The Adam Mockler Show - CEO DECLARES WAR on Trump over IDIOTIC TARIFFS

Starting point is 00:00:00 All right, I'll see you around three o'clock. Okay, bye. But what's the drama, though? The tariffs. Oh, so their shoes are getting pricier. Shoes are going up. You can thank your government for that. You can thank your president for that.

Starting point is 00:00:09 You could thank your president for it. You voted for him. Steve Madden's about to cook Trump. I didn't vote for him. They fundamentally do not understand what they're doing. All right, check this out. Have you guys seen this viral clip of fashion mogul Steve Madden shredding Donald Trump, shredding his supporters,

Starting point is 00:00:25 basically digging into anybody that defends this absurdly incoherent tariff policy that has led to a 145% tax on certain imports, but a 10% tax across the board. Trump on a weekly basis increases the tariffs, then backs off of China, but then he just restarted the trade war with the EU somehow. None of it is coherent, and that leads to such an unpredictable environment that small business owners can't function. And Steve Madden tells his firsthand experience of dealing with these taxes, with these imports, how it affects his business, and he pretty concisely debunks all of the MAGA lies.

Starting point is 00:01:04 Now, before we dig into this, can I show you Ronald Reagan, who some view as Trump's precursor talking about tariffs? I want you guys to let me know what you think about Ronald Reagan in the comment section below. People are usually quite divided. Many, many people view him as the beginning of the problems we see today regarding wealth disparity or the war on drugs, and that's true, but then some people still very much so respect him. So I want to know what you guys think, but let's check this out.

Starting point is 00:01:29 You see, at first, when someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is, first homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets. And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers and less and less competition.

Starting point is 00:02:15 So soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying. Then the worst happens. market shrink and collapse, businesses and industry shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. I mean, Ronald Reagan was very flawed, but that being said, this is more coherent economic analysis than you will see from any sitting Republican economy. The memory of all this occurring back in the 30s made me determined when I came to Washington to spare the American people the protectionist legislation that destroys prosperity. I mean, Ronald Reagan said in another clip, there are three isms that will ruin the country.

Starting point is 00:02:55 protectionism, isolationism, and I believe it was ultra-nationalism. And we're seeing all of those things coming from the Trump administration over and over and over. Really quickly, have you guys been following this story? Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, was kissing Trump's ass after he won. He donated $1 million to his inauguration. He got a table. He met with Trump. And now Trump is hyper-targeting, surgically targeting Apple with tariffs.

Starting point is 00:03:22 Trump says Apple must pay 25% tariff on iPhones not made in the U.S. There are a few key questions. Number one, why are Republicans so convinced that we really need to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States when unemployment is exactly where it needs to be? There are other types of jobs that we can try to incentivize maybe more green jobs rather than moving backwards, regressing to a society where people are screwing things in all day. I think that Republicans, again, don't have a coherent end goal, and that is leading to a bunch of conflicting messages. President Donald Trump said in a social media post that Apple will have to pay a tariff of 25% or more.

Starting point is 00:04:04 This is the latest jab at Apple from Trump, who over the past few weeks has ramped up pressure on the company and CEO Tim Cook to increase domestic manufacturing after Apple CEO Tim Cook was standing alongside Trump for a while. President Donald Trump said in his social media post Friday that Apple will have to pay a tariff of 25% or more. Let's check out this clip of Steve Madden explaining exactly how tariffs affect his business. All right, I'll see you around three of that. Okay, bye. But what's the drama, though?

Starting point is 00:04:32 The tariffs. Oh, so their shoes are getting pricier. Shoes are going up? You can thank your government for that. You can thank your president for that. You can take your president for it. You voted for him. I didn't vote for him.

Starting point is 00:04:43 They fundamentally do not understand what they're doing. The notion is we've lost jobs to China and we have. But we've picked up other jobs that we would not have had better jobs, many better jobs as a result of our relationship with China. Many more than we would have if they were in a factory making socks. The iPhone being made in China, the success that that has created, there's probably hundreds of thousands of people working for Apple today in America as a result of them making those phones in China that they would not have had. They'd be in a fucking factory and it would be a third of the world. workforce. So we have new jobs. Millions of new jobs in America that are created. It's the upwardly mobile nature of a society that doesn't want to work in a factory. So, so true. This is exactly what I was saying. And when you ask the Trump administration what kind of jobs are trying to bring back if they want people making clothes or iPhones in the United States, what they'll usually say, and Besson has said this multiple times. So is Nutlick or Lutnik, whatever you want to call him.

Starting point is 00:05:43 He said, then maybe we'll just have robots screwing in these iPhones. Then it's like, Like, what is the point? Making fucking socks. Hello? No. And at the same time, they're deporting the people that would fucking do it anyway. I do understand on some level, because there's a lot of rich people that made money that didn't build anything. But they made money trading stocks and bonds and buildings. Okay, not hating, but they never made anything.

Starting point is 00:06:06 They never created a business. They never had to ship a shoe out or punch a card. They don't know what it's like. And that's the problem. And we are the people that create commerce, the apples, the Steve Maddens, the Ugs, the Ralph Lawrence, recreate the economy and they're destroying it. Rather well said, I mean, he's a CEO, he's been understanding, he's been experiencing firsthand what happens, and he's not bullshitting.

Starting point is 00:06:28 He's not playing some weird political game. Like even here with Tim Cook, Trump told reporters Friday afternoon that the tariff would also apply to other smart mode manufacturers such as Samsung and would start at the end of June. Quote, I had an understanding with Tim that he wouldn't be doing this. He said he's going to India to build plants. I said, that's okay. Go to India. but you're not going to sell into here without tariffs,

Starting point is 00:06:49 and that's the way it is. I'm honestly glad that I bought a new iPhone around the time Trump took office. This is the latest jab at Apple from Trump, who over the past couple of weeks has ramped up pressure on the company and Cook to increase domestic manufacturing. Trump and Cook, Apple CEO, met at the White House on Tuesday, according to Politico. It's just another example of the leopards eating your face.

Starting point is 00:07:11 Tim Cook thought that if he donated enough money, if he went to the inauguration, Trump would somehow, for some reason, have a soft spot in his heart for Tim Apple, as Trump has called him multiple times, but that didn't end up happening. Trump is still vindictive and Trump will do whatever it takes. To abuse the power of the executive branch, we've seen him attack courts, law firms, the judges in those courts, the lawyers at those law firms, the Supreme Court, the justices in the Supreme Court, we've seen him attack absolutely everything. Now it's specific companies. We've seen specific companies for a while, like when he attacked ABC, when he attacked their parent, paramount, when he attacked 60 minutes over and over and over, he attacks, and

Starting point is 00:07:56 that's why we are here to push back. If you made it this far in the video, please make sure you drop the like. Please make sure you subscribe to join the crew. I always get comments like this one, Adam, I've been watching since 200K subs and I just realized I was not subscribed fixing that now. It would mean the world to me. I love each and every single one of you. Thank you for spending time with me on a day-to-day basis.

Starting point is 00:08:14 It's going to be amazing, making sure that we win the midterms together, reconcilitating power, pushing back against the lies, and we'll keep fighting. Love you all. Peace out.

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The Adam Mockler Show - CEO DECLARES WAR on Trump over IDIOTIC TARIFFS

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