100 Days of Trump (Part 2)… What Has He Done to the US Economy?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This is a special Americast mini series, looking at five ways Donald Trump has changed America in his first 100 days back, as President of the United States.
In this second episode, Matt Chorley joins Justin and Sarah to discuss how the American economy has fared during Trump’s 100 days in office. What have been the impacts of tariffs on U.S. businesses, under his plan to put ‘America First’? Are we witnessing the economic liberation of America? Or this is a tipping point for the US and global markets?
HOSTS: • Matt Chorley, Radio 5 Live presenter • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America Editor
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, this is a special episode of AmeriCast, our mini-series, looking at five ways that Donald Trump has changed America and the world in the last hundred days since he returned to the White House. |
| 0:18.0 | And today, we're talking about a monumental change, sparked entirely |
| 0:21.7 | by Donald Trump, with huge lasting consequences for America and the global economy. |
| 0:29.8 | Ameriast. Ameriast from BBC News. April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day |
| 0:41.0 | America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. |
| 0:49.6 | Going to make it wealthy, good and wealthy. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm Matt Cholly in the Americast studio in London. |
| 1:00.0 | And Justin Webb, also in the worldwide headquarters of AmeriCast, as we call it, Matt, in London. |
| 1:05.3 | And I'm Sarah Smith in our BBC Bureau in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:09.4 | So, inevitably, we've got to talk about the economy. |
| 1:11.6 | We'll end up talking about tariffs. |
| 1:12.9 | But we've talked an awful lot about the impact of it around the world. |
| 1:15.9 | But let's look at what is actually happening in the US. |
| 1:19.9 | Let's hear from a real American. |
| 1:21.5 | This is Sarah Wells, who runs a small business in Virginia, making bags. |
| 1:26.5 | I was actually bringing over some goods from China, and in the |
| 1:29.3 | midst of shipping those over here, the first 20% tariff hit, and I had to come up with the cash for |
| 1:34.2 | that. I had to put up just over $15,000 to get my goods out of the port that I hadn't expected |
| 1:40.0 | to have. At this point, it might as well be a thousand percent. It's just insurmountable for small |
| 1:44.8 | businesses. Even if the tariffs went away, say, in two weeks or six months, I'm going to have a |
| 1:49.7 | huge gap in my inventory. I won't have product to sell and I'll start losing sales. So all of this |
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