BREAKING NEWS #36 - Trump, Tariffs and a Tiny Piece of Cardboard

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	What Most Impulse? Hello and welcome to this breaking news episode of what most people think and it has happened.
0:21.8	Trump has done it.
0:23.1	His Liberation Day, which he promised us.
0:26.2	Can we just say before we get into what this might mean for the planet and potentially
0:30.7	a global trade war.
0:31.8	Can we just say that Liberation Day is pure showbiz?
0:35.5	It's just pure showbiz.
0:36.4	He trailed it.
0:54.2	Called it Liberation Day. It sounded like a shit film with Bill Pullman in. Oh, that was Independence Day. But, you know, I just think that maybe we should learn something from American politics about giving it a bit of a pizzazz. Maybe the bonfire of the quangos could be like an actual bonfire, you know.
1:01.7	I wish no harm on humans, but we've got to think of ways of matching the yanks for the glitz and glamour of politics.
1:03.3	And we'll be talking through all of that Trump's announcement, his little chart,
1:07.2	what it means for Britain and the rest of the world.
1:09.3	And I'll tell you one thing with all this stuff about trade. I do think that finally, it took a while, but the plot of the phantom
1:16.1	menace is finally starting to make sense. You go, ah, get it now. Trade Federation wars,
1:20.7	blockades. Yeah, I see how our planet could destroy itself on the back of business. I
1:24.3	absolutely credit that now. And speaking of destroying myself,
1:28.0	I got drunk on Monday night.
1:30.6	Now, I should say,
1:32.0	you might have noticed
1:33.2	it's been a bit quiet this year
1:34.4	in terms of day raids and all that sort of stuff.
1:36.6	Well, I've been working hard
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