Trump's Tiktok Extension Shows 'He Knows What Trouble He's In With Tariffs': Top Democrat

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At a Senate Democratic press briefing, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave his take on President Trump's extension of the TikTok deal.

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00:00the assignment.

00:02Yes.

00:03Senator Schumer, and feel free to answer this too.

00:05It's simple for Senator Wyden.

00:06President Trump recently announced an extension

00:08on the TikTok deadline.

00:10I was wondering if you all had any reaction to that.

00:15My reaction is very simple.

00:16He knows what trouble he's in with tariffs.

00:19This is what he always does.

00:20He creates a diversion.

00:21All he did is extend the 75 days.

00:24He didn't make a decision one way or the other.

00:26But he is so, he knows the American people

00:30are so hostile to what he is doing that he always

00:33looks for a diversion.

00:34Sometimes it's Greenland.

00:36Sometimes it's the Gulf of Mexico.

00:38The diversion today was TikTok.

00:39Do you want to say something?

00:40I would just say he's so desperate.

00:45He's flailing around.

00:47He's just lurching from one thing to another.

00:51I mean, under normal circumstances,

00:53when you do something colossally bad,

00:57you try to fix that problem.

00:59I mean, this is somebody who said yesterday,

01:02after the market crash, and he's asked about the tariffs,

01:06I think it's going very well.

01:08So he is the all-time leader for somebody in politics

01:12being out of it.

01:14And I share the leader's view that he's flailing around,

01:17looking for a diversion, and that's where we are.

01:22One other thing, when he thinks about the bad news

01:26that he confronted this week was what happened in Wisconsin,

01:30and what happened in those tightening in those Florida

01:32races, and what happened the week before in Pennsylvania.

01:35This is not small ball stuff.

01:37In Wisconsin, 10 counties that went to him before

01:41went to Judge Crawford.

01:43In the rural areas, and I was in some of them on Saturday,

01:47in the rural areas, there were counties

01:50on the Minnesota border that are pretty conservative that

01:53flipped 15, 20 points.

01:56So it's not that hard to make the through line

01:58in an election that was very nationalized, right?

02:02It wasn't about which judge had the best qualification.

02:05I believe Judge Crawford did.

02:07But it was about Elon Musk.

02:08It was about what's happening out there.

02:10And in the rural areas, trust me on this,

02:12because I've seen them come out in our rural areas,

02:15it's just about the havoc, the chaos,

02:17the fact that they have nothing to depend on anymore.

02:20They are social security dependent, a number of them.

02:23But they are also dependent on a farm economy that works.

02:27And he has done literally everything

02:30he could to put that economy that's already difficult

02:34into turmoil with these tariffs.

02:36In rural or suburban counties, the American people

02:39are getting wise to him.

02:41Every day, they see how bad he is for them.

02:44Every day, they see how he's broken their promises.

02:48And he sees it on the side of the billionaires,

02:50not on the left.

Trump's Tiktok Extension Shows 'He Knows What Trouble He's In With Tariffs': Top Democrat

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