Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-tariffs-apple-dell.html

35 comments

  2. Prob cause business lobbying. Everything the plebs need from Walmart will still go through the roof.

  4. “oh crap, what we’re doing could Spike the prices of smartphones, that would really piss off people real quick. Just exempt those, the idiots won’t care about the rest as long as they’re distracted by their social media device”

    And unfortunately they might be right. Yes, they, because I’m all but completely convinced that Trump is too stupid to do anything other than making an ass of himself on camera, it’s the idiots behind him that are doing all this

  7. Okay… this is good news, but it’s ironic considering that trump has bragged many times about how wonderful tariffs are and how they’re going to do all these things to “put America first” and “bring back jobs” and “get back and all the countries that were taking advantage of us” and all that. So I guess trump doesn’t care about those things anymore? 😂

  8. It’s in the dictatorship rules: don’t mess with the bread and circuses

  10. Panican in chief. I know a maga is unable to parse this but it means any official justification for these tariffs is gone.

    1) I still have to pay taxes
    2) no manufacturing back to America
    3) no punishing China

    Which means we are left with stock market manipulation. Small time con man got the biggest con and you dear red hat cheer it on

  11. I won’t be surprised if China retaliates by jacking up prices on the exemptions as a point of attack, making the exemption a moot point.

  12. Isn’t that the type of manufacturing he wanted to bring back to the US through these tariffs.

  14. But what about Americans putting tiny screws in the iPhones? I want that job

  15. Turning into the Liz truss moment in America wipe trillions off the market, almost cause a economic meltdown and then backtrack , if only we had a Westminster system government to out him for this mess

  16. So he pussied out as always LOL

    But i am sure “flaired ones” will hail this as a victory.

  17. He’s soft launching everything he does because he doesn’t know what he’s doing

  18. So the deal was basically to hurt US exports at this point? What a master of the deal!

  19. So manufacturing these products in the US is no longer important.

  20. I just don’t understand how when he backs off suddenly tarriffs and their misunderstanding of their use aren’t that important to his base.

  21. If you think there’s some vector of reason that Trump is receptive to and he caved it just reinforces the idea that he can be pleaded with and that he’s the sole conduit to either a strong or broken economy, which was the point all along.

    He doesn’t care if the numbers go up or down, he just cares that he’s the reason for it. He just cares about power.

  22. that didn’t take long. Did someone draw a picture for him in crayon showing how it’s impossible to bring iPhone production over here?

    Hope China doesn’t cave on their end. You give him this, and he’ll take it as a win.

  23. What a WEAK old man.

    Just like all MAGA men. Insecure, and no real friends.

    Just like Musk.

  25. Picking winners and losers, just your typical small-government stuff.

  26. That’ll be great for US manufacturing. We’ll tariff all the raw materials but not the things made out of them. Genius

  27. He is so bad at this.

    The fact that he keeps changing his mind on the details every day is what is making the economy suffer. Businesses cannot plan for the future if every day something changes.

  28. Maybe Chiiiina should just add an export tariff especially for the USA. America is no longer a stable partner and should be punished for all this fuckery

  29. The art of the deal is apparently just folding like a napkin

    This guy is so weak and so bad at this President thing. Bring back Biden, at least he was capable and competent

  31. I’m starting to think this Trump guy might be a fucking idiot.

  32. Lmfao . So china is the winner here? They get to tariff all of USA exports but their electronic exports are not tarrifed?

  33. Isn’t this just a correction for optics because he was so transparently bribed by the Nvidia guy? So now they’re just trying to make it seem like all chips were always planned to be exempted?

  34. I was the first to say it was all done on purpose to crash the economy, actions done according to project 2025 but now it feels more and more totally improvised. Like they literally have no clue what they’re doing.

  35. Those corporations took Trump into a room during that dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week and showed him footage of the JFK assassination from a new angle.

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