Trump is now a universal corporate board chair — dictating where companies invest, how they hire and how they price. $WMT $AAPL #CentralPlannedEconomy 🇺🇸 - ThreadSky

carlquintanilla.bsky.social • 13 days ago

Trump is now a universal corporate board chair — dictating where companies invest, how they hire and how they price.

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#CentralPlannedEconomy 🇺🇸

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haroldh.bsky.social•13 days ago

Walmart should “eat the tariffs”?

Amazing business insight from a guy who bankrupted steaks, vodka, university, and a CASINO — which is literally a business where the house always wins. You have to be historically bad at business to lose at rigged math.

binamig.bsky.social•13 days ago

Wait. WHAT??

Doodle wants to reduce corporate (and small business) taxes? Yes.

But he also expects corporations (and small businesses) to reduce profits by covering the cost of HIS tariffs? Yes.

He plans to increase AND expects them to decrease profits? Yes.

All this crazy...

for status quo??

berncomar.bsky.social•13 days ago

Proof positive that WE pay for tariffs and not the country they’re imposed on.
Although Amazon and Walmart should say… we’re not paying any tariffs to the government and the merchandise can rot on the docks. They wouldn’t accept a raise in wholesale prices stated in a contract - why accept it here?

duffer04.bsky.social•13 days ago

What a DumbAss he is!

veespop.bsky.social•13 days ago

He needs to be gone. Gone, gone. Forever.

yosoyasiasiseguire.bsky.social•13 days ago

just don't use any numbers and especially not if they are formed with seashells when expressing your 1a protected but obviously awful opinion

veespop.bsky.social•13 days ago

1a doesn’t apply to me. And never will.

yosoyasiasiseguire.bsky.social•13 days ago

Ah saw the flag, cheers

anniemariegosch.bsky.social•13 days ago

Everything just gets worse by the day.

jaypcollins.bsky.social•12 days ago

He doesn't understand what the job is.

jnrn.bsky.social•12 days ago

He’s the King of nothing.

skyline4438.bsky.social•13 days ago

Cuts corporate taxes, asks corporations to pay additional sales taxes.

mff1101.bsky.social•13 days ago

He throws shade on celebrities, tries to strong arm companies on how to run their businesses. The only companies or people he doesn’t attack are ones that allow him to personally make money

hkfinan.bsky.social•13 days ago

No one should wonder how he bankrupted his own company 6x

numberjohnny5.bsky.social•13 days ago

#NAZIs

mreddie8976.bsky.social•13 days ago

That's the "small government" that Republicans have always been telling us about, right?

chuckrock99.bsky.social•13 days ago

donald should stop claiming he’s president and not just a conman. There fixed it.🤬🤬💕

gerrardgerrard.bsky.social•13 days ago

iammarklush.bsky.social•13 days ago

Narrator’s voice: “But tariffs were the reason for raising prices throughout the chain and the president had forgotten that he didn’t run Walmart.”

cardude.bsky.social•13 days ago

Will some CEO please stand up and tell this motherfucker to shut the fuck up

danilsage.bsky.social•13 days ago

Seriously! The owner of Walmart and Jeff Bezos need to grow some balls.

cardude.bsky.social•13 days ago

These fools have ALL the money they will ever need, and are still scared to stand up to him. It’s mind boggling.

cardude.bsky.social•13 days ago

I feel like if one CEO does it, others will follow

jaxsb.bsky.social•13 days ago

Bruce Springsteen is truly one of the best among us.

olenargy.bsky.social•13 days ago

They’re all afraid of him

lasagnarodeo000.bsky.social•13 days ago

Walmart is doing just that. They are literally saying your prices will increase because of Trump tariffs. They are putting this on the administration but his base is too stupid to realize it.

idlbeokay.bsky.social•13 days ago

I always thought Trump was pretty stupid, but he doesn't even know how tariffs work.

minnesotaliberal.bsky.social•13 days ago

Didn’t he say the countries pay the tariffs anyways? Why is Walmart suppose to eat them?

jaxsb.bsky.social•13 days ago

Sounds like fascism.

junebug1925.bsky.social•13 days ago

Is he speaking as “corporate board chair” or is he claiming he’s a Walmart customer ?

cocochristopher.bsky.social•13 days ago

Leader of a command economy

elonisabum.bsky.social•13 days ago

So much for Republican claims to back free market capitalism.

flowerpot13.bsky.social•12 days ago

He thinks he is. Corrected it for you.

eunicecycle.bsky.social•13 days ago

Soooo...customers DO pay the tariffs?

1tonytony.bsky.social•13 days ago

👀

freakanatcha.bsky.social•13 days ago

Chairman Mao looks down on the orange one and says, "Well done, young grasshopper"
#CentralPlannedEconomy

herne.bsky.social•13 days ago

"Stop trying to blame the things I did to ruin the economy for ruining the economy!"

bpwhitecurl.bsky.social•13 days ago

What good is it to maintain low taxes on the rich but tax them will the full price of tariffs?
So our corporate giants are more stupid than the Trump admin?
That’s a bunch of stupid at the top.

billmccormickpm.bsky.social•13 days ago

Its hard to be an internet troll / drunk at the end of the bar when suddenly you are actually POTUS and responsible for it

daveseibert.bsky.social•13 days ago

Sorry, I don't mean to disagree with you on your own post, but you're wrong.

Trump is actually a universal dumbass. 🤣

stuckwithafork.bsky.social•13 days ago

But, but, but the exporting countries would pay the tariffs that the US would collect in a giant windfall of cash that would eliminate income tax.

Glad he corrected himself.

jennywing.bsky.social•13 days ago

The issue is he lied to Americans about tariffs....now everyone has to play along and support his BS or he threatens them. As Robert DeNiro said...he's a nasty little bitch and a petulent little punk. 😅

abigailmary.bsky.social•13 days ago

This is bananas!

novamunkie.bsky.social•12 days ago

Walmart should just reply: No

lynnielu.bsky.social•13 days ago

He’s a stupid child

mtfromcc.bsky.social•12 days ago

He’s mistaking the election with now. They gouged in October to hurtle Harris. They are passing on tariffs now.

terryhealeyus.bsky.social•13 days ago

As long as he looks good, that’s all that matters. He doesn’t care about the customer or the corporation

jrog4791.bsky.social•13 days ago

Uh oh #walmart!! Big brother #trump is watching you!!!

jrog4791.bsky.social•13 days ago

Maybe he should tell his voters not to shop there. Boycott Walmart!! (Good luck with that)

vote-blue-001.bsky.social•13 days ago

8647

afc5ever.bsky.social•13 days ago

I am beginning to think the 'free market' is just a myth unquestionably repeated by low information individuals.

mrfrisbie.bsky.social•13 days ago

Trump is an economic idiot. Or, he needs businesses to save him from himself

macri112.bsky.social•13 days ago

Wait until Boeing and GE get the commission fee for his brokering the Middle East deals. You know that’s happening

jungo81.bsky.social•13 days ago

I thought China was gonna eat the tariffs 🙄

sciantixo.bsky.social•13 days ago

do we understand yet that he thinks everybody should sacrifice themselves for him?

tomjump.bsky.social•13 days ago

I hate 47 & his stupidity with every ounce of my being but have no sympathy for the Walton heirs- maybe they'll have to sell some of their sports franchises

alvin-tostig.bsky.social•13 days ago

I would say dear leader’s going to announce a five-year plan, but that would me he’s done some actual work. Maybe Comrade Vought will tells us all about how our managed (christo-fascist) economy will be run.

wildplumbay.bsky.social•13 days ago

Seems like something the Chinese government would do. He will never accept that he caused this worldwide calamity of high costs.

mindmathmoney.com•12 days ago

When one man decides how companies operate,

you no longer have a free market.

igrenfell.bsky.social•13 days ago

I guess we're doing central planning now

experimental22.bsky.social•13 days ago

Wait, that doesn’t sound like small-government conservatism?

mango-flava.bsky.social•13 days ago

Because bankrupting TWO casinos takes a lot of stupid.

lakerider.bsky.social•13 days ago

The most Un-American US president ever.

markschieffer.bsky.social•13 days ago

He runs the big beautiful store that is the US

honjokkerinvest.bsky.social•13 days ago

incredible how fast the U.S. became a banana republic

jpsoccoach.bsky.social•13 days ago

This is just Crony capitalism at this point in so many different ways.

jcmcbuff.bsky.social•13 days ago

I thought the Republicans were all about free market capitalism. Huh.

antaeusrising.bsky.social•13 days ago

Fascism is end-stage capitalism+dictatorship

elizabeth-whalen.bsky.social•13 days ago

A couple of months ago (feels like forever ago), I had to listen to a client lecture me about how Trump was going to be good for business because he would be predictable. Said client would be able to make plans for his business under Trump but not under Harris. ... Yeah, I am not making this up.

distractible.bsky.social•13 days ago

Trump to others: "Limit your appetites!"

nulliusnverba.bsky.social•12 days ago

Walmart is MAGA's larder!

What are the odds the regime finds an excuse to just exempt Walmart from tariffs altogether?

yardlimit.bsky.social•13 days ago

How many of you believed it when tRump said that the exporting countries paid the tarriffs?

ladylin2000.bsky.social•12 days ago

Ummmm I’m guessing everyone who voted for Trump in 2024.

nothingbutbluesky.bsky.social•12 days ago

Let them eat tariffs.

susanboston.bsky.social•13 days ago

When do they all start to hate him enough to try to bring him down?
Because I have to believe that they hate him behind closed doors, no matter how much money they may be making. CEOs and corporate boards - especially founders of successful companies, want to make the decisons, not be lapdogs.

retiredvagabond.bsky.social•13 days ago

I’m genuinely confused, if China is paying the tariffs as my president has stated numerous times, why does he feel Walmart should eat the tariffs?

flywrangler.bsky.social•13 days ago

Since when did we want socialism for our for profit companies? I always thought we believed in capitalism. In his desperation to fund tax cuts for the ultra wealthy, Trump will stop at nothing to target anyone in his path - or that speaks the truth about his horrible policies.

wkyvet.bsky.social•13 days ago

Only an asshole capitalist would use this attitude.

elliskatz.bsky.social•12 days ago

All the finance and business people who promoted and voted for Trump because he would be good for business - hope they're happy.

lasagnarodeo000.bsky.social•13 days ago

So this is KIND of an admission that this moron does know that tariffs are NOT what he tells Americans about them bringing in trillions to the economy by foreign countries. They are a tax on the importer that is passed down on consumers. Unfortunately his base is too stupid to realize that.

agropositivity.bsky.social•13 days ago

I have no doubt that is how he views himself. Raging narcissism + dementia is a helluva drug.

lapeemommee.bsky.social•13 days ago

If they listen to him they’ll go bankrupt like all the business he’s run.

deschreeuw.bsky.social•13 days ago

Big brother is watching! 😅

canericanisms.bsky.social•13 days ago

Brilliant economic insight, Donald—Walmart and China should just eat the tariffs! Meanwhile, out here in reality, they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets, but sure, let’s demand billion-dollar corporations foot the bill like it’s a buffet. Genius!

joko1981.bsky.social•13 days ago

I wonder if Trump would “EAT THE TARIFFS” in his own business ventures. LOL.

beenz-e.bsky.social•13 days ago

Does the Raping Traitor Tot ever shut up?

midwesternmom.bsky.social•13 days ago

WTF? He’s suddenly anti-capitalist? Are his hotels and golf clubs eating the tariffs?

isw.bsky.social•13 days ago

MAGA - land of the free...!

tpetdog.bsky.social•12 days ago

Trump must be watching Cramer!

sue19721954.bsky.social•13 days ago

😡😡

billydee123.bsky.social•13 days ago

Walmart needs to now start including Trump tariffs every receipt and have a picture of Trumpy with his finger in the air, saying I DID THIS at every cash...

raventerp1.bsky.social•13 days ago

janicereynolds.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yes and shopping everywhere but at Walmart BECAUSE OF YOUR TARIFFS!!!

lovecircle.bsky.social•13 days ago

'I'll be watching' ? So will millions of Americans who know who is really to blame for having made all of us poorer except his billionaire buddies.

olenargy.bsky.social•13 days ago

He’s like some sort of Secretary who makes orders about how things should be done…generally

sorkel3.bsky.social•13 days ago

I thought the idea of a tariff is to make the foreign product less attractive to buy through a higher price than the domestic item.

I'm sure this was taught to Economics bachelor degree students at Wharton.

drgrat.bsky.social•13 days ago

Frankly, with an alum like him, Wharton should board up the windows and doors and call it quits.

joecorey3rd.bsky.social•13 days ago

Isn't this Socialism?

normal-jim.bsky.social•13 days ago

Did he just say that Walmart should give us stuff for free?

severianssun.bsky.social•12 days ago

So he wants to increase taxes on American companies. Hmm not very pro-business is it?

leolouie.bsky.social•13 days ago

stacys01.bsky.social•13 days ago

Cooperate American created this monster. Thoughts and prayers. 🤡

weo58.bsky.social•13 days ago

Idiot

ryan150.bsky.social•13 days ago

detroitstrong.bsky.social•13 days ago

What happened to Capitalism?

chillyt63.bsky.social•12 days ago

Uh oh! That means there's going to be more than just ONE failed business and bankruptcy at a time! 👀

golfingjourney.bsky.social•12 days ago

#Communism.

norbizness.bsky.social•13 days ago

Why wouldn't people take business advice from.. oh yeah, the imploded casino

pineapple-king.bsky.social•12 days ago

It's why people call it fascism:

Fascism is a political ideology characterized by authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and the merging of state and corporate power, under a single leader.

amanonymus.github.io•13 days ago

The irony here is the are attacks on consumers. Trump wants to collect that tax. At the same time he's promising to directly cut taxes for corporations and billionaires. So he expects them to eat the tariffs as a tax on business?
Why not just reduce the tax cut?

amanonymus.github.io•13 days ago

Trump's actually telling the truth in the beginning of this post. Walmart made billions of dollars in profits last year and they have been aggressively raising prices. Clearly they will be impacted by the tariffs but they've already gotten ahead of the price. Gouging.
Just follow the profits.

drdoofenschmirtz.bsky.social•13 days ago

They’re getting what they voted for

mrpierson.bsky.social•13 days ago

lpeterp.bsky.social•13 days ago

Ouch, someone’s feeling burned and it isn’t Walmart.

nomoreguff.bsky.social•13 days ago

Isn’t that what Republicans have always stood for though?

richlevine6.bsky.social•13 days ago

Interesting that he says they made billions of dollars last year… when Biden was president … so the Dem was the business friendly POTUS! Also interesting that he wants them to “eat the tariffs,” when he’s said all along that it’s the foreign countries who pay the tariffs🤔.

jackeber.com•13 days ago

He has no experience at making a company better, or even just solvent.

adguy1985.bsky.social•13 days ago

#ETTD #FailingFelon

jkurr.bsky.social•13 days ago

Queen Donald sucks

goldendoodle-dandy.bsky.social•13 days ago

"Let them eat tariffs" may be the chapter heading in future Econ 101 books covering the 2025 self imposed stagflation

arkyshopaholic.bsky.social•13 days ago

It's time to start ignoring the 🐘 elephant and have #ChristoFascist Rs take his stolen power away. GROW SOME BALLS Rs!

spqesq.bsky.social•13 days ago

"Small government capitalist."

windbreaker52.bsky.social•13 days ago

So is he “picking winners and losers” now? I thought only “democrat leftists” did that. I can’t keep up, it’s all so confusing.

frostymn.bsky.social•13 days ago

Sounds like socialism to me? Wait, maybe communism or is he a Marxist? Definitely not free trade!

chromaticgravity.bsky.social•13 days ago

do investors even realize offshoring has already started? 🤨

zebriod.bsky.social•13 days ago

I guess that explains why all his businesses go bankrupt?

thepatientinvestor.bsky.social•13 days ago

Walmart is predominantly a grocer, yes we understand this is a difficult word for Trump, but on their most recent earnings report net profit margin was only 2.71%. Their profits are solely from such huge revenues of volume, no way can they eat tariffs nor should they. More CEO’s should speak out.

innisblue.bsky.social•13 days ago

📌

bsbafflesbrains.bsky.social•12 days ago

BREAKING!!!!

EO 1066 -

tRUMP orders all fortune 500 companies to suspend dividend payments to shareholders and pass the savings on to their customers.

Just kidding

dizzer.bsky.social•13 days ago

I think he was elected to do that?

tarasmithson.bsky.social•13 days ago

He said last week in an interview the other countries pay the tariff and today the American corporations do. Just like the tariffs that Trump loved from 100 years ago, tariffs are a regressive tax on the American people. They will hurt lower income earners and bust many small businesses.

steveinwhiterock.bsky.social•13 days ago

So prices should stay the same so people can keep buying imported goods and somehow that will bring manufacturing back to the U.S.

marksfca.bsky.social•13 days ago

So trump’s hand is the “invisible hand”?

annenotann.bsky.social•13 days ago

This is so true. I don’t recall any other president in my 40 yrs of adulthood who has demanded private companies do things

drdodjie.bsky.social•13 days ago

I don’t know why international investors still have money in the US financial system.

ba1974.bsky.social•13 days ago

But China pays the tariffs…. 🙄

snarkyduck.bsky.social•13 days ago

No one around him recognizes that these victim mentality screeds are a giant neon arrow pointing at the fact that he knows he's losing the argument and is freaking out about it. He's W E A K.

dickknob.bsky.social•12 days ago

Soon you'll have nothing to eat but tariffs. But don't worry, it's a beautiful word. Not like groceries, that's an old-fashioned word.

engineerhawk.bsky.social•13 days ago

Trump’s America where the government decides what you buy, how much it cost, how much you make. Congratulations GOP!

parkusaurelius.bsky.social•13 days ago

Don Trump, destroyer of industry, destroyer of human rights, destroyer of decency, destroyer of humanity. Hands in everything, fucking everything up as he goes. Lining his pockets on our backs. The mfer has to be stopped.

shaggin-baby.bsky.social•13 days ago

Now they both "eat the tariffs?" I guess he's suggesting that Americans are paying for tariffs.

shaggin-baby.bsky.social•13 days ago

I'm sure Walmart shareholders love this coming from Trump.

wendigray.bsky.social•13 days ago

Oh the customers will be watching alright. Can't see Wal-Mart absorbing the costs and will probably not even drop them down if this tariff be ever gets nixed.

tjol.bsky.social•12 days ago

He wants Walmart to eat the tariffs, so they literally don’t work. Because he’s a genius.

bkjax8.bsky.social•12 days ago

He's just a loud-mouthed schnook.

justa9.bsky.social•13 days ago

That's a key characteristic of fascism isn't it?

mason44ri.bsky.social•13 days ago

Oh Hey Walton Family…You work for the State now.
Enjoy the ride Comrades.

tariq-078.bsky.social•13 days ago

So, China isn’t eating the tariffs. 😅😅. Didn’t WH say people will buy US products when imported products are more expensive. Oh my bad! We don’t manufacture the imported products. MAGA base will wake up soon as they shop at WMT & pay higher prices.

sisuthefin.bsky.social•13 days ago

Trump needs someone to blame for his fuckups

4legsrgood.bsky.social•12 days ago

He’s become Mao Tse-Trump

jpwilliams.bsky.social•12 days ago

Bankruptcy Scoreboard:

Walmart- 0
Trump- 6

Imma go with Walmart on this one.

newpath.bsky.social•13 days ago

lol

robertsjg.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yes, let me raise tariffs and fuck with your profit. Don't you dare raise your prices. What a free country we have.

markbluebeliever.bsky.social•13 days ago

Hopefully Walmart doesn’t cave

fiveacres.bsky.social•13 days ago

With margins hovering between 2 and 3 per cent, there is no way that Walmart can cave and stay solvent.

af68.bsky.social•13 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/af68.bsky.social/post/3lp7zb2xmts2x

jackrackham2018.bsky.social•13 days ago

Dictators have no rules to follow.

yosoyasiasiseguire.bsky.social•13 days ago

small gov't cool cool don't tread on me, no taxation without some representation or something something...no wonder they want to end education...god forbid we all learn some history (hi Boston...care to chime in?)

a2t8.bsky.social•13 days ago

Walmart made billions in profits, Trump made billions in bribes. Spot the difference…

danciruli.cloud•13 days ago

Not only that, he's asking them to lower their stock price (by asking them to eat into profits).

Think shareholders (or their real board) will appreciate that?

thejeffdad.bsky.social•13 days ago

What a little candy ass... EVERY retailer should be transparent regarding the increases caused by tariffs (honestly, fk them). Look, I am not a fan of Walmart. They treat their employees like tissue paper, but they have the absolute right to be transparent.

albca.bsky.social•12 days ago

Well, they’re getting what they paid for.

curiousgeorge85.bsky.social•13 days ago

Turns out “King for a Day” is turning into King forever.

binomine.bsky.social•13 days ago

Walmart's profit margin is slightly less than 3%, so it isn't like they can absorb a 185% increase in price even if they wanted to.

waynepatriot.bsky.social•12 days ago

Hmmm isn't price controls COMMUNIST? I thought that Trump and the new Reich were Fascists?

kelly11davis.bsky.social•13 days ago

And all of you CEO’s thought you were safe because you got him elected. The devil will always ask for more you stupid, stupid fucks! Abandon him now . It will never be enough if you don’t. He will always ask you to cover his incompetence!