Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

Are we just taking our ball and going home? #Tariffs

Name: Are we just taking our ball and going home? #Tariffs
Uploaded: 2026-03-02T21:18:48+00:00
Duration: 48 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: In this segment of Tom Burton's YouTube video, two speakers discuss the problem of a president using emergency powers to unilaterally alter or abandon…

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In this segment of Tom Burton's YouTube video, two speakers discuss the problem of a president using emergency powers to unilaterally alter or abandon previously negotiated tariff agreements. Speaker B likens the situation to a basketball game where, after a deal is reached, the president decides to "take the ball and go home" because he dislikes the outcome, ignoring the established rules of the game. Speaker A adds that the current use of emergency powers lacks clear parameters, emphasizing the need for defined limits to prevent such arbitrary actions. The overall message calls for stricter rules and accountability when executive authority is invoked in trade negotiations.

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What I don't like to see is when there's been a negotiation done or whatever it is and the tariffs turns into the president's basketball and he says, well, I don't like it that you're winning, so I'm going to take my basketball and go home when I've already negotiated a deal, right? There's rules to the basketball game and the rules to that basketball game once they've been agreed to need to be followed. Not Tom saying, well, no, you're, I, I want to apply a different rule now because I don't like that you're winning, right? Or it doesn't even matter winning. I just I'm gonna threaten you now and I'm gonna take my ball and go home. So I, I, I, I hope this puts some parameters to that,
although definitely be a lot more parameters because there were no parameters with the emergency power.