NEW: Trump isn't just threatening "very high" tariffs on Denmark, Canada, etc. He's openly saying that he wants tariffs to pay for his $5T tax cuts.This will leave the bottom 50% (and likely more) of Americans worse off.Let me highlight a few estimates:www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…
— Heather Long (@byheatherlong.bsky.social) 2025-01-09T19:08:05.119Z

they are going to do the tariffs and fly the country’s economy into the side of a mountain
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-01-01T23:22:22.920Z

https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3lcq4kgzq5s2c

They have no idea that tariffs will make everything more expensive
— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2024-11-25T01:46:24.045Z

Republicans clearly believe Trump’s lies on tariffs

How else can you account for the difference?

To the extent that they ever were, consumer confidence metrics are clearly not a useful measure of general economic moods but just one more indication of how everything is seen through the partisan lens. ⁦‪@NeilIrwin‬⁩.bsky.social http://www.axios.com/2024/12/06/t…
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) 2024-12-07T15:40:43.761Z

Republicans believe Trump’s lies that other countries will pay for the tariffs. Democrats don’t.
— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2024-12-07T15:46:26.524Z

Polls on tariffs

Trump tariff plans bring concern about prices, financial impact, but GOP base sees jobs long-term — CBS News poll

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-trump-tariffs-13-04-2025/

Trump lies about tariffs

If tariffs increase the price of an item, the seller will just increase the price for the consumer. The company is not going to absorb the tariff. Trump lied about this in the debate and many times before.

US businesses and consumers paid Trump's tariffs on China.

US importers make the literal tariff payments, and study after study has found that American consumers bore the costs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 11, 2024

Trump's tariffs are, indeed, effectively a sales tax. pic.twitter.com/DjPzq1GIN5
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) September 11, 2024

Thing is, tariffs aren't just a tax on imports. They also reduce competition, leading American companies to raise their prices. https://t.co/Wy8eaoH9qO pic.twitter.com/HQMvG7TH7f
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) August 28, 2024

I drew you a picture and hope you like it. https://t.co/dKIbA5rcvY pic.twitter.com/vSi5jn4wys
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) September 12, 2024

Senator @JDVance, as you requested I've done a bit more digging into the talking points on tariffs we were provided by industry-funded lobby groups. Unfortunately they do not meet our usual high standards for evidence. pic.twitter.com/yyrA9p7XEs
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) September 12, 2024

Trump lies about the impact of his proposed tariffs

Americans would pay the price of Trump’s tariffs

Hence, why the Republican presidential ticket is desperate to convince Americans that they don't/won't pay Trump's tariffs. https://t.co/S6lWbVmhzo
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) August 25, 2024

Narrator: they do not disagree. https://t.co/OFcCZGgvqG pic.twitter.com/40QFPNtX62
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) August 25, 2024

Senator @JDVance is right to say that economists disagree about whether tariffs on Chinese goods raise the price for Americans.

Some "Strongly agree," while others merely "Agree." A few are "Uncertain." It is disgusting that some try to paper over this disagreement. https://t.co/7ox6ZLnIEq pic.twitter.com/YQVpvXvx35
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) August 25, 2024

Trump’s tax proposal to replace a major amount of income-tax revenue with tariffs is a prescription for the mother of all stagflations. It burdens the middle class and the poor who purchase goods on international markets. It would also create worldwide economic warfare.

The…
— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) June 15, 2024

Tariffs imposed by executive fiat give the executive lots of opportunities to accept bribes in exchange for lowering tariffs on specific goods or even specific companies. https://t.co/9RNZR4NhDN
— Mr. Nick Beaudrot (@nbeaudrot) June 14, 2024

https://twitter.com/brendan_duke/status/1801577968830960022?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/brendan_duke/status/1801349306470801532?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

Trump lies about the lobster industry

NBC Fact check: Trump says Obama 'destroyed' Maine's lobster industry. His own trade war is to blame. https://t.co/1MWz0KmHkV
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 29, 2020

Nope. The value of lobster landings increased under Obama and then took a sharp dip as soon as Trump took office. Thanks for the trade war. https://t.co/hGtXAhjHKJ

Signed, An Actual Maine Lobster Boat Captain https://t.co/LEvqp8j9mh
— Genevieve McDonald (@Genevieve_Maine) June 25, 2020

Two seconds here to look at how something tweeted by the president (or more likely someone in his team) might seem random, but isn’t. Exhibit A: 🦞 https://t.co/tfbxvaT9JW
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 25, 2020

Trump lies and lies

Lobster was a top Maine export, including to China. In response to Trump’s trade war, China put a 25% tariff on US lobster. Beijing also cut its tariff on lobster bought from Canada, Maine’s fierce rival.

Canada’s lobster exports to China nearly doubled. https://t.co/L2YKnmIJfR
— Chad P. Bown (@ChadBown) June 5, 2020

How are Trump’s farm subsidies being paid for?

Trump has given 30 billion dollars to farmers to compensate them for the costs of a trade war he started.

I have yet to hear a reporter or interviewer ask the president ‘how are you paying for that?’
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 15, 2020

Goldman Sachs casts doubt on Phase 1 US China Trade Deal Soybean Purchases: "The $40 billion figure represents a $24 billion (a year and)..an additional $16 billion for at least two years… there would need to be a big increase in soybean exports..https://t.co/khD2EAdk6S
— comparerateskenya.com (@comparerateske1) January 10, 2020

(Reuters) – Days before a US-China trade deal is due to be signed, large Chinese purchases of Brazilian soybeans and a pair of unexpected policy moves by Beijing have dimmed U.S. hopes that China would double its imports of American farm products this yearhttps://t.co/sdy3tMuDbn
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) January 10, 2020

Trump's trade war (reminder: it didn't address IP theft, currency manipulation & anti-competitive subsidies & hurt our farmers, consumers & manufacturers) pushed China to other markets.

Brazil will now overtake USA as world’s largest soybean producer. https://t.co/aatxwKxOF0
— J.D. Scholten (@JDScholten) December 11, 2019

Trump got into a trade war with China

China cut U.S. dairy purchases by more than 50%

818 dairy farms in Wisconsin went out of business in 2019. That's 10% of the state's dairies and the largest decline in Wisconsin history https://t.co/hjDDgntZMk
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) January 11, 2020

these payments — billed as help for the nation’s ordinary farmers but which go overwhelmingly to small niche of affluent, white large scale producers — are close to the purest form of trumpism https://t.co/UaZgQSxZlr
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) January 11, 2020

HEARTBREAKING: "Amid Trump Tariffs, Farm Bankruptcies And Suicides Rise" https://t.co/Sw53CKqSWl Via @Forbes #Farmers
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) January 1, 2020

Farmers Got Billions From Taxpayers In 2019, And Hardly Anyone Objected https://t.co/tdsHbeuY7u
— Nada Bakos (@nadabakos) January 1, 2020

And the bailout of farmers, which helped large farms much more than smaller independent farmers is now much greater than auto bailout of crisis. Too late for many as farm bankruptcies have surged and banks in rural areas have closed. That limits access to banking in rural areas https://t.co/4bqSZWvjbV
— Diane Swonk (@DianeSwonk) December 31, 2019

.@MaddowBlog: Farmers’ reality disproves rosy rhetoric from Team Trump.https://t.co/YWzdSayjvd
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 30, 2019

It’s always interesting to see what sorts of government programs face cries of socialism or demands that they be paid for. A $14.5 billion farm bailout doesn’t make the cut.https://t.co/1LQ8Ll1jve
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 30, 2019

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