Trump's Latest Repost: "Shut Up About Egg Prices" 😁

Reckon, and again he deflects what he sees as the cause of high egg prices: Biden.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-egg-prices-shut-up-b2712527.html

Speaking next to a table of packaged goods during an August press conference, Trump promised, should he be re-elected, to lower grocery prices on “day one.”

“Grocery prices have skyrocketed. Cereals are up 26 percent, bread is up 24 percent, butter is up 37 percent, baby formula is up 30 percent, flour is up 38 percent, and eggs are up 46 percent,” he said. “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.”

More recently, in his speech to Congress last week, Trump said: “Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control. The egg prices out of control. And we are working hard to get it back down.”

But over the weekend, he signaled he may have had enough of discussing the rising costs when he shared on Truth Social conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s Daily Caller article titled “Shut Up About Egg Prices — Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions.”

Funny, he eventually got bored of talking about coronavirus, too. And we all know how well that one turned out in the US 🙄

Interesting article which dissects Trumps tariff thinking and as usual he has no understanding of it apart from rich will get richer and ignores the remaining 90% of the population.

Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many

Read all the way through to this 'punch' line at the very end: "The day after his Buffalo speech, McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He died on Sept. 14, 1901."

We can only hope, except there are two other sycophants in direct line after him.

The Washington Post - Trump announced an extraordinary level of tariffs on Canada

today

As the stock market and businesses showed deepening anxiety about the direction of the economy under President Donald Trump, on Tuesday he doubled tariffs that he had just put on Canada’s steel and aluminum. 

 

They start Wednesday, meaning that any home builder, carmaker or construction company that uses these raw materials needs to find a new supplier ASAP, or pay 50 percent more to get them across the border.

 

This is likely to end up as a tax that is passed on to consumers, economists say, raising prices. ...

 

But worse is the maddening amount of uncertainty that Trump’s back-and-forth on tariffs is creating, say experts. Why would businesses make big purchases if they don’t know what new tariffs could be coming a day later …

 

Sideface:

 

There is something wrong with the cartoon. The cannon on the right is too small to scale. The EU cannon is operational and is currently carrying out manoeuvre exercises. It will only bring disadvantages for everyone (except for Putin), but if it is necessary?

If Agent Orange already thinks that the EU was only founded as a disadvantage for the USA (what self-centred nonsense) then he should also feel that Actio=Reactio. The pain of separation from previously accustomed reason also passes when one has realised that it can no longer be taken for granted. A relapse into nationalism is always wrong in times of close global structures and networks - regardless of ideology or political orientation.

At the end of the day, we only have this planet earth to look after together.

Maybe the orange buffoon was ahead of his time (for once)? 😀

• Tesla loses more than $125 billion in value in one day
  
  
• S&P 500 down over 8% from February 19 all-time high
  
  
• Nasdaq confirmed 10% correction from its Dec peak last week
  
  
• Delta Air Lines cuts forecast on growing economic uncertainty
  
  

The orange buffoon's economic "policies" be like...

Answer for Agent Orange - US products that are subject to counter-tariffs in the EU: (preliminary, not exhaustive)

• Bourbon whiskey | I prefer Irish, Scotch, Canadian.
• jeans | I'm past that age. I can afford real trousers.
• motorbikes | These uncultivated, noisy US rattlers?
• boats | No need for boats.
• peanut butter | I buy them in organic quality and unsweetened from other countries anyway.
• poultry | The chlorine corpses are at most for fast food here, which I avoid.
• beef |I only buy locally in organic quality.
• certain seafood | Canadian lobster and fish is welcome. 😁
• nuts | There are plenty of alternatives to peanuts and almonds.
• eggs | Seriously? 🤣
• dairy products | Hello, we have Italian ice cream!
• soya beans | Available from other sources.
• sugar | Used too much anyway.
• vegetables | We'll have to ask the Mexicans, otherwise more of our own vegetables.

This will not come as a price shock to EU consumers, but it will hit (republican) US producers all the harder.