Jesse Watters: Team Trump is committing to breaking China's stranglehold on the West

Season 2 of The Apprentice (White House Edition) is off to a hot start. @realDonaldTrump gathered the contestants into a Cabinet meeting after a strong first quarter. This administration’s going where no one’s dared to go, and Team Trump’s committed to breaking China’s stranglehold on the West. It’s a two-punch combo — military and economic. The Chinese won’t lose face, so they’re ratcheting up retaliatory tariffs and flirting with banning mineral exports. But it’s early on the escalation ladder — so they’re just banning Hollywood. Today, tariffs on China hit 145%.

For years, Washington’s been trying to level the playing field with China, but they haven’t been able to. In the last several decades, we’ve lost manufacturing jobs while growing bureaucrat jobs. That’s why we stopped building ships, cars, and steel. Wall Street got rich outsourcing, but it put our nation in danger. Now, the market is trying to scare the president into getting back on their leash. But for the first time in a long time, it’s Wall Street on a leash.