“The golden age of America has only just begun,” President Trump said at the beginning of March during his speech at the Joint Session of Congress. “It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.” One must wonder if the growing number of Americans working multiple jobs to afford the Trump era really […]
Tag: Tariffs
Never let facts get in the way of a good spin story
Yesterday, on ABC News This Week, Jonathan Karl interviewed United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick. The interview covered various issues related to the Administration’s chaotic tariff policy. Partway through the interview, Lutnick made an awkward transition away from the topic at hand – the recent, seemingly last-minute flip-flop on specific electronics tariffs – and […]
Trump’s dream of ‘Glory Days’ could be a nightmare for workers and consumers
Central to the Trump Administration’s ongoing tariff mayhem is their fantasy that one of the outcomes of the implemented policies will be to bring back the glory days of American manufacturing. In an April 7 White House article, the Administration wrote, “As he [President Trump] puts into action his bold plan to reverse the decades […]
Awaiting ‘greatness’ … as food insecurity continues to increase
Early on the morning of April 7, President Trump decided, amid a market meltdown and the ongoing financial insecurity being felt by many Americans, to boost morale with the following uplifting post to X: The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be […]
Manufacturing lobby group source of the global 10% tariff policy that will leave lower-income households further behind
On April 2, the White House released a ‘Fact Sheet’ to complement Trump’s so-called Liberation Day speech. The document entitled: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security, outlines various ‘facts’ about how the President’s tariff policy came to be. Buried […]
The US Trade Deficit is what is keeping lower-income Americans from falling further behind
“Trump is bringing jobs back to the US with Tariffs,” said James Benson Jr., a retired Michigan autoworker, whom Trump paraded out to the media on April 2 to support his so-called ‘Liberation Day’ announcement. As the token working-class supporter, used for a visual image in a press conference, Mr. Benson is unfortunately misinformed in […]
Trump tariff announcement echoes 1930s US trade policy
The most bizarre part of U.S. president Donald Trump’s April 2 ‘Liberation Day’ speech was when he claimed that the Great Depression, which endured from 1929 until the beginning of the Second World War, would not have happened if the American government had retained tariffs on imported goods, and not introduced an income tax. What? […]