Tom Bilyeu

Is he gonna do it in the short term?

Probably not.

But in the long term, if we start seeing a lot of people buying cars there and then driving them over, I think he will respond with tariffs.

He is going to keep Chinese EVs out of America unless he thinks he's trading for something else.

Because from what I hear, and I haven't done a super deep dive on this, but from what I hear, given the Chinese ability to manufacture at scale just absolutely incredible things,

they can offer a far superior car for far less.

And so right about now, Americans are in the market for something better and cheaper.

So the reason that we don't have a gaggle of Chinese cars on the market is because we tariff the life out of them.

Now, should we be doing that?

Almost certainly, yes.

We have to, people need to understand that if a country cannot manufacture

its own goods, that country is in a horrifyingly weak position, especially if you have a 75% chance of going to war with the people that actually can produce things well.

In a kinetic war, you better be able to make things, things that move fast, shoot clearly, like you just really can't play.

And right now China basically

controls our entire supply chain for drone technology, being one of the many things, our advanced way of life from the rare earth minerals and refining processes that control chip manufacturing and all of that.

All of it goes through China.

Now, we can get into all of the complex reasons why we did that, which get back to the core of your question, which is, OK, this is a chess game.

You've got Trump, who is, I think, very good at first order consequences.

I think he's potentially and in fairness, I need to see some of this stuff play out in the fullness of time.

But I think he's much worse at second and third order consequences.