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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Ambassador Rahm Emanuel Discusses Trump’s Failing Trade War

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.956.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump losing all leverage in the trade war against China and other Asian countries as they make him pay at the worst time for him and Meiselas interviews former US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel about the geopolitical developments and its impact on the United States. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7

Japan falling apart, turmoil there you have China trying to assert strength in the region.

0:38.8

You've got Donald Trump rolling out of bed and posting a social media, whatever, rant,

0:46.4

saying that he's going to impose more tariffs on China right now.

0:50.7

The problem, the guy just wakes up out of bed, rolls over, and just writes things like

0:54.7

some very strange things are happening in China.

0:58.1

They are becoming very hostile.

1:00.5

You think you're just learning that, Donald?

1:02.5

They're becoming very hostile and sending letters to country throughout the world that they

1:07.4

want to impose export controls on each and every element of production having to do

1:15.2

with rare earths and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it's not manufactured

1:19.9

in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. Essentially, it would clog the markets and make

1:26.1

life difficult for virtually every country

1:28.5

in the world, especially for China. I'm not going to read the whole thing because he goes on and on and on,

1:33.0

but then he basically says that we are going to think about a massive increase of tariffs on

1:38.9

Chinese products coming into the United States. And there are many other countermeasures we're going to be taking.

1:44.5

It's like he learns these things happening for the very first time,

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