Trump considers declaring national economic emergency to impose tariffs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/08/trump-tariffs-national-economic-emergency

by diacewrb

14 comments

  1. There it is. I was wondering why he wanted to rename the Gulf of Mexico. It is to distract from this awful idea.

    Whenever President Musk wants to distract us from his horrible plans or his mistakes he sends out Puppet Trump to say something outrageously stupid. That way people focus on that and not on what they are actually trying to do.

  2. I’m stuck between wanting him to not do anything he promised and him doing everything he promised and hurting the average american citizen.

    January 20th can’t get here soon enough I’m waiting to see what 1 day as a dictator will do to the country

  3. Getting a little “Handmaid’s Tale”‘around here…

  6. What about congress, do they not have a say, the people who actually know what they’re doing? (Not MAGAs but the rest of the establishment pols).

  8. Normally I would think that declaring an economic emergency or national security threats would require a President to have to produce evidence in order to issue tariffs or as a reason to invade another country….but those days are over living under the rule of Ductator Trump. How would tariffs improve the economy anyway. Imposing a tariff places a tax on anyone importing any goods that have tariffs. The tariffs would then be imposed on the consumer…in most cases. How does that stimulate an economy that’s already doing well under most metrics.

  9. Shock economics to sink life as we know it. Here we go…

  10. Let me fix that for you:

    “Trump considers declaring national economic emergency to create national economic emergency.”

  11. Hmm strongest economy in the western world declaring economic emergency even though the US has inflation below 3%, GDP at 3%, unemployment at 4% – by every metric a strong economy

    2 + 2 = 5

  12. I’m hoping this isn’t a different form of senility. Biden had dementia, I’m hoping this isn’t a looney tunes version. Surely ratifying margins are thin enough to prevent full crazy here.

  14. And when he does get ready for the national guard to slowly but surely rolled out to police Americans.

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