back when you guys first started and no one was listening to you and you had no advertisers and

Victor would still say Greek words on the podcast and you had no idea what he was talking about.

Still don't.

And also part of it is I like to tell people I'm what Victor Davis-Hanson would have become

if he had gone to law school.

That's my role in life. I am the law professor version of Victor.

If people, you know, the critics of Trump's foreign policy in South America,

do you want to explain how that's really any different than what Jefferson did and the Mediterranean?

And in fact, I argue that Trump in many ways has a stronger grounds

to take action in South America than waging some covert regime change offensive all the way

over in the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, which is what Jefferson did.

I'm getting too old, but one of these days I'll tell you the story about how President Trump

offered me a seat on the Supreme Court, but I turned it down.

True story.

Oh my honor, me.

Okay.

The Constitution gives the power over tariffs and taxes to Congress.

No one disputes that.

Trump doesn't claim that he has the constitutional power to impose tariffs.

Congress has given the power its power and transferred it to the President very broadly in the trade area. And so given the power, its power, and transferred it to the president,

very broadly in the trade area. And so the question is, did Congress give President Trump

the ability to impose worldwide tariffs simultaneously on every country? Well, hello, ladies, hello, gentlemen, welcome to Victor Davis-Hanson, in his own words.

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