Trump says a 25% tariff 'must be paid by Apple' on iPhones not made in the U.S.
Trump says a 25% tariff 'must be paid by Apple' on iPhones not made in the U.S.
Trump is just so fucking dumb. He can’t grasp basic fucking concepts like tariffs.
He’s the shiny puppet that distracts you from the criminal fascist republican party which exists to increase their own power and wealth by undermining democracy.
Tariffs would be gone tomorrow if republicans in congress wished it. Trump would be impeached and removed from office within a few weeks if the republicans in congress wished it.
Are they performing their duty to control tariffs? Are they performing their separation of powers duties to stop a criminal who keeps violating the constitution?
No, they are not. Instead they are praising him and passing budget plans and laws that transfer even more wealth to billionaires and further weaken separation of powers.
The republican party is a criminal organization.
He understands that tariffs fill the Treasury which he and his friends are emptying to full their pockets.
I don't think he cares about filling the Treasury, unless you mean his personal bank account.
He sees tariffs as something other countries don't like. So if he uses the tool, he makes other countries come to him to make deals. These deals give him a chance to be bribed. That's all there is to it. And he's been successful since his family fortune has been increasing by $1,000,000,000/month since he took office. And crypto is the perfect method to enable this corruption.
If you read the previous comment beyond the first 7 words you will see they mentioned using it to enrich himself
True... true...
He’s not stupid, he’s corrupt. He wants bribes to remove tariffs, and it’s working.
He doesn’t care that this hurts real people.
I laugh so hard every time he talks about other countries releasing their insane into our country! No, Donny. Those are called asylum seekers. Very important distinction.
"Paid by apple".
So...does he think that because Apple is "Paying", that price won't get passed down to the consumer?
Is he so fucking dense that he thinks that Apple will eat a quarter of the cost of their flagship product line...one that already has razor-thin margins to begin with? Is he that entitled?
Trump is a buffoon, but I don't think more than 2x the cost counts as "razor-thin margins"
The production costs don't account for the ungodly amounts of money they sink into marketing to brainwash their consumer base into thinking that their phones and other products are worth paying so much for.
Marketing used like that is an insane waste of wealth and productivity IMO.
Apple is the third richest company on the planet. Sometimes first, sometimes second. They didn't get there by shining shoes.
