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Head in the Office

Trump's Tariffs: A Trade War Consumers Won’t Win

Head in the Office

HITO Media LLC

News, Politics

5.0801 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Note: this episode was recorded before the tariffs were delayed by one month.


The boys cover TOO MUCH NEWS: there were multiple plane crashes that Trump blamed on DEI, more bad executive orders, Gitmo might be turned into a concentration camp, devastating tariffs have been put in place, and the Michigan GOP wants workers to be sick and poor. As always, if you enjoy the show, make sure to check out our Patreon, follow us on our other social media, and leave a 5-star review on Apple!!

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Seen on this episode:

DC plane crash - https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/us/helicopter-plane-crash-washington-dc-narrative/index.html https://www.newsweek.com/lawmakers-voted-increase-flights-reagan-airport-crash-2023484 

Philadelphia plane crash - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/plane-crash-philadelphia-roosevelt-mall.html 

Ongoing FAA lawsuit - https://nypost.com/2025/01/31/us-news/faa-embroiled-in-lawsuit-alleging-it-turned-away-1000-applicants-based-on-race/ 

Trump’s federal spending freeze - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/trump-funding-freeze-rollout.html 

https://www.nafsa.org/regulatory-information/omb-memorandum-temporary-pause-agency-grant-loan-and-other-financial 

Trump wants to use Gitmo as a concentration camp - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yelgxk3rlo 

https://thehill.com/homenews/5113897-trump-guantanamo-bay-migrants/ 

Trump freezes refugee aid - https://apnews.com/article/trump-refugees-resettlement-funding-pause-afghan-allies-3f35577f504246132ede00dddff46f27 

Trump’s tariffs - https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-readies-order-steep-tariffs-goods-mexico-canada-china-2025-02-01/ 

Michigan GOP wants to make you sicker and poorer - https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/01/michigan-house-passes-tipped-wage-bill-ahead-of-looming-deadline.html 

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2024/07/michigans-minimum-wage-will-top-12-next-year-as-high-court-reinstates-2018-ballot-initiatives.html 

Beer breakdown - 

https://www.packagingdive.com/news/beer-institute-packaging-mix-aluminum-cans-glass-bottles-ball-crown-oi/732475/#:~:text=The%20group%20noted%20that%20in,cans%20and%205%25%20on%20draft.

https://oktoberdesign.com/blogs/news/can-vs-bottle-beer#:~:text=Cost%3A%20The%20exact%20cost%20of,generally%20cheaper%20than%20glass%20bottles.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's a lot of bad stuff to talk about this week. It's certainly, it's certainly been a week. The news cycle has had its way with this podcast. Yeah. And there's a lot of bad executive orders, bad things that Trump said and did. And his administration has said and done over this past week. And a lot of those things that they've said are done or tried to enforce are just unenforceable. We'll talk later about that executive order that tried to freeze all federal spending. You can't do that. It was also incredibly vague. Didn't make any sense, right? There's a lot of stuff that will come out of this Trump admin that just cannot be enforced by the federal government. People are trying to figure out ways to comply with just the uncompliable. Or stupid shit that's not going to lower egg prices, like take your pronouns out of your email signature. Uh-huh, uh-huh. That did not actually, in fact, my egg prices went up. This morning, I checked. Exactly. The cheapest they were at Meyer. I used to be able to get that for like three bucks. I just spent $6 on eggs like yesterday. Six dollars? At my corner store, yeah. It's like, well, it was an 18 carton. Oh, 18 car. So it was a big one, but it was like 6.50. Yeah. See, I saw 4.50 for a 12-pack. What are you talking about? I'm going to raid this Meyer. I think that's how I think a lot of America feels. But before we get into all of the stuff, the crazy stuff that

1:12.6

happened this week, I do want to mention one executive order that I think goes stupid or goes crazy

1:20.4

if you're stupid. Incredibly. This is one of those things that I feel like Elon Musk might have

1:25.8

written himself based on how this is worded.

1:28.3

So I'm just going to read you a tweet, a breaking news tweet from at America, which is Elon Musk's

1:34.8

political action committee, by the way.

1:36.4

Oh, God.

1:37.0

It's just at America on Twitter with a check badge, which feels maybe appropriate for the moment we're in.

1:44.1

Yeah, yeah.

1:45.2

It also feels kind of like he's impersonating a government account, but whatever.

1:48.7

Yeah, and this is not exaggeration.

1:50.5

This is exactly what the EO does.

1:51.6

So I'm just going to read this.

1:52.8

Breaking, President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order

1:55.9

requiring that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule regulation or guidance,

2:01.9

it must identify at least 10 existing rules, regulations, or guidance documents to be repealed.

2:07.4

A toddler wrote this.

2:09.0

Like, this is candy for the stupidest fucking libertarian that you know.

2:12.9

Like, what do you mean?

2:14.1

It's just completely arbitrary?

2:15.4

Take away 10 rules if you issue a new one.

2:17.0

This goes crazy if you're stupid. And it's like like i feel like this perfectly just kind of exemplifies what

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