April 9, 2025: 'This is not Trump 45'
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by BP. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello, good morning. This is Playbooks Managing Editor and author Jack Blanchard. It is Wednesday, |
| 0:11.7 | April the 9th, although you wouldn't know it if you set foot outside in Washington, D.C., |
| 0:16.2 | where it is absolutely freezing for reasons I cannot fathom. But here we are. And what's driving the day |
| 0:22.3 | today is, of course, those massive Trump tariffs that have now taken effect this morning. As of |
| 0:29.0 | midnight, we have 104% tariffs on all those cheap consumer goods that America has been importing |
| 0:35.8 | from China. 46% tariffs on all those cheap clothing |
| 0:39.3 | that's been made in Vietnam, 24% tariffs on electronics from Japan, and on and on it goes. |
| 0:45.3 | He went ahead and did it, and we will see the latest market reaction to that when they |
| 0:50.2 | opened at 9.30 a.m. It's clearly the only topic we've been talking about all week. It's |
| 0:55.2 | clearly the only topic we're going to be talking about today as well. I'm here with me to talk about it. I'm delighted to say his Politico's White House bureau chief. Once again, Dasha Burns, Dasha, good morning. I hope you've been keeping warm. They told me it was a warm country I was moving to |
| 0:50.4 | but it appears not. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah, |
| 0:52.0 | this is, |
| 0:52.3 | this is not okay. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm from San Diego |
| 0:54.0 | and like this is the time |
| 0:55.2 | a year where been keeping warm. They told me it was a warm country I was moving to, but it appears not. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, this is not okay. I'm from San Diego and like this is the time of year where my family who's there spending time on the beach. |
| 1:17.8 | The question is. Indeed. But here we are. He went ahead and did it. We are a week out from |
| 1:23.0 | Liberation Day. We're all now officially liberated. We heard from Donald Trump last night that he has not |
| 1:29.5 | finished, that we're going to see pharmaceuticals are going to be the next sector that gets |
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