Trump’s Top Economic Advisor: “We’ll See” How Tariff-Inflated $3,500 iPhones “Work Out.”
https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1927357167318827280
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CNBC Reporter: “It’d be a $3,500 iPhone if they tried to make everything here. What is Tim Cook supposed to do?”
Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett: “Right, well, you know, we’ll see how it works out.”
“Sometimes There Will Be Something To Pay”: Trump Admits American Companies and Consumers Will Pay For Tariffs.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1925991437788704881
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lpud6fvrg42l
President Trump: “Sometimes the country will eat it. Sometimes Walmart will be eat. And sometimes there will be something to pay. Something extra … they have to take out some of their profits.”
Corrupt MAGA House Speaker Johnson Turns Blind Eye To Trump’s Crypto Grift Once Again.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1926629549904716119
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lpyqvpfo4k2j
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA): “Look, I don’t know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I’m not going to comment on something I haven’t even heard about.”
Senate Republican “I Really Fear The Direction The Country Is Going.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1926634725663187376
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lpyrzotco22j
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY): “Somebody has to stand up and yell, ‘the emperor has no clothes.’ Everybody is falling in lockstep on this — ‘Pass the big beautiful bill. Don’t question anything.’ Well, conservatives do need to stand up and have their voices heard … if we don’t stand up on it, I really fear the direction the country is going.”
Crockett: Republicans Have Nothing To Show For Their Tax Bill Except Top Earners Getting A New Yacht.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1926733225449189831
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX): “They have nothing to show for it except for those top earners being able to have their next trophy wife or buy their next yacht, or get their next plane, that doesn’t work for me. And that obviously does not work for my constituents.”
Klobuchar: Trump’s Tax Bill Isn’t A ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ – It’s A Big Betrayal of the Middle Class.
https://x.com/SenAmyKlobuchar/status/1926467831299797278
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Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN): “A recent poll showed 58% of Americans thought that you should actually raise taxes on the wealthiest, on billionaires, you should raise taxes in order to make sure you’re maintaining health care services and groceries and the like for so many Americans. This bill goes the opposite; it’s not a ‘big, beautiful bill’, it’s a big betrayal of the middle class.”
Jayapal: Republicans Are Cutting Taxes For The Rich, Paid For By Taking Food and Health Care From The Poorest People In This Country.
https://x.com/RepJayapal/status/1926656782853620093
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA): “It is the largest transfer of wealth from working people and poor people in this country to the tiniest number of millionaires and billionaires…they’re stripping away health care for 14 million Americans, if you add Medicaid and you add what they’re doing to the Affordable Care Act…that’s a minimum.”
Shoe Designer Steve Madden: Thank Your Government For Shoe Prices Going Up. Thank Your President For It.
https://www.tiktok.com/@nowthisimpact/video/7508042557897805102
Shoe Designer Steve Madden: “Shoes are going up. Thank your government for that. You can thank your president for it…they fundamentally do not understand what they’re doing. The notion is we’ve lost jobs to China. And we have. But we’ve picked up other jobs that we would not have had, better jobs, many better jobs, as a result of our relationship with China. Many more than we would have if they were in a factory making socks. The iPhone being made in China, the success that that has created, there’s probably hundreds of thousands of people working for Apple today in America as a result of them making those phones in China that they would not have had; they’d be in a fucking factory and it would be a third of the workforce…”