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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

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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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