Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec spoke about President Trump’s latest tariff announcement on Wednesday, calling it a masterclass in “the art of the great deal,” and accurately pinning China’s response as a global embarrassment.
“President Trump just taught the entire world the art of the deal. In fact, the art of the great deal,” Posobiec said, opening Wednesday’s episode. “What did he tell you? What did he say this morning on Truth? ‘Now would be a good time to buy.’”
As of 2 pm Eastern, Posobiec reported, President Trump had just announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for every country—except China. The US will keep a 10 percent tariff on all other countries, while tariffs on China are being raised to a staggering 125 percent.
“You hear that, China? You hear that, Chairman Xi?” said Posobiec. “You are going to get your tariffs placed on you harder and faster than ever before.”
He continued: “Do you see what just happened? Markets are now having a historic rally, and we get to keep the 125 percent tariffs on China, plus 10 percent on the rest of the world. The greatest deal-maker to ever live. He wrote the entire book on it and nobody wanted to listen.”
Posobiec then took aim at critics who had panicked over the initial tariff announcement: “Some of you look really stupid right now. All of the panic… You look dumb. How many times does he have to do stuff like this before you’re ever going to understand what’s happening?”
According to Posobiec, the reciprocal tariffs were a test. “Who was the only country that failed that test? Oh, it was China. Guess what—not only did they fail, they failed that test in front of the entire world.”
Now, he said, the entire world is aligned behind President Trump and the United States, with global attention fixed squarely on China. “The markets are rallying, the Dow’s up. He told you this morning to buy. If you didn’t listen, that is on you.”
Posobiec noted the NASDAQ is up 10 percent—the biggest jump since 2008. “Elon Musk is tweeting his support. Secretary Bessent is talking about how national security is aligned with economic security. And the 10 percent tariffs globally? They’re still in place!”
Criticizing the globalist panic, Posobiec added: “People could not see this. People were freaking out, saying the sky is falling, that they were losing their minds—when ultimately this is all about China. China was always the biggest malefactor and biggest offender.”
Poso then pivoted to China’s long-standing trade abuses.
“They’re cheating, they’re undercutting, they’re stealing IP,” Posobiec said. “They actually put their country first. Yes, it’s cutthroat. Yes, they’ll use exploitative labor practices. They don’t care—because they are acting in what they see as their national interest.”
Drawing from personal experience, Posobiec recalled living in China in 2006, traveling across the mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and learning Mandarin. “One thing I learned: it’s almost impossible to sell anything to China.”
He went on to blast the Western embrace of globalization after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
“We talked about how globalization—the system of globalism—was built on the bloody squares, the bloody cobblestones of Tiananmen Square,” Posobiec said. “There was this idea that if we treated the CCP regime the way the US and world treated Russia after the invasion of Ukraine—isolating them back on June 4, 1989—we could have avoided this.”
“But we didn’t do that,” he said. “The deal was: grant the Chinese Communist Party access to Western capital markets in exchange for Western IP and the use of Chinese exploitative labor as the global workforce. They turned China into the factory of the world.”
This Story originally came from humanevents.com