Trump, Tariffs, Taylor, Texts
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at President Trump’s announcement that he will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports into the U.S.
He made the announcement to reporters aboard Air Force One after becoming the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl, where he and Taylor Swift got mixed reactions from the crowd.
Adam and Chris talk about the implications of the tariffs for the UK and the rest of the world with Sumi Somaskanda, BBC News chief presenter in Washington.
And we look at the latest suspension of a Labour Party MP as more WhatsApps are leaked.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, I was running at my friend's house on Sunday night, and he said, |
| 0:08.0 | do you want to stay and watch the Super Bowl? |
| 0:09.9 | And I was like, yeah, what time is it on at? |
| 0:11.5 | And he's like, oh, it starts at about 11.30pm. |
| 0:14.4 | And I thought, nope, I've got work on Monday. |
| 0:15.8 | But luckily, I know somebody who will have been able to watch the Super Bowl because they live in the right time zone because they're one of the BBC's news anchors in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:24.0 | Please welcome back, Summi Simascanda. Hello. |
| 0:26.5 | Hi, Adam. Great to be back with you. You're right. It wasn. That was my first career for two years. So I eagerly look |
| 0:38.8 | forward to the Super Bowl and really any big sports game. Now, we could talk about the sport itself. |
| 0:45.5 | We could talk about the halftime show, which was Kendrick Lamar, which was controversial and |
| 0:51.4 | newsworthy in its own right. Indeed. Or we could talk about the Taylor Swift angle. |
| 0:55.5 | Just explain what was going on there. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, so Taylor Swift, obviously. |
| 0:59.9 | She is the girlfriend of Travis Kelsey, who is a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs. |
| 1:06.2 | And you've probably seen all of the attention that the two of them have gotten over the course of the last season or two. And she shows up at Travis Kelsey's game and, of course, also at the Super Bowl, |
| 1:15.1 | because the Kansas City Chiefs were one of the two teams playing, the defending champions. |
| 1:20.4 | And there was this moment. I'm sure you saw it, Adam, in some of the clips as well, where she was |
| 1:24.3 | shown on the big screens. And you heard some booze. And the other person |
| 1:28.4 | who was there, of course, was the president, Donald Trump. So yeah, let's hear what we're going to |
| 1:32.4 | hear first. We're going to hear the audio reaction to Donald Trump. |
| 1:43.4 | So that's the reaction in the stadium in New Orleans when Donald Trump was shown. |
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