The thing that really still amazes me is that most Trumpers really believe in him and what he does, well, lets all ask them in another year what they think. When they have to pay for everything they buy plus 10-25%, hopefully they will say something ...
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977... allows the president to declare an emergency under the National Emergency Act & use his... powers to regulate or prohibit imports.
DJT gaming the system because the Congressional R's enable him.
... given the president’s ability to veto such a resolution and Congress needing a 2/3 vote in order to override a presidential veto, it’s unlikely that a congressional initiative to terminate a national emergency would succeed.
Illegal & unconstitutional. But Congress will do nothing about it. Dems will wring their hands & Republicans will explain how great they are while secretly banging their heads against a wall.
Will the cult of imbeciles even notice that they have been slapped with a $6T tax while Congress uses parliamentary tricks to quietly pass a $4T tax cut to the rich? Or will they just cheer that on as well?
How is it that the US had the best economy, envied worldwide, while everyone was abusing it?
Obviously, it's a lie. So what's the purpose of tariffs?
It's a tax increase for all Americans to:
The reasons need more than 300 characters, but I think we know them... benefits for billionaires.
When manufacturing plants close, will the Administration nationalize them? Sell them dirt-cheap to Musk? Any scenario is possible when a national emergency can be declared, or created, on a whim.
Everyone with a brain and a basic understanding of economics, knows everything listed here is 100% on point. The orange clown is going to take down the US economy and apparently... he "could care less".
Do not forget that he imposed Tariffs on 185 countries including a country that has zero population - Heard & McDonald Islands. I am sure the penguins are trading something with the US.
The countries that did not get hit with Tariffs?
Russia and Belarus.
He is turning America into a bunch of "mercenaries", available to the highest bidder. At this point that appears to be putin. When will the silent majority republicans so their jobs? What is it going to take? Who is making money out of all this chaos? trump and the oligarchs, the republicans?
From here on out, Trump owns this. And Musk. And all those Yarvinites. If this goes belly up pretty quick, like it looks like it will, while alienating all of our friends, it will be an epic fail of major proportions. And Trump will own it all.
Except he has pushed too far this time. In two months he has continuously threatened allied nations while kissing ass of Russia. The world is moving on. New deals are being done. The US is not a trusted partner anymore. No more chances.
Plus, 100% of his information is spoon fed to him by his team of psychopaths, fully aware he doesn't know the difference between a tax, a tariff, and a Tesla.
That’s just it. He’s not a winner and never will be. He’s a loser of the highest order, and everything he touches dies. Anyone who bends the knee will be destroyed by association. Not giving in to
trump and backing him into a corner where he has to give up is the way to beat him at his game.
How to shrink wrap an economy by John Don Trump
The quarterly report
I am amazed at how much this guy Dt knows how to play the system for himself yearly
Has anyone ever thought his play is of them?
Because me stating is as accurate as I can say it
I was watching Rachel Maddow tonight, & she showed some of the countries that would be subject to Trump's ridiculous tariffs. I wish Trump good luck tariffing an island that has NO HUMAN POPULATION in Antartica. It is inhabited by MILLIONS OF PENGUINS! Good luck with tariffs on all those penguins! 🤣
I don't suppose it's possible for all of us sane americans to file a class action lawsuit against the orange beast. Not the government mind you but just him.
Exactly… the market manipulation has been staggering, and this is the best one to date. If we had any transparency at all, we would see that everyone in Trümp’s circle has already made 10s of millions with his crypto and stock market games.
Mr. Conway, quick question. Since executive orders are not laws, why can't everyone just ignore what the orange menace says? Is there a legal way to do that?
#tRump is using #Tariffs to bankrupt government orgs, small businesses, and property owners so oligarchs can swoop in and buy everything for pennies on the dollar.
Destroying us for a purpose!
Btw, I heard a disturbing plausible theory today, in part: want 🇨🇦 & Greenland for rare earth minerals needed for com chips/almost everything. AND likely be two of the last few livable places when temps go over level humans can survive, privately admitting climate crisis.
Trump Tariffs: yet another scam on American families.
The Fine Print: Trump tariffs were levied under a dubious “national emergency” declaration tied to fentanyl, despite Canada having no substantial link to the crisis.
Again, fent smuggling & fent deaths TRIPLED UNDER TRUMP'S FIRST TERM!!
The tariffs Trump is imposing are nothing more than economic sanctions on the American people and our allies. He's punishing us for Putin, driving up costs for consumers, and disrupting supply chains, all while doing Putin’s bidding. This isn’t about strength or strategy; it’s about revenge.
And the tariffs are filled with lies. Some of these countries do not have tariffs on us. Trump is just doing this to seem, strong, tough, and intelligent. These are things he has never been and will never be. Even if he was elected president 30 times, those things would never be.
I hate to say this George. But the 10-14M voters who do did not show up and vote Democrat in the election thought a woman would be worse leader than Trump. A bit of a deeper issuer than tariffs.
On the bright side, I closed my US company which saves me a lot of money in this economy, left the country and feeling soo much better now, made shitloads of money investing into gold since last year...
Big money tramples on empty stomachs but that's what half the country obv wanted to experience
All this tariff shit just to dodge the truth and blame the World: both Dems & GOP spent 30 yrs creating this mess.
Economy x2, top 1% wealth x4, bottom 50% up just 20%.
Refusing to tax the rich = inequality + rage.
This isn’t dysfunction. It’s design and now we pay for it!!
Tariffs are part of trump & co.'s 2-pronged attack on the world!
1. Extortion of most of the countries, i.e., to be removed from list, get a lower rate - once they publicly bend the knee to him. They'll pay into his [untraceable] crypto accounts.
That's where the "you never have to vote again" part comes in. Pretty sure they plan on "winning" in 2026 and beyond, no matter how the votes actually fall.
Destroy the trust in USA from every others countries in the World. Trade and business is based on Trust , this will result in lost business , no more investment , no more trust in US dollar and selling the US debt resulting in higher interest rate to pay the debt so higher deficit. top of my head
The US uses subsidies, quotas & regs instead of high tariffs. Voters like handouts, hate taxes, harder to block & less visible than tariff price hikes. The US then claim "free trade" while still protecting industries like farming, chips & EVs—just less transparently. Other nations call it hypocrisy
They are either actually this stupid.
-Or-
They are weakening the US intentionally. This could be for a number of reasons.
Break the people so they can install fascist rule faster.
Weaken the US for another country to take over? Infuriate the people to institute martial law & authoritarian rule.
I have long been baffled about why our trade deficits are problematic. We have the most disposable income and this buy lots of crap we don’t need. Consumers in other countries don’t have the disposable income to buy our high-priced stuff.
And we don’t manufacture all that “crap” in the US because it would be too expensive so a) fewer people would buy it and b) shareholders’ returns would not meet expectations.
The only ones who will benefit are the already wealthy who will scarf up stocks while they’re down and will buy the homes and farmland of those who lose it through bankruptcy. Sound almost like it was planned. 🤔
Stop calling Trump’s unilateral tariffs “reciprocal!” There is one fucking idiot responsible, one fucking idiot and his 70 million brain-dead worshippers.
They are not "reciprocal tariffs", so we should stop calling them that. The tariffs actually announced have no relation to tariffs the US is subjected to itself, so they're not "reciprocal".
Two things: 1) Does he even understand the consequences of the tariff? 2) Does he even care?
Clearly, the economically impaired idiots who advise him don't care. The Secretary of the Treasurey must have gotten his education from SHITLER-THE-ORANGE's failed university!
You have to explain to Trump voters, perhaps with a comic book, that tariffs are Federal sales taxes. Like all sales taxes, they are inherently regressive, most adversely affecting the poor, working people, and those on fixed incomes. Which is intentional.
The next great Trump depression will be here sooner than we think. Who would’ve thought that tariffs, alienating allies, rampant corruption, cronyism, destroying democracy, gutting science & education, ruining the environment, repealing financial safeguards, etc. would be bad for the economy?
#1 begs the question whether SCOTUS will overturn these under the major questions doctrine but somehow I feel like this is the type of majors question they will ignore
Trump, of course, does not care about the cons of the tariff war. He only cares that it will build up the treasury so he and the oligarchs can get richer.
u know if it was an important calculation, would not the Council of Economic Advisors have it on their website...its so bad they do not even want to claim it as theirs...
Why bother with this? Explaining over and over that this is wrong. Why don’t you just stay in the faces of all these so called republicans. Show them for what they are cowards, traitors and nihilists
The problem is that, while Americans want TONS of Chinese, Canadian, Mexican (& other countries') Crap, the Chinese, Canadians, Mexicans (& other countries) just don't want America’s Crap. The assumption that the US can balance THAT just by imposing tariffs on another countries imports is a fallacy.
It’s not that they don’t want our crap. We just don’t make much crap because it is cheaper to pay people $200/month in Cambodia or $20/day in Mexico or use prison labor in China than pay $15/hr that U.S. manufacturing workers would demand. Tariffs won’t change that.
This isn't just the sting of a new national sales tax. It's the sickening drop of your 401k, and the inevitable ripple effect that follows for everyone.
'Just short-term pain,' they say. I guess we'll see if it works out?"
🙄
It's devastating to watch the country, and the hard-earned retirement accounts, for so many being destroyed. I wish I could offer reassurance that this is temporary. Sadly, I fear the damage may be long-lasting, and this is probably not the worst of if. though I sincerely hope I'm mistaken.
Turn foreign consumers off any, made in America, products and from travel in America, effectively making the country as much of a pariah as he himself is.
It is absolutely amazing that ALL the people around him will do anything to not be on his bad side. They are stupid, corrupt and greedy. Dear Treasury Secretary, be a true advisor and tell him the truth and risk your appointment.
As with everything coming from the clown car, you need to add the grift filter, when looking at this.
Any country / company can now make off the books “donations” via Crypto and get import exemptions for their goods and the public will never find out about it, bc all oversight has been eliminated.
Trump and his team of pseudo-economists (Bessent is not a trained economist & Lutnick is a goofball) - are going to hurt the very people that voted for them: entrepreneurial small & medium sized business owners - especially those that import goods for manufacturing or for resale.
I recently gave one of my grands’ a decoder gizmo, wheeled for wacky combos. I think this is what they used it to calculate tariff rates per nation. It’s a Scholastc educational toy used to teach coding. They thought it was brilliant; efficient & effective.
Lets call it what it is: THE TRUMP TAX.
I’ll be loading up on products from Canada, UK, EU, Japan, Blue states etc while boycotting products from Republican-led red states - and YES, I will check the labels.
I'm sorry, are they really secret ways? It appears Big Balls used DOGE math to calculate tarrifs, the Administration used a list of countries and outlying regions to task, regardless if anyone lives there. They they multiplied by 50% and no one checks their work. Stupid is as stupid does.
The Lying King says tariffs are good for the economy!
But what he is doing is illegal that’s the homily!
The stock market is plummeting thanks to him!
The only one making money is Muskrat, The Lying King and their friends!
If your economic theory is found to be against the law of comparative advantage I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation (hat tip Eddington).
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https://www.history.com/articles/trade-war-great-depression-trump-smoot-hawley
DJT gaming the system because the Congressional R's enable him.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-congress-delegates-its-tariff-powers-to-the-president
https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2025/03/president-trumps-use-of-the-national-emergency-act-and-possible-congressional-next-steps
R's won't impeach him.
He issues EO's and ignores Congress.
He ignores the judiciary.
Some R's may object, but all R's are enabling this.
They know what he's doing.
The Constitution is just a piece of parchment.
Obviously, it's a lie. So what's the purpose of tariffs?
It's a tax increase for all Americans to:
The reasons need more than 300 characters, but I think we know them... benefits for billionaires.
Own it all.
#boywhocriedtariffs
#recessionwatch
The countries that did not get hit with Tariffs?
Russia and Belarus.
Total exports to the US: $28.1 billion
Trade surplus with the US: $17.9 billion
17.9/28.1 = 0.637
So roughtly 64%. So the calc is:
Trade surplus as a percentage of total exports to the US.
Which is like ... not a thing.
https://bsky.app/profile/angrystaffer.bsky.social/post/3llul2b7ai22m
Trump doesn’t care about policy. He’s a conman.
He only cares about creating a false reality where he’s always a winner.
Told my children there was zero chance he’d get reelected and here we are.
The market will recover and he’ll claim victory.
He’s the most predictable person on the planet.
Plus, 100% of his information is spoon fed to him by his team of psychopaths, fully aware he doesn't know the difference between a tax, a tariff, and a Tesla.
Saw this in a Rolling Stones article today.
trump and backing him into a corner where he has to give up is the way to beat him at his game.
So he will create any reality in which he isn’t one.
A true prophecy.
The quarterly report
I am amazed at how much this guy Dt knows how to play the system for himself yearly
Has anyone ever thought his play is of them?
Because me stating is as accurate as I can say it
https://open.substack.com/pub/noelkeith/p/tranquil-piece-of-mind-vol-2-no-1?r=4c7psw&utm_medium=ios
#virus #politicalvirus #fascistvirus
8. Will enrich the wealthiest circle around trump that will receive kickbacks from waivers and early notice of those waivers.
Don't forget. "I just made all of you richer today."
FAFO MAGA! You thought inflation was bad under Biden, you haven’t seen Great Depression 2.0 yet. Brought to you by Felon 47 🤡
https://apple.news/ANVmgyd2oQFSI55PA5yQOTQ
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/the-rogue-state-how-the-us-government
Time 4 the 25th
#tRumpTax #TariffWar
Btw, I heard a disturbing plausible theory today, in part: want 🇨🇦 & Greenland for rare earth minerals needed for com chips/almost everything. AND likely be two of the last few livable places when temps go over level humans can survive, privately admitting climate crisis.
The Fine Print: Trump tariffs were levied under a dubious “national emergency” declaration tied to fentanyl, despite Canada having no substantial link to the crisis.
Again, fent smuggling & fent deaths TRIPLED UNDER TRUMP'S FIRST TERM!!
People starting to connect the dots?
Big money tramples on empty stomachs but that's what half the country obv wanted to experience
Economy x2, top 1% wealth x4, bottom 50% up just 20%.
Refusing to tax the rich = inequality + rage.
This isn’t dysfunction. It’s design and now we pay for it!!
I hope all those who voted for this crap are proud of themselves.
Tariffs are part of trump & co.'s 2-pronged attack on the world!
1. Extortion of most of the countries, i.e., to be removed from list, get a lower rate - once they publicly bend the knee to him. They'll pay into his [untraceable] crypto accounts.
2. Stock market manipulation, whereby they will trade on insider info as the markets girate.
It will be the biggest heist in human history...potentially into the trillions of dollars.
Meanwhile he'll keep everyone looking at "the latest distraction for the day."
Cynical? Not really.
#Project2025
#ChristianNationalists
https://thefulcrum.us/democracy/project-2025-christian-nationalism
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They are weakening the US intentionally. This could be for a number of reasons.
Break the people so they can install fascist rule faster.
Weaken the US for another country to take over? Infuriate the people to institute martial law & authoritarian rule.
When will the U.S. stop treating everything as "us vs. them"?
Clearly, the economically impaired idiots who advise him don't care. The Secretary of the Treasurey must have gotten his education from SHITLER-THE-ORANGE's failed university!
👋 SCOTUS‼️❓️
The only remedy is impeachment, or a military-staged coup.
Buehler? Anyone?
Not alternate facts or alternate reality. Complete and utter ignorance.
“Trump's reciprocal tariffs:
1) Impose hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes on Americans without public/congressional “input”..
The easiest way to avoid #trump tariffs is to not export to or import from the #usa
'Just short-term pain,' they say. I guess we'll see if it works out?"
🙄
Any country / company can now make off the books “donations” via Crypto and get import exemptions for their goods and the public will never find out about it, bc all oversight has been eliminated.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lluiu75zsc2o
Fuck.
I’ll be loading up on products from Canada, UK, EU, Japan, Blue states etc while boycotting products from Republican-led red states - and YES, I will check the labels.
He’s feeling really powerful right now.
Until the markets crash that is.
But what he is doing is illegal that’s the homily!
The stock market is plummeting thanks to him!
The only one making money is Muskrat, The Lying King and their friends!
🇨🇦✊🏼