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Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.
I hate the fact that the media just reports that he’s doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he’s using to excuse them are nonexistent.
Congress has surrendered its powers to Trump. Democrats in congress are sleeping on the job.
it didn’t surrender anything, you elected turnip in a majority of all houses
the Republican Party now has a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
that’s damn near as much as saying go ahead do whatever you want as possible
you elected turnip
Canadians don’t even vote for the Prime Minister of Canada. How would they have voted for the president of the US?
Not a lawyer. Not an American.
But there must be more context, because by my read of this specific text it doesn’t appear to be defined as a power EXCLUSIVE to Congress?
Not really. The US Constitution is a rather short document. This was by design, to only provide a bare framework for a government, to be amended over time. But that didn’t really happen, and most work has been done in Congress and by SCOTUS after Marbury v. Madison.
You can read a whole bunch of info in articles like https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation03.html, but the tl;dr is that the Constitution says only Congress can make laws, but it can delegate some other authority. The section we’re talking about here doesn’t say it’s a power exclusive to congress, no, but it says Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, and Congress acts through law (literally, “acts of Congress”), so logically, taxes can only be set through Congressional law. And usually they are. But all the rules have gone out the window.
Good news. Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump’s ass are now fully caught up with the reality that he is an unreasonable prick.
Now the real decoupling of economies from the US can begin.
He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead.
Give him money and he will do what you want, fuck anyone else or his country.
He is being completely reasonable if all he cares about is himself. He’s just a dickhead.
He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead
He is definitely both of those things.
i defy anyone to say it better than you just did.
Translation: I made outrageous demands they didn’t accept.
Why EU no buy $TRUMP?!?!
I’m so good at deals, I’ve made probably 200 deals, everyone wants to make a deal with me.
A few weeks later
I’m not trying to make a deal with anyone! 😭
Next week he will brag about how he made a tremendous deal, and lower the tariffs as a result. What tremendous deal he made will be left unspecified, but Fox News will use this opportunity to report how great of a deal maker he is.
There will be no deal, he will just lower the tariff. However, he will claim a deal was made
Like he did with China.
Whenever he makes this announcement, expect there to be a flurry of buying activity in the US stock markets in the day (or even hours) immediately preceding
He made this announcement to give media something other than the “Big Beautiful Bill” to worry about this weekend.
I don’t give him that much credit. The idiot runs around shitting his pants and making a mess 24 hours a day.
This isn’t planned. Swimming in a diarrhea filled ocean is his natural environment.
Never said he was as stupid as many others have said, especially when he was younger. (Yeah, average at best, and that’s a left-handed insult.) But damn! Even in his dementia, the man got a talent for leading the narrative.
I started out saying, “Nah. He’s not that smart to be distracting like that, just spewing his usual narcissistic shit in reaction to events.” But after he’s pulled this move 100 times, I’m a believer. Gotta admit, he’s damned good at working the headlines.
Marketing. Trump is good at marketing. That’s all.
You really think this is all him? Guy’s got a full team running the media. The Heritage Foundation’s got its grimy hands all over the country.
Bullshit. He is looking for a deal, just not one that is favourable to both parties.
I’m pretty sure that’s called extortion.
And that is exactly why he got impeached the first time during his first term.
He’s looking for a deal that is favorable to him. He will give the EU anything that the US can offer in exchange for personal profit and power.
Yeah, that’s not a deal. That’s capitulation.
No no no, what he wants is appeasement like his idol got
Dip
Shit
Some people will have to start manufacturing stuff day in and day out like they used to do in the 50’s.
For a day*
