From Occupy Democrats:
The right-wing Wall Street Journal stuns MAGA world with an absolutely scathing takedown of Donald Trump’s pathetic Reagan tantrum.
Donald Trump just got publicly roasted by one of his own old allies — The Wall Street Journal, the influential financial newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch.
In a scathing new editorial, the conservative paper accused Trump of acting like a “king” after he threw an all-caps meltdown over a Canadian TV ad quoting Ronald Reagan — of all people — warning against tariffs.
Ontario’s government ran a simple, fact-based ad showing Reagan saying what every sane economist knows: tariffs hurt Americans. But Trump couldn’t handle it.
He ranted that the ad was “AI or something,” accused Canada of “cheating,” and then — in a fit of rage — announced a 10% tariff hike on Canadian imports “because of their serious misrepresentation.”
Translation: A TV commercial hurt his feelings, so he’s taxing you.
The Editorial Board of the Journal didn’t mince words. It said Trump was “acting like a king,” abusing presidential power to lash out at critics, and flat-out lying about Reagan’s record. “Reagan knew tariffs are taxes,” the paper reminded readers, “while Mr. Trump pretends they are paid by foreigners.”
Let that sink in: The Wall Street Journal — the conservative mouthpiece of America’s financial fat cats itself — just called Trump an economic fraud and a wannabe monarch.
And they’re right. Trump’s trade wars have cost American farmers, manufacturers, and consumers billions, while he’s out here claiming Ronald Reagan was a tariff-loving socialist.
Reagan’s whole message was about free trade. Trump twisted it into an excuse for economic nationalism and political revenge.
Even the Gipper would be rolling in his grave as the Journal pointed out in its criticism of the Reagan Foundation’s cowardly capitulation to Trump.
“It’s a shame to see the Reagan Foundation, of all places, indulging Mr. Trump’s pique with its statement saying the speech was taken out of context. Anyone who reads the whole speech can see the Gipper favored free trade, with rare exceptions for political pragmatism and national security. Reagan also backed, long before NAFTA, a North American free-trade area,” the WSJ Editorial Board wrote.
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In case you missed it:
"The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that would have reviewed President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction project, a White House official confirmed to NBC News."
Trump, the autocrat, doesn't have to answer to ANYONE now after bulldozing the East Wing.
Are you happy with this everyone?
And how would you have reacted had former presidents, say, Obama or Biden, done such a shocking thing?
You okay with this?
4 comments:
And there are still people who will twist themselves into a pretzel and claim this isn’t an authoritarian administration?
All MAGA All the time and now the ignorant idiots who wholeheartedly supported the goon in power are whining about him? Right. The KSoA telegraphed all the s**t he doing and they waited until now? Why? Because they only wanted a bit of fascism?
Nation gone crazy. Thanks to MAGA, ignorance, delusion, and a huge dose of greed.
Paula,
As I often say, "racism isn't racism to racists", I can say the same holds true for authoritarians.
Authoritarianism isn't authoritarianism to authoritarians. They just "know what's best for the rest of us". And that would be whatever THEY want.
One of the criticisms floating around the internet is the ad from the Canadian State of Ontario, which shows Fmr President Reagan speaking critically of broad, untargeted general tariffs.
The Trump Admin has said the ad mischaracterizes the position of Reagan, of course without showing any evidence.
You can go online and judge for yourself, or maybe -FJ can post that link here for all to see and determine whether or not Trump's words are true and accurate.
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