Immediate Reaction to President Trump's Announcement in the Rose Garden. President Trump announces a new set of tariffs on China, India, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and a whole lot of other countries. This is a good idea, but it is a bad idea.
00:00:00.000Hey everybody, Tim the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000Immediate reaction, President Trump at the Rose Garden, exclusively here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:06.000We break it all down, what President Trump announced, and the reciprocal tariffs, and there's a lot of them.
00:00:12.000There's a lot of reciprocity happening.
00:00:14.000In fact, just to go through them very quickly, there will be a 34% tariff on China, 26% tariff on India, 25% tariff on South Korea, 24% tariff on Japan, 32% tariff on Taiwan, 10% tariff on the United States,
00:00:29.000Kingdom, 46% tariff on Vietnam, 31% tariff on Switzerland, 49% tariff on Cambodia, 30% tariff on South Africa, should be higher than that, 32% tariff on Indonesia, 10% on Brazil, 10% Singapore, and 17% on Israel.
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00:02:08.000President Donald Trump very well could have done what every other politician does when it comes to trade and American manufacturing.
00:02:15.000You say one thing to the heartland of this country and then you kowtow to the Wall Street class.
00:02:21.000We have gone into great detail on this program on what is a tariff, where do tariffs come from, why do certain countries embrace them and why do they not.
00:02:28.000When you are the incumbent economic power, tariffs can be a tool to bring more money, more investment, more capital back to the homeland.
00:02:35.000However, in order to use tariffs, you have to be willing to look the markets in an eye and say, I know you might be a little ugly, I know you might be a little mean, but I am willing to persevere.
00:02:47.000I'm willing to push through the instant pain so that we can have long-term success.
00:02:54.000As we've said many times on this program, the West was built thanks to delayed gratification.
00:02:59.000Not instant gratification, but instead delaying the inevitable payoff.
00:03:06.000We have wanted to play this piece of tape a couple times.
00:03:10.000I did play it a few weeks ago on this program, and it's very important.
00:03:13.000It's one of my favorite pieces of tape, and credit to the Jesse Watters show for compiling it, because I think this piece of tape sets the tone from what President Trump announced in the Rose Garden.
00:03:23.000It sets the tone as to what we are doing here.
00:03:27.000As I was watching the Rose Garden speech, and all the networks took it, I was getting a little bit emotional.
00:03:34.000Not emotional because of what President Trump was doing at the markets, but when I saw a group of 55-year-old autoworkers, the white working class, with their hard hats on, I thought of the countless MAGA rallies that I've spoke at.
00:03:54.000I thought at the countless political events that I went to.
00:04:00.000And I and President Trump, President Trump and myself I should say, and myself as proxy, would look these guys in the eyes and we would make a promise to them.
00:04:09.000We would say to these white working-class men, Elect us and we are going to fight for you.
00:04:18.000We're going to stop the stem on the southern border, the flow of illegal immigration and drugs, and we are going to use tariffs.
00:04:25.000And these polite, mild-mattered, mid-western patriots that work for Ford or General Motors, that work in manufacturing plants, those that still exist, would applaud as if it was a lifeline.
00:04:43.000As we say in this program, they're the ones that shower before work and they shower after work.
00:04:48.000And I got a little emotional watching that Rose Garden speech.
00:04:51.000As those very same guys that we have campaigned for can say that we voted for this.
00:04:59.000Donald Trump won the heartland because of these swing voters.
00:05:04.000These are The Obama Democrats that voted for Obama, and some of them even voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and they came back home, and you look right there on screen.
00:05:14.000These are the garbage truck drivers, the UAW members, and I thought to myself, it is very unique to see a politician do what he said he was going to do, regardless of what the media and the institutions of power threaten him with.
00:05:33.000So I want to just set the tone to set the vibe of our conversation around this historic Liberation Day speech With why we are here This is Jonestown, Pennsylvania before I was born this started this sequence this right here We're about to play is what President Trump is aiming to solve in the Rose Garden 32 years of managed decline 32 years 35 years you could say 40 years of ...
00:06:01.000of the slipping of American manufacturing dominance.
00:06:05.000It's a very difficult clip to watch, and multiply it by 60,000.
00:08:34.000And to fulfill that pledge, and to fulfill that promise, requires moral clarity that we have not seen from an American president since probably Dwight D. Eisenhower.
00:08:46.000This is J.D. Vance who understands the ramifications, the weight, and the heaviness of exactly what President Trump was contesting for.
00:08:55.000In the Rose Garden speech known as Liberation Day, Play Cut 121.
00:08:58.000There were two conceits that our leadership class had when it came to globalization.
00:09:04.000is assuming that we can separate the making of things from the design of things.
00:09:09.000The idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things.
00:09:17.000You would open an iPhone box and it would say, designed in Cupertino, California.
00:09:22.000Now the implication, of course, is that it would be manufactured in Shenzhen or somewhere else.
00:09:28.000And yeah, some people might lose their jobs in manufacturing, but they could President Donald Trump announced
00:09:58.000A solution to what J.D. Vance diagnosed as the problem.
00:10:01.000And I'm going to tell you the exact tariffs that he announced.
00:10:04.000It's going to be a baseline 10% tariff on all U.S. imports.
00:12:33.000The second is that cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch.
00:12:38.000And it's a crutch that inhibits innovation.
00:12:40.000I might even say that it's a drug that too many American firms got addicted to.
00:12:45.000And so I'd ask my friends, both on the tech optimist side and on the populist side, not to see the failure of the logic of globalization as a failure of innovation.
00:12:56.000Indeed, I'd say that globalization's hunger for cheap labor is a problem precisely because it's been bad for innovation.
00:13:05.000Both our working people, our populists, and our innovators, gathered here today, have the same enemy.
00:13:12.000And the solution, I believe, is American innovation.
00:13:15.000So the U.S. trade representative has chronicled every tariff and every trade restriction on the United States.
00:13:22.000President Trump has said they calculated an effective average tariff on U.S. goods.
00:13:26.000If you combine all direct tariffs and all other trade restrictions, he says we are then retaliating by tariffing other countries that amount directly but cut in half with a floor of 10%.
00:13:37.000So you might say, what does that mean?
00:14:11.000The people that showed up in Record enormous numbers to vote for President Trump are enthusiastically giving a standing ovation for this right now.
00:14:22.000And do you know how you avoid a tariff?
00:15:05.000And then the all-encompassing strategy is boom on the second part, Is a massive reconciliation bill of tax cuts, of no tax on tips, of drill baby drill, of balancing the budget.
00:15:20.000President Trump is also offering tax deductions on interest on car loans, on American-made cars.
00:15:25.000So when you then look at the entire picture, and you are a foreign company, you have to ask yourself a very simple question.
00:15:33.000Do you want to be able to access the American consumer?
00:15:36.000What President Trump is doing is he's saying hey in order to access the American consumer You got to make the stuff here because the American consumer is the golden prize on the planet Let me say that again.
00:15:49.000The American consumer is the golden prize.
00:15:53.000We consume more than any other nation We are a consumerist economy.
00:15:57.000We buy and we buy and we buy and we go out to eat The Japanese are not like that at all.
00:16:26.000If you are a Dutch company, a German company, an Argentine company, a Colombian company, you can never reach Global international success if you cannot get into the U.S. market.
00:16:37.000But now in order to reach the U.S. market, you have to make that good in the United States of America.
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00:18:30.000Several issues to discuss here with a really good guest, Will Tebow, director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute and also an Army veteran.
00:18:42.000Will, we complained while Biden was president that there were separate fitness standards in the military for men and women.
00:18:52.000If a woman wants to be in the military, she should have to do the same amount of push-ups, the same amount of pull-ups, and run at the same pace as a man.
00:18:59.000In battle, the enemy does not shoot less or deploy less IEDs or fight softer if he finds out that it is a female combatant versus a male combatant.
00:19:12.000Tell us about the announcement that Pete Hegseth has made that women must now be able to have the same strength and fitness standards as men in the military.
00:19:24.000It is finally common sense again at the Pentagon for men and women to be evaluated based on the same rubric, right?
00:19:33.000What is it that, frankly, the defense establishment and both parties have told us for over 10 years now?
00:19:39.000Men and women deserve the same opportunities in combat that they do in the rest of life.
00:19:45.000And so long as everyone passes the same standards, Well, then they should have that opportunity to serve in these brutal roles.
00:19:54.000Well, we are finally taking a step towards that being a reality after about 15 years of meddling, you know, with this delusion.
00:20:03.000Yeah, you know, now when a man or a woman are evaluated based on their fitness, they're evaluated on the same scale.
00:20:09.000You know, before this week, a woman had to do about 42 push-ups to get an A plus on her fitness test, while a man had to do 84 push-ups.
00:20:17.000All the while, we were told that that man and that woman were able to do Any combat job in the same capacity, even though they're being judged by the same standard.
00:20:28.000It was this bait-and-switch that, frankly, both sides of the aisle would tell the American people.
00:20:32.000And Pete Hegseth has finally fixed that by saying, when it comes to these, you know, gruesome, you know, excellent-driven jobs, that it requires the same standards, so we're not playing identity politics with the infantry.
00:20:46.000Yeah, so just to get into more of the details of how it was.
00:21:12.000So if you are a woman for Push-ups, a female, in order to get the most amount of points, had to do 53 push-ups, where a male had to do 57 push-ups.
00:21:46.000But the running is the most dramatic, which I think is one of the most important parts of military preparedness and fitness, where the man has to be able to run in 13 minutes and 22 seconds.
00:21:58.000The female can be two minutes slower than a man in a battlefield, under the Biden physical fitness standards.
00:22:07.000The deadlift, this one I find to be so flummoxing.
00:22:11.000So to get a max score on a deadlift, a man needed to be able to deadlift 340 pounds.
00:22:27.000You're in a battlefield and basically a woman under Joe Biden would not be able to lift an average weight of a soldier and still be able to be on the front lines.
00:22:42.000And that's what the deadlift was put in the Army Combat Fitness Test to measure.
00:22:47.000The ability of a soldier, again, we were told, of any gender, to lift a heavy weight off the ground.
00:22:53.000Like, say, The body of your fallen comrade, and then carry it out of harm's way.
00:22:59.000It is brazen, as far as I'm concerned, to say that there was this equal standard for all, when just as you showed, it was a different standard.
00:23:08.000I'm pretty sure you were just kind of reading off some of the minimum standards, and that's not even in consideration for army combat rules.
00:23:17.000It's important to note, and you mentioned this, There was even a point where they changed the test.
00:23:23.000It was the leg tuck, close to a pull-up, that proved, even with a gender-segregated score, to be too, quote, discriminatory for women.
00:23:32.000So you had senators from both sides of the aisle and female army generals who demanded that the Biden administration and the army under the Biden administration take out It's grading on a curve.
00:24:32.000The military is not a bastion of equal opportunity.
00:24:35.000It is not a place where you necessarily deserve a fair shot at the job that you might think you deserve.
00:24:41.000It's a job where only the best is needed and where masculine virtue is absolutely necessary.
00:24:48.000And there's no greater way of laying that disparity clear than in the physical fitness test.
00:24:52.000But it is where we were told, you know, the most brazen lies.
00:24:56.000And it's why, although this policy change, of course, by the defense establishment is kind of, you know, tasked aside and said it's just an issue of identity politics, that's not true.
00:25:05.000It is at the core of what it means to be in the military.
00:25:09.000And that's to maintain physical excellence and to be capable of going to what we called in the Army, the limited advance with your unit, no matter the challenge ahead of you.
00:25:17.000That's what the Army Combat Fitness Test measured.
00:25:19.000And we're finally one step closer for it to being a genuine test of physical excellence and not just a pass-fail metric, you know, before you can include all other, you know, characteristics of identity politics.
00:25:33.000Let's hear it in Pete Hegsat's own words.
00:25:37.000Here at the Defense Department, we are restoring the warrior ethos, and that means we got to be fit to fight inside all of our formations.
00:25:43.000That starts with standards and going back to basics.
00:25:48.000So for decades, the military I joined, there were different male and female physical standards because men and women are different, and that's understandable.
00:25:57.000But there were certain jobs, combat MOSs, that were only for men.
00:26:03.000Then in 2015, under the Obama administration, against the advice of the military services, opened up all those combat MOSs to males and females.
00:26:30.000One thing that I think is worth making explicit again.
00:26:35.000Under the Obama administration, standards became mere pass-fail metrics for the bare minimum of what it took to serve in some of these units.
00:26:46.000Even when I joined the Army, what the fitness test was, it was a means of determining who is the best and who is the rest, from first to worst.
00:26:56.000And if you were first, you got whatever job you wanted and you filled out the units You know, by order of merit from there.
00:27:04.000Standards have not been that since the policy change that Secretary of Defense Hegseth describes.
00:27:10.000That's a fundamental difference when we're measuring our military on pass-fail minimum metrics, as opposed to genuine excellence and the pursuit of being the best.
00:27:21.000You know, I'll also say, he glazed over this too, you know, military generals, uniformed generals, recommended against this policy change even back in 2015.
00:27:32.000You know, I would be hard-pressed to think that there are many 2-, 3-, and 4-star generals who would put their career on the line and recommend against such a policy change today.
00:27:43.000You know, as I said at the start, there were many generals who lost their mind when it became clear that women weren't performing as well under the first iteration of the Army Combat Fitness Test.
00:27:54.000And so, with help from Democrat senators, the Army changed that test.
00:27:59.000So let's also use this as an occasion to ask serious questions about the military leaders who are implementing this policy.
00:28:05.000In many cases, these are the same leaders who carried forward the Obama policy and for different units, and now we're expecting them to all of a sudden faithfully execute Trump administration policy.
00:28:15.000We need to be really careful about how that gets implemented.
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00:29:38.000We're ensuring that any combat position across any of the services, and the services are evaluating that, has the same standard for men and women.
00:29:46.000Which means anybody can join, but the standard is to meet what it takes to do that combat job.
00:29:53.000Rigorous physical standards, so that your sons and daughters, those that join our military, have the best possible units, the most lethal units.
00:30:02.000So this is a standard review, looking at combat units, looking at Men and women.
00:30:36.000Of course, we're all for people having families, but the military should be to crush our enemies.
00:30:41.000Will, what percentage of women are going to make it through these fitness standards that are now equal for men and women?
00:30:48.000Perhaps a handful, but the point is, what does this do to the culture and the unit cohesion of these units?
00:30:58.000Frankly, Charlie, I can tell you firsthand that even if it's just one or two women in Large unit.
00:31:06.000That is kind of a reorganizing principle based on something other than lethality and readiness.
00:31:14.000The whole framework for how a unit trains and fights is different.
00:31:19.000Because I was in the infantry when it became gender integrated.
00:31:24.000And there was working groups, there were new resourcing requirements, you know, time in the woods where we would spend, you know, three weeks in the field and not really think about it too much.
00:31:33.000We're all of a sudden unique because of, you know, the, the different kinds of demands that men and women need when they're, you know, supposed to live in austere environments.
00:31:42.000And, you know, I don't, obviously a lot won't make it and the vast majority won't, and there might be some that do, but does that mean that it's worth it?
00:31:52.000To change the fundamental character of a warfighting formation.
00:31:56.000Again, not a McKinsey consulting class, not a Harvard Law School class, but an infantry platoon.
00:32:03.000A platoon that is meant to fight in a war no matter the consequences and no matter the conditions.
00:32:09.000It's been a while since we've had You know, sustained combat that looks like that.
00:32:15.000And I fear that we may naturally fall into this trap where we think, you know, 21st century values merged with 21st century war fighting.
00:32:25.000We will just assume that it works that way and that all will be the same, even if it's just a few elite, you know, great, excellent women who can meet these standards.
00:32:35.000Frankly, my wife was one of those women.
00:32:42.000But she would be the first to tell you that, you know, again, the exception doesn't prove the rule.
00:32:49.000And her predilections or, you know, willingness to serve does not mean we need to change the fundamental character of previously all-male warfighting units.
00:33:00.000I think there's still some more questions to ask here.
00:33:12.000And at least from the fitness standards, at the very least, in order for that question to be answered, you have to at least be able to have the same fitness standards.
00:33:25.000Question and there's plenty of supporting roles but if you can't even do the physical stuff if all of a sudden your fellow marine has his leg blown off and you can't put that marine on your back to be able to you know hike a mile with him to be able to get necessary immediate medical support because you had a special deadlift accommodation you should not be in a combat role.