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This is a can of Campbell's soup.
I brought a prop.
Look at that.
What do you have with you?
A can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup.
Campbell's chicken noodle soup that I bought from 7-Eleven.
For a few months now, I've been obsessed with a little episode
that happened in March of 2018
when Wilbur Ross, the then Commerce Secretary,
went on TV and held up a can of that very same soup.
Well, I just bought this can today at a 7-Eleven down here,
and the price was $1.99.
This is as you've written, Shawn,
a mostly forgotten footnote of President Trump's first term.
You have Wilbur Ross on CNBC
the day after the President announced
what were some of his first tariffs—25% tariffs on foreign steel.
He was out there doing some damage control.
Yeah, so the markets were having conniptions about tariffs.