tariffs
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Trump Just Told Americans Not to Buy American Products Because He Doesn't Understand How Tariffs Work
President Donald Trump was finishing up his Monday morning—this was, of course, after he’d pistol-whipped a panda to death and drank the rancid blood of an owl—and was ready to call it a day when he asked to borrow Jared Kushner’s phone to send a few tweets. Those tweets have basically amounted to the president…
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Trump Owns This Record as President
Despite promises to shrink the U.S. trade deficit with crazy tariffs on imported goods, the trade deficit has instead reached record highs as it grew to some $621 billion. On Wednesday the Commerce Department announced that Trump has fucked the trade deficit to the highest its been since 2008 in large part due to the…
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President Price Hike Is Ruining Black Friday
This may be your last chance at a 12-pack of flat-screen televisions, thanks to Donald Trump. With a slew of tariffs on foreign goods announced in the first two years of his tenure in the office formerly reserved for Presidents, Trump has touted his international trade strategy as a necessary tool in the administration’s geopolitical…