Ross Sorkin: Travel Dropping Because Foreigners Are Saying ‘We Don’t Like These People’

Breitbart ^ | 03/13/2025 | Pam Key

[ChicagoConservative27]

CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that travel to the United States was dropping because foreigners were saying they did not “like” the Trump administration’s policies.

When asked about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Sorkin said, “Look, I just think there is two things that we need to talk about this morning. One is just some historical perspective. I think we might have mentioned it on the broadcast before, but you go back to 1930, Smoot–Hawley those tariffs and then you look a year later, what happened to global trade. It dropped by 60%. That’s what happens when you get in a trade war. It becomes a back and forth. It becomes a retaliatory effort. That’s that’s where we are. And if it continues, I imagine we will look a year later from now and we will say that global trade has declined in a very very material way.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

prove it A&&^&^&.

[rktman]

Go to Bombay then.

[Tell It Right]

We've been in multiple trade wars since the 1940's.

It's just that we're only now fighting back.

[wildcard_redneck]

If true, which I doubt, this is no loss. These are exactly the types of foreigners we don’t want here in the first place.

[DEPcom]

Maybe I will be able to reserve a campground in South Fla next winter.

[bigdaddy45]

You clearly have not met many Europeans. I don’t doubt what he’s saying for a minute.

[mass55th]

Nobody gives a crap if you come here. You’ve been milking this country dry for decades, just like the RATS have. Stay home with the rest of the evil globalists.

[Resolute Conservative]

As if that is a bad thing. Stop coming here helps solve part of our problem.

[pa_dweller]

but you go back to 1930, Smoot–Hawley those tariffs and then you look a year later, what happened to global trade. It dropped by 60%.
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But wait, wasn’t there like, a stock market crash or something the year before?

[Democrat = party of treason]

LOL, that’s a shame...GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!

[central_va]

Smoot–Hawley those tariffs and then you look a year later, what happened to global trade. It dropped by 60%. That’s what happens when you get in a trade war.

More Smoot Hawley lies.

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But the impact of trade was miniscule when compared to the size of the overall economic contraction. Government expenditures remained essentially constant, but private consumption and investment plummeted. Of the $131 billion in lost economic output over the five-year period, only about $0.7 billion seems attributable to trade. This is shown as the last entry in the last row of the table. In either absolute or relative terms, the trade portion of the economic contraction of the Great Depression appears to be of little import.

[stevio]

Well, the feeling’s mutual.

[Texas Eagle]

The Winning never ends !

[dforest]

Good, we have enough foreigners roaming around. I don’t like other countries policies either so I don’t go there.

[thegagline]

It couldn’t be that the US dollar is strong against the Euro and the Canadian Loonie?

[central_va]

The three biggest lies:

1. I love you.
2. The check is in the mail..
3. Smoot-Hawley caused the Great Depression.

[Skwor]

More lies and wishcasting from the libs

[adorno]

Comparing trade in today’s world with trade of the 1930s, is foolish.

The U.s. was a world power economically, but not near what the country is now. What we have now is many countries taking advantage of our huge economic prowess, and that’s got to stop. Either we don’t do tariffs in any direction or tariffs have be be equal in all directions. When tariffs are equal in all directions, nobody gets an advantage, so there might as well be no tariffs at all, from or to any country.

[iacovatx]

You wrote, “But wait, wasn’t there like, a stock market crash or something the year before?”

Good point. Note, too, that the US exported a lot of agricultural products and other goods in 1930. The US, in 2025, has a very different export/import pattern.

[EliRoom8]

Who cares about those cretins? We’ve bailed them out in two world wars and wet-nursed them for the last 70 years! ENOUGH!!!