Ben Shapiro says Peter Navarro “should be nowhere near trade policy”
Shapiro: “Pretending that there is kind of Main Street and Wall Street and that they are two sides of a wall and that that they have no connection with one another is not true”
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From the April 9, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): OK. So it's our turn to rip them off is not exactly a a modus for a zero tariff policy. And this is why the mixed signals. And the mixed signals are freaking the market out. They are. And it's not just the market. Again, in the end, the policy is gonna be what the policy is. If the tariffs come down the way they are currently coming down, and if your prices skyrocket, if businesses that you like start to go under because it turns out that the marginal increase in price is too much for people who are selling you retail, and they go under, and jobs are lost, that will be a problem. The economy is interconnected. Pretending that there is kind of Main Street and Wall Street and that they are two sides of a wall and that that they have no connection with one another is not true.
Peter Navarro, who is the architect of much of this trade policy, a man who used to be a zero-growther, actually, in his early career, and then called himself Ron Vara in his own writings to create a fake name under which to attribute many of his writings. It was like Voldemort. His last name is Navarro. Get it? Ron Vara? Get it? You don't? It's dumb.
Anyway, here here's Peter Navarro, who should be nowhere near trade policy, explaining that the actual goal of the administration is not, in fact, to go to zero tariffs. It is, in fact, to rectify trade deficits. Good luck with that. The Vietnamese GDP per capita is $4,000 per year. Gonna get them to buy a lot of American software, are you?