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The Michael Steele Podcast

A Moment of Clarity: Americans Will Pay the Price for Trump's Tariffs Game

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez discuss Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Visit to Mar-a-Lago.

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0:00.0

And now for a moment of clarity.

0:06.0

Well, you and I were enjoying our Turkey.

0:09.2

Prime Minister of Canada was making his way down to Florida.

0:12.2

You know, he was, and I get it.

0:14.6

I get what Tim Ryan was saying about, yeah, you got to go do the thing.

0:19.9

I just would have done it from Canada.

0:22.4

You know, look, I think...

0:23.5

Yeah, Shinebaum took her call from Mexico.

0:25.7

Exactly. I mean, it's like, you know, I think this playing into Donald Trump's ego is part of the problem.

0:32.2

And, you know, bullies bully.

0:34.7

And we know he's going to do whatever he's going to do you just got to draw the line with him

0:39.6

but you know Canada's got to figure out for itself and he figured to be smart to go down to Florida and

0:44.7

spend a little time and hopefully get Donald Trump not to do the thing he's going to do anyway well there was

0:49.4

I was reading through sort of for does read out of how this all went. And he said something that I

0:56.0

wanted your take on, which is one of the things that is really important to understand is that

0:59.6

when Donald Trump makes statements like that, he plans on carrying them out.

1:05.4

Okay. So what's the point? Here's the thing, because there's almost a like, go ahead, 25% tariffs on these goods during, in the aftermath of an election, where people were saying the price of goods, the cost of living is my motivation for coming out to vote.

1:24.0

So my question to Trudeau is what did you put on the table to tell

1:28.6

how many needs to back off a stupid? And then what, what do? Maybe just a calculator. Maybe like,

1:34.4

let me just explain to you. For you. What that's going to cost you over here. It's going to see

1:39.4

a 30% increase on the cost of goods. The reality, though, to your point about where the voters are, they, you know, and the

1:47.6

Tim said this as well, you know, someone who understands their pain and their problem,

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