Posted on 04/08/2025 12:42:15 AM PDT by Angelino97
MAGA ally Ben Shapiro has stunningly turned on President Trump and urged him to listen to Elon Musk's criticism of his tariff policy.
Shapiro, a long-time supporter of the president, smashed the illusion that tariffs are a good business deal for Americans to smithereens, with a startling insight on Monday: 'Musk is right. Musk happens to be 100 percent right about this.'
The Tesla CEO has been in lockstep with the president on key voter issues since he returned to the White House, but came out swinging against tariffs and exposed a feud with the key advisor who helped bring them to life.
Shapiro gave a blisteringly blunt message to Trump, urging him to do 'exactly' what Musk tells him to do in regard to his tariff policy - just days after global markets faced devastating downturns because of his decisions.
Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro has been engaged in a public war of words with Musk since the White House unveiled his controversial reciprocal tariff policy, which sparked market chaos and global fears of a recession.
'Musk himself suggested that he wants a zero tariff situation, which again, this is the good explanation for why you would do the tariff game,' Shapiro said...
At the opposite end of the debate is Navarro, who long championed tariffs as the path to success and helped shape the policy with Trump.
Musk called Navarro out on X, publicly telling his followers he 'ain't built s**t.'...
Navarro hit back on Sunday, dismissively telling Sunday Morning Futures: 'He's got X. He's got a big microphone. We don't mind him saying whatever he wants, but the American people need to understand that we know what this is all about.
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Shapiro merely disagreed with Trump.
He didn't actually "smash" anything "to smithereens" with any "startling insight."
Shapiro disagrees with Trump fairly often. He’s a reactionary kind of person. He really doesn’t initiate anything. I guess that’s why he’s in the field he’s in and at his capacity. Not really producing anything more than soundbites.
The first two words in the title are an outright lie.
Shapiro is no “MAGA Ally” he is a backstabbing RINO establishmentarian.
Shapiro is OK. Great musician but I cannot listen to him speak. I merely tolerate him. He was good to my friend Tom MacDonald.
Suppose you owned a farm next to a factory that was noisy and loud. You talked to the factory owner and explained the noise keeps you up at night. He says tough. You tell him ok, by the way I’m going to start raising hogs on my farm, I hope you don’t mind. You open your hog lot right next to the factory. The smell starts bothering the factory workers. The factory owner complains to you because his workers are quitting. You tell him tough. He asks you move your hog lot. I would but the hogs like your factory noises. Guess we need to think of a solution to this, huh?
Shapiro is making himself into an embarrassment. He doesn’t comprehend the tariff strategy to bring back manufacturing jobs to the middle class. Does Shapiro have any idea how to do that? That’s why Shapiro should leave our economic policy up to the big boys. President Trump knows what he is doing. Shapiro is one of those yapping dogs you kick to get him off the back of your shoe.
I say I don’t care for Ben S because I am unable to listen to him. I’m actually surprised that he has been as successful as he is because of his horrible voice and speech pattern. IMHO
Forty years since I took an economics course, so I might be a little rusty.
Tariffs on foreign goods will raise the price on those goods, reducing demand for these imported goods. In theory, it should increase demand for American goods, increasing employment but also increasing prices.
So, there is bound to be inflation in the US but increased employment. Whether this increased employment outweighs the increased costs, is a question of price elasticity.
The increased tariffs should go a way to reducing the federal deficit and debt.
I’ll leave the macro economics to the experts. (Never really was a fan of macroeconomics. I preferred microeconomics.)
Little Benji is much more sympathetic to the RINO Establishment - and always was.
Trump is trying to even the playing field. Why can’t anyone grasp that? My whole life we have been bitching about how unfair it is for our stores to be flooded with foreign crap. We finally have a President that stands up for the American people ,and what does he get,shit on! F-Shapiro .
Tucker, Candace, Redacted, Jimmy Dore, Hodge Twins, Glenn Greenwald and others are far better than Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro is not a “MAGA ally” of Trump. There’s nothing “MAGA” about the guy. He’s a TV clown who has spent his career jumping from one bandwagon to another.
He has always been a neocon, globalist, schill.
At 1:20 to 1:31 below, Ben’s hyperbole went through the roof.
What happened to facts over feelings?
Shadow of Ezra
“Ben Shapiro is having a full-blown meltdown as he ramps up his attacks on Donald Trump—this time in defense of Israel.
Shapiro is furious that the Trump administration hit Israel with a 17% tariff, just one day after Israel dropped its own tariffs on U.S. goods.
He insists that Israel has never imposed tariffs on the U.S.”
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1908343757545877789
my guess is...
this guy is mad about the diamond industry
lab diamonds will destry a long tradition
MAGA is not a monolith.
Shapiro is more loyal to Israel than the United States.
Aren’t Shapiro and Musk aware that tariffs are a negotiating tool—reciprocal to existing foreign tariffs and trade barriers, not applied in a vacuum?
The goal is fair trade, not permanent tariffs.
Trump has to have some leverage when negotiating over trade. And that’s what tariffs provide.
Without leverage, how would the president persuade our trading partners to eliminate their lucrative trade barriers?
You are not wrong. He is like an aluminum shredder. I cannot stand him.
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