The Setmayer Sound Off | Trump Doesn't Care About You!
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Hello, Lemon Nation. I'm Tara Setmayer, and this is the Setmayer Sound Off. Okay, so you may have noticed that Trump's little tariff tantrum is still ongoing, especially with him targeting China.
How does Tara Setmayer introduce Trump’s tariff dispute with China?
And this whole thing is just wreaking havoc on our economy and hurting the very Americans that Trump claims to champion. And guys, it's only going to get worse. I've got news for you. But have you seen the clapback from China? Okay? I mean, look, I don't mean to be petty about all this, but I'm so here for it. These are terrible people, Trump and MAGA, and they all deserve the ridicule, every freaking ounce of it. So you may have seen that China's internet influencers, they take no prisoners and no days off. They are dragging J.D. Vance and MAGA. I mean, dragging them. And it's glorious. They know that ridiculing Trump, Vance, and MAGA, how it just gets under their skin. They can't take it. And it contributes to this narrative that America is no longer being taken seriously on the world stage.
I mean, who could blame them? They're using this as a method of attack. I would.
Have you seen these memes?
Look, Trump isn't exactly surrounded by the best people, okay? This isn't the Trump administration of 2017. Peter Navarro, Stephen Miller, Howard Lutnick, these people are grossly unserious and the entire world knows it. Now, Most economists, they agree that playing chicken with China probably isn't a good idea. China isn't exactly just some nobodies, okay? They're a huge economy, the world's second largest economy. They have a centrally controlled system that can absorb any economic pain and reroute their supply chains faster than you can say, made in America. This isn't gonna work. Now, while Trump thumps his chest and slaps tariffs on like he's, I don't know, punishing a playground bully, China responds with surgical precision, targeting key American exports.
They know what they're doing, especially in red states. And then they just wait for the political fallout for Trump. Now, a lot of economists have warned that this is not tough negotiation. This is reckless brinkmanship that risks jobs, spiking inflation, long-term damage to the U.S. global credibility. We're seeing it happen. You don't just bluff the dealer when the other side owns the casino. Trump knows a little something about that. Even China's state media is openly mocking Vance and MAGA and their clownish understanding of international trade policy. In a recent op-ed in Global Times, they called Trump's economic policy amateurish nationalism. And that was the diplomatic version.
Why are China’s online influencers mocking Trump and MAGA?
You see what they're doing on the internet. Not the highlighter. They see MAGA as easy opponents. Why? Because propaganda based on emotion seems to beat facts every time. And Trump is all bullshit all the time. Our enemies know this. Trump's not a businessman. He's a con man. He inherited his wealth and bankrupted casinos. Casinos. I will never stop reminding people of this. And now he's trying to bankrupt America and bankrupt the dreams of millions of working people here with his reckless policies. So let's be clear. Donald Trump is sabotaging the American economy. His tariff tantrum? It's hurting American workers, bankrupting small businesses, and making a mockery of our global standing. Now, I don't want to hear any of this bullshit about that he's some, this is part of some like strategic genius that, oh, it's going to hurt now.
We need to take our medicine now. It's only temporary. It's all for the greater good. It's going to work out in the long run. No, the fuck it's not. Maybe it will for his billionaire buddies, but it's damn sure not going to work for the benefit of any of us. Not for you, not for the working class, not for our small business owners, not for the country that Trump claims to put first, America. He's not going to bring manufacturing jobs like this overnight. It takes years to do it. He's bullshitting people. But I want to talk about the tariffs. So Trump's latest plan now is this 10% tariffs on all imports. That's bad enough. But 145% on China?
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