Trump’s Liberation Day Tariffs and SignalGate Closure

The White House’s clo­sure of the Sig­nal­Gate inves­ti­ga­tion, secur­ing Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Advis­er Mike Waltz’s role in Trump’s fresh admin­is­tra­tion, despite Sen­a­tor Lankford’s call for an inspec­tor gen­er­al probe—echoing Michael Flynn’s first-term res­ig­na­tion. Trump’s resolve shines as he launch­es “Lib­er­a­tion Day” rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iffs tomor­row, rat­tling glob­al trade. The UK’s Keir Starmer begs for exemp­tions, link­ing tar­iffs to free speech after a pro-life activist’s arrest, but Trump rejects him, with the US State Depart­ment decry­ing UK expres­sion lim­its. Cana­da coun­ters with anti-tar­iff bill­boards in Atlanta, while China’s Wang Yi, in Rus­sia, push­es a Ukraine peace plan with Xi’s back­ing, reject­ing “Amer­i­ca First” bul­ly­ing. Trump’s par­don of 23 pro-life activists jailed under the FACE Act con­trasts with media out­rage over deport­ing gang mem­bers, spot­light­ing a dou­ble stan­dard. From tar­iffs to inter­na­tion­al defi­ance, this episode unpacks Trump’s bold start and the world’s reac­tion.

• White House clos­es inves­ti­ga­tion into sig­nal chat leak. Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion just start­ed. Remem­ber when Michael Fly­nn resigns as Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Advis­er. In Trump’s first term they went this direc­tion. Sin­gal­Gate is closed, Mike Waltz, Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Advis­er is safe. No one ran in and said we need to give up. Trump is not going to give up. Trump is ready this time. Lank­ford calls for the inspec­tor gen­er­al to inves­ti­gate Sig­nal­gate. 
• Chi­na will not accept Amer­i­ca First built on Amer­i­can Bul­ly­ing. Wang Yi (china’s sec of defense) is over in Rus­sia. Xi and Putin met at the Olympics and Xi told Putin to hold back after the Olympics then go into Ukraine. Chi­na has said the Rus­sia-Ukraine con­flict must be resolved through nego­ti­a­tions and last year along­side Brazil, pre­sent­ed a six point pro­pos­al for diplo­mat­ic set­tle­ment in his inter­view. Way reit­er­at­ed that Chi­na is ready to play a con­struc­tive role in the set­tle­ment of the con­flict. 
• Remem­ber Trump par­dons 23 pro life activists con­vict­ed of the FACE Act vio­la­tions. Right here in this coun­ty, they were throw­ing peo­ple in jail for the “Free­dom of Access” but that is not how they used it. These peo­ple were out­side the abor­tion clin­ics pray­ing. But if you ship off some mur­ders and gang mem­bers, the media will cry tears and find lib­er­al judges to pro­tect the crim­i­nals. 
• When they talk about tar­iffs they talk about tax increas­es. But it is not about the tax increas­es. NO free trade with Us with­out free speech, Starmer warned. PM hopes of avoid­ing Don­ald Trump’s tar­iffs may hinge on the case of pro-life activists arrest­ed for peace­ful protest. Don­ald Trump rejects Keir Starmer’s 11th hour call to avoid trade war as plead­ing PM faces free speech snub. Starmer was hit with a bru­tal rejec­tion by Trump as the PM failed to bid for Britain to be exclud­ed from new tar­iffs. It comes as the US State dept issued a state­ment say­ing it was con­cerned about free­dom of expres­sion in the UK . a woman was pros­e­cut­ed for hold­ing a sign near an abor­tion clin­ic read­ing “here to talk if you want.” The US State depart­ment is watch­ing the sit­u­a­tion. Pro Life cam­paign­er grate­ful for US inter­ven­tion in clin­ic buffer zone case. 
• These same peo­ple that cry about gang mem­bers and mur­ders and these same peo­ple nev­er cried for us for the COVID tax increas­es… remem­ber that the items were a 1 and then they cost 2. 
• Rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iffs are a dou­ble edge sword. The com­pa­nies are in board rooms all over the world, won­der­ing if they should open a plant in the US and allow Amer­i­can prod­ucts on their shelves. They are cry­ing in the UK. Trump throws out Zelen­sky and then he is over on down­ing street hug­ging and throw­ing the fin­ger to the US the fol­low­ing day. And Starmer was cry­ing for a pass. The tar­iffs start tomor­row. Trump is call­ing it Lib­er­a­tion Day. 
• All the media can talk about is this tax and this tar­iff and what it is going to cost Amer­i­ca. “Tar­iffs are a tax” Cana­da funds anti-tar­iff bill­boards in metro Atlanta. Cana­da is ner­vous.