Back to episode — Episode 2888 CWSA 07/05/25
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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 kno…
← Previous segment →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 was before too.
But doesn't it feel like it just feels kind of brilliant that he just basically told people we don't need to negotiate? We're fine not negotiating. We'll just send you the bill. Well, we'll see.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting, and others are reporting, that Hamas has accepted a framework for a ceasefire. And by the way, I don't believe this at all. I mean, I believe that the reporting is accurate. I don't believe it's actually going to happen, but I'd love to be wrong. Hama
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s has accepted the framework of a proposed 60-day ceasefire. But it would only involve releasing 10 living hostages. My understanding is there might be 50. I don't know how many are living. But did Trump really get Israel to agree to a deal that would not free all of the hostages? Really, that doesn't seem like something they would agree to. So Trump must be putting a lot of pressure on Israel if…
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