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Back to episode — Episode 2943 CWSA 08/30/25

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Trump was dead, but he's not. So he's not, but the rumor was going around and partly because I guess we haven't seen him in a little while and he has no scheduled public appearances this weekend. Now he also hasn't taken a vacation since he started and no summer vacation, which is a little unusual. So it wouldn't surprise me if he's just going to do a little golfing this weekend. And it's a holida…

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e to take all of his policies and just put them in a Democrat and then have all the Democrats salute it because it's coming from a Democrat? And the answer is there might be an exception, but I feel like 100 percent of what Trump is doing or proposes doing, 100 percent of it, it feels like could have come from a Democrat not too long ago. I would say 100 percent of it could have come from Bill Clinton. That's not ancient history. But something like everything he's doing would be compatible with a lot of it is compatible with Obama, right? Obama didn't love crime and he didn't love an open border and he deported quite a few people. So that's the way to think of this. Don't think that the poll is measuring anything useful. All it is is people have been brainwashed that their team good, other team bad. And it really isn't the policies. It really is not the policies and it's not even the candidate. You're just not allowed to like the other side and that's how people answer the poll.

What about tariffs? Can't you easily imagine that a Democrat president had been the only one who ever came up with tariffs and said, "Yeah, you know what, tariffs?" And then the Republicans would say, "Oh of course you're in favor of a tax." But instead the Republicans came up with it, Trump. And so one of the Democrats say, "Well look at you. You're taxing us." So even something as basic as the tariff, I guarantee you if a Democrat had been the only one to support that like Trump was a little bit the only one, Democrats would have fallen in line and said it was genius.

The good news is that gas prices are lower than they've been since 2020. So last year they were $3.29 and the year before $3.77 on average and now it's $3.15 on average. So energy is down, eggs are down. I don't know if prescription drugs are down but they will be down if Trump gets his most favored nation stuff. So those are pretty good. Eggs and energy. But beef is way up and housing is way up and health care in general is way up. So it's a mixed bag.

A federal appeals court ruled against Trump. I fell asleep because it seems like every single freaking day there's another story about an appeals court who tried to block Trump from doing what Trump wants to do. Now specifically the judge said that Trump's tariffs are unlawful but not every tariff but only the tariffs that were put in place after Trump had declared an emergency power. So there's a 1977 emergency powers act. And so he said these other countries are ripping us off and so it's an emergency. Now is that an emergency that you don't have trade deals that you like? Well that's a little bit of a stretch. But that's what he used. He said it was an emergency and then the appeals court said that's no emergency. So you don't have the power to do that.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said, "Yes we do." Because he said it was a national emergency and we have that power. And I saw Tom Fitton did an analysis of the actual language of what Trump's allowed to

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do. And there was a pretty good argument there that if you allow that he had the power to declare something an emergency. So you'd have to accept that he has that power and it's not up to you to disagree with it. He just has that power. He can call it an emergency. And then if he does, there's a good argument that tariffs would be well within the normal range of tools that he would have at his dis…

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