March 6, 2025 • 15 mins
1. Public Approval:
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- A CBS poll indicated that 76% of viewers approved of Trump's address.
- 91% of viewers felt Trump addressed issues they cared about.
- 74% found the address presidential, informative, and entertaining.
- 71% found the speech inspiring.
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Content of the Speech:
- Trump highlighted his accomplishments since his inauguration and emphasized that his administration was just getting started.
- He discussed bringing terrorists to justice, supporting a young boy fighting cancer, and other patriotic themes.
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Democratic Response:
- We criticize Democrats for not standing or clapping during certain parts of the speech.
- It mentions that some Democrats, like Representative Al Green, showed active opposition during the address.
- The commentary suggests that Democrats are portrayed as negative and uncooperative.
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Media Reactions:
- We note that the media outlets like CBS and ABC reported on the speech and the Democratic response.
- It mentions that some media personalities suggested Democrats should have walked out during the address.
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Economic and Policy Issues:
- Trump addressed issues like inflation and the cost of living, with 68% of viewers believing he had a clear plan to tackle these issues.
- We discuss Trump's use of tariffs to combat the influx of synthetic opioids from China and other countries.
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Criticism of Democrats:
- The commentary criticizes Democrats for their stance on various issues, including their reaction to Trump's policies and their approach to governance.
- It suggests that Democrats are advocating for anarchy and insurrection.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this
Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America.
We have accomplished more in forty three days than most
administrations accomplished in four years or eight years, and we
are just getting started.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Good Thursday morning. It has Ben Ferguson with you. It's
the forty seven Morning Update, and here are the big
stories we're covering today. First up, it was a grand
slam for the President of the United States of America
with a joint addressed to Congress.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
How do we know that bill? A new CBS poll says.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's seventy six percent approved of Donald Trump's address. I'll
break down the poll numbers for you in much more
detail in just a moment. Plus, Democrats didn't learn a
darn thing from election night, and they certainly didn't learn
anything in the addressed to Congress as anarchy set in
among the Democratic Party. So when you look at the polls,
are they going to change the way they're doing things?
Apparently not. And we have a big showdown over censoring
(01:02):
one of those Democrats in the House of Representatives. And finally,
it's a really important subject. It is the tariffs on China,
on Canada, and on Mexico.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
So what is this really all about. I'm going to
give you.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Exclusive details from the White House on exactly what they
want you to know. It's the forty seven Morning Update
and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Here is story number one.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
After you do a.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Say of the Union, the question is did it land
with the American people?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well? Boy, did it?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Ever, CBS poll has come out and said that seventy
six percent approved of President Trump's address to Congress. I
cannot tell you how massive that actually is. The majority
of Americans overwhelmingly supporting Donald Trump's decisions, and viewers who
watched it said, yes, we approve of what Donald Trump
(01:50):
had to say in his speech, which was the longest
day of the Union ever to that Joint Session of
Congress Tuesday night. Now, Trump boasted about the many accomplishments
since being inaugurated January two, and exclaimed, we are just
getting started. Did the American people believe and support what
the President was saying?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
A wopping seventy six percent of those watching said they
approved of Trump's first second term speech to Congress, and
this is again coming from CBS News. Now, one of
the X factors of this is also just how negative
and honestly psycho the Democrats look. They wouldn't even stand
and clap when someone gets into West Point who had
(02:28):
lost a loved one. They wouldn't stand and clap for
a young boy who has made a Secret Service agent.
They wouldn't clap when we talked about bringing actual terrorists
to have killed Americans at Abba Gate to justice in
the United States of America.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And I'm going to have more on that list in
a moment.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But that may be why the President landed the speech
so well, is because the American people could see just
how much the Democratic Party hates basic things that all
Americans should be in favor of. It shouldn't be a
partisan issue if you have a president saying we're bringing
terrorists to justice. It shouldn't be a partisan issue to
(03:06):
stand for a young boy who is fighting for his
life with cancer and surviving and then being made a
you know, a Secret Service agent. This is one of
those moments that everyone should clap for, and yet the
Democrats refused to stand. So let's get to the poll
numbers and really break this down. Not only did ninety
(03:27):
one percent say that Donald Trump spent time on issues
they cared about, meaning that is a speech that landed.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Look, I've gotten to help on a couple of.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Different Stay of the Union addresses, and if you walked
into the presence at miss President, we just wrote you
a speech that ninety one percent of the country is
going to connect with and say that you talked about
an issue they cared about. Let me just tell you,
you would be a god in the political speech writing world. Okay,
I've never seen a speech to my knowledge that rated
afterwards at ninety one percent. That is the holy grail
(03:55):
where ninety one percent of the people watching said, hey,
you talked about something that I genuinely care about.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Now, that is unbelievable on its face.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
But then you go back to the other question, Okay,
was the speech something you watched for a long period
of time That simply comes down to an issue of entertainment.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Are you engaged?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Is the president speaking to you or is he talking
about things that you don't care about?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, ninety one.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Percent said the President spend time on issues they cared about,
and then seventy four percent said the address was presidential
and also informative and entertaining. A total of seventy one
percent after that said this speech was inspiring to them. Now,
let's go back to speech writing here and say the units.
When you're writing a speech like this, if you could
(04:39):
walk into any president say hey, I'm going to give
you a speech that ninety one percent are going to
say connected with them in a way, Seventy four percent
said that your address was quote presidential, and then seventy
one percent, mister President, said the speech was inspiring to them.
That is, these are numbers that I would literally argue
are virtually unobtainable. Now, these numbers I just gave if
(05:00):
you all came from CBS News, so they had to
have been on a suicide watch after they had to
report this as a news organization, because this is not
what they were hoping to tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Next story number two.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
If you thought the Democrats were going to learn anything
from Donald Trump's speech or how America reacted to it
with the incredible poll numbers, well you'd be wrong, because
they are all now saying that they didn't do enough
to disrupt the president of the United States of America.
Even ABC news is. Sonney Hosten said all the Democrats
should have walked out during Donald Trump's address that on
(05:33):
the view saying the Democratic lawmakers should have I guessed,
in essence, said we're standing with you. To the one
man that actually was booted from the night, Sonny Hosten said,
you know, while I didn't watch it, I was looking
for signs of an opposition party, which is what the
Democratic Party must be at this point, not a resistance
because resistance is passive. Opposition is active. I think that
(05:57):
is what I saw when Representative Val Green stood up
and said, quote, you don't have a mandate to take
away Medicaid, and he was tossed out. I expected the
rest of his Democratic caucus, his colleagues, to walk out
with him, because alone you can survive, but together you thrive.
She went on to say later in the program that quote,
(06:18):
that is the energy that we need. They should have
stood with him in solidarity. We had Jean Pierre here
on this show yesterday and she said, we have to
have a sense of urgency as we move forward, and
we cannot do it the way we have in the past.
This is not normal. It is a five alarm fire.
And what I want to say to the Democrats is
(06:39):
you can't play by the rules with a party that
has thrown away the rule book.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You cannot do it. Now.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
This is coming from the same people that tried to
put Donald Trump in prison and anyone else around him.
They're the ones that advocated for the raid of Marlago.
They're the ones that said that the people around January
the sixth were the same as terrorists that attack this
country on nine to eleven, you know Sama bin Laden
in Alquaida. These are also the same people that are
now actively advocating for anarchy or another word, Democrats obsessed
(07:10):
over insurrectionists. Now it seems that the Democratic Party is
calling for exactly that anarchy and insurrection, but not from
people outside the capitol. They're literally advocating for it by
the people that have been elected inside of our government.
You may have also seen during Donald Trump's joint address
to Congress, the purple haired congresswoman who went viral Tuesday
(07:31):
night for scowling throughout the entirety of President Donald Trump's
addressed to Congress. Well, she decided it was not enough
just to scowl at the president all night. She even
put out a special video on X saying this.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I was really stunned that the election was fought over
the cost of living and people families who live pacheck
to paycheck, concerned about whether or not they were going
to be able to pay their bills, be able to
pay for the healthcare. In some cases, you be putting
food on the table. Addressed tonight didn't address any of
those issues about cost of living and the fact that
(08:05):
people live paycheck to paycheck, and what we ought to
be doing in the Congress is to make sure that
we are helping people to secure an economic future for
themselves and their families.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
By the way, let's just hit pause there and go
what to the CBS poll numbers actually did tell us
about the speech. The people watching the speech definitely believe
that the president was actually talking about those things. In fact,
when asked whether the president had a clear plan to
battle inflation in the speech, sixty eight percent said yes,
and it was a plan that they could get behind.
(08:38):
So what is she actually complaining about. She's complaining about
the fact that Democratic Party lost the last election. And
that is when she tells you the truth about how
much she hates Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Keep listening.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I found the speech to be vengeful, revengeful, and instead
of being lifting the hopes and the aspirations of people
of the United States of how we move forward as
a great nation that we are, what the vision for
our future was, it devolved into just vindictiveness and self
(09:11):
adulation on behalf of Donald Trump did not address the
issue of unchecked billionaires like his friend ally and Elon Musk.
It was not a speech befitting a great world leader
or a great president of the United States.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
So there you have it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
They're angry about Elon Musk cutting their waists, their fraud,
and their abuse. They're also angry to Elon Musk for
apparently being wealthy, but they have no problem with George
Soros or any of the other billionaires on the left
that have been financing this type of quote anarchy and
revengeful vengefulness to quote her. So at the end of
the day, if you thought Democrats were going to learn
(09:55):
from their mistakes, apparently they're not at all, and that
may actually be a good thing for Donald Trump and
his agenda.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And finally, story number three, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Very important that you understand what's going on with Donald
Trump using tariffs to protect American lives There's a lot
of misinformation out there about the President and the tariffs
that have just gone into effect, and I want you
to understand why. First off, the President is actually doing this.
You may not know, but President Joe Biden did very
(10:24):
little on fighting to protect Americans from fetnal. Fetnal smugglers
killed roughly three hundred thousand Americans during his time in office.
That is exactly why President Trump has quickly imposed painful
tariffs on countries that are helping those smugglers that killed
again three hundred thousand Americans during the Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I determined that the failure of the Government of the
People's Republic of China to act to blunt the sustained
influx of synthetic opioids, including fetan, flowing from the Chinese
Republic to the United States constituted an unusual and extraordinary
threat to the national security, foreign policy, an economy of
(11:11):
the United States of America. That is what Donald Trump
declared in his March third Order. He also went on
to say this in recognition of the fact that China
has not taken adequate steps to alleviate the illicit drug crisis.
Section two A of Executive Order fourteen nineteen five is
hereby amended by striking the words ten percent and inserting
(11:32):
in lieu thereof the words twenty percent. The order is
titled Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply
Chain in the People's Republic of China. Now, this isn't
the only place we're having problems when it comes to
Americans dying because of the drugs that are pouring across
the open borders. Trump also posted trade penalties against Mexico
(11:55):
and Canada, where criminal gangs are producing more drugs for
xp to the United States. Now, the vast death toll
from fetanol, much of which is manufactured in Mexico from
chemicals that were directly produced in China, is described in
multiple government reports. This is something that Biden administration knew,
and they didn't care that three hundred plus thousand Americans
(12:18):
were oding. Yet Biden's countermeasures were, by the way, all
tactical when he did act like he was acting, and
he put little or no pressure on Mexico and China
to stop the killing of Americans. In part, Biden's deputies,
including Border Chief Majorchis, they prioritize trade deals with China
and migration deals with Mexico over American lives.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Let me give you an example.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
In twenty twenty two, Biden's deputies stayed mute when Texas
Governor Greg Abbott uses power over cross border inspections to
force modest concessions from four Mexican regional governments. Unsurprisingly, Trump's
efforts are being opposed by pro illegal immigrant advocates who
(13:04):
do not want to recognize the huge death told to
American citizens. For example, Aaron Boyke at The Washing and
Post wrote this, President Donald Trump's long promised tariffs on
goods from Canada and Mexico are due to going to
effect Tuesday. This despite fears that the taxes on imports
could cripple the economies of our two neighboring allies and
(13:25):
negatively impact the US economy as well by exacerbating inflation.
You notice they don't care about American families being ripped
apart by these synthetic drugs. The New York Times wrote,
for American families, the likely result is higher prices nearly
everywhere they turn, trying to fear monger you that the
grocery prices are more important than your children's lives. They
(13:46):
also went on to talk about car dealerships and electronics
stores and iPhones and what you're going to pay at
the pump. The Wall Street Journal even ignored the narcotics
trade as it slammed Donald Trump's tariffs. Good news is
Donald Trump wasted no time responding to the Wall Street
Journal criticism, saying this quote the terrifobby headed by the
globalist and always wrong. Wall Street Journal is working hard
(14:09):
to justify countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many
others to name continue the decades long ripoff of America,
both with regard to trade crime and poisonous drugs that
are allowed to so freely flow into America. China, by
the way, is also rejecting Trump's focus on fetnol, saying, Oh,
(14:29):
it's not a big deal, calm down. The President of
the United States of America, however, is saying, Yes, this
is a battle worth fighting. Why Because it's already cost
the lives of more than three hundred thousand Americans and
that clearly is something he's willing to fight for.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast,
and we will see you back here tomorrow
Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this
Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America.
We have accomplished more in forty three days than most
administrations accomplished in four years or eight years, and we
are just getting started.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Good Thursday morning. It has Ben Ferguson with you. It's
the forty seven Morning Update, and here are the big
stories we're covering today. First up, it was a grand
slam for the President of the United States of America
with a joint addressed to Congress.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
How do we know that bill? A new CBS poll says.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's seventy six percent approved of Donald Trump's address. I'll
break down the poll numbers for you in much more
detail in just a moment. Plus, Democrats didn't learn a
darn thing from election night, and they certainly didn't learn
anything in the addressed to Congress as anarchy set in
among the Democratic Party. So when you look at the polls,
are they going to change the way they're doing things?
Apparently not. And we have a big showdown over censoring
(01:02):
one of those Democrats in the House of Representatives. And finally,
it's a really important subject. It is the tariffs on China,
on Canada, and on Mexico.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
So what is this really all about. I'm going to
give you.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Exclusive details from the White House on exactly what they
want you to know. It's the forty seven Morning Update
and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Here is story number one.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
After you do a.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Say of the Union, the question is did it land
with the American people?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well? Boy, did it?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Ever, CBS poll has come out and said that seventy
six percent approved of President Trump's address to Congress. I
cannot tell you how massive that actually is. The majority
of Americans overwhelmingly supporting Donald Trump's decisions, and viewers who
watched it said, yes, we approve of what Donald Trump
(01:50):
had to say in his speech, which was the longest
day of the Union ever to that Joint Session of
Congress Tuesday night. Now, Trump boasted about the many accomplishments
since being inaugurated January two, and exclaimed, we are just
getting started. Did the American people believe and support what
the President was saying?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
A wopping seventy six percent of those watching said they
approved of Trump's first second term speech to Congress, and
this is again coming from CBS News. Now, one of
the X factors of this is also just how negative
and honestly psycho the Democrats look. They wouldn't even stand
and clap when someone gets into West Point who had
(02:28):
lost a loved one. They wouldn't stand and clap for
a young boy who has made a Secret Service agent.
They wouldn't clap when we talked about bringing actual terrorists
to have killed Americans at Abba Gate to justice in
the United States of America.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And I'm going to have more on that list in
a moment.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But that may be why the President landed the speech
so well, is because the American people could see just
how much the Democratic Party hates basic things that all
Americans should be in favor of. It shouldn't be a
partisan issue if you have a president saying we're bringing
terrorists to justice. It shouldn't be a partisan issue to
(03:06):
stand for a young boy who is fighting for his
life with cancer and surviving and then being made a
you know, a Secret Service agent. This is one of
those moments that everyone should clap for, and yet the
Democrats refused to stand. So let's get to the poll
numbers and really break this down. Not only did ninety
(03:27):
one percent say that Donald Trump spent time on issues
they cared about, meaning that is a speech that landed.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Look, I've gotten to help on a couple of.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Different Stay of the Union addresses, and if you walked
into the presence at miss President, we just wrote you
a speech that ninety one percent of the country is
going to connect with and say that you talked about
an issue they cared about. Let me just tell you,
you would be a god in the political speech writing world. Okay,
I've never seen a speech to my knowledge that rated
afterwards at ninety one percent. That is the holy grail
(03:55):
where ninety one percent of the people watching said, hey,
you talked about something that I genuinely care about.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Now, that is unbelievable on its face.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
But then you go back to the other question, Okay,
was the speech something you watched for a long period
of time That simply comes down to an issue of entertainment.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Are you engaged?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Is the president speaking to you or is he talking
about things that you don't care about?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, ninety one.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Percent said the President spend time on issues they cared about,
and then seventy four percent said the address was presidential
and also informative and entertaining. A total of seventy one
percent after that said this speech was inspiring to them. Now,
let's go back to speech writing here and say the units.
When you're writing a speech like this, if you could
(04:39):
walk into any president say hey, I'm going to give
you a speech that ninety one percent are going to
say connected with them in a way, Seventy four percent
said that your address was quote presidential, and then seventy
one percent, mister President, said the speech was inspiring to them.
That is, these are numbers that I would literally argue
are virtually unobtainable. Now, these numbers I just gave if
(05:00):
you all came from CBS News, so they had to
have been on a suicide watch after they had to
report this as a news organization, because this is not
what they were hoping to tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Next story number two.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
If you thought the Democrats were going to learn anything
from Donald Trump's speech or how America reacted to it
with the incredible poll numbers, well you'd be wrong, because
they are all now saying that they didn't do enough
to disrupt the president of the United States of America.
Even ABC news is. Sonney Hosten said all the Democrats
should have walked out during Donald Trump's address that on
(05:33):
the view saying the Democratic lawmakers should have I guessed,
in essence, said we're standing with you. To the one
man that actually was booted from the night, Sonny Hosten said,
you know, while I didn't watch it, I was looking
for signs of an opposition party, which is what the
Democratic Party must be at this point, not a resistance
because resistance is passive. Opposition is active. I think that
(05:57):
is what I saw when Representative Val Green stood up
and said, quote, you don't have a mandate to take
away Medicaid, and he was tossed out. I expected the
rest of his Democratic caucus, his colleagues, to walk out
with him, because alone you can survive, but together you thrive.
She went on to say later in the program that quote,
(06:18):
that is the energy that we need. They should have
stood with him in solidarity. We had Jean Pierre here
on this show yesterday and she said, we have to
have a sense of urgency as we move forward, and
we cannot do it the way we have in the past.
This is not normal. It is a five alarm fire.
And what I want to say to the Democrats is
(06:39):
you can't play by the rules with a party that
has thrown away the rule book.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You cannot do it. Now.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
This is coming from the same people that tried to
put Donald Trump in prison and anyone else around him.
They're the ones that advocated for the raid of Marlago.
They're the ones that said that the people around January
the sixth were the same as terrorists that attack this
country on nine to eleven, you know Sama bin Laden
in Alquaida. These are also the same people that are
now actively advocating for anarchy or another word, Democrats obsessed
(07:10):
over insurrectionists. Now it seems that the Democratic Party is
calling for exactly that anarchy and insurrection, but not from
people outside the capitol. They're literally advocating for it by
the people that have been elected inside of our government.
You may have also seen during Donald Trump's joint address
to Congress, the purple haired congresswoman who went viral Tuesday
(07:31):
night for scowling throughout the entirety of President Donald Trump's
addressed to Congress. Well, she decided it was not enough
just to scowl at the president all night. She even
put out a special video on X saying this.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I was really stunned that the election was fought over
the cost of living and people families who live pacheck
to paycheck, concerned about whether or not they were going
to be able to pay their bills, be able to
pay for the healthcare. In some cases, you be putting
food on the table. Addressed tonight didn't address any of
those issues about cost of living and the fact that
(08:05):
people live paycheck to paycheck, and what we ought to
be doing in the Congress is to make sure that
we are helping people to secure an economic future for
themselves and their families.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
By the way, let's just hit pause there and go
what to the CBS poll numbers actually did tell us
about the speech. The people watching the speech definitely believe
that the president was actually talking about those things. In fact,
when asked whether the president had a clear plan to
battle inflation in the speech, sixty eight percent said yes,
and it was a plan that they could get behind.
(08:38):
So what is she actually complaining about. She's complaining about
the fact that Democratic Party lost the last election. And
that is when she tells you the truth about how
much she hates Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Keep listening.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I found the speech to be vengeful, revengeful, and instead
of being lifting the hopes and the aspirations of people
of the United States of how we move forward as
a great nation that we are, what the vision for
our future was, it devolved into just vindictiveness and self
(09:11):
adulation on behalf of Donald Trump did not address the
issue of unchecked billionaires like his friend ally and Elon Musk.
It was not a speech befitting a great world leader
or a great president of the United States.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
So there you have it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
They're angry about Elon Musk cutting their waists, their fraud,
and their abuse. They're also angry to Elon Musk for
apparently being wealthy, but they have no problem with George
Soros or any of the other billionaires on the left
that have been financing this type of quote anarchy and
revengeful vengefulness to quote her. So at the end of
the day, if you thought Democrats were going to learn
(09:55):
from their mistakes, apparently they're not at all, and that
may actually be a good thing for Donald Trump and
his agenda.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And finally, story number three, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Very important that you understand what's going on with Donald
Trump using tariffs to protect American lives There's a lot
of misinformation out there about the President and the tariffs
that have just gone into effect, and I want you
to understand why. First off, the President is actually doing this.
You may not know, but President Joe Biden did very
(10:24):
little on fighting to protect Americans from fetnal. Fetnal smugglers
killed roughly three hundred thousand Americans during his time in office.
That is exactly why President Trump has quickly imposed painful
tariffs on countries that are helping those smugglers that killed
again three hundred thousand Americans during the Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I determined that the failure of the Government of the
People's Republic of China to act to blunt the sustained
influx of synthetic opioids, including fetan, flowing from the Chinese
Republic to the United States constituted an unusual and extraordinary
threat to the national security, foreign policy, an economy of
(11:11):
the United States of America. That is what Donald Trump
declared in his March third Order. He also went on
to say this in recognition of the fact that China
has not taken adequate steps to alleviate the illicit drug crisis.
Section two A of Executive Order fourteen nineteen five is
hereby amended by striking the words ten percent and inserting
(11:32):
in lieu thereof the words twenty percent. The order is
titled Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply
Chain in the People's Republic of China. Now, this isn't
the only place we're having problems when it comes to
Americans dying because of the drugs that are pouring across
the open borders. Trump also posted trade penalties against Mexico
(11:55):
and Canada, where criminal gangs are producing more drugs for
xp to the United States. Now, the vast death toll
from fetanol, much of which is manufactured in Mexico from
chemicals that were directly produced in China, is described in
multiple government reports. This is something that Biden administration knew,
and they didn't care that three hundred plus thousand Americans
(12:18):
were oding. Yet Biden's countermeasures were, by the way, all
tactical when he did act like he was acting, and
he put little or no pressure on Mexico and China
to stop the killing of Americans. In part, Biden's deputies,
including Border Chief Majorchis, they prioritize trade deals with China
and migration deals with Mexico over American lives.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Let me give you an example.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
In twenty twenty two, Biden's deputies stayed mute when Texas
Governor Greg Abbott uses power over cross border inspections to
force modest concessions from four Mexican regional governments. Unsurprisingly, Trump's
efforts are being opposed by pro illegal immigrant advocates who
(13:04):
do not want to recognize the huge death told to
American citizens. For example, Aaron Boyke at The Washing and
Post wrote this, President Donald Trump's long promised tariffs on
goods from Canada and Mexico are due to going to
effect Tuesday. This despite fears that the taxes on imports
could cripple the economies of our two neighboring allies and
(13:25):
negatively impact the US economy as well by exacerbating inflation.
You notice they don't care about American families being ripped
apart by these synthetic drugs. The New York Times wrote,
for American families, the likely result is higher prices nearly
everywhere they turn, trying to fear monger you that the
grocery prices are more important than your children's lives. They
(13:46):
also went on to talk about car dealerships and electronics
stores and iPhones and what you're going to pay at
the pump. The Wall Street Journal even ignored the narcotics
trade as it slammed Donald Trump's tariffs. Good news is
Donald Trump wasted no time responding to the Wall Street
Journal criticism, saying this quote the terrifobby headed by the
globalist and always wrong. Wall Street Journal is working hard
(14:09):
to justify countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many
others to name continue the decades long ripoff of America,
both with regard to trade crime and poisonous drugs that
are allowed to so freely flow into America. China, by
the way, is also rejecting Trump's focus on fetnol, saying, Oh,
(14:29):
it's not a big deal, calm down. The President of
the United States of America, however, is saying, Yes, this
is a battle worth fighting. Why Because it's already cost
the lives of more than three hundred thousand Americans and
that clearly is something he's willing to fight for.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
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