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European Union, very friendly. They rip us off. It's so pathetic.

39%. We're going to charge them, 20%. So we charge you can essentially. They charge us, we charge them. We charge them less. So how can anybody be upset? They will be because we never charge anybody anything. But now we're going to charge. President Trump declares Liberation Day for the United States. And this is a trade war, well, who's going to take the most casualties?

Yes, they're controversial, but they're working. And I think they have the promise to work long-term, too. The White House says Elon Musk will finish his work with Doge, but he'll leave as planned in May. Could Maga's brand benefit? He's been made into a boogeyman instead of a hero, which is deeply wrong and immoral, but it is what it is.

Hooters goes bankrupt after 40 years.

Is that a victory for women or for woe?

There's the leftist messaging of, you're shamed as some sort of a pervert. If you want to see saucy girls with the breasts and the shorts, whereas that's totally normal. That should not be... That's how civilization continues.

A blistering verdict, as always, on all this and more.

I'm delighted to be joined by the host of the Megan Kelly show

on YouTube and Sirius XM.

Megan Kelly, Megan, how are you?

I'm great, Pierce.

I just got back from my shift at Hooters,

so I'm glad we made the time for each other.

Well, it is Liberation Day, after all, as we're talking.

Let's talk about this, first of all, because there's no doubt the pace of what Trump has been doing in the last 10 weeks since becoming is becoming president again, has been absolutely frenetic. Some of it is obvious quick and demonstrable victories, as in

the southern border and what's going on there and the way he's arrested the tide of illegal

migrants coming over the border. Stuff like the tariffs is bemusing to many people because

they don't see any immediate benefit. What they see is turmoil in the markets. They see the

economy beginning to flounder, inflation poking up again. Trump says, be patient and the rewards

will come. What do you make of it? All of which tells me he really believes in it,

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