All right, Alexander, let's talk about the U.S. economy.

Maybe you can also talk about Trump's plans for the U.S. economy.

Tariffs.

I think that's obvious now that Trump is talking more and more about tariffs.

This definitely looks like it's part of his big picture plan for the U.S. economy. And we're starting to see how

Trump is going to use tariffs to also get policy through, for example, what happened

with Colombia the other day and deportation of Colombians back to Colombia that were in the United States

and Colombia denied one of the planes or denied the planes to land to Colombia.

And Trump used tariffs to get Colombia to agree.

Anyway, it shows that he is relying or will rely a lot on tariffs for the U.S. economy or the tariff threat

in order to push through whatever policy he wants to get done. What are your thoughts on the U.S.

economy and tariffs? I think before we talk about tariffs, which is an important story, actually.

I think a few things need to be said about the economy, the Biden economy, that Trump has inherited,

because we have this constant narrative, which is still being plugged, that the US economy under Joe Biden did incredibly well,

that it's booming, that it's got an economic

growth rate, you know, multiple times faster than anyone else is, that the US economy is doing

really, really, really well. And of course, that, if it really true, would beg the question of why in that

case change something that is working so wonderfully. The thing to say straight away is that the

US economy is performing well by comparison with the European economy, which is performing disastrously.

But because you are doing better than an economy that is doing disastrously, it doesn't

actually mean that your economy is doing that well? The story of the Biden administration is absolutely

out of control spending. Dr. Rasmus has calculated $3.6 trillion of stimulus spending through the

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