what s so interesting when i heard the president declare yesterday he s not moving on tariffs. that has been the one issue snrjs and singer leaders of of of of of that donald trump will have on an issue that is not an issue of convenience for him on these tariffs. this is something he believes to the core of his political soul. i think you re absolutely right, joe. this is a conviction issue for him. i think he really feels this is the best way to do business. i think the danger here, though, is seeing that you can replicate what he did with mexico with china.
in so he makes up a nk in, there was never a secret agreement. so faux he s moving back to fighting china. well, people are going to catch on. and when suddenly your four years can be reduced to 30-second ads, those 30-second ads are going to be devastating against donald trump and he s not going to be able to tweet his way out of that corner. still ahead on morning joe, as even the trump cabinet secretary happens to be married to mitch mcconnell, whose home state of kentucky is reaping some pb go to bill karins for a check on the forecast. heavy rain just moved to new
certainly not what would be a second term pet goals it s himself. this is not a big revelation to we ll in washington, people including republicans, who is been paying attention. this is what trt has been since day one. you know, he runs the country the way he run the trump organization, which parkbe drg targeted his way through an episode of the trump is he. . sfchl no one has the slightest idea of what s coming out in the next week, the sfchlt. fafrm china, mexico, where
just wake up in the morning and sort of take it from there. sort of ad lib his way through an episode of the trump show. and that s what that s what he s doing with the country. that s why nobody in his administration, including his press office, has the slightest idea what s coming out in the next tweet. what the policy change will be. where we will be headed tariffs, no tariffs, china, mexico, where are we going? and it s all it has always been all about donald trump. i think people here understand that very well. my question is whether people in the country, people have put their hopes and aspirations in donald trump and begin to understand that really, he s about himself. he s not about them. no, they, actually, mika, they haven t figured that out yet. i think they will during the campaign. but we re not there yet. and we may not get there.
it s just so important to remember, again, as everybody is saying, donald trump lives in the moment. and that has worked because up until now, he s figured out how to keep everybody off balance with the crazy tweet here, a crazy statement there. constantly trying to keep them off balance. a trade war with china. that starts to resolve itself, so he starts a trade war with mexico. the markets rebel against him, he knows he can haven t a weak stock market. so what does he do? he makes up a fake agreement, secret agreement, which we find out the mexicans said last night, no, there was never a secret agreement. so now he s moving back to fighting china. well, people are going to catch on. and when suddenly your four years can be reduced to 30-second ads, those 30-second ads will be devastating against donald trump, and he s not going to be able to tweet his way out of that corner. still ahead, a deal with