We already have negotiated free trade deals with many of these countries ! They are absolutely not charging the tariffs he’s saying they are. It’s totally made up.

The Heard and MacDonald Islands won’t respond to the Trump tariffs he imposed on them. Just because they are uninhabited doesn’t give them the right to ignore him. I think he should continue to raise the tariffs on them until they comply. We will not let this insult go unanswered!

Maybe we'll invade them?

😂😂😂

Trump is a criminal. He’ll be prosecuted for what he’s currently doing.

What? You're accusing the most honest President in the history of the universe of lying? OMG. Of course he's lying. Whenever he opens his mouth, he lies.

It’s including “currency manipulation” and “trade balance” as a tariff. That’s presumably why he’s hitting all the places with a super low cost of living (i.e. the poorest places!) the hardest

But what about the Chart? 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆

The Canadian dairy, for instance, the 250% is a top end, and not charged. And Canadians don't allow steroids and such in their dairy products, they have high dairy standards.

Just the most loathsome person to walk the earth!!!

Corporate media has been goose stepping itself off of a cliff for years. They ain't gonna quit now

Can‘t wait for the WSJ to open the reader comments feature.

Corporate Media never reported on Democrat Marianne Williamson because Republican Joe Biden has Billionaire Corporate Donors

Marianne Williamson is a fucking idiot

No, they are presenting them as of they are just answering the existing tariffs. Too many people haven't heard the truth.

HE NEGOTIATED IT

Of course it is. Fairy tale. Fairy land.

That’s not new everything he fucking says is made up. It’s all lies. There’s not a damn thing he says that’s the truth! When did he ever speak the truth?!

not sure if you’re aware of this but many journalists and editors are not very good at their jobs

But grok told the teen who made the sign that these were the current tariff rates!

He’s saying that if you impose a VAT, that’s a “tariff”. VATs are on all goods sold, including those produced domestically.

Hasn’t Canada had that for years?

Heaps of countries have it in some form or other, which is probably where most of these BS figures come from. If you’re going to count VAT as a tariff, then you also need to tally up all the sales taxes in the US and count those as well! taxsummaries.pwc.com/quick-charts...

Those treaties contain carefully negotiated tariff schedules according to the needs of each nation. Those treaties are also law passed by both houses of Congress. This is just as unconstitutional as impoundment.

He thinks VAT is a tariff and that we don't pay for tariffs I don't get it, either

By using tariffs instead of income taxes to fund the government the rich will pay less than their fair share whereas lower income groups will be hit hardest.

Isn't he counting VAT as tariff, for example?

Turns out, no. bsky.app/profile/hmmv...

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like we (NZ) don't have tariffs against the US. They think our goods and services tax is a tariff.

We (NZ) got rid of all tariffs in the ‘90’s. We pay GST on any purchase we make. It’s a tax on us not on any country exporting to us. Man, he’s thick.

big balls strikes again after the 150 years old social security whoopsie?

Exactly. These are "breaking international treaty tariffs." Or alternatively, "Trump Tariff Taxes"

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-goes... Krugman discusses this

That a pretty strong accusation to level against the President. Do you have any evidence that he’s ever said anything dishonest before?

🤣🤣🤣

Bro, April Fools was yesterday.

Poe's law rearing its ugly head, lol.

Trump lied 30,573 times in only 4 years

You may wish to investigate the concept of irony.

Correct, but how do you explain that to millions of his functional illiterate followers.

Its way dumber than that: bsky.app/profile/libo...

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WOW TRUMP LIES, spread the word

Even conservatives like Danielle DiMartino Booth are deeply worried at what they just did.

Was Booth a Trumpist?

Don’t think she ever expressed a direct support but like Jim Bianco they are more conservative. Definitely not populist though .

She a conservative MAGA is far right. They believed Trump's conspiracy theory about voter fraud.

Well the list of countries is made up.

You worked so hard to elect Trump by trashing Harris. Why are you angry? Are you actually angry? Or pleased that you are monetizing the chaos you supported?

Begging liberals to understand that critique from the left is not “working to elect a fascist” Jesus frucking christ

MSNBC did very little to counter MAGA prior to November 5th, 2024. Not only did they trash Harris, they also trashed one of the greatest Presidents, President Biden. I'm Canadian and I saw what you saw. I don't watch MSNBC anymore.

White House spoke person Levett tell us at 10 am in the mornings Trump is working with his Tariff Team She mean his Pillow

Completely and utterly made up.

Isn’t almost everything he says made up?

your thoughts Chris?

That was his thoughts right there. What are you expecting to happen?

Which ones?

The whole thing was put together in the final two hours, not fact checked or proofread, and with the head guy changing his mind every 10 minutes. Did you expect otherwise?

aka CRAZY

Can we please start reporting the PRESIDENT HAS NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO LEVY TARIFFS?

Trump doesn't care about anyone but himself

There's fine print.

Right, because the two uninhabited islands he's doing reciprocal tariffs on are involved in currency manipulation and imposing trade barriers with their population of 0.

Those damned penguins. They have always been so unfair to us!

Their uninhabited status is inhibiting their ability to trade with us. How are they supposed to buy US goods if there's nobody there!? The land must be punished for its hubris.

Do they have any resources we can exploit?

I'll dispatch a messenger and request they get back to us on that. They can toss the letter into one of the volcanoes.

Guana. Make America buy more bird shit.

Stupid lib. Birds aren't real 😂

lol. the earth is flat too.

Uninhabited by humans...

Can’t trust those seabirds 😡

Guana. we can go back 100 years and fill ships with bird shit for fertilizer. Make America 1900 Again.

youtu.be/avEtMcELaPU

That’s what I thought. Thanks for confirming.

If true don't Dems see how they are being setup here. Trump will declare victory against phantom tariffs that don't exist and be seen as achieving economic victory, while Dems will have no creative strategy to combat these lies and make people not believe Trump.

Because of all the horrible things he is doing as President his supporters know that Democrats were telling the truth about him. They all hate him for lying to them. Democrats knew this would happen. They have been extremely hateful to Democrats. youtu.be/lp-GBPFY-tk?...

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Hey Chris, this feels like the kind of thing the host of a cable news show could say into a camera

Is it too soon to ask, What about Russia?

He told Steve Bannon to come up with some numbers after an entire bottle of "Old Grand Dad"

Hope the McDonald Island penguins can negotiate a tariff deal.

He listed two uninhibited islands with active volcanoes as having a 10% tariffs on the US. He's crackers.

anger mounts

Great, the price of magma is going through the roof

Howard Nutlick had taken huge futures on Magma.

Kids are going to have to pay to play, the floor is lava!

Sorry! I meant the lava is going to pay!

I'm dying here...hahaha

🤣

😭😂

😂😂😂👍

Just when I was going to stock up on magma!

It's high time for a Lava Cake startup in Des Moines.

He literally is trying to tell his people how stupid he is.

Maybe he got jealous because they spew more hot air than he does?

He also put a 10% tariff on the island Jan Mayen of Norway🇳🇴. There are no one living there. 0 people. Not joking.

The Heard and McDonald islands in Antarctica hit by tarriffs. No humans but plenty of penguins live there.

He also tariffed the Indian ocean territory which is Diego Garcia; an American and UK military base. That's basically the only inhabitants.

Those penguins are really taking us to the cleaners I swear to god.

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We’re so fucked but at least we’ll stick it to those flightless bastards.

Just in case, I guess

seriously? 😂😂😂😂😂 he's truly batshit....

Well he’s the dipshit who bragged about the usmca deal.

So what’s next? Made up concessions, to make Trump look like a shrewd negotiator?

Nothing to see here folks. Emporers new clothes style negotiator!

That would be stupid. People will assume everything is expensive because of Trump’s tariffs. What’s the upside?

I am curious how "reciprocal tariffs" are pretty much just 1/2 of a number......

I’m totally shocked that you don’t take Trump at his word. All you have to do is look at his track record and…oh.

Democrats knew Republican Donald Trump was lying about voter fraud because he a pathological liar.

If you were intentionally trying to crash the US economy (while maintaining a veneer of believability for your base), would you do anything different?

All lies. All the time.

Come on, you really want to make me believe that penguins are not charging the U.S. 10% on tariffs from McDonald Island? For shame Chris.

He's not big on honoring agreements, whether it be trade, contractors, or marriage.

geez-- what did Sri Lanka do to make him mad? One of the highest rates

It's Putin's command, and the Rapist always follows those, on pain of death.

Sadly, I don't think the media will want to report that

Wish I could care about this but I'm distracted by genocide and abductions and deportations and facism.

If only someone had a daily TV Show to publicize it

Australia has a free trade agreement with the US and zero tariffs

As my dad always used to say, never let the truth get in the way of a good tariff.

There you go with that "reality-based" reality.

If only our media weren't a bunch of fucking lazy fascists

@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @nbcnews.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com do your job!

Trump thinks that if the US has a trade deficit with a country (by buying stuff from that country!) that means the other country is cheating the US and should pay the US a tariff to make up the difference. This is the central axis of his policy and it's too stupid to contemplate.

He always needs a bogeyman to blame.

Democrats know Republican Joe Biden only won the electoral college. Trump blames Joe Biden because he think he is a Democrat. Democrat Marianne Williamson won the popular vote. She resigned because of the gerrymandering in the red states Republican Joe Biden was going to win the electioral college

And why wasn't Russia on the list?

Trump is insane. 25th Now!

So talk about it on your goddamn windbag hour, Chris. You're a fucking reporter in name, aren't you? Why the fuck ain't you using your fucking platform to talk about this? Why beg others to do what you're too lazy and cowardly to do yourself?

That is his specialty.

Yes how did they come up with these amounts? Are they targeted tariffs on certain goods and now Trump is putting in blanket tariffs in response?

Having unshackled himself from statutes and the Constitution, he has turned to treaties.

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It appears to be a case of Trump Math.

No one’s surprised

Hi. Australia here. That’s us ✋

Many have not yet learned that the corrupt criminal Orangeman in the White House lies every other word and that’s being kind

The Tariffist — Brewed to Take the Edge Off the Price Increases

Krugman wrote a short post - open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

The whole currency manipulation thing is the crux of it, and it’s a lie too!

If he says it is, then it is. He is all knowing. 😵🤯

Completely made up figures.

Do you have a list of current tariffs on U.S.? Please post if handy.

And they’ll remind him of that and then he will claim victory that country X has made their tariffs zero.

Wishful thinking. They all live in the subjunctive.

Made up like "we were prosperous in the 1800s" and "Biden left us with a terrible economy".

Also, the law gives him power to regulate commerce to deal with “unusual and extraordinary threats to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.” What threats? Do courts have to take him at his unintelligible word?

YES.

Reminds me of how only the uninsured pay the prices on the charge master.

Fairly certain that there will be plenty of opportunities after the fact when nations collectively take this matter to the WTO & we get our butt's handed to us...

So a big TV reality show episode that actually doesn’t mean anything? So you’re saying if we have a trade deal with Vietnam for example and he says I’m putting a 40% tariff on Vietnam that’s BS because contractually we can’t?

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400% he said.

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Australia has no tariffs. The 10% stated is the normal internal GST (VAT) tax, which applies to all businesses. As imports have no prior Australia GST to write-off against the value, the 10% gets charged on the entire value of the import.

Also, don't be surprised if Australia doesn't respond until after May 5. They are currently in a federal election, and the government is in caretaker mode, so no new stuff happens.

Well yeah since the Heard and McDonald islands don't have a single person living on them other than migratory birds. Maybe he's going after the eggs

Got out of a ride share this morning where the driver tried to convince me how good tariffs are for our country. Driving a Lyft because she can’t find a job paying over $15 an hour. Did I miss something? 🤣🤣🤣

More malarkey from the cult of make-believe.

Yep. He' a fake president.

Pretty on brand if it's made up.

dang it, Chris; you are ruining the limit down chance

Don't forget Trump just re-negotiated many of these deals during his last term. These are his own treaties he is blowing up. Especially NAFTA or whatever he changed the name.

Did they do this with AI?

I asked my economist boyfriend why Trump thinks VAT is a tariff, and he texted, "The technical explanation is that it’s because he’s a fucking moron."

My description almost word for word

. dear @chrislhayes.bsky.social Here is the reason why, he will double his worth again. #resist

Also having trade imbalances are detrimental to economies and currency values. Tariffs used correctly provide trade balance. They are not meant to be applied equally, they are meant to provide balance that benefits the global economy.

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can someone ask the whitehouse if they used AI to come up with their economic data and list of countries to impose tariffs on

Oh? Lies?! Yup.

Liar with orange sunscreen

Tariffs are an attempt by Musk to destroy our economy.

OMG😳

CBC has been talking about trumps tariff nonsense for months.

By mid day tomorrow all major prognosticators going to be adjusting their growth predictions for this year. I suspect median will be -1 to -2% if not worse.

They were ahead of the game this time.. Atlanta Fed model estimates -3.7% growth for 2025 first quarter www.11alive.com/article/mone...

Well, it is really a feat to "reciprocate" a tariff on uninhabited islands and AMERICAN military bases. bsky.app/profile/stem...

He doesn't know what reciprocal means.

I’d also like to hear if the administration has heard from any single company that because of this they are making plans to move manufacturing to the US??

You are on this afternoon!

Here you go Chris. Are @forbes.com lying? I just don’t know. www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...

You know there are alternative word meanings to back up those alternative facts, right? I’m sure they make this crap up on the fly while plotting their next move to destroy society.

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Chris, our media no longer reports the TRUTH. It reports the CONSEQUENCES OF NOT REPORTING THE TRUTH.

Journalism is dead, isn't it?

reporters names? name? editor name? please NAME THEM

I hear crossings at the border are down to a trickle. the Orange King did it. Cheers!! He finally convinced those people from s**thole countries not to enter another s**thole country; formerly known as the home of the brave and home of the free.

They don’t work for us any more

I think everyone is trying to figure out what the fuck he's doing. I'm watching CBC from Canada right now, and it's unclear what's new, what's old, what's added what's removed.

Has anyone also brought up that the term "Liberation Day" until now was used to describe the Allies victory in WW2. When entire populations were actually liberated from tyranny! He used the term as a stunt. A con. A sham. He's disgusting. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory...

Would be nice wouldn’t it?

Is this another test to see if our news media still has a pulse? Or is now the fourth estate a zombie? CBS? NBC? WSJ? Bueller? You there

Exactly right. These are extortion demands from a Kremlin owned convicted felon thug.

Surely those penguins on the antarctic islands have been tariffing us for a while.

The Wall Street Journal, which some days sounds more like the New York Times. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Congress could just end this, yeah? #WhatTheActualHell?

Grow a pair news people

Sadly unless FOX comes clean the MAGA base will stay mushroomed - fed shit and in the dark.

Fox is a Russian propaganda channel. They won’t wake any #MAGA up.

Fox is in it for the ratings and the revenue. Why would they “come clean”.

What the hell did an Island full of penguins do to us that we had to reciprocate against them? But nothing for Russia?

I encourage folks to divest themselves of stock of US manuf. Equipment will fail and tariffs will apply to repair items. Facilities will start to decide equipment should idle until there is none left. Private cos will make investment -if they can - to stay open. Equity firms won't.

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Why don't you tell your bosses. bsky.app/profile/tawn...

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They are posting on Facebook that the EU already had 50% tariffs on US goods and the stupids are believing it.

Sorry Chris, the owners of those companies are in the club and don’t give 2 shits about this. It’s just another opportunity for those greedy ass billionaires fucks to buy up more of the public good while the rest of us continue to die off

Here is one: www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/e...

Can we talk about the fact Russia wasn’t mentioned today, too??

Stop begging and start kicking. They will not listen to reason or learn integrity until lying hurts them, though even then they'll try very hard to avoid growing brains or offending their corporate overdolts.

Instead of begging these idiots, just start giving them the Fezzik

they are calling them "discounted reciprocal tariffs." this is an entirely new, bogus economic practice.

Chris, the MSM is complicit as well. They are willing to bend the knee if it means they’re spared from his wrath. Kind of makes Biden’s age or the fact that Kamala was a black woman kind of moot now. They pushed for this, now time for them to find out now that they’ve fucked around.

When is the Senate going to vote on this? Are they talking 25th too?

Does Paul count now? substack.com/home/post/p-...

Please someone do something! (Just, you know, not me)

I think it is important to direct this squarely at the MAGA pundits. They are the main source of misinformation/disinformation and propaganda that is backing this economic attack on our nation.

Dropsite

They are out to tank the dollar! Then crypto can rise up. Is this ok with all of you?

Somebody must explain concept of reciprocity. Please. Wouldn’t a “reciprocal tariff” be a RESPONSE to one placed on your goods be another trading partner? Does be mean RECIPROCAL-reciprocal tariff?

And they are ON TOP OF existing tariffs.

HELLLLOOOOO is anybody out there?? @cnn.com @msnbc.com @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com It’s up to the alt media apparently. 😐 @lincolnproject.us @meidastouch.com @politicsgirl.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social MSM get with the damn program and do your job!!

We have on average a %1.99 percent tariff on #USA goods into #NZ no idea where this 20% tariff came from…….

Too many People Continue to Normalize #SEXOFFENDER #CONVICT #Trump. May 9, 2023: Jury - LIABLE FOR SEXUAL ABUSE. SEX OFFENDER! Registered Or Not! May 30, 2024: Jury - GUILTY OF 34 FELONIES. CONVICTED FELON! JANUARY 10, 2025: Judge Sentences on Felony Convictions. CONVICT! Incarcerated Or Not!

Proud to see one of my fav MS reporters being reposted by Chris Hayes!!!

And while you’re at it- 37% on Bangladesh- huh?

I watched you tonight and thank you for verifying my suspicions. It was hard to read the small print on trump’s chart but that column header was very sus

It does my nut in, to listen to that president, and no one corrects him. no one! How does he get away with talking so much 🐄💩?

Tell your colleagues, because on Morning Joe no one seemed to know how team Trump actually cooked up the numbers though most of us figured it out by dinner.

Will you please be doing this on your show tonight?

It’s deliberate. At this point, there’s no other explanation.

Right here

They are retribution tariffs imposed by a wanna be King He is a naked liar.

Check out @explaintrade.com these aren’t reciprocal they’re just bullshit

They should do it early instead of having to circle back later when they’re reporting on the catastrophic effects of the global trade war the world will wake up to tomorrow morning.

It Won’t Matter… Dear Leader Said it so it is FACT!

None to be found...

If only there were journalists capable of communicating the truth to enough Americans to stop the destruction of our country.

@kylec.bsky.social ?

It would be nice to see any reporter on any network do this.

Watching how most of our Dems speak on air: they don’t have enough fight in their deliveries. I’m peaceful but I’m absolutely outraged and expect my leaders to act this way too. Plump isn’t following any rules of law, so why are we??!! Break rules. Scream from rooftop. Wave flags in their faces!!!

Kudos to AP, which put "reciprocal" in scare quotes, and in at least one instance called them "self-described 'reciprocal' tariffs".

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Is Trump manipulating the market like he did in his first term?

Hard to be reciprocal when you’re the one instigating them…

nopes! - only you and ….will report later @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

Do you know anyone who works in the press?

We raccoons just can’t understand! Why beg when there are so many shiny things to explore? News is like treasure, and we can’t wait to dig in!

Fat chance. These are the same people who still think this is all the fault of trans people. This is what happens when the fourth estate becomes stenographers for power: they’ll print anything said by whoever is in office, regardless of their intelligence or sanity.

# 1- Russia has been exempted by Trump To no one's surprise .............................

Mirriam-Webster should put out an official statement.

ahem www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Not a news article but

How did Lutnick and Bessent suddenly take the stupid pill? Everything that's come out of their mouths since they entered this admin has been regurgitated pablum. You'd think they'd at least try to couch their destructive directives in fancy finance talk. But no. Absolute idiocy.

Thank you! The only reciprocal tarrifs are those placed on us from other countries. Because.......he started them! Sheesh.

Chris. He divided the trade deficit with a country by their us exports to get his “tariff rate” that is INSANE

That IS insane, but not surprising. If the truth about how the Trump Admin derived tariff rates goes mainstream, Trump will likely double down & claim it’s brilliant. Trump’s supporters will likely believe & support him cuz they’re either too stupid to understand or too selfish & corrupt to care.

You know they say that all tariffs are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Vietnam and you can see that statement is not true. So you take the us trade deficit with Vietnam which which is 123.5 billion, you divide that by their exports which is 136.6 billion you get a 90% tariff

isn't this something you can do?

The republicans are sitting with there THUMBS up there asses they are hurting the world not just the USA and they sit there and do nothing MAKE America GROAN AGAIN

Can anyone tell me When Egg prices dropped 59% Does anyone see this???????

$5 a dozen here. And now he’s talking tariffs on pharmaceuticals. That will be fun.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Did he write it in sharpie?

Holy crap in a pita, these tariffs are apocalyptic in cascade effect. The Atlanta Fed was already predicting a 2-4% drop in the economy BEFORE these moronic tariffs. We are going to be in a literal economic depression within a few months.

Just call it what it is...theft... bsky.app/profile/donj...

But nobody really knows how #fElon47 defines reciprocal. He is the King now and we all have to bow to how he defines things. 🤪 ... 🙃

Reporters please! bsky.app/profile/pipe...

This made me gasp. I have no clue how math works, neither does this damn administration! My DH and son explained this to me and they both thought it was bonkers!

Aren't you a reporter.

It's hard to think the US would've stood for wrongly tariffs from other countries! We're NOT that stupid!

Uhm

I liked the report on how Trump is raising tariffs against islands that are only populated by penguins & elephant seals.

A reciprocal tariff on Australia would be 0% not 10%. We have a free trade agreement.🤦🏻‍♀️

Canada and Mexico had FTAs with the US

That were negotiated during dipshits last administration.

But somehow it’s Biden’s fault.

Well of course!

They are 🦜

This has been pissing me off for the past 2 days that's all I've been hearing, "Trumps reciprocal tariffs..." BULLSHIT!! They're still normalizing/excusing and inaccurately framing his lies. This is why we're here!!!

Has anyone seen any article that really explains why these are really necessary? Why any of this is necessary, disappearing immigrants off the streets, bullying universities, giving federal employees 15 minutes to clear out their desk, destroying our all alliances?

The first you will see is when it’s anointed PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” in December

And while your at it prove or disprove trumps assertion that tariffs are going to pay down the debt. I don't see it.

You're looking in the wrong place. Project 2025 has the answer and it has nothing to do with economic policy.

Suppose we point out the president does not have the power to impose tariffs? That belongs to congress. Declaring an emergency just to exercise emergency powers is illegal.

And yet the repubs in Congress will do Nothing to stop him

Complicit - they should be removed as well.

I just ran across this

@maddow.msnbc.com

This is insane We definitely need the media to pay attention here

This is making me so mad! The AP and Reuters both used that term.

No they’re all playing along. Just following orders.

NYT opinion Jason Furman 4/1/2025 print version did.

Imagine the dumbest person I the world. Now make them 2x as dumb. You won’t believe how bad this is:

Jesus fucking christ.

Right ? Can’t say it’s amateur hour because an amateur would do it better. This is a combination of malice and idiocy we’ve never seen in our lifetimes.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social look! Charts for tonight

He's not very good at any of this - he really should just stick to golf and leave someone with a brain to take over his office - but not Musk.

You are asking too much of the press. Them seem to have lost there capacity to explain things truthfully and accurately.

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I actually laughed out loud when I saw them referred to as such. It's not "reciprocal" when he's the one who initiated this nonsense, it's hin doubling down.

Also, you'll notice what country didn't get tariffs: RUSSIA

That’s because a Russian asset…fully believe that he’s been just that since 1987…funny how he couldn’t get loans before the 1987 trip to Moscow and then Wow…he had no trouble getting them with Deutsche Bank afterwards. Wonder why that was…maybe he had some Russian co-signers…hmmm!

Agreed.

😳🙄🤔🤬

This admin always takes words hostage and spins them to mean whatever they want them to mean. Ugghhh

Doesn’t the government have to publish the tariff rates and what they are applicable too in the Federal Register?

Forbes just printed the administration’s numbers without attempting to authenticate them. www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...

man i can't quite find "Russia" in there anywhere... hmmm....

Doesn’t matter. All maga hears is “liberation day”.

Not only does he want countries on their knees begging for a deal willing to give him what he wants he wants major corporations in the United States to be at his knees begging him to do things to make this pain stop and he wants the general public to just keep taking it in the fucking ass!

Didn’t Forbes drink the koolaid a long time ago?

It's insane. Some of these are laughable. Switzerland?? 61%?!

“according to information provided by the administration—though the percentages could not be independently verified”

Meaning it might take them 20 minutes to verify and they’d rather have the clicks.

Like when they posted whatever he told them his net worth was

REPUBLICANS HAVE NO TRUTH. THEY ARE AS WORTHLESS AS THEIR 🍊 MESSIAHS WORTHLESS LYING WORDS. THE WHOLE WORLD HATES THEM.

@molboha.bsky.social Isn't it your job to "independently verify"???

The "Tariffs charged to the USA column" is literally just the trade deficit. Vietnam? 136.6bn out of 149.6bn ~90% Cambodia? 12.7bn out of 13bn ~97%

Filed under: “A huge part of how and why we got into this fucking mess in the first place."

Wtf Forbes! Do better! Not “reciprocal!”

Reciprocal? Really? So even Forbes just parrots WH propaganda?

He also has absolutely no clue about history. Why countries like Japan and Germany are so much more electronic businesses and auto dealers and not building weapons. Because of a little thing called WWII, according to the treaties, they were no longer allowed to. So they chose another path.

Fucking Canadians, how dare they protect their own dairy industry by charging a huge tariff on American dairy. How dare they. You country of 40 million people, about the size of California, won't buy as much of anything, as America buys from them. You are just so mean. Orange Julius says so. Lol

Earlier I was trying to substantiate UK tariffs and I have to say, I think it would take an expert to understand it. I'm highly skeptical of those numbers, and they aren't uniform across products and industries.

Exactly. There’s major variation across types of goods. For example, it might be a 66% duty on one thing and 0-5% across all other things. Did they just go with the highest number they could find for each country?

He learned a new word. He's a big boy now.

If you read about the history of tariffs you will find there always seems to be a counter measure shortly after to end these taxes. It’s very rare that tariffs accomplish their intended goals. And sometimes that measure is a revolution. Hello Boston Tea Party. Let’s have a cup.

RIGHT???

Their all stenographers. Actual reporting would require work that they are too lazy to perform

And maybe explain that they are "Import Taxes"- something everyone can understand.

Please message editors of major newspapers directly!

Trump’s ‘Reciprocal’ Tariff Formula Is All About Trade Deficits www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When you start the tariff war it would seem that claiming reciprocal is laughable. But what do we expect from this admin?

“Reciprocal,” quotha? Aye, a fine word twisted by dullards till it meaneth “a bag with different things in it.”

Yes attend those rallies and town halls and call your representatives repeatedly and make your voice hurt stand up speak up speak out. Don’t wait for somebody else to do it. If you don’t do something we’ll be in the same spot as Germany from the 1920s.

You will have to look to newspapers from everywhere else but the US!

Fox news? Has the ears of too many people. Especially in the south we see them on the screens of most airports we pass through. Fox, no concern that our country will be governed by an incompetent dictator. They all take in sizeable incomes. Maybe a guest can ask what is their minimum $ to live on?

Aren't you a reporter?

Most of them are merely courtiers now.

T axes A re R eally I ncreasing F or F armers, S tupid.

The press will not report it cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/04/we-a...

That fact that so little of Cory Booker speech was shown on network tv says more about the present state of the media than anything I can think of. The Nation is burning and they're presenting game shows. Rome anyone?

Cory who?

That;s OK hon. I have a few beach buddies who don't know either.

I know who Corey Booker is. I think he’s irrelevant. Especially since the Trump admin says loud and clear that no one receiving SSA benefits, Medicare or Medicaid will lose a penny of their benefits, yet he’s up there like a rabid lunatic saying Republicans are going to rob Americans of Medicaid.

Of course you do. Loud and clear? And they NEVER lie. How are egg prices where you are. Bet no one you care about needs those benefits. Pretty funny any DT fan calling any ANYONE else's speech lunatic but different strokes. We are all just cannon fodder and compost to DT no matter how we voted.

I heard that egg prices have gone down. So you can’t afford eggs? You poor thing. How is it that Biden caused record high inflation and drove up egg prices and that’s fine for you, but it’s Trump’s fault for not lowering them since the moment he became President? Lol.

Hon I spent a couple of years on an actual farm, I know exactly why egg prices are high and it has nothing to do with Biden. I guess irony isn't your thing. Any way true DT believers are to sad . Cannon fodder and compost and you welcome it.

Get up to speed. Egg prices just plunged, part of the reason is the bird flu subsided. How do you “know egg prices are high” when they are now currently coming down? Either way I spend $8 - $9 for a dozen free range organic chicken eggs by choice. Did the farm you were on raise free range chickens?

Was the farm you were on bigger or smaller than this one? One of my goals is to buy a small piece of rural farmland and raise free-range chickens. Any tips on buying a small piece - 5 acres or less, I’ll settle for 1/4 of an acre - of rural farmland? Or just rural land? www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2KjxAxk/

a city farm-educational. Crops corn and hay. Cows, goats geese,horses, dogs, rabbits. In a huge city park. White leghorn for eggs and Rhode Island Reds for meat-raised cage free. Don't know land prices. But you don't need rich soil for chickens. Range free is great-and kind go for it. Ag college?

I mean SS Retirement checks. The elderly and senior citizens who paid into the system. The Trump administration repeatedly says they won’t lose a penny. But the 150-year-olds are getting SS retirement checks will be found out. That’s called “cutting the fat”.

Fox News analyst are always reporting that Trump and his cabinet members have said time and time again that no one receiving SSA benefits, Medicare or Medicaid will lose a penny. There are millions people over 120 and up to 150 years old receiving benefits. People are scamming the system.

But you’ll never hear any of this on MSNBC, CNN or the Legacy media because they don’t want to report the truth. If you’re copacetic w/ 150 year olds getting monthly Social Security retirement checks say so. That’s American taxpayer dollars being ripped off by scammers. You might like that; I don’t.

Before 1913, federal government revenues came mainly from taxes on goods—tariffs on imported products and excise taxes on items like whiskey. The burden of these taxes fell heavily on working Americans, who spent a much higher percentage of their income on goods than rich people did.

Well that depends on if you want the dictionary definition of reciprocal; like alternate facts, there are alternate word meanings. This is part of the magic wand thingy - I classify this, rename The Gulf that. Jesus, get with the program Chris.

News Media needs to focus, There are many things made that can sit in warehouse. Agricultural products not so much. Corn & Soy is wasted. Causing Bankruptcies and starvations.

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European here. Trump's Tariff chart is all lies e.g. the EU charge the US 1% tariffs, not 39%. So there's nothing reciprocal, or 'nice' about the TrumpUS tariffs. Straight up GREED and GRIFT.

Don't be silly. Reporters are now fully aware that if they post anything even remotely negative re Trump behaviors, he will target them, have them fired and (if he gets his way) deport them to a slaughter camp prison. Just imagine if media hadn't coddled Trump in the last election...

They just add word 'reciprocal' just to show how 'smart' Trump is using 'beautiful' words.

… this is it!

Please reporters and editors. I'm begging you! Has anyone seen Western media discussing the murder of journalists by Israel ?

Maybe even remind folks that the President doesn't have these powers. Congress will need to vote on these tariffs. Perhaps ask every Republican how they wish to vote, knowing what it will do to their constituents.

I believe these Trump imposed tariffs are called, Extortariffs.

Helllllllooooo …

I wonder how high the tariffs on Russia will be.

Not from corporate media aka stenographers bothsiders and false equivalency kings, also most of them pedantic as hell and take too long to get to the point buried 4 paragraphs in.

Do you not work for a news network? Feels like it's worth reporting.

He'll be preaching to the choir. ALL news networks/organizations need to do their damn job!

It's intentional. They're straddling the fence. They're not helping Americans, though.

Patience!

Reporters? The ones who cancelled the WHCA dinner?

Quick, where r the memes of him reading from that cartoonishly giant placard in his tiny hands? wtf🤣😑

He’s also illegally levying tariffs based on a statue that doesn’t expressly permit him to do so, and has never been used to that end, all premised on a completely phony state of emergency, so what’s one more lie?

Why is Congress (Republican controlled) not stopping him? Are they that afraid of this stupid old man???

Hi Chris. Australia here. You guys are fucked! BTW, the Orange Turd hit us with 10% “reciprocal tariffs”. Just one problem….we have a free trade agreement with the US, so we don’t have any. Go figure🤷‍♂️

He doesn't know anything about anything, but he's sure he's a genius.

And someone please follow through on BBC journalist Greg Palast's reporting 3 million missing Harris/Waltz votes...and 4.6 million voters previously purged from the rolls.

I think they are still digesting everything

The Guardian did. So did Krugman.

we've reached the "Fuggittabuttit Jake it's Chinatown" moment in your program

Aren’t you a reporter in name, at least?

Also please use active verbs. Also don't say this administration CAN'T do something when you mean it's illegal to.

In a plutocracy, all for-profit media becomes indistinguishable from state propaganda.

Maybe check "The Economist"?

The problem, Chris, is that cable news is not hiring the best and the brightest. Those, they have been firing.

It wouldn't be hard to disprove most of what the dangerous moronic FOTUS says and does. But here we are.

Reciprocal is the word he is using. Everyone who uses his word needs to sit down. Dumbasses. Reciprocal is what WE are doing for the trade war America started. That ugly POS President of yours is pretending to be mad that we are answering with our own tariffs.

You know some reporters and editors, don’t you?

@kairyssdal.bsky.social would you happen to know?

I haven't seen anything even remotely suggesting that a president has the power to regulate foreign trade and impose taxes and tariffs all by himself. Obviously, he must be able to, or someone would have brought up this? www.law.cornell.edu/wex/commerce...

He has memory and listening issues. lol.

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