Back to episode — Episode 2899 CWSA 07/16/25
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0 trillion dollars, bigger than the iPhone. Here's a persuasion lesson courtesy of President Trump, who was speculating in front of reporters yesterday. Who had the lower IQ? Was it AOC or Jasmine Crockett? So the press is listening to Trump. He's like, you know, I don't know who's dumber. We have to give an IQ test to AOC because she's really dumb, but maybe Jasmine Crockett is dumber. So we sho…
← Previous segment →han 2,100 fentanyl-related arrests. Now I don't know. And here's the caution here. I don't know how this compares to the baseline. Could it be that the DEA and the DOJ routinely catch this much drugs? We just don't hear about it. Is that possible? Because you always hear about the Biden administration was doing a bad job of messaging how successful they were and they did do a bad job of that. Is it possible that what we're seeing is just that the Trump administration is really, really good at taking credit and that's all you're seeing? I don't think so. I think this is probably a real accomplishment. But you have to be careful. You got the documentary effect. You're only seeing one side of it. So I don't know if there is another side of it, but this is an awfully big success or it looks like it.
So that's one thing. Big success at the border, big successes capturing illegal drugs. On top of that, Trump announced yesterday they got a great trade deal with Indonesia. The New York Post is writing about this and I guess it opens up their market to all of our products and they're going to pay 19% tariff and we are going to pay nothing, says Trump. It's a good deal for both.
Now remember I told you that if things went well with this tariff trade deal stuff that the thing that the Democrats don't see coming is that since they wouldn't do all the deals in the same day that Trump will have this nearly endless n
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umber of successes that every day or every few days he's going to be able to say, well, we got another amazing trade deal with another major country. Well this is one of those. So how many major trade deals is he going to get with how many countries? And then of course there's the surprising amount of tariff revenue coming into the government. Trump is winning pretty hard on trade. The stock marke…
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