Trump, Lying For the Sake of Tariffs

EVERYBODY SAW IT. Or at least, half the country did. Trump, outside,in front of a microphone, holding a nice looking, well designed poster whih listed the tariff rate every other country charges the United States, and next to it, the tariff rate the United States charges other countries. Just simple numbers, percentages. In every instance, the tariff against American goods was, or is allegedly about double that which the U.S. charges. Again, nearly two hundred countries were listed on the signnboard Trump held up to the camera, and there seemed to be no exceptions. About double, each country. With this camera friendly prop, which required a bit of close up camera work to show individual countries, it was immediately easier to make the Trump argument that the poor little old U.S.A. is being cheated and ripped off by every counry in the world, indeed by the world itself, in international trade. We hapless American people are the victims of international conspiratorial perfidy and theft. And, as at least half the country will recall, Trump did precisely that, without hesitation, reservation, or lack of energy, anger, and bile. A professional looking chart always adds credibility to any argument, even if the information presented it spurious. But of course, in all matters having anything to do with Trump, one has to be constantly vigilant, on the look out for lies and misinformation. Thus, I wondered if the tariff rates listed on Trump's chart were true. I still do. And, lo and behold, wonder of wonders, it seems that indeed they are, spurious, fake. Lies. In the middle of a recent night, insomnia drove me to the overnight network news, and a young man on CBS overnight sat before a camera, looked into it, and carefully, step by step, in great detail, described precisely how Trump's team arrived at the tariff numbers given. He figured out their methods, and explained them. It was a complete hoax, of Trumpian proportions. The tariff nubmers Trump's team arrived at and published are totally fabricated, arbitrary, misleading, derived fron an invalid, unheard of method. As usual, so confident is Trump in the unbreakable loyalty of his supporters, and so confident of the apathy of the American people, that he lies blatantly, openly, without evident fer of repurcussion. On ewonders where the academicians and expert are, the economics professors at Ivy League universities, and places like Stanford, M.I.T., among many others. Surely they have looked at Trump's phony tariff chart, have seen the blatant dishonesty of it, and are intending to warn the American people that they are being duped by their recently elected de facto fascist leader. Just as essentially all economists agree that tariffs are almsot always undesirable, presumably they all agreee that Trump's arguments in favor of them and the alleged facts and figures he uses to justify his tariff happy policy; ar totally, entirely, completely bogus. Not only must Trump be defeated and removed from politics, his entire agenda and political movement (MAGA) must be eliminated, and the best way to do this is to thoroughly discredit it, with an avalanche of facts and information presented to the public with great frequency, by an enormous group of energetic, competant, persistant people. In other words, by mainstream America. Trump's entire life is a big lie. Trump is a walking lie, a lie waiting to happen. The DOGE project and the tariff scheme are both deadly harmful to the United States and the world, both serve only to gratify MAGA mobsters. This civil war must be won by Trump's enemies, for the sake of America.