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The Chris Plante Show

5-14-25 Hour 1 - Trump turns heads with Saudi Speech

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington

News, Government, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Guest Host Mike Opelka talks about Trump in the mideast, RFK in Rock Creek and more! For more coverage on the issues that matter to you, download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday  To join the conversation, check us out on X @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Before the president did what he did, China's tariffs on the United States were a little over

0:10.0

20 percent on average.

0:11.9

Now they're 10.

0:13.4

Unless you're the reason that your parents drank, you see that it was a big victory,

0:18.1

not just for President Trump, but for America.

0:20.8

Now I've listened all day to some of my Democratic colleagues say that we didn't get anything

0:26.1

for it. You know, if you believe that, I'm not saying you're the dumbest person in the world,

0:31.2

but you better hope the dumbest person in the world doesn't die.

0:36.9

Senator John Kennedy sticks the landing pretty much every time.

0:42.3

He is absolutely a national treasure.

0:47.1

And I love it that his name is Senator John F. Kennedy because it drives the Democrats crazy. It's Michael Pelkin

0:56.4

for my friend Chris Plant here for a couple of days. Hello, how are you? Thanks for being here

1:03.8

on this Wednesday. I hope you survived the craziness of the weather. It was just nuts.

1:12.8

And apparently sweeping across the country in different waves of nuts, I know here in

1:18.2

D.C. where the show is based, it's been wild.

1:21.5

I want to address something that Senator Kennedy was talking about, and that is the tariffs and the reaction from

1:30.0

Democrats to the tariffs, and now the results.

1:34.7

Because granted, it's just been over a month since the Tariff Liberation Day, since the

1:41.3

Rose Garden event where the president held up the chart and talked about the

1:45.4

lack of fairness in trade with our country and several other nations around the world, dozens,

1:52.0

if you will.

1:54.1

And now that we're, I think we're on the precipice of a major trade deal with basically the whole world, but individually.

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