Trump: Today is America’s “Declaration of Economic Independence”

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- President Donald Trump, speaking from the Rose Garden, announced “Liberation Day” and pledged to “make America wealthy again”—explaining that for decades the United States economy has been punished by onerous tariffs placed on American-made goods being exported internationally. Trump signed an executive order which would place “reciprocal tariffs” on foreign nations and will serve as America’s “Declaration of Economic Independence.” The tariffs will take effect at midnight on April 5th. The reciprocal tariffs will be half of what trading partners are currently charging the U.S. An additional 10% universal baseline tariff will be applied to all countries considered to be acting in bad faith. Will the Trump Administration remove tariffs on countries that remove tariffs on American-made goods? Trump stated: “To all foreign presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, ambassadors, and everyone else who will soon be calling to ask for exemptions to these tariffs, I say—terminate your own tariffs, drop your barriers, don't manipulate your currencies…and start buying tens of billions of dollars of American goods.” Weekday afternoons on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, Rich Zeoli gives the expert analysis and humorous take that we need in this crazy political climate. Along with Executive Producer Matt DeSantis and Justin Otero, the Zeoli show is the next generation of talk radio and you can be a part of it weekday afternoons 3-7pm.

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0:34.9	The question of what this will mean, will this be just reciprocal or not,
0:40.0	and will this all be happening as soon as the president announces it? I don't know.
0:44.3	I don't really know any of this. Nobody knows until the president makes the announcement.
0:48.3	So we shall see. I will tell you that obviously a lot of people are hoping that what this leads to is whatever unfair
0:57.8	trade practices are against the United States of America will go away. We'll see. We'll find out in a few
1:03.6	minutes. There's a lot of other things to talk about, though, in addition to this, and I want to
1:08.5	make sure that we're covering them for you. So before we go to the White House, whatever the president comes out, I wanted to just share
1:15.3	a couple other things.
1:17.6	The Democrat Party, despite what happened in Wisconsin, you remember something, the Republicans
1:23.7	won those two special districts in Florida. There's two special elections.
1:28.3	Wisconsin state Supreme Court seat, I told you yesterday.
1:31.8	I said, this is not a referendum on Trump.
1:33.9	It's not a referendum on Elon Musk.
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