John Bolton - September 30, 2026


Carney Plays Games With Jobs And Lives

Hosted by
John Bolton
Mentioned
Trump Mark Carney
Trump Did This - Carney Did Nothing - Canada Is Over

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

172.88

Word count

363

Sentence count

28


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 After the trade talks broke down, United States Trade Representative Jameson Greer said this about steel, aluminum, autos, and lumber.
00:00:09.460 They already have a lot of duty-free stuff coming in.
00:00:12.060 We offered to give them more, you know, cut steel and aluminum tariffs in half, you know, cut auto tariffs down, remove certain tariffs on lumber.
00:00:19.480 They looked at the deal, agreed to elements of it, a few days later said, no, we can't do that.
00:00:24.100 Then this happened.
00:00:25.200 Hundreds of steel workers at the city's Stelco plant will be laid off indefinitely next month.
00:00:31.400 Then this happened.
00:00:33.400 Today we're thrilled to announce that Mesabi Metallics will be building the largest steel plant in American history.
00:00:41.080 Trump's plan is to bring jobs back to the United States. Steel is just a start.
00:00:46.920 And if you build your factory in America, you have zero tariffs to pay.
00:00:50.260 And that's the thing. So let's say they're paying 50% or 100% tariffs. But if they come into our
00:00:57.840 country, they have zero tariffs to pay. Then this happened. The president threatening to go even
00:01:03.700 further in a social media post today promising 50% tariffs on cars, trucks, car parts, steel,
00:01:10.880 if a deal isn't struck before next year. Remember what Jamison Greer said about tariffs?
00:01:16.840 Didn't that include autos?
00:01:18.800 We offered to give them more, you know, cut steel and aluminum tariffs in half,
00:01:22.640 you know, cut auto tariffs down, cut auto tariffs down, cut auto tariffs down.
00:01:27.520 It's called reshoring.
00:01:29.560 Tariffs on steel and aluminum autos to reshore.
00:01:31.900 You know, we're making more steel we've ever made.
00:01:33.780 The auto lines are coming back and putting in new shifts.
00:01:36.880 Trump is getting the steel.
00:01:38.880 He might soon get the autos.
00:01:41.260 And if you build your factory in America, you have zero tariffs to pay.
00:01:45.060 Carney still hasn't told us the truth about why trade talks broke down.
00:01:49.780 It sounds like they were offered a pretty good deal.
00:01:52.280 We offered to give them more, cut steel and aluminum tariffs in half, cut auto tariffs down.
00:01:57.980 But political gains and power are more important to Mark Carney
00:02:02.020 than Canadian jobs and the destruction of the Canadian economy.