Trump’s Tariff Turbulence + How The OJ Trial Changed News Media

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Chuck reacts to the news that President Donald Trump has paused his tariffs for 90 days, explains why the OJ trial changed tv news, and answers listeners' questions.

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0:00.0	Hello there. Happy Thursday. Welcome to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast. Today, a solo round of things.
0:10.8	Obviously, a big development in the last 24 hours with President Trump's decision to rescind or pause the tariff regime, which had been in place for a couple of hours,
0:23.5	leading to another market meltdown. And particularly, we think the thing that truly rattled
0:30.4	the president was what was happening in the bond market. But I'm not here to play CNBC guy for
0:35.4	you. There are plenty of smart financial guys. If you want to go down that road, you can go down that road. I'm here here to play a CNBC guy for you. There are plenty of smart financial guys.
0:38.2	If you want to go down that road, you can go down that road.
0:40.4	I'm here to talk about the politics of this moment, what to learn from this moment, and what it could mean, and how to watch sort of reaction going forward.
0:49.1	So what to take away from this?
0:51.3	Well, bottom line is Donald Trump blank.
0:53.6	The blink.
0:55.8	The question is, why did he blink?
1:03.1	Going into this, there was always a belief, almost like a security blanket belief among the business community,
1:10.8	who towards the end of 2024, accelerated in their support generally of Donald Trump over Kamala Harris.
1:16.4	You know, and it was the basic reasoning being regulation, regulation, regulation.
1:22.6	Donald Trump was campaigning on doing all these tariffs and all of these sort of business leaders were kind of compartmentalizing, believing, oh, he's not as serious.
1:32.8	The tariffs he did the first time weren't that damaging. If that's all he's going to do, we can handle it.
1:45.1	Didn't necessarily believe that he was willing to go where he was going to go. I think the biggest reason why there's been so many miscalculations about Donald Trump 2.0 versus Donald Trump 1.0 is simply the missing people that were very involved in putting together
1:52.3	Trump's first administration. Mike Pence and Reince Previs. Reins Previs was the first chief of
1:56.9	staff. He was chairman of the RNC when Donald Trump got elected president, and then he got
2:01.3	named chief of staff, and Mike Pence was the vice president, and Mike Pence was in charge of the
2:08.2	transition. Well, we now know, in hindsight, particularly after watching the first 80 days of Trump
2:14.9	2.0, that what Mike Pence and Wright's previous did in stacking that administration in Trump 2.0, that what Mike Pence and Reince Previs did in stacking that administration
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