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POTUS* Donald J. Smoot's shake-down tariffs must come before Congressional theatrics [1]
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Date: 2025-07-14
Now when faced with the economic problems that he promised to solve, Trump is totally ambivalent. As a result, some on the internet have given a harsher critique: "he's an idiot and a traitor."
Now when faced with the economic problems that he promised to solve, Trump is totally ambivalent. As a result, some on the internet have given a harsher critique: "he's an idiot and a traitor."
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But leave all that aside for a moment. Let's assume that Trump sincerely holds this belief: that tariffs are a wealth-generating tool, and that their implementation will return the country to its proper place as the wealthiest, most successful, most respected nation on the planet.
If all that's true, then how to explain what Trump did this morning?
"President Donald Trump held off Monday on his tariff threats against Mexico for one month of further negotiations after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country's national guard to the border to address drug trafficking," the Associated Press reported.
Wait, what happened to endless prosperity and success? If tariffs are as great as Trump says they are, he should be implementing them no matter what the leaders of any other silly little countries say or do. We can tax our way to prosperity, Trump claims, but we'll just…not do that, I guess?
That's the problem with Trump's theory about tariffs. Either tariffs are an inherently good and prosperity-generating policy that enriches America, or they are a threat to get other countries to do as Trump says. Both things can't be true.
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