Trump Press Sec Blurts Out Ugly, Revealing Truth about His Tariff Scam

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

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In his speech to Congress, President Trump kept lying about his tariffs, falsely claiming that Canada is letting huge amounts of fentanyl into our country and suggesting the trade wars will only get worse. Then press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters directly that if Canada wants to avoid tariffs in the future, it should become the 51st U.S. state. She said it: Trump’s tariffs are really about getting Canada to submit to his will. Newsflash: It’s not okay for the American president to lie relentlessly about our allies and threaten them with economic Armageddon to bend them to his deranged, passing whims. We talked to Rolling Stone senior political reporter Asawin Suebsaeng, who’s been forcefully making that argument. He explains why Trump’s vile bullying of our allies deserves to be taken much more seriously, as a clear sign of Trump’s very real imperialist intentions. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.4	In his speech to Congress this week, President Donald Trump kept on lying about his tariffs and made it clear that in coming weeks he's only going to ramp up the trade wars further.
0:36.6	He kept on falsely claiming Canada is
0:38.9	letting huge amounts of fentanyl into our country and pretended that we'll reap huge revenues
0:43.6	from tariffs when in fact they are a tax paid by U.S. consumers. Then at the White
0:49.5	House media briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said very directly that if Canada wants to
0:56.0	avoid tariffs in the future, they can merely become the 51st U.S. state. She came right out and
1:02.2	said it. Trump's tariffs are actually about getting Canada to submit to Trump's will.
1:08.1	None of this is okay. It's not okay for the American president to lie relentlessly
1:12.6	about our allies and threaten them with economic Armaged to force them to submit to his
1:17.6	deranged passing whims. One person who's been saying this lately a lot is Asawan Subbsbang,
1:24.7	senior political reporter at Rolling Stone, so we're talking to him about this today.
1:29.4	Thanks for coming on, Swin.
1:31.7	Thank you so much for having me. And yes, I concur with you that it is not okay. It sounds
1:39.4	very quaint nowadays as if I'm holding up a, this is not normal placard. But no, it is very much not okay.
1:47.3	And Jesus fucking Christ, man. Pretty much, yeah. So the media briefing on Wednesday,
1:54.4	White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was asked why Trump keeps calling Trudeau governor,
2:00.8	which is a habit he's developed. This is what
2:03.0	happened.
2:03.7	The president continues to call the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, governor of Canada.
2:09.4	I'm curious what he means by that. And if there are any plans that are moving forward with
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