And inside his mind, does he want to set a universal tariff or a specific country by country tariff? Obviously universal tariff. It's easy. Tuesday morning, you say, pick a number. 10%. Shazam. But We settled on a country specific model. Much more complex, much more difficult, but much more nuanced, much more clever and much tougher. And he couldn't do that in his first term because he didn't have believers around him. He had too much of the people who believed that, that sophomore professor's ideals. (18:59–19:12)
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Asserts that a country-specific tariff model was chosen for its complexity and effectiveness.
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