Chuck Gray Applauds President Trump’s EO Requiring Citizenship To Vote
This is good, his state had done that and has banned foreign money in state elections, the FEC had written a ruling that foreign money is only banned on National Elections (which does not work), but foreign money can go into state elections, and he thinks Trump will get rid of that also, along with Citizenship requirement in National election Trump just released.
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https://rumble.com/embed/v6p1ksi/?pub=4
Auto Tariffs: German Carmakers Face Billions in Losses – German Auto Suppliers Have 330 Locations in Mexico
March 27, 2025 | Sundance |
Theatomic sledgehammerthat President Trump just delivered to the German auto industry simply cannot be overemphasized.A 25% tariffon imported cars and car partscompletely negates hundreds of billions in pre-positioned investment dollars by German auto companies in Mexico==. [Executive Order Here]
[Cliff Notes Here]
To give scale to the impact on Germany, consider thatGerman automakerscurrently have330automotive suppliers in Mexico according to information from VDA.Audi(a subsidiary of Volkswagen)has noU.S. production sites; every Audi sold in America will be subject to a 25% tariff. The Audi brand access to the U.S. market was/is100% dependent on Mexico, including for manufacturing the Q5 SUV, its top-selling U.S. model.
According to prior reporting from Politico,“Volkswagen’smost popular model for American consumers is the Tiguan, an SUV that isentirely manufactured in Mexico. The German automaker sold over 30,000 of the vehicles in the final quarter of last year, a nearly 50 percent year-over-year increase.”
But wait, it gets worse….
French-Italian-American automakerStellantisis themost exposedof Europe’s automakers as it makes Jeep and RAM models in Mexico.
Thetariffswill make European automakers’Mexican factories completely redundant. They could make them in Germany for the same tariff impact. Making them in Mexico is now useless.They were only being made/assembled in Mexico to gain access to the U.S. market without tariffs.
This realitywill push all EU automakers to shift production to the U.S.
There could also be an explosion inUAW membershipdepending on where in the USA the EU car companies end up manufacturing.
The auto industry is only one industry, but it is ahuge economic driver for multiple countries, especially those countries who depend on access to the U.S. market in order to sell their cars and trucks.
German automakers will need three things, quickly:
(1) Subsidies from German govt to help offset the impact of tariffs [Short term 2-5 years].
(2) Shift production of autos for U.S market into USA [Make in USA].
(3) Interim access to new markets to help offset the anticipated drop in demand [think Russia without sanctions]. Each of these facets plays into current geopolitics.
That’s mainly just the German impact. Then overlay Canada and Mexico (big impact), along with South Korea and Japan (lesser impact due to pre-positioned manufacturing/assembly in the USA).The auto-tariffs carry a huge economic outcome around the globe.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/27/auto-tariffs-german-carmakers-face-billions-in-losses-german-auto-suppliers-have-330-locations-in-mexico/
No wonder the UAW is thanking President Trump today.
President Trump Announces 25 Percent Tariff on Import Cars and Import Car Parts, Effective April 3rd and May 3rd Respectively 1/2
March 27, 2025 | Sundance (posting Trump video announcement 2nd part)
During an executive order signing session in the White House today, President Trump announced a major change in tariffs on the auto industry. [Full Executive Order Here]
The 25% import duty applies on top of any preexisting tariff for cars and light trucks. The 25% tariff also applies toimported car parts. The USMCA trade agreement between the U.S. Canada and Mexico still applies.
If the content of a car assembled in Mexico/Canadacontains 50 percent component parts from the USA, the 25% tariff only applies to the final value of the imported components. In this example thetariff rate would be 12.5% of the total value.
The tariff applies to all imported cars and light trucks. Approximatelyhalf of all cars sold in the USAare currently American made, the other half areimport vehiclesfrom mainly Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Canada and Germany.
This is a very big kick in the teeth to Germany. Previously in a long-term strategy to avoid U.S. tariffs, German automakers invested billions in auto assembly plants in Mexico. Ex. the BMW parts were shipped from Germany and the cars assembled in Mexico. Nowthat investment is worthless as the vehicle will be taxed at a rate of 25% regardlessof whether it is assembled in Germany or Mexico. (Trump and team find out that when parts arrived to MX, from EU or elsewhere, they would change the country of origin stamp on the part, to MX, to avoid the tariffs. He outfoxed them.)
Ex.2 High end auto Mercedes currently builds SUVs in the USA in order to avoid the previous 25% tariff; however, they still build cars outside the USA and export them into the USA market. This will likely change quickly, andMercedes will begin building all cars and SUVs in the USA.
From the Executive Order:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this proclamation, all imports of articles specified in Annex I to this proclamation or in any subsequent annex to this proclamation, as set out in a subsequent notice in the Federal Register, shall be subject to a 25 percent tariff with respect to goods entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on April 3, 2025, for automobiles, and on the date specified in the Federal Register for automobile parts, but no later than May 3, 2025, and shall continue in effect, unless such actions are expressly reduced, modified, or terminated. The above ad valorem tariff is in addition to any other duties, fees, exactions, and charges applicable to such imported automobiles and certain automobile parts articles.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/27/president-trump-announces-25-percent-tariff-on-import-cars-and-import-car-parts-effective-april-3rd-and-may-3rd-respectively/
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(2) For automobiles that qualify for preferential tariff treatment under the USMCA, importers of such automobiles may submit documentation to the Secretary identifying the amount of U.S. content in each model imported into the United States. “U.S. content” refers to the value of the automobile attributable to parts wholly obtained, produced entirely, or substantially transformed in the United States. Thereafter, the Secretary may approve imports of such automobiles to be eligible to apply the ad valorem tariff of 25 percent in clause (1) of this proclamation exclusively to the value of the non-U.S. content of the automobile. The non-U.S. content of the automobile shall be calculated by subtracting the value of the U.S. content in an automobile from the total value of the automobile.
(3) If U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) determines that the declared value of non-U.S. content of an automobile, as described in clause (2) of this proclamation, is inaccurate due to an overstatement of U.S. content, the 25 percent tariff shall apply to the full value of the automobile, regardless of the actual U.S. content of the automobile. In addition, the 25 percent tariff shall be applied retroactively (from April 3, 2025, to the date of the inaccurate overstatement) and prospectively (from the date of the inaccurate overstatement to the date the importer corrects the overstatement, as verified by CBP) to the full value of all automobiles of the same model imported by the same importer. This clause does not apply to or otherwise affect any other applicable fees or penalties. [SOURCE]
It cannot be overstated how big a hit this will be to the German economy specifically. That’s why EU President Ursula von der Leyen is couching her words very carefully.
Germany drives the economic engine of the EU, and theGermans care about their money far more than they care about the security of Ukraine.
“As I have said before, tariffs are taxes – bad for businesses, worse for consumers equally in the US and the European Union,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement. “We will now assess this announcement, together with other measures the US is envisaging in the next days.”
The next biggest impact will come to Canada.The auto-sector in Canada only exists to send cars and trucks into the U.S. market. That’s the entire purpose and business model behind the Canadian auto industry.Every component partof a Canadian carthat does not originate from USAwill now besubject to a 25% tariff.
[Executive Order Here]
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/27/president-trump-announces-25-percent-tariff-on-import-cars-and-import-car-parts-effective-april-3rd-and-may-3rd-respectively/
(must listen to Trump, he’s funny as hell?)
link to EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/adjusting-imports-of-automobiles-and-autombile-parts-into-the-united-states/
https://youtu.be/dCll85s5V3w
27 Mar, 2025 16:48
Zelensky lashes out at Trump’s envoy
Ukraine’s leader accused Steve Witkoff of spreading “Kremlin narratives” and “helping” Moscow
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has reproached US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, accusing him of disseminating “Kremlin narratives.”
Zelensky made the remarks on Wednesday in an interview with European broadcasters, including France 2. He accused Witkoff, a key official in opening negotiations on resolving the Ukraine conflict,of taking Moscow’s side and “helping” Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I believe that Witkoff really does quote Kremlin narratives very often. I believe that this will not bring us closer to peace. And I believe that, unfortunately, this will weaken the American pressure on Russia.We can only fix this information backdrop through our actions. We’re trying to do that==,” Zelensky stated.
(What does he mean "fix the information backdrop"? Get rid of the mouthpiece? How are they trying to fix it, except to plant propaganda all over the world, is he intending to hurt Witkoff and destroy the peace deal. Trump team should get Witkoff extra protection, none of what Z said sounds good.)
“Witkoff’s statements are very much a hindrance to us, because we are fighting Putin and we really do not want him to have many helpers,” he added.
Zelensky was apparently referring to remarks made by Witkoff in a recent interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, during which the special envoy spoke about the status of former Ukrainian territories that have joined Russia, describing the issue as “an elephant in the room” that “no one wants to talk about.”
“They’re Russian-speaking. There have been referendums where the overwhelming majority of the people have indicated that they want to be under Russian rule,” Witkoff said.
“The Russians are de facto in control of these territories. The question is: Will the world acknowledge that those are Russian territories? Can Zelensky survive politically if he acknowledges this? This is the central issue in the conflict,” he added.
The remarks outraged Kiev, with the head of Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Aleksandr Merezhko, condemning what he called “disgraceful, shocking statements” and urging Washington to dismiss “completely unprofessional” Witkoff from his role.
Witkoff’s statements were welcomed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, however, who suggested that, judging by his remarks, the special envoy had understood the very “essence” of the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev.
“I understand Steve Witkoff. He is a clever and energetic person who thinks that everyone should be aware of the things he regards as obvious. Judging by the statements he made during his conversation with Tucker Carlson, the essence of this conflict is clear to him,” Lavrov said in an interview with Russia’s Channel 1 this week.
https://www.rt.com/russia/614873-zelensky-trump-envoy-remarks/
27 Mar, 2025 17:08
Putin issues Arctic warning to NATO
Russia has never threatened anyone in the area, and will uphold its national interests there, president Putin has said
The US-led NATO bloc views the Arctic as a “bridgehead” for future conflicts and is actively training troops to operate in the far north, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
Speaking at the International Arctic Forum in Murmansk on Thursday, he stated that Russia would do its best to uphold its national interests and sovereignty in the region.
The number of Russian forces deployed in the Arctic is bound to grow to meet the growing challenges there, Putin said.
“We are, of course, concerned by the fact that NATO countries as a whole are more frequently designating the far north as a bridgehead for possible conflicts, practicing the use of troops in these conditions, including their new recruits from Finland and Sweden,” he declared.
Moscow has been “closely monitoring” the situation in the region, and has taken “an adequate response approach by increasing the combat capabilities of the armed forces and modernizing military infrastructure facilities,” the president explained.
“I would like to emphasize that Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic,” he said, adding that Russia will not tolerate any encroachments on its sovereignty and will “reliably protect” its national interests.
Maintaining “peace and stability” in the Arctic is the key to the long-term development of the region, in addition to “improvement of the quality of life of people and preservation of the unique natural environment,” Putin said.
“The stronger our positions are, the more significant the results will be,” he stressed.
Russia’s strong posture in the Arctic gives more opportunities to “launch global international projects” there with the participation of “friendly nations,” and potentially with Western states as well. “Should they, of course, show interest in working together, and I am sure that the time for such projects will definitely come,” the president stated.
https://www.rt.com/russia/614875-arctic-nato-conflict-putin/
WSJ Editorial Board’s Work to Undermine Donald Trump Has Persisted for a DecadeBradley Jaye 27 Mar 20251/3Bradley Jaye is Deputy Political Editor for Breitbart News.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board is continuing its attempts to undermine President Donald Trump and his administration, often through thinly-veiled “advice” and “suggestions” to the president to obscure their contempt for his America First agenda.
The paper’s decade-long crusade against Trumpreveals a view of geopolitics through the clouded lens of a bygone era, when the Journal possessed more influence and its globalist worldview was shared by the elites who dominated Republican Party politics.
In fighting imagined threats from foes long receded from the global stage, the paper also has advocated for the Republican Party to embrace its former smaller, more manageable coalition that disintegrated even before Trump revitalized the party.
The Journal’s longstanding editorial position in support of open borders and maximalist free trade policies has made it the vanguard of opposition to Trump’s populist economicand immigration policies that prioritize Main Street over Wall Street. And the paper’s hawkish neoconservative foreign policy stances are at odds with Trump’s noninterventionist America First beliefs.
The paper’s open hostility to Trump began less than a monthafter he announced his candidacy in the summer of 2015, when the Journal’s editorial boardurged conservative media to condemn Trump, comparing conservative’s treatment of the headline-grabbing mogul to 20th century liberals’ embrace of communism.
“They pretend that he deserves respect because he’s giving voice to some deep disquiet or anger in the American electorate,” the paper’s Opinion Page editors opined that July.
The Journal, perhaps shortsightedly,reveled in Trump’s counterattacks on the paper, writing in November 2015 “[b]eing attacked by Donald Trump is one of journalism’s more exhilarating experiences… We haven’t had this much fun since Eliot Spitzer left office.”
The fun wouldn’t last.
The paper’s anti-Trump drumbeat continued after Trump won the primary, with the Journal’s editorial board suggesting in August 2016 thatthe “GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless” if Trump didn’t become a more conventional Republican candidate. After the October 2016 release of the Access Hollywood tape, the editorial Board wrote that they would prefer Mike Pence as president and that Trump should start asking “himself what he’ll accomplish if he stays in the race.” The paper’s editors asserted that Republicans “can’t be blamed for dropping Trump.”
The October surprise was surpassed by the Election Day surprise.
Even after their efforts to block Trump’s election failed, the deflated Journal editors continued their assault. Two days after Trump’s inauguration,the board smugly wrote “Mr. President, the election is over,” while just weeks later warning that Trump risked the American public concluding that he is a “fake President.”
During his first administration, the Journalrepeatedly attacked Trump as “unpresidential,” lobbing personal attacks, belittling his standing at home and abroad, and sowing discontent inside the White House. More importantly, the paper’seditorial board worked assiduously to fight Trump’s key policy initiatives on trade, immigration, and anti-foreign intervention— all of which ran counter to the Journal’s preferred brand of globalism.
For example, in April 2017, the editorialboard cautioned that Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs against Chinawere more political than practical andwould “cost more jobs than they’ll save.” It warned in August against playing hardball with China despite the Chinese Communist Party’s “rampant theft of intellectual property from U.S. firms.” And in March 2018, the paper called Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum“the biggest policy blunder of his presidency.”
The Journal got all of that wrong. As Breitbart News’s Rebecca Mansour wrote in 2019:
Despite one bogus sky-is-falling Wall Street Journal headline after another, Trump stood his ground and threw down those [2017 steel and aluminum] tariffs. The “free trade” fundamentalists were wrong.Trump’s tariffs worked, and a lot of Americans were able to get back to work.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/27/wsj-editorial-boards-work-to-undermine-donald-trump-has-persisted-for-a-decade/
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The tariffs paid dividends for American workers that lasted beyond Trump’s first term.A 2024 study on the effects of Trump’s tariffs in his first administrationfound that they “strengthened the U.S. economy” and “led to significant reshoring” in industries like manufacturing and steel production.
Trump’s immigration policies were also a consistent source of attacks from the Journal’s editorial board due to the paper’slongstanding stance in favor of importing cheap foreign labor at the expense of American workers. In April 2019, for example, the Journal’seditors contended that Trump was being “self-destructive” for wanting to shut down crossings at the southern border andinsisted that Mexico couldn’t be blamedfor allowing migrant caravans to travel across its countryside en route to the United States.
The editorial board even ridiculed Trump’s call to investigate the perpetrators of the now-debunked Russian collusion conspiracy.
After the pandemic-plagued 2020 presidential election was called for Joe Biden,the Journal did what it could to dance on Trump’s political grave, ultimately urging Trump to resign from office on January 7, 2021, weeks before Biden’s inauguration.
In February 2021, after the Senate failed to convict Trump on an article of impeachment, the jubilant Journal editorialboard wrote that Trump “may run again, but he won’t win another national election.” Weeks later, as then citizen Trump made clear he would not disappear from the political scene, the Journal’s editors wrote thatthe Republican Party has a “Donald Trump problem.”
The Journal’s attempts to smother Trump’s ambitions were unsuccessful.In late 2022, Biden indicated he feared Trump’s run – and so did the Wall Street Journal
November 9, 2022, just one day after the midterm election and as Washington pivoted toward the 2024 election, theboard declared “Trump Is the Republican Party’s Biggest Loser” (despite Trump not appearing on the midterm ballot) and cheered on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ candidacy.
The date of that piece coincided with a rare press conference from Biden, in which he responded to a question about Trump’s potential candidacy by promising to stop him even if it took efforts beyond the ballot box.
“We just have to demonstrate that [Trump] will not take power, if he does run, making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next president again [sic],” Biden said.
As Breitbart News first reported,Biden’s pledge preceded an eruption of extraordinary legal assaults on Trump, with the pivotal date of November 18 emerging as the catalyst.
On that date, U.S. Attorney GeneralMerrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith, and the former third-highest ranking official at Biden’s Department of Justice resigned to take a position in Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s office, and Fulton County top prosecutor Nathan Wade spent eight hours in the White House counsel’s office.
As Democrats and prosecutors escalated their assaultson Trump after he declared his candidacy to return to the White House, so did the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
The day before Trump officially announced his 2024 candidacy in November 2022,the editorial board wrote that Trump “remains more unpopular than Mr. Biden” and is the candidate Democrats “know they can beat.” The paper’s editors wrote weeks later in December that if Republicans picked Trump as their nominee, he would “terminate” the GOP.
In June 2023, as Trump gained in the polls, the Journal’s editorial board responded to Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump by taking another opportunity to warn Republicans against nominating him.
Like Jack Smith, the Journal failed.
But the paper continued its onslaught.Always eager to side with the intelligence/military industrial complex, the editorial board blasted Trump in April 2024 for his role in stopping the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that did not include adequate protections against the federal government spying on Americans without a warrant.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/27/wsj-editorial-boards-work-to-undermine-donald-trump-has-persisted-for-a-decade/
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After failing to blunt Trump’s polling momentum against Biden, the Journal’s editorialboard rejoiced in July 2024 when Vice President Kamala Harris unceremoniouslyreplaced Biden atop the Democratic ticket.
In August, after a modest sugar-high polling bump for the new Democrat candidate, theJournal’s editors proclaimed that Trump might “blow another election” against Harris. And in the weeks that followed, the Journal’s editors continuing their increasingly transparent attacks against him –even comparing Trump to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders(I-VT).
In October, after Harris’s failure to sustain momentum, ==the nervous board asked “How Risky Is a Trump Second Term?”
And just days before the election, it desperately professed that Trump has a “soft spot” for “dictators==.”
The Journal’s anxiety proved justified.
After Trump’s decisive and historic election, the dejected editorial board repeatedly blasted Trump’s nominees for high-level administration posts, even making the accusation Trump “sold out” the blue collar workers the Journal historically has rarely defended.
It did not let up after Inauguration Day, as the editorial board continued to rebuke Trump on his popular actions on trade and the economy, immigration, and national security. The paper has attacked his use of strategic tariffs repeatedly (even taking tonot-so-creatively calling his use of strategic tariffs the “Dumbest Trade War in History”), tried to drive a wedge between Trump and senior administration officials such as Vice President JD Vance, and lambasted his efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.
The paper’s attacks on Trump’s Ukraine policy mirror its prior diatribes against Trump for seeking to dial back overseas adventurism that is lucrative for defense contractors trading on Wall Street despite a poor record of geopolitical success or return on taxpayer investment in treasure and blood.
Earlier in March, the paper denigrated “Trump’s Old World Order,” characterizing his realpolitik assessment of what the U.S. can reasonably accomplish through foreign intervention and pursuit of diplomatic means other than war as “moving toward that [strategy] of Tucker Carlson and JD Vance, who view America as in decline and no longer able to lead or defend the West.”
The paper is so reflexively against Trump that its editorialboard called it “troubling” that Trump deported Venezuelan and MS-13 gang members. And after the revocation of terrorist sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil’s green card, the paper benignly referred to his anti-Israel protestssympathizing with terrorists as “unpopular speech.”
Over the decade, the paper has ridiculed Trump’s personality, politics, policies, and even his character, often betraying an aversion to the class of voters he represents – most who do not read the Journal.
Australian-born Rupert Murdoch purchased the Journal’s parent company in 2007after becoming a naturalized American citizen in 1985 to satisfy a legal requirement for owning U.S. television stations. He previously built a media empire in Great Britain beginning in the 1960s.
Trump has often punched back at Murdoch-owned enterprises, which include Fox News.On March 13, Trump hammered the Journal for “having no idea what they are doing or saying.”
“They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of ‘screwing’ the United States of America,” Trump wrote.
Just days later, it was revealed that the Journal hosted staff members for prominent House Democrats in February – paid for by a prominent Democrat-aligned organization – to offer strategic communications advice.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/27/wsj-editorial-boards-work-to-undermine-donald-trump-has-persisted-for-a-decade/