Tariffs White House

[Citadel]

 

The Tariffs-Powered Alms to Arms White House
By Pierre Maertin

 

 

Immediately upon being elected into office on January 20th of this year, and assuming his role once more as head of the executive branch of the federal government, President Donald Trump initiated a long list of executive orders that he signed in his new capacity as leader of the Free World.

 

In a long list of exectutive orders to roll back the setbacks the GOP suffered during the Biden Administration, Trump pushed forward a new set of tariffs that his team and advisors from the GOP were shepherding from the first run in the White House which started back on January 20, 2017.

 

January 2018, President Trump imposed tariffs on solar panels and washing machines of 30–50%. On March 1, 2018, Trump announced his intention to impose a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum imports. In a tweet the next day, Trump asserted, “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” On March 8, he signed an order to impose the tariffs effective after 15 days.

 

“More than 50 years of occupation and 10 years of blockade have made the lives of 1.9 million Palestinians living inside the Gaza Strip unbearable. That is why they now are protesting and risking their lives.”
The Norwegian Refugee Council Report | April 2018

 

China, Canada, and the European Union responded negatively to the first wave of Trump Tariffs. The currently outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the idea “that Canada could be considered a national security risk to the United States” was “absurd” and “inconceivable” he shortly thereafter announced $16.6 billion in retaliatory tariffs.  What was Trudeau alluding to in “national security risk”? [The follow-through is later on in this segment, keep reading.]

 

A survey of leading economists by Reuters in 2018 showed that 80% felt the steel and aluminum tariffs could be harmful to the U.S. economy while the tariffs on other products could have little to no effect.  In May 2018, more than 1,000 economists wrote a letter warning Trump about the dangers of pursuing a trade war, arguing that the tariffs were echoing historical policy errors, such as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, which helped lead to the Great Depression.

 

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states: “Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises.” However, on several occasions in recent times, Congress shifted this responsibility regarding tariffs to the President.

 

 

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[ChicagoChef]

if it smells like genocide, if it walks and quacks like genocide, it is genocide, only those who are vehemently Zionists and Pro Israeli, especially the American Press, are busy re-inventing words and terms and blocking and deleting comments from any, including me, on anything that criticizes Israel, Israeli doctrine, Israeli hegemony, just awful and ugly, the American Press has become a proxy for a new Nazi culture of suppression of free speech.

Take this very recent piece in the New York Post, op-ed that only seems to be ripping away at American Universities, especially the Ivy Leaguers, the pricey ones:

“The tide has turned against elite universities — and it’s about time. New York Post Opinion by Victor Davis Hanson”

I post my comment and it gets deleted, over and over and over:

“Middle East orthodoxy” what is Middle East Orthodoxy? Jewish Supremacy? Anything that touches Israeli supremacy has been castrated by the so-called American albeit Jewish media (US, UK, European, anywhere), Israel is the Holy Goat, above any criticism, in fact the Jewish media cartel has resurrected “anti-semitism” to squelsh Gestapo style any backroom talk of genocide as Israel shows off its ulterior plans on pocketing most of The Levant – yet according to the “new scholars” in the press questioning these “defunct universities” that charge exorbitant fees to foreign students, these schools are worth every dime (reverse psychology). This is a naked ploy to continually promote these universities as pro arab and very forward thinking when a large chunk of their faculty is either Jewish or rabidly pro Israel – this article in the New York is gaslighting foreign students into coming to the USA and spending sicko amounts of money while funding Israeli war crimes that have been ongoing for almost a century.

Ummm yeah I agree, foreign students who barely have the tuition fees should find cheaper schools and not in the USA since this country has become so pro Israel we are borderline harboring a new Jewish Nazi-type culture (filters here block me but we all know who that is). Yes the USA is now their heir apparent while pretending to be the world’s leading firefighter against them. The hypocrisy is so heavy and thick and the entire charade so transparent!

[Blade-Runner]

👎🏻 🤢

[Maxt Man]

@ChicagoChef:  💀  shut the hell up!

[Blade-Runner]

Israel pulled out of Gaza some 20 years ago (rough guess). Gazans could have made Gaza a paradise on the Mediterranean. A peaceful oasis rolling in tourists and money. Instead they made it into a fascist hellhole of hate, war, and misery. Oh well.

[CyrusMiles1996]

USAID is still alive in the area, as well as UNDP and Red Cross. and now the Times of Israel is reporting that the tunnels are still under expansion.

[Cowboys1 and Only]

Ever wonder why the comments and votes of MSN.com Yahoo and many other newspapers’ online stops are always overwhelmingly Pro-israel? The media “Hasbara troll army”. Hint: “Hasbara” is a hebrew words. Then “hasbara trolls flood the comments sections”.  Sometimes the Hasbara trolls are the publisher’s own employees posting as visitors to the site and commentors on the report.

And they’re trained (literally) to follow scripted talking points (AKA propaganda) >>>>>> grotesque, repetitive and already debunked propaganda like “Israeli Homeland God Gifted”, “Israel/Palestine is the ancient Hebrew ancestral homeland”, “Palestinians are not a nation, not a people, conquering arabs”, “There is no Palestine” and then demonizing both Arabs and Palestinians as monsters: “beheading babies” and “babies burned alive, campus “antisemitism”, “human shields”, etc.   All in the pernicious Israeli effort to get that ‘s’ to stick on the wall.

At least one Middle Eastern newspaper defined Habara as “Israel uses a propaganda function known in Hebrew as “Hasbara” in an attempt to control, shape and distort the narrative of every face of its actions.”

[Uncle Jerry]

Gaza is a dangerous place for Palis to live there, kids running around, unexploded ordinance could be set off at any time ….that’s why the idea of bringing all “Palestinian” nicknamed Arabs out of Gaza is the best ever! Israel should resettle them in neighboring Sudan, Ivory Coast, Egypt or the Saudi desert. What’s wrong with that?

[Maxt Man]

Israel ended the ceasefire and restarted the war campaign in Gaza on March 18.  Our tax dollars at work. Fighting another nation’s wars. These two peoples are fanatical zealots and have been fighting for thousands of years and will fight for thousands more. They deserve each other.  Israel needs to finish this job once and for all.  This time Israel do not stop till done.

Stop sending our tax dollars to Israel.  😉

[Aaron]

Eradicate Hamas.  Period.

[LeonPickering]

Netanyahu says Israeli strikes across Gaza (new this month after breaking ceasefire) that killed hundreds (of Gazans) are ‘only the beginning’

AP News March 18, 2025

[Cynthia Hochman]

I have no words for how I despise those Palestinians.

[William Pennoski]

Israel is like a lone Lion fighting PACKS of hyeenas that always attack it from all sides. Hyeenas dream to capture Lions’ territory, claiming it was called Hyeena-lestine, where Hyeenas want to create another sheet h0le, just like the one they used to live in. When the Lion rips apart these hyeenas, their tribe starts whining, accusing the Lion of being an aggressor. The hyeenas hate the Lion so much that they happily sacrifice their cubs and then parade their bodiees just to demonize the Lion. Since 1948 these packs attacked the Lion multiple times, suffered humiliating loses, but still did not learn…

[Lawrence Hernandez]

they went back to pounding Gaza, its insufferable what the IDF is doing to these people!

[Janice Liu]

one of the alphabet soup news networks just bleeped that Trump has declared 25% tariffs on foreign-made cars. This is going to escalate quickly when big items are involved and only we will pay the price. The wealthy can still afford german cars and caviar but the lower middle class will soon be joining the poverty line. Thank you dear.

[Gilad]

The land belongs to Israel. According to Genesis 15:18 and Joshua 1:4, the land God gave to Israel included everything from the Nile River in Egypt to Lebanon (south to north) and everything from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River (west to east).

On today’s map, the land God has stated belongs to Israel includes everything modern-day Israel possesses, plus all of the territory occupied by the Palestinians (the West Bank and Gaza), plus some of Egypt and Syria, plus all of Jordan, plus some of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Thus, Israel currently possesses only a fraction of the land God has promised. God has given His word that the nation of Israel will never cease as long as the sun still shines by day and the moon and stars still shine by night (Jeremiah 31:35–37).

The Jewish people lay claim to the land because they first held possession of it millennia ago and because God directly gave them the land, as recorded in the Bible “To your offspring I will give this land.” “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates” “The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you.”

There’s only one nation on the face of the Earth that has a title deed to a piece of land from God the creator and that’s Israel. In 1948 Israel officially became a nation, that’s when Bible prophecy of the last days went on the fast track. That was the big sign that started the countdown to armageddon. We owe the Israelites a great debt!

[Charles Drucker]

idiots

[Jamie Spencer]

The USA has become adept at carpetbagging other people’s lands, lives and futures. Those from the South still have not forgotten the years following the Civil War and what northern greedy blood suckers did to their other half they now pretend is cozy with the current future being plotted for us.

The American media is always accusing other parties of the ills of their realm and their industry, for instance it accuses those who speak out against Israel of antisemitism while they advocate for anti Semitism, because let’s face it Arabs are not Semites, they are Aryan Caucasians from Europe who invaded Saudi Arabia and mounted an Arab invasion of the levantines when God gave them manifest destiny to murder and wipe out the American aboriginals (Navajo, Cherokee, etc.) so yeah the American Media is busy redefining the New United States as a fascist fighter for freedom while they gaslight worldwide audiences as the champion of truth and justice (LOL the New Gunner Superman as opposed to Donner’s) when in fact they have imported the Soviet Tass book on how to be a Soviet Jounalist. That S on Superman is either for Sovietism or Sociopath (albeit socially functional sociopath).

Americans who devour other people’s lives and futures, you want three cars in your driveway? you want three TV sets you never use because you have three computers, two notepads and a dozen smartphones to surf the web (androids keep stalling on me so I buy the newest working edition)? you want a front yard and backyard in the suburbs so you can have your little castle where no one bothers you? you want your egg mcmuffin and coffee on your way to work while you waste two to three hours in traffic each day doing nothing only to show up at the office and warm a bench all day and collect a paycheck? THEN PLEASE, PLEASE, KEEP SILENT AND LET THE CRIMINALS DO THEIR WORK – after all IT IS THE “NOT IN MY BACKYARD” NEW WORLD ORDER!

Do not do anything beyond some cosmetic superficial gestures and all will be secure in your pitiful piggy lives at the expense of all others, 7.5 billion and counting.

American The Proud, The Free, the Callous, the Parasite, the Butcher without little blood on its hands (neat and clean) Looking to Eject into Orbit 7+ billion lives so we can have a little elbow room for our lifestyles. Aghhhh Love … American Style!

[Sexy Gear]

it is simple really

BOYCOTT ZIONISM!!!!!!!!!
Put an end to wanton murder, genocide and theft

Zionism=depravity of humanity

[Spidey Gamma]

The tariffs issue climbed up a few notches this month in the news online, right after you published this piece, so of course I became curious, Fortune just stated that four Southeast Asia countries, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia are now the target of the US administration, having slapped 3,521% duties on imports of solar panels manufactured in these countries accusing manufacturers there of dumping products on the U.S. market.

wow, ouch, but did the American news media or any of the British and European media report on solar panel dumping in the usa because this would not just have started with Trump in office? was it ongoing for years and only now the new Administration is taking measures to circumvent tech dumping in the usa? or is this a fabricated pretense and the usa is displeased with those countries for their political alliances with ummmm… China?….

so the Administration is ripping their arms and legs from their sockets (economically of course, that is not war, economics and business wars are not as damaging as actual war, just starve out the population) imagine those impoverished countries having invested so precious little extra funds they have (encouraged by US cooperation advisors a decade ago) as to grow into Western style societies and to supply the usa with cheaper components than Taiwan, Japan and China to keep prices low for the benefit of the usa only to be completely backstabbed and blocked off. Definitely a “level playing field” and open competition

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