“Well, they did sign up for it, actually. And this is what I campaigned on,” Trump said of the tariffs during an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday.

And you can’t really argue with that.

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    2 months ago

    He also said tariffs were a tax that other countries paid…so there may have been some confusion over what exactly they were agreeing to.

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      2 months ago

      It doesn’t matter who pays the tariff. Anyone with half a brain knows that the cost will be passed down to the consumer either way.

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          2 months ago

          Yep. Less than half a brain and less than half a heart. Amd absolutely no self-awareness.

          Socrates would chug a 20 ounce hemlock Mountain Dew just on principle after meeting an average American.