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Why would he tax his "friends" that have him millions so he doesn't?

It'll boost domestic production!! /s

No one knows. This entire thing is a temper tantrum.

He's apparently applying these tariffs under a different law than the one they used previously, which does explicitly allow the president to apply temporary (150 days) tariffs of up to 15%. So you would assume this is meant to replace the tariffs the SC struck down.

But he's also stated that the previous tariffs are going to stay in effect, just under a different legal theory. So in his mind, it's possible that he thinks this 15% is on top of the existing amounts, and he's literally just tariffing the whole world harder because he's mad about a decision by his judiciary.

Then again, maybe he's just a dementia-ridden old idiot who can't keep his own bullshit straight for more than 30 seconds.

He started as a halfwit, and dementia has diminished that. Don't expect reason or sense. It's all reaction to being told no.

"All new tariffs with blackjack and ~~hookers~~little kiddies!"

I learned what the racket was yesterday:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-officials-sons-may-make-tons-of-money-after-supreme-court-ruling/ar-AA1WL4Jt

For real lol, this is garden variety extortion of the "nice place ya got here..." flavor. Even the dumbest criminals alive know this one.

and they likely won’t.

You mean the same Republican-dominated congress that has basically given him handjobs every time he breaks a fucking law and does something that is actually under the direction of congress? The same Republican-dominated congress that has essentially abdicated any responsibility to govern at all? I'm skeptical, but I hope you're right.

What a fucking asshole

For real, this is another mask-off moment. He had played up the tariffs as a game to push other countries around, but clearly and literally the only reason he is doing this is because he's pissed off at the Supreme Court. It has fuck-all to do with other countries because it's the same rate, worldwide, with no room for negotiations. He's supposed to be this great negotiator of trade deals with other countries, yet he's blowing up every single potential trade deal with a flat 15% worldwide because he's pissed off at people in his own government.

If people can't tell that he doesn't give a flying fuck about anything except pushing people around, doesn't matter who or about what, they're fucking idiots. He's just a cruel fucking asshole, like you said.

Trying to imagine if things would be better under Vance...

Clots and prayers.

Customs?

I think it's kind of Legal? Smoot -Hawley from 1934-ish was never taken off the books. I cant remember if that's the one he's using for this, but it's like that. There's a never-used vestigial law that lets him do up to 15% for 150 days.

As much of a known-destroyer of America he is, this is Congress failing to do it's bare minimum job of holding the purse strings. They could stop him tomorrow and we would be better off if everyone realized thst

Edit: this one isn't smoot-hawley (1930), sorry. Trade act of 1974. 15%, 150 days and a lot of exemptions under section 122. Congress should still do it job

Fun fact, in Canada our total exports have actually been going up, including our total exports to the US. But as a preventage of our exports, exports to the US have shrunk because our exports to the rest of the world have grown faster.

We should send Trump a gift basket.

He also needs that revenue to personally enrich himself from taxpayer money. He gave himself $10 billion of taxpayer money for creating his Board of "peace".

The population of the USA as of Feb 2026 is 342.3 million people. This means that trump personally took $29.21 from every single American living today (including newborn children and aging senior citizens) and put that money in his personal bank account.

Its things like this that I cannot understand how poverty stricken trump supporters are still okay with him and his actions.