The Chuck ToddCast
Chuck’s Commentary - Trump Is Risking A WAR With His Tariff Threats + Trump Dumps Senator Bill Cassidy
19 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: Could Trump's tariffs accidentally lead the U.S. into a war?
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Chapter 3: How did the Smoot-Hawley tariffs impact global relations?
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's economic bullying on NATO?
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Chapter 5: How might Trump's actions affect the U.S. dollar's reserve status?
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Chapter 6: What are the potential consequences of Trump's isolationist policies?
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Chapter 7: Why is Trump's endorsement politics a concern for the GOP?
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I'm going to the big national title game, Miami, Indiana. I have to tell you, I've got a mixed bag about this entire podcast because I couldn't be more excited about this game. And I couldn't be more nervous about the state of the world, which I'm going to get to you in a minute. I don't want it to come across like hyperbole. I really mean it.
I'm like, you know, I am sadly too good at compartmentalizing.
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So I have certainly compartmentalized. But yes, I am. Down here for Miami, just got down here, flew from D.C. Apparently, D.C. was the connecting city for all my friends from Indianapolis who were changing planes. If you didn't get your nonstop from Indianapolis to Miami. You changed planes in D.C. Apparently, apparently there we have quite a few nonstops. There are about five or six of them.
So there I see where we're sometimes D.C. National is treated as a sort of quasi hub from some from some cities. So, yes, there were a ton of Indiana fans, a couple of Miami fans on on the plane. But it's been great being down here. And the fact that. It's nice to see I have yet to pass an electronic construction sign, right, that hasn't said go Canes. So I'm glad to see that.
It's a little – look, I'm going to have more to say about this game at the end. I actually got something to say about the transfer portal and the state of college football because Miami, once again, is stirring the pot, if you will, on that. Good, bad, and indifferent on there. But let's be honest. College football is the least of our concerns, unfortunately, for the world right now.
I'm obsessed with the next 24 hours, don't get me wrong, on college football. But we're in a serious situation here. We are in a moment that I don't know if we are all fully comprehending the moment that we're in. But... I'm going to put this as a question because I know it's going to sound, I am trying really hard not to overreact here, but here's the question that we need to be contemplating.
Could Donald Trump's use of tariffs, not just as economic policy, but as a negotiating and coercive tool, which is what he's doing to Europe right now, increase the likelihood of America stumbling in to a war? He has started up All sorts of issues, whether it's on our own border with Canada, where he's essentially invited China into Canada. This is all Donald Trump's fault.
Canada running into the arms of China. The threats to Europe, all of our allies right now having to do where he wants to buy Greenland and he doesn't want Europe to stand in the way. And he's already... setting up tariffs and Europe's actually thinking about using a tool that was meant because they feared the rise of China. They weren't gonna fear their friend, America, but here we are.
And I know this may come across as a bit dramatic. And part of it is we've not, most of us haven't been alive. The last time bad American economic policy drove the world to war. And that's just a historical fact, which is why I think it's time to start warning that Donald Trump could get us to war because at this point,
Look, I believe there's always a line he crosses for somebody at any given moment where he gets another opponent even inside his own Republican Party. We have seen this. This has been true ever since he came down that escalator. He will do something to chase somebody away, chase people out of the Republican Party. It'll be a line too far.
Remember, Liz Cheney was with him all the way until January 6th. And then she was out. Everybody has their lines. Starting destroying NATO and creating an economic war with Western Europe is going to be one of those moments. The question is how many Senate Republicans and how many House Republicans are going to put the country and the globe ahead of loyalty to Donald John Trump.
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