The Daily Herold: April 22, 2025 – Tariff Shockwaves, Deep State Holdovers, and the Rebranding of Woke

Jon Herold returns with a jam-packed episode of The Daily Herold, covering a massive range of stories from the global chessboard to local classroom battles and the quiet mutiny of the deep state. He kicks things off with a critical update on Trump’s economic strategy, finalized trade deal negotiations with India, escalating tariff pressure on Japan, and China threatening retaliatory sanctions against U.S. allies. Jon breaks down how this global rebalancing is shaking markets, enraging the IMF, and reinforcing America First policy at every turn.

On the domestic front, Jon spotlights the quietly leaked Trump executive order restructuring the State Department, slashing embassies, and firing hundreds of deep state bureaucrats, while somehow Susan Rice still lingers on a DoD advisory board. He doesn’t hold back his frustration with the slow pace of administrative cleanup.

The episode also takes a hard look at the Minnesota Tesla vandalism case, the Supreme Court’s inaction on school opt-out rights, and new data showing just 30% of Illinois fourth graders can read at grade level. In education, immigration, and lawfare, Jon ties every story back to the heart of the matter: the system is broken, and Americans are waking up.

From Larry David's Hitler satire to the left’s newest narrative push, “dark woke”, Jon exposes the absurdity, hypocrisy, and desperation of the establishment’s culture war rebrand. Fast-paced, fiery, and funny, this episode is a full-spectrum takedown of the old world order.