Friday Focus: Tariff reversal and Trump’s shocking plan for Gaza
Friday Focus: Tariff reversal and Trump’s shocking plan for Gaza
On this week’s Friday Focus, Rudyard and Janice start the show by talking about President Trump reversing the course on tariffs at the last minute. While some say this was all a negotiating tactic by creating confusion to get concessions from Canada and Mexico, others are more concerned that this is all a pretense to Trump 2.0’s territorial ambitions. Moreover, the damage done to the Canada-US bilateral relationship will have huge long-term consequences. In the second half of the show, Rudyard and Janice turn their attention to Trump’s shocking plan for Gaza, reimagined as the Riviera on the Mediterranean as the Palestinians are relocated against their will. This plan, so utterly lacking in credibility, is an affront to Trump’s entire voting base which wants to retreat from the world, not spend money on developing it. Even so, when a President says something, no matter how outrageous, there are consequences.
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