Just a gentle reminder: Trump’s tariffs are illegal.

Trump says trade deals could be done within a month

> After saying earlier in the day that he was “in no rush” to finish trade deals, President Donald Trump said he thought he could wrap up tariff talks “over the next three or four weeks.”
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-17-2025 #DonaldTrump #TradeWar #tariffs

Shaun Rein w China Market Research Group: “#China is not buying #American oil but is now buying #Canadian #oil. China is not buying American #soybeans but buying #Brazilian soybeans. China is not buying American #Boeings but buying France's #Airbuses. China is not buying American #beef but buying #Australian. China has decided basically not to buy anything from America and aside from #semiconductors, can easily replace American made products.” #trump #chaos #economy #trade #tariffs #agriculture

SHAME - FREEDOM IS DYING! RESIST TRUMP TARIFFS ANTI TRUMP MERCH
#DASHERY #shame#freedom #statueofliberty #trump #antitrump #tariffs
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Trump’s Three Unwinnable Wars: China, Harvard, and the Supreme Court

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/china-harvard-and-the-supreme-court?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Lessons of 1929-30: This #stupid #administration has no #knowledge of #history! #tariffs have been tried before. And they #failed. Again due to #GOP #idiots. And the sad part, #Utah was involved even then.

#impeach #government #USPolitics #UtahPolitics #trade

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

#Bitcoin miners in #US fear wipeout as 36% #tariffs threaten to ‘destroy’ thriving industry https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/04/17/bitcoin-mining-tariffs/

Good news for once!

#LinesOnMaps

10 Reasons Why the Tariffs Are Way Worse Than They Seem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAl87r02foI

#tariffs
#us #usa #incompetent #moron #idiot #billionaire #looter #terror #maffia

How influential was Apple's CEO in getting President Trump to exempt smartphones and laptops from his tariffs on China? According to a new report, Cook spoke to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and other senior White House officials last week “about the potential impact of the tariffs on iPhone prices.” Perhaps most importantly, Cook “refrained from publicly criticizing the president or his policies on national television.” Read more at @9to5mac. #Tariffs #iPhones #Apple #TimCook #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/j71JxA

This is fascinating: Tariffs played a key role in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii by US businesses.

#tariffs #Hawaii

https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversation/2025-04-15/historian-digs-into-the-role-tariffs-played-in-the-overthrow-of-the-hawaiian-kingdom

Still dissatisfied that the new #US President has yet to obliterate the US Dollar's global reserve currency status, #Putin has clearly instructed to #Trump to seize control of the Federal Reserve to begin a #Weimar Republic style printing blitz.

#ShorBreak #shorts #DailyShow #RonnyChieng #USA #trump #tradewar #tariffs #china #humor #sarcasm #irony #politics

"Ronny Chieng breaks down how JD Vance's comments calling Chinese people "peasants" have escalated both the shade war and the trade war with China, impacting American industries from automakers to Hollywood. Plus, Troy Iwata chimes in on the one thriving business of the trade war: TikTok luxury knockoffs."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFNTHObSSKE

Trump’s Trade War Could Turbocharge Deforestation in the Amazon

Massive tariffs on China will drive up soybean production in Brazil at the rainforest’s expense.

By Sarah Sax in The Atlantic
#Tariffs #Deforestation #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/04/brazil-amazon-rainforest-trump-china-soybean/682483/

"This is why Garland & all of 'em failed so miserably. B/c some of us w functioning cerebrums saw it coming.

Maybe you coulda stepped outta your little 'protocols'..let ppl know, if *they* got back in govt, what it'd look like..reminded us who these ghouls were"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRLEeWseiw #news #politics #elsalvador #tariffs #stockmarket #media #press #america #us #unitedstates #usa #eu #europe #canada #ukraine #russia #ai #donaldtrump #trump #elonmusk #tv #musk #video

Apple CEO Tim Cook Pressed Commerce Secretary Lutnick on iPhone Tariff Impact

#Apple #iPhone #Tariffs #TradeWar #TimCook #Trump #USTrade #ChinaTrade #SupplyChain #Manufacturing #BigTech #USPolitics #BigTech

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/17/apple-ceo-tim-cook-pressed-commerce-secretary-lutnick-on-iphone-tariff-impact-xcxwbn/

"Dependence on protection by #tariffs and laws to “buy #American” only encourages incompetence."

Deming, W. Edwards. Out of the Crisis, reissue . MIT Press. Kindle Edition.

De minimis is gone, tariffs are up, wallets are screaming. How hard will it hit your mesh kit? Quick dive https://youtu.be/-y9anUqjqUQ #meshtastic #tariffs

Trump, Meloni ‘fully expect’ EU-US trade deal: Meloni is the first European leader to meet Trump after he announced #tariffs on the EU. https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/trump-meloni-fully-expect-eu-us-trade-deal/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it

CEOs missed: Trump isn't a capitalist, he’s a KLEPTOCRAT.

His rationales for his #tariffs change regularly. At some moments they’re about returning MANU to the US, at others they’re just a bargaining tool. But one justification is constant: they're designed to force bus leaders +other nations alike to deal with Trump *wants to humiliate them in the process.

“These countries are calling us up kissing my ass -dying to make a deal.
#Kleptocracy #Corruption #Resist #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/194075/trump-tariff-madness-one-man-rule