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What A Day

Trump Launches Tariff-Palooza

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Wednesday was ‘Liberation Day’ in Trump’s America. For everyone else, it was a day of sheer economic panic, as President Donald Trump unveiled heavy 'reciprocal' tariffs on dozens of countries, on top of a 10 percent blanket tariff on all imports. Trump billed it all as a fool-proof strategy to bring back American jobs that have moved overseas, and said specifically the levies would be a boon for unionized workers at domestic car companies. But Trump is no friend to unionized labor. He's spent the days since his inauguration slashing thousands of unionized government jobs. Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, talks about how unions are fighting back. And in headlines: Wisconsinites gave Elon Musk the middle finger by sending a liberal judge to their state Supreme Court, a federal judge dismissed corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and Amazon makes an eleventh-hour bid to buy TikTok.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, April 3rd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show asking you, my friends and listeners, when do you think the last time Donald Trump bought groceries was?

0:13.5

Likewise, an old-fashioned term that we use groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term, groceries.

0:21.4

It sort of says a bag with different things in it.

0:24.1

Groceries went through the roof.

0:26.4

And I campaigned on that.

0:27.9

I talked about the word groceries for a lot.

0:31.2

Like, he hasn't gone to a grocery store since the 70s, right?

0:34.9

If ever.

0:42.9

On today's show, Wisconsinites give Elon Musk the middle finger and send a liberal judge to their state Supreme Court. And Amazon makes a bid to buy

0:47.7

TikTok in the 11th hour. But let's start by talking about Liberation Day, in which we finally

0:53.7

took on our lifelong enemies, the Falkland Islands.

0:58.0

In a Rose Garden ceremony featuring props, charts, and yet another reference to the old-fashioned term that is groceries,

1:06.7

President Donald Trump announced his big tariff scheme, and it is big indeed.

1:11.1

In a few moments, I will sign a historic executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries

1:18.9

throughout the world. Alongside 10% tariffs on all countries, Trump installed massive tariffs on

1:25.4

countries he thinks have treated the United States, quote, unfairly.

1:29.7

And some of those countries, well, I have questions. I mean, for one thing, at least one of the

1:34.8

entities were tariffing, the herd and McDonald Islands, doesn't have any people. Population, zero.

1:41.4

Another place we're taxing with tariffs is a U.S. military base. China will be hit hard,

1:46.6

34% tariffs on top of the existing 20% tariffs put into place earlier this year. But many of our

1:52.4

closest allies, the European Union and India, for example, will experience some of the bigger tariffs,

1:57.7

as well countries like Vietnam and Cambodia, both of which export billions of

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