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Wednesday, April 02, 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.

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-- Reuters (@reuters.com) March 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM

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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

#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 | Reply

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

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-31 09:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

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 | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 4

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Bugs Bunny, sawing off the Florida Peninsula.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-02 01:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

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 | Reply

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

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-02 02:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

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