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The Rich Zeoli Show

“Boys Will Be Boys”: Elon Musk and Peter Navarro Spar Over Free Trade

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:05pm- Tariff Fight: President Donald Trump responded to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s offer to reduce the European Union’s tariffs to zero on cars and industrial goods imported from the United States. While the initial offer wasn’t enough to spare the EU from the Trump Administration’s tariffs, President Trump did state that if the EU commits to importing $350 billion of American energy, an agreement can be reached. Meanwhile, in a post to X, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that he has received the green light to begin trade negotiations with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his cabinet. 6:10pm- Reagan Administration economist Art Laffer expressed optimism regarding President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs—determining that countries will ultimately negotiate for decreased tariffs, resulting in freer trade and with fewer restrictions on the importation of American-made goods internationally. 6:30pm- In a win for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court ruled that nonprofit groups lacked standing to file a lawsuit over the firing of 16,000 public sector workers from the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs. In another ruling, the court concluded that the administration can continue to deport Venezuelan migrants who are in the U.S. unlawfully. Both cases have been described as “technical rulings.” 6:50pm- White House Infighting? DOGE chief Elon Musk referred to Trump Administration economic advisor Peter Navarro as a “moron” over his pro-tariff arguments. When asked about the feud, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the disagreement as nothing serious, explaining: “boys will be boys.” Weekday afternoons on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, Rich Zeoli gives the expert analysis and humorous take that we need in this crazy political climate. Along with Executive Producer Matt DeSantis and Justin Otero, the Zeoli show is the next generation of talk radio and you can be a part of it weekday afternoons 3-7pm.

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0:00.0

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0:03.7

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0:11.7

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0:15.8

We might be close to a deal.

0:17.3

The president said today that Japan is on their way over, and he's predicting

0:23.5

a big, beautiful deal with Japan. We also have the president basically telling the EU today

0:30.0

buy $350 billion of our energy and get rid of this trade deficit, which is kind of a,

0:37.3

kind of a BS thing anyway, but, and then we can

0:40.6

have a deal.

0:41.2

So I, I am really optimistic.

0:44.0

I'm going to be optimistic that we're going to announce a deal very soon because we need

0:47.6

to.

0:47.8

The market was doing great today.

0:49.5

And then at the end, by the closing bell, it was back in the red.

0:52.6

It was negative.

0:53.6

And we, once deals start happening, once we start making some announcements here, we're

1:01.7

going to be in good shape.

1:02.8

And that's the big story of the hour brought to you by our buddy, Dr. Mike Vaneria,

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