Tariffs are just an issue manufactured by Trump for political spin. It’s the 2025 version of his failed “Build the wall.” Our economy was doing great under Biden—strongest in the world.
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Trumpf’s statement is typical bs designed to convince the great unwashed un-reading society. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows his use of tariffs is just another tool of a small minded bully!
jul 31, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Someone should tell his ‘great lawyers’ that they will be paying the tariffs just like everyone else.
jul 31, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
In case you missed it, this is the hearing held today. @sababausa.bsky.social did an outstanding job. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/saba...
jul 31, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
His project is the complete dismantling of our country and so far he is doing a bang up job of it
jul 31, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Americans economy under Biden was the envy of the world. Our recovery from the GOP Covid Pandemic was truly the envy of the world as the World Bank stated.
aug 7, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is using tariffs so he can extort both companies and countries for personal gain. It’s pretty easy to see.
jul 31, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmmm. Not sure I agree. I think it's more than a political talking point. Tarriffs seems a rather favorable way to knowingly channel private funds to the wealthy, and point at other countries as the problem.
jul 31, 2025, 4:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Q2 economic data will be available shortly which will give more clarity on the impacts of Trumps tariff folly. By fall, Americans will start a chorus of WTF!!!
jul 31, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Swiss cheese 🧀 brain trump sr. The Syphilitic
jul 31, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Taco and his clowns don’t dare tell the truth about tariffs, ie that they are a backdoor tax on Americans, simply because they are cowards. He lied when he promised that other countries would pay the tariffs, just like he lied about who would pay for the wall.
aug 1, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
Trump is a buffoon. America voted for him. Twice! What does that say about us?
jul 31, 2025, 4:06 pm • 18 2 • view
The majority of Americans didn't vote for him. The electoral college installed him.
aug 1, 2025, 1:34 am • 2 0 • view
Trump has 3 tools to extort agreements from foreign nations, imo; Military, Immigration, Trade. He wont go to war, he's blocking visas, but the biggest hammer is trade. Ask this, any nation signed Trump's boasted trade agreement? Or, are they & US corps waiting for US courts to rule tariffs illegal?
jul 31, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Hey, look and obvious distraction
jul 31, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
When will someone explain to tromp what tariffs are?
jul 31, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah? I’ll be darned.
jul 31, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 1, 2025, 11:06 am • 5 0 • view
Trump tariffs are about two things: Trump personally profitting of of them (whether by insider trading or accepting bribes). And sabotage - of the US and our relationship with our allies.
jul 31, 2025, 4:15 pm • 9 0 • view
It’s all about extorting companies and countries for personal gain. He doesn’t do anything unless it benefits him.
jul 31, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
It gives him a toy to play with plus he gets to inflate his ego because he's 'wheeling and dealing.'
jul 31, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s heartbreaking that over half of this country is living in an alternate universe.
jul 31, 2025, 4:57 pm • 3 1 • view
I pretend it’s only a quarter. Then it’s not so crushing.
jul 31, 2025, 5:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes! Thank you for your attention to this matter 🙄
jul 31, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Also: "my" lawyers
jul 31, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 31, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes! Our economy was doing well under President Biden.
jul 31, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
What "King" says, "Thank you for your attention..."? Who's he "thanking"? And for what? It's a lower management thing to say. From the lowest manager ever.
jul 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Well it's weakening now.....
jul 31, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 31, 2025, 5:06 pm • 5 1 • view
Never forget that American consumers are paying Trump's tariffs despite what he and his sycophants say.
jul 31, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The last idiots who proposed tariffs were Smoot, Hawley and Herbert Hoover. They contributed to the Great Depression and ended their political careers.
jul 31, 2025, 10:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump pretty much made the argument for the plaintiffs when he threatened Brazil with tariffs if they didn't drop their prosecution of Bolsonaro for attempting a coup. That's an attempt at extortion, not a national emergency.
jul 31, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 31, 2025, 4:04 pm • 6 2 • view
3 yr old
jul 31, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The trump fluffing press just made it seem like the economy was bad under Biden, cuz jernilizzmn
jul 31, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Journalists are taught to be fearful and to follow that fear in the words they write. If it was any different we would have 100x the current press corps in Gaza, where a pound and a half of courage is mandatory, and they would be telling the truth instead of parroting the corporate line.
jul 31, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
With the encouragement of his Russian friends and mentors, who use him as a tool for undermining the Western alliance and economic system.
jul 31, 2025, 4:06 pm • 5 2 • view
He's repeating the same bullshit over and over and over, since he first ran, years ago. Until he was elected the first time there were no problems. And the big dive in the economy was the pandemic, which started under his watch. Biden did a good job of recovery, and now 47 is wiping it all out.
jul 31, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup. The comedown from how many job openings - like 2 or 3 jobs for everyone unemployed - Biden's stimulus measures created will take a decent chunk of time But Trump seems to be doing a great job of fucking it up fast.
jul 31, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
This taxpayer deeply resents paying the salaries of these clowns.
jul 31, 2025, 4:22 pm • 4 1 • view
Same old same old bluster bullshit bluster
jul 31, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Tariffs as the invisible border walls , protecting us from those foreigners, those terrible Others.
jul 31, 2025, 4:06 pm • 5 1 • view
It is just a way to call a national sales tax by another name. A way to shift the cost of government from the wealthy to the poor.
jul 31, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump sets a fire then claims credit when the fire department shows up and puts it out. Then the media extol Trump’s success.
jul 31, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Spot on!!! He inherited a strong economy form Obama in term 1 and a stronger economy from Biden in term 2. Massive speed bump with Covid but I’m amazed with the resilience of the economy.
jul 31, 2025, 4:05 pm • 7 1 • view
But how long will this resilient economy" last?
jul 31, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
www.dailykos.com/story/2025/8...
aug 3, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
I must have missed it, but I don't understand what Tp is bargaining for with the tariffs. What is he expecting to get with these threats, because they are threats. With the universities he wins compliance, even if nothing really changes. Is it all just a big pissing contest?
jul 31, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like a memo to employees-
jul 31, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Will the grim reaper please come and take him away?
jul 31, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a good way to make side deals for the trump family.
jul 31, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
We literally had free trade agreements with a huge chunk of the world. American goods weren’t being tariffed. What did we need to defend against? This guy is a full of shit con man.
jul 31, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
too bad we no longer have a congress
aug 1, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The lethality of 1%-2% effective tariff rates from other countries and running a massive services surplus was definitely an existential threat.
jul 31, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
He's such a grifting idiot 🙄
jul 31, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Tariff=“PUNISHMENT TAX” Let’s please call it what it is and maybe people can get it through their heads
jul 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Just finished listening to the hearing and they don't seem to be buying the govts argument. My concern as an importer is that they lose, appeal to SCOTUS and the case is taken for next term and we don't see anything until next summer for a ruling and this continues unabated until we are destroyed
jul 31, 2025, 4:05 pm • 10 2 • view
And SCOTUS will side with Tramp in the end.
jul 31, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
My attention to this matter is that the convicted felon needs to go back to school for a course in economics 101 with a concentration on tariffs. He’s either really stupid on this or he just wants to ruin the global economy.
aug 4, 2025, 9:26 am • 0 0 • view
You are so right about our economy under Biden. Just don’t understand why the uneducated maga were listening to the lying news on the channel they so love.
jul 31, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
When is the felon going to negotiate with the penguins or the polar bears? Or are these two places part of his TACO policy? Inquiring minds want to know! lol 😂
jul 31, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
PEDOMAN!
jul 31, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 31, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
This guy is running our country like a mob boss by levying tariffs on our trading partners to profit (yet the tax is passed down to consumers). He’s watched The Godfather one too many times. 😂
aug 1, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Deeper look at GDP would show that not every country would have the same trade because of income and financial. But Donny John mobboss knows how to reap and rape a con! Not well but surrounds himself with bottom dwellers like shrimp in the sea or catfish.
jul 31, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Using tariffs against tariffs, is like threatening to shoot yourself if your opponents shoot themselves! If he wanted to punish some other country for some perceived slight or illegal practice, what he would do is attach an export tax to what they want from us! But he punishes USA Citizens, instead!
jul 31, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 1 • view
Maga is nothing more than a dimestore front for a terrorist organization. Septic tank bottom feeders.
jul 31, 2025, 4:31 pm • 3 1 • view
Tariffs are also useful for Trump to wield as punishments and rewards for compliance with his mania.
jul 31, 2025, 4:26 pm • 10 1 • view
And, regardless of Trump’s motivation, the net effect of the tariffs is that the rest of the world is banding together to isolate the United States economically so you can’t hurt us any more. Canada is doing this in spades. Trump rationale may be ridiculous, but the effect is extremely serious.
jul 31, 2025, 4:33 pm • 8 0 • view
He’s so full of sh!t. Proceeding to burn our house down, but he wants us to praise & exalt him when only part of the house is burnt.
jul 31, 2025, 4:05 pm • 8 0 • view
In terms of public support, tariffs are under water with a -20 approval rating. Doesn't seem like a great issue to exploit for political spin.
jul 31, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
But with greater deleterious affects to far more (like 99%) people
jul 31, 2025, 4:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Deleterious: harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way. (I learned a new word today, yay!)
jul 31, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
🤪😳😜
jul 31, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The country’s first idiot does not even know how to speak or write the language.
jul 31, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Dumbest fucker ever. Rascist/fascist 'merikkka elected him. I wanted to scream in my maga mother's face last night when I heard her bitch about her grocery bill. They probably wonder why I dont talk when I am present.
jul 31, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s so tiresome.
jul 31, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
THAT T Y 4 YOUR ATTENTION IS NOT THE ORANGE GOON
jul 31, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
We need to elect leaders that are intelligent not some faux narrative he’s spent a lifetime creating
jul 31, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Factual. Thanks, Joyce.
jul 31, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
YES INDEED!!!
jul 31, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view