Trump Celebrates Job-Killing Tariffs (Can We See His Wharton Transcripts Now?)

Quick – somebody alert Harley-Davidson, American auto makers, Mid-Continent Nail, the nation’s largest nail manufacturer, forced to lay off multiple employees, and pork and soy farmers around the nation, now feeling the pinch.

While real Americans and real American businesses are just beginning to be punished by President Trump’s insane, ill-advised trade war, Trump is dancing on their graves.

In one of his insane Twitter benders on Tuesday morning, Trump babbled:

“Tariffs are the greatest!” the president wrote on Twitter. “Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. It’s as simple as that – and everybody’s talking! Remember, we are the ‘piggy bank’ that’s being robbed. All will be Great!”

Derpity-derpity-dum!

Tariffs are the greatest! Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. It’s as simple as that – and everybody’s talking! Remember, we are the “piggy bank” that’s being robbed. All will be Great!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2018

And while some of us are wondering what it would take to get a copy of Trump’s academic transcripts from the Wharton School of Business, let’s not lose sight of the very real damage caused by allowing a bumbling reality TV con artist access to the Oval Office.

Elections have consequences, people.

For those who are still struggling with this: Tariffs is just a fancy word for “tax on the American consumer.”

Also, trade wars are not easy to win. They are disasters that ruin economies and weaken nations.

But, that would certainly be in line with what the Kremlin desires to see for the United States, so…

Some of the ones feeling the cuts most deeply are those who have supported the Trump presidency.

Normally, I would count this as a case of reaping in the idiocy from which you have sown, but there’s an entire nation of people who will be hurt, including those who are not to blame for allowing Donald Trump into the White House.

How do you support Trump, ignorantly support his taxation on the American people, and then answer those who are feeling the effects?

Earlier this month, soy farmers in North Dakota told the Bismarck Tribune that they were facing massive losses this year if the president didn’t negotiate a deal to reopen Chinese markets to their crops.

“Right now, I am the most scared I’ve ever been as to where the future of farming is going,” said Randy Richards, the Steele County president for the North Dakota Farmers Union.

Richards isn’t alone. Mid-Continent, the Poplar Bluff, Missouri nail factory mentioned above, is on the “brink of extinction” because of the steel tariffs.

My heart goes out to those who are facing the indignity of the unemployment line, as well as the worry of how they’ll pay their bills and feed their families, but maddeningly, they support Donald Trump. Will they wear their MAGA hats to job interviews?

In interviews, they’ve said they hope that the president they support could see his way to excluding them from the same punishing conditions he’s inflicting on the rest of the nation.

It doesn’t look as if it is going to happen, and now they are faced with moving the business to Mexico, in order to avoid the tariffs on steel that is closing their doors in the United States.

A Trump-backing soybean farmer in Minnesota, meanwhile, told CNN last month that the president’s trade wars were putting his farm in financial jeopardy.

“This isn’t just numbers on a sheet or percentage of trade or dollar value,” Michael Petefish, a Trump-backing farmer, explained. “This is multi-generational American families, your base, that you are now squarely putting into financial peril.”

Elections have consequence, Michael.

Given the tariffs that have already been proposed or enacted, the nation is looking at a loss of around 700,000 jobs by this time next year, according to Moody’s Analytics.

Also, Trump’s projected deficit next year is projected to top $1 trillion.

This is not making American great again.

This is making us broken, and weak.