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Chapter 1: How are Trump's policies affecting red states?
MAGA Republican leaders in red states are starting to get more vocal about how Donald Trump's policies are hurting their states. Yep, Trump's policies are not only hurting blue states, they're also hurting red states where former President Biden's policies were actually contributing a lot to the economies of these red states.
And we're hearing from some MAGA Republican leaders who you might find somewhat unexpected. For example, MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, MAGA Republican Senator Tillis. Let's hear what they have to say. Let's play it.
Almost every industry in Kentucky has come to me and said it will hurt our industry and push up prices of homes, cars.
And so I want to continue to argue against tariffs. Should you back off of it if it starts to hurt the constituents? When we start losing, you back off. There's such a thing as a strategic retreat. At the end of the day, I think we have more leverage than any other nation, but we've got to be smart and we don't have all the leverage.
Next up, I want to show you MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy of Louisiana saying, look, Trump promised to bring down prices and what he's doing with these tariffs, it seems to be causing inflation.
Here, play this clip. How do you read it, Senator Kennedy? You happy with it? Does it need improvement and where?
I think President Trump on economics and otherwise is doing very well. But you remember the old saying, the danger of rising high is that the air gets thin. I'm worried about the tariffs. I'm not saying that tariffs are going to cause inflation. President Trump did them in his first term, and they didn't. I'm saying that we just don't know. We're in very obscure territory.
We're in uncharted waters. I think if the tariffs do start to cause inflation, I think the president will... We'll back away from them. And I'm not saying that I don't trust President Trump. But, you know, there's another saying, you know, trust in God, but tie up your camel. You know, I mean, if this stuff, if this starts causing inflation. we're going to have to recalibrate.
Because I'm telling you, I'm not saying the border isn't important, and Ukraine and the Middle East and culture wars and the Academy Awards and the Super Bowl, all those things are important. But the single most important thing, the things that moms and dads worry about when they lie down to sleep at night and can't, and the thing they expect the president to fix is high prices. And we can do it.
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Chapter 2: What are Republican leaders saying about tariffs?
The CEO, Lawson Whiting, calls Canada's move a disproportionate response to levies imposed by the Trump administration. Seriously, Jack Daniels, you're whining about Canada responding to the fact that Donald Trump essentially declared war on their country. Canada didn't decide to impose tariffs. Donald Trump and his regime decided to impose those tariffs.
Canada didn't start talking about annexation. Donald Trump talks about making Canada the 51st state, calling their prime minister a governor, consistently threatening Canada over and over again. That's why Canada responded the way it did. And you're lucky Canada is not responding even stronger than it is, quite frankly.
And millions of Americans support what Canada is doing, including me right now, because we are disgusted by what the Trump regime is doing. By the way, take a look at some of these Wall Street bankers. who were very supportive of Donald Trump, were now seeing headlines like this. The recession trade is back on Wall Street.
Bank stocks and the Russell 2000 have slumped on growth concerns, while treasuries and gold have rallied. Wall Street is having another growth scare. Investors entered 2025 optimistic that an already strong U.S. economy can get an extra boost from an administration pushing market-friendly tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks instead.
Trade tension and signs of slowing growth have driven major indexes lower in recent weeks. It goes on to say the declines accelerated this week as Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports. They continue Thursday, even after the White House paused tariffs on a large portion of those imports until April 2nd, with investors still uneasy about the broad direction of U.S. trade policy.
You think? Since February, losses in the markets have been particularly acute in sectors that investors view as sensitive to a slowdown, such as banks and smaller companies. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite has fallen around 10%.
from its recent peak oil prices have slipped havens including gold and u.s treasuries meanwhile have rallied quote i think a lot of people were just assuming the tariffs were just a bluff and now there's more uncertainty around that said keith lerner co-chief investment officer at truest advisory services the move show investors struggling to gauge of the conditions
underpinning two straight years of near 25% stock gains have deteriorated significantly. Let me answer the question. The answer is yes. And by the way, the International Chamber of Commerce, a right-leaning think tank usually, Tariff war risks sinking the world into new Great Depression.
The ICC, the Chamber of Commerce, warns the world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. You think maybe if they're doing the exact same things, that's what's causing it? But look, folks, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, he's got a plan and his plan is just to say that Donald Trump is doing it hard. He's hitting them hard. You got to love how hard he does it.
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