China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Ronny Chieng breaks down how JD Vance's comments calling Chinese people "peasants" have escalated both the shade war and the trade war with China, impacting American industries from automakers to Hollywood. Plus, Troy Iwata chimes in on the one thriving business of the trade war: TikTok luxury knockoffs. Michael Kosta checks in with Canadians to see how they feel about Donald Trump's aims to make them America's 51st state, including one ex-pat who immigrated to Canada when Trump first became president and a gun-loving member of Canada's silent MAGA minority. Iraq War veteran and Democratic Senator from Illinois Tammy Duckworth sits down to discuss the work she is doing in Congress to improve care for veterans and how the Trump administration is setting back that progress by taking jobs away from thousands of veterans and making DOGE cuts to life-saving Veterans’ Affairs programs. They also discuss Trump’s broken promises to the veterans who voted for him, how DEI benefits the military, and why confirming someone as unqualified as Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense contradicts the right’s alleged “meritocracy.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:06.8	From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central,
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0:14.2	This is The Daily Show with your host, Ronnie Timm.
0:19.7	Thank you. Ronnie Chang.
0:36.2	Welcome to the day show. I'm Ronnie Chang. We got so much to talk about tonight.
0:38.4	TikTok is making offers you can't refuse. America makes Canada an offer. He'm Ronnie Chang. We got so much to talk about tonight. TikTok is making offers you can't refuse.
0:44.2	America makes Canada an offer. He's definitely refusing. And Trump and China are fighting so hard,
0:50.1	they should just make out already. So let's get right into the latest developments in Trade Wars.
0:56.7	My favorite word. My favorite word. Tariffs.
0:59.7	It's been two weeks since Liberation Day and were in a full-blown trade war with China.
1:04.7	With terrorists now at 145%, which means the trade war has officially moved from shower to grower.
1:13.0	And some people are concerned about this trade war because they want the economy to be like good or something. But you know what?
1:18.6	Trump is not stressing about it. Yesterday, the White House press secretary reading a statement,
1:23.9	she said President Trump dictated. China needs to make a deal with us.
1:28.1	We don't have to make a deal with them.
1:30.2	There's no difference between China and any other country, except they are much larger.
1:39.8	Yeah, that's kind of a big difference, though.
1:43.3	It's like saying, why should I be scared to fight the rock?
1:46.0	He's just like any other person except much larger.
1:49.6	Yeah, that's the scary part.
1:52.4	But I guess Trump's people must be confident that they can push China around
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