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1 week ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young |Gabe Fleisher
In a recent Oval Office meeting, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sat across from Donald Trump as part of a European Union effort to navigate the ongoing trade turbulence. The meeting was cordial enough. Meloni emphasized transatlantic unity and expressed hope for deeper economic collaboration. Trump, however, was unmoved. He praised Meloni personally, but made his stance clear: the U.S. is not in a rush to finalize trade deals.
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1 week ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young
The Trump administration’s trade policy continues to evolve — or unravel, depending on your perspective. The weekend saw a flurry of conflicting messages around exemptions for electronics like iPhones and semiconductors. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick first denied any exemptions, suggesting those items are part of a separate, yet-to-be-finalized tariff bucket. At first, it seemed like he’d gone rogue, but Trump quickly backed him up.
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2 weeks ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young
Liberation Week has come and gone, and now we’re in the pause phase. The tariffs? Temporarily stalled. The market? Down, then up, then down again. We’re in a holding pattern — with one major exception: the trade war with China is not only still on, it’s intensifying. So what did we learn from all this? The answer starts and ends with Trump. The Democrats have branded him the “chaos president,” and they might not be wrong — but maybe not in the way they think.
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2 weeks ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young
Sometimes, the Thursday episodes of this show matter more than most, and today’s is one of them. Just this afternoon, Donald Trump hit the brakes on his week-old Liberation Day tariffs. The chaotic mix of targeted, sky-high import duties has been shelved for a 90-day pause, replaced by a simple 10% across-the-board tariff for most countries. Why? Officially, to allow nations time to come to the table and negotiate.
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2 weeks ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young
After several days of panic in the markets, the Dow Jones Industrial average is rebounding. Why? It seems as if the Liberation Day tariffs may be leading to new trade deals. The market swoon and lack of clarity has put the Trump administration in the wilderness. Is the goal to really bring all trade deficits to zero? Do we want our children screwing together iPhones as a career?
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2 weeks ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young
This week’s big theme on the Sunday shows? Uncertainty. The stock market is wobbly, the global economic order feels like it’s being rewritten, and nobody knows exactly where it’s headed. We’re seeing Donald Trump take a swing at globalism with an aggressive tariff strategy. And within that, you can see the internal tug-of-war: one Trump wants to be the tariff-happy industrial protector; the other wants to be the big dealmaker who makes the stock market pop. The big question is which Trump wins out.
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3 weeks ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young
By the time you read this, we might already know what Donald Trump’s tariffs look like on what’s being dubbed “Liberation Day.” This marks a long-promised moment where Trump seeks to impose reciprocal tariffs on countries that have trade barriers against the U.S., especially focusing on value-added taxes (VATs), which he sees as unfair. The plans remain murky, and we've seen conflicting reports — will it be a blanket tariff? Will there be waivers?
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3 weeks ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House is a detailed account of the unraveling within the Democratic Party, and it starts with a shocking reality: Co-authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes didn’t originally intend to write this book. The result is a work that skips over primaries but captures, in vivid detail, the implosion of Joe Biden’s re-election effort as 2024’s political battles came to a head. Reading it, I was stunned at the depth of denial w ithin the Biden White House.
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3 weeks ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young
Kicking off the Sunday political circuit this week, President Donald Trump dominated headlines following a phone interview on NBC’s Meet the Press. Trump departed from his typical freewheeling style and delivered forceful commentary on two long-time geopolitical rivals: Russia and Iran. Trump sharply criticized Vladimir Putin, portraying the Russian president as an obstacle to peace in Ukraine.
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4 weeks ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young
Earlier this week, The Atlantic published a report detailing a Signal chat thread in which members of the Trump-aligned national security team discussed operational specifics of a strike against Houthi pirates in Yemen. Names like Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, and John Ratcliffe were associated with the conversation. The messages included precise timelines and military activity, including strike windows, drone launches, and Tomahawk deployments.