Podcaster Zach De Gregorio in his podcast “Wolves And Finance” recently did an outstanding editorial to explain the truth about the international tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump in this, his second term in office. Whether you like Donald Trump or not, and whether you like Zach De Gregorio or not is irrelevant to the gravity of what is at stake in anti-Trump Democrat liberal activist judges obstructing him in his right to impose the trade tariffs he has imposed on multiple nations around the world.
To put it in bi-partisan simple terms anybody of any level of intellect can understand:
“Simply put, all previous presidential administrations and sessions of Congress have been allowing other nations to rob us blind when it comes to trade. The trade deficits that have been allowed to escalate over the last 25 years have become unsustainable. If we do not change course, not only will our economy crash, the entire world economy will crash with ours.”
Many of us predicted this would happen when China was granted most-favored-nation (MFN) status on December 27, 2001, after the United States–China Relations Act of 2000 allowed for permanent normal trade relations, enabling China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). President George H.W. Bush called people like us “protectionists” as if that was a bad thing. In hindsight, it was simply being realistic. You give a nation like China an inch and they will take a mile… and they have.
In this video De Gregorio reports on how blue Democrat states of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont conspired to challenge the legality of President Trump imposing these tariffs in a lawsuit making the false claim his actions will tank America’s economy.
Interestingly, he also notes a second court case from the private sector alleging the same accusations against President Trump from private corporations FishUSA, Inc., Microkits, LLC, Plastic Services and Products, LLC, Terry Precision Cycling, LLC and V.O.S. Selections, Inc.
De Gregorio exposes these very small companies as being funded in this litigation by the Liberty Justice Center by money from Republican anti-Trump billionaire Charles Koch.
A biased liberal appeals court ruled against the Trump tariffs. On August 29, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled 7-4 that Trump had exceeded his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), but allowed the tariffs to remain in effect until October 14, 2025, to provide time for an appeal to the Supreme Court.
In this video editorial De Gregorio calls out and exposes one of those unfit biased judges as Judge Leonard Stark as a partisan Democrat hack. De Gregorio makes the case that Trump has the presidential power to do exactly what he has done in this matter in accordance with IEEPA and how the Supreme Court should rule. However, De Gregorio also notes the personal connections Charles Koch has with some of the nine Supreme Court justices indicating this is not a done deal for President Trump.
De Gregorio shares the very valid concern that if the Supreme Court does not uphold the law in this matter and seemingly goes rogue, as they did with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), not only will their decision tank America’s economy instantly but that of the rest of the world after ours.
As we have reported before, the national debt of the U.S.A. is now unsustainable as we are no longer able to pay down even the interest on our debt. In other words, the interest is now adding to our national debt!
CONCLUSION:
President Trump’s international tariffs are legal, just, and working effectively. He has, once again, proven all these “expert economists” of 6 months ago wrong. They all chimed in like mockingbirds how his tariffs will lead to job losses and a collapse of our economy. They did not.
A better argument could be made against Jerome Powell not lowering our interest rates at the Federal Reserve in 2025 but these same experts avoid that conversation like the plague! President Trump has dramatically lowered inflation since Joe Biden’s term in office.
I can relate a personal story of how Trump’s tariffs have worked for me and saved me from making a mistake. As an older man, I have been shopping around for a new zero turn riding lawnmower to replace the 15 year old John Deere I own now. I became interested in a Stihl brand zero turn riding lawn mower just out several years ago because they appeared to have spring suspension on all 4 corners of the mower.
Being German-Austrian by nationality, I had serious plans to buy a new Stihl brand mower but had a sticker shock experience this spring when I realized how much the mower that would have cost around $4,000 last year was so much more this year. German goods received Trump tariffs of anywhere from 15 to 25% due to their past unfair trading practices with the United States.
So, as the Trump tariff chart showed last spring, the European Union (EU) charges a 39% tariff on American goods to be sold there on average. Germany is part of the EU. Trump (being the logical and nice guy he is) placed a new 20% (on average) tariff on all of their goods coming to America to be sold here. That made my $4,000 mower, of last year, come closer to $5,000 this year (when you add Illinois Democrat’s sales taxes).
But then something kind of cool happened to my benefit. I found out the 42 inch mower I wanted to buy does not have spring suspension on all 4 corners like the 52 inch mower I sat on and tried out. That means, thanks to Trump, I no longer want the product from Germany I thought I wanted! In essence, he saved me from a mistake!
Now I have 2 options, to my way of thinking:
1. I can either buy the bigger Stihl 52” mower and pay the tariffs, and figure out a way to store the larger mower I really do not need, want, or have the room for…
OR
2. I can wait for John Deere or some other American made mower to catch up to Germany and give me the spring suspension I desire in my older age.
The one very deep thought to hit me that concerns me the most these days:
There are very many people attacking President Donald Trump simply because they do not like the man. The simple truth of the matter is he knows business and the economy better than most all of the politicians in Washington, D.C. as well as the talking head pundits the mainstream media bring in to discredit him.
These Trump attackers are un-American idiots! And I can bring the receipts starting with the Internet gatekeepers. If you go try to do a search of “successes of Donald Trump businesses” you will find all kinds of discussions and reports of his failures. What you will find very hard to find is his success ratio which is a very high 97.5%!
Keep in mind, according to national reports, about 20% of new businesses fail in their first year with 65% failing in ten years! Donald Trump began his career at his father’s (Fred Trump) real estate company, Trump Management, in 1968 which he took over in 1971 and later renamed the Trump Organization in 1973. That is a record of success of over 50 years!
If you hate Donald Trump for his money management skills, you’re either ill-informed or an idiot.
Trump’s tariffs are legal, correct, and must stand for the benefit of America and the world.
© 2025 by Mark S. Schwendau
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Thinking Conservative.
