The Jackpod: Strong and wrong

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on how Donald Trump projects strength through his lack of inhibition and self-constraint.

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0:00.0	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:04.0	I'm Magna Chakra Bardi, and this is the Jackpot, where on-point news analyst Jack Beattie
0:17.0	helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique
0:22.3	clarity to the world we live in now.
0:24.7	Hello there, Jack.
0:26.1	Hello, Megna.
0:27.9	Okay, we're at episode 85 this week.
0:30.8	Jack, what's the headline?
0:32.9	Strong and wrong.
0:35.5	And who might that be?
0:37.9	Well, I'm using a formulation of Bill Clinton's quote,
0:41.5	strong and wrong always beats weak and right.
0:46.2	And that occurred to me this weekend as Trump was triumpering over the European Union in Scotland.
0:55.2	Here's a headline from the Financial Times,
0:58.9	how the EU succumbed to Trump's tariff steamroller.
1:03.7	Another headline, Europe's summer of humiliation.
1:08.5	Trump was mighty strong and, of course, mighty wrong in that if you regard a 15% increase
1:15.5	on the things you buy from Europe as a triumph of the United States, you're probably
1:22.5	Trump.
1:23.9	But, you know, the theory is wrong.
1:26.4	The theory that tariffs somehow make our country stronger simply is wrong.
1:33.2	It impoverishes our consumers and our businesses.
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