Jordy Meiselas
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I mean, it's like literally dozens and dozens of countries.
And by the way, this list that I'm showing right now isn't even all the countries.
This is just like how many could fit on the screen at one time.
And Mexico announced today that it's doing the same thing.
And this part is all because Donald Trump decided to strip away the de minimis tariff exemption.
which allowed basically items of a value of up to $800.
Obama actually increased the value to $800 in 2016.
It allowed those items to come into the United States tariff-free.
This has been something that Americans rely upon.
If you've ever used Amazon or Timu or bought anything on the internet ever,
you're relying on these de minimis tariff exemptions.
And what Donald Trump has done is he's rescinded that tariff exemption, which is now basically making it so that Americans are not going to be able to afford to buy any of these products.
Suppliers are not going to be able to afford any of these products.
And there's all this uncertainty now.
These countries don't know what to do, if it's even worth shipping this stuff out here.
So they've just stopped.
The United States right now is quickly looking more like, I would say Russia, but it's looking more like North Korea at this point, the way we're so isolated by Donald Trump.
And to that point, you have Donald Trump plastering his face on D.C.
buildings.
And I saw these headlines, too.