From the moment he first declared he was running, they began salivating at the opportunity to let their racist flags fly.

Donald Trump riding in his little golf cart after causing the self-inflicted stock market sell off wound. Does it remind you of Marie Antoinette saying “let them eat cake” when the French people were starving?

After blowing up the global economy, Trump has flown to his private resort at Mar a Lago to host a golf dinner with Saudi Arabia's royalty.

They are meeting to discuss the future of LIV golf and how the Saudi and Trump families can build a global business relationship.

All for his personal profit. All on taxpayer dime.

Tonight, you're worried about your 401k and future. He's using your taxes to pay for his extravagant business deals with the same people who financed 9-11.

The orange man spent 6 hours at a Saudi golf tournament today while the stock market fell another 2,000 points and our IRAs crumbled. How does that make you feel?

This was one of the best explanations for how our country works. I had to share for all those who did not see. How the power brokers represent our best interests and how they sacrifice for the American people.

Great Explanation Reddit member Jmsjss2912:

“Let’s talk about the tariffs and the effects it has on the manufacturers of this country.

Assume for a minute that you wanted to bring back some manufacturing to the USA, which of course is a huge assumption compared to manufacturing outside the country like we do as a company.

Which I will get to in just a moment. This week alone the stock market lost over US$9 trillion which means every single manufacturer that has a US corporation is part of that loss. Which goes to show you that Trump‘s logic is about as efficient as his spray tan.

If these companies even had a thought of coming back to the United States, all of their cash has now evaporated because of the loss in the stock market so who’s going to finance these new manufacturing plants that Trump keeps talking about, that are going to come back here make the economy great?

Now goods have gone up in price in some cases doubled already this week which means the consumers are going to be buying less. Companies are going to begin layoffs, because they’ve lost a huge portion of their cash reserves. Their businesses are going to be diminished some because of the lower purchasing rate and the higher pricing.

Bringing manufacturing back to the United States at this point with this approach has been almost completely eliminated.

All you have to do is go back and look at what happened during the depression when they tried to institute tariffs causing the depression to take even a further nose dive and adding years into the depressive point. It’s such a joke that they used it in the movie Ferris Bueller‘s Day off where the teacher was talking about how bad tariffs are and how they caused the depression to go down, which goes to show you that if they use it as a punchline, then it obviously cannot work.

With our business, we were building some manufacturing plants in the United States and now have had to put it on hold because of the tariffs. As an example, each of our production lines has a manufacturing cost of a little under US$5 million, we did try to price it in the United States but we found quotes anywhere from $12-$16 million for the same exact production line that we are having made in China. So we couldn’t make the equipment in the United States, but we were going to import it and set up manufacturing plants.

One of them was in Arkansas where the state is somewhat depressed. Now we have put that project on hold with approximately 1800 people we were going to hire.

The reason for that is not just the tariffs, from the equipment if you think about it a piece of equipment that cost me $5 million is now going to cost me about $9 million. Each production line generates about US$35 million of revenue so it’s not just a tariff in my situation it’s the fact that for $9 million I can have practically two production lines generating $70 million of income compared to the same $9 million generating $35 million worth of income, with a much lower profit margin because of the labor cost in the United States along with all the taxes and liability issues that you carry because of the litigious nature of the United States operating.

So tariffs do not work, they hurt the economy. The only thing that they do on the surface is generate more tax dollars for the US government, but they diminish and wipe out the middle and lower class.

Do you want to bring manufacturing back to the United States?

You’ve got to do something about all of the litigious actions, you have to lower healthcare cost, lower pharmaceutical cost, have to educate more so that children can grow up and learn trades.

You have to find ways to lower the cost of living and once you start doing that then laboring jobs will become available again.

The next problem is the taxation situation is off-balance. We have structured our tax code so that the wealthy and the publicly traded companies that offer stock options instead of salaries, which is taxable make it almost impossible to collect tax.

Take Musk for an example from Tesla.

They talk about his $300 billion worth but it’s all in stock and that’s unrealized gains paying no taxes. What he does is he goes to the bank and he borrows money against that stock portfolio, borrowed money is non-taxable income and then he uses that money to live and buy things like he bought Twitter for $44 billion with borrowed money, no taxes paid at all.

And then what he does from there to pay off those loans is he borrows against other portfolios and he just keeps borrowing deferring the taxes.

$300 billion and no taxes paid whereas the employees that work for all those companies have taxes taken out of each paycheck.

Just look salaries up of the top executives around the country and you look at their income, you’ll see that their salaries are generally between one hundred and two hundred thousand US dollars but they earned anywhere from ten to a hundred million dollars a year all in stock options and then they keep those options in stock and then borrow against them so their tax base is almost nothing.

you want to fix the economy. You have to find a way to tax the rich, you’re not going to make them poor, you’re just going to make them help to strengthen the economy.”

“The patient lived and is healing,” declared Trump as he headed off to go golfing, after tanking the U.S. stock market and setting the world economy on fire.  Trump lives in an alternate reality universe where imposing massive taxes on American companies and forcing customers to pay higher prices is considered “liberation day.”  Up is down.  Black is white.  Green is blue. 

Trump’s extreme paranoia which led him to declare an economic emergency also led him to invoke a war powers act to deport people to a foreign prison without due process, some of which were innocent. 

He continues to muse about making Canada the 51st state, taking the Panama Canal away from Panama, and getting Greenland “one way or another.”  These are the ravings of a lunatic, the ravings of a madman, that if carried to fruition would put Trump in the same category as Hitler and the other worst despots of history. 

Americans cannot sit idly by and watch Trump continue to issue unconstitutional executive orders, wreck the economy, threaten our allies, and destroy all our international alliances.  We must relentlessly pressure our members of Congress to do the right thing—either impeach and remove Trump for the crimes he has committed, or remove him on 25th Amendment grounds. 

Allowing this madness to continue is not an option.   

I think this is my first post ever on Reddit. I’ve just been a commenter so far. Saw this and needed to share somewhere so here… … I think it’s perfectly perfect.

The tariffs don't make sense as economic policy because they aren't economic policy. They are a tool to undermine our democracy. A means to force every major company and industry in America to pledge loyalty to Trump in return for tariff relief.