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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 155 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

In other words, Brandon has no fucking idea what "tariff" means, except it must be good cuz Daddy says so.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 83 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, Trump doesn't even know how tariffs work properly.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Someone on reddit (from where I stole this pic) said 'Trump thinks tariffs are like tributes' and I think that's a perfect analysis of Trump's mentality.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that correct though?

Whenever someone does something, they need to pay tribute to Trump. So, it's like tribute to him.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Just like how it works in Russia. Funny that.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Tributes are still a thing. See Australia "buying" $300bn submarines from the US.

So I can somewhat understand why Trump thought this is what tariffs are haha

(My grumble, you're not wrong)

[–] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Trump doesn’t know how fucking anything works.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 54 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I wish the US media would call tariffs "import taxes", as that terminology seems to be generally better understood by the public.

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago

Then they'd blame the liberals for adding a new tax when all Trump wants is tariffs.

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 14 points 2 months ago

Yesterday I type "what" into my search engine and within the top 5 was "what is a tariff". Import tax would make too much sense and people wouldn't stand behind it if it was referred to as such.

I get that tariff is the correct word and I understand what they are, but I am sure people like my dipshit cousins had no clue until a few days ago.