The President's Daily Brief
PDB Special Bulletin: Mike Baker Speaks with Mike Slater About Trump's 'America First' Economics
02 Feb 2025
President Trump has made it clear America must come first in the global trade economy. What does that mean for competition with China and Russia? Mike Slater discusses with Mike Baker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hey, Mike Baker here. Recently, I sat down with the esteemed Mike Slater for a special program called the Global Trade War, part of his Politics by Faith podcast. We discussed the Trump administration's decision to freeze foreign aid and what that move means for America's global influence.
We also got into Trump's America First trade policy, how it shapes competition with China and Russia, and what it means for the U.S. on the world stage. I wanted to share that discussion with you here. To check out the full special, well, head over to Mike Slater's Politics by Faith podcast feed and listen to the global trade war. Now, here's our discussion.
America is back and open for business. One thing we're going to be demanding is we're going to be demanding respect from other nations. We just want to be treated fairly with other nations because there's hardly a nation in the world, and I blame this on us, and I blame it on politicians that...
For some reason, probably mostly it's stupidity, but you could also say other reasons, but mostly stupidity. They've allowed other nations to take advantage of the U.S., and we can't allow that to happen anymore.
I was to the World Economic Forum. Not enough has been said about the background that Trump uses there. Remember Biden had this background. He made like a made-up set. It was like a set of like a low, like a Bush League Oval Office or something. It was like a pathetic. That's an awesome background for Trump to be speaking the truth to the world. And Mike Baker's here.
The great Mike Baker, host of the President's Daily Brief. Mike, great to talk to you, brother. My first question is- Hey, thank you, man. Before we get started, thank you for stepping in. uh when i was overseas for the president's daily brief it really appreciate that and got nothing but great feedback and everybody loved you almost loved you too much so
No, I didn't want to put my best foot forward, Mike. You know what I mean? I will say the only problem is you left the studio kind of cluttered with empty beer cans and empty bourbon bottles. But other than that, it was great experience.
Listen, that's a small tax that you have to pay. No big deal, right? I got to leave some mark behind, right? Thank you, brother. Thanks for letting me do it. How important is our foreign aid to other countries? And I guess the point of that question is how much leverage do we really have over other countries?
Yeah, you know what? It's really horses for courses, right? By that, I mean, it depends on the country. It depends on the nature of the aid. It depends on the moment, right? Is it wartime aid? Is it humanitarian aid in a crisis? Or is it just something that's always been there and the establishment, you know, once something's in place, never changes it, right?
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