The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

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Rachel Maddow looks at ways to understand the scope of the damage Donald Trump has done to the entire world economy, and reminds viewers where the tariff idea came from that has turned Donald Trump into a one-man global disaster. - Aired on 04/04/2025.

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1. Bravo!! Standing-O!! Oh, Baby!!

Rachel's got it right. Depression. If there's anything taught in courses on International Trade or Financial Economics (I've taken both), it is tariffs don't work and they caused the Great Depression, if not WWII.

Rachel's got Trump on the ropes. He will dig in, won't change anything except to tell everyone how perfect a job he's doing, a very hard job, with the world's greatest advisors. Navarro is an idiot who's been ranting hard-line right wing economics for a decade. He always seemed to surface for a quote in the Trump I fiasco.

But, we are lucky to have this publicly available information now. Maybe its path and consequences can be altered.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Well said, thanks! And I agree that Rachel's got it - and you know that she'll continue to dig in

And you're right about Navarro, looks like he didn't learn much from his incarceration. As for TFG, he'll continue to defend his devastating actions, we can only hope that this is finally too much for Republicans.

[Justice matters.]

4. Ron Vara (lol) ran as a Democratic candidate and LOST...

It seems like he then seeked revenge by writing crackpot books and he got "lucky" the 2-billion failing "landlord" found him on the Internet...

And they all cashed in billions only to bring Destruction Day for the rest of the world...

[Justice matters.]

3. The golfing neo-Fascists don't care about polls.

They don't care about protests too.

They are above all laws and any basic decency.