Unwell Trump Rages Wildly at Many Targets as GOP Starts Turning on Him

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

As the chaos grows around President Trump’s tariffs, the Mad King is now raging wildly in many directions. He erupted over China’s reciprocal tariffs, threatening dark retribution. He exploded at Republicans, because a handful of them are now moving to reign in his power, which he’s not taking well. Faced with this turmoil, Trump insists the tariffs are already getting results. But the arguments don’t add up. Between this and the cracks now showing in GOP support for him, it’s clear that this will get harder for him to hold together. We talked to Kathryn Anne Edwards, an economist and commentator who has a new piece arguing that the coming recession will be entirely a creation of Trump’s policies. She digs into the deeper incoherence underlying all of this madness—and explains why Trump and the GOP won’t be able to paper it over forever. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:46.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:04.0	As the global chaos grows around President Trump's tariffs, the Mad King is now raging wildly in many different directions.
1:10.5	He repeatedly erupted over China's reciprocal tariffs, threatening all manner of dark retribution. He also exploded at Republicans
1:13.1	because a handful of them are now moving to reign in his power, and to put it mildly, he's not
1:18.5	taking it well. Faced with all his turmoil, Trump is trying to argue in all kinds of ways that
1:24.5	the tariffs are already getting results, But the arguments don't add up.
1:29.1	And we think the cracks that are now showing in GOP support for him are a meaningful development.
1:34.7	It's becoming clearer that this is all going to get harder and harder for him to hold together.
1:40.0	Today we're trying to unravel all this with Catherine Ann Edwards,
1:43.9	an economist and prolific
1:45.2	social media commentator who has a good new piece arguing that the coming recession will be
1:50.0	entirely a creation of Trump's policies.
1:53.1	Catherine, thanks for coming on.
1:55.2	Thank you so much for having me.
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