On Sunday, CNN host Jake Tapper appeared on “State of the Union” to interview Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins, during which he was too embarrassed to admit that he is liberal – telling her that he is “not on the left.”
Tapper asked, “So, how long do you anticipate this tariff chaos is going to be going on, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days?”
Rollins replied, “Well, first of all, Jake, thank you for having me. I think it’s really important to realize that last Wednesday was when the president announced this new American order, the new American economic plan. We’re now two days in, right? You have got two days of data. Everyone, especially on your side, on the left, is freaking out.”
Tapper declared, “I’m not on the left.”
His statement was then met with laughter, causing Rollins to pause her response before continuing, “This whole concept is about rebuilding an American economy around American goods, around American industry. We do already live under a tariff regime in this country, but it’s the tariff regime of China, of Mexico, of Brazil, of Australia, of countries that — Mexico won’t take our corn. Australia won’t take our beef.”
She said, “The country of Honduras takes more pork than the entire European Union does, American pork, I should say. So from our farming and ranching perspective, which is what I’m focused on, but happy to talk about anything, that it has to — it is time for a change, and that’s what this president evoked last Wednesday.”
Rollins added, So I think we will see in short order a really positive outcome from this. We already have 50, 5-0, 50 countries that have come to the table over the last few days, over the last weeks that are willing and desperate to talk to us.We are the economic engine of the world, and it’s finally time that someone, President Trump, stood up for America.”
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