Usually, I intentionally avoid listening to him speak. So there might be a bit of what @chenille mentioned above happening for me.
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“Old fashioned word”?!? Dafuq?
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He probably brought it back so hard that we’ve been using it all along, just like when he invented the expression “prime the pump”.
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It definitely has Lucille Bluth vibes. And Arrested Development was supposed to be satire.
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“An old fashioned term that we use – groceries. I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it.”
This is Trump in his “I didn’t know this before” mode, where he assumes no one else knew it either. Specifically, it’s a word he’s vaguely aware of, (probably from movies, tv, etc.) but never had to use it before himself. Neither he nor anyone in his social circle has ever been to a grocery store, has ever purchased groceries, etc. They have food provided for them, and the process by which it came to their tables is arcane knowledge that doesn’t concern them. Trump being Trump, he can’t conceive that “groceries” are a regular part of almost everyone’s lives, and assumes it must be a half-forgotten technical term as far as everyone else is concerned, too.
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Mrs. Ficus sent me a video of this as she was watching it live. It was very WTF.
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There is a 58% tariff on Norfolk Island. Norfolk Island’s primary export is the seeds and seedlings of the Norfolk Pine, and to a lesser extent wood pulp of the same. Its total export to the US is less than $700k pa. Norfolk Island has a population of a bit over 2000 people, and is a territory of Australia.
Is Trump trying to break the Norfolk Pine monopoly?
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I really think he’s trying to tank the entire US (if not global) economy, so he and his rich buddies can buy up as much shit as they can and become even more wealthy.
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He doesn’t have them by shit. There is no legal basis for his EO. They’re giving in because they’re cowards.
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Holy crap, I thought Aaron Rupar was doing satire.
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Plus a world where everything has tariffs on it by default is a world where everyone has to grovel to him personally for an exemption.
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The orange slime’s “liberation day” stated method is to enact a tariff against every country roughly(?) equal to half their current “tariff” against U.S. imports.
According to his tote-board the means that they used to associate a single “tariff” amount with a specific “country” (including some uninhabited areas like the Heard and McDonald Islands) is simply to take the trade deficit the states have with that area and divide it (compute the percentage) by their current exports to the states: <trade_deficit>/<export_valuation>*100 → not any actual tariff of that area involved (m’gawd …the stupidity!)
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What an utter dipshit. Jebus save us.
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“President Trump just finished his tariff speech at the White House and we would characterize this slate of tariffs as ‘worse than the worst case scenario’ the Street was fearing,” said Dan Ives, senior analyst at Wedbush Securities, in a note.
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