Trump’s Fake Deal Was So Stupid We Can’t Stop Laughing
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
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| 0:19.3 | Hey, guys, Tim Miller from the Bullwark here with managing editor Sam Stein. We just had an |
| 0:24.1 | oval office tribute to dear leader about his deal with the UK. I was going to say, it was a |
| 0:31.2 | tribute. It wasn't a press conference. It was a tribute. Everyone up there was just very happy |
| 0:36.3 | with Donald Trump's brilliance, |
| 0:39.1 | the important headline here is that like basically nothing happened. |
| 0:44.3 | I mean, like it's a deal about nothing essentially. |
| 0:47.7 | And we still have a massive tariff that we didn't have before on the UK. |
| 0:51.2 | That's what I was trying to get at. |
| 0:52.3 | So as I read it, we went from 10% to 10%. |
| 0:55.8 | Is that right? Or the car tariffs went down a little bit, but only those are like high fancy cars. Here's the outline of the deal, basically. For starters, it's tentative. There are a few details that need to be worked out still. So we're having a press conference about a deal that isn't done yet. and number two |
| 1:11.1 | the 10% tariff |
| 1:13.1 | is remaining. |
| 1:14.8 | The So we're having a press conference about a deal that isn't done yet. And number two, the 10% tariff is remaining. |
| 1:14.7 | They kind of blanket 10%. |
| 1:16.1 | It was a tough negotiation, painstaking, but they decided that 10% is the number. |
| 1:23.4 | We're taking down to 0% though on Rolls-Royce engines. |
| 1:27.0 | We'll get to that in a second. So 0% tariff on importing Rolls-Royce engines. The UK tariffs on beef were cut to zero. So it's something for our beef farmers who are selling to the UK, which is important because their food is terrible over there. So they should get some American meat. It's getting a little bit better, I think. Um, I'm going to be in Manchester in a couple months. I'll report back. I don't, I don't think so. Um, the steel tariff was also reduced. It was a 25% down to 10% and then there were some promised investments for there always been promised blah, blah, so some, some progress there, but yeah I guess but, we put a 10% tariff on them and then kept it. |
| 2:04.3 | Like, that's basically what happened. |
| 2:05.6 | We put a 10% tariff on and then kept it. |
| 2:07.9 | Before we get into the details, I do want to show you, in case you guys thought we were |
| 2:12.9 | Gilden the Lilly or overstating it. |
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