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Miles Archer

(21,190 posts)
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 09:33 AM Nov 24

Trump rage-tweets lie that foreign companies pay tariffs, says those who don't support them are Anti-American

In a rambling Truth Social post published shortly after midnight Sunday, the president revived his fiction that foreign companies pay tariffs—even though the duties are levied on U.S. importers—and said anyone who doesn’t support them is anti-American.

“Those opposing us are serving hostile foreign interests that are not aligned with the success, safety and prosperity of the USA,” Trump wrote. “They couldn’t care less about us. I look so much forward to the United States Supreme Court’s decision on this urgent and time sensitive matter so that we can continue, in an uninterrupted manner to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

But after two key conservative justices sounded skeptical on the government’s position, the president has repeatedly lobbied the court via social media post.

“Despite the massive amount of money being made by the United States of America, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, as a direct result of Tariffs being charged to other countries, the full benefit of the Tariffs has not yet been calculated in that many of the buyers of goods and products, in order to avoid paying the Tariffs in the short term, ‘STOCK UP’ by purchasing far more inventory than they can use in order to avoid Tariff payments in the short term,” he wrote Sunday night.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-frets-about-his-supreme-court-tariff-battle-in-late-night-rant/

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Trump rage-tweets lie that foreign companies pay tariffs, says those who don't support them are Anti-American (Original Post) Miles Archer Nov 24 OP
Trying to make the world fit his reality bucolic_frolic Nov 24 #1
And not supporting tariffs is punishable by death surfered Nov 24 #2
STFU donnie spanone Nov 24 #3
The pathetic Texas school books will soon reflect that 'fact'. enigmania Nov 24 #4
The purpose of the US government is not "making money" Walleye Nov 24 #5
While You're Absolutely Coreect... ProfessorGAC Nov 24 #6

Walleye

(43,447 posts)
5. The purpose of the US government is not "making money"
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 11:12 AM
Nov 24

We definitely shouldn’t be judged by how much money we take in. How many services we provide is what we should be judged by and how well we govern. You know we the people.

ProfessorGAC

(75,492 posts)
6. While You're Absolutely Coreect...
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 12:52 PM
Nov 24

...in this case the revenue doesn't come from where he claims, so the government isn't making any money other than by pulling it from other segments of the economy.
I agree "making money" is not the function of government, but no money is actually being made.
Also, he claims "hundreds of billions". His own Treasury department is predicting $192 billion (no, I don't trust that number), so "hundreds" is under TWO hundred.

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