Trump tells the rubes our import tariffs are paid by the exporting countries, and they are ignorant enough to bleev him!
Trump is an importer of his clothing line, and his daughter is an importer of her own.
So Trump knows damn well who is paying his tariffs.
We are.
Trump is deliberately, and willfully lying to his cult, and they are too stupid to realize it.
We import $3.2 trillion every year.
Think about how much more that is costing
US with higher import tariffs.
Trump had to pay $22 billion of taxpayer money for rescue subsidies to farmers during his last trade war because of the damage it caused to them.
Trump long ago figured out this was a perfect opportunity for grift. In exchange for exempting certain oligarchs, he accepted money and/or favors.
That is what this is about.
His bullshit about drugs and illegals is because he knows the rubes believe anything he tells them.
Tim Cook was famously a Democrat supporter. Gosh, I wonder what made him defect to Trump?
U.S. trade officials removed tariffs on the Apple Watch, the latest Apple device to avoid the United States-China trade war that had once looked like a dire threat to the company’s business.
The U.S. trade representative’s office said in a letter on Friday that it had granted Apple’s request that the Apple Watch, which is assembled in China, be exempt from tariffs.
Trump went on to exempt all of Apple's products which come from China.
This is rank corporatism, Mussolini-style. Choosing the winners and losers in the "free" market in exchange for cash in Trump's pocket.
Let's see what happens to tariffs on Teslas now that DOGE boi has Trump in his pocket.