President Donald Trump appears keen on reviving his roundly criticized threat to impose a 100 percent tariff on movies made outside the United States. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social Monday, Sept. 29, writing, “Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other …
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Donald Trump’s disastrous governance has successfully tanked America’s labor market. The federal government released another weak jobs report Friday, after the previous poor jobs report resulted in Trump lashing out and firing the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. At the time, Trump baselessly claimed that the “Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in …
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Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows food prices have spiked by 2.9 percent since last July, and wholesale prices on fresh and dry vegetables increased by nearly 40 percent last month — the biggest increase in the last three years. And rising prices are likely to continue. Why? Donald Trump‘s …
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Today just after midnight, steep retaliatory tariffs President Donald Trump slapped on dozens of countries went into effect. “IT’S MIDNIGHT!!! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TARIFFS ARE NOW FLOWING INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!” the president wrote on Truth Social minutes before the levies snapped into effect. “Tariffs are flowing …
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Keeping a straight face has been perhaps the greatest achievement of Mark Carney’s brief tenure as the prime minister of Canada. For months, Donald Trump has railed against Canada, threatening to turn America’s ungrateful northern neighbor into the 51st state, come what may, an achievement worthy of his visage gracing …
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Late last week, Donald Trump realized a dream that he’s had since he was president of the United States the first time: firing the person who informed the world that his economy isn’t as great as he wants to pretend it is. It was a move so comically autocratic that …
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Donald Trump was blocked by a federal court on Wednesday from imposing a sprawling set of import taxes on nearly every country. The ruling was in response to two separate lawsuits by businesses and state officials who accused the president of overstepping his authority to issue those tariffs, leaving them …
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White House officials claimed to be the victims of a judicial coup amid a battle between federal courts to determine the legality of President Donald Trump‘s attempts to unilaterally impose potentially economically ruinous tariffs on the bulk of U.S. imports. On Wednesday, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of …
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President Donald Trump received the “nastiest question” today — according to him at least — when a reporter asked him for his response to the so-called “TACO” (Trump Always Chickens Out) trades being made on Wall Street as a result of the president’s tariff flip-flopping. The term was coined by …
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Birkenstock is hiking its prices — and yes, you can thank Trump’s tariffs for that. The universally beloved, celeb-approved sandal (worn by style icons from Zendaya to Sir Paul McCartney) is getting slapped with a 10% tariff, and Birkenstock’s response? Raise prices in the United States on select products. That’s …
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