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Our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years,

but it is not going to happen anymore. It's not going to happen.

In a few moments, I will sign a historic executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world. Reciprocal. That means they do it to us and we do it to them. Very simple.

Can't get any simpler than that.

September 11, 2001, the attack on the World Trade Center, the 15th of September

of September 2008, when Lehman Brothers failed to secure a bailout. These are the days that are etched into the

memories of those who lived through them, ones that change the course of the world economy.

April 2nd, 2025 can now be added to that list. U.S. President Donald Trump christened it

Liberation Day, a strangely positive spin on hitting

both friends and foes with blanket tariffs that sent global markets into a frenzy.

The implications of this historic change in global trade policy is the focus of this week's

Viewsroom.

Welcome back to the Views Room, the weekly podcast that invites you the listener into a lively

debate with breaking views columnists.

And I'm your host, Amy Donnellin.

And I'm Jonathan Guilford. Amy, it's hard to know exactly how to react at this point. Amy, it's hard to know exactly how to react at this point. It feels like we've already tipped

over into the edge, but obviously a lot of these tariffs, we're still waiting for the moment

when they actually begin to be collected. And we feel like the real biting pain of all

of that flowing through the economy. Absolutely.

And I mean, we've been jumping kind of from foot to foot trying to figure out like,

oh, will Donald Trump go this way?

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