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Donald Trump gets bad news about his tariff plan from Americans in new poll (www.newsweek.com)

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Summary

A new WalletHub poll reveals that 74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation, which remains a major concern for most households.

Trump’s plan includes significant tariffs—up to 60% on Chinese goods and 20% on other imports—to protect American jobs and address issues like fentanyl production and border security.

Experts warn these tariffs could increase consumer prices, with middle-income families potentially losing $2,500 annually.

Analysts caution Trump’s plans may face political hurdles in Congress despite his economic-focused campaign promises.

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[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 244 points 1 week ago

Are we going to pretend he gives a shit? He doesn't. He got what he wanted, and he can't be elected again (barring him fucking our systems so severely that he manages to force a third term on us). He's going to wreck the justice system to avoid any consequences for his actions after his term, and he could very well kick the bucket while he's in office anyway (dude's got KFC gravy for blood).

He doesn't care. He no longer has to. He can play his country-destroying games with impunity. He has no reason to give a single fuck what the American people want.

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

I don't think he cares as much about the tariffs, but I am quite sure tariffs on Mexico and Canada were Elonia's idea

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

I mean he enacted tarrifs on Canada and Mexico in his first term so it's not like it's not something he's been thinking about.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

Oh it's deeper than that, it's money coming out of our pockets slipping through a third party and going back into the government offers. It's an extra tax on goods by proxy. He then has a fresh revenue stream without any earmarks on it.

[-] uberdroog@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

156,302,318 voters voted out of 244,666,890 eligible. 77,266,856 people voted for tRump. That's 167,400,034 eligible voters who did not vote for tRump. So yeah...that tracks.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

And nobody gives one flying fuck about anyone who can't be bothered to vote. If your to lazy to get off your ass and vote you have absolutely no right to complain about anything cause politically you don't matter and you get what your lazy ass asked for.

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[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 157 points 1 week ago

74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation

How about not voting the guy in then?

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 97 points 1 week ago

I was told the election was about the economy.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 week ago

I was repeatedly told on Lemmy that it was about genocide.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 27 points 1 week ago

That's a term I haven't heard in a long time.

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I was also repeatedly told on Lemmy that it was about BlUEMaGA.

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[-] Kroxx@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

It was and they won! Now with Trump in office no more Palestinians will suffer! The humanitarian crisis is over, god-emperor himself said he wants Israel to "finish what they started". He must mean that war needs to end, what other interpretation could possibly be accurate? I thank Jesus personally every night for helping the man win who wants to jack inflation right back up after it's finally started taming. Our economy is in the right hands!

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

As often as people beat that drum, it's nothing but an excuse for most. They don't have any actual thoughts or opinions on the economy. Just voting on vibes.

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[-] takeda@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

They voted because of "woke" and immigrants. A guy on social media told them those are the real problems we face.

I can't believe how little we are acknowledging that social media is currently being used to manipulate voters not just in US but also in Europe. Why people think that what happened in Romania didn't also happen in US? And is not happening in other European countries?

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[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 100 points 1 week ago

poll reveals that 74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation,

Where the fuck were those people in November??

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago

Naval gazing, believing what they were told?

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[-] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 1 week ago

The only poll that mattered was on November 5, 2024.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 62 points 1 week ago

American Voters soon to get bad news that Trump does not give a fuck about them.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 55 points 1 week ago

Perhaps they should have thought about that before voting for a lunatic.

[-] prof_wafflez@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

You don't understand though. They really had to stick it to minorities and women, their every day be damned.

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[-] tryagain@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 week ago

I don't think he's planning on worrying about polls ever again.

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Doesn't he at least have concepts of a plan for that?

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[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 47 points 1 week ago

We can all agree that polling is completely meaningless now yeah? It obviously has zero correlation with reality.

[-] Tin@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

It was an election season where the race was polling around 50/50 pretty much throughout. Even when one candidate had a lead, with margins of error, no they didn't. A ~50% probability of losing is huge, even if many polls did show her slightly ahead. Consider a 20-sided die. 9 sides are red, 11 are blue. You wouldn't be surprised if you rolled red.

News media has no idea how to talk about polls because they don't want to talk about probability, they want to talk about which number is bigger as if it's a scoreboard. I didn't want him to win, but the polls weren't wrong.

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[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Why? The polls showed Trump winning and he won, if anything they got more accurate.

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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 46 points 1 week ago

Too bad the poll that matters already happened.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

Oh no, in light of this maybe he won't be elected anymore

Oh wait

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

Has he ever given a flying fuck. He's a complete moron.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago

It's almost like maybe we shouldn't have elected the guy.

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago

Seriously…. If 74% think his economic plan is bad, and yet a majority said that ‘the economy’ was the biggest reason for who they chose…. How?

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago

They just said "the economy" because they don't want to admit it's racism

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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Get out and vote! Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore." - Donald Trump, July 26th 2024

He meant it when he said that. He doesn't give a single shit what polling says about his plans. Americans already gave him what he wanted and thus no longer serve a purpose to him. He's going to get his tariffs no matter how much it fucks over the useful idiots that voted for this fascist dictatorship and there's nothing you can do about it. Because that's just what happens in a fascist dictatorship, so you're going to have to start getting used to it.

[-] TotalFat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I believe he will aggravate people enough to riot, declare martial law, stay in power indefinitely a la some of these other clowns running some of these other countries into the ground.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Let him do this tariff thing. Maybe people will finally learn how "good" he and his party is with money when the US economy is completely ruined.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 41 points 1 week ago

Republicans have been tanking the economy my entire life. Their voters do not learn

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Looking at what Trump is planning, you have seen nothing yet.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 week ago

I understand the appeal of "teaching them a lesson", purely for spiteful reasons. But there are problems with that approach:

You can teach a child never to put his hand on the burner by putting his hand on the burner. He'll learn alright, but he'll also have a nasty burn. Similarly, you don't want people to learn the dangers of populism and extreme right by letting the extreme-right populist do stupid shit and wreck their lives.
We who didn't vote for the dangerous populist live in the same country as those who did: even if we wanted to let the dangerous populist hurt them to teach them a lesson, he'll hurt us too in the process.
History always repeat itself: even if everybody learns a hard lesson after Trump is done wrecking the economy - or worse - our children, or our children's children will invariably elect another Trump some day. So we might as well do our best to limit the damage each time.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

It is not spiteful. I'm looking at this from the outside (as far as anyone can be with a world-dominating economy like the US), and I've given up any hope that Americans as such would learn without really, really painful lessons that manage to pass even through the thick skulls of the MAGA-heads. I don't wish anyone to suffer, but at the moment I cannot see any way for this lesson to set in without it.

That innocent people are hurt is horrible. But as only a smaller number of citizens have voted for the smart alternative, those who didn't vote and those who voted for Trump together are the majority. It could have been prevented if enough people had gotten their asses out of their houses - but that did not happen. And the death wish for the US was strong - Hitler only had about 33% of the votes and had to resort to political tricks to get where Trump was carried to by a majority of the voters. Think about that.

And yes, history repeats itself. You were extremely lucky to skip a few cycles - in comparison to e.g. Europe - but the signs were there for a long time, and way to few people cared. Maybe we all get lucky and it "just" turns into a 1929+ depression, focused primarily on the US.

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

He has absolutely no reason to care now

[-] Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 1 week ago

Polls don't mean shit. The only polls Americans should've given more of a fuck about, were the election ones!

Too fucking late.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

It won't. His Congressional majority is completely servile, and none of them care what the American people think. Their only focus is on looting and sabotage.

[-] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

How's this news? That's literally what MAGA was selling the entire time. The so called "Temporary Hardships". They promised and they're going to deliver some economic hardships, that was the sales pitch and people voted for it. Anybody shocked is just not paying attention.

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[-] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

Crazy?! If only someone had said something!!!

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Bad news? It's only bad news if he gives as shit, and clearly he does not.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Can't wait for worker shortages to cause supply line issues. I really hope the US feels this one.

So ashamed to be an American right now, but yet I might not be one starting January. So eh.

Eat dicks fuckers.

[-] ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago

TLDR: this news paper found that less than 150 Americans out of the only 200 that were asked in a non-specified state think his tariffs will worsen inflation. This is bad news for Trump because he cares about what those 150 people think for some reason

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

This country deserves the absolute worst. Burn it all down.

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