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In other words, Brandon has no fucking idea what "tariff" means, except it must be good cuz Daddy says so.
To be fair, Trump doesn't even know how tariffs work properly.
Someone on reddit (from where I stole this pic) said 'Trump thinks tariffs are like tributes' and I think that's a perfect analysis of Trump's mentality.
Isn't that correct though?
Whenever someone does something, they need to pay tribute to Trump. So, it's like tribute to him.
Just like how it works in Russia. Funny that.
Tributes are still a thing. See Australia "buying" $300bn submarines from the US.
So I can somewhat understand why Trump thought this is what tariffs are haha
(My grumble, you're not wrong)
Trump doesn’t know how fucking anything works.
I wish the US media would call tariffs "import taxes", as that terminology seems to be generally better understood by the public.
Then they'd blame the liberals for adding a new tax when all Trump wants is tariffs.
Yesterday I type "what" into my search engine and within the top 5 was "what is a tariff". Import tax would make too much sense and people wouldn't stand behind it if it was referred to as such.
I get that tariff is the correct word and I understand what they are, but I am sure people like my dipshit cousins had no clue until a few days ago.