first they were on we will tariff and
tax foreign countries to enrich our
citizens 25% on Mexico and Canada then
they were off president Trump’s tariffs
against Canada will now be put on hold
then while the first set of tariffs were
paused Trump threatens a whole new
second set of tariffs and then threatens
a third set of tariffs reciprocal
tariffs stacked on top but eventually he
Loops back to the first original tariffs
promising they’re definitely coming on
the tariffs is there any room left for
Canada and Mexico to make a deal before
midnight and should we expect those
Chinese tariffs the extra 10% to take no
room left for Mexico or for Canada no
the tariffs uh you know they’re all set
they go into effect tomorrow and then
those tariffs became real until they
weren’t anymore because they were
partially delayed we spoke with the big
three auto dealers we are going to give
a one-month exemption on any Autos
coming through usmca and then a big
chunk of what was left of the tariffs
was paused again here’s how Trump
Justified it and I spoke to the
president of Mexico wonderful woman
today and uh we helped them out with the
problem they were
having having to do with the tariffs I
helped them out with a problem they were
having as in the problem he inflicted
and then paused and then reinli and then
paused are these the actions of a man
who knows what he’s doing doing maybe
not but maybe there are two main schools
of thought when it comes to how Donald
Trump is managing the world’s largest
economy either the pandemonium is
planned yeah I I think chaos is is a big
part of Trump’s strategy there’s a term
that applies to what the Trump
Administration is doing weaponized
uncertainty or another possibility is
Trump just likes the attention just
likes the drama I don’t think there’s a
genuine economic strategy behind it
let’s start with
that the argument that Trump has no
coherent plan is supported by the fact
that he sometimes has no consistent
point of view take tariffs for example
Canada’s a very bad abuser also vast
numbers of people to come in and
Fentanyl to government legally Trump has
Justified tariffs by branding the influx
of fenil from Canada and Mexico me a
national
emergency but is that really the
motivation or is it about boosting
American manufacturing we don’t need
trees from Canada we don’t need cars
from Canada we don’t need uh energy from
Canada we don’t need anything from
Canada sometimes it seems to be about
the principle subsidizing Canada to the
tune of over a hundred billion dollar a
year by the tune of about $200 billion a
year and other times it seems to be more
about power I’d like to see Canada
become our 51st state uh he feels
strongly that it would be very
beneficial for the Canadian people to be
the 51st state of the United States they
wouldn’t pay be paying for these tariffs
and what about the occasional lack of a
unified message Trump’s own team
sometimes seems left in the dark like
whatever Trump was planning if he was
planning any of it was never actually
discussed out in the open take what
Trump’s Commerce Secretary said earlier
this week on Fox news about tariffs