The MeidasTouch Podcast - OMG! World Leaders Destroy Trump in Trade War

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on world leaders from Canada to the European Union responding to Trump’s trade war with powerful retaliation. Get $5 off your next order at https://MagicSpoon.com/MEIDAS Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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exclusions, and terms apply. Instacart, groceries that over-deliver. Donald Trump just got a world-class beatdown from the world, about $60 billion in retaliatory tariffs being applied to the United States when you add up the retaliatory tariffs from Canada and Europe. This follows Donald Trump following through on his 25% across the board aluminum and steel tariffs in Canada and in Europe. Canada and Europe swiftly responded. It was so odd yesterday, Donald Trump hosted the prime minister of Ireland. And in that bizarre Oval Office, whatever you want to call it, Donald Trump was bragging that the premier of Ontario removed certain tariffs, which the premier of Ontario added to the existing tariffs that were already

going to be part of the retaliatory tariffs because Trump has no clue what he's talking about. Just watch what Donald Trump said, though, in the Oval Office. Play this clip. It's not going to be a tough battle. In my opinion, not going to be tough. Just like when Ontario charged us, everybody said, oh, they just said this will be one in one hour. And they announced what we were going to do and they withdrew their little threat. And perhaps Donald Trump should have been paying more attention because right around that time, Canada announced that it was applying its retaliatory steel and aluminum tariffs. I'll just show you. Here's the finance minister of Canada, Dominic LeBlanc. Here's what he had to say yesterday. Let's play the clip. One of the things also that I think is so fundamental here as well is, as I've said, it's not simply that Donald Trump has declared a trade war on Canada.

In my view, Trump has declared actual war on Canada. When you talk about annexing, conquering, taking over the land, I mean, to me, those are fight words. Those are war words. And one of the things that Donald Trump refused to do as well is that when a new interim prime minister, Carney, Mark Carney, was selected by the Liberal Party, Canada is going to go into their elections, of course, shortly. And I think the Liberal Party is going to be able to form a government coming out of those elections, but people are going to have to go out and vote. But Trump didn't even reach out to the new interim prime minister, Mark Carney, and congratulate him or say anything. And so

Caroline Leavitt, the chief propagandist at the White House, she was asked, why didn't he do that? And then she just went on to attack Canada. I want you to watch this, play this clip. Close ally very quickly when there's new leadership. Well, the president is, again, responding to the fact that Canada has been ripping off the United States of America and hardworking Americans for decades. Now, I like Mark Carney, the new prime minister of Canada's response about will he meet with Donald Trump and when? What's his plans? First and foremost, he gave this incredible speech at a factory in Canada standing with the aluminum and steel workers who are being hit the hardest by this tariffs. Maybe at these factories, one of the things that Mark Carney announced is that unlike Trump, who wants to use tariffs to enrich himself and other billionaires and make way for billionaire tax cuts or for Trump to create a sovereign wealth fund like MBS in Saudi Arabia so Trump could buy more Trump hotels or whatever.

Canadian Prime Minister Carney says, here's what we're going to do with the money that we get. We're going to give it right back to the workers and we're going to make sure that we do everything that we can to help the workers. One of the things that Carney also said is, look, I'm open to meet with Donald Trump in Washington, but he's going to have to respect the sovereignty of Canada. First, Carney said, I'm drawing a clear line. I'm not going to go and sit in the Oval Office if Trump disrespects Canada. I'm just not going to meet with him. If he shows respect for our sovereignty, then I will be open to it. I think this is the right approach to it. Here, play this clip. We are ready to sit down with the Americans, with the US government. I'm ready to sit down with President Trump at the appropriate time under a position where there's respect for Canadian sovereignty.

And we're working for a common approach, a much more comprehensive approach for trade. Canada tough. Elbows out. Elbows up. Over the boards. Let's go. Let me share this with you as well. This is what the Canadian foreign affairs minister had to say. I think she's amazing. Here, play this clip. You've just heard the actions we're taking from my colleague and friend, Dominique Leblanc. Canada is holding strong and will continue to do so together. Well, make no mistake, though, this is going to be a day-to-day fight. This is now the second round of unjustified tariffs leveled against Canada and Canadian goods. The excuse for the first round was exaggerated claims about our border. We address all the concerns raised by the U.S., and in return, they agreed

to temporarily abide by the free trade agreement President Trump signed himself with Canada. The latest excuse is national security, despite the fact that Canadians still in aluminum add to America's security, not take away from it. All the while, there is a threat to further and broader tariffs on April 2nd still looming. The excuse for those tariffs shifts every day. The only constant in this unjustified and unjustifiable trade war seems to be President Trump's talks of annexing our country through economic coercion. Yesterday, he called our border a fictional line and repeated his disrespectful 51st state rhetoric. Well, Canadians have made it very clear that we will not back down and we will not give in to this coercion.

And then, you know, I can't do a video on Canada without showing you my buddy, Charlie Angus, NDP member of parliament. When he spoke with me the other day, here's what he said about those tariffs. Let's play it. Well, we talked on a previous show about what will happen in auto and within four days, Toledo and Lansing, Bowling Green will start going down. And the day after the tariffs were announced, he immediately backed down on auto. Why wasn't he taking advice from the big automakers in the first place of the chaos that he would cause? Now in agriculture, it's going to be another big area with $73 billion shared trade. This is a totally integrated market. And Donald promised lower grocery prices in his first 100 days.

Americans, like Canadians, have already seen the shocks of inflation, the shocks of post-COVID. Once he starts messing with that market and he's saying some things in Kuzma are protected and other things aren't, nobody knows. It's creating uncertainty and it's making it very difficult Kuzma are protected and other things aren't, nobody knows. It's creating uncertainty and it's making it very difficult for suppliers on both sides of the border. So I think what American farmers are waking up to is the fact that Canadians are no longer buying their products. We're just not going to participate in this abusive relationship. You threaten us, we don't buy your products. How about that? I want to share with you this graph before showing you the next video as well. I love Carl Quintanilla's posts. I think he does a great job showing these graphs.

You know I love geeking out with graphs because I'm a data guy and data doesn't lie. If you look at this graph, what it's basically showing is how U.S. stocks have completely, overwhelmingly underperformed global markets in 2025. The markets everywhere other than the U.S. are going up, up, up, and the U.S. markets are going down, down, down. And you can literally see the point where the U.S. markets crashed when the U.S. markets were doing great and when the world economies continued to grow when the U.S. market crashed. You want to take a guess on what date it is? Ding, ding, ding, the inauguration. You guessed it right because Americans are feeling the pain right now. The Trump erratic behavior means people are pulling their money out of the United States. Even like getting

out of real estate investment. It's an unstable market. In addition to people in other countries just boycotting the U.S., not traveling here with this corrupt, idiotic, authoritarian regime we have here, people don't want to do business with the Trump United States. Let me share this with you. This was a C-SPAN caller who says, look, I've been affected by these tariffs already. The eight to 10% increase in the product I was buying was passed on to me because that's the way tariffs work. Play this clip. Just like in 30 days. I mean, domestically, he's tanking the economy singly handed with the tariffs. And I just got a new heater today. I'm already affected by the tariffs.

How is that? The parts are, they say, up 8 to 10 percent already, just in parts for the heater. So I ended up getting a new heater. The company told you that the company that you bought it from right right and they passed on that eight to ten percent to you so you paid an extra okay yeah and that's this is for every kind of part from uh outside the uh the country and no matter what it is i mean mean, that includes everything that comes to the United States through these terrorist cities imposed. Magic Spoon makes high-protein, zero-sugar cereal and treats reinvented from your childhood. The nostalgia. Magic Spoon is also launching a brand

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stuff. May I share with you though, please? I want you to watch this. This is Mark Carney's full speech at the factory that he was at. It's about two and a half minutes, a little bit more than about three minutes. Watch this though, because to me, and I know in Canada, you're probably used to kind of smart, sophisticated, steady leadership. This guy, Carney, he led the Bank of Canada during the most difficult period of time in the mid-2000s to get Canada out of that recession. And then he was the governor of Bank of England, where he navigated through Brexit. I mean, this guy knows his stuff. World-class banker, economist, knows his stuff. He's like the perfect person, in my opinion, to be the counterpoint to Trump's idiotic bankruptcy, right? The banker versus the bankrupt. The banker, I like that.

The banker versus the bankrupt. That's what we got here. Watch this, though. I think you'll just find this powerful. And it's also a defense of the worker. Play this clip. You know, today is a difficult day for Canada. It's a difficult day for Canada. It's a difficult day for the industry because of these unjustified tariffs that have been

put on. We and my colleagues in the government want to make absolutely clear that we stand four square with you in this, And we are doing several things. First, about the same time as we're having this conversation, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Foreign Affairs are announcing that we will put in place reciprocal tariffs on U.S. steel, on U.S. aluminum, and on a series of other U.S. goods so the total amount of our tariffs match the American tariffs. Now we don't want to do this because we believe in open borders and free and fair trade, but

we're doing this in response. The second thing is that we are going to make sure that all the proceeds from our tariffs go back to support workers in the affected industries. So in the steel industry, in the aluminum industry, and any other industry that the Americans may affect. In addition, we will double down on the partnerships that we have with the industry. As you know, a lot of the big investments here have been in partnership with the federal government, with the Ontario government. The so-called SIF fund is one example.

We are proud of what you have accomplished. It's a remarkably competitive company. It's a world leader who's going to be here for another 30 years, another 30 years after that, another 30 years after that. And I know there's multi-generations of workers here who's going to be here for another 30 years, another 30 years after that, another 30 years after that. And I know there's multi-generations of workers here. And your children and your children's children will have opportunities to work at DeFasco and ArcelorMittal. Let me just say one other point, make a couple other points with respect to the United States and the relationship there. We understand, I understand, I respect President Trump's concern for American workers and American families.

We respect his concern about fentanyl. It's an issue for us here in Canada as well, and that's why the Canadian government moved very quickly with a comprehensive response that's had a huge, huge impact in terms of controlling that issue and getting on top of that issue much better. We are ready to sit down with the Americans, with the U.S. government. I'm ready to sit down with President Trump at the appropriate time. Under a position where there's respect for Canadian sovereignty, and we're working for a common approach, a much more comprehensive approach for trade. We're all going to be better off.

Workers here in Canada, which is our concern, workers in America, which is his concern, we are all going to be better off when the greatest economic and security partnership in the world is renewed, relaunched. That's possible. You have a new government, but the same commitment. And that commitment is built rock solid on the commitment you have all made here at DeFasco. Told you you were going to want to see that. I mean, just take a look at the American markets now. You look at the NASDAQ, the Dow, the S&P.

I mean, it's horrible, horrible stuff. Oh, I shared this with you as well earlier, but I think you got to see it. This is the president of the European Union Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Here she is talking about what Europe had to do in response, regrettably, in response to the US declaring a trade war on Europe. The trade relations between the European Union and the United States are the biggest in the world. They have brought prosperity and security to millions of people, and trade has created millions of good jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. As of this morning, the United States is applying a 25 percent tariff on imports of steel and aluminum. We deeply regret this measure. Tariffs are taxes. They are

bad for business and worse for consumers. They are disrupting supply chains. They bring uncertainty for the economy. Jobs are at stake. Prices up. Nobody needs that on both sides, neither in the European Union nor in the United States. The European Union must act to protect consumers and business. The countermeasures we take today are strong but proportionate. As the United States are applying tariffs worth $28 billion, we are responding with countermeasures worth 26 billion euros. This matches the economic scope of the tariffs of the United States. Our countermeasures will be introduced in two steps,

starting with April 1st and fully in place as of April 13th. In the meantime, we will always remain open to negotiations. We firmly believe that in a world fraught with geoeconomic and political uncertainties. It is not in our common interest to burden our economies with such tariffs. We're ready to engage in a meaningful dialogue. I have entrusted Trade Commissioner Marosevkovic to resume his talks to explore better solutions with the United States. Not surprisingly, Donald Trump's now approval is the lowest it's ever been on the economy. 56% disapprove. Frankly, I don't know how it's not lower than that, but it is plummeting every single day.

The JP Morgan latest report talks about rising inflation, a decline in new orders, less inventories, the barrage of economic gibberish coming out of the White House is how they refer to the havoc that's being caused. But if you listen to Trump's 27-year-old chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, she'll say this is effective. Things are working. Things are going great. Here, play this clip. Most importantly, and so the president will continue to effectively utilize tariffs while,

again, driving down the cost of living in this country. Both things can happen at the same time. Just look at President Trump's first term as an example. When he left office, inflation was a low 1.4%. Another day in the Trump regime. Idiotic, weak, pathetic. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, and more.

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