MAGA Senator Threatens Walmart for Responding to Trump’s Tariffs

https://newrepublic.com/post/195423/donald-trump-maga-threatening-walmart-tariffs

42 comments

  1. How about that MAGA Senator go bitch at Trump for causing an unnecessary trade war?

  2. Punishing corporations for raising prices due to tariffs (particularly Wal-mart whose stock is 60% imported from china)??

    Thats not very free market of you MAGA… in fact it sounds very communist

  3. >“I think Walmart’s gonna have to make some decisions, Walmart has the broadest base of American clients there is. I think they’re gonna be very careful about how they do this. I know that they’ve received some criticism from the president. I think they need to think hard,” Hagerty replied.

    Suddenly, government control over business is lauded by the base. The party of the ‘free market’ drops another mask. Isn’t this what they keep screaming that *only* Communists do?

  4. Fascism.

    Also: Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty

    We need to name names.

  5. Insisting that the largest private employer in the nation just lose money for Trump will not end well.

    Are the mob tactics becoming clear enough yet?

  6. what type of government seeks to direct private industry?

  7. How dare the “capitalist” rabble-rousers DISOBEY the ORDERS of America’s Central Planning Authority – ALL HAIL KING TARIFF!

    A centrally planned economy is best for slowing economic growth, creating shortages, and stimulating Black Markets. HOW DARE these “Capitalists” DEFY The GOP Politburo!

  8. Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty — proof that GOP Senators are still dumber than the diapered 5th grader in the Oval Office. BRAVO, Bill!

  9. Remember Hagerty’s name. Remember all the legislative and judicial sycophants’ names. These are the fuckers that hate you and hate America; they are willingly ceding the power trustfully given to them to usher in fascism. “Shut up and bend over” is not the American way. There’s a confrontation coming and it won’t be pretty. (Absolutely NOT a threat, just an educated prognostication.)

  10. The poster boy for discrimination gets upset when he realizes that his indiscriminate tariffs are going to directly effect his dimwitted voters.

  11. The nations leadership has gone feral. MTG should start needing to shave down daily at this point.

  12. These Communists Republicans are out of control. State sponsored/dictated prices for private goods=Communism. Plain and simple.

  13. LOL Isnt everyone sick of this GOP nonsense? Which is it? Free markets or communist control? pick one and stick with it. I need dramamine going back and forth on MAGA fake ideologies

  15. Why are you making me side with Walmart I don’t wanna do this…

  16. What are they going to do? Walmart’s profit margins is 2.7%. They can’t afford to tank 145% tariffs.

    If they try the higher ups will be fired / sued by the shareholders.

  17. Walmart is hopefully making a decision to donate to the other party’s candidates next time.

  18. Trump doesn’t care about corporations raising prices on Americans, he just doesn’t want the American consumer to learn why they’re raising prices.

  19. Rural America is where MAGA lives. Rural America is where Walmart is the only provider of essentials, groceries, and consumer goods. Most of these areas are food deserts with the exception of their one Walmart. Walmart could start adding diseased rat droppings to their ground beef, MAGA has no choice but to eat it. In a lot of these communities, Walmart is also their #1 employer. They have no leverage here. If Walmart decides to close up shop and takes their supply lines with them from MAGA America because they aren’t making enough money, a lot of these people just starve.

  21. Funny how we went from tariffs won’t raise prices to stick it to Walmart. Lmao! What a clown show!

  22. I’m a leftist and I love seeing “conservatives” tell corporate giants and their shareholders to stop making so much money. Chef’s kiss.

  23. If Wal-Mart does “eat tariffs” Wal-Mart bottom line will be affected, they will miss earnings targets, stock will tank, etc. Corporations like Wal-Mart prime objective is profit. They may make temporary concessions bc “appearing un-american” might lose some Customers, altho what options do many Wal-Mart shoppers have? And if Wal-Mart is raising prices bc of tariffs, any/all competitors would likely do the same, no? So stupid…..

  25. I really don’t get this. If tariffs don’t raise the price on Chinese goods, therefore making American manufacturing more attractive, than what argument is there for tariffs. These policies are logically inconsistent.

    Obviously the answer is that this is largely the nonsensical fever dream of the world’s most egotistical man, but you’d think there would be some attempt to make it make sense.

  26. But…If either the customers or Walmart has to “eat the tariffs”, doesn’t that mean that he lied about everyone except USA would pay?

  27. Hmm, government controlling how much private companies should charge for selling consumer goods, isn’t that socialism?

  29. Republicans don’t believe in freedom. It’s simple.

    Disagree with Trump, get threatened by the government or worse.

  30. I feel that the ideal price for all goods in the United States should be $86.47

  31. They didn’t negotiate a 30% tariff rate, china said fuck you and Trump caved

  32. Walmart needs to be careful, but the Federal government doesn’t need to be.

    This is like a child who made a mess, and then started bitching about how the other kids cleaning it up told the teacher who made the mess.

    Fuck these people. And fuck the people who support this admin.

  33. Trump went on a rant aimed at Walmart for raising its prices in response to his own tariff policies:

    > “Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain,” Trump said in a Saturday message on Truth Social. “Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, ‘EAT THE TARIFFS,’ and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!”

    Trump is using his executive authority to intimidate a company into “eating” the costs of his tariffs. In other words—and in a round about way—he’s pushing for price controls.

    But remember when Trump supporters called Harris a “commie” for wanting to crackdown on price gouging?

    Remember when Trump supporters dismissed criticisms and claims from the left-wing that businesses and corporations were partly responsible for higher costs because they prioritize the bottom line, shareholder interests and executive salaries over things like living wages, worker’s rights and affordable prices for consumers with financial insecurities due to a world wide economic crisis?

    And then those Trump supporters blamed Joe Biden and Democrats for inflation and every conceivable economic problem; ignoring the unforeseen circumstances and the multitude of contingent economic factors that all contributed to an unpreventable, global economic disaster?

    And all while some of those factors had roots that extended back into the previous administration.

    You know, like Trump’s expensive tax cuts legislation that certainly did not “pay for itself.”

    Or the trade wars Trump instigated during his first term, leading to an increase in the trade deficit and damaging consequences for American businesses and consumers…

    Or his mishandling of the pandemic at nearly every turn…

    Or the pressure he applied on the Fed to keep interest rates low for far too long, saying fuck all to economic theory so he could have a political edge in the election…

    Or the increased spending and the fact that the national debt ballooned by almost 40 percent during his first time in office…

    Or, you know, the reality that Trump’s claims about the economy were always inflated or inaccurate and he only got away with making these claims because, for one, the American public believed him without questioning the validity of his claims, and two, because he inherited a growing economy when he first stepped into office and took credit for all of the positive economic trends that carried over into his administration…

    Then when he left the White House with the economy in tatters, he proceeded to blame the fallout on the next admin, and an admin that was forced to oversee yet another economic recovery that ended up being one of the healthiest and strongest recoveries in the world.

    But Trump said the word “groceries” repeatedly and convinced enough low informed voters that he could fix everything on “day one,” managing to, once again, inherit an economy that was on the upside.

    And now you hear from those same low propensity voters that they’re losing confidence in Trump because they thought he was “better for the economy.” News flash, *he never was.* And as made evident by not just the aforementioned information dump, but by the fact that he has been unprecedentedly and singlehandedly responsible for destabilizing the global economy within his first 100 days.

    But hey, this is all “fake news” anyways am I right? Trump is playing “3D chess,” it’s all “part of the plan.” At least that’s what Trump supporters claim. Either that, or being bled dry by an authoritarian and faux “populist” regime is all worth it because Trump is “owning the libs.”

  34. This is ridiculous. If walmart buys a box of soap for $3 from china and sells it for $3.50, you can’t expect them to just eat the cost of a 140% tariff that brings the price up to $7.20, nor can you expect them to eat the cost of a 30% tariff that increases it to $3.90. The math just doesn’t work. And I don’t understand why this simple fact isn’t pointed out by businesses, the press, the media, the papers, the news broadcasts, basic political opponents and economists and spokespersons, all over the country, 24/7. Everyone dances around it and they try to speak about the topic like it’s more abstract than 3 > 2. The people need to be told matter-of-factly exactly how simple this is, so that the stupidity of the propaganda is made apparent, and not allowed to spread the seed of doubt.

    And this isn’t accounting for the fact that these supply chains usually have several stages, each of which needs a small profit margin to offset the risk of lost/damaged shipments, their own overhead, their own financial targets, too. You’re probably looking more at $7.50-$8.00, or $4.25-$4.50 for the above.

    I don’t’ understand why this is so fucking complicated.

    Don’t even get me started on the whole fascism aspect of this stupidity. I’m just sick of arithmetic being too complex for our political discourse. Jesus fucking christ

  35. Margins on groceries are actually really slim. Walmart makes a lot of profit in terms of raw numbers but it’s still only like 2-3% profit. They simply can’t afford 10% tariffs without raising prices.

    They can yell and scream all they want, but I really don’t think Walmart could afford to “eat the tariffs” even if they wanted to.

  37. Oh, the party of small government screwing over every business and telling Big Business to just eat the extra costs against the interests of their shareholders.

    All of these big businesses spent hundreds of millions to get Trump elected and are now seeing they were doing much better before him.

  38. So tRump – mr. big brain businessman – and his maga minions are telling Walmart they should willingly lose money to support mr. bb’s assinine tariff tactics that are causing the trouble so many experts said would happen.

  39. lol, okay..thought conservatives were all about keeping the government out of the private sector but whatever.

  40. So where’s the conservatives? I know they used to be against price fixing.

  41. Republicans are suddenly against free market capitalism, I guess.

  42. So the government is trying to control the prices of goods sold to consumers.

    I believe that’s called… * *GASP* * COMMUNISM!

    Wait, I thought republicans hated that? I guess they just forgot its definition again.

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