Charlie Kirk on Trump's tariffs: “There will be market volatility. There will be turbulence. It's basically like taking cough syrup.”
Kirk on impacts of the tariffs on Americans: “It might be harder to go buy piles of plastic that you do not need”
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From the April 3, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): I wanna get into the specifics of exactly what President Trump is issuing as far as reciprocal tariffs and tariffs across the board. But understand, you are seeing a historic reorganization of the global and the American economy, and it's gonna come as a shell shock. And there will be market volatility. There will be turbulence. It's basically like taking cough syrup. It doesn't feel good, but it is good for you. It's necessary. We have been on borrowed time. We have been in on borrowed future promises, and you are not a nation if you do not make stuff in your nation.
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KIRK: So the US trade representative has chronicled every tariff and every trade restriction on the United States. President Trump has said they calculated an effective average tariff on US goods. If you combine all direct tariffs and all other trade restrictions, he says we are then retaliating by tariffing other countries that amount directly but cut in half with a floor of 10%.
So you might say, what does that mean? A lot of tariffs. That's what that means. It's gonna be a lot of tariffs with China. And they could reciprocate. And I'll be very honest. It might be harder to go buy piles of plastic that you do not need. Do you want to be reliant on the Chinese Communist Party? Do you want to be subservient to a foreign land? Are we a colony, or are we a country?