‘Liberation Day’ looking like yet another tariff retreat

Monday, March 31, 2025

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. But as he has demonstrated many times before, Trump once again appears to be offering a lot of hype and little action. Trump administration officials are trying to tamp down expectations that every pledged tariff action will go into effect April 2

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To that end: Following a Cabinet meeting Monday, Trump said tariffs on a variety of products will be announced in the "very near future." Then, later Monday afternoon, Trump said "I may give a lot of countries breaks." "We might be even nicer than that," Trump added. That waffling added even more doubt and confusion about the administration's trade policy plans heading into April.

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Monkey with a machinegun.

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

The man-child who cried tariffs.

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

"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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Liberating America from democracy is hard werk!

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-31 09:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

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 | Reply