Where did Trump get the ridiculous idea of tariffs, you ask?
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Cogliostro
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Posted 5:44 pm, 04/11/2025
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Where the **** is Dolemite when you need him? WHACK! BOOM! POOF!
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DB Cooper
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Posted 5:39 pm, 04/11/2025
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Resurfaced Clip of Trump Telling Oprah His Tariff Ideas in 1988 Goes Viral
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DB Cooper
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Posted 5:33 pm, 04/11/2025
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I recently saw a clip of Trump talking about tariffs on TV from many years ago. He was young. So... WRONG AGAIN!
I'm sure you can dig it up if you look hard enough.
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antithesis
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Posted 4:28 pm, 04/11/2025
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During his first campaign, Trump was a joke and new that he knew nothing about the economy. So he tasked his son in law, Jared Kushner, with finding him an expert... preferably one that could make China the enemy.
Kushner went to Amazon and began searching for books by economists. That's where he came across "Death by China," by Peter Navarro. Navarro was a huge advocate of tariffs and was strongly opposed to trade with China, and in his books often cited "Ron Vara" as a source for his arguments.
Kushner called Navarro and invited him to be an adviser to Trump. He agreed, and was the only economic adviser on the team.
In 2019, Trump received an email from Ron Vara, encouraging him to increase the tariffs against China and he could "ride the tariffs to victory!"
However... "Ron Vara" isn't real. He's a fictional source created by Navarro, and the memo that Trump received that carved his entire economic policy came from a Navarro using a fake email address. This isn't a theory, Navarro confessed to it!
https://www.nytimes.com/201...rrifs.html
Navarro is reportedly the author of the "reciprocal tariff" section of Project 2025 and created the tariff rate schedule for each country.
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