Ep. 2177 - TRUMP U-TURN WIN: Tariff War Paused, China Isolated!
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Why did Trump pause the tariff war?
Well, folks, President Trump lives in the world of reality, as I've been saying for a very long time. When the headlines change, so does the president's opinion on things. We'll get to that in a moment. First, at Daily Wire Plus, as you know, we lead with facts. We deliver the truth from the most trusted voices in conservative media. People who say what you can, who fight where you can't, and who won't back down. Members get this show ad-free and unfiltered with live chat, investigative journalism that takes you inside the story, and premium entertainment that actually reflects your values. Now is the time to become a member. Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe. So yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon, the president of the United States made a U-turn on his tariff policy. He put out a statement on Truth Social that read, "'Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world's markets, I am hereby raising the tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125% effective immediately.'"
At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the United States and other countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 countries have called representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the U.S. Trade Representative, to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to trade, trade barriers, tariffs, currency manipulation, and non-monetary tariffs, and that these countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90-day pause and a substantially lowered reciprocal tariff during this period of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So that is, in fact, a U-turn for the president of the United States, who was suggesting just a couple of days earlier that there would be no postponement. That was suggested by pretty much everybody in the president's cabinet, who said over and over and over again, this is the right thing to do. The president did the right thing here. He reversed. what was going to be a meltdown moment for the global markets. And the question is why? What made him reverse everything? And the answer is pretty obvious. Basically, the entire global economic system was shouting at him that he needed to reverse this tariff system that he was about to put into place. Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan appeared on Fox Business specifically to message to the president because the president watches Fox News. Jamie Dimon has essentially admitted as much. Here he was Wednesday morning explaining that a tariff war would bring a almost certain recession.
Do you personally expect a recession?
I am going to defer to my economists at this point, but I think probably that's a likely outcome.
OK, between him saying that and also the bond market completely wrecking itself on Wednesday morning, the president of the United States saw the reality and he reversed himself. The bond market sell-off that was initiated by President Trump's statements about tariffs, meaning that people started selling their bonds in the market. They were so disquieted by what was happening that they realized they couldn't be in stocks. The stock market was about to tank. And they realized they couldn't shift their money over to bonds because inflation was going to kick in, which meant that the bonds would be worthless as inflation increased. So bonds were not a safe haven. And so people started selling their bonds off.
The bond yields spiked yesterday morning. All the way up to the 30-year bond yield spiked all the way up to 5%, meaning that no one was buying bonds. Everybody was selling bonds at a particular time. And so the president of the United States did what he was supposed to do. And he saw reality and he changed his mind. That is the thing that actually happened. And naturally, the stocks rallied.
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