President Trump endures staffing problems, announces tariffs and tanks the markets,

and says we should give drug dealers the death penalty.

So things are going awesome.

Ben Shapiro, this is the Ben Shapiro show.

It's been a rough 48 hours for the presidents of the United States.

It has not been solid.

And we'll go through all of the non-solidity in just a second. There are some real staffing issues over at the White House, some chaos in terms of the internal dynamics at the White House. Plus, the President of the United States unleashed the most ignorant tweet storm I have ever seen from him. And that is saying a lot. This one was on trade policy. and it is just freaking agree.

I mean, really, my four-year-old daughter can probably do a better explanation of trade. And if it sounds like I'm being too harsh, I'm being not harsh enough. It's that bad. So I will explain all of that. Again, guys, don't take it as though Trump's never done anything good. He's done lots of good stuff, but his trade, I'll get to it. Okay, so before I get to any of that first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Birch Gold.

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kit and so that you also let them know that we sent you. Okay. So as I mentioned, the markets not having a couple of good days. They are down five straight days. And they've dropped in the last five days, approximately 1,000 points. Now, is that the end of the world? No, it's not the end of the except they dropped a thousand points the month before. So one of the reasons they

continue to drop is because the end of the world? No, it's not the end of the world, except they dropped a thousand points the month before. So, one of the reasons they continue to drop is because the President of the United States does not know what the hell he is talking about on trade. And I say this advisedly. The President, I don't know if he got his degree from Wharton Business School on trade, from turning in Cracker Jack box tops?

Honestly, I don't know if he got like a decoder ring in the mail. I don't know where he learned his economics, but it is awful. It is just awful. And he's actually implementing it. So, as I said yesterday, he said a bunch of stupid crap on guns. And then he's not going to implement any of it because Congress is going to stop him. On trade, the president has plenary power essentially on trade,

because Congress has abdicated its duty over the past 50 years and given the president the ability to raise and lower tariffs essentially on his own for virtually any purpose. Here is what Trump tweeted out today. It's really, really dumb. Okay, this is six hours ago. When a country, USA, thank you, Mr. President,

is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business

with, trade wars are good and easy to win. Example, when we are down 100 billion with a certain

country and they get cute, don't trade anymore. We win big. It's easy. The levels of stupidity are like a Russian nesting doll here. You open up the top level of stupidity, and there's another level of stupidity beneath it, except it's an infinite regress of nesting dolls because there is no tiniest nesting doll of stupidity in this tweet. Okay, so we'll go through this sentence by sentence. When he says that we are losing many billions of dollars on trade, you don't lose money on trade.

When you go to Amazon.com and you buy yourself a used book, did you lose money on the trade?

No, you voluntarily opted to buy a product.

When you go to a grocery store and they give you an apple and you give them 50 cents,

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