Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Trump's 'Liberation Day' Sows Confusion

President Donald Trump and his administration have been promoting April 2 as a kind of tariffs Super Bowl, during which all of his many promised import taxes will go into effect.

Posted by redial at 12:31 PM | 31 COMMENTS | permalink

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Monkey with a machinegun.

#1 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-31 02:34 PM

The man-child who cried tariffs.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-03-31 02:55 PM

"Trump once again appears to be offering a lot of hype and little action"

Trump is frightened and so he dithers.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 03:00 PM

Nothing boosts economic confidence like a madman who changes his mind on tariffs every day!

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-31 03:22 PM

Liberating America from democracy is hard werk!

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-31 04:21 PM

It's beyond annoying when The Hard Charger in Chief starts wetting his pants over the things he's bragged about.

Just make up your mind, Donald. We already know that you're going to screw things up.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 04:34 PM

Like I wrote in a different thread about Trumpf's elocution on answering questions: "Humble-mumble-chumble." This time it's about the tariffs.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-31 04:39 PM

#7

I think one day he's going to go full Lizard Man transformation at some News Presser.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-31 05:58 PM

He's a ------- idiot.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-31 09:18 PM

The pattern is predictable....

1. Announce tariffs.

2. Markets tumble.

3. His cronies buy in.

4. Retreat on tariffs.

5. Markets rebound.

6. The cronies sell off.

7. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Most
Corrupt
Preznit
Ever.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-01 08:56 AM

Now, with the over-the-top pomp scheduled for "Liberation Day, it is beginning to also look like an attempt to deflect attention away from SignalGate.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 12:34 PM

No point in making it a federal holiday. Most federal employees have been on a paid vacation (sponsored by the American taxpayer) since Trumpy took office.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-02 01:38 PM

Trump's policy regarding tariffs is similar to his policy was about shutting down for COVID. It was a lot of flip-flopping between shutdown or no shutdown, and we shutdown just long enough to screw over the economy, small business, people's jobs, and supply chains, but not long enough to have any effect death or spread of the disease.

Similarly, Trump craters the stock market by threatening tariffs only to backtrack long before any benefits from the tariffs take hold (which would take decades).

It's all a bunch of pain for absolutely no gain.

#13 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-04-02 01:42 PM

What an actual LIBERATION DAY would look like:

Abolishing the Federal Reserve.

Abolishing the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc.

Abolishing the Income Tax.

Repealing the Patriot Act.

Repealing FISA.

Repealing Citizen's United and banning SuperPACs.

Impeaching rogue judges from the bench.

Making VoterID, same-day voting, election audits, signature verification and citizenship mandatory for all elections.

Banning mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting.

Banning COVID mRNA injections.

Removing liability protections for corrupt pharmaceutical corporations.

Abolishing all foreign aid.

Abolishing corporate subsidies.

Bringing the troops home to defend America's borders.

Deporting all illegal immigrants.

Banning all foreign and domestic lobbying.

Banning dual citizens from holding public office.

Prosecuting every politician and Federal Reserve member guilty of insider trading.

Prosecuting everyone involved in the Crimes Against Humanity committed during COVID.

Prosecuting everyone involved in the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail operation.

Prosecuting everyone involved in the J6 operation.

Prosecuting everyone involved in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Prosecuting everyone involved in facilitating the summer riots in 2020.

Prosecuting everyone in the Biden family who subverted American interests for financial gain.

Prosecuting CA politicians for their criminal negligence during the Palisades fire.

Publishing the list of every Congressperson who has settled sexual assault cases with taxpayer funds.

Releasing all the declassified and unredacted documents related to 9/11, JFK's assassination, MLK's assassination, RFK's assassination, and the murder of Seth Rich.

Banning all the harmful chemicals and pesticides in the American food system.

Banning geoengineering.

Eliminating government interference and regulations written by insurance companies in the healthcare industry.

And ... replacing everyone in Congress with a few notable exceptions.

What did I miss?

#14 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-02 01:48 PM

Bugs Bunny, sawing off the Florida Peninsula.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-02 01:55 PM

Of course, there was no plan of how any of this is going to work. As of noon EST today, they are still trying to figure out what the hell the actual "plan" is!

#16 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-04-02 02:12 PM

Never let a crisis of your own making go to waste!

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-02 02:23 PM

Well they waited for the markets to close for the day before they made their announcement so you couldn't watch them tank with each new tariff he announced.

20% on EU

34% on China

46% on Vietnam

24% on Japan

#18 | Posted by qcp at 2025-04-02 04:37 PM

...couldn't watch them tank with each new tariff he announced.

He'll probably backpedal on most of them before the weekend.

#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-02 04:55 PM

They are just making up numbers with currency manipulation and trade barriers to justify the tariffs. China doesn't have a 67% tariff on US goods.

#20 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-02 05:24 PM

So, largest tax increase in history.

Thanks magat scum

#21 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-04-02 05:29 PM

How did he come up with these stupid numbers, by throwing three darts at a board and adding up the score? Inflation is about to go through the roof. Example, almost all clothing is made in these tariff targeted Asian countries, because NOBODY in America is willing to work for the kind of wages that allows Puma to sell tee shirts for ten bucks at their outlet stores. So, now thanks to tariffs Puma will charge $14, congratulations you just paid a $4 Dotard tax. You'll still buy the tee because you can't match the price elsewhere, but Puma won't move a factory to the US, because aside from the massive outlay for setting one up, good luck finding workers, and the cost to produce those same tees would be closer to $20 or more before the profit margin was built in. Prior to the coming Trumpcession, we were at 4% unemployment, the workers don't exist in this country to make everything we consume, and some things such as certain fruits and vegetables cannot be grown here. Without a doubt Combover Quisling is the stupidest man to EVER occupy the WH and one of the most evil. This has to be a record, same POTUS, two financial crises completely of his making.

#22 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-04-02 05:39 PM

"Example, almost all clothing is made in these tariff targeted Asian countries"

I remember vaguely when garment manufacturing died in this country, when I was a kid. They ran ads, look for the union label. Republicans killed the unions to facilitate the redistribution of wealth upwards.

To be fair, the liability for giving all those low paid workers lung disease from airborne cotton particles was also a financial crisis of the industry's own making from which the industry probably could not escape. More on the science that shows how American corporations were harmimg American workers here:
blogs.cdc.gov

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-02 05:51 PM

#22 | Posted by _Gunslinger

All of us will be paying a "Trump tax" so he and his wealthy cohorts can keep their first term Trump tax cuts, and Trump's deficits won't be $3 trillion a year because tariffs go into the government coffers. We all end up paying more for everything.

Trump couldn't care less about further gutting 90% of Americans so the top 10% can hoard even more money they don't need.

Moving even more wealth from 90% of us to the top 10%, who've gotten the majority of benefit from his tax cuts. That's all it is.

#24 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-02 06:23 PM

I am reading that Trump has imposed tariffs on territories with no human populations and with which we have no trade.

Never tell me that this man isn't insane ever again.

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-02 06:59 PM

I think Israel also popped up on the tariffs list until ethnic cleaner Beelzebub Smotrich fixed that: www.timesofisrael.com

#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-02 07:05 PM

He'll probably backpedal on most of them before the weekend.

#19 | Posted by REDIAL

There's no dip to play without a rebound.

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-03 09:24 AM

What did I miss?

#14 | POSTED BY LEE_THE_AGENT

A lot. True liberation would be liberating the poor and the middle class from the crushing debts and burdens being placed upon them.

A true "liberation" day would be a Jubilee and cancel all debts public and private and give us all a fresh start.

#28 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-03 04:35 PM

Never tell me that this man isn't insane ever again.

#25 | POSTED BY ZED

Or he is the victim of his own extreme ignorance.

Though extremely purposeful ignorance (thinking you are always right when you are obviously always wrong) to try and constantly reform and twist reality to fit your false beliefs is a form of insanity.

There are a few posters here that fit that description.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-03 04:41 PM

------- idiot.

#30 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-03 10:31 PM

I must admit I love watching Tesla stock fall, Hopefully Musk's company will be bought by someone who isn't a full blown Nazi!

#31 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-04 08:52 AM

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