BREAKING: Trump makes FATAL mistake, risks losing MAJOR voting bloc

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BREAKING #news - Trump makes FATAL mistake, risks losing MAJOR voting bloc  Sources: https://x.com/atrupar/status/1900241951787495860 https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1900229065119781204 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114155003492555395  For more from Brian Tyler Cohen: Order my #1 NYT bestselling book: https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/shameless YouTube (español): https://www.youtube.com/@briantylercohenespanol Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/briantylercohen Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/36UvEHs Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0066rKCBIycIMI4os6Ec5V Twitter: https://twitter.com/briantylercohen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briantylercohen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/briantylercohen TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@briantylercohen Newsletter: https://plus.briantylercohen.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/briantylercohen.bsky.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@briantylercohen

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00:00At this point, if Trump was trying to lose the Republican Party voters, he wouldn't

00:04do anything differently.

00:06He took to Truth Social today, writing,

00:08The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities

00:12in the world, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United

00:15States, has just put a nasty 50% tariff on whiskey.

00:18If this tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% tariff

00:23on all wines, champagnes, and alcoholic products coming out of France and other EU-represented

00:28countries.

00:29This would be great for the wine and champagne business in the United States.

00:32I just want to be there when America's suburban moms find out that Trump just slapped a 200%

00:37tax on their wine.

00:39Like, I know this is a pretty unscientific analysis, but I know a non-zero number of

00:44women who would be very, very unhappy finding this out.

00:47If you think that Americans like coffee in the morning, watch what happens when you take

00:51wine away at night.

00:53And what I presume is most frustrating is that the wine is really our last lifeline

00:57when dealing with the economy that Trump has created right now.

01:00How else do you stomach a stock market that has utterly plummeted in the last week as

01:04the direct result of Trump's economic policies and trade war?

01:07Taking away wine right now is like taking away Advil after St. Paddy's Day.

01:12And let's be clear, that pain is being felt across the entire economy.

01:16Well, Wolf, this really all goes back to continued confusion over the president's trade war.

01:23This is another example of a day where we got some pretty good economic news.

01:27There was a better-than-expected inflation report that came out this morning, but markets

01:30are not focused on that.

01:31The focus is on tariffs.

01:33As you know, the president had new tariffs on steel and aluminum that kicked in yesterday,

01:39and that triggered retaliation from the European Union, threatening to hit U.S. goods with

01:45tariffs.

01:46And then we heard the president come out this morning and threaten retaliation of his own,

01:50saying that he's going to impose massive tariffs on alcohol that comes from Europe.

01:55France then responded and said that they're going to fight back as well.

01:58So this all just shows how tariffs can lead to an escalatory cycle.

02:03It turns into a tit-for-tat battle, and I don't think investors like that.

02:08I think that much has been made clear from the last few days, where we've seen significant

02:12losses in the stock market.

02:14You see the Dow is down almost 350 points, about 1 percent.

02:18Steeper losses for the Nasdaq as well, a little bit more than 1 percent, and that's because

02:22we know that investors, they crave stability and clarity, but they're not getting that

02:27right now.

02:28They're getting a whole lot of chaos and confusion and uncertainty over these tariffs and this

02:34trade war.

02:35I mean, they want to know how high are tariffs going to ultimately go, what countries are

02:39going to face tariffs, and on what products, and how long are the tariffs going to stay

02:43in place, and what does the retaliation look like?

02:45And frankly, Wolf, we don't know the answers to any of those questions.

02:48And so that's why we've seen in recent days investors are selling first and asking questions

02:52later.

02:53In fact, I asked Congressman Jared Moskowitz about this, and here's what he had to say.

02:56Well, listen, when they find out from their husbands that the stock market has gone down,

03:01and then they go to the store, and they're the ones who see a lot of grocery prices.

03:05Yeah.

03:06Right.

03:07So they see grocery prices, and now they're going to see wine and champagne.

03:09I mean, literally, I don't know.

03:11I mean, but look, all seriousness, yeah, this is going to hit suburban America is what you're

03:15talking about.

03:16I mean, as costs go up and people's nest eggs go down in the stock market, which is not

03:21what suburban America said they voted for.

03:23They were voting for, you know, Trump to go take us into the golden age.

03:28We didn't know that that eggs would be the price of gold.

03:31But that's what that's what he said is we're going to make the golden age of America.

03:34Well, by the way, 90 days in, I don't see much of the golden age.

03:38I see the stock market in collapse.

03:40I see us in a tariff war with our allies.

03:43I see us, you know, cozying up to our enemies.

03:45By the way, Russia just declined his ceasefire deal.

03:49So so much for trying to find peace after cozying up to Russia.

03:53Everything he's touching right now is not working.

03:55And surely, surely, given all the pain and turmoil, Donald Trump has seen the error of

04:01his ways and recognized the acute financial pain that Americans are contending with.

04:05And he's changing course to mitigate the worst impacts of his disastrous economic policy.

04:09I'm just kidding.

04:11He's literally changing nothing.

04:13Why should we subsidize another country for 200 billion?

04:16Of course, it's $200 billion a year.

04:18But again, we don't need their lumber.

04:21We don't need their energy.

04:22We have more than they do.

04:23We don't need anything.

04:24We don't need the cars.

04:25I'd much rather make the cars here.

04:28And there's not a thing that we need.

04:30Now there'll be a little disruption, but it won't be very long.

04:35But they need us.

04:36We really don't need them.

04:37And we have to do this.

04:38I'm sorry.

04:39We have to do this.

04:40Yes.

04:41And that right there is the unique danger posed by someone whose priority isn't what's best

04:44for the country, but rather what's best for his fragile ego.

04:48Remember, Trump knows full well the pain that Americans are feeling.

04:51He literally admits that he won the 2024 election because of the high cost of groceries that

04:56Americans couldn't afford to eat.

04:59The difference is that now that he doesn't need anybody's votes anymore, he's done pretending

05:03that he cares.

05:05If he cared, he would prevent prices from rising.

05:07He would stop what he's doing that is causing them to rise.

05:10But he's not.

05:11He's exacerbating these problems.

05:13The trade war has already crashed the stock market.

05:15One might think that that would be enough of a wake-up call to reverse course, but he

05:19refuses to do that, even knowing that the longer this goes on, the more pain that Americans

05:24feel.

05:25And that's what you get with a president driven by ego.

05:27Trump views any reversal as a capitulation, and he won't do that.

05:31He graduated from the Roy Cohn School of Management.

05:34He will never admit fault.

05:35He will never take the blame, and he will never reverse course.

05:38It doesn't matter to Trump that your 401ks are plummeting, and that costs are rising,

05:43and that your family is getting squeezed.

05:44That is not his priority.

05:46His priority is protecting his own ego.

05:49I want to disabuse you of the notion that Trump's presidency is in any way about you.

05:54It's not.

05:55It is about him, just as it's always been about him.

05:59The reality is that we live in a global economy.

06:01We rely on our global trading partners.

06:04We need them for pharmaceuticals and cars and auto parts and electronics and food and

06:08clothing and on and on.

06:10It's one thing to deploy tariffs strategically while we ramp up our domestic industries,

06:14but Trump is as delicate as a tornado.

06:17He has slapped across the board tariffs on literally all of our trading partners, across

06:21all sectors, with no plan to ramp up those domestic productions to offset the disruptions.

06:27Not only does that impact supply chains, which is why prices are rising, but the unpredictability

06:32of how he's wielding these tariffs is having cataclysmic impacts on the stock market.

06:37The one thing the market hates more than anything else is uncertainty, is volatility, unpredictability.

06:43Trump is ensuring that that is the only thing he delivers on.

06:47Ironically enough, all Trump had to do was nothing.

06:50He just needed to come into office and coast off of Biden's strong economy and then take

06:55all the credit and go play golf five days a week.

06:58Honestly, if he did nothing, we'd be fine.

07:02But instead, he made the conscious decision to launch a trade war.

07:05He made the conscious decision to go after health care.

07:07He made the conscious decision to jack up prices.

07:10These are not unfortunate byproducts of unforeseen global events.

07:14These were policy choices by Trump, making it so that Americans can't even afford to

07:19drink wine isn't the first, nor will it be the last way that Donald Trump is making life

07:24in America completely unaffordable.

08:06work.

08:07I really appreciate it.

08:08Thanks so much for watching.

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