With a strategy apparently designed by AI chatbots, Donald Trump unveiled Liberation Day on Wednesday, a plan for exorbitant tariffs on practically every country in the world that should really be viewed as a way to intimidate countries into compliance with whatever the king wishes. This week on our live show, David Dayen goes on The Majority Report with a special crossover episode, and talks to Sam Seder about the tariff madness, along with the Wisconsin special-election victory and what Senate Republicans are up to with their “one big beautiful bill” to extend the Trump tax cuts.
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