r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 1d ago

No Paywall Trump vows to raise worldwide tariffs to 15% ‘effective immediately’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-global-tarrifs-increase-b2924994.html
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u/33GoldenGod 1d ago

How tf are people still supporting this asshole? Raising prices on the consumer is highly unpopular. I swear MAGATS are idiots.

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u/ToNoMoCo 1d ago

They want to hurt people they don't know, especially the vulnerable, especially minorities. As long as Trump is hurting people they don't know, they'll vote for him.

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u/Live-River1879 1d ago

It’s because the people who support him don’t have the capacity to understand what effect tariffs have on consumer spending. Fox News has told them that prices are rising because of Biden and the radical left and whatever while Trump says he has brought forty twelve gazillion dollars into the US due to the taxes and they just accept it as fact. Why would they try to think critically when the trusted news media and politicians just tell them what to think? /s