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What A Day

If Tariffs Are So Great, Why Are There So Many Exemptions?

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump loves tariffs. But according to a new analysis from Politico, more than half of US imports right now are not subjected to them. To find out why, we spoke to Paroma Soni. She's a data and graphics reporter at Politico, where she covers trade, immigration, agriculture and politics.And later in the show, two mass shootings occurred over the weekend — one in Sydney, Australia and another at Brown University in Rhode Island. We talk to Talib Reddick, president of Brown University's Undergraduate Council of Students. In headlines, peace discussions continue on how to end Russia's war in Ukraine, Republicans scramble to pass healthcare legislation before the end of the year, and some GOP members want to introduce new affordability legislation to save their seats in the midterms.

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0:00.0

It's Monday, December 15th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show asking President Donald Trump to move on.org.

0:09.6

The election was rigged in 2020. We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you'll see it come out. It's coming out in truckloads.

0:17.4

Look, we all have things we can't quite get over. The series finale of The Sopranos.

0:22.2

The time we spent watching cruel intentions, too.

0:25.6

But Mr. President, it's been more than five years.

0:27.9

There's a lot going on right now.

0:30.3

Time to pack it up.

0:43.4

On today's show, Republicans scramble to pass health care legislation before the end of the year.

0:49.1

And two mass shootings occurred over the weekend, one in Sydney, Australia, and another at Brown University in Rhode Island.

0:52.9

We talked to Brown University's student body president later in the show.

0:55.3

But let's start with tariffs.

1:02.8

Donald Trump loves tariffs. He'd take a tariff on a date, and he'd even pay. He loves tariffs so much, then on Tuesday he went on a loving tangent about them at a rally in Pennsylvania.

1:06.8

Remember when I said tariff? My favorite word is tariff.

1:11.7

True, but then I got a lot of heat from the fake news.

1:14.5

Look at all of them back there.

1:19.3

He's also very upset that apparently you don't love tariffs.

1:23.1

You asshole.

1:24.8

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday,

1:26.9

he told the paper that he didn't know voters would understand that all of his effort on the economy was good and awesome. He said, quote, I've created the greatest economy in history, but it may take people a while to figure all these things out. He went on to say, quote, all this money that's pouring into our country is building things right now. Car plants, AI, lots of

1:44.8

stuff. I cannot tell you how that's going to equate to the voter. All I can do is do my job,

1:49.6

his job, which apparently is making tariffs. But here's my question. If tariffs are so great,

1:56.5

why are there so many exemptions? According to a new analysis from Politico, more than half of U.S. imports are not getting hit

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