Back to episode — Episode 2888 CWSA 07/05/25
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then over in Paris, this will be a good test of your willingness to do dangerous things. So the river that goes through Paris, the Seine, has been too polluted to allow people to swim in it. So I guess for about a hundred years it was just too polluted. I don't know if it was illegal or just unwise. But because the Olympics are coming to Paris sometime soon, Paris put on a big effort to clean up t…
← Previous segment →d deals. But nothing happens as quickly as you want it to in the real world. So did Trump find a workaround for that where he's just going to negotiate with a few big countries like China and Vietnam, but for the rest of them he's just going to send them a letter and tell them what their payment will be to have access to our markets? And then if they want to negotiate, he can say, nah, yeah, I know. You can make me an offer. I'll listen to it, but we don't need anything. You're going to pay these — well, the importing company, the American company, will be absorbing some percentage of it, but we don't know in the real world what percent.
Do you think he found a way to make this work? Because it kind of looks like he did. Yeah. I feel like all he's going to do is scare the Jesus out of oth
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er countries with these demand letters. All right, your tariff will be 70%. But you had months to negotiate a better deal. Our doors were open. All you had to do was make us an offer that was more to your liking and met our requirements and we wouldn't do this. But we didn't have time. That's fine. No problem. Just pay the 70%. But that's so unfair. Yeah, really it is. But it was unfair what it wa…
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