Charlie Kirk Explains Why Trump's Tariff War Will Help America WIN

[00:00] what is a tariff we are hearing this

[00:02] word thrown around a lot Donald Trump is

[00:05] starting a trade war is what we are

[00:07] being told we are saying that it is

[00:09] making the economy go into a recession

[00:12] but what exactly is a

[00:15] tariff a tariff is a duty it's a tax in

[00:19] some sense imposed by of course a

[00:22] government on importing or exporting of

[00:26] goods it is used as a form of

[00:29] negotiation many times but it's a way to

[00:32] try and bring both parties to the

[00:35] table now we have tried unfettered free

[00:38] trade over the last 30 or 40 years on

[00:42] paper free trade with every country

[00:45] looks and sounds

[00:47] good it looks and sounds good when we

[00:49] are able to say you know what there's no

[00:51] duties there's no tariffs there's no

[00:55] taxes however America has been largely

[00:58] too focused on the import portation of

[01:01] goods into America not being tariffed

[01:03] and far too often we don't even ask the

[01:05] question what about the products we make

[01:07] in our country that we want to import to

[01:09] other countries so the game that was

[01:13] constituted the deal that was

[01:16] structured was the

[01:19] following it was that we are going to

[01:23] become a purchaser of other country's

[01:26] goods and we will become a service

[01:29] economy why do we need to go make stuff

[01:31] with our hands we're better than that

[01:33] we're just going to go close down all

[01:34] the factories in Allentown we're going

[01:36] to go close down the factories in

[01:38] Marshon Iowa we don't need to be making

[01:40] stuff we're more elevated than that we

[01:42] will have an information economy we all

[01:45] know how that works those very decisions

[01:48] that were

[01:50] made by the American corporate ruling

[01:53] class led to the rise and the Ascension

[01:57] of Donald

[01:58] Trump it led to the explosion of the

[02:01] Maga

[02:03] movement now we are in a

[02:04] three-dimensional trade War right now

[02:07] president Trump is forcing the issue

[02:09] president Trump very well could have

[02:10] avoided

[02:11] this the American people voted for

[02:13] tariffs they voted for stricter trade

[02:15] measures and he very well could have

[02:17] avoided this and understand that the

[02:19] Menace of the Chinese Communist party

[02:21] was made possible because of our

[02:23] overindulgence in in internationalist

[02:26] trade policies Americans

[02:29] like the idea of living in a country

[02:32] that makes things again not only do we

[02:35] want to make America great again we want

[02:37] to make America make things again you

[02:40] are not a country if you import

[02:42] everything made overseas you are nothing

[02:45] more than a trading Colony you're not a

[02:48] country president Trump had the Irish

[02:52] Prime Minister now I'm going to butcher

[02:55] the pronunciation there's actually a

[02:56] very interesting title to the Irish

[02:59] Prime Minister

[03:00] Blake can put the name in the in the

[03:03] chat it's like taset or something is the

[03:06] actual term for the prime minister of

[03:08] Ireland I learned that I didn't know

[03:11] that but this is President Trump going

[03:14] back and forth with the Irish leader

[03:17] thank you the

[03:18] tyos TYC

[03:21] whatever president Trump says that he

[03:23] will impose additional tariffs on the EU

[03:27] to respond to their retaliatory

[03:31] tffs the reporter then responds and says

[03:33] well what will be the

[03:35] retaliation listen carefully this is

[03:37] President Trump in the Oval Office going

[03:41] back and forth with the reporter what

[03:44] cut is this trying to pinpoint this

[03:47] going back and forth to this

[03:50] reporter

[03:52] saying I don't blame Ireland for what

[03:55] they have done I don't blame the Irish

[03:57] government for putting duties on our

[04:02] country play Cut 131 please put more

[04:06] Ties on the EU will you respond to their

[04:09] retaliation of course I'm going to

[04:11] respond you you will retali problem is

[04:13] our country didn't respond look the EU

[04:16] was set up in order to take advantage of

[04:18] the United States including Ireland is

[04:20] Ireland taking advantage of the US of

[04:23] course they are I can't you know I have

[04:25] great respect for Ireland or what they

[04:27] did and they should have done just what

[04:29] they did but the United States shouldn't

[04:31] have let it happen we had stupid leaders

[04:33] we had leaders that didn't have a clue

[04:35] or let's say they weren't business

[04:36] people but they didn't have a clue what

[04:38] was happening and all of a sudden

[04:40] Ireland has you know our

[04:42] Farmers that's him talking to the Tesa

[04:45] by the way you could see how poorly I

[04:46] pronounced it the tasa the leader of

[04:51] Ireland other countries can tariff the

[04:53] importation of American Goods but we

[04:55] don't tariff the importation of their

[04:58] goods now on the surface we thought we

[05:00] were getting the better end of the

[05:01] deal we said oh my goodness we get all

[05:04] of these cheap products we get

[05:06] mercedes-benzes we get Toyotas we get

[05:09] Samsungs but over

[05:12] time you can only go to the well so many

[05:15] times you can only go to the cheap money

[05:18] spigot so often and the more that you

[05:21] start to get high on the unlimited flow

[05:24] of cheap money the bill comes due and

[05:27] the bill has come due everybody with the

[05:29] the Chinese Communist party and our

[05:31] inability to make critical

[05:37] manufacturing Peter Navaro had an an

[05:39] amazing appearance on Jesse Waters and I

[05:42] want to break this down when he started

[05:44] talking about the details of the

[05:48] different tariffs that are put

[05:51] on American Goods let's play Cut 134

[05:55] please now there was a reason Jesse a

[05:58] reason why ter

[06:00] didn't cause a whiff of inflation during

[06:03] the first term we did historic tariffs

[06:05] on China we had steel and aluminum

[06:07] tariffs we had solar we had dishwash we

[06:10] had these beautiful tariffs bringing in

[06:13] billions of dollars we had price

[06:15] stability and growth and I buried the

[06:17] lead Jesse we are going to get the best

[06:21] tax cut in history paid for in large

[06:24] part by tariff revenues from around the

[06:27] world taking Jesse from the people who

[06:29] been cheating us around the world with

[06:31] higher tariffs and higher non-tariff

[06:33] barriers it's a beautiful bullish

[06:35] scenario we're bridging from Biden

[06:38] nomics to the bullishness of trump and

[06:41] nomics and what you see in the markets

[06:44] could be best described

[06:46] as a little bit of a expulsion I don't

[06:50] want to use too graphic language but you

[06:52] know it if you get the stomach flu with

[06:53] the Norovirus sometimes your body needs

[06:56] to expel some of the bad this is going

[07:00] to be a little bit of a a transition

[07:03] phase I don't like to use the word

[07:05] transitory too much because the other

[07:07] Administration butchered it look

[07:09] president Trump could easily not do this

[07:11] understand the decision in front of

[07:12] President Trump president Trump very

[07:16] easily could have said no tariffs keep

[07:18] the market untouched let the quote

[07:21] unquote good times roll and the American

[07:23] middle class suffers you do not have a

[07:25] nation you do not have a country you do

[07:27] not have a social contract or social

[07:29] compact if you do not have a robust

[07:33] middle

[07:34] class a middle class is one that owns

[07:38] property that pays your taxes that makes

[07:40] your goods and

[07:42] services it is so tempting to be nothing

[07:44] but a service economy but that has been

[07:46] the 1% that has done so well over the

[07:49] last 40 to 50 years Peter Navaro

[07:54] continues play Cut

[07:56] 133 we got the 3D thre dimension war on

[08:00] inflation right it's drill baby drill

[08:02] think about just going from $80 Barrel

[08:05] oil down to 50 you almost solve the

[08:07] whole thing right there but then you got

[08:09] deregulation and you got the Doge effect

[08:12] which is basically taking out waste

[08:14] Fraud and Abuse reducing our government

[08:16] debt what does that do that reduces

[08:19] Jesse mortgage rates and interest rates

[08:21] which helps stimulate the Home Market

[08:24] and allows consumers not to have that

[08:26] overhang of debt

[08:31] understand this what president Trump is

[08:33] doing write this down text your friends

[08:35] commit it to memory what president Trump

[08:38] is doing is completely

[08:42] reorganizing the

[08:43] philosophical the political the

[08:46] geopolitical and the moral posture of

[08:49] the federal

[08:51] government

[08:52] economically it's a big

[08:55] deal it's going to take a little bit of

[08:57] a process but coming out of it will

[09:00] become the strongest most robust

[09:01] longlasting American economy in history

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[09:42] Meat delivered and there was an amazing

[09:45] clip that the Jesse Waters team pulled

[09:47] out that I said I got to play this on

[09:48] the show if you want to explain the

[09:51] birth the foundation the

[09:54] Catalyst of the Maga

[09:57] movement this clip

[09:59] summarizes better than almost any this

[10:01] is this sort of behavior is the Genesis

[10:04] of the populist movement to put this in

[10:07] perspective this is this clip happened

[10:09] before I was born this is from November

[10:12] of

[10:14] 1992 I was born in October of

[10:17] 1993 before I was even

[10:21] boring this is a reporter that went to

[10:25] Bethlehem

[10:26] Pennsylvania and was summarizing what we

[10:29] were just just describing so basically

[10:30] here's what happened is a bunch of smart

[10:32] guys like Mitt Romney and the consultant

[10:35] class the ruling class they all got

[10:38] their practitioner master's degrees from

[10:41] Harvard and what they were told is the

[10:44] most important thing is maximizing

[10:46] profit they were told the most important

[10:47] thing was maximizing the dollar you see

[10:51] but that's not the only political

[10:52] question that's the only economic

[10:54] question but when the political question

[10:56] you must balance human happiness

[10:57] Community Family crime

[11:02] displacement but if you only ask the

[11:05] economic maximization question

[11:08] especially those that have no interest

[11:11] in the well-being of the body politic of

[11:13] the nation or in the citizenry you get

[11:15] decisions like this so you go to place

[11:18] like Harvard and you get a master's

[11:19] degree from the Harvard Business School

[11:22] and the Harvard Business School will

[11:24] tell you it makes sense to shut down the

[11:26] mill because they're unionized it takes

[11:29] too long they're not as efficient so

[11:32] shut down the mill in Bethlehem

[11:34] Pennsylvania because let's just say a

[11:36] thing of Steel let's just use round

[11:38] numbers cost you a hundred bucks and in

[11:40] China you can get it for 60 bucks and

[11:44] yes you got to ship it and then but

[11:46] there'll be no tariff that's the key

[11:48] everybody that's the kicker if the

[11:51] American government would have said

[11:52] actually we're going to put a 10% tariff

[11:54] on the consultant class like Mitt Romney

[11:57] and all the Bane capital cabal they

[12:00] never would have been able to do

[12:02] this this example right here happened

[12:05] tens of thousands of times City by City

[12:08] neighborhood by neighborhood block by

[12:10] block and this eventually led to First

[12:14] Ross perau Ross perau was the first one

[12:17] to run under this energy he was the

[12:19] first one to recognize this this

[12:22] happened tens of thousands of times of

[12:24] plants closing and there were millions

[12:26] of people who lost their jobs so I want

[12:28] you to multiply what you were about to

[12:31] see an incredibly powerful piece of tape

[12:34] credit to the Jesse Waters production

[12:36] team for finding it Commit This one to

[12:38] memory this here is what led us to this

[12:41] moment and what president Trump is doing

[12:43] is simply fixing what happened before I

[12:46] was even born and now president Trump is

[12:47] getting blamed by that for the media

[12:49] he's fixing what happened in this tape

[12:52] the human tragedy's unfathomable it was

[12:54] a it was way too quick of a

[12:56] de-industrialization and drugs came in

[12:58] and opioids came in and crime came in

[13:00] unemployment came in and misery came in

[13:02] and suicide came in play Cut

[13:04] 141 for ages hot molten steel has been

[13:07] the lifeblood of Johnstown vigorously

[13:10] pumping dollars and jobs through the

[13:12] city's veins but now the pulse of the

[13:14] community is in Cardiac Arrest Bethlehem

[13:18] officials aren't making any more

[13:19] comments than what's contained in this

[13:21] press release they're sorry but it's

[13:23] simply not cost effective to run the

[13:25] mill any longer it it does hurt and

[13:28] there's a dramatic SP spin-off is going

[13:29] to come from that and uh there's going

[13:31] to be a lot of problems that have to be

[13:33] solved in part Bethlehem sites Fierce

[13:36] foreign competition and the national

[13:38] economy for their demise for some

[13:40] Bethlehem employees it's hard to look

[13:42] past the shocking news go don't rely on

[13:45] a corporation that don't want you in a

[13:48] sense they don't care you know you're

[13:50] only a

[13:52] number you know who that guy is right

[13:54] now 30 years

[13:55] later that guy is the guy the side of

[13:58] the street with the Maga flag that sits

[14:00] at Bethlehem Pennsylvania for 3 hours a

[14:02] day you that guy that just showed on the

[14:04] piece of tape there that's the guy that

[14:06] Waits 6 hours to go see President Trump

[14:08] speak at a magel now I'm of course

[14:10] exaggerating I don't know who this man

[14:11] is I'm saying the archetype of who this

[14:15] person

[14:16] is that guy whomever I don't even know

[14:18] if he's still living but he's a younger

[14:21] person in this or he might have died of

[14:23] heart disease and a broken heart

[14:25] divorced and poor because we decided

[14:29] to ship the factory

[14:33] overseas we broke the social compact we

[14:36] did that and understand just just

[14:39] remember this it is the experts who did

[14:42] this it is the same type of experts that

[14:44] told us six feet to slow the spread the

[14:47] same types of experts that came in all

[14:49] in the name of an abstraction called

[14:51] free trade free trade free

[14:53] trade on certain things of course if we

[14:56] can have reciprocal free trade but it

[14:59] was a neoliberal

[15:02] abstraction and what did it get us got

[15:06] us communities that look like

[15:10] Gaza and a lot of people suffering and

[15:13] also the rise of the magga movement