Well, Liberation Day came and went without the sky falling. President Trump had a ceremony at the White House declaring Liberation Day. Donald spoke for nearly an hour, with maybe five minutes on Liberation Day. Like many speeches, Donald rambled about other stuff. Trump calls that matter of talking “The Weave,” but for the rest of us, it is tiresome and makes little sense. The Stock Market had a hissy fit, and foreign nations decried the tariffs, but in the end, Trump didn’t even do what he said he was going to do.

The president released a chart of worldwide tariffs, which did not have the reciprocal tariffs he had been speaking about for years. Donald promised on the campaign trail that we would match whatever tariff any country has on us; we would give them the same. However, on Liberation Day, Trump’s charts showed what was called, “Discounted Reciprocal Tariff,” which displayed numbers that were only half of other nations’ tariffs, and in some countries, we matched ten percent to ten percent with many of the countries on the chart. The world could not grasp the mood of the American President when Israel and several other countries said they would take down all their tariffs on America, and Trump’s administration retorted that the U.S. would still blast them with a ten percent tariff. So, the whole thing made little sense and just looked ill-considered. It took on the feel of just another day in the Trump administration in what to believe or not.

On the streets, however, this tariff-a-roma gave Democrats the fuel that they needed to start protests across the nation with thousands of people screaming for Trump and Musk’s heads. The tariffs gave life to a political party that was down and out. Trump’s efforts to tear down and rebuild the world’s entire economic system that had been built up over the decades was a Herculean task. Trump’s gambit was high stakes. It would take time to show any results if Trump’s economic direction worked, and there were less than two years to the midterms where Democrats could take control of Congress, impeach Trump for the third time, and if Democrats took the Senate, have President Donald Trump removed from office once and for all. There was a lot at stake with the boring subject of tariffs.

C. Rich

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