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May 5, 2025 - The David Knight Show
17:40
How Many Times Do Trump & His People Have to Tell You “You’ll Be Happier If You’re Poor”
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What we don't need.
You know, somebody said, "Oh, the shelves are going to be open." Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know?
And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.
But we're not talking about something that we have to go out of our way.
They have ships that are loaded up with stuff, much of which, not all of it, but much of which we don't need.
And we have to make a fair deal.
You were at your cabinet meeting.
You said, quote, I'm going to quote what you said, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of thirty dolls.
And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.
Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to go up?
No, I think tariffs are going to be great for us because it's going to make us rich.
But you said some dolls are going to cost them.
Isn't that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up?
I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls.
I think they can have three dolls or four dolls.
Because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable.
We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.
When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves?
No, I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying they don't need to have $30.
They can have three.
They don't need to have 250 pencils.
They can have five.
Yeah.
Who again?
Who are you to decide?
As I showed, you know, the...
It began with $2, then somehow the two of them switched it to $3.
Are we going to have empty shelves here, as you said?
This guy Larry Pfeiffer put up on X, he says, well, maybe the children will have $2 instead of $30.
And you see empty shelves with two dolls on it.
One, Donald Trump doll, and the other one, an Elon Musk doll.
And the child is crying her eyes out.
Or, you know, we might have this type of thing, right?
Trump said American kids will be getting two dolls instead of 30 because with tariffs, the other 28 dolls will end up at Mar-a-Lago.
And here are the adult dolls that, of course, he would surround himself with.
And as he said, it's going to be great.
We're going to make a lot of money.
One person says, yeah, having too many dolls is excessive.
Take a look at Donald Trump and his gold.
A covered house there.
Yeah, that's not excessive.
But, you know, hey, this 11-year-old doesn't need those kind of dollars.
Did he ever tell that to Ivanka?
No, no, no, you don't need $30.
I'll get you one that costs $150,000.
How about that?
Is that okay?
I'll get you $30,000 that costs $150,000.
Who cares?
The potential in his trade war could reduce the average household's income by nearly $3,800 this year.
According to Yale Budget Lab's estimates.
So, you know, you don't need that $3,800.
Come on.
You didn't need that.
The average household's income.
That's pretty big.
Because, you know, the average household income, I don't know what it is now with the inflation that we've had.
It was just a couple of years ago.
It's like, you know, mid-50s.
$50,000 for a household.
Are you going to take out $3,800 of that?
Okay.
Are you going to take out like 6% or 7%?
A tax on people?
Additional tax with his stuff?
So Trump is saying the quiet part out loud, says, reason that Americans should be forced to pay higher prices for basic goods and household items.
So he said, here's four other recent incidents in which national conservatives in Trump's orbit admitted as much.
Now, one of the things is he doesn't talk about Benny Johnson.
I mean, what is he talking about?
And he's not saying that...
He's not giving you, paraphrasing Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
Don't give any thought for these things.
God takes care of the ravens, he takes care of the flowers of the field, and he will take care of you.
Follow him first.
No, he's not talking about that.
No, no, no.
You want to be able to save the country.
Am I allowed to question whether or not Trump's plan is going to save the country?
Well, no.
No, don't talk about that.
He said, losing your country is everything.
Well, how does raising prices save our country exactly?
You might want to explain that to us.
And he wasn't talking about losing our Constitution in order for economic benefits.
You see, this is the fallacy of this exchange that people like Benny Johnson are putting out there.
Okay, losing money.
Costs you absolutely nothing.
We're talking about saving your country.
Well, I'm not sure that your plans are going to save the country.
But I do know that your plans are harming the Constitution.
And that's how we lose our country.
By destroying the Constitution.
By destroying the rule of law.
And I don't really care about your grandiose plans because you don't have any plans.
You're changing them every hour, you said.
Right?
So you don't have a plan to save the country.
You've got a plan to destroy the Constitution and make yourself into some kind of a tin-pot dictator.
That's what you've got to plan for.
Well, yeah, you lose your country for the promise of economic security.
But let's look at some of these comments that they put in reason.
Robert Leitzinger, August of 2022.
He was the first Trump administration's U.S. trade representative.
He dismissed free trade as being rooted in a philosophy of consumption that is too materialistic.
Again, he's not talking about, you know, put your faith in God.
There are things that are more important than money.
No, he's saying that, you know, I've got a better economic plan to make you money, is what he's saying, in the long term.
He said the best way to fix consumerism is to raise prices.
See, that's what he's against.
He's not against materialism.
Consumerism, which to these guys is buying dolls instead of buying private yachts and private jet planes and Mar-a-Lago's.
Is consumption really a problem in America?
They ask, well, that might be easy to say.
As someone who spent his career bouncing back and forth between law, politics, and finance, Leitzinger just landed a plush new gig as a, quote, senior advisor, unquote, for Citigroup.
For many Americans, however, higher prices would mean a material reduction in living standards.
A real reduction.
Got a household income of $50,000 or so, and you have...
$3,800 that it's going to cost them?
When Leisinger criticizes consumerism and consumption, he's really just saying that you should be happy with paying more and getting less.
Right?
Again, you can't get dolls for your kids, but he'll be able to afford his toys.
Private jets, yachts.
Dan Bishop, April 2024.
A Republican congressman from North Carolina decried the, quote, cheap crap, unquote, that Americans were importing from China.
He said, you can go buy sneakers on Timu for $5 and a sweater for $7.
Timu reportedly loses $30 per order in a deliberate strategy to flood the U.S. market with cheap crap.
Okay, so I guess we should go buy the...
$5,000 purse that Kristi Noem gets or the $35,000 purse that Melania Trump gets, right?
These are people trying to make an economic decision here.
And I understand predatory pricing, and you know what?
That also happens with domestic corporations against small businesses.
I've talked about how Blockbuster did that.
It's not just an issue with China being able to do this because of deep pockets of Wall Street in general does that.
Wall Street in general does that to small and medium-sized businesses.
Small and medium-sized businesses have to compete in a competitive free market.
But the big box retailers win because they don't have to make a profit.
They can operate at a loss until they drive their competition out of business because they're getting...
The greater fool's money on Wall Street.
So unless you're going to talk about fixing the Wall Street bank for these big box retailers, you're still not talking about a competitive free marketplace.
And what you're going to wind up doing if you shut down the Chinese predators that are out there, you're going to have the domestic Wall Street predators who are going to be on your case, shutting it down.
That's what we've seen.
You know, it wasn't the Chinese government.
That shut down all the hardware stores.
It wasn't the Chinese government that shut down all the stationary stores like Dunder Mifflin or whatever, right?
Or the office.
No, this was done by big box retailers.
This is a strategy that was really pioneered by Mitt Romney and his organization.
Let's put these things together.
We'll have the big hardware stores, the big office supply stores, and on and on and on.
And we will drive all these small retailers out of business.
And they did.
Then we go to J.D. Vance, August of 2024.
Not long after being named Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance declared in a campaign speech that, quote, a million cheap knockoff toasters aren't worth the price of a single American manufacturing job.
He said affordable and abundant labor-saving appliances, says Reason, are part of why the 21st century America is the best place to live in the history of the human race.
Kevin Cochran said, a product being cheap in both senses, both low cost and low quality, is not in and of itself a problem.
Sometimes buying something inexpensively and basic is a perfectly sensible option.
Because, you know, not all of us can afford a $35,000 purse like Melania.
Again, when we look at this, I don't like predatory collusion.
But understand that it isn't just happening with the Chinese government.
It's happening with all these big American corporations.
And they are working with the American government, the Washington government, that you think is going to be your savior on this stuff?
They're working with them just like the Chinese companies are working with the Chinese government.
So, again, if we're just trying to live life between the rampaging, stomping, Hooves of these elephants that are around there.
What Vance is really saying is that you should be poor.
Ed Gresser, the former assistant U.S. trade representative, who is currently the director of trade and global markets for the Progressive Policy Institute, is coming from the left.
He said that fully American-made toaster would cost at least $250.
Significantly more expensive than the $30 to $50 toasters that are readily available in American stores today.
If there are American stores left.
It'd be Amazon.
In Vance's world, that trade-off is worth it because of patriotism.
Don't talk to me about patriotism.
When you're talking about patriotism like that, what you're talking about are crony American capitalists who, in my opinion, are no better Then the crony Chinese capitalists working with their government.
Scott Besant, March of this year, just recently, said that at the Economic Club of New York, Treasury Secretary Besant said that, quote, access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream.
Well, I agree.
The essence of the American dream is liberty, the freedom to be able to choose, to do things, and the appropriate response for these predatory practices.
By, you know, foreign and domestic enemies of the free market is to have less regulation, to have more freedom of choice.
In other words, just like with speech, the answer to bad speech is not censorship, it's more speech.
And so the answer to these things that are harming us is to have more liberty, not austerity.
So, and Besson, of course, is not talking about this.
From an anti-materialist view, again, he's not saying, you know, there's things that are more important than money, which I would agree with.
No, he's not saying that.
He's got a certain way that, you know, he wants to, he loves money, and he wants you to pay more, is all he's saying.
So, you buy the expensive stuff from his friends.
As the saying goes, when somebody shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
You know, when Trump said, You're non-essential in 2020.
You should have believed him then.
I mean, I still get a lot of people, you know, friends, conservatives, I think, well, let's give Trump a chance.
No, believe him the first time.
Pay attention to what he did and said the first time, because he's doing it again, and he's going to keep doing it again.
And again, we're just trying to figure out how we're going to not get stomped on by these rampaging elephants.
Foreign and domestic governments, foreign and domestic predatory competitors.
How are we going to navigate in that environment?
The nationalist conservatives now running the Republican Party, says Reason, have repeatedly said they believe Americans should have to pay higher prices for sneakers and household goods in order to achieve weird political goals, like more toaster factories.
Right?
And who does that help?
Does that help Howard Lutnick?
To have more toaster factories?
Am I better off with domestic toaster factories than I am getting cheap toasters from China?
Is it better off that the obscenely rich predatory people that are going to be selling me toasters are Americans rather than Chinese?
I don't think so.
I don't think so at all.
And somehow you're supposed to...
This is another form of tribalism.
Well, I don't mind if I get ripped off and these people become trillionaires, as long as they're Americans, right?
I just don't want those Chinese trillionaires doing that, right?
Well, Trump says his tariffs will mean that Americans won't be able to afford as many toys for their kids, but he'll be able to afford any toy he wants, no matter how expensive, including those 28 dolls wearing skirts at his Mar-a-Lago thing.
You'll never hit what you aren't aiming at, folks.
Trump is not aiming at your prosperity.
He's not aiming at an upwardly mobile society, or he'd be getting rid of regulations left and right, and he'd be changing the structure of government.
He's not doing that.
He's changing the structure of government to make it more centrally controlled.
He's aiming for himself.
He's aiming for his family.
He's aiming for his friends to get obscenely rich.
You know, he's aiming for you to own nothing.
The Common Man.
*music*
They created Common Core to dumb down our children.
They created Common Past to track and control us.
Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing and the communist future.
They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
*music*
That is what we have in common.
That is what they want to take away.
Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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