The conservative case for Trump's new world order

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

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President Trump said this week that U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will go forward when a month-long suspension expires next week. Peter Navarro, Trump's senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, joins us to discuss Trump's trade agenda. Then, U.S. allies have been expressing frustration with some of President Trump's foreign policy moves: falsely blaming Ukraine for Russia's invasion and calling for U.S. control of the Panama Canal, Greenland and the Gaza Strip. Victoria Coates, former deputy national security adviser to Trump in his first term, talks about the world order in Trump's second administration. And, the Trump family has reportedly made nearly $80 million since the election, and that's not counting the crypto assets they've been pushing. Wall Street Journal reporter Rebecca Ballhaus joins us to discuss the Trump family's growing fortunes

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0:24.3	Everybody who warned clutch their pearls about inflation and recession with respect to the Trump tariffs in the first term.
0:33.0	It didn't happen.
0:34.0	All we got was stability and prosperity.
0:37.2	Taxes, tariffs, and the new world order of President Trump.
0:50.3	It's Tuesday, February 25th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.
0:56.0	I'm Chris Bentley.
0:59.8	Today on the show, it's Donald Trump's world, and we're all just living in it.
1:05.1	The post-World War II structures, they're now 80 years old.
1:08.6	I think it is high time to revisit those. That's what President
1:11.6	Trump is doing. The conservative case for Trump's New World Order and whatever happens abroad,
1:18.2	Trump's re-election has already been a bonanza for the personal finances of his own family.
1:23.9	The president and his inner circle have raked in tens of millions of dollars since the election.
1:28.3	We've seen in his first term, Trump had the Trump hotel in D.C. and had all kinds of ways that he sort of broke with the norms of how presidents have treated their personal financial interests.
1:40.4	And I think we're seeing, if anything, an escalation of that approach this time around.
1:44.2	The Trump profit machine.
1:46.4	That's coming up at about 15 minutes.
1:48.8	But first, remember when President Trump threatened Canada and Mexico with 25% tariffs only to delay them for 30 days?
1:57.8	Well, that deadline is coming up next week, how time flies. And the administration says
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