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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and Load from
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Patty O'Brien, ex Irish assassin, his trademarker. A superstitious man,
he leaves a tiny keepsake from his good luck bracelet
on every victim he kills.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Scotland Yard would love to get their hands on that
piece of evidence. Yes, they're always after me, Lucky charms.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Like everyone is laughing when I say that, you'll go,
You'll say, and you've work to do in the morning,
given your dream of.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Gold for didn't your sails in goal?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Jeral?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
General? Jeru?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Are you very general?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Is onside?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Tell you?
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Why lag this?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't let don't lie? I want to steno.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Let's see.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
I say.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's respectus.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Always as.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It is a Saint Patrick's Day edition of The Michael
Berry Show. And we start with this week's Maga minute.
You know, Elon Musk asking employees paid by the taxpayers
to respond to him having been put there by the
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man who was elected by the taxpayers to fix our government,
among other things, and secure our border and get rid
of the illegals and the criminals. And boy is he
doing all of those things in spades, the government employees,
the bureaucrats, lazy, entitled bureaucrats. Michael, I've never written you
(03:14):
an email, but I just want you to know Zar,
I don't appreciate you call me lazy and entitled. No,
those are adjectives. That's not your title. You might be
a federal employee, but you're not a lazy entitled federal
employee Unless you're lazy and or entitled. There are plenty
(03:35):
of federal employees who are not. I'm only talking about
the ones that are lazy and entitled. And if every
federal employee is going to get upset when we say that,
then what you're really doing is defending the people who
make your job miserable, and defending the very people that
the rest of us resent. You should be turning on them.
You should go whistleblower on them. But they got angry
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at Elon for asking that they send five things that
they've done the week before. You know what's amazing about
that people in the private sector do that every day.
We're all being measured and monitored. Baseball season will begin
in just a few days, and guess what you might
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really like this or that player, But they're not getting
on the field unless they produce. Imagine if it was
the government, the government would let some lazy guy stay
in right field. He has one hundred errors a year
and he's batten zero for the last five years, but
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we don't want to fire him. Well, here is Carolyn Levitt,
the President's Press Secretary, with this week's MAGA MiNet. You're
going to hear what they were up to the last week.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
It's been another incredibly busy week here at the People's House.
Let's roll through everything President Trump did for you, the
American people. The Department of Homeland Security repurposed the CBP
one app into the CVP home app for illegal immigrants
to self deport.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The number of illegal.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Immigrant godaways has plummeted to a daily average of just
seventy seven. Egg prices dropped this week, and the Department
of Agriculture unveiled a strategy to curb egg prices even further.
Inflation fell in February to its lowest point in just
under four years. So Maha moms myself included, got together
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at the White House to discuss the first Maha Commission
meeting and how we are going to make our food
in our country.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Healthy again. The Department of.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Education initiated a fifty percent reduction of force as we
continue to make our government more efficient, and several more
companies like merk Ge Aerospace and Asahi Beer announced massive
investments in the United States of America. We are building
back our country. We'll see you next week for the
MAGA Minute.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
A new President Trump ad has been released, calling the
Russian collusion hoax a bigger scandal than Watergate. Now what
makes me happy about this is that President Trump is
not going quietly into the good night and letting bygones
be bygones for what they have done to him. If
(06:20):
you follow me on Facebook you can see for yourself
the ad or on Twitter. But if you don't, or
if you follow our Daily Blast, which is our email
in between the two shows, which you can sign up
for it's free. Will never share or sell your email.
I never have and never will do that. Michael Berryshow
dot com. Even the audio is alone without the great
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visuals is pretty good. And this is about Hillary Clinton
and her crew.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
The biggest scandal was when they spied in my campaign.
If they spied in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
My campaign, it's no real evidence of that. Of course,
there is It's all over the place.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
A new report from special counsel John Durham. Clinton campaign
lawyers paid a tech company to infiltrate Trump servers to
fabricate a connection between Trump and Russia. Hillary Clinton broke
the law to frame Trump as a Russian trader.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
This is truly unprecedented, truly something that has never happened
in the history of our great country.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This is a digital insurrection.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Turns out that Trump Russian collusion story was just a
deflection from the Hillary Russian collusion story.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Trump was right, Trump was telling the truth.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
It was you.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Hillary Clinton undermined a democracy. There are people think she'd
go to jail, as Elon tusks Elon Musk often says,
why did I call him? Elon Tusk? As he often
says on Twitter, you are the media now in a
I am the captain now tone from the Somali Pilot
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pirate movie. But you are the media now. Go find
that video and share it on your site, give it
to the promotion it deserves. And don't worry that your
liberal sister in law will send an email that she
hates you and that you worship Trump. That means you're
over the target.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
This is the Michael Berry Show, Locked and loaded, Loaded.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I apologize you kill me. You've been subjected to You
two today because of all the great Irish music, Ramone
chooses on St. Patrick's Day to play You two. Of
all the blowhards out there. A good thing about Apple
(08:55):
putting this stupid U two song on the iPhones for
your years ago? Was it people who really never bothered
to have an opinion of You two hated YouTube for
them for them doing that. So NBC's Meet the Press
over the weekend and we're going to get kind of
heavily into the Sunday shows this week. There's some interesting
(09:17):
stuff in there, and it's kind of a tour to
force of you know, it's one of those games. You know,
professional baseball now, major League Baseball has really changed. When
I was growing up, Nolan Ryan would start the game
and Nolan Ryan would finish the game. That was also
true of Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver, I mean, you go,
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even his late as Glavin and Smolds and those guys,
the Professor Maddox, those guys would put in a full game.
But when I was growing up, the heyday, in my
opinion of professional baseball, seventies and eighties, you would start
and finish the game. Today they get a couple in.
He's out of a guy a few innings and then
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they start this you know, pitch back picture by committee
thing that that I don't know. I I enjoyed watching
a guy put in a full effort, you know, working
and watching him work through you know, if they got
if they got banged in the first inning two or
three runs. It wasn't uncommon for a good picture to
kind of work through that like a Dwight Gooden and
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you know he would be going into the ninth still
gave up three runs, gave his his team time. Well,
the Trump administration has a Nolan Ryan at At, you know,
the starting pitcher. He can he can go the whole game.
But I'm noticing that it's deflecting a little pressure off
of him. That you've got some other stars, And this
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didn't happen in the first administration who were stepping forward
and doing their part. Toolsey Gabbard, Pete Hegseth and and
uh Scott Bessen and Marco Rubio. I'm not a Rubio fan,
but my goodness, despite my best intentions to dislike the guy,
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he's doing a great job. So NBCs Meet the Press
reported that forty four percent of Americans say the country
is headed in the right direction. And you might be
thinking to yourself, only forty four percent, but in November
it was twenty seven percent. Forty four percent, so best
Trump's ever had, first of all, the mood of the country.
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This really jumped out.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
We asked, folks, is that on the right direction or
the wrong direction? That forty four percent? You say, right direction.
That's up since November. And if that doesn't seem like
a lot the last time it cracked forty percent, you
got to go back to twenty twelve. The last time
it actually hit forty four or higher January of two
thousand and four. So a lot of this is Republicans,
but independence. That number has also upsince the election. On
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the direction of the country. Take our wins where we
can get them, friends, This is fantastic, I mean, this
is just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Why why do they believe this? Because everyone intuitively knows,
including Democrats, that trend Aragua, for instance, a violent Venezuelan
gang is murdering people, is carrying out a criminal enterprise
in this country. Everyone intuitively knows this, so kicking these
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people out is good for the country. President Trump shared
a video and boys, this is a great video. He
shared a great video of these trendy Aragua Venezuelans being
dropped into El Salvador. You remember that the deal. Naib
Bukele had a meeting with Marco Rubio and they agreed
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to take our bad guys. That way, we get them
out of our country and we don't send them back
to their country where they can come here again, sometimes
with the assistance of their own government. And we pay
them for that. And I'm glad to do it because
we don't want these guys here. And he puts them
into his El Salvador in prisons. He had a military
force there to receive these It turns out to be
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it's going to have a chilling effect on bad guys
wanting to come here. It won't stop all of them,
but they're not going to want to end up in
El Salvador in prison when they see that that's where
they're going. That's going to change their mindset. And it
rallies the American people who says who say he promised
he'd do it and dead gun if he's not doing
it send and.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Trump is thanking the president of El Salvador. The country's
leader posted this video on Acts showing what he said
were more than two hundred trend To Iragua members arriving
at El Salvador over the weekend. He says they were
transferred to a terrorism confinement center for one year. A
senior Trump administration official tells our Bill Mallujian two one
hundred and sixty one illegal aliens who are deported to
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El Salvador on Saturday. Of those, one hundred and thirty
seven were removed via the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen
ninety eight. This wartime authority gives the president and the
power to deport non citizens without a judicial hearing. The
Act has only been invoked three other times in American history.
On Saturday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to
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stop the deportations to see if it's invocation was legal.
But the White House has two plans carrying alleged Venezuelan
gang members were already in international airspace when the judges
ruling came down, so they argue they did not defy
a court order. The President is justifying the use of
the Act.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
These were banned people suppers.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
That is our band group of as I say, congres Now,
this is a time of war because Biden allowed millions
of people, many of them criminals, many.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Of them at the highest level.
Speaker 11 (14:43):
They emptied jails out of the nation's emptied their jails
into the United States.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
It's an invasion.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
As it turns out, one of those trend de Aragua
gang banging murderous criminals wrote a song about his experience
being sent to El Salvador.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Why they put me on this plane?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I moved to the USA.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
I live here a long long time to continue life
for crime. I come from then Sway lone member of Trendaawa.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Gotta face tattoo.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
I really like like post Malone and Iron Mike. Why
are we landing in our Salpador? This place is scary,
that's for sure. Wish I stayed and got.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
A gust and never went to the US to kick
me out of the US. From kick me out of
the US.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
In preason and I'm literally don't drop the sub and
sung I won't go home.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
At the Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show, fathom this
for a moment, Ponder this for a moment. We can
continue doing things the way we've done them. The stock
market has been relatively supportive of that. The stock market
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is not a grand design of a well meaning, well
intentioned person who loves our country today and for the future.
The stock market is a bunch of individuals reacting, and
many of them in concert. There's no doubt they operate
in herds because they're all getting the same influencers and
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sources of influence. But you must understand that what the
market rewards is spending. So if you're considering the value
of these companies that are on the market, the more
money that is out there, the more money there is
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to spend on their products. And that means that their
revenues go up, they're paying out dividends, their stock prices
are going up. But that is not what is best
for America. I want you to have as much money
as you possibly can in your retirement account, your four
oh one K. We all do, but you also have
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to understand that if we're getting there at the expense
of our long term economic best interest, that's not positive.
You know, if you've ever been a sports team fan,
you know that sometimes you got to trade away herschel
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Walker to get a bunch of draft pick to get
a bunch of guys from Minnesota that become draft picks.
You're going to have a couple of tough years there
when you have a rebuilding year on your team. It's
tough to have a rebuilding year, but you do that
in order to have a championship team a couple of
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seasons down the road, I think we're going to see
an economic growth in Q three and Q four. I
think we're in for a tough Q two and probably
a tough Q three. I think this summer is going
to be brutal. I think this fall may be brutal
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as well. But I think that by next January, our
calendar year twenty six is going to look a lot better.
First of all, interest rates are down a touch, but
I read the other day that that was the number
sixty four percent. I think sixty four percent of Americans
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have a mortgage rate of five seven, five or lower. Well,
until you see a significant drop in interest rates, what
ends up happening is Americans have been convinced to pour
your cash into your home. It's a great investment. You're
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told it's not. And I'm not here to be your
financial advisor. I stayed opinions. I often don't have the
time to explain the depth of that opinion. But sinking
all your money into a home is a terrible idea.
In many states, including mine, Texas, the property tax increase
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even under Republican governments. We've had Republican government in this
state for thirty years, and our property taxes continue to increase,
and they don't want them not to increase. They don't
want to take measures to stop that. Well, when you
have exorbitant property taxes, you don't really own your property,
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You rent it from the government. When you start looking
at what people are paying in property taxes and state
of taxes alone, you realize that paid off asset, even
if you've paid it off, that asset is so expensive
because you have to pay for all the local schools
to have programs for illegal aliens. And that's what it
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comes down to. You have to pay for other wasteful things.
But when we talk about economic recovery, you talk about inflation.
If you lower the interest rate, you know you're going
to have inflation. If you pump money into the economy,
you know you're going to have inflation. And what we're
about have to wear is the hickey from pumping money
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into the economy. Quantitative easing began in earnest really you
think about it. At the end of the Bush administration
in two thousand and eight, Obama continued the funny money game.
And what we're doing right now is we are the
household that woke up on Saturday morning check the mail
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and realized, hey, you know, we've been using our credit
cards too much. We've got massive credit card loans. We
are struggling. We're having to take a significant portion of
our paycheck and pay just the interest on credit card debt,
just the interest alone. That doesn't even get us into
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the corpus, the principal. So that's never going to stop.
We're not knocking down the debt at all. And so
we are struggling with that as a nation right now.
As a nation of individuals, we are struggling with that.
Once those interest rates come down, and I believe they
will in Q three or Q four and you start
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getting those interest rates down below five point seventy five,
what we have right now are people who are in
homes that they may have some equity in, but not
enough to make it make sense. They can't sell their
home at less than five point seventy five and buy
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another home, whether they're downsizing because the kids are going
or upsizing because they've got kids and want to be
in a better school district, or whatever else. They can't
make that make sense when interest rates are above the
interest rate they currently have on their home, so that
keeps the mobility of homes at a lower level. That
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affects the number of new home starts, the number of
people who can enter into the housing market. Because you've
got you've got to push the price up so high
to make it attractive to a person who has a
better interest rate on their home. The only way to
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unlock some of this and make people want to sell
their homes, to put more homes on the market and
create some juice, some action, is the interest rates have
got to go back down. My home, I have a
I think it's a two and an eighth or two
and a quarter interest rate. It's incredible. I mean, we
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laugh because we can never leave. Why would we? Why
would we? So I say all that to say this.
The media is going to pound on the issue that
the stock market is going to see some volatility. They
are Do not let them fool you. What's happening Trump
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rebuilding right now. The tariffs we're already seeing and we'll
get into this in the next segment. We're already seeing
countries coming to the table and saying, all right, we'll
lower our terraffs. You have almost you have well over
two hundred percent tariffs by the Canadians on many of
our goods. Do you know that Trump has proposed reciprocal
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reciprocal tariffs on every country that has a tariff on us. Hey,
if you're if you're putting thirty five percent on our corn,
We're gonna put thirty five percent on your stuff. And
they are in a panic. Do you know what that means?
That means that we were getting ripped off by all
these other countries, and all he's saying is what you
did to us, we're doing to you and their panic.
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You've got dumb Michael Berry show. Let's talk about tariffs
from home because it's going to be important. Here's Treasury
Secretary of Scott and Bessen. This is going to be
five fourteen Ramon. He was on Meet the Press with
Kristen Welker and he said a April second will be
a big day. So two weeks away, April second will
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be a big day, and he explains, and I.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Can tell you so, April second is going to be
a big day. We're going to roll out the reciprocal tariffs.
But what I can tell you, and I would encourage
your viewers and the public and the media to follow
going into April second, And already now we've seen some
of our most imbalanced trading partners come forward and want
to drop their tariffs. So by President Trump pushing forward
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with a tariff plan reciprocal tariffs, if you drop yours
will drop hours. We are already seeing some of the
worst defenders come down. April second is an important day.
But I would also tell everyone to look what happens
from April second to save June thirtieth, as the other
countries come down too. And President Trump's created a win
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win situation here. Either the tariff barriers come down, US
can export more, trade is fairer. It's always been free,
but not fairer, and then we or if they don't
do it, we'll take in substantial revenues.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So it's important to understand Trump didn't dream up the
tariff overnight. He already knows these countries have imposed tariffs
on us. And so you've got foreign countries now with
lobbyists in this country with pr campaigns about how what
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Trump is doing is gonna be bad for you, you
stupid maga idiot. But it's not bad for you. It's
bad for them. But they don't tell you, Hey, this
is gonna be bad for China. If Trump stands up
for you in American manufacturing, it's gonna be bad for China.
So they don't take out ads here and go, hey,
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help China. They take out ads to say it's gonna
kill America. Costs you more money. Remember John McCain used
to say that if we stopped illegal immigration, ahead of
let us will increase by fifty cents. Okay, thanks John,
we'll pay that. You're so out of touch. We don't
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have the security guards you do. We don't get to
live behind gates at the Capitol with all the protection
you have. These people are killing our country. Yeah, we'll
pay fifty cents more for ahead of let us. We
absolutely will. Here was President Trump on with our friend
Cheryl Atkinson on her program which is called on Full Measure,
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and he's talking about how these tariffs when he says
to people, Hey, every product we ship into your country,
you're slapping a tariff on it so we can't compete
with your local products in your country. You're making our
company pay to sell our products into your country in
order to protect your local industry. Okay, we're going to
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do the exact percentage. That's what a reciprocal. The same
you're doing to us, we're going to do to you.
And Americans are shocked. This is awful, This is horrible.
Trump's terrible. No, he's actually just doing back to them
what they've been doing to you. Did you know that?
Do you know how that hurts American manufacturing? People love
to say American manufacturing is dead, which is not. But
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did you ever think about the fact that one of
the reasons is other countries prevent our products from coming
in to Facto, if not Azure, they slap such a
terrifle and then that we can't compete. Well, here's President
Trump talking to Cheryl Atkinson about how his even the
threat of the tariffs, which go into effect April second,
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even that threat has brought about change.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
Well, we as a country have been ripped off for
years and years, decades and decades, and you've covered it
in your show. I've seen it to Canada is a
disaster for us when it was close to two hundred
ye dollars with Canada and nobody did anything. Nobody said
that with Canada that they charge our farmers.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Think of this.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
They have for dairy products, some dairy products, two hundred
and seventy percent tariff. Nobody knows that.
Speaker 12 (29:13):
Nobody to break that down to like common terms. So
our farmers may have a product such as what and
we sell it to Canada.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
We want to sell milk into Canada, and they throw
a two hundred and seventy percent price increase on the milk,
which means we don't have much of a market, which
means we don't sell milk in Canada. It's almost it's
called the monetary tarraff. But they have a lot of
non monetary tariffs too, that's things unrelated to you know,
they'll have a standard that they'll say you didn't meat
or something that's called the non monitory.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
So you put a tariff on what, for example, to
try to counter the milk tariff.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Well, I can put a tariff on anything, but in
the case of Canada, I put it on steel and
aluminum we.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Have, they want to sell their stuff to us.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
We have a lot of tariffs that we're going to
be putting on a really hit so on April second.
And actually we've been very consistent. I think a lot
of oh people are loving what I'm doing. The real
business people are loving it. We're going to make America
rich again. But we're going to have tariffs on automobiles.
We're gonna have tariffs or on steel. We're gonna have
tariffs on aluminum and copper and many many different things.
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And they're going to be very consistent, and I've been
very consistent. I did give General Motors and are Big
Three actually a month of relief because they would have
had a very unfair disadvantage over other car makers, which
I didn't want. So I did that. And I think
there was something I did from the fact that you know,
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I want to take care of our car companies. But
you have and you've been reading about it, and you're
seeing it. We have companies moving into the United States
at levels that has never been seen before. We have
many many car factories going up.
Speaker 12 (30:55):
If I understand it correctly, the benefits that would come
from some of that may largely be down the road.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Do they all know? I think immediate.
Speaker 9 (31:05):
Look, when you're building those plants, a lot of money
comes in from those plants. You know, you're using companies, subcontractors, contractors,
concrete companies, and steel companies, and you can see it initially,
but you're going to see it more down the road
when they open up. And I would rather have that
by the way that I could get. You get money
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or you get jobs, and I'd rather see the jobs.
The biggest hit is when they move in. So you
have the biggest chip maker in the world coming in
with two hundred billion dollars. You know that, you saw
that number one in the world by far, mister Way,
most respected, one of the most respected people in business.
Forget about chips from Taiwan. He's coming in. He's spending
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hundreds of billions of dollars and he'll be spending it
largely in Arizona. But these companies are coming in at
levels of people Evan seen, and they're coming in because
of the TIFFs, and they're coming in because of me too,
But they're coming in because of the tariffs, the incentive
because if he doesn't, they're going to have to pay
very substantial tasks for the privilege of selling their product
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in the United States.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
They have made the point of late first time I've
ever seen an American president or presidential administration make this
point that our military and our marketplace the two most
powerful things in the world. Many nations would collapse without
the ability to sell their products into this country. A
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sufficiently high tariff is basically preventing someone from selling their
products in this country. China has gotten rich at our
expense while turning around and closing their market to us
and stealing our technologies. And this is why China is frightened.
Donald Trump. Part of making America great again is putting
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America first. Are too long we have had politicians in
both parties who didn't do that. This is a good
day in America.
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and Load from
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Patty O'Brien, ex Irish assassin, his trademarker. A superstitious man,
he leaves a tiny keepsake from his good luck bracelet
on every victim he kills.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Scotland Yard would love to get their hands on that
piece of evidence. Yes, they're always after me, Lucky charms.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Like everyone is laughing when I say that, you'll go,
You'll say, and you've work to do in the morning,
given your dream of.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Gold for didn't your sails in goal?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Jeral?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
General? Jeru?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Are you very general?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Is onside?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Tell you?
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Why lag this?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't let don't lie? I want to steno.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Let's see.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
I say.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's respectus.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Always as.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It is a Saint Patrick's Day edition of The Michael
Berry Show. And we start with this week's Maga minute.
You know, Elon Musk asking employees paid by the taxpayers
to respond to him having been put there by the
(02:50):
man who was elected by the taxpayers to fix our government,
among other things, and secure our border and get rid
of the illegals and the criminals. And boy is he
doing all of those things in spades, the government employees,
the bureaucrats, lazy, entitled bureaucrats. Michael, I've never written you
(03:14):
an email, but I just want you to know Zar,
I don't appreciate you call me lazy and entitled. No,
those are adjectives. That's not your title. You might be
a federal employee, but you're not a lazy entitled federal
employee Unless you're lazy and or entitled. There are plenty
(03:35):
of federal employees who are not. I'm only talking about
the ones that are lazy and entitled. And if every
federal employee is going to get upset when we say that,
then what you're really doing is defending the people who
make your job miserable, and defending the very people that
the rest of us resent. You should be turning on them.
You should go whistleblower on them. But they got angry
(03:56):
at Elon for asking that they send five things that
they've done the week before. You know what's amazing about
that people in the private sector do that every day.
We're all being measured and monitored. Baseball season will begin
in just a few days, and guess what you might
(04:16):
really like this or that player, But they're not getting
on the field unless they produce. Imagine if it was
the government, the government would let some lazy guy stay
in right field. He has one hundred errors a year
and he's batten zero for the last five years, but
(04:36):
we don't want to fire him. Well, here is Carolyn Levitt,
the President's Press Secretary, with this week's MAGA MiNet. You're
going to hear what they were up to the last week.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
It's been another incredibly busy week here at the People's House.
Let's roll through everything President Trump did for you, the
American people. The Department of Homeland Security repurposed the CBP
one app into the CVP home app for illegal immigrants
to self deport.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The number of illegal.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Immigrant godaways has plummeted to a daily average of just
seventy seven. Egg prices dropped this week, and the Department
of Agriculture unveiled a strategy to curb egg prices even further.
Inflation fell in February to its lowest point in just
under four years. So Maha moms myself included, got together
(05:28):
at the White House to discuss the first Maha Commission
meeting and how we are going to make our food
in our country.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Healthy again. The Department of.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Education initiated a fifty percent reduction of force as we
continue to make our government more efficient, and several more
companies like merk Ge Aerospace and Asahi Beer announced massive
investments in the United States of America. We are building
back our country. We'll see you next week for the
MAGA Minute.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
A new President Trump ad has been released, calling the
Russian collusion hoax a bigger scandal than Watergate. Now what
makes me happy about this is that President Trump is
not going quietly into the good night and letting bygones
be bygones for what they have done to him. If
(06:20):
you follow me on Facebook you can see for yourself
the ad or on Twitter. But if you don't, or
if you follow our Daily Blast, which is our email
in between the two shows, which you can sign up
for it's free. Will never share or sell your email.
I never have and never will do that. Michael Berryshow
dot com. Even the audio is alone without the great
(06:43):
visuals is pretty good. And this is about Hillary Clinton
and her crew.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
The biggest scandal was when they spied in my campaign.
If they spied in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
My campaign, it's no real evidence of that. Of course,
there is It's all over the place.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
A new report from special counsel John Durham. Clinton campaign
lawyers paid a tech company to infiltrate Trump servers to
fabricate a connection between Trump and Russia. Hillary Clinton broke
the law to frame Trump as a Russian trader.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
This is truly unprecedented, truly something that has never happened
in the history of our great country.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This is a digital insurrection.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Turns out that Trump Russian collusion story was just a
deflection from the Hillary Russian collusion story.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Trump was right, Trump was telling the truth.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
It was you.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Hillary Clinton undermined a democracy. There are people think she'd
go to jail, as Elon tusks Elon Musk often says,
why did I call him? Elon Tusk? As he often
says on Twitter, you are the media now in a
I am the captain now tone from the Somali Pilot
(07:56):
pirate movie. But you are the media now. Go find
that video and share it on your site, give it
to the promotion it deserves. And don't worry that your
liberal sister in law will send an email that she
hates you and that you worship Trump. That means you're
over the target.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
This is the Michael Berry Show, Locked and loaded, Loaded.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I apologize you kill me. You've been subjected to You
two today because of all the great Irish music, Ramone
chooses on St. Patrick's Day to play You two. Of
all the blowhards out there. A good thing about Apple
(08:55):
putting this stupid U two song on the iPhones for
your years ago? Was it people who really never bothered
to have an opinion of You two hated YouTube for
them for them doing that. So NBC's Meet the Press
over the weekend and we're going to get kind of
heavily into the Sunday shows this week. There's some interesting
(09:17):
stuff in there, and it's kind of a tour to
force of you know, it's one of those games. You know,
professional baseball now, major League Baseball has really changed. When
I was growing up, Nolan Ryan would start the game
and Nolan Ryan would finish the game. That was also
true of Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver, I mean, you go,
(09:40):
even his late as Glavin and Smolds and those guys,
the Professor Maddox, those guys would put in a full game.
But when I was growing up, the heyday, in my
opinion of professional baseball, seventies and eighties, you would start
and finish the game. Today they get a couple in.
He's out of a guy a few innings and then
(10:02):
they start this you know, pitch back picture by committee
thing that that I don't know. I I enjoyed watching
a guy put in a full effort, you know, working
and watching him work through you know, if they got
if they got banged in the first inning two or
three runs. It wasn't uncommon for a good picture to
kind of work through that like a Dwight Gooden and
(10:25):
you know he would be going into the ninth still
gave up three runs, gave his his team time. Well,
the Trump administration has a Nolan Ryan at At, you know,
the starting pitcher. He can he can go the whole game.
But I'm noticing that it's deflecting a little pressure off
of him. That you've got some other stars, And this
(10:48):
didn't happen in the first administration who were stepping forward
and doing their part. Toolsey Gabbard, Pete Hegseth and and
uh Scott Bessen and Marco Rubio. I'm not a Rubio fan,
but my goodness, despite my best intentions to dislike the guy,
(11:08):
he's doing a great job. So NBCs Meet the Press
reported that forty four percent of Americans say the country
is headed in the right direction. And you might be
thinking to yourself, only forty four percent, but in November
it was twenty seven percent. Forty four percent, so best
Trump's ever had, first of all, the mood of the country.
(11:31):
This really jumped out.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
We asked, folks, is that on the right direction or
the wrong direction? That forty four percent? You say, right direction.
That's up since November. And if that doesn't seem like
a lot the last time it cracked forty percent, you
got to go back to twenty twelve. The last time
it actually hit forty four or higher January of two
thousand and four. So a lot of this is Republicans,
but independence. That number has also upsince the election. On
(11:55):
the direction of the country. Take our wins where we
can get them, friends, This is fantastic, I mean, this
is just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Why why do they believe this? Because everyone intuitively knows,
including Democrats, that trend Aragua, for instance, a violent Venezuelan
gang is murdering people, is carrying out a criminal enterprise
in this country. Everyone intuitively knows this, so kicking these
(12:27):
people out is good for the country. President Trump shared
a video and boys, this is a great video. He
shared a great video of these trendy Aragua Venezuelans being
dropped into El Salvador. You remember that the deal. Naib
Bukele had a meeting with Marco Rubio and they agreed
(12:47):
to take our bad guys. That way, we get them
out of our country and we don't send them back
to their country where they can come here again, sometimes
with the assistance of their own government. And we pay
them for that. And I'm glad to do it because
we don't want these guys here. And he puts them
into his El Salvador in prisons. He had a military
force there to receive these It turns out to be
(13:09):
it's going to have a chilling effect on bad guys
wanting to come here. It won't stop all of them,
but they're not going to want to end up in
El Salvador in prison when they see that that's where
they're going. That's going to change their mindset. And it
rallies the American people who says who say he promised
he'd do it and dead gun if he's not doing
it send and.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Trump is thanking the president of El Salvador. The country's
leader posted this video on Acts showing what he said
were more than two hundred trend To Iragua members arriving
at El Salvador over the weekend. He says they were
transferred to a terrorism confinement center for one year. A
senior Trump administration official tells our Bill Mallujian two one
hundred and sixty one illegal aliens who are deported to
(13:50):
El Salvador on Saturday. Of those, one hundred and thirty
seven were removed via the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen
ninety eight. This wartime authority gives the president and the
power to deport non citizens without a judicial hearing. The
Act has only been invoked three other times in American history.
On Saturday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to
(14:10):
stop the deportations to see if it's invocation was legal.
But the White House has two plans carrying alleged Venezuelan
gang members were already in international airspace when the judges
ruling came down, so they argue they did not defy
a court order. The President is justifying the use of
the Act.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
These were banned people suppers.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
That is our band group of as I say, congres Now,
this is a time of war because Biden allowed millions
of people, many of them criminals, many.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Of them at the highest level.
Speaker 11 (14:43):
They emptied jails out of the nation's emptied their jails
into the United States.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
It's an invasion.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
As it turns out, one of those trend de Aragua
gang banging murderous criminals wrote a song about his experience
being sent to El Salvador.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Why they put me on this plane?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I moved to the USA.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
I live here a long long time to continue life
for crime. I come from then Sway lone member of Trendaawa.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Gotta face tattoo.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
I really like like post Malone and Iron Mike. Why
are we landing in our Salpador? This place is scary,
that's for sure. Wish I stayed and got.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
A gust and never went to the US to kick
me out of the US. From kick me out of
the US.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
In preason and I'm literally don't drop the sub and
sung I won't go home.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
At the Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show, fathom this
for a moment, Ponder this for a moment. We can
continue doing things the way we've done them. The stock
market has been relatively supportive of that. The stock market
(16:38):
is not a grand design of a well meaning, well
intentioned person who loves our country today and for the future.
The stock market is a bunch of individuals reacting, and
many of them in concert. There's no doubt they operate
in herds because they're all getting the same influencers and
(17:03):
sources of influence. But you must understand that what the
market rewards is spending. So if you're considering the value
of these companies that are on the market, the more
money that is out there, the more money there is
(17:24):
to spend on their products. And that means that their
revenues go up, they're paying out dividends, their stock prices
are going up. But that is not what is best
for America. I want you to have as much money
as you possibly can in your retirement account, your four
oh one K. We all do, but you also have
(17:47):
to understand that if we're getting there at the expense
of our long term economic best interest, that's not positive.
You know, if you've ever been a sports team fan,
you know that sometimes you got to trade away herschel
(18:07):
Walker to get a bunch of draft pick to get
a bunch of guys from Minnesota that become draft picks.
You're going to have a couple of tough years there
when you have a rebuilding year on your team. It's
tough to have a rebuilding year, but you do that
in order to have a championship team a couple of
(18:27):
seasons down the road, I think we're going to see
an economic growth in Q three and Q four. I
think we're in for a tough Q two and probably
a tough Q three. I think this summer is going
to be brutal. I think this fall may be brutal
(18:50):
as well. But I think that by next January, our
calendar year twenty six is going to look a lot better.
First of all, interest rates are down a touch, but
I read the other day that that was the number
sixty four percent. I think sixty four percent of Americans
(19:13):
have a mortgage rate of five seven, five or lower. Well,
until you see a significant drop in interest rates, what
ends up happening is Americans have been convinced to pour
your cash into your home. It's a great investment. You're
(19:38):
told it's not. And I'm not here to be your
financial advisor. I stayed opinions. I often don't have the
time to explain the depth of that opinion. But sinking
all your money into a home is a terrible idea.
In many states, including mine, Texas, the property tax increase
(20:01):
even under Republican governments. We've had Republican government in this
state for thirty years, and our property taxes continue to increase,
and they don't want them not to increase. They don't
want to take measures to stop that. Well, when you
have exorbitant property taxes, you don't really own your property,
(20:21):
You rent it from the government. When you start looking
at what people are paying in property taxes and state
of taxes alone, you realize that paid off asset, even
if you've paid it off, that asset is so expensive
because you have to pay for all the local schools
to have programs for illegal aliens. And that's what it
(20:41):
comes down to. You have to pay for other wasteful things.
But when we talk about economic recovery, you talk about inflation.
If you lower the interest rate, you know you're going
to have inflation. If you pump money into the economy,
you know you're going to have inflation. And what we're
about have to wear is the hickey from pumping money
(21:03):
into the economy. Quantitative easing began in earnest really you
think about it. At the end of the Bush administration
in two thousand and eight, Obama continued the funny money game.
And what we're doing right now is we are the
household that woke up on Saturday morning check the mail
(21:25):
and realized, hey, you know, we've been using our credit
cards too much. We've got massive credit card loans. We
are struggling. We're having to take a significant portion of
our paycheck and pay just the interest on credit card debt,
just the interest alone. That doesn't even get us into
(21:51):
the corpus, the principal. So that's never going to stop.
We're not knocking down the debt at all. And so
we are struggling with that as a nation right now.
As a nation of individuals, we are struggling with that.
Once those interest rates come down, and I believe they
will in Q three or Q four and you start
(22:14):
getting those interest rates down below five point seventy five,
what we have right now are people who are in
homes that they may have some equity in, but not
enough to make it make sense. They can't sell their
home at less than five point seventy five and buy
(22:34):
another home, whether they're downsizing because the kids are going
or upsizing because they've got kids and want to be
in a better school district, or whatever else. They can't
make that make sense when interest rates are above the
interest rate they currently have on their home, so that
keeps the mobility of homes at a lower level. That
(22:55):
affects the number of new home starts, the number of
people who can enter into the housing market. Because you've
got you've got to push the price up so high
to make it attractive to a person who has a
better interest rate on their home. The only way to
(23:16):
unlock some of this and make people want to sell
their homes, to put more homes on the market and
create some juice, some action, is the interest rates have
got to go back down. My home, I have a
I think it's a two and an eighth or two
and a quarter interest rate. It's incredible. I mean, we
(23:38):
laugh because we can never leave. Why would we? Why
would we? So I say all that to say this.
The media is going to pound on the issue that
the stock market is going to see some volatility. They
are Do not let them fool you. What's happening Trump
(24:00):
rebuilding right now. The tariffs we're already seeing and we'll
get into this in the next segment. We're already seeing
countries coming to the table and saying, all right, we'll
lower our terraffs. You have almost you have well over
two hundred percent tariffs by the Canadians on many of
our goods. Do you know that Trump has proposed reciprocal
(24:20):
reciprocal tariffs on every country that has a tariff on us. Hey,
if you're if you're putting thirty five percent on our corn,
We're gonna put thirty five percent on your stuff. And
they are in a panic. Do you know what that means?
That means that we were getting ripped off by all
these other countries, and all he's saying is what you
did to us, we're doing to you and their panic.
(24:42):
You've got dumb Michael Berry show. Let's talk about tariffs
from home because it's going to be important. Here's Treasury
Secretary of Scott and Bessen. This is going to be
five fourteen Ramon. He was on Meet the Press with
Kristen Welker and he said a April second will be
a big day. So two weeks away, April second will
(25:04):
be a big day, and he explains, and I.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Can tell you so, April second is going to be
a big day. We're going to roll out the reciprocal tariffs.
But what I can tell you, and I would encourage
your viewers and the public and the media to follow
going into April second, And already now we've seen some
of our most imbalanced trading partners come forward and want
to drop their tariffs. So by President Trump pushing forward
(25:35):
with a tariff plan reciprocal tariffs, if you drop yours
will drop hours. We are already seeing some of the
worst defenders come down. April second is an important day.
But I would also tell everyone to look what happens
from April second to save June thirtieth, as the other
countries come down too. And President Trump's created a win
(25:55):
win situation here. Either the tariff barriers come down, US
can export more, trade is fairer. It's always been free,
but not fairer, and then we or if they don't
do it, we'll take in substantial revenues.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So it's important to understand Trump didn't dream up the
tariff overnight. He already knows these countries have imposed tariffs
on us. And so you've got foreign countries now with
lobbyists in this country with pr campaigns about how what
(26:33):
Trump is doing is gonna be bad for you, you
stupid maga idiot. But it's not bad for you. It's
bad for them. But they don't tell you, Hey, this
is gonna be bad for China. If Trump stands up
for you in American manufacturing, it's gonna be bad for China.
So they don't take out ads here and go, hey,
(26:54):
help China. They take out ads to say it's gonna
kill America. Costs you more money. Remember John McCain used
to say that if we stopped illegal immigration, ahead of
let us will increase by fifty cents. Okay, thanks John,
we'll pay that. You're so out of touch. We don't
(27:15):
have the security guards you do. We don't get to
live behind gates at the Capitol with all the protection
you have. These people are killing our country. Yeah, we'll
pay fifty cents more for ahead of let us. We
absolutely will. Here was President Trump on with our friend
Cheryl Atkinson on her program which is called on Full Measure,
(27:41):
and he's talking about how these tariffs when he says
to people, Hey, every product we ship into your country,
you're slapping a tariff on it so we can't compete
with your local products in your country. You're making our
company pay to sell our products into your country in
order to protect your local industry. Okay, we're going to
(28:03):
do the exact percentage. That's what a reciprocal. The same
you're doing to us, we're going to do to you.
And Americans are shocked. This is awful, This is horrible.
Trump's terrible. No, he's actually just doing back to them
what they've been doing to you. Did you know that?
Do you know how that hurts American manufacturing? People love
to say American manufacturing is dead, which is not. But
(28:26):
did you ever think about the fact that one of
the reasons is other countries prevent our products from coming
in to Facto, if not Azure, they slap such a
terrifle and then that we can't compete. Well, here's President
Trump talking to Cheryl Atkinson about how his even the
threat of the tariffs, which go into effect April second,
(28:46):
even that threat has brought about change.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
Well, we as a country have been ripped off for
years and years, decades and decades, and you've covered it
in your show. I've seen it to Canada is a
disaster for us when it was close to two hundred
ye dollars with Canada and nobody did anything. Nobody said
that with Canada that they charge our farmers.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Think of this.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
They have for dairy products, some dairy products, two hundred
and seventy percent tariff. Nobody knows that.
Speaker 12 (29:13):
Nobody to break that down to like common terms. So
our farmers may have a product such as what and
we sell it to Canada.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
We want to sell milk into Canada, and they throw
a two hundred and seventy percent price increase on the milk,
which means we don't have much of a market, which
means we don't sell milk in Canada. It's almost it's
called the monetary tarraff. But they have a lot of
non monetary tariffs too, that's things unrelated to you know,
they'll have a standard that they'll say you didn't meat
or something that's called the non monitory.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
So you put a tariff on what, for example, to
try to counter the milk tariff.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Well, I can put a tariff on anything, but in
the case of Canada, I put it on steel and
aluminum we.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Have, they want to sell their stuff to us.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
We have a lot of tariffs that we're going to
be putting on a really hit so on April second.
And actually we've been very consistent. I think a lot
of oh people are loving what I'm doing. The real
business people are loving it. We're going to make America
rich again. But we're going to have tariffs on automobiles.
We're gonna have tariffs or on steel. We're gonna have
tariffs on aluminum and copper and many many different things.
(30:20):
And they're going to be very consistent, and I've been
very consistent. I did give General Motors and are Big
Three actually a month of relief because they would have
had a very unfair disadvantage over other car makers, which
I didn't want. So I did that. And I think
there was something I did from the fact that you know,
(30:41):
I want to take care of our car companies. But
you have and you've been reading about it, and you're
seeing it. We have companies moving into the United States
at levels that has never been seen before. We have
many many car factories going up.
Speaker 12 (30:55):
If I understand it correctly, the benefits that would come
from some of that may largely be down the road.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Do they all know? I think immediate.
Speaker 9 (31:05):
Look, when you're building those plants, a lot of money
comes in from those plants. You know, you're using companies, subcontractors, contractors,
concrete companies, and steel companies, and you can see it initially,
but you're going to see it more down the road
when they open up. And I would rather have that
by the way that I could get. You get money
(31:26):
or you get jobs, and I'd rather see the jobs.
The biggest hit is when they move in. So you
have the biggest chip maker in the world coming in
with two hundred billion dollars. You know that, you saw
that number one in the world by far, mister Way,
most respected, one of the most respected people in business.
Forget about chips from Taiwan. He's coming in. He's spending
(31:47):
hundreds of billions of dollars and he'll be spending it
largely in Arizona. But these companies are coming in at
levels of people Evan seen, and they're coming in because
of the TIFFs, and they're coming in because of me too,
But they're coming in because of the tariffs, the incentive
because if he doesn't, they're going to have to pay
very substantial tasks for the privilege of selling their product
(32:09):
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
They have made the point of late first time I've
ever seen an American president or presidential administration make this
point that our military and our marketplace the two most
powerful things in the world. Many nations would collapse without
the ability to sell their products into this country. A
(32:33):
sufficiently high tariff is basically preventing someone from selling their
products in this country. China has gotten rich at our
expense while turning around and closing their market to us
and stealing our technologies. And this is why China is frightened.
Donald Trump. Part of making America great again is putting
(32:57):
America first. Are too long we have had politicians in
both parties who didn't do that. This is a good
day in America.
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