White House Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt falsely says “tariffs are a tax cut for the American people” and then lashes out at AP’s Josh Boak for pushing back.



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by Miserable-Lizard

44 comments

  1. Why not do 200% tarrifs if help the working class!

  2. She has no idea what she’s talking about. She’s just regurgitating talking points fed to her by the cheeto-in-chief. Importers (American companies) pay the tariffs, and the money goes to the U.S. Treasury. Those companies pass their higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices. That is why the prices of new cars will be going up $10k+ when the tariffs take effect. It’s the equivalent of having a massive sales tax on certain goods. Her calling it a tax cut is beyond mind boggling. I feel horrible for people that lack the financial literacy to recognize they’re being lied to. I hope this clip goes viral and is torn to shreds, it will be a great eye-opener for the American people.

  3. If you get offended by questions from journalist as a press secretary, you shouldn’t be a press secretary.

  4. How she constantly lies with a straight face is beyond me

  6. You can see on her face that she knows she’s lying. I don’t understand how she or any of these collaborators sleep at night. They’ve truly left any true humanity behind.

  7. This Administration is just so fuckin dumb…
    It’s kinda sad.

  8. Once she leaves here, she’ll be a talking head on Fox News.

  9. the people who don’t understand progressive tax rates are the same people who don’t understand tariffs on a basic scale

  11. How does anyone in America not know what Tariffs are and who pays them at this point? (Not saying she doesn’t know, the maga base is who I’m referring to) Tariffs have been a talking point since 2016. It’s a rather simple concept to comprehend. Anyone who doesn’t understand these are taxes/ duties paid by the American people and in most cases on goods they are already paying too much for because of corporate greed.

  12. All the other journalists now need to start asking her to give a worked example of a tarrif.

  13. These people (Leavitt, Trump, Musk, et al) are the Devil and I’m not even religious 🙄

  14. You know trumpers are like “SHE SURE SHUT HIM UP!”

  15. Up is down and down is up, or whatever George Orwell wrote about.

  16. She is just full on propoganda now.

    It reminds me of Iraq and listening to the one guy (per Google, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahhaf) that would always lie and claim the facts on the ground were not true, that you were to ignore the facts, and only believe the lies he was telling you.

    Crazy times for the US.

  17. > tarrifs are a tax cut for the American people

    Did anyone ask her to elaborate?

  18. How can anyone not see that she’s just straight up lying through her teeth? I just don’t understand.

  19. Tell me you’re an idiot without telling me you’re an idiot

  21. Can some Americans explain me how in whole America is no absurdly rich people that want to protect theire own interest that does not align with freaking lies about reality? I would think there would be greater push to stop this insanity….

  23. Oh come on. Someone I know imports products from China into US. They pay Chineese factory $9.90 per single unit of products they manufacture for him. He used to pay $2.37 per product to import it to US customs. Now he is expecting to pay $4.355 per product. He tried to negotiate terms with the Chinese factory due to US tariffs going up, they refused. He raised the price on old stock already. The bill will be picked up by US consumer in the end of the day.

  25. When did we become un-wealthy? When the dipshit started a trade war with our allies.

  26. I do not know who I am more disappointed with – a government known for spewing lies constantly, or a spineless media that does not call them on their shit.

  27. “He’s not actually implementing tax hikes. Uh. Tariffs are a tax hike (on a foreign country, blah blah blah…)”

  30. She wants to fuck Trump, doesn’t she? I’m getting “that’s MY man” vibes

  31. I hope future historians are extra harsh with this period of time.

    We’ve had the Dark Age and Obscurantism has been prevalent across history. Those words are too nice for this. This is just the fucking dumb era of blatant lies for the US.

  32. She’s offended people are questioning her on her knowledge of economics? No offense but she has a communications degree lol. She doesn’t have an economics or finance degree. Why would they question her on it? That’s like saying she can’t be life someone would question her knowledge on aerospace engineering.

  34. Wages haven’t gone even without tariffs or tax cuts

  35. Ah, I found the little manipulative nugget of logic that they’re using to brainwash people:

    “Once Americans have **fair and balanced trade**, which they have not seen in decades”

    **There it is.** If you study cult/manipulation/gaslighting techniques from the GOP, take note.

    “Fair and balanced trade.” An immeasurable goal or status. It’s an invisible carrot that will simply never materialize.

    There is no such thing as “fair and balanced trade.” Fair/balanced to who?

    Fair/balanced as observed by who? By what metric?

    Fair/balanced as relevant to what industry?

  37. damn…looked up lying cunt and saw both her and trump’s picture. Wild.

  39. If shes truly offended then she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, so should listen to him.

    What’s more likely is that she’s lying about being offended because she knows she was lying

  41. Ok. I am a US based manufacturer. HALF of my business is exported to Canada. If they increase the tariffs by 25%, I don’t pay it, the importer does. Tariffs are paid by the importer….this makes my head hurt.

  43. How can you be such an idiot and, at the same time, such a cancer!?

  44. Every time anyone in this administration speaks all I see and hear in my mind is Baghdad Bob saying “Everything is fine, everything is ok.”

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