Trump Says Voters Signed up for His Tariffs When They Backed Him
Trump dismisses backlash to tariffs, saying this is what people voted for
"Well, they did sign up for it, actually. And this is what I campaigned on," Trump said of the tariffs during an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday.
And you can't really argue with that.
He also said tariffs were a tax that other countries paid...so there may have been some confusion over what exactly they were agreeing to.
It doesn’t matter who pays the tariff. Anyone with half a brain knows that the cost will be passed down to the consumer either way.
Anyone with half a brain
Oops, I think we found the problem.
Anyone with half a brain
Trump voters
Pick one.
If you're not informed and take Trump at his word, I can see how you might end up thinking the tariffs were a country-to-country transaction, like literally China paying the USA.
In that case you wouldn't necessarily arrive at the conclusion that the cost has to be passed on, along the value chain.
But on the other hand I don't have a good track record of estimating what uninformed people who don't care to seek information think...
He said the economy would go up on day one, prices would go down and America would be in a golden age.
He said the economy was doing great in 2024 because people were predicting He would win the election, and then when the economy went down in 2025 he put all the blame on Biden.
I said this in 2016: he doesnt mean anything he says, he just says whatever he thinks in that moment will get him what he wants. He lies so frequently that you might as well just disregard everything he says because it doesnt have any basis in reality.
Idk why so many idiots keep harping on this when it doesn't matter who actually gives the money to the government, it all ends up being borne by the end consumer. If china "paid" the tariffs to the government it would be exactly the same as if the importer did in terms of overall effect.
Well, he's right on that at least.
Tbf, some of the things he said or what’s on Project 2025 is there… people just voted for him cause he said, “I’ll make your price of eggs go lower.”
I heard some variant of, "He lies all the time, so I don't think he's serious about tariffs/Project 2025."
Which is interesting to square with the thought of, "He tells it like it is, so I trust him."
But I don't live with chronic cognitive dissonance, which I assume these people accept as just another uncomfortable feeling humans have to live with. Like aches that persist with age, or feeling exhaustion at the thought of getting out of bed and going to work. That flicker of doubt from seeing that your beliefs contradict each other is just another sensation that needs to be suppressed and ignored.
Do we really think people voted Trump based on eggs? I think we need to read between the lines here.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us
Lower than the cost in September, that’s why they’re cheering him on for that
Now when we tell people they voted for this we can point them to their best buddy saying it too.
Exactly, this is not the policies of just one (although completely mental) guy. This is republican politics.
And the Democrats that allow them to go on and never reverse them.
And not a one, including himself, understood what tariffs were.
Someone smarter than me once said:
The dildo of consequence rarely arrives lubed.......
I agree with him on this one. Leopards meet face.
Hold up. Wait. So tRUMP isn't lying for once?
His lips moved therefore a childlike fabrication should be heard, right!!??!! I think I need to have a good long sit down and think about what he's done!
he also dint do the accordian hands when hes lying.
Yes. Unfortunately we all have to suffer because a quarter of the US population is as ignorant as a box of rocks.
That being said, he also has the option of not destroying the US economy. Nobody is forcing him to recklessly abolish society.
More than a quarter. Include everyone who didn't vote...
A box of rocks would at least have the sense not to vote for a fascist criminal.
Oh my God, the leopards can speak!!!
voters threw away their future so they could "help" the poor people in Gaza from getting bombed by "the evil democrats". I SWORE UP AND DOWN voluntarily making things worse for us because it might help some poor people on the other side of the world was the wrong move and I was vilified for this opinion by everyone in existence.
Now Gaza is still getting bombed and they are additionally committing war crimes against American people instead of just Gazans. Fuck me. Even feral animals have the ability to watch out for themselves better than this season's swing voters did.
I'm convinced those people spamming that shit were bots / Russians / shills. Because as soon as the Democrats lost, they were gone.
The problem is that the damage was done. For all of the intellectual superiority we like to profess, plenty on the left are dumb as bricks and easily swayed by propaganda and bullshit.
Gotta read the fine print. And by fine print I mean Ariel Black 72pt.
As if they can read.
46% of Americans still support all of this. We’re a doomed nation full of Nazis. I feel like it’s going to get genocide/Great Depression bad.
They did vote for him. Too bad most of his voters will hurt the most
Congrats, you voted to become poorer.
This is why I think Trump stickers next to prices should say, "You did this." He not only won't except blame for anything but he'll gladly shift blame to the people he's hurting the most.
Maybe this will wake up these MAGA morons to pay attention to policy and not culture war manipulation when they vote? Doubt it, but here’s to hope.
Ask any trump voter why they voted for trump. They will say "because I like his policies more". Ask them which policy do they think will benefit them, they will have no answer.
The policy they like but can’t say out loud is white supremacy
If he could run for a third term he would campaign on "I hate Black people, don't you?"
It is baffling how behind him they are for as little they can coherently articulate why.
I doubt they are able to connect surging prices with the Trump tariffs. According to Trump, it’s Biden’s fault, and that’s all they need to hear.
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
From https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/
Only place he should be backed is to a stone wall with a blindfold and 9 deputies lined up drawing a bead on him
Well I didn't back you, clown. Tariffs should then apply only to MAGAt morons and lazy ass ButBothSides types
You signed up for all of it and everyone that was opposite of you told you it’s fucking predictable it was going to happen. Even yelled out project 2025, it was right there in your face. But you don’t read a damn thing, of course you weren’t going to read that book like you don’t read the Bible. Stop. Falling. For. Obvious. Bullshit.
Eventually he farts out a truth... You got what you voted for. It's just the many morons that voted didn't understand tariffs, basic human decency, or that fascism=bad.
Given the way voters and non voters work, it’s pretty clear that there was a huge number how voted or de facto voted for him.
Gottem.
Other than him bragging about rigging the election, anyways.