stabby_cicada

The Trump family made at least $500 million pumping and dumping cryptocurrency. I guess they're tired of playing in the crypto sandbox and going for the big money now.

Do you have a source for that #1 impact claim? I want to read and share it.

Trouble is, the US already has a ton of plant agriculture subsidies. But they go to major commodity crops (corn, soybeans) that provide feed for livestock or, worse, ethanol.

Transfer those subsidies to plants that people eat and I'm with you.

Trump thinks he can trade a few weeks of bad headlines and market hit, for some magically reappearing domestic manufacturing. It doesnt work that way. Even if it were possible, it wouldn't create positive economic conditions on any kind of timeline sufficient to offset the negative effects real consumers are already experiencing.

A few weeks? Try a few months. Or years. I think Trump is fine with bad headlines for months on end.

The positive interpretation is: Trump's confident that he's right. He's confident America will be better off under his tariff plan. OR he's confident he can use tariffs to force trade deals that benefit America and exploit the rest of the world. And he knows voters have short memories. As long as the economy is strong in fall 2026 he can take credit for it and give Republicans overwhelming electoral victories at the federal and state level.

The negative interpretation is: Trump doesn't care about public opinion because he doesn't think elections are going to matter anymore.

Either way, what the media and the voters think about tariffs now doesn't matter to Trump. Trump does what Trump wants and the rest of the world submits to him. It's everything he's always wanted.