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THE DAILY SHOW Hysterically Skewers Trump and Republicans for Blatantly Lying About Tariffs [1]

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Date: 2025-04-04

Two days after "Liberation Day" (as Donald Trump likes to call the day he imposed his disastrous tariffs on the world), the stock market is once again in a tailspin, erasing much of the gains from the past few months and depleting the savings of millions of investors and especially retirees. It's the worst decline since March of 2020, during COVID. And it's a wholly self-inflicted economic apocalypse that Trump somehow regards as proof that everything is - in his own words - "going well."

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Sure it is. It's going to be just fine if you happen to have a few billion dollars and can spend your days playing golf and sailing on your superyacht. The rest of us need to just STFU and put our blind faith behind Dear Leader Trump who, despite having bankrupted four casinos, and presided over the last stock market crash, and has embraced the world's wealthiest robber barons (Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Putin, etc.), is hailed by the MAGA cult as an infallible messiah.

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As is often the case, the truth about many of America's most prominent catastrophes has been summed up in the insightful political satire of The Daily Show. Host Michael Kosta did a better analysis of Trump's tariff fiasco than much of the mainstream media. He began by putting the blame for the nation's ills where it belongs... On all of us.

"Whether you like it or not, Republicans don't want to hear your bitching, because we all knew this was coming."



[Plays clip of MAGA media hacks saying that everyone knew prices would go up]



“That's right voters. You can bellyache all you want, but we all knew what we were voting for. Trump was very honest during the campaign that tariffs would drive prices higher, right? Right? RIGHT?"



[Plays clip of Trump promising that tariffs would not drive prices higher]



"Okay, technically he said prices wouldn’t go up, but in his defense, he was lying. And you should have known that, so that’s on you."

x Michael Kosta of the Daily Show on #TrumpTariffs:



"OK, technically he said prices wouldn't go up. But in his defense, he was lying. And you should have have known that, so that's on you." https://t.co/J3UpMvbbix — News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) April 4, 2025

See? It's the fault of voters for not knowing that everything Trump says is a lie. And sadly, in this regard, Kosta is actually making a good point. The people who voted for Trump had mountains of evidence, compiled over dozens of years, that he couldn't be trusted to tell the truth about anything. And yet, they voted for him hoping that this time he would come through and fulfill the promises that he made, despite having no idea how to do so, or any record of having done it in the past.

The question going forward is whether those voters will believe anything that Trump is saying now. He continues to defend his horrendously harmful policies, even insisting in an all-caps post on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that "MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE."

That declaration is wrong on so many levels. First of all, he has already said that he would change his tariff policies for any country that agrees to make concessions. Secondly, never changing the policies, if he held to that, would mean permanent tariffs and permanent higher costs for American consumers. Third, this comment was meant to assuage the concerns of potential investors, who already don't trust him and regard him as unreliable and unstable. For good reason.

So Trump's declaration that his policies will never change is not only another lie, it would be devastating if it happened to be a rare instance of him telling the truth. Which, to be fair, he has done on occasion. For instance, on Friday morning he posted a comment on Truth Social that was surprisingly honest, saying that "Trump is Purposely Crashing The Market." Of course he is. Because...because...be...oh f*ck it!

x Trump actually posted this on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that "Trump is Purposely Crashing The Market." There...Feel better now? — News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-04-04T17:10:53.997Z

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