Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / 8-28: Lake America! There's A Method To Trump's Pettiness And Everybody's Missing It
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Lake America. Have you made your vacation plans? Are you
- 0:07Speaker 1: going to travel Lake America? Are you going to take
- 0:09Speaker 1: a ferry? Are you going to take a boat? So
- 0:12Speaker 1: much consternation on both sides. You've even got supposed Trump
- 0:17Speaker 1: supporters saying, why is he so petty? Why is he
- 0:20Speaker 1: doing this? And then I saw a lot of these
- 0:21Speaker 1: comments yesterday from the blue. Oh, this is going to be,
- 0:26Speaker 1: this is great. Keep doing petty things like this because
- 0:29Speaker 1: there's going to be a massive blue wave, blue wave
- 0:32Speaker 1: in the midterms. Nope. None of that stuff. Nobody's getting it,
- 0:36Speaker 1: despite all the personal opinions and the hang-wringing and all
- 0:38Speaker 1: this other stuff. Petty? Absolutely it is, with President Trump's
- 0:42Speaker 1: executive order yesterday renaming Lake Ontario Lake America. Of course
- 0:46Speaker 1: it's petty. I am here to tell you, personal opinions aside,
- 0:50Speaker 1: there's a method to the madness, or I should say
- 0:52Speaker 1: a method to the pettiness. And you know what? So
- 0:55Speaker 1: far it's working. But it's amazing to me. Still amazing.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Maybe not to you. You probably figured this out already.
- 1:01Speaker 1: How many people are missing this? He doesn't miss it.
- 1:03Speaker 1: The administration's not missing it. There are people out there
- 1:06Speaker 1: who understand exactly how effective this is. There's a method
- 1:09Speaker 1: to the pettiness. We're going to get into it like America.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Thanks for finding Wicked Radio. Welcome to Friday, by the way.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Thanks for finding the live stream and then the replay
- 1:17Speaker 1: of all that on X YouTube, Facebook. Live stream, by
- 1:21Speaker 1: the way, 8 a.m. ish, Eastern Time on those platforms.
- 1:24Speaker 1: And then the audio podcast, Complete Show, uploaded shortly after
- 1:27Speaker 1: the live stream. Let's get right to it. That was
- 1:29Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. He teased this. This was
- 1:31Speaker 1: a TikTok video. If you notice, by the way, President
- 1:34Speaker 1: Trump has made, or the administration anyway, has made a
- 1:39Speaker 1: deliberate effort to get more involved with TikTok and videos
- 1:41Speaker 1: and doing things. Because as he says, and this may
- 1:44Speaker 1: or may not be right, he says, I'm number one
- 1:45Speaker 1: on TikTok. They love me. There's a reason why he
- 1:48Speaker 1: does that. Because that's where you reach the younger voters. Kids.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Kids my age in their early 20s. That's where they're
- 1:54Speaker 1: getting their information these days. That's why they're so involved.
- 1:57Speaker 1: So he did it. He released this video. Literally took
- 2:00Speaker 1: out a map. An image of him taking a Sharpie
- 2:03Speaker 1: and crossing out Lake Ontario and writing in Lake America.
- 2:06Speaker 1: And we all said at the time, oh, is he
- 2:09Speaker 1: going to do it again? Is this going to be
- 2:10Speaker 1: another Gulf of America, Gulf of Mexico deal? Sure enough,
- 2:13Speaker 1: but this is what kicked it all off.
- 2:15Speaker 2: This is Lake Ontario in Canada and in the United States.
- 2:21Speaker 2: But we're going to make a little change. We're going
- 2:22Speaker 2: to call it something different than Lake Ontario. We're going
- 2:24Speaker 2: to call it Lake America. And all it takes is
- 2:28Speaker 2: a good pen and some intelligence. So Lake Ontario, that's gone.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Lake America.
- 2:37Speaker 1: With the pen. There's got to be somebody even on
- 2:39Speaker 1: his team saying, this is TikTok, so it's a different format.
- 2:42Speaker 1: We're going to do the jump cut and then hold
- 2:44Speaker 1: the pen, literally cross it out. And it was effective
- 2:47Speaker 1: and it got up there. So that was the first
- 2:49Speaker 1: piece that got everybody's attention. Then sure enough, followed it
- 2:53Speaker 1: up with something more serious, the actual executive order. I'm
- 2:56Speaker 1: sure you've seen a clip of this or at least
- 2:58Speaker 1: heard about it. And then we'll get into the why part.
- 3:00Speaker 1: I can't believe how many people are missing.
- 3:02Speaker 2: We're going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario,
- 3:07Speaker 2: effective immediately, to Lake America. That's going to take place
- 3:12Speaker 2: right now as I sign the order. Do you have
- 3:15Speaker 2: anything to say about.
- 3:16Speaker 3: It, Ben?
- 3:16Speaker 1: Yes, sir. So this is a straightforward but important executive order.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Why would you like to be the guy that has
- 3:22Speaker 1: to follow up Trump? He makes the announcement, the executive
- 3:25Speaker 1: order he's about to sign, and then you go to
- 3:26Speaker 1: the guy that actually reads out the verbiage in the
- 3:29Speaker 1: executive order. And Trump turns to him and just goes,
- 3:32Speaker 1: you got anything to say about this? No pressure there.
- 3:35Speaker 1: It's only seen by millions. So the executive order happens.
- 3:38Speaker 1: It is signed. Now here's the first piece of this.
- 3:41Speaker 1: You have now forced the mainstream news media, and we'll
- 3:44Speaker 1: go to a CBS clip first, and they do this
- 3:47Speaker 1: story as if they're talking to children. This is how
- 3:50Speaker 1: dumbed down CBS News is now. And they are forced
- 3:52Speaker 1: to talk about the executive order, where it goes from here,
- 3:56Speaker 1: and also, here it comes. The trade deals, which they
- 4:00Speaker 1: weren't talking about before. But anyway, this was actually CBS's
- 4:04Speaker 1: interpretation of this thing. It's like they're talking to kindergartners.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Canada's prime minister, who is locked in a trade war
- 4:10Speaker 1: with Trump, said the name isn't changing. He doesn't care.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Trump said he might not stop at gulfs and lakes.
- 4:16Speaker 3: Now all I need is an ocean.
- 4:18Speaker 2: So maybe we'll have to change the name of the
- 4:20Speaker 2: Atlantic and or the Pacific. Maybe we'll change them both.
- 4:23Speaker 1: Was he serious? Was he joking? Hard to say. But
- 4:26Speaker 1: either way, executive orders are not permanent.
- 4:29Speaker 3: They're not like legislation.
- 4:30Speaker 1: There's CBS. First thing to go in there. And talking
- 4:32Speaker 1: down to the audience and here's to it. That's CBS
- 4:36Speaker 1: these days. They haven't caught up on that. They're absolutely terrible.
- 4:39Speaker 1: But there you go. And she said it right there.
- 4:41Speaker 1: He may not stop here. Is it petty? Will it work?
- 4:45Speaker 1: Of course, they try to down trade it. Said something
- 4:47Speaker 1: fascinating there, though. They had the clip in there of
- 4:49Speaker 1: Trump going, maybe we need an ocean now. I don't know.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Which is not a bad deal. Maybe we don't stop here.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Maybe just to piss everybody off, especially the Europeans, because
- 4:59Speaker 1: we share an ocean with them, we'll call it the
- 5:02Speaker 1: American Ocean. Let's do that. But then we've got to
- 5:04Speaker 1: call the Pacific something. We'll call it America Ocean West.
- 5:08Speaker 1: How about that? We'll do that. Then if he doesn't
- 5:11Speaker 1: stop there, we can do other things. We can call
- 5:13Speaker 1: it Well, how about Niagara Falls? Instead of Niagara Falls,
- 5:16Speaker 1: just to tick off the Canadians even more, let's call
- 5:18Speaker 1: it America Falls. Well, you can't call something America Falls.
- 5:21Speaker 1: That's bad imagery. We don't want that. So we'll call
- 5:23Speaker 1: it Canada Fails Falls. How about that? You see where
- 5:26Speaker 1: I'm going here. But it gets attention. And even though
- 5:29Speaker 1: it was a rotten and little petty news segment that
- 5:32Speaker 1: CBS put on there to make it look bad and
- 5:34Speaker 1: petty and everything it is, it gets them talking about
- 5:38Speaker 1: the trade war. That's the method to the pettiness. Let's
- 5:41Speaker 1: go here again. Oh, no deal is in sight.
- 5:43Speaker 2: The U.S.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Has imposed new 50% tariffs on about $ 20 billion worth
- 5:47Speaker 1: of Canadian goods. Canada vowing to match those tariffs dollar
- 5:51Speaker 1: for dollar, Mary. Oh, and there we have it. Now
- 5:54Speaker 1: we start to understand why the method to the madness,
- 5:57Speaker 1: the method to the pettiness. And I'm here to tell
- 5:59Speaker 1: you it's working. This is why he does this. When
- 6:04Speaker 1: he changed through an executive order, at least from our perspective,
- 6:08Speaker 1: When they changed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America,
- 6:11Speaker 1: what happened? It got everybody. It forced all these mainstream
- 6:15Speaker 1: media news hacks to talk about exactly why and what
- 6:19Speaker 1: the reasons were behind it. Then all the talking experts
- 6:21Speaker 1: came in there and they talked about all of the
- 6:23Speaker 1: trade deals that were terrible and they're not doing anything
- 6:26Speaker 1: to control the cartels and all the illegal shipments that
- 6:29Speaker 1: came over. And then all of a sudden, more Americans,
- 6:33Speaker 1: general everyday people like you, me, and everybody else were
- 6:35Speaker 1: aware of what exactly was going on. Same exact principle
- 6:39Speaker 1: that worked with the Gulf of America is working with
- 6:41Speaker 1: Lake America. Now you've got Americans aware of the trade
- 6:46Speaker 1: deal and the trade deficit and how badly we've been
- 6:49Speaker 1: ripped off by Canada before. Because what did you always hear?
- 6:52Speaker 1: Remember when Trump last year started saying, I think we're
- 6:54Speaker 1: going to make it our 51st state. We all laughed
- 6:57Speaker 1: at it and we're like, oh, he's just terrible. And
- 6:58Speaker 1: he's just he's just being mean. He's just being a bully.
- 7:01Speaker 3: Right?
- 7:01Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. A lot of people started
- 7:04Speaker 1: to look into the trade deals in Canada for the
- 7:06Speaker 1: first time ever. Normal people, you, me. Now the farmers,
- 7:10Speaker 1: Wisconsin farmers, for example, Minnesota farmers, they've been aware of
- 7:13Speaker 1: this forever, how badly they've been ripped off. But nobody
- 7:16Speaker 1: ever looked into it before because it's Canada. Canada's like
- 7:20Speaker 1: America's hat. They're our friends, friendly Canadians. What's the joke?
- 7:23Speaker 1: They're always saying, sorry, sorry. They're really polite. Apparently not
- 7:27Speaker 1: in trade deals because we've been getting ripped off. First
- 7:30Speaker 1: and foremost, the farmers, but other industries we'll get into
- 7:34Speaker 1: here in a second too, for years, and nobody did
- 7:37Speaker 1: anything about it. That's what this fight is all about.
- 7:40Speaker 1: And now, because of the Lake America issue, which seemed
- 7:44Speaker 1: like just a rotten, petty little thing in a TikTok video,
- 7:48Speaker 1: now for the first time ever, he's got everyday Americans
- 7:52Speaker 1: like you, me, and everybody else looking at these awful
- 7:55Speaker 1: trade deals. It says to get anything done, President Trump
- 7:59Speaker 1: or any administration, any president, needs to get the support
- 8:03Speaker 1: of the American people. And now you've got... It's not
- 8:05Speaker 1: the whole country. It's not all of us. But you've
- 8:07Speaker 1: got more people than ever before are aware of how
- 8:10Speaker 1: badly we've been getting ripped off by Canada in trade deals.
- 8:14Speaker 1: That's what this is about. What were you talking about, Bill?
- 8:16Speaker 1: What kind of trade deals? Well, I've heard him talk
- 8:18Speaker 1: about the farmers. Okay. Let's just go through and peruse
- 8:21Speaker 1: some of them. The White House has released this stuff
- 8:23Speaker 1: so that we can all be aware of it. Dairy
- 8:25Speaker 1: and farmers... Trump has cited extremely high Canadian tariffs on U.S.
- 8:29Speaker 1: farm products, more recently saying Canada charges our farmers 400% tariffs.
- 8:36Speaker 1: In some areas, like cheese, it's up to 200%. In
- 8:40Speaker 1: other words, some Wisconsin dairy farmer makes a bunch of
- 8:44Speaker 1: cheese and tries to sell it to Canada, and they
- 8:46Speaker 1: slap a 200, 300, 400%, whatever, tariff on it. They
- 8:49Speaker 1: can produce their same products and sell it to us
- 8:51Speaker 1: for almost nothing. Does that sound fair to you? No,
- 8:54Speaker 1: it doesn't. But that's just one thing. And, you know,
- 8:57Speaker 1: some lobbyist in Washington, D.C. was working with the Canadian government,
- 9:01Speaker 1: and they got that deal signed. Screwing over American farmers,
- 9:03Speaker 1: of course, like they always do. But then let's get
- 9:06Speaker 1: into some more serious stuff. And this is a big
- 9:08Speaker 1: part of the trade negotiation.
- 9:10Speaker 2: Cars.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Motor vehicles. White House is claiming numbers saying Canada imposed
- 9:15Speaker 1: a 25% tariff in company-specific quotes on U.S. motor vehicles.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Doesn't apply to cars from any other country. Manufacturing. Big manufacturing. Factories,
- 9:25Speaker 1: jobs that we make. Companies try to sell that stuff
- 9:28Speaker 1: in Canada? Nope. 25% increase. Sound fair to you? Of
- 9:32Speaker 1: course not. But did you know? Were you aware of
- 9:35Speaker 1: it before? Before the whole Lake America talked? Probably not. Alcohol. Oh,
- 9:41Speaker 1: this has been a big one. And I love my
- 9:42Speaker 1: Crown Royal. Several Canadian provinces pulled U.S. beer, wine, spirits
- 9:47Speaker 1: from government liquor stores. The administration cites an 81% drop
- 9:50Speaker 1: in U.S. alcohol exports. That's because we started to try
- 9:53Speaker 1: to make a fair deal trade there, right? Gulfstream Aircraft
- 9:56Speaker 1: is another one. Three areas, dairy, auto, alcohol. Explicit justifications
- 10:01Speaker 1: for all of this stuff. But here's the thing. Now
- 10:04Speaker 1: we know about it. And that's why we're doing the
- 10:07Speaker 1: Gulf of America. Now look at the difference. Lake America,
- 10:10Speaker 1: excuse me. Now look at the difference. Now you've got
- 10:13Speaker 1: other people. Now Mark Carney is the Prime Minister referenced
- 10:16Speaker 1: there in the ABC News report. He's the Prime Minister
- 10:18Speaker 1: of But you got this guy. His name is Doug Ford.
- 10:21Speaker 1: So he's the actual premier of Ontario, that province, you know,
- 10:27Speaker 1: that has the lake right in it. What does he
- 10:29Speaker 1: say about it? He was talking tough before, but Major
- 10:32Speaker 1: Garrett from CBS asked him, are you still talking tough?
- 10:34Speaker 1: Look who wants to come to the negotiation table now.
- 10:36Speaker 2: You called President Trump a dictator, a bully, and he
- 10:39Speaker 2: said he can kiss your ass. Do you regret any
- 10:42Speaker 2: of those comments?
- 10:43Speaker 1: Want to apologize for them? No, not at all.
- 10:45Speaker 3: I stand by those comments. You know, he didn't throw
- 10:48Speaker 3: the punches out and the insults. And I think it
- 10:52Speaker 3: was a little heated yesterday. I think we have to
- 10:54Speaker 3: get back to the table, Major, and focus on jobs
- 10:57Speaker 3: in the U.S. and in Canada. We're the two closest friends, allies,
- 11:01Speaker 3: and each other's number.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, we're friends again. Okay, this was the
- 11:05Speaker 1: same guy, by the way, that was saying those exact
- 11:08Speaker 1: same things. The big tough talk, right? The big tough talk.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Howard Lutnick, who was our main trade negotiator, our Secretary
- 11:12Speaker 1: of the Treasury, he is saying that we were there.
- 11:15Speaker 1: We had a deal. In fact, you might remember this.
- 11:17Speaker 1: President Trump actually put it on Truth Social, where the
- 11:20Speaker 1: deal is done with Canada. We love Canada. Again, they're great.
- 11:22Speaker 1: They're not our state. They're their own sovereign country. And
- 11:24Speaker 1: then they backed away. Why? That's over politics. Now, we
- 11:28Speaker 1: have our midterms coming up in November. They have big
- 11:30Speaker 1: elections coming up in October. That's just about a little
- 11:34Speaker 1: over a month away. They've got to look tough. They
- 11:36Speaker 1: got to look tough and be big tough guys to
- 11:38Speaker 1: walk away from a negotiating deal until things like this
- 11:42Speaker 1: happen where President Trump, which on the outset seemed petty
- 11:45Speaker 1: and rotten and just funny. Now, full disclosure, I happen
- 11:49Speaker 1: to enjoy the pettiness. I like that. That's just me.
- 11:53Speaker 1: When he did that, he had most Americans now who
- 11:56Speaker 1: had absolutely no idea what this fight with Canada was.
- 11:58Speaker 1: He had all the questions, right? All the late night
- 12:00Speaker 1: comedians tried to make fun of it. And they said,
- 12:02Speaker 1: why is he picking on Canada? It's like picking on
- 12:04Speaker 1: your aunt. Why is he doing this? This is why.
- 12:07Speaker 1: Because of unfair trade deals, that is a tough sell
- 12:09Speaker 1: to the American public. Think about it. What's more exciting?
- 12:13Speaker 1: What's going to get more eyeballs and more attention in
- 12:16Speaker 1: a news story? Canada charging us 400% tariffs on cheese
- 12:23Speaker 1: or some sort of natural disaster that happens? What are
- 12:25Speaker 1: the mainstream news networks going to talk about until he
- 12:28Speaker 1: does something which would seem on the outset to be drastic,
- 12:31Speaker 1: like calling Lake Ontario Lake America? Now you've got people's attention.
- 12:35Speaker 1: When you have people's attention, they start to look into it.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Now you have people, regular, everyday Americans, who aren't familiar
- 12:40Speaker 1: with what our dairy farmers have been going through, looking
- 12:43Speaker 1: at this going, hey, wait a minute, they're charging us
- 12:45Speaker 1: 400% on dairy products? And they have been for years?
- 12:51Speaker 1: That sucks! And I don't care who you are, whether
- 12:53Speaker 1: it's Canadian-friendly people or anybody else, once Americans feel that
- 12:58Speaker 1: they're getting ripped off, that's when they want to fight back.
- 13:01Speaker 1: That's the entire shebang. That's the whole ballgame why this
- 13:04Speaker 1: is called Lake America now, is to get the eyeballs
- 13:06Speaker 1: and the attention of the American people. Because to pull
- 13:09Speaker 1: this off, he needs, and the administration needs, support of
- 13:13Speaker 1: the American people. Once you tell them what it's all about,
- 13:15Speaker 1: we understand exactly what it is. And above all else, Americans,
- 13:20Speaker 1: you know the American mindset. We hate being ripped off.
- 13:23Speaker 1: But we didn't know because it was Canada. Whoever looks
- 13:26Speaker 1: at Canada, well, the dairy farmers knew. The auto manufacturers knew.
- 13:31Speaker 1: And now everybody knows. That's why this thing is like America.
- 13:37Speaker 1: It's not just the pettiness. Although I will tell you,
- 13:40Speaker 1: there's this big argument out there now, even from some
- 13:42Speaker 1: so-called conservatives. A lot of the RINO senators and governors
- 13:46Speaker 1: are saying, oh, it's not, this is just, this is
- 13:49Speaker 1: not good. We shouldn't do this. We should go back
- 13:51Speaker 1: to the negotiating table. Ah, we were there at the
- 13:54Speaker 1: negotiating table. Don't fall for that. And they, up there,
- 13:58Speaker 1: the Canadians walked away. Not walking away anymore, are they?
- 14:01Speaker 1: Isn't that something? Once they get a fair trade deal,
- 14:04Speaker 1: they want to talk. All of a sudden, we're friends again.
- 14:07Speaker 1: That's the method to the pettiness. And let me tell
- 14:09Speaker 1: you something. It's working. This is a great, great takeaway
- 14:14Speaker 1: lesson for all of us in persuasion and how this
- 14:16Speaker 1: guy operates. I'm just a little shocked because the playbook
- 14:21Speaker 1: has been there for freaking decades, even before he was president,
- 14:24Speaker 1: before he was on The Apprentice. When he was businessman,
- 14:28Speaker 1: Trumpy did this kind of thing. He wants to negotiate
- 14:30Speaker 1: with everybody. And to get everybody involved with the negotiation,
- 14:34Speaker 1: he'll insult you until the day is done. Because it's effective.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Personal opinions aside, rotten, petty, name-calling, is he a bully?
- 14:44Speaker 1: He doesn't care. It's effective because it gets everybody aware
- 14:48Speaker 1: of what the hell is going on. That's why we
- 14:50Speaker 1: have Lake America. I love the counter-argument, too. The other
- 14:54Speaker 1: countries aren't going to refer to it as Lake America anymore.
- 14:57Speaker 1: He doesn't care. That's not the point. You're missing it.
- 15:02Speaker 3: Canada.
- 15:02Speaker 1: And don't worry. If you're worried about this kind of thing,
- 15:04Speaker 1: we'll all be friends again soon. They're going to win
- 15:07Speaker 1: this trade negotiation. Trust me on this one.
- 15:09Speaker 3: All right.
- 15:09Speaker 1: So now for that, I'm out of material. So are you.
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