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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,429 posts)
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:36 PM May 2025

Kids will get fewer toys thanks to tariffs--and Grinch Trump says deal with it

President Donald Trump on Wednesday admitted that his idiotic tariffs will lead to empty shelves at stores across the country, but said that it's fine because we don't need material items anyway.

"They made a trillion dollars with Biden ... selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need," Trump said of China during an insane Cabinet meeting in which his administration officials rained North Korea levels of praise on their Dear Leader. "Somebody said, 'Oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally."



Of course, China sells much more than just toys to the United States.

In 2022, “China was the top supplier of goods to the United States, accounting for 16.5 percent of total goods imports,” according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which said that China supplied $536.3 billion worth of goods to the United States.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/30/2319754/-Kids-will-get-fewer-toys-thanks-to-tariffs-and-Trump-says-deal-with-it
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Kids will get fewer toys thanks to tariffs--and Grinch Trump says deal with it (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2025 OP
If you ruin Christmas Henry203 May 2025 #1
When does the golden age start? Initech May 2025 #2
Fewer toys. Less Education. Less food. Less health care. Fewer books. But, free trips to concentration camps Ping Tung May 2025 #3
And, thank you MAGAts for voting to permanently destroy your kids' right to have the most Wonder Why May 2025 #4
What's to become of the trump Christmas wrapping paper? IcyPeas May 2025 #5

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
3. Fewer toys. Less Education. Less food. Less health care. Fewer books. But, free trips to concentration camps
Thu May 1, 2025, 02:00 PM
May 2025

if the kids were not born here to certified American parents.

Wonder Why

(7,232 posts)
4. And, thank you MAGAts for voting to permanently destroy your kids' right to have the most
Thu May 1, 2025, 02:49 PM
May 2025

expensive Chinese toy you can find to prove to your neighbors that you love your kids more than they love theirs.

However, Krasnov is negotiating to give away Taiwan to China to have Xi reverse all tariffs between the two countries.

IcyPeas

(25,791 posts)
5. What's to become of the trump Christmas wrapping paper?
Thu May 1, 2025, 05:19 PM
May 2025

Seriously.... it exists.... just Google it. Many different patterns too.

Guess we won't need it since there's no presents to wrap. Sad.

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