Trump’s Tariffs: The Beginning of the End?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today, Laura and Paddy are joined by Gary O'Donoghue, Chief North America correspondent to discuss the US Supreme Court’s ruling to block President Donald Trump’s global tariffs.
Is this the beginning of the end of his tariffs, what’s Trump doing now, and what does it mean for where power lies in the US?
Laura has interviewed former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Tony Radakin ahead of the four-year anniversary of the beginning of the full scale invasion of Ukraine. Boris Johnson said the UK and its allies “did not take strong enough action,” and the UK and its allies should deploy non-combat troops to Ukraine right now.
Laura and Paddy dicuss Boris Johnson and Tony Radakin’s comments.
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The presenters were Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Kris Jalowiecki. The social producer was Grace Braddock. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The weekend series producer is Chris Flynn. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Paddy, someone's very cross and it's not you or me. |
| 0:08.5 | It's Donald Trump. |
| 0:09.5 | What's he cross about? |
| 0:11.1 | Well, the Supreme Court, America's top court, says that America's top executive, him, |
| 0:18.0 | should not have imposed tariffs in the way that he did. |
| 0:21.5 | Interestingly, some of the appointees on the Supreme Court are Donald Trump's own appointees. |
| 0:26.8 | So this takes you to the heart of how Donald Trump sees people. |
| 0:30.6 | And rhinos are Republicans in name only. |
| 0:33.5 | So let's just have a listen to the president. |
| 0:35.8 | They're an automatic no, no matter how good a case you have. |
| 0:38.3 | It said no. |
| 0:39.3 | But you can't knock their loyalty. |
| 0:43.3 | It's one thing you can do with some of our people. |
| 0:50.3 | Others think they're being politically correct, |
| 0:53.3 | which has happened before far too often with |
| 0:56.7 | certain members of this court, and it's happened so often with this court. |
| 1:01.5 | What a shame, having to do with voting in particular, when in fact they're just being fools |
| 1:08.6 | and lapdogs for the rhinos and the radical left Democrats. |
| 1:12.4 | And not that they should have anything at all to do with it. |
| 1:16.8 | They're very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution. |
| 1:20.5 | So to help us explore this, we'll be joined by our friend and colleague Gary O'Donnickue across the pond. |
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