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source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-walmart-inflation-import-taxes-e2012e0d9e242b0be0b9474aa58d41fd
One of the reasons Trump has for the tariffs is for people to buy more American, to bring manufacturing back home, etc.
Tariff will BY DESIGN make foreign product pricier, to make domestic products more appealing. He has zero clue on how things work, and gets angry when what people told him would happen, starts happening.
thomn8r
Walmart should add a tariff line item to receipts as a 'fuck you'
BastardMan1977
"Don't show everyone what a dummy I am" is what he is really saying
medimr
sochilln
Conz
The 1% could eat the cost.
Trelis
The billionaires got their money, not from paying what they could afford, but not paying what they could get away with.
huffnpuff72
Can you imagine how he'd react if anyone suggested his business should take a cut in profits to help its customers because of something the government did?
SenselessSentiments
Wait... We know that Walmart has been ripping consumers and its workers off. So the tariffs is actually ... balancing things out?
ElbowDeepInUserSub
Don't worry, we'll just start growing bananas domestically! Any day now...
jiffyt101
I’m *going* bananas—does that count?
gobbin
LOL what a shitshow because of all those MAGA numbnuts voting this incompetent wanker into office.
Donaldbain
LoftheDesert
Greedy corpos vs. Fascist. They would still make a profit, just not as large a profit.
hyptosis
such a good time to use this gif hahaha
Kazpur81S
But…if Chiner was paying the tariffs why does Cheeto Benito tell Walmart to eat the tariffs?
jgrowley31337
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aDkxN2NuYTltMzhrMjRvbDY4dDk4MzV3dzZ6cmJ3YmRkcThzOGw3ciZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3o6fJ9Oi4zEBLjzCow/200w.webp
DeadWhiteMale
Just his standard threat. All he wants is a big gift from Walmart, what the rest of us call a bribe.
GreatOdinsTaint
MAGA was so terrified of socialism they voted in a fascist who broke things so badly he is resorting to socialism to fix them.
CelestialSea
Republicans, "Government should stay out of the way of business, that's communism!"
Trump directly interferes with businesses.
Republicans, "Oh but this is fine though, because he's a fascist, not a communist!"
Nanntuckett
A corporation willingly eating costs instead of passing it onto consumers? Good luck with that.
kilgoth1
What a great business man trump is. Can we all just agree and bask in his greatness? "Eating" a tax as a business... great fucking idea trump. You are so awesome.
OperatorWay
"bIdEn'S eCoNoMy"
TresusIbor
10 bucks Walmart invests in crypto and he says "Go ahead and raise them!"
Sledeverest
Trump vs the number one employer in the country.
GarmBlack
So much for free market, eh Republicans?
counterintel
"Bidens economy did this. Trump is just trying to fix it"
RobotDeathSquad24
Hardly anything is made in the US though
DavidNightingale
Says the man with 30 dolls.
PMAW
There are no domestic products.
cousteau
There are non-domestic products, domestic products that have been produced using non-domestic products, and domestic products produced using domestic products which were produced using non-domestic products.
And, even if you could somehow make a 100% domestic product, the way the market works, its price will raise when the alternatives are more expensive. So even a product that shouldn't be affected by tariffs will.
lostwalllet
Walmart had a huge hand in forcing suppliers to move manufacturing overseas—or lose their shelf space at Walmart.
Trelis
Yeah, tariffs makes sense, if you have the capability to produce the targeted product domestically. You target a specific product, announce it well in advance, and ramp up the tariffs over years. That is how you can foster domestic production. Nothing of Trump's actions will help domestic production much.
BeaverOnFire
You clearly don't understand the 5D chess that King Lord Daddy Trump is playing.
IncognitoEnthusiast
Only they don't, they NEVER work out in the long run. Every time it's been tried in history it ends in failure. You have to just start making your own and get people to switch to them instead, making things more expensive just never works.
Ekaris9
...Isn't this some of that evil "price fixing" thing that republicans claim Socialism does?
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
So, he wants his plutocrat buddies to take huge losses so that all their profit can go to him. I'm sure that'll be fine.
Raoul97533
I mean, how could he know Tarrifs would cause price increases? Thats counting 2 and 2 together. I think if you believe he can do that. you expect to much of him...
rcgom
tbf he also could have got it by listening to competent advisors instead of yes-men, bwahahahahahah...hahahah
UncleRat
If Trump goes head-to-head with Walmart, Vance will be in office before Christmas.
HandoB4Javert
...and the couch just before that...
ImHereToGetDownvotes
I legitimately think I'm okay with that if it happens. Vance doesn't have the charisma of Trump and seems to have a small sense of morality. I don't think people would bow down at his feet like they do for Trump.
debob
My tinfoil hat theory is they'll get rid of trump in February 2027 for the possibility of 10 years of puppet vance.
LordHosk
Trump has already back tracked on so many things, this will just be another thing he backs down on and claims he won on.
astromoondoggie
And Walmart will suddenly sell a suspicious amount of couches
gadlen
eiw. Funny. But eiw.
wadatahmydamie
Doll furniture, because Vance comes across as someone who likes ‘em young
HalfCaffBeefQueen
JD Vance Special
seir
I smell a co-lab. A stinky, dried jizz and gym locker room co-lab
Nalianna
Surprised he isn't already. to be honest.
MrRareza
Didn't have "Walmart vanishes Trump" on my bingo card, but I'm happy to pencil that in.
FelonyRaptor
Like he did with Amazon? And like Amazon didn't bend the knee? Like that?
ausernamewhat
That's probably the plan from the beginning.
stayingalive4life
All of a sudden, Wal-Mart will be be reversing their decision to sell guns, ammo, and tactical gear.
TacoFox
Weyland-Yutani knows this.
Subtilico
While that would not improve things on the larger scale, it would at least spare me from having to see or hear that orange stain ever again.
SavageDrums
Vance doesn't have a cult behind him.
Subtilico
Maybe not,but now they have all the power, that is somewhat less of a factor. Hoping that infighting will destroy them is a dangerous gamble
Isalenna
I'm not sure if Vance could hold the fascist interest in the same way Trump does. After Trump goes, there's gonna likely be a lot of in-fighting and I'm not sure what'll come out of it.
ArdentNature
He will still be in the news every day just like he was before.
surfacefried
The rest of the world seriously would be grateful if you could impeach him because it is like listening to an idiot who has dementia. It's dangerous and destabilising. It's a waste of everyone's time for his ego.
Subtilico
And infuriating that so many governments seem to be under the impression that you can deal rational with the US regime. Just say: fuck off!!
Fentex
You don't seem to any more clue than trump how nations need to talk to each other. The U.S.A being insane (and it is, through it's elected and REPRESENTATIVE government) doesn't mean others can treat it chidishly. Adults must continue to adult and they don't need to advertise gently excluding the... 'special' ones from business. But it will happen.
Wolf2Worrior
We did impeach him. Twice. Clearly that means fuck all when the rest of those bastards refuses to actually make him leave.
DrunkenMarineBiologist
Well, you see, it's like that because he's an idiot with dementia.
monkeydwolfwood
It might, I honestly don't understand it but Trump has a cult of personality Vance doesn't
cuddleskunk
Trump is a loud man-child with no filters who is so much of a parody of himself that he has an entertaining type of charisma for broken people (see The Apprentice). JD Vance has all of the charisma of a crusty sock.