LEMON DROP | The Don Lemon & Michael Cohen Report
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Can I start?
What went wrong with the touted US-UK tariff 'deal' and why isn't it a real win?
We're going to talk about tariffs because I was so frustrated, Michael. I don't know what is going on with the media when I started watching, when I started to dial back in a little bit. And they started saying, there is a tariff deal. And I was looking at it. I'm like, there is no deal. This is not a deal.
Can we break it down a little bit? First, let's start with that bullshit press conference with the UK, with Keir Starmer. And I'm sitting there and I'm saying to myself, let me be very clear. Out of the alleged 200 countries, and I think that there's only like 190, but out of the countries that the United States currently trades with, one of the few in the entire world that we have a trade surplus with, we make more money off them than they make off of us. happens to be the UK. So the question that I would like to ask is, why would you beat down on somebody who you're making money on? Because if you listen to Trump and his administration, whether it's Besant or Lutnik or the other clowns, and they sit there and they say, they've been ripping us off.
We've been ripped off like nobody's ever seen before. No one's ever seen. We've been ripped off. We're technically on that same belief. We're ripping off the UK. And so all of a sudden, here they come. This is the first announcement. This is the major bigly announcement that they want to put out there. I don't know who the hell is running the joint there. But whatever it is, and whoever's advising Trump, they're doing a real shit job. They're making him look foolish.
Not only making it... He doesn't need any help with that, of course. We both know that. But they're not helping in that department. When I heard Scott dissent, I think I was driving to the airport on Sunday and I heard him saying, you know, I'll leave the details for Monday morning and we'll announce it. And I said to... They don't have a deal. They're just going to extend this. And it's actually worse. They're worse off now than before even, you know, before he even put the tariffs on. They're worse than before the wherever they were in the beginning, wherever China and the U.S. was and were in the beginning. They're worse off now because he has totally fucked up the economy. Right. He's screwed over the stock market.
He screwed over Americans. He used Americans as collateral. He screwed over people's 401ks and their retirement, and prices are going up. And then now, I don't understand why is the media playing this as a win, and why do they go along with everything he has to say? And I think you'll agree that he... He made it worse. He took a bad situation, if you want to say what China is doing to us and whatever the trade is. And he made it worse, Michael. Am I wrong? By the way, smash those hearts, right?
Yeah, please. Smash those hearts. And the box next to it with the arrow up, share this with your friends so that the algorithm kicks in. That's that's helpful, by the way, because the goal is to grow this community and all of the communities that are pro democracy so that we can ensure a massive blue wave in 2016, 2026. You know, in my sub stack that I wrote about this morning. where I talk about the infomercial presidency now hits Riyadh. Let me be clear, and you've heard me say it, Don, I used to say it on your show, and I've said it on to many journalists in the past. In 2015, Trump used to say when we were first entering into the campaign cycle that this is going to be the greatest infomercial in the history of U.S.
politics. Well, he's not lying because that's what's going on right now. This is one gigantic infomercial within which to do what? To bring more branding deals and more benefit to Trump and to his company. That's all that's going on right now. You're so right when you say that he made it better and now he's trying to bring it back. You know what they call that in psychology? That's Munchausen by proxy. You meant he made it worse. Yes, he made it worse to try to make it better, which is exactly like Munchausen by proxy. Munchausen by proxy is where, for example, you make your kids sick so in that way you could save them and then you become the hero.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:01
2
What went wrong with the touted US-UK tariff 'deal' and why isn't it a real win?
0:01–8:35
3
How have Trump's tariffs impacted the US economy and voters' wallets?
8:35–17:31
4
Why do the hosts call Trump's approach 'Munchausen by proxy' in trade policy?
17:31–27:49
5
Who pays for tariffs and why do consumers ultimately bear the cost?
27:49–29:32
6
What are the legal and security concerns about Qatar gifting a $400M plane to Trump?
29:32–34:27
Speakers
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