Are The Trump Tariffs Real? Or A Negotiation Tactic? (with Big Jim and J.D. Durkin)

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Justin Robert Young

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4.6 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

After several days of panic in the markets, the Dow Jones Industrial average is rebounding. Why? It seems as if the Liberation Day tariffs may be leading to new trade deals.

The market swoon and lack of clarity has put the Trump administration in the wilderness. Is the goal to really bring all trade deficits to zero? Do we want our children screwing together iPhones as a career? Or is this just a set up for Trump to schedule a month long rose garden signing ceremony where world leaders line up single file to welcome American exports?

Today, we talk to our logistics expert Big Jim and check in with J.D. Durkin to figure out whether Trump’s tariffs mark a shift toward isolation, or just a high-stakes negotiating move. Is this a reset of global trade, or just a pause before the next deal? We’re on the clock, because by the time this drops, the whole game might have changed.

Chapters

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:44 - Interview with Big Jim

00:43:02 - Update

00:45:09 - Supreme Court Decision Over Alien Enemies Act

00:48:30 - June 14th Military Parade

00:49:54 - House Democrat Seat Targets

00:52:34 - Interview with J.D. Durkin

01:35:18 - Wrap-up

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0:00.0	On this edition of the program, panic!
0:07.6	We talked to a logistics expert to get the real scoop on tariffs.
0:12.7	We talked to our friend J.D. Durkin to hear what the street is saying.
0:19.3	Which way, Trump? A golden age of global trade or an isolationist
0:26.0	tariff future, we try to get to the bottom of it.
0:30.6	Hopefully this comes out before he decides.
0:34.0	It's all coming up.
0:37.7	The following is brought to you by Just Another Pilot.
0:44.8	Politics, Politics, Politics, Politics. Hello and welcome, to the politics program for April 9th,
1:08.2	2025-year-old pal Justin Robert Young joining you.
1:11.0	This is going to be out a little earlier on Tuesday, the 8th,
1:15.1	simply because I don't think the information that we are going to give you on this podcast
1:19.0	is going to keep all that long.
1:21.6	Things are moving fast, and yet they are moving mysteriously. As I talk to you right now, the New York Stock Exchange is
1:34.1	about to open. It will likely be down again. And yet, we have a White House that seems to be sending different messages.
1:46.9	Are the point of the Liberation Day tariffs to keep the United States within itself,
1:53.8	to onshore all manufacturing for American goods that had been sent overseas?
1:59.6	Something that I personally think is kind of ridiculous.
2:03.8	Or is it a gambit?
2:09.4	Is Donald Trump unplugging the world's economy
2:13.5	and then daring everybody to believe that he won't plug it back in unless they give him
2:22.5	things. That is the central question that we try to get to in our two interviews today.
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