Fox hosts celebrate a trade deal they say is not a “100% win” for the U.S.
Brian Kilmeade: “I want these deals to not look like a 100% win for America”
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From the May 9, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): All right, Brian, you are all over this.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Got one done. I like the fact too that -- and people might not love this -- I don't, we are the biggest guy in the room, the strongest guy on the playground. You don't need to show it. I want these deals to not look like a 100% win for America. It's gotta be where they see gains.
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): Just fairness.
KILMEADE: You don't want a prime minister, the big or small country, or president to pay a political price for doing a deal with us, it's a bad precedent. And I think they got, British got some. They get the 10% tariffs across the board, I get it, they get tariffs on, zero percent tariffs on ethanol--
JONES: It was at 19%.
KILMEADE: -- Yeah, our agricultural community's going to love it. The average tariff on the export rate is 5.1% and 5 billion in new export opportunities. But he said look, I'm going to protect you against Rolls-Royce. We're going to drop, we're going to keep the tariff there. Because we can't build Rolls-Royce engines here anyway. That, you can you only do so many because they don't produce massively. So the car industry over there gets a little protection. And we get beef sales over there that's going to make the [agricultural] community feel better.