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I'm joined by Senator Cory Booker. Senator, I want to get your reaction to the chaos that Donald Trump is causing in the markets, the chaos that he's plunging our economy into. What do you make of it all, Senator?
Look, it was bad, really bad for Americans before these tariffs. Inflation was up. Costs of living was up. Consumer confidence was down. We saw all of these things that were already betraying what his promises were to a lot of people that put their faith in him that he would make their cost of living better.
But now it is a true just taking a battle axe to the economic well-being of Americans and, frankly, having an effect that's going across the globe. And so let's just start with the reality is that this is going to drive prices even higher. for Americans, thousands of dollars to the average American's annual cost of living.
For people that have 401 accounts, their retirement security, they've lost thousands and thousands. I've been hearing from people who had helped to retire this year after working for 25, 30, 35 years, but now don't think they have the money because he's taken $6 trillion overall out of the markets.
And then just to see all these big economic indicators start to project a recession, it just shows that this man, first of all, knows nothing.
Even his right-wing supporters, right-leaning think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute have said even the justification that he's making, the data that he's relying on is flawed and convoluted and not based in any kind of strategy or science or economics.
So this just shows exactly what we were saying about Donald Trump before he got in here, what his own former chief of staff was saying, what his own former secretary of defense was saying. All these people said that he was a danger to the national security, a danger to our economy, a danger and a real risk of the continuance of our country.
You look at his conduct. Do you think, I mean, it's beyond just kind of a reckless to intentional and malicious, almost as part of the – I've spoken to some of your Democratic colleagues in the Senate, and Senator Murphy was saying, you know, I think it's intentional. He goes, I think it's part of the authoritarian playbook.
where, you know, by destroying the economy, by putting all these tariffs on, you then have to force businesses and other countries to come to you to beg, please, can I have this? Can you make a deal with me? Do you think it's that or do you think it's a combination? What do you just make of it all? It just seems so obviously reckless.
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