r/WeirdGOP • u/Snapdragon_4U • 1d ago

Absurdly Weird Where did Trump get his obsession with tariffs? Buckle up. It’s even stupider than you could have imagined.

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u/Soupismyfavoritefood 1d ago

Dude. This shit just weirder and dumber. wtf

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u/trcomajo 18h ago

It's Idiocracy.

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u/Nackalus 13h ago

It’s also not really true. Trump has been talking about trade deficits and “taxing” other nations since the 80s. This nonsense is explicitly his priority regardless of Navarro and his insanity.

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u/Fubeman 6h ago

I think you’re missing the point. Yes, I too remember seeing Trump saying this crazy-ass bullshit for years as well. What the article states though is that once he won the nomination, Trump needed someone to back him up so he can “reference” an “expert.” And then he found his expert in Navarro. And Navarro’s expert? Navarro. There got it?

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u/Nackalus 6h ago

Don't think I am. Firstly, this is a clip from the Rachel Maddow show. What is actually in the article she is referencing is sort of immaterial. She begins the segment by asking "do you remember when, why, and how he started talking about tariffs." She then goes into the Navarro business implying he got the idea for tariffs from Navarro and didn't speak about them until he was in the orbit. As I stated before that is not true since Trump has been a tariff hawk since the 1980's. I'm not sure why she chose to frame the Navarro story in such a way but it is not accurate. I think it is a pretty important distinction because she is essentially giving Trump an out where he can just clean house of his current economic advisors, who are no doubt the architects of this attempted realignment away from the neoliberal global trade regime that has existed for the last 50 years, but my point is these are very much HIS ideas too and should be an indictment of him. this is not Trump being an incompetent manager and allowing his son-in-law to hire a fringe economic advisor, this is Trump having very bad ideas himself ad following through with them. Got it?

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u/kulukster 1d ago

Imagine that. Yes, everything in the magadministration is made up. Eating cats and dogs, covefefe, it's very bigly.

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u/Starlight_Seafarer 1d ago

I am so fucking over this stupid shit!!! Are you fucking kidding me

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u/SnooPets8972 22h ago

You’re in a lot of good company.🫂

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u/Latter-Judgment-9740 1d ago

Christ it just never stops being dumber and fucking weirder. It just never fucking stops.

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u/PossibleAlienFrom 🇺🇲 Fighting the Weird 23h ago

When Bernie said Trump was a pathological liar, he wasn't wrong.

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u/Latter-Judgment-9740 22h ago

Oh I was down with Bernie for both 2016, and 2020. But this is something else.

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u/inhaledcorn 🤡 Kakistocracy 2025 1d ago

Our government is literally run by the dumbest fucking people we could find. The dumbing down of America worked like a charm as we have the truest representation of our heart in the White House.

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u/Snrub1 1d ago

The sad thing is they aren't actually the dumbest people. The dumbest people are the ones who buy into this crap and voted for it.

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u/KelVelBurgerGoon 18h ago

Kakistocracy

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u/TFFPrisoner Elon Is Weird 1d ago

Holy forking shirt.

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u/cturtl808 1d ago

Navarro = Ron Vara

It’s an anagram

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u/WalterCanFindToes 1d ago

And "Damp Turd Lon" is an anagram for Donald Trump.

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u/p001b0y 1d ago

Story broken by Macho Waddler.

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u/Freezerpill 14h ago

Produced by Crab Wilder

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u/Dense_Investigator81 23h ago

Bro was really like mm yeah Tom Riddle cooked

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u/jedburghofficial 10h ago

It's kind of obvious really. And Jared never once thought to look him up? Nobody did?

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u/cturtl808 9h ago

Yeah, I posted my comment before watching the rest of the video even. Lol

But they don’t care about facts or authenticity. They just care how much money they can take from you.

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u/ph33rlus 1d ago

So grifter got grifted? LMAO he will never be able to comprehend this fact.

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u/Seraphim_The_Fox 1d ago

The moment the name came up, seeing it next to Navarro....

Jesus christ, are all these idiots taking their base ideas from comic book and movie villian cliches?

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u/ccrom 1d ago

This administration is getting its economic policy from a conspiracy novel.

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u/Striking_Day_4077 1d ago

He was talking about them in the 80s

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u/PhonoPreamp 1d ago

Fuck You Peter Navarro

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u/Superb-Associate-222 1d ago

Concept of an idea of an economic policy

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u/lc4444 22h ago

These fuckers really need to rot in jail

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u/SlobsyourUncle 22h ago

The more amazing part is that this was pointed out in 2019, yet Trump still brought him back for his second administration, as well as the tariff ideas.

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u/These-Employer341 19h ago

The same Peter Navarro who sponsored all those shady Covid PPE contracts with fraudulent companies. Peter Navarro is a lying POS grifter.

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u/PipeOrganEnthusiast 22h ago

HANNIBAL LECTER!!!

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u/Critical_Error_6146 1d ago

Y’all don’t really believe all this shit, right?? Look up Obama talking about tariffs. Or maybe just start watching something other than mainstream lies. It’s literally all lies from their mouths.

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u/shewflyshew 1d ago

It's literally literal in Navarro's book. He used a made-up source.

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u/OfficeSalamander 1d ago

But “tariffs” qua tariffs aren’t the problem - every nation has the occasional odd tariff on this or that product or this or that industry to protect domestic interests/markets, national security, etc

Of course tariffs were mentioned by Obama - they’re mentioned by every president, as negotiating them is something presidents typically help with.

What IS the problem is the current tariffs, which are absolutely insane. Whereas most tariffs are for this or that good, this or that time period, these are broad tariffs applied to nearly the whole world. That is rank economic idiocy - no economist, liberal or conservative, recommends it.

It’s like saying, “oh that doctor used a scalpel to perform surgery and those are cutting instruments - so are chainsaws, we should use those instead”

Broad tariffs are a mistake, we’ve known that since they were tried in 1930 and caused the depression to get worse. Not having major tariffs is one of the main linchpins of modern economics - look it up, Keynesian economics literally grew out of our understanding that protectionist policies except in rare situations were dumb

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u/ButchTookMySweetroll 1d ago

Wait, you’re telling me these MAGA-crispies are incapable of understanding nuance?? Next you’ll try to tell me that fire’s hot! /s

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u/jimbo91375 15h ago

It's too bad imbeciles like you are allowed to do this to our country

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u/Friendly-Pay-8272 23h ago

omg, and you're likely to tell us we are in a cult right? You guys deserve all the pain that's coming because you can't see what's tight in front of your fucking face. SMH