Valuetainment - “American Country Peasants” – China SLAMS Trump’s Tariff War In BRUTAL Attack On U.S.

00:00:00.000 So let me give you some love letter here from China, Tom, and I want to get your reaction

00:00:03.660 on this one here. China lashes out, says peasants in the United States will suffer

00:00:09.060 from the trade war. Rob, I think you got a clip on this. If you want to prepare this here,

00:00:14.700 is this the one? Go ahead, Rob, play this clip.

00:00:30.000 I'm not eating Chinese food for six months. That's my boy. He called me a peasant. I'm not going to

00:00:49.500 take a chopstick. Can you play the last five seconds one more time? Just play the last five

00:00:54.540 seconds if you can. Watch this. Go ahead.

00:01:00.000 That's what I'm, bro, that's fighting words. Let me read this to you. Let me read this to you.

00:01:11.480 Okay, so here we go. Xia Baolong, great name, director of Chinese Hong Kong and Macau Affairs

00:01:18.900 Office, criticized U.S. terrorists as extremely shameless, stating, let those peasants in the 1.00

00:01:24.580 United States wail in front of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, which is what we just 1.00

00:01:29.020 watched, in response to J.D. Vance's claim that the U.S. borrows from Chinese peasants to buy their

00:01:35.940 goods. Xia addressed the national security education. They called the U.S. the biggest

00:01:41.680 sinister manipulator undermining human rights, freedom, the rule of law, prosperity and stability

00:01:47.620 in Hong Kong, and a bully. He warned, the U.S. isn't after our tariffs, but our very survival.

00:01:54.160 The Chinese people do not cause trouble, nor are they afraid of trouble. Pressure, threats,

00:02:01.400 and blackmail are not the right way to deal with China. Alleging U.S. suppression of Hong Kong will

00:02:06.740 eventually backfire on itself. Chinese foreign minister spokesperson Lin Jian previously criticized

00:02:12.180 Vance saying, to hear words that lack knowledge and respect like those uttered by vice president

00:02:17.500 is both surprising and kind of lamentable. Tom, your thoughts on this?

00:02:22.480 Well, first of all, here's what China is doing. Our VP spoke, so Xi is never going to talk to our VP.

00:02:30.200 Xi sends this guy out. Xi Baolong, director of China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs office.

00:02:36.480 What? It's like the director of China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs office. Hardly the vice president of

00:02:42.400 China. So they're sending out a lower level guy to go make a comment because China is very symbolic.

00:02:49.140 They're very symbolic with what they say. And so they're like, OK, you're number two guy wants to

00:02:54.340 talk a little trash. Then we're going to talk a little trash behind the scenes. They have currency

00:02:58.760 problems behind the scenes. They're still tearing down apartment buildings that they overbuilt

00:03:02.860 behind the scenes. They are still about to have to deal with changing the demand from their largest

00:03:09.180 customer in the known galaxy, us. And so it doesn't mean that this is easy and it doesn't mean that

00:03:15.000 they're not a force to be reckoned with. But this guy, he's just out talking trash because J.D. Vance

00:03:20.760 said peasants. So this guy is going to say peasants. But let me tell you what's going on here, which is

00:03:24.860 the one part that we have to be careful with because they know what they have that we're having a hard

00:03:30.820 time with. Remember when we were talking yesterday, the fact that Trump wanted Greenland.

00:03:35.920 Why? Because the beach is beautiful? Because we're all going to be going tanning there?

00:03:40.180 No. Or because they have minerals? Trump wanted who else? Ukraine to come to the table. And Putin

00:03:45.380 kind of hurt the speed because Putin's not working that quickly on the negotiation. And why did he

00:03:51.100 want a negotiation deal with Ukraine? Because they offer what? Minerals that we need. Two of them 0.94

00:03:56.540 were the ones to get the minerals, right? So watch this here. Trump's tariffs, gamble put to test

00:04:03.620 as China chokes off critical mineral supplies. Chokes off. So we need it. Nope, you're not going

00:04:11.120 to get it. Rob, is that the clip? Okay, play this clip, Rob. This is very interesting to see what's

00:04:15.860 going on. Because the longer it takes, guys, can you, can you, if you're going to talk, guys, over

00:04:21.340 there on the left, if you can, you guys can go to the cigar lounge. We can hear you. If China 0.98

00:04:25.560 uses this as a leverage, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Greenland doesn't happen, a lot of business

00:04:35.360 owners are going to be calling Trump saying, hey, what are we going to do about this? Rob,

00:04:37.940 go on and play the clip.

00:04:40.660 In Vietnam, they brought the pomp and circumstance to welcome Xi Jinping. And two communist leaders

00:04:47.920 walked the red carpet so Beijing could portray itself as a benevolent source of regional stability.

00:04:54.340 China will insist on joining hands rather than throwing punches, tearing down walls instead of 0.90

00:05:01.120 building barriers, connecting instead of decoupling. Xi's Southeast Asia tour was pre-planned,

00:05:08.400 but he's using it to confront the U.S. for what Beijing calls an irresponsible trade war

00:05:13.940 and recent sanctions on Hong Kong, China's top official there said today.

00:05:18.800 The repeated attempts of the U.S. to contain and suppress...

00:05:21.900 But let me read this to you. China halted exports of rare minerals, critical for weapons,

00:05:26.920 electric vehicles, and electronics in retaliation to Trump's 145% tariff. So let me give you an idea

00:05:33.160 what we're going through. We have SLS next week at Mar-a-Lago. We have an event that's coming up

00:05:37.140 next week at Mar-a-Lago. We purchased a million dollars worth of merch that's coming in, and we

00:05:42.240 have it coming in from all over the place, but one of the shipments coming from there. It's at the port,

00:05:46.660 it's waiting there saying, hey, if you want it, you're going to have to pay another $250,000

00:05:51.820 in tariffs. Not me. This is the fee. So a lot of people are currently experiencing this small

00:05:56.960 little pain. How many of you guys are experiencing it yourself and your business? Can you raise your

00:06:00.160 hand if you've had anything happening with tariffs in the last two weeks? Raise your hand if you can.

00:06:03.920 Okay. Fantastic. Watch this. It says, in rare minerals for weapons, electric vehicles, electronics,

00:06:11.920 and retaliation to Trump's 145% tariffs impacting U.S. manufacturing and the Flint supply chains,

00:06:17.540 National Economic Council Director Kevin Hessett said rare earths are part of lots of the economy.

00:06:23.920 The rare earth limits are being studied very carefully, and they're concerning,

00:06:28.040 and we're thinking about all the options right now. China producing 60% and processing 90% of global

00:06:35.400 critical minerals imposed export controls on seven rare earth minerals, stopping the magnet

00:06:42.400 shipments on April 4th. The ban spares finished products, potentially undermining Trump's tariffs

00:06:49.940 while U.S. industries face production delays. Josh Baller, CEO of U.S. Rare Earth, predicted.

00:06:55.120 I'm betting it affects a lot of the auto manufacturers fairly quickly. Anybody who's

00:07:00.100 doing their assembly manufacturing here, there will be a knockdown effect. Tom, thoughts on this?

00:07:05.040 Remember, I think we all remember, what did Zelensky and Trump supposedly come to a verbal

00:07:11.120 agreement before the famous fight in the Oval Office? It was a ceasefire and minerals deal with

00:07:18.500 Ukraine. And then they came in there and, you know, Zelensky made a couple of snide comments,

00:07:23.820 back with the media, and then he and Vance went at it. Remember that?

00:07:28.640 So Trump, so this is one of the things where you have to remember, our president is showing

00:07:33.560 leadership here. He was trying to get out in front of this. He knew China was going to play this card. 0.73

00:07:39.200 And he's trying to get out in front of it and saying, hey, we're giving all this money to Ukraine.

00:07:43.140 They've got rare earth minerals. You know, it's like they say, PayPal now accepts Bitcoin.

00:07:47.840 United States now accepts rare earth minerals. You know, pay us in that, right? Pay us back in

00:07:52.520 that. And then Greenland, he's talking about, look, you're not thrilled with the Dutch, perfectly 1.00

00:07:56.800 thrilled with the Dutch. And China's been trying to get what? Mineral drilling rights in Greenland. 1.00

00:08:03.700 And by the way, Greenland only has 54,000 people, which is basically a sold out, you know,

00:08:08.600 baseball game at larger stadiums. That's it. And so Trump has been trying to get out in front of

00:08:14.560 these things because he knows the chess game he's going to, he's going to play. And I think people

00:08:19.380 need to, hey, it's in a pinch right now and he's still got to negotiate it. But this is playing out

00:08:24.460 in front of our very eyes. Let me ask you, finding out that he was right. Does this hurt Ilan though?

00:08:29.580 Does this hurt Ilan? Does this? I think so. Okay. So how long can he go with this pain?

00:08:39.260 What do you think? Because to me, we don't know the answer. It's not like you're talking

00:08:47.000 to the guy every day. Can you text him, find out how long he can go? What I'm saying is purely

00:08:51.080 speculate. How long can he go? Can he go a month? Can he go two months? Can he go three months? Can

00:08:58.780 he go six months? There is a time. How long can he go? Because he's also got great relationship

00:09:04.220 with China. Ilan does a lot of business with those guys on the other end. So if this is affecting,

00:09:10.100 so he's kind of in the middle where I got my business dealings I'm doing and we need these

00:09:14.580 minerals. Where do we go get them from? Ukraine's not moving fast enough. They flipped. There are so 1.00

00:09:19.760 many moving parts. The toughest thing about negotiation is when you're in the middle of a deal

00:09:24.140 and like we were going through this at the tail end of selling our business, there was handful of

00:09:32.220 things moving at the same time and it was not fun. And at any point, the deal was about to fall through

00:09:39.320 at any point. I'll never ever any point for the last, would you say eight weeks? Yes. The level of

00:09:45.380 anxiety and angst when by the when the money hit the account and we closed, we were in a room and when

00:09:52.360 the announcement was made, you remember Moral's reaction? Yeah. You remember your reaction? Yeah. You

00:09:59.540 remember the entire room what it was like? It was as if weight was lifted. Now that's a small little

00:10:05.900 business compared to a government as big as we are. They have 20 things going on right now that one

00:10:12.100 doesn't work out affects this one. Panama Canal, China, CK, Hutchinson, Minerals, Deals. We need these

00:10:20.160 chips. NVIDIA prices are going up. So he's kind of in the middle trying to negotiate all this stuff.

00:10:26.160 I don't know. I don't know how this is going to end up. I do know if you voted for this and we're

00:10:33.100 pushing it and we're challenging them. Do I think China is going to be willing to, you know, go through 0.96

00:10:40.040 more pain than us? Do I think China can be a bigger asshole and care about their people? Like, who do you 1.00

00:10:45.540 think cares more about voters? Americans or Chinese? Not even close. Do they even vote? 0.97

00:10:49.940 What politician cares more about voters? Do they vote in China? That's the joke. The joke part is

00:10:55.280 what? Chinese people look at their voters as what? Listen, you have nothing to say. Relax. Yeah. 0.99

00:11:00.720 This is China. You're going to do whatever we tell you to do. In U.S., you've got midterms around the 0.95

00:11:05.180 corner. So there's a lot of stuff that's going on here. Adam, your thoughts? Yeah. I'm actually in favor of

00:11:10.360 what Trump is doing with China. I don't. I like the concept. I like the idea. I like the mission.

00:11:16.380 I don't like the game plan. He could have gone this, gone about this so much clearer and better

00:11:24.600 and prepared everybody. So I'll make an analogy. Born and raised in Miami. You've experienced hurricane

00:11:30.020 season now for a few years now. A hurricane just doesn't pop up in Miami. You're like, it's hurricane

00:11:36.420 season. Brace for impact. You know, it's going to happen in the next six months. And then when a

00:11:41.520 hurricane happens, you have like a week or two to prepare off the coast of Africa. You're like,

00:11:45.260 all right, cool. We got this. Get the shutters. Get the wife. Get the kids. Get everything out of 0.96

00:11:49.800 there. Trump showed up like a freaking tornado. Boom. Tariffs. Everyone's like, what the fuck is going

00:11:55.440 on here? And nobody, business owners had no time to react. 30 days. So markets can move pretty

00:12:03.400 quickly to respond. But businesses are going to take 60, 90, 120 days to even realize what the hell

00:12:09.580 is going on here. So in my opinion, I voted for Trump. I support him taking on what he's doing

00:12:14.420 with China. The concept is a little reckless in my opinion. It's almost like, if I could give one 0.97

00:12:20.140 more analogy, we had freaking the Democrats drunk at the wheel, DUI, drunk on power and big spending. 0.92

00:12:27.900 They're making our boys, girls. They're chopping things off. Everyone's gay. Everyone's going big 1.00

00:12:32.100 spending. We're like, dude, we need a freaking safe driver. You know, what's it called when you,

00:12:39.280 uh, DD designated driver. Clearly I need one with my Ubers designated drivers. Trump's like,

00:12:44.600 listen, I got this. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't even have tattoos. He shows up. He puts on

00:12:49.900 Dale Earnhardt hat. He's flicking off everybody. He's just speeding down the race, reckless driving.

00:12:55.480 You're like, bro, you were just supposed to be chill. You're just going a little too fast right now.

00:13:00.400 Pump the brakes. Let's think this. I say no. No, I say he puts it in fifth gear. He keeps doing

00:13:05.500 exactly what the hell he's doing. This is what we voted for. He's the only, he's the, he's three

00:13:10.500 months in and everybody's acting on the left. Like it's the end of the world. Remember, remember

00:13:15.460 World War three, North Korea, Russia. It's all BS. I said this. Everybody needs to calm the hell down.

00:13:21.720 Let's not forget who China is guys. They are our enemy. I hate hearing the word adversary. That's the

00:13:27.620 same watered down for the enemy. The amount of crap that they do to us as a nation. And let's not

00:13:32.700 forget COVID you still, we still to this day, even the CIA Radcliffe has to say it's most likely it

00:13:40.060 came from the, that's how powerful these people are that we still can't say the words. It came from

00:13:45.440 China. It came from Wuhan at a lab that we started with fricking Fauci who got a preemptive pardon. 0.80

00:13:51.080 I think, Pat, stayed the course. They are our enemy. And you mentioned the chess game. Who's

00:13:55.780 going to, who's going to break first? Who's going to get the checkmate? I think he has to say, yes,

00:13:59.660 we're going to suffer. But at the end of the day, they are our enemy. You hear that fricking

00:14:03.280 pal, what up? I don't know what the hell his name was talking shit and calling us peasants,

00:14:08.160 regardless of the situation. That's what they think of us. It's going to be a fight. And me as an

00:14:12.380 American, I don't have this, I don't have a company where I'm losing that money and all that

00:14:16.660 stuff, but who, what other tactic has worked throughout the years? Nothing. And they're going to win

00:14:21.060 their GDP is going to pass us in 10 years. Let me tell you, I don't think anybody is

00:14:24.880 disagreeing with that idea. Everybody wants to see this happen. But there's also an element

00:14:30.840 of, are these executives, his executives that he's known for 10 years, is his executive team

00:14:38.040 people that he's worked with for 10 years? No. How long has he had? Months? Weeks? Not even.

00:14:44.460 Years? So guess what happens when you have that? So if you run with a group of people that you've

00:14:50.100 been running for 10 years, guess what you know? Everything. No one's talking to each other. It's

00:14:54.420 just signals. Yeah. You got it? Boom. Good, good, good. Yep, yep. So part of it is also here where,

00:15:00.940 you know, I don't know. I trust what the vision is. But on the back end, who's dropping the ball

00:15:07.240 on the Ukraine negotiation deal? Who's dropping the ball on the Panama stuff? Who's dropped? This is a

00:15:12.960 very good plan if it's executed, but the leadership team's only been working to get it for two or three

00:15:17.700 months. You can say all you want. You put a brand spanking new company together with 10 C-suite

00:15:22.700 executives from 10 different companies. Guys, make it work. It takes a minute. So I'm a little bit

00:15:29.200 watching to see who I can rely on. Because think, this is what I'm thinking if I'm the president.

00:15:34.800 I'm sitting, I'm sizing everybody up. I'm like, okay, is that guy really going to get the job done

00:15:39.440 that I need to get done right now? Or is he trying to run for office for 2028? Is that guy really going

00:15:44.620 to do whatever we need right now to get the job done? Or is he trying to fight for another job?

00:15:48.420 Is that guy really doing this? Or that's what I'm thinking. Why? I haven't worked with you for a long

00:15:52.440 time. I don't need to ask that about Tom. Tom and I have been in business together for nearly,

00:15:57.760 we've known each other for almost 20 years. We've been in business together for a while.

00:16:01.440 But I, but I don't know this camp. So I don't know if this camp is executing this chaotic plan

00:16:08.540 accordingly at the level of urgency you need. I don't know. I don't know.

00:16:12.780 Boy, because it's technically, he's in again. This is the startup. If you think about it,

00:16:16.020 everybody's brand new. It's a very new executive team. It's a very new executive team. And you

00:16:21.160 don't know everyone's motives. You don't. You don't yet know everyone's motives. This is a very

00:16:27.000 heavy duty negotiation going on all at the same time. Some of it needs to close. Like when you have

00:16:33.080 20 pending deals that are open, you come to your executives and you're like, hey, you had four of

00:16:39.780 them. When are you closing this thing? You said this going to get done. Why is this taking three

00:16:44.360 weeks longer? Your deadline was March 1st. What the hell are we doing? Let's go. Hey, you have four

00:16:50.100 projects. All four have been completed. Guys, why is this guy getting everything done? You're not done

00:16:54.140 yet. You slowing your things down is hurting the other big things that we're working on. I can't go

00:16:59.180 do this if you haven't finished up this project. What the hell are we waiting for? Do we need to find

00:17:02.800 somebody else to do this over you? I think that's maybe what's going on because if it's not matching

00:17:08.900 publicly, you have to show what? That you're united. And then think about it. A lot of the

00:17:14.120 guys that you have on your team are also business owners. So guess what business owners are looking

00:17:19.300 at? Some of the policies that we're coming up with is doing what? It's hurting the business. So

00:17:24.400 they're kind of like, are they policies first or their business first? Are they America first? Are

00:17:30.440 they their business? They're on network? What? This is very, very, uh, uh, this is very complex. We can

00:17:36.560 sit here and talk about a podcast and a YouTube and Hey, let me tell you, let me tell you, this is

00:17:41.180 they're running the biggest corporation in the world with 10 brand new executives who have never worked

00:17:45.360 together before. Go ahead. Run this biggest corporation. It's challenging. So I don't know what's

00:17:49.880 going to be happening, but a part of me is kind of anticipating some deals, closing up, close the loop on a

00:17:58.200 couple of these deals. We're being told, I'm pretty optimistic. The BlackRock deal is going to get done

00:18:02.800 with Panama Canal. Stop saying that close the damn deal. I'm pretty deal. The Ukraine Putin thing's going 0.83

00:18:08.580 to get done. Freaking fly over to Russia already. Let's get some of this stuff done. That's my concern.

00:18:14.260 Adam, you have one thing to say. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I fully agree as, as someone that runs a business and

00:18:19.640 understands sales, you have 20 deals in the pipeline. Oh, that, yeah, that deal folded. That didn't come

00:18:24.120 through. Oh man, what happened with that client? Boom, boom, boom. Next thing you know, 20 deals, you have 10 deals.

00:18:28.500 10 didn't close. You're like, we better close these right here. What's going on with Iran with 1.00

00:18:32.780 the nuclear missile deal? What's going on? I'm going to end the war in Russia before I even get, 0.75

00:18:36.100 it's still going on. Putin's still bombing Ukrainians. Gaza, we're going to get all the 0.97

00:18:40.300 hostages back. Nah, they didn't really do that. Inflation, where are we at with that? So like,

00:18:44.560 I fully understand where Vinny's at. This is what we voted for. I want this. I love that about Vinny,

00:18:48.740 but also we need to have like a measured sort of sense of understanding. Like we can't just

00:18:53.240 be in the back seat with a reckless driver and be like, this is the driver, bro. It's like, well,

00:18:57.740 tell him to fucking pull over and like, let's buckle up some seatbelts for a second, 0.95

00:19:01.920 guys. So I love Vinny. I love like, that's what America is. Like John Wayne over here,

00:19:07.300 like a cowboy, but like, you know, that horse ain't running.

00:19:10.540 My question is, is it three months to panic right now at three months? You asked a very good

00:19:15.700 question. Who has more time? Clearly China. Trump, we have got 16 months until the next

00:19:20.900 midterm. What's the thing they said in Afghanistan when we were there for 20 years? It's like,

00:19:24.780 you guys have all the watches we have all the time. China don't give a shit. They'll starve 1.00

00:19:29.920 their people. They'll put people in camps. They are starving their people.

00:19:32.100 You know, so we unfortunately have what's called empathy and care and approval ratings. And Trump's

00:19:39.580 going to have to answer to somebody. And my biggest fear, if this doesn't work, you're going to start

00:19:43.660 to see his team of rivals be like, I told Trump not to do this. You're fired. It could get ugly if

00:19:48.700 he doesn't start getting some W's. Yeah. That's why I think we need to know who's not doing the work.

00:19:53.800 Like, like if, if one of the 10 executives or two of them are kind of not moving urgently,

00:20:00.260 that story needs to leak to the public. Like we need to know what's going on because if you don't,

00:20:04.600 everybody's going to be blaming him. What's going on right now? Who's not executing some of these

00:20:08.320 deals? Again, I don't know the full details, but what's going on here. I just think some of them

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Valuetainment - April 18, 2025

“American Country Peasants” – China SLAMS Trump’s Tariff War In BRUTAL Attack On U.S.

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