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The Don Lemon Show

HOT TOPICS | Trump Tariffs, Trade War & the End of USAID?! - February 3rd, 2025

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This weekend, Donald Trump placed tariffs against Mexico, China, and Canada. Mexico and Canada are already imposing retaliatory tariffs. What does this mean for the American economy? And how will aid groups continue to function without valuable help from USAID? Tune in to break it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you. Good morning, everyone from a very, very early Los Angeles, California, where it is 7.15 in the morning as of this taping or as of this live feed, this live stream. So happy that you could join us this morning. I wish I could say I was happy about America

1:01.8

and the stock market and democracy in danger. Our democracy is in danger. America is in danger.

1:14.1

And as we are streaming going live, let me show you what the stock market is doing in relation to these tariff announcements

1:21.7

on some of our allies and against others.

1:29.3

The Dow is down now as we speak more than 600 points and is expected to go down even further.

1:39.1

We hope that it recovers.

1:40.6

But if you look at the map, it looks like a mountain on your screen right now.

1:46.0

Look to the far right. Look at the downward trajectory, the nosedive of the Dow.

1:55.5

Since those tariffs have been announced. We hope that that goes up.

2:07.3

But who knows? That's the danger of what tariffs do to us. And when I talked about America first means America alone, it could mean America alone

2:16.6

on the brink of disaster. I don't even know if America alone on the brink of disaster.

2:18.6

I don't even know if it's on the brink anymore.

2:21.3

If it's just a disaster that we are in.

2:26.8

Down 600 points.

2:28.3

Plus, maybe it's made a little bit of a recovery in a few minutes,

2:34.0

but that's not enough to be

2:36.0

enthused about or to be positive about. So that's where we are right now. In a disastrous

2:44.0

country, she's a disastrous country, a country with a disastrous leader who doesn't know the consequences

2:55.6

of actions like he's taking because he's trying to own people, he's trying to prove his manhood,

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