TRUMP’S 100 DAYS: Tariffs, Deportations, and Global Chaos! Is America Winning or Losing?

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TRUMP’S 100 DAYS: Tariffs, Deportations, and Global Chaos! Is America Winning or Losing?  Suggested Title: "Trump’s Explosive 100 Days: Tariffs Spark Amazon War, Deportations Divide, & Global Power Shifts!"  Welcome to The Andrew Eborn Show, where we dive deep into the stories shaking the world! In this EXCLUSIVE episode, host Andrew Eborn breaks down President Donald Trump’s seismic first 100 days in his second term. From a WHITE HOUSE CLASH with Amazon over tariffs to MASS DEPORTATION plans, bold moves at Pope Francis’ funeral, and Elon Musk’s DOGE revolution, Trump’s agenda is flipping markets, geopolitics, and headlines upside down!  Joined by Greg Swenson, Founding Partner of Brigg Macadam and Chairman of Republicans Overseas UK, we unpack the REAL impact of Trump’s 139 executive orders, trade wars, and “America First” diplomacy. Is Trump rebuilding America or risking global chaos? You NEED to know!  Timestamps:  01:30 – Economic Firestorm: Trump vs. Amazon & Car Tariffs  14:00 – Global Diplomacy: Pope’s Funeral & Ukraine Ceasefire  23:00 – Domestic Drama: Deportations & Trump’s FDR Legacy  What You’ll Learn:  How Trump’s 125% tariffs on China and Amazon spat are rocking investor confidence  Why the euro might overtake the dollar as a safe haven  Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts: Billions saved or economic disaster?  Trump’s high-stakes diplomacy at Pope Francis’ funeral  Ukraine ceasefire push: Market jitters & Trump’s dealmaker gamble  Gaza crisis & Middle East: Is Trump’s strategy working?  Deportation debates & the economic cost of hardline policies  Trump’s FDR comparison: Can his legacy survive the chaos?  Comment Below: What’s YOUR take on Trump’s 100 days? Are his tariffs genius or reckless? Let’s get the convo started!  Subscribe & Hit the Bell! Don’t miss our weekly deep dives into the stories shaping YOUR world! New episodes every week!  Follow Us:  Twitter/X: @AndrewEborn  Instagram: @Andrew.Eborn  Website: www.Octopus.TV  #Trump100Days #Tariffs #AmazonClash #ElonMusk #Deportations #UkraineCeasefire #GazaCrisis #AmericaFirst #AndrewEbornShow  This video is for informational purposes only. Views expressed are those of the host and guest and do not necessarily reflect the channel’s stance.

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00:00well hello and a very warm welcome to the andrew eborn show where we tackle the stories

00:14reshaping our world with sharp insight and fearless uh discussions and andrew eborn or

00:19what's left of him after the last hundred days and today we're gonna be diving into the seismic

00:24impact of president donald trump's first 100 days in his second term uh from bold tariffs sparking a

00:31white house clash with amateur amazon to deportation policies global diplomacy at pope francis feud

00:38funeral and his alliance with elon musk's uh trust's agenda is shaking markets geopolitics and

00:44headlines worldwide uh joining us again is the brilliant greg swenson uh founding partner of

00:50brig mcaddam and chairman of republican overseas uk a leading voice on markets economics and

00:56politics uh greg welcome back great to see you andrew great to be here and you've gone over to

01:02the states again now where are you at the moment i'm in chicago ah the windy city very very democrat

01:08state and city but in spite of that it's a good time well talk about windy city it's been a whirlwind

01:15100 days 139 executive orders if i've counted correctly market volatility and global provocations

01:24um talk me through the latest in terms of impact we've talked about tariffs are roiling markets and

01:32his diplomatic moves are grabbing headlines um let's start on the economic front because there's a

01:37major clash today with amazon and also the new car tariffs are making waves what's your take on

01:44trump's economic agenda so far yeah look i i think in the long run it's really great there's going to

01:50be some some difficulties perhaps you know for example with supply chains you know maybe some

01:56slight price price one-time price adjustments but in the long run this is all necessary and all

02:03constructive so i'm really pleased with it i i didn't expect this kind of scale and speed but it's

02:09been really refreshing to see the administration come out of the gates with that kind of speed and

02:14scale and and come out swinging which is what we voted for so so i'm thrilled you know in spite of

02:20the volatility in the markets i think that's you know that's easily remedied and um and and i think

02:25we'll start to see trade deals soon maybe as soon as today we'll see a trade deal with india

02:30being announced okay well we'll certainly keep uh our eyes and ears open for that i mean that we

02:35would let's let's go back to the amazon situation though because uh white house called amazon hostile

02:39and political for reportedly planning to display trump's tariffs costs on products uh while trump

02:45prepares to sign an executive order on car tariffs as you say those might be a deal with india

02:49and so on and so forth as a financer at brig uh mccadam how do you see this public spat with amazon

02:55affecting investor confidence and do trump's tariffs 125 on china uh now targeting autos

03:02signal a sustainable boost for u.s manufacturing or a deeper trade war risk what's your view yeah so

03:09on on amazon no surprise there there's hostility from amazon look remember bezos owns the washington

03:16post even though they claim to be tilting toward the center they are a radically progressive newspaper

03:22and so and amazon as well i mean i think tech has changed over the last year or two i think it's

03:29become um you know you're you're now permitted to be a conservative which wasn't the case two years

03:35ago but still you have this legacy hostility from companies like amazon and and i think you'll continue

03:41to see that that was a hit job completely and i think caroline levitt did a great job of addressing

03:46that this morning when it was announced didn't really shock the markets either so um so i'm not i'm not

03:52really worried about that in terms of the long run um i think you asked about tariffs on on autos

03:57already the president this morning backed away this morning here in the u.s backed away a bit on on the

04:04auto tariffs he's going to you know not not double tariff uh the auto parts people or the automakers

04:10i think there's a real deal coming there i think that yes he wants to protect u.s auto business he wants

04:17to make it fair why does the eu have five times or four times to tariff on american cars that that

04:23that we have on on european cars so you know as long as it's free and fair i think we're going to

04:29get to a deal with all of the big uh automakers around the world um he had a meeting yesterday in

04:34the white house with both the u.s and you know u.s domestic as well as foreign auto companies and so

04:40there's some real progress there okay well that sounds encouraging and again we'll follow that

04:44progress um well in the meantime a european central bank policy maker suggested that the euro could

04:50overtake the dollar as a global safe haven uh due to trump's chaotic trade war as he calls it uh with

04:57tariffs diving uh driving market swings how credible uh do you think this shift is and what does it mean

05:03for u.s economic dominance as trump hits this iconic 100 day mark look there there is definitely

05:10markets don't like uncertainty and and we've had a lot of uncertainty because we don't know what

05:14the tariffs are going to look like you know he's he's pivoted quite a bit uh you have 100 countries

05:20coming to washington to negotiate trade deals i think you'll see the top 17 or 18 come out with

05:26deals in the near term so all of this is going to settle down it's it's complete absurd rhetoric for

05:32the ecb or anybody else to talk about you know the the trump is you know trump's trade war and it's

05:38going to you know be destructive to the economy no not at all um this is not a trade war that trump

05:43started the war has been going on for 30 years it's not free and fair trade he wants to make it

05:48free and fair and it will be when we start to see these deals also keep in mind andrew that you know

05:54the eu is you know 28 different separate bond markets right so so making it the reserve currency

05:59is impossible until they decide to make uh you know to make the the eu one big bond market which i

06:05don't see happening in the near term yeah i always say they're looking at um the global provocation and

06:11and trade stability we we talk about uh uh trump's probably doing the biggest land grab in history

06:16is how i put it including uh looking at mars um he's threatened to take the panama canal and next

06:23canada uh and take uh greenland obviously that's unsettled allies well his tariff flip-flops including

06:29the 90-day pause royal markets um from your global finance lens uh greg how are these 100-day actions

06:37reshaping america's economic alliances and market stability well i think the market stability again

06:43will come as soon as there's some clarity around tariffs and trade and that's coming so you know in

06:48spite of the volatility we've had for the last 30 days or so but um but i think in terms of of the

06:53global economics it's it's really in very in many ways a reset it this is something that's been going

06:59on for not just 30 years with china but for 80 years with the europeans and our other trading partners

07:06and so it was kind of a long crawl toward unfair and unequal trade and it's something you know it

07:13didn't happen overnight but it needs a reset the the trade deficits that the u.s carries are

07:19unsustainable and what's happened is you know we run a 300 billion plus trade deficit with china

07:25so does the eu or roughly it's maybe not as large as ours but the eu is carrying this massive trade

07:32deficit with china and some other partners so they have to make up for that by running a massive trade

07:38surplus with the united states that's so so we're basically the the deficit country the eu is relatively

07:45neutral they have some surplus some deficit balances out the the uk doesn't really matter it doesn't have

07:53much of a trade surplus or deficit with the u.s but china is the beneficiary here they are a major

07:59export economy they have very little consumption that unbalance can't continue this is not just going

08:04to make america better and and our trading partners like your the europeans better it's actually in the

08:11long run ironically going to make china better because that that export based you know exporting cheap

08:16and slave labor to other parts of the world by sending cheap products is not sustainable and it's not

08:23good for the 350 people million people in china living on a bowl of rice every week so um you know

08:29this is something that is going to be better for the world in the long run yeah i mean you make a very

08:34interesting point there greg i mean obviously china itself they're benefiting because their biggest

08:38trade is obviously with southeast asia and as all these tariffs uh have a knock-on effect

08:43throughout that region uh they've increased their trade haven't they and they've got a net benefit

08:48yeah i think you know look they are a powerful economy i can't argue with that number two in the

08:53world but their people are still starving in many parts of china and so you know and and they're they're

09:00again they're exporting cheap and slave labor and and excess capacity that they have they're in deep

09:06trouble they have a major deflation problem which is why i think it's so funny when people freak out

09:11about tariffs and they say well trump trump is mean it's putting tariffs well the eu uses tariffs the

09:17uk uses tariffs india massively china and there's no inflation from those tariffs inflation as you know

09:24andrew came from reckless government spending and hostility to the supply side it's like economics 101

09:30so for the economically illiterate out there who are running around saying you know the world's on fire

09:35because of tariffs it's not the case the world's on fire because of reckless spending

09:40and and welfare you know european welfare states so we'll we'll fix we'll fix all this i'm quite

09:46confident okay my confidence is always good people like confidence um i want to look at the doge the

09:51department of government efficiency and boy do we need one of those over here in the uk but uh

09:56they've been slashing federal budgets claiming hundreds of billions is what they've claimed in savings

10:01but obviously faces criticism for its data control and tariff tensions um as a market expert greg

10:08uh how feasible are these cuts and what economic risks does uh doge's influence pose yeah as far as

10:15economic risks none it's economically beneficial no doubt you're taking power and money away from the

10:22public sector and that gets reallocated to the private sector it's complete distortion to a capitalist

10:28country to a democratic country to to take so much money out of the private sector and you know and as you

10:35know the the the capital markets and the private sector are much better allocators of capital than

10:40government bureaucrats and that's the case in both countries at both the u.s and the uk so no doge is

10:46good news i was on with one particularly economically illiterate democrat today on the radio and she was

10:53complaining about doge and how mean it is and it's going to cut all these government programs and then

10:59also complain that elon promised to build you know a trillion in savings and he's only got 150

11:05you know pick your poison but these people are completely uninformed on how real economies work

11:11so doge is a great thing i hope he keeps at it yeah well i certainly it's going to keep hitting those

11:16headlines i love the fact you're speaking to you always like more platforms than padding there is

11:20like me isn't it it's always a joy um i want to talk about foreign policy then i mean from terrorist

11:25to global diplomacy trump's 100 days of reshaping uh the world stage uh let's have a look at his

11:32uh foreign policy i mean we had that uh extraordinary image which i say was staged it doesn't matter as

11:38long as it achieves what it does but uh uh and achieves peace which is uh the key thing uh high

11:43state moments like the pope francis's funeral and the gaza crisis are defining his america first

11:48uh approach uh first of all what was your take on that uh extraordinary picture uh as i say it seemed to

11:54me that it was engineered the rest in peace was uh an obvious headline which at least one paper uh

12:00took what was your take on that yeah i mean if it was engineered good for whoever engineered it it was

12:05really well done and and those are the moments that you know this is great for president trump he is

12:11quite the actor in many ways and and he likes he likes communicating he's in spite of you know his

12:17his tendency to be provocative and sometimes send mean tweets um he is really good at communicating it

12:24is clearly the most transparent administration we've had in our history so um so if if they

12:30orchestrated that some smart comms person good for them uh it was also interesting that it was supposed

12:36to be three chairs with macron and president trump said no that's not happening it was a great site

12:42wasn't he sort of pushed macron aside three chairs hip hip hooray but not for you go paint go paint a

12:48landscape and wear a beret

12:49so how do you evaluate then uh greg uh trump's diplomatic maneuvering uh balancing global appearance

12:57with his america first rhetoric and what does it reveal about his foreign policy uh priorities

13:02yeah great question andrew he's all about outcomes he's all about peace through strength and

13:08deterrence he is not about proper diplomacy he's not a diplomat he doesn't care if he's hurting

13:14feelings in the salons of europe you know in brussels or berlin um you saw him dress down the germans in

13:192018 everyone was shocked western media went crazy mean mean old mr trump and and it's going to ruin you

13:27know the relationship well look what happened you know three years later russia invades ukraine the germans

13:33are buying coal from anybody who would sell it to them um last year the europeans bought 22 billion

13:39dollars worth of oil gas and coal from russia in spite of all the brain damage and so you know

13:45president trump is right ultimately he's he might be provocative and freak people out at the beginning

13:52but it turned out he was right completely about the germans in 2018 they're finally at least hinting

13:59at spending more on defense they're finally hinting at maybe building some nuclear power or maybe

14:05building some lng facilities to buy liquid natural gas from the americans and so you know they're they're

14:12making the right moves but you know he's again he's not diplomatic he's talking about outcomes so what

14:18he's doing on the world stage right now is looking at the outcomes ending the war of course that's

14:23important to him uh you know he wants peace in the middle east he he got it in first term and and it

14:29blew up in in the biden term but you know he can get that back i think he will and look you know you've

14:35already seen commitments from the arab neighbors to rebuilding gaza you've seen the israelis just go on

14:41a tear the last 12 months with really successful campaigns against iran against the houthis against

14:47hezbollah and even against hamas um like it or not it's unpleasant to watch but you know hamas has to

14:54be eliminated and trump is all for that yeah and it's interesting i i've often said that trump really

15:00wants the nobel peace prize what's your take on that yeah i mean he'll never get it because you know

15:05the the globalist institutions of the world and the multilaterals really don't like president trump

15:10um it's a shame because people even if you didn't miss president trump you missed the peace and

15:16prosperity of 2019 and 20 and and so you know he his i thought one of his great accomplishments was

15:23the abraham accords you know obviously you know the october 7th was not good news for the abraham

15:29accords in terms of getting the saudis into the accords but you notice the the existing abraham

15:35accords withstood that drama and they're still in place and they're still working i think the saudis

15:41will come in i don't i don't think it's a five-year deal i think it's you know maybe within

15:46the next year and and i do think that you'll see an expansion generally of peace and prosperity in the

15:53middle east i think he handled around iran quite well in the first term biden unwound everything in

15:59in biden's first two years in the white house staffers were not allowed to utter the words abraham

16:06accords they couldn't put it in a memo in an email it was forbidden language because biden didn't want

16:12to give president trump credit for for a peace agreement so i i don't look at the nobel committee

16:19of joining you know changing their minds anytime soon yeah it's interesting i know it would mean a

16:25a lot of i suspect it would mean a lot to uh donald trump and uh if he does a secure peace then

16:30absolutely he would be a very good candidate and but his aggressive push for the ukraine russia ceasefire

16:36paired with marco rubio's uh warnings about abandoning talks obviously have created uncertainty

16:41uh from a market's perspective as you know markets don't like uncertainty how is this geopolitical

16:47gamble impacting investor sentiment and how can trump's deal-making style deliver a resolution

16:52yeah it's it's classic president trump you know say something provocative everybody freaks out and then

16:58three days later or three months later everything works out and it turns out he was right

17:02so on the trade that will work itself out we're again we're going to see a deal likely from india in

17:09the in the very near term i think you'll see 17 deals come through in the in the near and medium term

17:15you know the the geopolitical stuff with ukraine that's a little more difficult because the real

17:20wild card obviously is putin he has 4500 nuclear warheads i think there will have to be a reset

17:27somehow uh geopolitically with or you know or diplomatically with the russians whether we like

17:33it or not it's something that you know in spite of their anemic economy and their rather underachieving

17:39conventional military they have nuclear weapons and that's something that you know is always going to

17:44make russia play above their weight in in terms of their influence uh it's it's i wish it wasn't the

17:51case i wish it wasn't so but but i do think you'll see a reset there but right now the wild card is putin's so

17:57i don't think that the ukraine russia really affects the markets that much um i think it's

18:01much more the trade uncertainty and and even if you go back to october i'm sorry february of 2022

18:07you know oil prices went up wheat wheat and fertilizer prices went up yes all true you know

18:14the dependency on ukraine and russia for for wheat on russia for energy you know that shook the markets but

18:20it it settled right back down within six months the real asset inflation and the real

18:26inflationary pressure on energy globally was joe biden putting his foot on the neck of the u.s

18:32energy industry that's fixable and it's being fixed right now but but i i don't agree whenever i hear

18:38these critics say you know putin caused the inflation in natural gas or oil not not the case

18:44temporary blip for sure but came right back down to the biden levels which were 60 percent higher than

18:50than trump levels all right okay um let's look at israel and uh and gaza then are the israel's supply

18:56uh cut off to gaza's obviously it's intensified a humanitarian crisis uh with trump's pro-israel

19:02stance drawing scrutiny how does trump uh middle east policy in these 100 days affect the u.s economic

19:09and diplomatic credibility in the region especially as markets monitor energy and trade risks yeah i i think

19:16his his policies are beneficial to the region in general i mean surely the economic outcomes of of

19:21the abraham accords were quite positive the israelis should be a you know a poster child of economic

19:27development in a in a region that suffers from uh you know from arid conditions and lack of oil i mean

19:35look they've turned israel into a phenomenal economy without the benefit of of massive oil reserves or maybe

19:41they don't have any at all um and they do have some water challenges and they've solved that and so

19:46really great tech sector in israel i think you know you're starting to see the the uae and and the and

19:52saudi try to emulate some of the some of the things that are going on in israel i think getting rid of

19:57hamas will ultimately be great news for the palestinian people and for the region so i mean this is ugly

20:03it's messy notice didn't happen under trump 1.0 um happened under biden as did the russia ukraine

20:11invasion and just it just goes to show you that the value of deterrence and peace through strength

20:16there's a carrier a couple two or three carrier groups in the med in and around the mediterranean

20:21right now um that's a a display of of strength that will prevent war um he did it to iran in the

20:28first term he did it to russia in the first and he was very hostile to putin in the first term but

20:34unfortunately it's too late for deterrence right now because you know putin quite deliberately

20:39invaded during democrat administrations and as well as george george w bush in 08 so 08 14 and 22

20:48but nothing under under trump and i think you can expect that to happen again yeah let's look at

20:54trump's deportation agenda then because obviously that sparked debate as he marks this is 100 days

21:00as a conservative advocate yourself how do you weigh the economic and political impact

21:05of uh these hardline immigration moves especially amid that global backlash yeah it look the global

21:12backlash is really funny you know people the europeans virtue signal from their salons in brussels and

21:19berlin and yet the voters love it right the european voters want to end the number one issue for for voters in

21:28europe is mass migration the number two issue is cost of living what what the president is doing is is

21:34leading the charge for the world of how governments should handle their countries and that's polling

21:40right now plus 15 in a 50 in a 50 50 country um the united states you know is basically a 50 50 country

21:47nothing polls at plus 15 well some things do but i'll get to those um but right now 55 percent of americans

21:54fully support mass deportation only 40 percent oppose the deportation of criminals polls at two

22:02thirds at 66 percent including people that voted for kamala almost two thirds of kamala voters are

22:09supporting the deportation of criminals and hispanics which you know most of the deportations like it or not

22:16are people of hispanic descent you know el salvador venezuela it's polling at 68 right the hispanics love it as

22:23much as much as anybody and so you know this is really important and it's it's it's taking a

22:29leadership role economically of course it's great because it's it's massive burden on british and you

22:36and american taxpayers the the illegal migrants the hotel migrant hotels all the free stuff the cities

22:42like the one i'm sitting in in chicago are being decimated by illegal migration uh and i see it visibly

22:48both in new york and and here in chicago so you know this is something you know again i i i it's sad

22:56when when those those top two issues for for voters are ignored by leadership and all they want to talk

23:02about is censoring misinformation which i call censorship um and and climate change you know the

23:09existential crisis of climate change it's completely tone deaf and good for president trump for to for

23:15listening to the voters oh yeah absolutely and that is a worldwide issue about immigration here in the

23:20uk uh they're turning up the rhetoric now uh you're seeing that starmer is uh trying to emulate what

23:26reform are doing how and nigel farage to try and basically win back some votes um now trump himself

23:32he's likened his first hundred days to fdr citing rapid executive actions like tax cuts deregulation

23:38and now car tariffs uh drawing on your economic and political expertise greg how sustainable

23:43is trump's legacy compared to historical benchmarks and can it withstand the market volatility we've

23:49seen in the last uh 100 days well yes and yes i mean he'll definitely withstand the market volatility

23:55that's going away i saw i was watching scott uh the treasury secretary scott besant this morning

24:00um you know and he's he's done a good job of sort of calming the markets when he speaks markets rally

24:05um when he's not speaking markets trade down but but i do think that um this will all work out

24:11this volatility will go away as soon as these trade deals are announced and and then let's remember

24:17too the other legs of the stool the other parts of his economic platform platform are tax reform

24:23reducing taxes and massive deregulation the deregulation has already started and that's what

24:29he did in his first term not quite as dramatically as he's as he's doing it now but i think we need

24:34more of that because we have 11 trillion dollars in freshly printed debt from joe biden we've got

24:40interest rates at double what they were uh at the end of trump's first term thanks to joe biden

24:45again so he's got some headwinds you know we we here in america have some headwinds right now um

24:51basically because of the the biden legacy and so he's got to really get his arms around this

24:57i think that others in the world will take a page out of the u.s playbook it's not going to come

25:02from these center-right and center-left governments who are very much for the big state

25:07and continuing the welfare state insanity but but i do think the parties of the right

25:12will ultimately win and and emulate what's happening in america yeah and and then finally

25:19uh greg as chairman of the republicans overseas you've still got that position haven't you even

25:23though you're now even now you're no longer overseas you're back you're back at base

25:27i've got my 90 days big brother 90 days we're going to have a lunch when you come eventually

25:32we're going to make sure one of those 90 days is spent together um tell me then in your view which

25:36of trump's 100 day achievements is tariffs deportation drives deregulation or diplomatic moves like the

25:42pope's funeral resonate most with conservative audience worldwide and how do they align with global

25:48challenges like gaza's crisis or canada's election shift under uh mark carney yeah look i i think

25:54it's really a shame about mark carney winning because i think he made this election about trump

26:00and that that was okay you can pick on trump for picking fights with canada and you know claiming he

26:06was going to you know talking about um the 51st state i you know that's all just banter that's all

26:12typical president trump banter but mark carney did a hell of a job making this election about trump

26:18it's really a shame the conservatives were up 20 points uh only a few months ago and they and they

26:24lost by a couple so look up between the border the economy energy defense the cultural stuff it's

26:32really hard to choose um you know boys playing in women in girls sports that's over um the defense

26:38department has returned to lethality and meritocracy and and that's good energy sector ultimately i mean

26:46drill baby drill is super popular economic reforms with tax reform deregulation the border i would say

26:53the border for generally speaking is the most popular that's where you post the best but i would

26:59say in the long term it's liberating the energy sector and the rest of the private sector that

27:03will benefit americans and the world the most okay and and finally then what what do you hope to see in

27:08the next hundred days same thing lots more of it i mean it's going to it'll be hard to continue the

27:15the pace and the scale because he doesn't have that many more issues to address or policies to

27:21execute he's already done it but but i think execution is important we we've got to get this

27:26tax reform bill through congress he's got he's going to spend a lot of time on that i would imagine

27:31uh and and then but just keep up the great work keep up the great work well you keep up the great

27:36work as well uh greg it's always a delight to have you on the show thank you very much for joining me

27:41thanks for having me andrew i appreciate it

27:43thanks for having me andrew i appreciate it

27:44thanks for having me andrew i appreciate it

27:45thanks for having me andrew i appreciate it

27:46thanks for having me andrew i appreciate it

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