goods produced using forced labour.
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And they're looking at what laws the UK, the EU, countries all over the world have about forced labour and
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And applying tariff rates of 10%, 12.5%, sometimes higher.
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We'll see how long that can last for.
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There's bound to be a legal challenge.
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But if they lose on that, then they'll just find another reason why they're going to tariff these goods, because they've not got the right environmental standards or something.
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So it's a bit of jiggery-pokery with the legal system, but they might get away with it.
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Or any pesky reason like 15 months on, it's not doing the economy any good.
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