The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
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Hey, everybody, it's the Charlie Kirk Show. What is a tariff? We explain how President Trump is fixing 30 years of failure. Then Eric Bolling joins us to give us economic news and analysis. Do not let your hearts be troubled. Stay focused on the big picture, the macro picture. Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. What is a tariff? We are hearing this word thrown around a lot. Donald Trump is starting a trade war is what we are being told. We are saying that it is making the economy go into a recession.
But what exactly is a tariff? A tariff is a duty. It's a tax in some sense imposed by, of course, a government on importing or exporting of goods. It is used as a form of negotiation many times. but as a way to try and bring both parties to the table. Now, we have tried unfettered free trade over the last 30 or 40 years. On paper, free trade with every country looks and sounds good. It looks and sounds good when we are able to say, you know what, there's no duties, there's no tariffs, there's no taxes. However, America has been largely too focused on the importation of goods into America not being tariffed. And far too often, we don't even ask the question, what about the products we make in our country that we want to import to other countries?
So the game that was constituted, the deal that was structured, was the following. It was that we are going to become... a purchaser of other countries' goods, and we will become a service economy. Why do we need to go make stuff with our hands? We're better than that. We're just going to go close down all the factories in Allentown. We're going to go close down the factories in Marshallton, Iowa. We don't need to be making stuff. We're more elevated than that. We will have an information economy. And we all know how that works. Those very decisions that were made by the American corporate ruling class led to the rise and the ascension of Donald Trump. It led to the explosion of the MAGA movement. Now, we are in a three-dimensional trade war right now. President Trump is forcing the issue.
President Trump very well could have avoided this. The American people voted for tariffs, they voted for stricter trade measures, and he very well could have avoided this. And understand that the menace of the Chinese Communist Party was made possible because of our overindulgence in internationalist trade policies. Americans... President Trump had the Irish Prime Minister.
Now, I'm going to butcher the pronunciation. There's actually a very interesting title to the Irish prime minister. Blake can put the name in the chat. It's like Tegasach or something is the actual term for the prime minister of Ireland. I learned that. I didn't know that. But this is President Trump going back and forth with the Irish leader. Thank you. The Tayosich. TISEC, whatever. President Trump says that he will impose additional tariffs on the EU to respond to their retaliatory tariffs. The reporter then responds and says, well, what will be the retaliation? Listen carefully. This is President Trump in the Oval Office going back and forth with this reporter saying this. I don't blame Ireland for what they have done.
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