The Adam Mockler Show - I Left Trump's Friend SPEECHLESS on CNN

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

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If tariffs worked, Trump wouldn't have to gaslight the American people about who paid the tariff in the first place, and you wouldn't have to pivot to the stock market every single time we try to bring up the on-the-ground effects, the unpredictability that tariffs create. Think about the long-term effects for my generation. Can you sit here and look me in the eye and say that tariffs are not inflationary? Are you kidding? I'm not kidding. Everything's working because the market-

Oh, bring up the market one more time, one more time. Kevin! What's up, everybody? Adam Machler here. I just hopped off my first-ever CNN appearance. It was on Newsnight with Abbie Philipp, time. One more time. Pivot right back to the… Kevin. What's up everybody? Adam Mochler here. I just hopped off my first ever CNN appearance. It was on Newsnight with Abby Phillip and I have a few really solid clips to show you. I debated Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, who is also a MAGA sycophant and somebody who

just wasn't making that much sense. I'm going to play you a few clips. I might interject near the end, but I just want you guys to see this. Make sure you're subscribed to the Adam Mochler feed below if you want to support the debates and support the message that we're pushing. Thank you. Joining us at the table is Adam Machler, Midas Touch's Gen Z creator. This is the moment that the type of dichotomy that I think is playing out here.

On the one hand, it's completely uncontroversial for these suspects, because there were two of them, to be apprehended, deported, if they were here in the country illegally. But on the other hand, Americans are also saying, we want this to be more targeted. But the Trump administration is definitely gonna use this incident to pursue

what they're doing right now, which is mass deportations. Yeah, first of all, the shooting is absolutely horrific, and every American should be okay with deporting people who are criminals and who are dangerous and here illegally, but that is not what the Trump administration is prioritizing. They have reallocated funds meant for the deportation of criminals to the deportation of farm workers, farmers have been complaining about this directly

to Donald Trump, to people who are showing up to immigration hearings. They show up to their hearing and they get directly targeted. ISIS camping there. Or what about the 82-year-old, who his family was told he was dead and he was found in Argentina? Trump's popularity on immigration has dropped 10 points over the past few months, and 70% of Americans want him to focus more on lowering prices.

But he's deporting farm workers, enacting more tariffs. It's not popular. Kevin, is there more targeting that could happen here that is actually responsive to what Americans say that they want? I agree with this narrative between those that have committed crimes, documented crimes multiple times versus a farm worker who's been here for 20 years illegally but has maintained his ability to work and provide productivity to the economy.

This is a very delicate situation. And I think it's threading the needle for Trump, because he said the same thing. Look, if you've worked on a farm and you've been, you know, haven't been charged with anything and you're providing productivity to the economy, maybe we should work something out there. And this is where I think the challenge is, you talked about his polls dropping on this,

I kind of agree with this. If you're a criminal and you've been charged, you're out of here. I think everybody agrees with that. But if you've actually come into the country and been here a long time, had children here that are American citizens, and you provided productivity to the economy and you're supporting farming, which is one of the categories or sectors where there's a lot of these people. I kind of get it. And just to be clear, I mean, I think that it's farm workers, but people who work in

restaurants, household, domestic employees, they're also, they're inputting productivity into this economy, and they're actually maybe a larger chunk of the undocumented. Well, you have to understand, Kristi Noem is giving a pathway for the illegals to become citizens. They're saying, here's $1,000, deport yourself, come back in the right way.

Look, my husband had to do it. My husband had to wait, we waited nine years for his green cards and he just got naturalized last November, right? So why do we have to wait in line? Why do these guys just bum rush in and get all our benefits and take from our blue cities? My big problem with Los Angeles is that you have local mayors there

giving the heads up to communities saying, hey, there's an ice raid coming. You better leave and let's get the riders in. That's not what an elected official should do. And not detaining or do abiding by the detainer when someone's been convicted of a crime. I think they should at least cooperate with that and have that carve out. As you mentioned earlier, I think that carve out makes a lot more sense. I want to respond to Angie saying this gives a path.

What this does is disincentivize people from going to the courthouse and following the proper procedures. And part of the reason they're being so aggressive is because of this arbitrary quota set by Stephen Miller, 3,000 a day, meaning people who are going to courthouses, being detained, being deported, again, workers, people who are contributing to this country. So do you think it's okay

when somebody who is following the proper processes is then kind of like hoodwinked? Not if they came in here illegally in the first place, right? Why didn't they deploy? They came through asylum process. But that's the thing. That's the thing. They're criminalizing asylum.

That's what's happened, right? Trump is criminalized. Oh, no. Yes, actually. Trump has criminalized the legal process of asylum. Basically, if you come here and you are abiding, right, you're showing up to court because you're following the rules. I'm not worried about it.

We are two weeks from the new deadline for nations to make trade deals or face new tariffs. And the Commerce Secretary is once again promising he's got the goods. Oh, they're going to love the deals that President Trump and I are doing. I mean, they're just going to love them. This is going to be, the next two weeks are going to be weeks for the record books. President Trump is going to deliver for the American people. The president has been saying he has 200 deals ready to sign, but the truth is the results have been limited at best.

And the amount of teasing is a trend. You're going to see over the next month or so, we're going to roll out dozens of deals. Oh, there are so many coming. And you're going to see deal after deal that's going to start coming next week and the week after and the week after. We've got lots of them in the hopper. We're going to announce a whole bunch of deals over the next week or so. Are you confident we can get these big, the big ones, the big deals done? I have them done. The next two weeks are going to be weeks for the record books.

That was just a couple of days ago. So far, only four trade agreements have been announced. Kevin, when are the deals coming? That's it tempered the enthusiasm from Japan over the weekend at the American Pavilion. And he spoke again this morning about this. He's he referenced I want quality deals, not fast deals. Do you mind if I play it? We have the sound by it.

Let's play it. Okay, let's listen to Scott Bassett. Yeah. Mr. Secretary, August 1st is a week from Friday, I think. And I think that's on everyone's mind. Any progress that you can report on some of our big trading partners? Look, Joe, talks are moving along, but the important thing here is the quality of the deal,

not the timing of the deals. Again, we're proceeding apace with the negotiations, but we're not going to rush for the sake of doing deals. How can you say we should pay attention to the quality rather than the speed when the entire promise was 90 deals in 90 days? So we're gonna get it done fast, reshape the global order, and Kevin says the stock market thinks these tariffs are gonna work, but no, the stock market

doesn't believe Trump. When he announced the Liberation Day tariffs, the stock market immediately dropped when he announced the Liberation Day tariffs. After he vacillated, people don't believe him. All time high. In all time history. Because nobody believes that he's being serious.

Today, all time high in history. I think you guys are saying the same thing, just by the way. All time high in history. All time high. His point is that- You can't debate an all time high because nobody believes him. Yeah, yeah, I know. His point is that they are at an all time high because nobody believes Trump.

Every index. Seriously. Because he keeps moving the goalpost. I'm so glad you played the footage. It was literally laughing watching Howard just like going every few weeks promising all these deals. And Besen should have sent that, and it shouldn't have been an appearance.

He should have sent that as a text message directly to Howard Ludnick, because that was clearly what that guy needs to hear. But overall, the reason why he's not getting these deals, I just think we gotta talk about the big picture here. If you're a foreign government, ally or adversary, or counterpart, whatever, are you going to make a deal with Donald Trump, and how can you believe

that the U.S. is not gonna have a sporadic change three years from now? I think Trump has eroded global trust in the American economy, in American deal-making. You mean the all-time high market ever in history? It's high because they don't believe it. The all-time high. They think Trump is going to chicken out. Never been higher.

Party-bush. Never been worth more. Never been more successful. Never. When the Olympics eroded. It's in spite of. All-time high today at 430 in history. Never worth more.

What are you talking about? Well, let's see what happens in August 1st when he announces the 50% increase. The American people are also. And then moves the deadline back. The American people are also in a situation that you're kind of describing, which is that Let's see what happens in August 1st when he announces the 50% increase. And then moves the deadline back. The American people are also in a situation that you're kind of describing, which is that Trump says, I'm going to do X, Y, and Z, and they say, don't believe you, sorry. I mean, is he just sort of, the economy is supposed to be his biggest issue.

It's a thing that he did the best on in his first term. Now he's getting really low marks on it because of this tariff issue. No, no, he's completely turned around the Biden-Harris economy. Look, when you have America first trade deals, that by definition means that someone's going to come second. So let's take Japan. They just have their upper house elections

where they lost. I have to quibble with that one too, because the idea that trade is a zero sum game is not, not everybody agrees with that, okay? That might be Trump's view of it, but that is not the view of trade when you look across the history of globalization. We have won and so have other countries.

It's not a zero sum game. But here's the thing, Japan can't make these deals when they have a snap election coming up in September, right? Right now these deals do not benefit them because it benefits America. America first, Japanese second. So that's why all of this takes time. Here's what Americans say about all of this. Is Trump focusing enough on the economy or on tariffs?

They say too much on tariffs, 61%. The majority of Americans oppose tariffs on imported goods, just about the same percentage, 60%. That's a pretty lopsided assessment of that particular issue and this idea that Trump is not focusing enough on the thing that he was elected on, which is the cost of their daily lives problem here with this argument Your investment account is worth more tonight at 430 than it's ever been in history Have you got to look outside of your own perspective?

You're heavily invested in the stock market. Most Americans? No, every American is. No, every American is. It's high today, but the stock market has been existing in the volatility of Trump's mind. What he decides to do one day shifts and moves the markets. The sentiment is everywhere. The uncertainty you talk to any actual investment bank or someone who's actually making long-term decisions, they can't. Our foreign adversaries, our counterparts, they can't. They don't know whether or not in the

next three years JD Vance will tear up our issues. Whatever he's doing it, keep doing it. Actually Kevin, you know I was gonna just say that very thing which is that it seems like what you really like about what Trump is doing right now is that he's not doing what he said he's gonna do. Good point. Abby, in the end of the day... I mean, at the end of the day, that is what...

That is what we are talking about. That is what we are talking about. That's what's gotten us where we are. Oh, no, no, no. I don't want to talk soccer. I mean... I want to talk about the American at the kitchen table putting their child in... Are you going to say that tariffs are...

Consumer sentiment is down. All I'm saying is this tariff stuff and all this narrative, it's going to end up being reciprocal tariffs between countries, equal tariffs between EU, Canada, Australia, India, Vietnam, Indonesia. All we are saying is let's make it equal. And I think the market believes that. You may not, but meanwhile, the index that matters, the wealth of an American savings account,

you can't win your argument tonight at 430. I'm sorry. It's already been decided by fat. Adam, last word. You lost. If tariffs worked, Trump wouldn't have to gaslight the American people about who paid the tariff in the first place.

And you wouldn't have to pivot to the stock market every single time we try to bring up the on-the-ground effects, the unpredictability that tariffs create. Think about the long-term effects for my generation. Can you sit here and look me in the eye and say that tariffs are not inflationary? Are you kidding? Right now, everything's working because the market... Oh, bring up the market one more time, one more time.

Pivot right back to me. Kevin, the market is the American economy. It was a super simple question. Which is? Are tariffs inflationary or not? Not yet, there haven't been. I know, but are they inflationary? 2.7%.

Data from June shows that prices have gone up. There's a little bit of inflation, which informed Jerome Powell, head of the Federal Reserve, to say that. Let me finish my point. Let me finish my point. It informed Jerome Powell's decision to hold off on cutting interest rates.

People are unable to buy homes because mortgages are far more expensive. You guys hate numbers. No, no, I don't hateages are far more expensive. You guys hate numbers. No, no, I don't hate numbers. I actually love numbers. You hate numbers. I bring you numbers, you hate them. I'll say something positive about Trump. I'll say something positive about his tariff policy. In his first term, he was way smarter about tariffs. They were targeted, they were smart,

they were so good that Biden came in, he kept them in place and even expanded upon them. But what Trump did by slapping on these insanely high tariffs, this coercive thing with every country we do trade with, think about it, if I were one of those countries, how about we band together and refuse to make good deals with Trump? That was exciting, that was fun. It was genuinely a really fun experience. I'm grateful to CNN for allowing me to do that. Thank you to Abby Philip and the entire team for making it such a comfortable experience and yet Kevin O'Leary honestly was stunningly Unprepared how do you not how you're not able to concede that tariffs are inflationary How are you missing some of the basic points about economics when you are supposed to be a businessman? I mean, I'm 22 years old and it seems like I I might have known what was going on more than him

But I'm gonna leave it there once again. Make sure you drop a blue heart. Let me know how you think I did I want to know your candid thoughts. Let's uh Shoot a tweet at CNN or be like just have Adam Ockler on I just feel like uh, I feel like we should try to Get me back on right. I love you all peace out