Back to episode — Episode 2769 CWSA 03/05/25
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art? You talk like a smart person. Lutnick is one of those. When he talks I think, huh, I can see how you got rich. Makes sense. You're pretty smart. Anyway, he's saying that the tariffs on Mexico and Canada probably are going to be resolved, meaning that there'll be some kind of middle ground, meaning there's some kind of accommodation, meaning we'll figure out how to work with each other as soo…
← Previous segment →this involved in the Trump administration. If I can give you any business advice at all, it goes like this: associating yourself with Trump pretty much guarantees you lose half of your market. Nobody who understands anything about business would have said, you know what would be really good for business is if I associate with, you know, half of the country instead of the whole country.
There was no way that Musk didn't understand that it would be risky just to throw in. For once it doesn't even matter which side. It would work either way. But I feel like the Democrats don't understand enough
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about business to know that if you're good at business you wouldn't do this for business reasons. The only way it makes sense for Elon to be so involved for business reasons is because he thinks he needs to save the entire country, which, given that it's America, it would have a big ripple effect on the rest of the world. Elon's trying to save the world now. If you say, oh, I think he's only tryi…
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