Trump Gets Brutal Fact-Check From Conservatives As Markets Tank Due To Tariffs

The Trump Tariff Tax is the most important peacetime tax hike in U.S. historical past. These Tariffs are practically 10x the scale of these imposed through the Trump-Pence Administration and can value American households over $3,500 per yr. Examine Out“Spoiling America’s Golden Age”@AmericanFreedom 👇 pic.twitter.com/2NghyDc8c1

— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) April 2, 2025

69% of People on this @FoxNews Ballot are Proper. Tariffs on imports will make merchandise you purchase dearer.

For extra info on Tariffs and Commerce, take a look at this useful abstract by @AmericanFreedom🇺🇸 https://t.co/DfjjfBSOvP pic.twitter.com/aKnwXxhFqs

— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) April 2, 2025

Tariffs are taxes https://t.co/6lpQ15mCPF

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 3, 2025

Even when you suppose Trump is correct about this spectacular train in financial self hurt, when you’re a Republican politician, odds are robust that you just disagreed with what he’s claiming 10 years — and in some circumstances 10 hours — in the past. Possibly you’ve been finding out the flimsy protectionist…

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) April 2, 2025

One of many largest tax will increase on People and executed by fiat. Simply wow.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 2, 2025

Are y’all seeing what’s taking place with in a single day markets? Futures are signaling a impolite awakening for #WallStreet and your 401(okay) within the morning. A lot for all that juiced up BS about “the markets are getting certainty” on this “Liberation Day”. The one certainty is Congress… pic.twitter.com/u0RHYvS5og

— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) April 3, 2025

3.4% market plunge through the Trump’s announcement of the most important peacetime tax hike in U.S. historical past. Liberation = household monetary suffocation. Tariffs are taxes. pic.twitter.com/oeBcwkHJ5s

— Joel Griffith (@joelgriffith) April 2, 2025

This was executed within the identify of working class populism, however there is no such thing as a means in hell the working class voted for this. https://t.co/8R2sMyr4fb

— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 3, 2025

The Republican Congress may finish this nonsense tomorrow by merely yanking again *their* tariff energy that earlier congresses stupidly handed over to the president. However they will not. It’s their alternative as a lot as Trump’s to make this occur.

— David French (@DavidAFrench) April 3, 2025

Actually nice that this energy, which is explicitly given to Congress within the Structure, is being wielded by a single one that has no thought what he’s speaking about, beneath the auspices of an “emergency.” https://t.co/oM60o4Bui2

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 3, 2025

Tariffs gained’t revive the financial system. We’ve seen this earlier than: authorities attempting to regulate what People should purchase doesn’t work. Trump’s tax and deregulatory agenda helps progress, however this commerce coverage is a moist blanket on all of it. pic.twitter.com/B67pAV4Ouk

— Marc Quick (@marctshort) April 2, 2025

We lastly actually did it. pic.twitter.com/3Zp22mIowG

— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) April 3, 2025