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#553: Trump Tariffs Take Effect, GOP Wins Key House Special Elections, and Democrat Approval Plummets

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4.4519 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Storm and Matt discuss President Trump's tariffs taking effect and the stock market reaction. They also talk about Republicans winning key House special elections in Florida, Democrat approval plummeting, and much more.

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0:00.0

What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Trigger. This is Triggered up from the 553 here on Thursday, April 3rd. Yesterday, this April 2nd was Liberation Day in the United States. President Trump signing an executive order, levying a slew of tariffs on countries that have been for a very long time,

0:27.5

what did he say, looting, pillaging, and raping.

0:31.6

That was my favorite line of the whole thing.

0:34.3

If somebody's doing the raping, how can he say such a thing?

0:37.3

So, of course, everyone's freaking the f*** out today.

0:41.8

Especially the markets.

0:43.4

Well, first off...

0:45.3

We'll get to that in a second.

0:46.5

First off, these other countries can very easily drop their tariffs and we will do the same.

0:52.3

Well, that's the thing. It's like, wait.

1:00.6

The angle that everyone's missing is, why is it okay for, like, Belgium to slap an 87%?

1:04.4

I think it was 87% tariff on our shit, but we can't do the same.

1:04.9

Yeah.

1:10.2

Actually, I mean, I mean, not in terms of proportion, I think it's only like 15% or something like that.

1:16.7

So what, what, why can't we, why do we have to be, you know, sucked on?

1:20.9

No, it's, we're the ones that are just always getting f***ed over and ripped off by these countries.

1:25.3

And finally, President Trump is standing up for Americans and American workers.

1:28.5

And yeah, the market's freaking out.

1:32.7

First off, the market was over-fitting inflated as it was.

1:35.4

It was long overdue for a major correction.

1:35.7

Yeah.

1:36.0

Okay?

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