The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2177 - TRUMP U-TURN WIN: Tariff War Paused, China Isolated!
Thu, 10 Apr 2025
President Trump does the right thing by pausing his tariff war on America’s allies; massive tariffs against China remain on the books; and we examine all the fallout for the future. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE Ep.2177 - - - Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings - - - DailyWire+: We’re leading the charge again and launching a full-scale push for justice. Go to https://PardonDerek.com right now and sign the petition. Now is the time to join the fight. Watch the hit movies, documentaries, and series reshaping our culture. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today. Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today's Sponsors: Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that searches the internet to deliver fast, unbiased, high-quality answers, with sources and in-line citations. Ask Perplexity anything here: https://pplx.ai/benshapiro ExpressVPN - Go to https://expressvpn.com/ben and find out how you can get 4 months of ExpressVPN free! ARMRA - Go to https://tryarmra.com/SHAPIRO or enter SHAPIRO at checkout to get 15% off your first order. ZipRecruiter - Try ZipIntro FOR FREE: https://ZipRecruiter.com/DAILYWIRE NetSuite - Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning for free at https://NetSuite.com/SHAPIRO - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB
Chapter 1: Why did Trump pause the tariff war?
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So yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon, the president of the United States made a U-turn on his tariff policy. He put out a statement on Truth Social that read, "'Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world's markets, I am hereby raising the tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125% effective immediately.'"
At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the United States and other countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 countries have called representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the U.S.
Trade Representative, to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to trade, trade barriers, tariffs, currency manipulation, and non-monetary tariffs,
and that these countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90-day pause and a substantially lowered reciprocal tariff during this period of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So that is, in fact, a U-turn for the president of the United States, who was suggesting just a couple of days earlier that there would be no postponement. That was suggested by pretty much everybody in the president's cabinet, who said over and over and over again, this is the right thing to do. The president did the right thing here. He reversed.
what was going to be a meltdown moment for the global markets. And the question is why? What made him reverse everything? And the answer is pretty obvious. Basically, the entire global economic system was shouting at him that he needed to reverse this tariff system that he was about to put into place.
Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan appeared on Fox Business specifically to message to the president because the president watches Fox News. Jamie Dimon has essentially admitted as much. Here he was Wednesday morning explaining that a tariff war would bring a almost certain recession.
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Chapter 2: What were the reactions to Trump's tariff U-turn?
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Canada's Mark Carney, the prime minister who replaced Justin Trudeau, he says that this is a welcome reprieve. He put out a tweet, quote, this pause on reciprocal tariffs announced by President Trump is a welcome reprieve for the global economy.
As President Trump and I have agreed, the US president and Canadian prime minister will commence negotiations on a new economic and security relationship immediately following the federal election. As part of today's announcement, the president has signaled that the US will engage in bilateral negotiations with a number of other countries.
This will likely result in a fundamental restructuring of the global trading system. In that context, Canada must also continue to deepen its relationships with trading partners that share our values, including the free and open exchange of goods, services, and ideas.
This election is importantly about who can best fight for Canadian families, workers, and businessmen at the negotiating tables with the United States and other potential partner countries. So that is Canada looking for an off-ramp. The tariffs on China remain, and that is going to be the big sort of push down on the economy in the near future.
Now, that may be pain that is worthy of going through. I've been an advocate of tariffing the living hell out of China for as long as I can remember. I've said for years, I'm not even sure it was good policy in the 1970s for Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon to open China.
Maybe we should have just let them collapse from within instead of ushering them into the global trading system with the bizarre hope that this was somehow going to moderate their politics. Instead, they've retained all of their authoritarianism, but they've also gained enormous amounts of global economic power.
With that said, the shock and awe of the tariffs that President Trump is putting on, those will have ramifications. There's no question.
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Chapter 3: How did the market respond to the tariff pause?
And look, I don't have any scientific experience, even though I look like a cross between a scientist and the profoundly sick mice he's studying, but... You probably shouldn't draw broad conclusions off a sample size of one. Those 12 studies generally find that medically transitioning does impact trans women's performance, but disagree on how or by how much. That researcher you saw earlier.
Okay, pause it there. This is hilarious. Again, this is hilarious. He's laying out a bunch of studies. that don't support his own position. But then he's dismissing the studies because the sample size is too small. So he has literally cited zero evidence for his proposition so far. And somehow he's going to magic that into the idea that men playing against women is somehow fair.
actually published the only longitudinal study to date of multiple athletes studying the impact of transitioning on eight long-distance runners. She found after at least a year on hormone therapy, their race times turned out to be more athletically similar to those of cisgender women than cisgender men, but she herself will tell you the study was limited and its conclusions were nuanced.
Here she is explaining what we do and don't know at this point.
It is undoubtedly true that trans women will maintain advantages in some sports. Probably not so much in endurance sports, but in size and strength sports. Trans women will also have some physiological disadvantages.
Our larger frames are now being powered by reduced muscle mass and reduced aerobic capacity, and that can lead to disadvantages in terms like quickness, recovery, endurance, things that maybe aren't quite as obvious as being bigger and stronger.
Right. Bigger and stronger bodies are not automatically advantaged in every scenario. I mean, put The Rock in a pure bar class and see what happens. I mean, we know what would happen. He'd take a video of himself, caption it, mad respect to these mamas. Everyone go see Moana 2.
Okay, pause it for a second. I just got to say that he has still provided no evidence to the proposition that it's fair for men to play with the ladies. We should point out that the expert he is citing is a former man, meaning a man, There's a person named Joanna Harper. Joanna Harper transitioned to female in 2004, 2005. Joanna Harper is in his 60s.
And he cites his proudest athletic achievement as running a 223 marathon as a young man. And that's the person who's being cited as the unbiased source on trans athletes in opposite sex sports. And does this go anywhere? I mean, the answer is it goes nowhere. The answer is it goes nowhere.
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