Trump makes colossal mistake, screws his own voters - Brian Tyler Cohen

No Lie episode 268: Trump misses a golden opportunity to cut bait on the least popular policy of his entire presidency.

Transcript:

today we're going to talk about Trump
missing a golden opportunity to cut bait
on the least popular policy of his
entire presidency and I've got two
interviews this week i speak with Texas
State Representative James Talarico
about the Republican power grab in Texas
and how to stop the GOP from co-opting
Christianity and I'm joined by
Congressman Daniel Goldman to discuss
his confrontation with ICE agents i'm
Brian Tyler Cohen and you're watching No
Lie
trump's latest court loss was the
biggest win he's gotten during his
presidency let me explain we all know
that his tariffs have been an abject
disaster they've sent cost surging and
there's no relief on the horizon our
credits been downgraded our stock market
entered correction territory trump has
spent the last two months insisting that
every country in the world is knocking
down our door to get to the negotiating
table and yet all we have to show for it
is one single deal with the UK a country
we have a trade surplus with in the
meantime traffic at our ports has slowed
down to a crawl with LA County port for
example seeing a 40 to 50% drop which
means that supply goes down demand goes
up and prices rise and prices rising is
disqualifying enough on its own but
remember Trump was elected specifically
under the pretense that he would lower
costs so it's not just that everything
is more expensive because of him but
it's more expensive in spite of the fact
that the one thing he promised was to
bring down costs and yet instead he sent
them surging and Americans aren't blind
to that reality the guy is 22 points
underwater on trade according to the
latest Yuggov poll a normal human being
would see this disaster unfolding they
would see costs rising would see his
allies turning against him would see his
poll numbers cratering and cut bait but
Trump doesn't work that way because his
priority isn't good policy it is his ego
he has planted his flag as the tariffs
guy and so he's got to see it through
because he views any reset as a
capitulation and capitulation means
weakness and he's a big strong tough guy
so capitulation is a non-starter meaning
we all have to suffer the consequences
of Donald Trump's insecurity enter the
Court of International Trade that court
rules that the emergency law that was
invoked by Trump to impose these tariffs
doesn't actually give him that
unilateral authority instead the court
ruled that the power resides with
Congress and so the tariffs were blocked
you could not get a bigger gift if
you're Donald Trump if it was flown in
from Qatar finally he has the pretext he
needs to be able to cut bait on the
absolute cluster that is his tariff
policy he's got the perfect scapegoat
too the evil communist Marxist activist
judges blame them and move on it's the
perfect way to never have to bail on
your own policy while still deriving all
the benefits of bailing on your own
policy but that would all be too logical
because instead Trump appeals the
decision and a federal appeals court
stays the lower court's ruling which
means it leaves the tariffs in place to
explain here this isn't a win for Trump
it's not the appeals court ruling on the
merits of the tariffs it's simply the
appeals court allowing them to stay in
place while they litigate this issue
pretty standard procedural stuff and in
fact many of the rulings that Trump
would ultimately lose during his
presidency were initially stayed by
those same courts and the appeals panel
that Trump drew with seven Democrats and
four Republicans meaning it's likely
that Trump will also lose when their
final ruling is handed down but we know
by now that even though he's being
gifted a political victory second to
none he won't take it he will appeal
this thing all the way up to the Supreme
Court and then probably think up five
different ways to make this happen even
if Scotas rules against him because he
is incapable of cutting bait on bad
policy so long as that policy comes from
him again if he wasn't so blinded by his
delicate ego he would see when he's
being given a win his grand tariffs have
been nothing short of a disaster for his
administration and for America they've
literally forced Trump to come out and
say that little girls are going to get
fewer dolls like I I I don't know when
you're telling kids that they have to
endure austerity measures doesn't
exactly feel like you're winning but he
couldn't do it he couldn't take the win
because even as his economic policy is
cratering our economy he is too focused
on protecting his fragile ego and so
instead we've all got to sit idly by and
watch everything crash and burn i mean
we've got the only economy in the
industrialized world that is contracting
you'd think that changing course away
from economic disaster would be a given
would be a good thing but he can't do it
which means we will descend deeper and
deeper into economic chaos we're one
quarter away from officially entering
into a recession and with these tariffs
remaining in effect that's all but
guaranteed at this point this is the
consequence of having somebody in office
who has the opportunity to act in the
best interest of 350 million people and
instead defers only to protecting
himself and his thin skin trump is being
taught a lesson in real time about
political gravity unfortunately he isn't
willing to learn it.