Game Over! Trump Tariff Takeover! Cold as Ice Must Not Miss Interview Shatters the System! Watch Now!

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RR News Update! – April 5th, 2025 Justus Knight

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Title: Game Over! Trump Tariff Takeover! The ‘Cold as Ice’ MUST NOT MISS Interview that Just Shattered the System!

Recap:
Welcome back to the podcast where we break down global economics with fewer PhDs and more common sense. Today’s headline? The Trump administration is finally saying what every working American has known for decades: we’ve been getting played on trade.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on CNN—yes, that CNN—and calmly wrecked the entire globalist trade narrative in under ten minutes. I would’ve brought popcorn, but I was too busy applauding.

So, let’s get into it. Kaitlan Collins tries to hit Bessent with your typical concern-troll questions about tariffs, car parts, and upsetting our “allies”—as if we’re supposed to prioritize Seoul’s GDP over Detroit’s jobs.

And Bessent? Cool as ice. No spin. Just truth.

“Buy American,” he says.

That’s the message. That’s the plan. And for the first time in a long time, we have a Treasury Secretary—and a President—who actually mean it.

Collins presses again—what about Japan? South Korea? What will they say when we raise tariffs?

Bessent doesn’t blink:

“They’ve been doing it to us for a long time. If they don’t like tariffs, why do they have them?”

Bingo. We’ve been the global piggy bank for decades. Everyone’s happy to talk free trade until it’s their own protectionist policies being challenged.

But oh no—now America wants to play by the same rules, and suddenly it’s an international crisis? Please.

Here’s the kicker. When asked about the risk of retaliation, Bessent basically says: Don’t be stupid.

“Everybody sit back, take a deep breath. Don’t retaliate. Let’s see where this goes.”

And he’s right. You don’t negotiate by folding before the game starts. This isn’t a trade war—it’s a trade correction. And it’s about time.

“But what if this hurts our global relationships?”

Good. Maybe they need a little hurt. Maybe they need to understand that America First isn’t a slogan—it’s a doctrine.

And here’s the genius part: Bessent points out that history actually favors the deficit country in these conflicts. You heard that right. All these so-called economic geniuses clutching their pearls over a tariff strategy forget that we hold the leverage. The rest of the world depends on our market, not the other way around.

Now, is Trump’s strategy risky? Of course. But guess what—doing nothing is riskier. And if you think outsourcing our supply chains to adversaries and hoping the WTO saves us is a plan… you might already work for the Biden administration.

So yeah, Trump’s focus on China, trade, and bringing manufacturing back home? It’s not reactionary. It’s long overdue. And if you’re worried about hurt feelings in Brussels or Seoul, maybe ask how worried they were while we racked up trillion-dollar deficits making their products.

The message is simple: Buy American. Build American. And finally—think American. Because this isn’t isolationism—it’s restoration. And it’s the first administration in decades with the guts to do it.

Hit that like button if you’re tired of globalist gaslighting, subscribe if you think “free trade” should actually mean fair trade, and leave a comment if you think the WTO should be replaced with a vending machine that only takes gold.

Until next time—this is Restricted Republic, where liberty meets logic, and Trump’s trade war… might just be the peace treaty Main Street’s been waiting for story?

I love you all, until next time, Godspeed and God Bless,

Justus Knight

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